Peck Hoon Teng Eating House, River Valley Road

Haven't eaten here (219 River Valley Road) in years and decided to because we were in the vicinity.

Mee pok from Teochew Fishball Minced Meat Noodle was not bad. Nice portion of minced meat, sliced pork, a couple of factory meatballs and a fishball. I had initially thought they oversauced it but it turned out to be appropriately done. Nothing in particular was outstanding but it was assembled well with decent ingredients. Pretty enjoyable eat with the chilli.

Very edible roasts from this one. There's 油饭 to be had which I opted for. Duck breast was relatively tender while the sausages were sweet and quite generic. 

What was worth mentioning were the glistening char siew on display. I wanted to be sure of what I was getting and requested for 半瘦半肥 to which the proprietor responded with a "我尽量". In the end, the meat was all lean and pretty bland. 😓 I might not have recognized those slice meats as char siew if not for the sauce in a blind taste. That sauce literally made the char siew.

There's a prawn noodle stall at the end of the coffeeshop. The lean-ish slices of pork had more fat than the char siew from the roasted meat stall earlier. Prawns are decent quality and the broth's not bad tasting. Kuey teow was nice paired with the fried lard dipped in the spicy soya sauce.

Ordered an iced hor ka sai from the coffeeshop's drink stall. In Hokkien the name translates into tiger biting lion (虎咬狮) - it's just Milo and coffee. This one was bad. The drink was entirely made from a packet of 3-in-1 with that 3-in-1 flavour that I didn't like. For $2.60, I didn't think it was too much to expect them to mix coffee and Milo. But now we know. No more drinks from these cheap guys.