Hong Man Tian Mala Hotpot (红满天麻辣香锅) is a Chinese-food stall located in Foodgle Hub (福哥) below Block 451 in Bukit Batok West. The stall specialises in fragrant, spicy Chinese-style dishes like mala hotpot (麻辣香锅) and grilled fish (烤鱼) as its signature dishes and a range of popular cooked dishes, including pickled vegetable fish (酸菜鱼), spicy diced chicken (辣子鸡), mapo beancurd (麻婆豆腐), cumin beef (孜然牛肉), double cooked meat (回锅肉), etc.
My selected ingredients for the dry-style Mala Hotpot (麻辣香锅) — minimum S$6.80 — are skilfully stir-fried with mala condiments and added with peanuts, spring onions and white sesame seeds. The finished dish has a nice fragrance and without the choking aroma of spicy chilli — I picked “medium” spiciness as usual. The meats are well-cooked till tender, especially the chunky fish fillet and sliced beef, and the spiciness level is just-nice for me with subtle peppercorn flavour but no numbness. It is tasty, non-oily and the peanuts give the dish extra crunchiness in addition to the crunchy beef tripe, fungus, lotus root slices, bamboo shoots, etc, that I picked.
The Boiled Slice Beef (水煮牛肉) — available with pork and fish slices too — is a big dish enough for 2~3 pax. Similarly, it has a nice fragrance when served. The amount of beef slices are quite a lot and they are coated in cornstarch to prevent overcooking, thus retaining their tenderness in the hot, spicy “soup” — default spiciness is about medium level, but the hot oil makes it spicier. Underneath the beef slices are more ingredients, such as the flat-noodle-like tofu skin, cabbage, pak choy, soy bean sprouts, shredded kelp and black fungus. This hot, spicy and delicious dish is another hot-seller of Hong Man Tian.
Hint: I knew beforehand I would not be able to finish it, so I brought along a food container and packed the remainder for my next meal — about 1/3 of it since I ate about 2 persons’ share. This big dish at $12.80 is really worth it. Another similar dish is the Cumin Beef which I will try next.
I love the spicy dishes that I tried at Hong Man Tian so far and will go for the remaining dishes they offer, which are popular Chinese delicacies and most of them are my favourites.
Address:
Foodgle Hub (福哥) @ Bukit Batok West
Blk 451 Bukit Batok West Ave 6, Singapore 650451
Opening Hours:
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