Malaysia Chiak | Specialty Food Street @ Northpoint City

March 18, 2018

The north side of Singapore has been rather unexplored by the FoodNinja Team. With the launch of the newly upgraded Northpoint City - an expansion of the original Northpoint Mall, the FoodNinja team made a point to head out to Yishun to check out some of the stores there. Coming out from Yishun MRT, one can easily find the bright entrance with escalators down to the Northpoint City. 


After the expansion of the original Northpoint Mall, Northpoint City now features more than 100 international dining concepts and also one specialty food street - Malaysia Chiak. Different from the usual Japanese food streets that you can find in malls nowadays.

The Malaysia Chiak food street is almost like a coffee shop that you can find in Malaysia, with individual stalls that sells specialty food from originates from different parts of Malaysia - renowned Assam Laksa from Penang, Claypot Rice with Chicken from Petaling Street, Bentong Chicken Rice, Kuantan Nasi Lemak and many others.

Similarly to buying food at the food court, you can just simply go up to the stalls of your choosing and purchase the food from them. With each individual stall featuring just a few specific items, it is almost promising that the food would be tasty as there is only some little they could go wrong with. After taking your orders, some of the stores will provide you with a beeper tag which will vibrate and ring when your order is ready while you wait at the seating area just away from the stores.

Fried Carrot Cake (SGD3)
Without further ado, let's start introducing some of the items we tried at the Malaysia Chiak Food Street! For the first dish, we started with the Fried Carrot Cake. At the stall, they do not ask you whether you want it black or white like how Singapore stalls would ask you. They only have one version - which is the carrot cake fried with a sweet-spicy sambal chili sauce, beansprout and egg.

Overall, at $3 the dish felt rather worth it. However, we found that the big chunky pieces of carrot cakes would be even better if it was fried till crispy like how one would find from Singapore's fried carrot cake. With the big mushy pieces with overcooked beansprouts and egg, everything seems too soft and lacking of texture. Despite that, it was good in terms of flavour, the sambal chili sauce was a good blend of spices and a good balance of sweet and spiciness. If you do not like Singapore's version of carrot cake with crispy bits - this one is for you.

Pork Noodles (SGD5) 
Being fans of Pork Noodles that can be found in the coffee shops around Kuala Lumpur, we put the pork noodles on our must-try list. Digging in after receiving our order from the store, we felt that the noodles lack greatly of pork flavour. The soup was rather blend and the meat was not tasty enough. Unfortunately, the FoodNinja Team would not recommend it personally unless you are fan of a really light warm bowl of noodles.

Claypot Chicken Rice (SGD 5.50)
Usually Claypot rice is one of the items that requires a slightly longer waiting time, so when the tag beeped after a short 5-10mins wait we were pleasantly surprised. The Claypot Chicken rice here in Malaysia Chiak is not much different in comparison with the ingredients used in the original Claypot Chicken Rice which has chunks of chicken, dry chinese sausage and salted fish. Although, the quantity and size of the ingredients are definitely smaller - not out of the ordinary considering to meet the food cost margin in Singapore. One could smell the distinct smell of salted fish perfuming the air while mixing. Overall, the taste is good but definitely could do better.

Herbal Bak Ku Teh (SGD 6)
Malaysia also has its own version of Bak Ku Teh, which is very different from the ones in Singapore as it is a herbal soup base in comparison to the garlic-pepper soup base in Singapore. This warm nourishing bowl of Bak Ku Teh comes in the claypot and the soup has a light and nice herbal flavour to it. In the soup, there is big pieces of pork ribs with beancurd skin and button mushroom. This is one of our favorite dishes that we even finished the soup.

Assam Laksa (SGD 5)

Assam Laksa is the specialty of Penang in Malaysia. This bowl of noodles were put together rather quickly, you won't lose any time waiting. Topped with sliced red onion and chiffon lettuce leaves, this laksa is just nice at the right portion. The broth was rich and flavour, perfectly balancing the sourness and spiciness together. The only downside of this laksa was the mackerel that was supposed to be main protein of this dish was only a few pieces of flaked fish. You could definitely eat this without the meat but paying $5 for this wonderful tasting bowl of noodles without fish seems like a stretch.

On the whole, the FoodNinja Team really enjoyed themselves at the newly opened specialty food street - Malaysia Chiak and would definitely return again to try the other dishes that we've missed such as the Kuantan Nasi Lemak and Bentong Chicken Rice.

Expected Damage Per Person: SGD 5-8

Operating Hours:
Monday - Sunday: 10:30am-10pm

930 Yishun Ave 2, #B1-193/194
Singapore 769098

Here is where Malaysia Chiak is located:

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