The first thing that catches your eye about this stall is the biblical reference on the stall name "King of Kings" Revelations 7:14. Interesting to quote the bible, though a really forced correlation.
Next up, you'd see a column of adverts of the origins of this stall. The secret recipe divulged; their fish are airflown from India and it's a cantonese style fish soup.
Despite being cantonese, I've not quite tasted a proper Cantonese fish soup.
I placed an order for their Mixed Fish Soup, having a go at both sliced and fried fish to "have my fish and eat it"; the best of both fishy worlds. It comes served piping hot, with their signature chilli sauce that's sold for $2.50 a bottle and 2 crunchy pepper salt fish skins separately.
The pepper salt fried fish skins are uniquely Cantonese, I remember ordering one such dish in Hongkong several years back. Pretty well done, fried so well, no trace of oil. In fact it's so crunchy it'll double up as a teatime snack anyday.
Tucking into the fish soup, the soup base is very light, not laden with flavours. The sliced fish is so thin as compared to the fried fish. Tastewise, I prefer the bland sliced fish, the fried fish batter didn't quite go for me, there's a certain aftertaste that I didn't quite fancy.
Overall, the fried fish skin stood out more than the fish soup itself.
King of Kings
Maxwell Market Food Centre
Stall 2
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