Founder Bak Kut Teh at Jurong Point

Founder Bak Kut Teh has been established since 40 years ago in 1978 by founder Mr Chua. The broth recipe comes from Mr Chua himself and has been improving all these years. 

Founder has evolved from just selling bak kut teh to many other dishes. We were at their Jurong Point branch for dinner today.

With promotion at Eatigo, there was 10% discount entitlement for all dishes. We ordered the following highly recommended dishes: 

1. Founder bak kut teh ($9.80) - their signature bak kut teh. 1 prime rib with 2pcs of normal rib in peppery white soup. The soup is refillable. Its peppery but doesn't taste as rich as Song Fa's. Rating: 3.8/5

2. Tau kee ($3.50) - a bowl of deliciously braised tau kee in dark sauce. So deliciously done and deserves the thumbs up. Rating: 4.2/5

3. Tau pok ($2) - braised in dark sauce as well, the tau pok is fluffy and well soaked up with the dark sauce that is strong in spices. Rating: 4/5

4. Salted vegetables ($3.50) - we simply loved this dish best. Preserved vegetables braised with garlic and chilli. So good to eat it on its own and with plain rice. Rating: 4.5/5

5. Prawn roll ($6.90) - introducing their fried crunchy prawn roll served with sweet plum sauce. The prawn roll is not as fragrant as some other restaurants but still acceptable in taste. Rating: 3.2/5

6. Lettuce with oyster sauce ($5.90) - fresh crunchy lettuce topped with oyster sauce and fried shallots. Rating: 3.5/5

Introducing their new charcoal you tiao, its not as fragrant as the normal ones as its less crunchy. However  overall food is good with prompt and friendly service.

A summary of items ordered:

Founder bak kut teh

Tau kee

Tau pok

Salted vegetables

Prawn roll

Lettuce with oyster sauce
Charcoal You Tiao

My overall ratings:

Food: 3.9/5

Price: 3.8/5

Service: 4/5

Ambience: 3.5/5

You can locate them here:

Founder Bak Kut Teh

63 Jurong West Central 3, Jurong Point Shopping Centre, #03-105, Singapore 648331

Restaurant - Chinese

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Soon Huat Dining House at Chinatown Point

Soon Huat Dining House is a business of a second chance. It was started in April 2013 by Mr Jabez Tan, who spent 12 years in jail for drug and theft related offences. 

During his imprisonment, he started off as a kitchen dishwasher but became the main prison chef thereafter and started cooking for his inmates. Embracing his passion for cooking, he created a unique bak kut teh recipe for his shop.

Mr Jabez employs ex-convicts who are willing to turn over a new leaf in his restaurants. He believes in giving them a new lease of life. From just selling bak kut teh, the restaurant now offers many other non pork related dishes like curry fish head, white seafood beehoon etc. We ordered 4 dishes in total, starting with the following:



1. Braised mixed platter ($6.90) - the platter has beancurd, tow pok, peanuts, salted vegetables, egg and pork belly. The platter looks appetizing but was a little disappointed with the taste. The beancurd, tow pok did not absorb the gravy and wasn't braised long enough. Thus the items tasted rather plain. Rating: 2.8/5


2. Bak kut teh ($7.90) - we added tow kee and golden mushroom which cost $1 each. The soup base was good. Its the dark herbal soup base so rich in flavor. Pork ribs were a little tough though. Rating: 3.8/5


3. Chap chye ($7.90) - braised cabbage with fungus, dried shrimps and tang hoon. A nice vegetable dish to order. Rating: 3.8/5


4. Fried prawn rolls ($9.90) - crunchy prawn rolls deep fried and served with sweet sauce. The prawn roll has crunch water chesnut in it and fragrant. Rating: 3.8/5




Chilli is available at the self service counter. For chilli lovers, the chicken rice chilli is a must take. We personally preferred Soon Huat's bak kut teh base to Song Fa's one because it is thicker and not the peppery kind. Restaurant could definitely be considered for family gatherings.









A summary of items ordered:
Bak kut teh
Braised mixed platter
Chap chye
Fried prawn rolls

My Overall Ratings:
Food: 3.7/5
Price: 3.5/5
Service: 3.5/5
Ambience: 3.5/5

You can locate them here:
Soon Huat Dining House
133 New Bridge Road, #02-38, 059413

Restaurant - Chinese

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Leong Kee (Klang) Bak Kut Teh at Geylang Lor 11

This is our first time exploring food at Geylang. Geylang has been known for its food and red light district. One of the highly recommended good food includes this bak kut teh stall that we will be visiting for dinner. 

Leong Kee Bak Kut Teh originated from KL Klang. Unlike the other bak kut teh like Old Street whereby the soup base is clear and peppery, Leong Kee offers the dark and thick herbal soup based in claypots. 

The soup is served piping hot and boiling. In the soup, besides the usual pork ribs, you can choose to put in 3 layer fatty meat. There is lettuce and beancurd skin in the soup as well. Very thick soup base that goes very well with white rice and you tiao. 

You could taste the herbal flavour in it. Just a pity that their you tiao is not as good as that of Old Street's. 

Besides bak kut teh, we ordered their highly recommended stew pig trotters. This dish is excellent! Tender pig trotters stewed in claypot. 

The sauce has a slight burnt taste which gives the flavour of eating claypot rice. Awesome! Their side dishes like braised peanuts and oyster sauce kailan were good as well. 

Overall, for herbal bak kut teh, Leong Kee is definitely the stall to visit. Parking may be difficult in Geylang, thus might be easier to access the stall by mrt and walking. 


Items Ordered:
Bak Kut Teh
Oyster sauce Kailan
Stew pig trotters
You Tiao and braised nuts

My Overall Ratings:

Food: 3.8/5

Price: 4/5

Service: 3/5

Ambience: 2.5/5

You can locate them here:

Leong Kee (Klang) Bak Kut Teh

251 Geylang Road, Singapore 389309

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Brotherhood Bak Kut Teh by AOne at Jurong Point

Our dinner venue for today: Jurong Point at Boon Lay MRT. Jurong Point is well known for food, with 3 main food streets. We have Korean and Japanese at the basement and HK food street on the 3rd level.

We intended to eat Legendary HK, but queue was way too long and we were too hungry to wait. We browsed along and stumbled across Brotherhood (古惑仔）Bak Kut Teh at the behind the HK food street. 

Brotherhood bak Kut teh is a subsidiary branch of AOne. Besides bak Kut teh, the restaurant offers other dishes like Claypot porridge and hotplate dishes.

We ordered 3 dishes for today:
1. Hotplate seafood horfun


2. Ampang yong tau fu


3. Claypot chicken cubes

All 3 dishes were good. Hotplate seafood horfun is good for 2 to share if you are a small eater and the ingredients are generous. Ampang yong tau fu is fried yong tau fu with gravy. 

Fried crispily and goes well with the homemade sauce. Lastly the Claypot chicken cubes is fried with garlic cloves and fried chilli. A little spicy but goes well with a bowl of rice.

Ambience of the place was good and staff very friendly. A nice restaurant for family and frenz.



My Overall Ratings:

Food: 4/5
Price: 3.5/5
Ambience: 4/5
Service: 4/5

You can locate them here:

Brotherhood Bak Kut Teh by AOne
63 Jurong west central, #03-105/112 Jurong point, Singapore 648331

Restaurant - Chinese

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Lian Peng Bak Kut Teh at Changi City Point

We were on our way to the airport to receive my family from their trip. Since Changi City Point is along the way and we hardly visited it, we decided to drop by to explore a little and for dinner before heading to the airport.

Changi City Point is a shopping mall with several outlet stalls especially sports. There are a wide range of restaurant selection as well. Lian Peng Bak Kut Teh caught our eyes and here we are on our way to review the food.

Similar to Old Street and Man Lee, the menu is on electronic devices for you to self order. Here's our dinner list:

1. Loin rib bak kut teh
2. Assam fish
3. Blanched cabbage
4. Braised tau pok and peanuts
5. You tiao

The loin rib was tender and soup tasty. Lian Peng serves the peppery teochew style version. 




Assam fish is one dish uncommon in bak kut teh restaurant. The assam sauce is ready made and just poured our the prepared fried fish. The dish tasted very much like sardine. 

The blanched cabbage was good with the fried garlic toppings. Braised tau pok was strong in star anise taste. Not recommended if you don't like star anise. 


You tiao was ok but those from Old Street is still the best. Nothing too special to comment on the braised peanuts.

Overall, we would think Lian Peng bak kut teh tasted ok and better than Man Lee but other restaurants like Founders and Old Street are definitely better.


Items Ordered:
Loin rib bak kut teh
Assam fish
Blanched cabbage
Braised tau pok and peanuts
You tiao

My Overall Ratings:

Food: 3.5/5
Price: 3.5/5
Service: 3.5/5
Ambience: 3.5/5

You can locate them here:

Lian Peng Bak Kut Teh
Changi City Point, 5 Changi Business Park Central 1, #01-28, Singapore 486038

Restaurant - Chinese

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