Chun Ji Curry Rice – Homey Cooking that will Fill Your Tummy

Located in West Coast Market Square, Chun Ji Curry Rice is a hawker stall that opened two years ago. Seeing that the owner, who’s also the chef, was busy simultaneously cooking and serving customers, I didn’t probe further about the history of his business. Each time I was about to pop a question, another customer appeared in line.

However, I managed to find out from his helper that he used to operate a chicken rice stall in the same place before he started this curry rice stall! That adds up to a total of 32 years in West Coast Market Square. Wow!

I ordered the curry vegetables and hairy gourd (AKA jie gua). They were served piping hot and the aroma of the curry made me excited.

The rice was a little clumpy, but not too bad. The curry vegetables were delightful! The vegetables and luncheon meat are first stir-fried on their own before curry is added to bring the whole dish to life. I was surprised that even after being cooked in the curry sauce, the vegetables were not at all mushy and soft. In fact, they still retained quite a crunch. Plus point there!

The hairy gourd, which was stir fried with vermicelli, delivered a subtle hint of sweetness and was seasoned perfectly. I could use more vermicelli though. If you haven’t heard of or tried this vegetable, I’d say it’s similar to old cucumber.

I spotted a big tray of assam fish sitting in a corner and ordered it. It is one of my favourite dishes and the lady server recommended it too, so I knew I had to get it!

A big and decent cut of tenggiri fish (Spanish mackerel) was lying in the assam gravy, together with a few pieces of ladies’ fingers and tomato slices. As appealing as it seemed, there is definitely room for improvement. Assam has to be spicy and sour but the assam here was lacking both spiciness and sourness. It was sweeter than anything else. However, the fish was fresh and cooked to just the right texture.

$5.50 for this meal was quite reasonable since the fish was quite big. Although there seemed to be more hits than misses, I might just try the other dishes if I’m in the area during lunchtime.

MissTamChiak.com made an anonymous visit and paid its own meal at the stall featured here.

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