Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/j4s434/hey_sg_need_some_leads_or_help_finding_a_min_jian/
Hey everyone! I'm the one who posted about needing help to find a Min Jian Kueh stall last Sunday. Thanks to everyone for helping me out and for commenting/giving me suggestions - I really appreciate it!
I'm happy to say that the Min Jian Kueh stall is at 303 Anchorvale Link! I haven't gone personally yet because I'm busy with school but I'm planning to go down as soon as I'm free. How did I know? First, u/villezz was the one who alerted me to that coffeeshop, and even provided me with photos (https://imgur.com/a/Uam35U3) of the stall! I thought that some aspects of the stall looked familiar - the way they displayed their menu (with the cute comic-sans-ish font and the colours!) and coincidentally enough, uncle's fashion choices haven't changed one bit - it wasn't a polo shirt but a striped one, with the bermudas!
I went onto Facebook and also found the photo of the uncle on 303 Anchorvale Link's kopitiam page. This is the uncle (and aunty though she's not in the photo) that I've been looking around for all this while! (also I don't know how to edit this photo to make it smaller... paiseh everyone!!) BUT LOOK AT THAT! THAT'S THE MIN JIAN KUEH! I'M SUPER EXCITED!
But really, thank ya'll man. Ya'll are a great bunch and I'm so thankful for all the help, sometimes this kind of thing makes me feel better about the state of the world (you get me?). If you want, go visit the uncle! I have no idea what the opening hours are but I'll enquire about it when I visit :) Take care ya'll!
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I tried to make ondeh ondeh from this recipe:https://guide.michelin.com/sg/en/article/dining-in/recipe-for-ondeh-ondeh-or-klepon
I did have to sub Gula Melaka with regular coconut sugar and fresh pandan with artificial pandan extract, but otherwise I followed it basically to a tee.
- The mochi-like wrapping tasted like Crayola modeling clay. A very weird and sticky texture (which I know is the goal), but it had basically no taste. I feel like it would've seriously benefited from some sugar mixed in. I also tried making the dough walls thinner and using more coconut sugar in the middle, but that helped very little.
- The lack of sugar in the dough was supposed to be made up for by the coconut sugar in the middle, but the coconut sugar wasn't really sweet either, or at least not nearly sweet enough to counter the dough. Plus it had a fairly nasty aftertaste, but I figure its supposed to have that and I just don't like coconut sugar.
I'm hoping to move to Singapore for a few years next year, and want to try some of the food I could expect in the area. This looked easy enough, and I love coconut (I'll even eat unsweetened coconut flesh just plain), but wow it was bad.Is there a point I could've went wrong, the recipe went wrong, or do I just really not like ondeh ondeh? I'm born and raised American, so my palette probably is a little sweets-heavy.
(this is my first post, so let me know if anything is off)
UPDATE: THE STALL HAS BEEN FOUND! Refer to my update here: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/j78eaf/the_min_jian_kueh_stall_has_been_found/
Hi everyone! Sorry if the title is super ridiculous, but hear me out: I need help finding a stall that sells min jian kueh that's supposedly somewhere in Sengkang, in a kopitiam.
My family and I frequent Hup Seng Duck Rice in the kopitiam at Sin Ming Road - my parents went there when they were dating and have continued to do so repeatedly each week even now (with me in tow, of course). There used to be a Min jian kueh stall - QQ Pancake - and it was a part of my teenage years. I can't remember when it opened, say maybe 2010/2011 ish? I do remember that it closed down right before I entered university so that's about 2015 or maybe 2014.
This min jian kueh stall was run by a middle-aged (though now probably qualifies as elderly) couple. The uncle is really tall, back in the day he would always be dressed in a polo tee and in bermudas with sandals. He has a very lovely smile (that I would like to hope has been retained over the years). His wife is a lovely lady too, short hair with a bob cut last I remember. Their min jian kueh was AMAZING and I miss it very much. They sell your classic "cut slice" min jian kueh (the one with the crust on the sides, and is folded) as well as what I call the "crescent moon" or "curry puff" pancake, which is like a small round pancake folded into half with help of a press/mould. Y'all I can't describe how amazing their min jian kueh was, I've tried at least 20 over stalls in my entire life but this one is still the best for me.
Uncle told me a long time ago before they closed that they actually had another branch at Sengkang. Gave my mom the namecard but as you can guess, it has been misplaced (therefore this post). He mentioned that his Sengkang branch was much more popular and many more people went, so I'm asking here in the hopes that any one of you might know where this shop is. It should be in a kopitiam, and if I remember correctly, near the shopping mall (Compass One).
Please let me know if you've any idea - a guess would be helpful too! I've been scouring Google but no one has written about this shop (I guess min jian kueh isn't something that people review often) but my family would very much like to be able to reconnect with this couple and to have their min jian k
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