Comments on: Ultimate Fried Rice???

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:09:19 +0000

Thanks Manolo et al for all the great tips and links… I should have posted BEFORE I went to Singapore…

By: Manolo Fernando

Manolo Fernando — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:25:57 +0000

Carol is right on. You just fell into first class tourist traps that is Clarke Quay and Boat Quay. Its the ambience that costs big bucks so I hope you at least enjoyed it. Look here for the inside on Sing food: https://www.makantime.com/.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:14:56 +0000

Acidboy, sayang, I am back in town already. Just putting delayed posts on Singapore trip. Will keep those in mind for the next time. Thanks!

By: acidboy

acidboy — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:12:46 +0000

rina,
the fish used in salted fish fried rice are usually dried fish much like our tinapa. the fried dace is an instant ulam type popular in china, like the pork leg with mushroom. golden rule in fried rice: always use day old rice at room temperature.

marketman,
looks like you’re still in singapore. try the jumbo restaurant there by the coast, and at orchard, beside the orchard hotel, there is a 7-11 and beside that 7-11 is a door that leads to a basement food court. on the opposite end, right side from the entrance is a stall manned by an old fookien lady and she serves the best fried pork chop in the planet. happy eating!

By: Midge

Midge — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:33:44 +0000

20 US bucks for a bowl of fried rice?!? Holy tokwa! For that much money, you could've gotten a decent meal. Nothing beats home-fried rice with salted fish, though. ^_^

By: eD

eD — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:23:57 +0000

Gigi et al, tks for that tidbit of info on the salted fish.

By: stef

stef — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:41:58 +0000

i’ve had the fried dace that rina mentions. masarap nga ‘yon for fried rice! marketman, pamatay naman ang $120 na ‘yan. baka feeling keller sila?

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:26:41 +0000

Clarke Quay and Boat Quay are tourist areas so you probably also paid for the ambiance. For me, the best chinese restaurant in Singapore is still Crystal Jade. Not sure if they have branches in Manila but I saw one in Jakarta the last time I visited.

By: ENYA

ENYA — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:34:55 +0000

Haven’t had salted fish fried rice. but way back in the ’80s there’s a quaint restaurant somewhere in Legazpi village in Makati and they had the bestEST fried rice i ever had. Didn’t have daing, but tinapa (smoked fish). Lots of it in tiny bits, with lots and lots of toasted (as in tustado sa mantika?) garlic. Then sprinkled with diced fresh tomato. Know what it was called? Whatchamacallit Fried Rice.

I kid you not.

It was super!

By: Maricel

Maricel — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:44:18 +0000

I use “daing na labajita” for salted fish fried rice. I buy it at the dried fish section at the Farmers Market.