We found the CHEAPEST KWAY CHAP in Singapore ｜ Food Finders Singapore S6E9

You guys have to check out these 250 hawker meals in Singapore

In this episode, we fight inflation by discovering deliciously affordable food dishes at 250 or even less

Hello guys, we're back with another Food Finders episode. And it is super early, it is 8.20 in the morning

It's a little bit gloomy and we are at 216 Bedok Hawker and Food Centre

I think today we're gonna do 250 foods. So with inflation, of course, what we're trying to do is find value for money, budget meals still available in Singapore

Something substantial that is still a meal, that's the criteria for today's episode

What's the cheapest hawker meal you've had? The cheapest one I think would be like a $3 chicken rice

Do you value affordability or quality? Affordability, we kind of have to compromise a little bit about quality

So you kind of have lower expectations. As long as the rice isn't like undercooked, that kind of thing, I think I'm fine with it

What are you expecting for the 250 dishes we're trying today? Honestly, with my experience, I'm expecting kind of like small pieces of like meats, like a chai fun kind of going on there

I don't think we're gonna have like a big giant portion, which is fair. I mean, inflation and everything, right

That's pretty much it, let's start off the episode. Let's go try some 250 food

Okay, we're here inside the hawker centre. Actually, we had another store in mind

I think it was a mixed rice stall, but we've been waiting for like maybe an hour or so

And it's still not open, so we decided to try this store, Madam Chua's Ban Mian actually

So it looks pretty good, it's also $2.50 just for the soup. So we're gonna give that a shot

Can I get a Ban Mian soup $2.50 eating here? Each order you make the noodle one

Alright, so we just got our Ban Mian soup. I think it's pretty substantial for $2.50

Four meatballs, some anchovies, ikan bilis and some, I believe, spinach. Yeah, and it's a decent portion

Actually, it's quite a lot of noodles for $2.50, so I think it's gonna be pretty alright. Alright, the soup is actually quite flavourful, even though it looks like nothing

It looks like water, but it's really flavourful. You have a strong hit of the ikan bilis flavour and a lot of that porky goodness, yeah

You can definitely tell that it's made on the spot. It's very bouncy, it's very chewy

It is great, man. This is amazing noodles. For $2.50, this is incredible actually

It's not bad, right? Noodles are very good, man. The soup is very hearty. Yeah, it is

It's very warming. If it's a rainy day, this is perfect. The minced meat is really good

Super seasoned and it's not hard. Like most of the minced meat, it's usually kind of dense, really hard

No, this is really fluffy and light. There's like pepper and all. Yeah, a really strong hit of white pepper

So we have like two chilies here. Might be a little spicy actually. Oh yeah, might be a little spicy actually

It's simple, it's hearty. If you're looking for like a cheap, easy breakfast, this is the spot, man

Definitely try this one. So she was saying like after they close, then she makes the dough itself

Yeah, for like the next day. But you can get like yu mian, ban mian and um..

Mee hoon kueh as well. Mee hoon kueh, yes. Mee hoon kueh as well. Whichever you like and she'll just make it on the spot which is incredible

I had really low expectations to be honest for $2.50 but this just blew it out of the park

This is really good for $2.50. In fact, it's really good for just ban mian. So I'm excited to see what's next

So let's go to the next spot. Alright, we are at Jalan Batu Hawker and Food Centre

We are at the next spot which is Feng Tee Kway Chap. Currently, they've been keeping their prices at $2.50 for about 10 years

Almost every other table here is eating kway chap. So let's go find out what the what the fuss is about, yeah

Hi, can I get a $2.50 kway chap set? $2.50? Having here? Having here, yeah

How do you keep it to $2.50? Actually $2.50 is quite okay

Not everybody eat $2.50. One get around less than $20 only. So is it usually like the more like senior citizens that kind of get a $2.50

Young guys like y'all also get a $2.50. I've read online that you kept it for like 10 years now

12 years. 12 years now, wow! Thank you for doing such a good thing though

For old people, students. Ah, so you're doing it for them ah? It's a choice for them

I look forward to trying it. Thank you. Okay, so we just got our kway chap and it looks really promising

Look at this amount. Looks really silky for this one and the top looks really gao

And the crazy thing is that for this kway chap, they actually add chili powder inside as well along with coriander

Usually you just see like just garlic and stuff like that but I'm hoping that the chili will give it like a little boost

We actually have a decent amount for $2.50 which is I say really impressive

I was having not really high expectations for today but this one, this one looks really good

So we got pork belly, some tau pok, some small intestines and even half an egg which is kind of cool

Oh yeah, it's just like a subtle hint of the garlic which is really nice

The kway is actually really good. I'm really blown away by the options that we have for $2.50 here

When you have kway chap, there's kind of like this little bit of funk when you have intestines and stuff like that and I'm hoping this one doesn't

Zero funk. They cleaned this intestine so well. It's a little bit chewy as with most organs and things like that

but overall I think this is a real solid bowl or plate of kway chap

They've been doing this for 12 years now I believe she said and she kind of does it for maybe like the school kids or maybe like the elderly

who kind of comes by and just wanted a quick cheap meal. Although a lot of people actually order just the $2.50 set

they order a $2.50 set and they add on like a ton of things. So she said it's not too bad for her as well

The pork belly man, that fat is divine. You guys know I'm Filipino, I love my pork

That fat is amazing. The skin as well, really gelatinous. It kind of almost melts in your mouth

I don't think you really need to bite that hard into it. This is like a proper brace for $2.50 is amazing deal

It's amazing. So this is actually the cheapest kway chap in Singapore at $2.50

I think definitely worth the deal. Definitely give this one a try. It is insane for $2.50

They losing money on this man. I don't see how they're making money on $2.50 bro

Maybe they just take a hit for like the 20 orders of $2.50. It's amazing quality

It's better than a lot of kway chaps I've tried man. This is quality stuff guys

Let's head on to the next spot. Let's go. We are in Jalan Bersa

We're here to try the luro fun from this Jalan Bersa pig organ soup

The specialty is actually the pig organ soup, but we're here to try the luro fun. As you can see, it's $2

I don't know if she just let us buy this for $2. Rice, meat and then no pig organ soup

I don't know but it's like the weirdest thing to order. So yeah, let's have a whirl and let's see how it goes

Can I just get a braised meat rice? Having here, yes. Alrighty, we just got our luro fun

and she did let us buy just a $2 luro fun without any pig organ soup

Yeah, so we're gonna give this a try before we get into a little bit of a story time with Seth

It's pretty interesting. Off the bat, it looks like a really saucy rice as with your usual luro fun

Not bad at all. Pork belly. It's actually pretty good. Like the sauce is all pooled at the bottom

It's a little bit sweet. There's no strong gameyness or anything like that. The braised liquid is really nice

It goes really well with the rice. I think it's probably meant to go with the pig organ soup

So you get a pig organ soon and then you can get this instead of just plain rice

But even like by itself, especially by itself, it's really flavourful. Pretty good

Could you have just one bowl of this for a meal though? I think I could have this maybe with a side of peanuts or like..

It could make a meal. Yeah, it could make a meal honestly. Yeah, so Seth, a little bit of a story time into like the..

Story time? I mean the English name is like jialan besar pig organ soup

But like if you look at the Chinese name, it's actually wenxi zhu zha tang

But just opposite right is shen wenxi which is chengmeng qiqi. And you can see like they just dropped like one character from the name

It's sort of deliberate that they're trying to associate with you know the more famous historic stall that's been there for years

If I'm not wrong, previously they actually... Like the English name itself was even more similar

They changed it to jialan besar, more obvious distinction. When they initially opened, we did cover them before

Like our writer did interview the owner. She did mention at that point that she used to work for the chengmeng qiqi stall

Right as the chef there. After we put this out, chengmeng qiqi itself, the original stall actually emailed us

And told us that no, she was not a chef there. She was like the cashier, you know, borrowing the face

Trying to ride on the reputation. Ride on the reputation. All right and that wraps up the tea

My name is Seth, thank you for your time. We're gonna go to our last... Fourth and last

Fourth and last spot of our $2.50 budget meal. Let's go brave the rain

All right we're here at our last and final stop. We've braved the rain and we've arrived at Kim Kiat Palm Hawker and Market

And we're right here to try lai heng. It's probably one of the cheapest tai fun I've ever seen

One vegetable and one meat is $2.30. And two vegetables and one meat is $2.50, which is crazy

So let's join the queue and let's see what we can get. Eggplant, the vegetable and a pork

We hit $3. How much is it? $3. Hey which one was meat

Which one was meat? Dude this is... The dish had no meat on there. There's not like..

If it's meat, it's meat. You can tell right but... So I get my plate of tai fun

Funny story, I tried to do the two veggie and one meat. But apparently something in here has meat

I am not sure. I've searched high and low but I can only find the meat for here. So this whole thing is like $2.90

Anyways, they do have a wide variety of fruit that you can choose from

So I think the selection is really good. So I got some pork. I don't know what you call this but we call this chayote

This is the eggplant that we think has minced meat but I don't know. Do you all see it

Again for like $3, it's still kind of worth it for chai fun. Just a little bummed about that meat thing

It's a little bit tough, not gonna lie. But it is flavorful. It is exactly what you expect chai fun to be

Nothing's ever going to be super special with chai fun. So the pork is quite okay for the price that we're paying

For those of you that haven't had chayote, it's kind of like a gourd. Like a loofah gourd or like an old cucumber kind of texture

It's kind of like mushy. This one's not bad. It's very plain tasting

Usually you just taste a little bit of garlic. That's just simple stir-fry. Let's try my meat slash eggplant dish

I don't taste any meat at all. Again, this is the run of the mill eggplant that's fried. It's just a sweet sauce

Definitely no traces of minced meat here. A little oily, a little stir-fry. It's all that regular goodness that you get from chai fun

Usually if I order my two and two, like two meat, two vegetable, it usually goes up to like four or five bucks

But just for this, it's like three bucks. It's kind of worth it. But you can technically get $2.50

I think you just need to maybe ask her which one is classified as meat

Maybe just go for like the greenest things and then you can't go wrong. Why $3 though

I think that's still a mystery. Trying to figure out. God damn it

So this is a spectacularly very average chai fun that we have

Let's just do a little recap and review of everything that we had today

So we are back in the car as you can see. A little bit different than our usual outros because it's pouring

Which do you think was the most worth it? Hands down was the kway chap

The kway chap was amazing. Really good for its price and even in the class of just generally kway chap

I think that's the one I would probably go back to. I'm not sure if they just gave us more because you know we were holding cameras or whatever

You guys let us know if they actually do give that amount. If they do, it's super worth it

Super value for money. And then the second one would be the banh mien. Just because she hand made all the noodles

So I think that's very unique, very special. And for $250, it's a legit banh mien

That wraps up our $250, well mostly $250. Sorry guys. How did we bust

I don't know what happened with the mincemeat. On the economic rise

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