Budget Tummies: #1 一家南村海鲜 Yi Jia South Village Seafood Restaurant 21 Toa Payoh Lorong 7

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Don’t forget, every week, a lucky reader gets to recommend us a place and we will critique the food for you!(and we will create an e-invite for our readers to participate in the event!)

Every week, Budgetummies will be featuring a meal not costing more than $10 per person. For readers who are not familiar with the culture here, Tzi-char literally means “cook and fry”. It serves a wide variety of Chinese food with steamed rice.

It is our first blog post, are you all curious if we will manage to hit the targeted amount of $10 and below? Read on to find out more!

This week’s Tzi-char location is in between Braddel MRT and Toa Payoh MRT station. We chose to alight at Braddell MRT station.

From the left: Stephanie, Lilian, Lydia
Look out for this sign when you exit the gantry, and turn left. (Exit C)

We hope that the pictures taken by Stephanie along the way will guide you to the place! We chose to walk, however we provide directions for readers who travel by buses or cars.
The address to key in at google map would be: 1 Lorong 7 Toa Payoh (Yi Jia Seafood Restaurant)

Directions for Walking(animated):
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Directions for taking Bus:

Walking to our destination:

Stephanie took picture for us along the way!

Follow the pictures from the left to right, top to bottom.

Seeing Kim Keat Palm, we knew we had finally reached the place after 15 minutes of travelling by foot.

Here we are at the destination! However, there was a problem. This place is highly saturated with lots of Tzi-char stalls. We had a tough time deciding which stall to patronize.

“Should we try out this place?”

“Sigh, they all look so appetising. I’m so hungry”

Finally, we settled down at 一家南村海鲜 Yi Jia South Village Seafood Restaurant, because their unique dishes in the menu attracted us!

A note to our readers: You may want to visit this place during off-peak hours, because you may wait for up to an hour due to the immense popularity of the store.
We were fortunate to avoid the crowd as we reached the place at 5pm.

Here are the lists of the dishes in their menu:

From the top: Melon with Prawn Balls
Fried Strawberry Chicken

Spicy Ribs

We made our orders(a total of 5 dishes!) and were patiently waiting for our food

A group shot of us six, with Stephanie as the photographer. The more the merrier!

The food didn't take long to arrive, and we were busy filling our stomachs.

Budgetummies can't wait to try out the food!

All smiles with food!

Lilian serving us the soup

Budgetummies' Critique!

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The first dish that was served: Seafood Soup

When the dish was served to us, we were surprised to see such a big serving for the seven of us! There was a lot of seafood in the soup, just like what the name mentions. The ingredients are carrot, tomatoes, cabbage, tou fu(silken beancurd), ginger, butter mushrooms, prawns and fish with a some pepper on top.