Fatt Kee Shou Shi @ Albert Centre Market & Food Centre

Albert Centre Market & Food Centre is not where I consider a comfortable place to head to due to the bad ventilation and the congesting human traffic in the afternoons. #introvertwoes

I would fatt mang zang whenever I am there (albeit unwillingly) to help the folks with their dried goods shopping on the floor above the food centre.

As such, I was never in the mood to explore the food centre. It is time that I give myself a chance to discover what this place has to offer.

I decided to get round the problem of bad ventilation and people by going early on a weekend morning. The downside is that not many stalls are opened yet at that timing. 

Fatt Kee Shou Shi is one of the few stalls that are fully operational at 7am.

The stall offers old-school Cantonese style breakfast like char bee hoon, char mee, chee cheong fun (steamed rice roll), peanut porridge, yam cake and rice dumplings.

All the items here are priced at $1.20 per serving except $2.80 for the rice dumplings. Do take note that this is the price for dine-in. There is a different set of pricing for takeaways.

I ordered the char bee hoon, chee cheong fun and peanut porridge.

The char bee hoon, unfortunately, did not live up to my expectations.

I find the texture rather stiff which makes swallowing difficult. I wonder if the bee hoon was not reconstituted long enough or they intentionally made it this way. 

I like it softer and not too dry but this is purely my personal preference though.  

Judging by the sales, it seems like the bee hoon is actually quite well-received as it often gets sold out before closing time.

Like a star attraction to pull in the crowds, a giant pot of peanut porridge sits atop a charcoal stove by the entrance, bubbling away for all to see.

A piping hot bowl of porridge seems comforting to have on a chilling morning so, I ordered a bowl to try.

Served with a dash of pepper and deep fried crispy bee hoon, the porridge more than satisfies.

Needless to say, this is what I enjoyed the most out of the three items I have tried.