Road-Side Dining At Al-Ameen @ Bukit Timah at They Might Be Curly Giants!

It is the typical Singaporean thing to dine at a road-side cafe that a found all over the island in such places as Geylang, Siglap, Bedok, Kembangan and of course, Bukit Timah, just to name a few. We went to Al-Ameen at Cheong Chin Nam Road in Bukit Timah, a place we haven’t been to in years. We actually wanted to check out the Halal Foods Expo at the Singapore Expo, but the horrid evening rush-hour traffic, causing massive jams everywhere caused us to divert our journey and we ended up at Bukit Timah instead. By the time we reached the place, we were famished.

We both had the famous ‘Milo Dinosaur’ but they forgot the all-important cherry!

While waiting for our food to arrive, we laughed at the grammatical errors on the cafe’s signboard, one of which had a picture of beef steak with the words ‘bisteak’ below it. The place was quite busy, as usual, but our food arrived within 10 minutes, consisting of rice with mixed vegetables and fried eggs,

sambal prawns,

and grilled stingray, which, I must add, was a tad disappointing because it was practically drowning in sambal sauce. Still tasted pretty good, but we’ve had better.

It was quite a big meal for two of us, but at $39, it wasn’t exactly hawker-food prices. A little too steep, I must say, but it was nice to go back to our old food haunt. The area hasn’t changed much in the years since we’ve last been there. Some things are better left untouched and unchanged. Sadly though, according to other people I know the standard of food at Al-Ameen has dropped. They’ve even closed their Tampines outlet the last we checked.