hup leong porridge stall

there is this teochew porridge stall to which i have been a regular customer since its days at owen road. at one time owen road was the place you went for teochew porridge. there were a number of porridge stalls and you could enjoy your porridge seated at tables set up along the back lane, next to the farrer park stadium.

although porridge is supposed to be a poor man's sustenance, you would find big and expensive cars parked along the roadside and the rich towkays tucking in into the steaming bowls of porridge at these stalls. if i remember correctly, the member of parliament for that area, dr lee chiaw meng, would stop to eat porridge at one of these stalls during his walkabouts.

then the stall shifted to dunlop street. i think it was at the junction of dunlop street and perak road for around ten years. we could tell it was the same porridge stall because the people manning the place were the same people as those who had been at owen road.

today, it is located at the junction of sam leong road and jalan besar. two of the men who used to serve behind the counter are no longer working at hup leong.

i like the preserved salted vegetable (chye buay), the dried shrimp sambal chilli (hae bee hiam), chicken feet and tau kee(dried bean stick), sambal fish, steamed fish, sliced duck meat and pork meat balls.