The Great Bowls of Tasty Street

What makes food delicious?

Sometimes it is a thoughtful combination. Such as a perfectly cooked egg, wagyu beef and the right vegetables. On rice. With a good sauce. There is something about magical about egg and beef.

When you break that egg, and the rich yolk oozes out. and enriches the beautiful beef. It’s a heavenly mix. 

The folks at Tasty Street  who cooked this delicious bowl recommend that you mix it all up. But not for me. I believe in keeping the beautiful bowl intact as I eat it, so that each element is distinct.

Cause it takes a lot of effort to make this bowl. And it deserves respect. And the other thing that makes food great, is to care about the food you cook. To do things from scratch. And the folks at Tasty Street do lots from scratch.

Tastystreet is the brainchild of three friends who met during their Polytechnic days at Temasek Polytechnic’s Culinary and Catering Management. After graduating, they saved up some money and started this business, with the goal of serving great ingredients cooked with modern techniques in a simple and affordable manner. Well, they are cooking great food. They started in the cafeteria of the Ministry of Education at Buona Vista Road, and later opened a second outlet at Pasir Ris Central Hawker Center.

I am heartened by folks like this, because to see young chefs like them, stepping bravely into the culinary world gives me hope.

Hope that in the future, there will still be delicious things to eat. We don’t all have to eat mass produced fast food. We can still have lovingly made food. Like this bowl of prawns on rice.

I have hope that the future will still have young, inventive, chefs willing to work hard. Like dealing with a massive bag of rice.

And doing things from scratch, by hand. Such as peeling prawns (and leaving the heads on).

Then grilling them.

So that the result is deliciously charred prawns, with a lovely wolf berry sauce, and which are easy to eat, and you can suck on the heads.

Yup. A lot goes into a simple bowl of food.

These folks at Pasir Ris end their day  late, cause they do a dinner service, and after that have to prepare for the next day and set up water baths for the meats, so that the meats sous vide overnight, and end up deliciously tender.  And the team comes in early to prepare the sauces, and prep the vegetables that go with the bowls, so that they are ready for the lunch crowd.

They serve the bowls with a tiro of greens that vary from day to day, and I must say the veggies add a lot to the bowls.

The result, is they get quite a crowd, as they plate out bowl after delicious bowl.

I would love to see Tasty Street go on doing what they do, and indeed, move up the chain and offer even more options!

Info :

Tasty street does tofu, chicken, wagyu beef and prawn bowls at great prawns. The wagyu and the prawn bowls below are just $6.50 each!

Tasty street has closed its outlet at MOE canteen