Indian rojak @ Koufu (Sengkang East Avenue)
… and unfortunately, as these things go, they also are amongst the most delicious foods around. One such example is Indian rojak. Indian rojak is pretty different from the other popular kind, Fruit rojak: the former comprises an assortment of sliced cucumber, hard-boiled eggs, onions, fish cake, potatos, green chili, and prawns deep fried in batter. The rojak is then served with a sort of sweet, spicy and very slightly hot chili sauce.
The vegetable end of the stuff in the dish is still reasonably healthy, but if you’ve seen how the prawn batters get cooked and are a health nut, you’d faint. And the prawns are deep fried until they’re nearly burnt into crispy portions; yummy in other words, but practically devoid of any sort of nutritional value.
One doesn’t find Indian rojak as commonly as say fruit rojak, and a plate of this stuff tends to be much more expensive too. The above plate cost $5.50 at a Koufu foodcourt we visited along Sengkang East Avenue last Wednesday evening for dinner, compared to around $2 to $3 for a bowl of fruit rojak.
- Food: 8 / 10
- Value: 3 / 5
- Overall: 3.7 / 5. This is not something you’d want to eat on a daily basis for sure. And even when you do – on the rare occasion – take this, and you’d want to follow it up with an hour on the treadmill.
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