[Food Tasting] Fu Xiang Signatures 福翔特选@ Food Republic Vivocity

Fu Xiang Signatures is best known for its “Award Winning” Curry Chicken. Over at my part of the world, ie. Lot One Choa Chu Kang, there is a Fu Xiang Kitchen and yes, one could get a taste of curry chicken and emperor cream sauce chicken.

Fu Xiang Signatures is currently helmed by the second generation; Edwin and Edric, who strives to keep their parent's tradition alive.

store counter

Fu Xiang Signature Vivocity is located within Food Republic at Level 3, and has its own seating area. No need to jostle with the rest of the food court patrons.

Fu Xiang Signatures dining area

complimentary biscuits

merlion shaped biscuits

I'd go with Fu Xiang Signature's $7 Value Meal which comes with rice, omelette and stir fried cabbage. Loved the tasty stir fried cabbage with dried shrimps, and it was rather shiok to drench the white rice with copious amount of the deliciously thick and rich curry. There's a definite bite in the curry yet it was pleasant.

Curry Chicken Value Meal (新加坡咖喱超值餐) @ $7

rich, thick and comforting curry chicken

chunky chicken thigh, can you resist?

Have you tried the Emperor Cream Sauce Chicken? It is said that this dish is most likely to be confused with salted egg chicken. The sauce has butter and milk and a sprinkling of chili padi. A bit of tangy, a bit spicy and creamy buttery flavour. Eat it while it is hot.

Emperor Cream Sauce Chicken (奶皇鸡)

One of the crowd favourite seemed to be the Chicken Biscuit Curry Rice. Battered with biscuit crumbs and deep fried to a dark brown before being poured with curry.

Chicken Biscuit Curry Rice (饼干咖喱鸡扒饭)

If you are in a group, why not try the Assam Fish Head or the Assam Curry Seafood and a few side dishes. Communal dining taste best when eaten together with loved ones. The seafood curry has  crab, squid and prawns alongside with brinjals, ladies fingers and tomatoes. A few pieces of deep fried beancurd were also added in. The seafood curry can be eaten with fried mantou if you don't fancy rice.

Seafood Curry (good for 3 to 4 pax)

deep fried man tou

For lovers of hash brown, you could satiate your cravings here too. There's also fried baby potatoes if you are looking for a variation of carbs.

hashbrown

fried baby potato

Homemade drinks such as ice-lemon tea and calamansi are available to quench your thirst as well as to put out the fire from the spice (it was rather mild for me, but still could make some sweat).

Thank you Kris for the invite. Special thanks to Elfin and Fu Xiang Signatures for hosting.

Fu Xiang Signatures Vivocity

Address: 1 HarbourFront Walk | VivoCity #03-01| Singapore 098585
Website: https://fuxiangsignatures.com
Business Hours:
Daily: 10am to 10pm

Curry House CoCo ICHIBANYA 壱番屋 @ Star Vista

This top curry rice restaurant chain from Ichinomiya, Aichi (Nagoya) Japan, is also known as CoCo Ichiban or CoCo Ichi. According to wiki, カレ (karē) is one of the most popular dish in Japan and カレーライス (karē raisu) is a ubiquitous dish in Japanese household. It is quite amazing that CoCo Ichi has a thousand over branches in Japan alone, and another thousand over more worldwide!

restaurant

Such popularity! Makes one even more curious to try it. The chance came, in the form of an invited tasting session, much thanks to the good people from Imagine Consultancy and CoCo ICHIBANYA.

good curry, good taste

The restaurant was moderately busy on a mid-week evening. I do like Japanese curry rice, especially beef curry. But I've never had omelette curry rice before, and CoCo Ichi has it, so right from the start, I knew what I wanted. Target locked.

show me the curry!

Food tasting and curry rice. Hmm. Overload of carbs? No worries. For small eaters, the menu here is pretty customizable. Prefers less or more rice? Yes, you can. Choose level of spiciness? Yes, you can. Add toppings? Yes, you can.

more or less

Started off with mini-salad. Nicely refreshing with crisp greens.

mini salad (available as part of Set Menu top-up @$3.50++ for 2 items of either a drink or dessert)

dig in!

Omelet Hashed Beef Rice (non-spicy @$14++)

Hashed beef rice is also known as Hayashi rice. Western-styled and its sauce is a demi-glace with tomatoes. Non-spicy and some sweetness. Not too thick and quite yummy. Prefers slightly fattier beef slices though.

fluffy omelet and sticky japanese rice

Next, pork curry rice with Level 1 spiciness. Very very mild, slightly thick curry and enjoyable. This one would be the Indian-influenced curry.

pork curry rice

Ordered Pork Cutlet Omelet Curry Rice with a Level 3 spiciness for comparison, and the verdict? Had some heat but still manageable. In fact, it was not easy to break out a sweat. My bro preferred Level 1, while I thought Level 2 and 3 were pretty similar. Unfortunately, the pork cutlet was rather lean and slightly tough that day.

pork cutlet omelet curry rice

If your tongue starts to tingle from too much heat, then perhaps a smoothie to cool it down? Mango flavour was definitely much stronger than orange! Nicely cold.

mango orange smoothie

The chicken karaage omelet curry rice had very good karaage. Tender bite sized chunks, freshly fried but limited edition with only 6 pieces!

karaage omelet curry rice

How about some desserts? Ice-cream and cheesecake!

vanilla and strawberry ice-cream

green tea cheesecake

The green tea cheesecake has three layers; cheese, red bean and green tea base. Most prominent was the slightly bitter green tea base. Most surprising was that there wasn't any cheese taste in this dessert. More like tofu pudding with dense green tea base. The red bean layer was useful to offset the bitterness by having some sweetness to it.

Special thanks to Glenn, Taisong and CoCo ICHIBANYA for the invite.

CoCo ICHIBANYA

Address: #02-06, Star Vista, Buona Vista
Tel:  (65) 6570 2457
Website: www.cocothailand.com , or 
http://www.ichibanya.co.jp/english/index.html