Shrimp Paste Fried Rice @ Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen

Shrimp Paste Fried Rice or in Pinoy style: bagoong fried rice. The shrimp paste or bagoong was already mixed in with the rice and served with strips of scrambled egg, Chinese sausage, pork bits, strips of green mangoes, lemon, chili, onion and cucumber slices. 

I transferred the chili, onion, lemon, cucumber, pork bits and sausage slices to another plate and mixed the rest together with the rice. (Hmm... it would have been shorter to say I mixed in the mango strips and egg with the rice while the rest I discarded. Ha.)

The dish was good. You can taste the strong shrimp paste flavor and it wasn't too much to overpower your taste buds. The tartness of the mango strips brought in a nice flavor to complement the shrimp paste. The eggs added texture and protein to the dish. 

I also ordered the Thai Mango Salad which was more strips of mango, pickled and mixed in with strips of onion and chili. The sweet and sour taste of this salad was a nice mix to the fried rice. 

My lunch buddy ordered their Thai Bamboo Salad (top dish on the photo below) and that was a bust. It smelled weird and tasted weird too. We didn't eat any of it but the server had it packed in a doggy bag without us asking to. We ended up throwing it in the trash outside. I know, such a waste of food but we couldn't stomach it. The smell alone turned us off.

Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen
#01-57/58/59, Golden Mile Complex
5001 Beach Road S(199588)
T: 6293 5101


Hours:
Mon to Sun: 6am - 10:30pm

Fried Fish Fillet with Sweet & Sour Sauce @ Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen

To continue my previous post about lunch at Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen, here's my review on their Fried Fish Fillet with Sweet and Sour Sauce (S$12).

First for a 12-dollar dish, I was expecting a bigger serving. I think it had no more than 10 fillets of fish in the dish with a lot of them only bite size. One serving would barely be enough for two people.

Second, the dish reminded me of the classic sweet and sour fish also popular in the Philippines. More on the sweet side with chunks of pineapples and tomatoes in the dish. Overall, it was tasty and refreshing. A great complement to the previously blogged about Salted Fish Fried Rice.

Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen
#01-57/58/59, Golden Mile Complex
5001 Beach Road S(199588)
T: 6293 5101


Hours:
Mon to Sun: 6am - 10:30pm

Salted Fish Fried Rice in Claypot @ Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen

My friend and I usually avoid Golden Mile Complex when it comes to lunch destinations -- for various reasons. This time, we were invited to have lunch with one of our colleagues and this was the place chosen. It's a shop on the ground level of Golden Mile Complex beside many Thai restaurants and stores the place is known for.

The place was clean with great service. We were seated immediately with a surprisingly varied menu given to us. They serve soups, salads, seafood dishes (crab, fish, prawns), meat dishes (chicken, beef, pork), vegetables and some authentic Thai and local drinks.

I ordered their Salted Fish Fried Rice in Claypot and Fried Fish Fillet with Sweet & Sour Sauce. The Salted Fish Fried Rice was like it says fried rice with bits of salted fish, scrambled egg strips and cashew nuts. It was served in a claypot but it looked like it wasn't actually cooked in the claypot. It was most probably cooked in a wok and then just served in a claypot. Usually, claypot rice dishes have a semi burnt taste to it and with rice sticking to the pot. Tuk Tuk's claypot rice didn't have any of those. No matter though, it was still good cooked in a claypot or not.

As for the Fried Fish Fillet with Sweet and Sour Sauce, that will have to be reserved for the next entry. 'Til then, happy eats!

Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen
#01-57/58/59, Golden Mile Complex
5001 Beach Road S(199588)
T: 6293 5101


Hours:
Mon to Sun: 6am - 10:30pm