Common claypot zichar stall at Chinatown Advanced closes indefinitely after chef-owner suffers fall

In case you’re pondering of heading to Chinatown Advanced for some claypot zichar at Claypot & Cooked Meals Kitchen, you would possibly need to maintain your horses — because the stall may not be open for fairly a while. 

In a Fb put up on native foodie group Hawkers United — Dabao 2020, foodie Gregory Leow introduced that the proprietor, whom he known as “Uncle Hong”, had a foul fall which “shattered his pelvic bone into a number of items”. 

Though Gregory wrote that the stall is at the moment “closed till additional discover”, he added that there is likely to be a risk that Hong would possibly select to retire after his restoration. 

“He would possibly doubtless retire after this I might suppose but when and when he will get higher, hopefully he’ll restart the stall once more for one final hurrah,” he wrote.

Wishing Hong nicely in his restoration, Gregory shared that the stall, positioned on the second storey of Chinatown Advanced Meals Centre is regarded by many as “probably the greatest conventional old-school Cantonese-style zichar stalls in Singapore”. 

He additionally shared a video the place he documented among the stall’s well-known dishes, such because the candy and bitter pork, kailan with oyster sauce and braised fish head. 

Within the feedback, different foodies additionally conveyed their well-wishes in the direction of Hong, and hoped they’d have the ability to take pleasure in his cooking quickly. 

Based mostly on critiques on-line, owner-chef Hong has been praised for being a “one-man kitchen crew”, single-handedly presiding over the wok in his cramped stall.

Consequently nonetheless, ready occasions are notoriously lengthy, with one diner complaining about ready as much as three hours on a public vacation for his or her meals.

The stall, which opens just for lunch, can also be recognized to promote out means earlier than closing time with final orders generally as early as 10.30am.

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