A1 Bak Kut Teh

NICI-Mania's Jolly Mah will be showing you A1 Bak Kut Teh in this post. Special guest appearance by NICI snow reindeer!

Bak Kut Teh is pork ribs soup with a distinctive taste of local spices. Bak Kut Teh is the most famous classic dish here, a must eat delicacy if you ever visit Malaysia.

A1 Bak Kut Teh combines all the important spices for the unique Bak Kut Teh taste and puts it in a convenient pack so you can easily cook your own Bak Kut Teh at the comfort of your own home.

A1 Bak Kut Teh comes in two packets of spices as you can see above. Put both into one pot of soup.

The most important ingredient for Bak Kut Teh is the pork ribs (Bak Kut in hokkien language)

Prime pork ribs is the preferred type of ribs for Bak Kut Teh. They are very soft and tender when cooked. The instruction says 2kg of meat but 8 pieces of prime pork ribs would be enough.

Garlic is the next most important ingredient for the Bak Kut Teh soup taste. We put 2 generous bulbs of garlic (unpeeled) into the soup and chop up 1 extra bulb for condiments later.

Button mushrooms are optional but we love to have them in our Bak Kut Teh.

Fried bean curd skin is also optional here.

Fried tofu puff is also optional here. Some popular extra ingredients Bak Kut Teh stall owners like to put here is pork liver and pork intestine.

Always boil the pork ribs in a separate small pot first as you can boil away all the dirty blood in the ribs. Very important so that your soup won't be tarnished.

We used about 1 litre of water here and then we dump the ribs, garlic, button mushrooms and A1 Bak Kut Teh pack into the soup all at once.

The optional bean curd skin and tofu puff can be added anytime but we add it almost when its ready.

After boiling for 1.5hours, the A1 Bak Kut Teh soup is done! All you need to do is add salt to taste and MSG (food flavoring to enhance the flavor), but we used chicken stock cubes to replace MSG. We also added lots of pepper, it is not mandatory to add all the dark/light soy sauce and oyster sauce as mentioned in the instructions.

The garlic is well soaked with all the A1 Bak Kut Teh spices and pork ribs taste.

The button mushrooms are also very tasty.

The most important condiment to go with Bak Kut Teh is this chopped fresh garlic with red chilli in dark soy sauce + light soy sauce. This goes very very well with the pork ribs in the Bak Kut Teh soup. Not compulsory but most shops selling Bak Kut Teh gives this.

How do you know when the prime pork ribs is well cooked? As long as the meat tears away from the bone easily means the ribs are tender and succulent.

Hope our dear friend Leona from plueschtierkinder enjoys the A1 Bak Kut Teh at Germany! ^_^

NICI Giraffe

NICI-Mania was traveling on a bus and found a suspicious bag left at the back of the seat. We should call the police!!

No..WAIT!!

Something popped out of the bag! Is that the leg of NICI Giraffe?

Now two legs kicked out of the bag!! We can faintly see NICI Giraffe's spots showing through the plastic bag.

NICI Giraffe emerges from the suspicious bag

Hello NICI Giraffe! What are you doing in a bus?

NICI Giraffe: "Someone wrapped me in a plastic bag and left me here!"

Why would anyone abandon you NICI Giraffe, you're so cute and suave!

NICI Giraffe Gwen looks innocently at us. Its like she is saying "Please bring me home"

NICI Giraffe Gwen continues to flaunt her cuteness!

NICI Giraffe has beautiful spots on her body

NICI Giraffe: "Are we on our way home now?"

We brought NICI Giraffe for 'Ika Meshi' stuffed squid with glutinous rice snack before going home.

Ika Meshi is a simple Japanese dish in which a whole squid is stuffed with seasoned rice. The stuffed squid is then grilled over sweet shoyu (soy sauce).

Time to bring nici giraffe home!

NICI Giraffe reunites with her good friend Milo Gorilla!

NICI Giraffe meets up with the rest of the NICI Wild Friends gang and all our flock warmly welcomes the addition of Gwen the giraffe.

Fish n Chips at Fish and Co

One beautiful evening Hugo Wolf dated Jolly Rosa to eat Fish n Chips at Fish and Co. We are at The Glass House outlet at Park Mall. This is the most unique Fish and Co outlet in Singapore, we'll show you why.

Meantime, where's Rosa? Hugo Wolf waited, pondered and waited, and waited...

in front of the glass house until sun set but still no sign of Rosa

A familiar voice closes in and a dejavu strong pat on Hugo Wolf's shoulder would only mean..Jolly Rosa: Come Hugo, let's go in and have our Fish n Chips!

Our nici couple is very excited to be going out on a date for the first time. Jolly Rosa and Hugo Wolf is gonna order the New York Fish n Chips and the Best Fish n Chips in town.

One of the most distinguishing furnishing at The Glass House Fish and Co is the brightly lit rows of colorful glass bottles behind the counter.

The most unique architectural feature of The Glass House Fish and Co is the building covered with huge glass panels from the top to the sides. Picture on the left shows a small stage with music equipments but we never seen live bands performing here before.

Seafood in a pan is Fish and Co's tagline. Yes, they actually do serve their fish n chips in the real pan but its not the same pan that they use to cook your seafood. Everything here is deep fried in a huge electric deep fryer and then served on the pan.

Jolly Rosa exclaims to Hugo Wolf: Hey did you see that? There's a skeleton fish on our table! Hugo blatantly replied: Fish and Co killed the fish to make our fish n chips and left the remains on our table! After our nici couple's nonsense talk, their drink is here..

They ordered the Tropical Punch, which is 1 for 1 at $3.90 so its perfect for our nici toy couple. This is the usual style of drinks at Fish and Co with the syrup at the bottom and the soda on top. You have to mix them well before drinking.

While they continued to wait for their fish n chips to come, Hugo wolf wanna show you the ceiling of The Glass House Fish and Co building. Its...made of glass!  On our right is the semi spiral staircase leading to the 2nd floor but its usually not opened unless for some special occasion.

     After about 15 minutes, their fish n chips arrived!!

Jolly Rosa ordered the New York Fish n Chips at $15.95 and as what Fish n Co promised - Seafood in a pan served to you.

On the outside, it looks exactly the same as your normal fish n chips, so they put an american flag to differentiate between the normal fish n chips and this New York fish n chips.

On the inside of the New York fish n chips, it is stuffed filled with mozzarella cheese. But its not the kind of cheese that will drip out like cheese sausages, its rather dry making the fish n chips fish fillet dry too.

Upon closer inspection you can see the mozzarella cheese is punched right in the middle of your fish fillet meat. This is a chef recommended dish at Fish n Co but we personally do not recommend unless you are really dying to have cheese.

Hugo Wolf on the other hand ordered the standard fish n chips. The signature dish at Fish and Co which they self proclaimed it The Best Fish n Chips in Town.

The signature fish n chips at Fish and Co comes with a deep fried dory fish fillet, french fries, a slice of lemon and most importantly of all - the tartar sauce! There are some condiments missing this time at Fish and Co..no more diced garlic and chilli sauce.

Not sure why these two condiments were omitted from Fish and Co, but the diced garlic was a pretty nice addition, it goes really well with the fish n chips and french fries. 

Good thing the tartar sauce is still available and they did not attempt to charge extra for the copious amount of tartar sauce Hugo requested.

Tartar sauce has some lemon in it, so it does a really good job of neutralizing the deep fried fish n chips and french fries that goes charging relentlessly through your throat.

Jolly Rosa had just noticed the cute rubber coaster in fish and co which they use to put our drinks on.

The Glass House is the flagship Fish and Co outlet in Singapore and it is rumored that they serve the best Fish and Co Fish n Chips in town. Not entirely true on the most tasty Fish n Chips part but we enjoy eating dinner in this beautiful entourage.

Best time to go is in the evening where you get to see the view of the glass house in the diminishing daylight and the night view after you finish eating the fish n chips and the lights turn on.

Fish and Co (The Glass House)

9 Penang Road, #01-24 Park Mall, Singapore

Opposite Plaza Singapura shopping mall

Tel: +65 6334 1858

Opening hours: 11:30am to 10pm

Recommended food to order: Best Fish n Chips in Town