A new concept by Joyden, the locally-owned family business behind brands like Joyden Seafood and Joyden Treasures, Ho Fook Hei is a casual eatery that’s just popped up at Great World City. The joint serves Cantonese home-style comfort food that’s good for family gatherings, quick lunches, and everything in between, with recipes that have apparently been passed down from generations.
Highlights here include roast meats, noodles, and traditional congee, but special attention is paid to the Specialty Rose Wine Soy Sauce Chicken ($19/half, $35/whole). Brined overnight then poached in a braising liquid consisting of home-aged soy sauce and Chinese herbs and spices, the bird is bathed in rose wine for a subtle floral fragrance.
You can get the tender meat on its own, or order a one-dish meal of chicken with noodles and blanched greens ($8.80). But whatever you do, we suggest you top each bite off with a large topping of the restaurant’s house-made crunchy chilli sauce for a lick of heat.
If you’re feeling particularly peckish, add on a plate of honey-glazed black barbeque pork belly ($13), with slivers of fatty meat that are sweet and savory all at once. Or slurp down a soup of shrimp dumplings ($8.80) generously stuffed with minced pork, prawn, black fungus, and chives.
For rainy day moods, the Cantonese congee comes in bowls brimming with chunks of red grouper fish fillet ($9.80), lean pork and century egg ($8.80), handmade pork balls ($7.80), or mixed seafood ($9.80), all sprinkled with ginger, spring onions, and coriander leaves.
Since Joyden is known for its seafood, steamed fish also features on the menu, in sea bass, threadfin, and cod options that you can get with a sweet and tangy Nonya assam sauce, ginger sauce, soy sauce, or Teochew style.
To end the meal on a warm note, go for the classic red bean soup made aromatic with aged Mandarin peel ($4.50).
FIND IT:
Ho Fook Hei is at #01-141 Great World City, 1 Kim Seng Promenade.
6219-2262. Daily 11:30am-3:30pm & 5pm-9:30pm.
MRT: Orchard
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