Anna Marie Alde
Our go-to comfort food especially on a cold & rainy night ... tender pork ribs in a bowl of hot, savory, peppery, garlicky broth really hits the spot. Must go with their crispy you tiao. Love their braised pork trotters and salted vegetables, too. 😋😋😋
Saifu Angto
This is one of the several Bak Kut Teh place in the area (Balestier and Rangoon Road). Tried it for the first time, and was debating between this and Loy Kee chicken rice place across the street.
Ordered the Founder Bak Kut Teh, lettuce stir fry, braised peanut and salted vegetable. They gave use second bowl of soup from the get go, and the ribs were good and soft. The salted vegetable was nice, not too sour. The braised peanut is nice and soft, large size, but it's a bit bland. The soup is good, less peppery compared to Song Fa.
Overall is good. Song Fa soup is more peppery, comparable to Ng Ah Sio on Rangoon Rd.
Ivan Teh
Bak Kut Teh (SGD $18) @ Founder Bak Kut Teh.
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On the spectrum of BKT, you have the potent peppery broth on one end, and the robust herbal broth on the other.
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Since 1978, the version here is unique for occupying the middle, blending both savoury peppery and herbal sweet flavours, an enticing medley.
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The premium pork ribs are large and meaty, with tender pork that comes off the bone easily, having a savoury herbal sweet flavour from the broth.
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The pickled salted mustard greens have a medium vegetal salty sweet flavour with a soft crunch, while the braised egg has a bold soy sauce gravy that is best paired with white rice.
Jenny Nguyen
Fast service, their price is ~20% higher than other places but it's reasonable cuz they use only fresh pork to cook. I know this because my hubby is a food supplier. The ribs are addictive.
Kim Jun Hong
One of my favourite places to have traditional bak ku teh!
Prices are slightly more expensive if compared to other BKT stalls. But still worth the taste and quality of it.
They have quite a handful of outlets around Singapore now. Previously, they only have their one and only, flagship Balestier outlet.
Meat is tender. Soup is peppery flavourful. Services are decent.
Janine
Really poor service and the staff get easily distracted without completing any of the tasks. The staff wanted to clear a table, but stopped and came over to take our order. Before she could take our order, more customers came and she got distracted and started to seat them. We waited and waited and never got our orders taken. Finally, we asked for the staff tablet and took our orders ourselves 🙃
I even wondered if we should help other tables to take their orders too since they were so slow and got nothing done LOL
Sky Ain't Limit
One of the best peppery bak kut teh I had, though the price is not cheap. The pork ribs were tender and the pepper soup was flavourful. The pork kidney was made to almost perfect during my first visit, but overcooked during my 2nd visit. The tau pok and salty vegetable were quite nicely done also. You will get to see many celebrity's photo on the wall.
Jaime Che
The first thing I have noticed upon entering the shop is that all possible space on the wall is filled with photos of Asian celebrates that have visited before, and it quickly made me wonder have I walked into another tourist trap? Or a shop that is living off from it past glorious days? (since most of the photos are at least 10 year old)
Oh man, I am so glad that my stereotyping was wrong again. I had one of the best bowl of Bak Kut Teh (pork rib tea) in my life. The soup was very fragrant with the right balance of heat from the pepper, and the porks ribs were so juicy and tender, yet not over stewed that it will fall off the bone so one could still have the satisfying bite and tear the meats off it. Liver soup was served with a tiny traces of blood, at first I was sceptical but again, the shop has proven that they know what they are doing. Liver was cooked perfectly and there was no gamy taste at all! I could have down the whole bowl if it wasn’t for my health issue.
You won’t regret coming and you might spot a celebrity or two, who knows.
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