Teochew Meat Puff – Your Favourite Pasar Malam Stall Has Opened a Permanent Stall in Woodlands!

Oyster Cake, or some calls it Meat Puff or UFO Cake, is a disappearing snack in Singapore. You can find a stall in Maxwell, and the other in Jalan Besar.

There is another popular one called Teochew Meat Puffs, which was a roving stall that could be found at pasar malams. The queue is always long and fans would follow them to the different pasar malams  just to have a taste of their meat puffs. Now, you don’t have to travel around to hunt them down anymore(no pasar malam is operating now anyway)! Because Teochew Meat Puff has just opened a permanent stall in Woodlands!

The owner, Keith, kindly let us into his kitchen to see the cooking process. He first pours some rice batter on a shallow metal spatula. Then the ingredients are added before he pours in more batter to cover the ingredients. Peanuts are sprinkled on top. Now, those peanuts are important because it helps to identify the flavour of the meat puff. For example, the prawn meat puff has about 5 peanuts in the middle, while the scallop one has 2 peanuts on the side. The spatula is then lowered into hot oil and deep-fried till golden brown.

This is probably the biggest and fullest meat puff I have ever eaten. We love how thin and crispy the exterior is. Each UFO-shaped fritter is loaded with well-marinated minced meat, celery and a choice of your favourite seafood. You can choose from Oyster ($3.50), Prawn ($3.50), Octopus ($3.50), Crab ($3.50), Scallop ($4) or Vegetable ($2).

Each mouthful gives a burst of savoury flavours and different textures – crispiness from the peanuts to juiciness from the meat. We love the oyster version the most because you get not only one, but two plump and fresh oysters. The scallop and prawn versions both have one piece of seafood(rather big piece) in each puff, while the crab version comes with crab stick. Even though it is deep-fried, it is not greasy at all. Do yourself a favour and eat this with the chilli sauce on the side.

Keith mentioned that this will be their permanent location and they will not be doing anymore pasar malam. Be prepared to wait for these meat puffs, as the wait can go up to an hour. Note that they do not do delivery nor take pre-order or online order. Good news is, there is no limit on the number of puffs you can purchase!

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