Eating Spots Around Viz - Commonwealth Crescent Food Centre ... Right Behind Us!

I'm going to try to put up a number of posts highlighting some of the eating places that are nearby Viz. The closest location is right behind us, down the stairs after the rear gate (near the tennis court) - the Commonwealth Crescent Food Centre (FC).

The FC has recently been renovated and features a wet market selling fresh meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits on the ground floor (the food stalls are upstairs). There's also a GP clinic at one of the shops 'surrounding' the FC, and a few minisupermarkets (the equivalent of UK's corner shops). One of the minisupermarkets sell Coke Zero 1.5l bottles at $1.60 and that's quite a decent price :) (Yes, I'm addicted to Zero!).

You can find the FC on this map (follow the red arrows):



Located within the FC itself are several notable stalls:

• Recently, the dessert stall there's had a makeover courtesy of Channel 8's Buzzing Cashier. This show goes around Singapore helping out hawkers that are in financial diffulcty, and provide expert culinary advice and makeover. You can read about the Bee Garden Desserts here (food blog courtesy of ieatishootipost).
• On the same floor is Henry's Chicken Rice, which opens during lunchtime only. His chickens run out (well, not literally) about 130pm or so, so you have to be there early to get some. I like his roasted chicken (boneless!).
• The biggest stall there is the Hong Kong Street stall which is a Cze Char stall - they have a set menu of cooked dishes you can order from (although they do not provide a physical menu I think). They're open lunch and dinner, and we used to get food from there as takeaway, to eat back home. That's until we found our tingkat service (another post on this in the future)
• There's also a decent western stall (same row as the sugar cane/fruit juice stall) that serves nice chicken cutlet/fried rice meals, and same row, a noodle store that has decent jade (ie green) noodles with charsiew (although the charsiew isn't that good).

Venture out of the FC and there are several restaurants surrounding it that's been recommended by floggers (food bloggers), such as:

• Eng Kee Chicken Wings - This is in one corner of the 'square', and if driving you can't miss the huge chicken wings signboard. There's always a LONG queue for this stall so take note. It's famous for its deep fried chicken wings, and you order that with fried bee hoon, and other optional items (eg vegetables, fried egg, luncheon meat, sausage, fish cake etc). You can read about it here.
• Two Chefs Eating Place - Try the butter pork ribs.. That alone is worth the trip there. Food is served fast, and while there are other dishes there, we didn't find them as great as the butter pork ribs. You can read about it here, here or here too.
• Finally, the flogger ieatishootipost has highly recommended the Indian Mutton Soup in the same stall area as Two Chefs here. I have to admit not trying this yet, due to the high chloresterol content of mutton soup, but ieatishootipost has pretty good recommendations thus far, so for the adventurous (and those on xenical, crestor etc) might want to give it a go LOL.
  

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