Singapore Eat: Hong Bak Kut Teh (鸿肉骨茶) @ Bukit Batok West
- Rick
- Apr 23
- 2 min read
Hong Bak Kut Teh (鸿肉骨茶) serves various styles of bak kut teh (pork ribs soup), including Klang-style herbal and dry, white pepper Teochew-style, and other porky dishes. The food stall is located in Kimly Coffeeshop below Block 150, which is also a part of Bukit Batok West Shopping Centre.
Apart from bak kut teh, there are braised pig's trotter, braised big intestine, white pepper pig's stomach soup, lean meat soup, pig organ soup, etc, and side dishes, such as braised chicken feet, salted vegetable, braised tofu puffs and, of course, fried dough and rice.
The Klang Herbal Bak Kut Teh (巴生药材肉骨茶) is served with quite a number of porky ingredients, such as pork ribs, pork belly meat, pig's stomach, meat balls, enoki mushroom and tofu skins in herbal soup. The soup is non-oily and has a nice herbal-savoury flavour and the porky ingredients are tender.
The Salted Vegetable (咸菜), or preserved mustard, is savoury but not salty. Submerged in oil and mixed with minced garlic, the side dish has a smooth sweet-savoury taste with garlicky flavour. This is special and not common in other places.
The Klang-style Dry Bak Kut Teh (干肉骨茶) is served dry-style with similar pork ingredients, as the Klang Herbal Bak Kut Teh, and ladyfingers in a dark sauce that is made from lots of ingredients, such as dried chilli, strips of cuttlefish, garlic bits, dark soy sauce, spices, etc. The dish is sweet-savoury, mildly spicy, and flavourful and unami-rich. It is delicious.
Hong Bak Kut Teh's dry dish is rich-tasting and the herbal soup dish is pleasant-tasting. Will the white-pepper dish be light-tasting? Will try it next time.
Address:
Kimly Coffeeshop
150 Bukit Batok Street 11, #01-246, Singapore 650150
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