In this quest for good food comes withstanding horrific queues, crowds, squishing, squashing and every imaginable word for it. How can I miss the World Food Fair that promises an array of mouth watering treats...and ALL in one location? I needn't travel half an island for that fix of ice-cream or burger.
Throngs and throngs of people were there, sitting, standing, queuing and eating. The variety offered didn't seem to vary much from the one I went to 2 years back.
Went with three other like-minded people! The place was somewhat too smokey with Bak Kwa being sold at the entrance (!!) and satays at the back..so the WHOLE place ended up stinking of barbequed food.
When you're super spoilt for choice, you end up choosing the most ordinary to try. Botak Jones! They were giving out $5 vouchers with every purchase. I've eaten Botak Jones before at Depot Road...
The three items we tried.
The Mini Me Beef Burger ($5), just the beef burger without the chunky fries or salad. The beef patty was somewhat too charred, could taste the burnt bits, but otherwise quite a juicy patty! Overall, a good enough portion, I find the usual portions at Botak Jones a little too much to stomach.
Smoked Turkey Sausage ($5) sandwiched between two sides of burger bread. The sausage tasted pretty good, not too salty, no fatty bits inside either.
Cajun Chicken Burger ($4) with plenty of onions! Normal.
Mango Snow Ice ($3.50). A pint of snow ice it is, drizzled with mango puree in a styrofoam cup. A delightful dessert! The ice is shaved so fine, you can hardly taste it, the puree isn't cloyingly sweet, perfect with the ice. The amazing thing about this dessert, it does not melt! I ate it between mouthfuls of the burger, even after finishing the burger, it hardly melted!
The savoury bites...of roasted duck wrapped in egg skin. Did not take note of which stall it came from, on the sweet side though.
The economical noodle and beancurd ($2) that nearly everyone bought! Tasty noodles with beancurd, nothing wow however.
The more popular choices during the fair are otah, shark's skin soup, laksa and also satay. Queues were too long for us to bother at all.
Walls' ice-creams were on promotion...$12 for 10...a good deal but I wasn't heading home! :(
Would have preferred if they featured more food options rather than health food which a proportion of the stalls were selling. Maybe have Singapore's Top 50 must-eats?
http://www.worldfoodfair.com.sg/
World Food Fair
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