Last night we went to KO’s house for a quick party meeting. On the way, Jac and I dropped by at Singapore Hawkers Food for dinner. SHF is located in the same block of shops as another of our favourite places, Taurus Hawker Foods (we may have gone to Taurus, if it were open – but we were also curious to try SHF).

Jac loves special fried rice, so we ordered a dish to share. It was really tasty, and was full of chunks of barbecue pork and chicken.

We each chose a meat dish. My choice was the sizzling garlic chicken. The sauce was very garlicky, and there was a good balance of chicken and vegetables. Jac noted that the sliced onion was extremely sweet. I especially liked the baby corn and the yummy sliced carrot.

Last night was the first time we both tried the new Coke Zero (“Real taste, zero sugar”). I quite liked it. It did taste like Coke, with the artificial sweetener aftertaste. Can’t get away from that aftertaste. But it’s a definite improvement on Diet Coke, which tastes NOTHING like Coke AND has that aftertaste AND a during-taste. I don’t plan to become a regular Coke Zero drinker though (I’m not a regular soda drinker at all).

Jac’s meat dish choice was one of her all-time favourites, mongolian lamb. The lamb pieces were tender, and the sauce was delicious.

We also ordered a dish of yau choy which is just plain vegetables in oyster sauce. This proved to be my favourite dish of the lot. It was just plain old choy sam with fried garlic and oyster sauce. The sauce was a little on the oily side, but it tasted so good I really didn’t care. The choy sam stems had been cut into smaller pieces and were really easy to eat, no stringiness at all. I ate most of this dish. We both agreed that this would taste damed good with steamed plain rice (but as it was, I enjoyed our special fried rice)