Crazy Ang Mo

I haven't write about food for quite sometime. It's not that I am on a diet of instant mee and hence, have nothing to write about. The reality is that I am drowning in work and studies. Now that I ran out of raids to sign up in WoW, I shall share with whoever actually read this blog on a new stall that I have tried with Jia Lun this Tuesday.

Jia Lun first sighted this western food stall online on a forum. It's a hawker stall at Bishan block 272 appropriately named "Crazy Ang Mo". True to it's name sake, it's run by a Australia chap who really knew how to make sales.

For those who are familiar with Botak Jones stall (American), it's the same concept. Basically it's a Caucasian guy fronting a western food stall with locals cooking at the back. The menu was so what similar to Botak Jones. It has mostly burgers, steak, pork chop, and chicken wings. It didn't have soup, but it has pasta, and deserts. The stall owner certainly knew how to be use catchy names for his menu which contains names starting with Ang Mo this and Ang Mo that. Prices is reasonable and affordable.

Taking my first look at his stall, it is certainly well equipped for big business. It has a large LED display showing the queue number, which however, wasn't in use then. Instead, he opted to use his megaphone to broadcast the current queue number being served.

Just a warning to all of you. This guy is a real smooth talker. He will talk people into waiting 30 minutes for their food, upgrading their 80 cents soft serve into a $2.50(?) sundae and changing a "can-be-found-everywhere-in-singapore" pasta to a steak.

I was also one of the big sucker who fell of it. We placed our orders despite his friendly advisory on the waiting time. The ruse of trying out western food sold at a heartland HDB estate at reasonable prices is very appealing indeed. So after paying for our order, we went back to the carpark and put up another hour of parking coupon to ward of the Cisco parking wardens who are insanely active these days.

Things didn't turned out very well for me. We went groceries shopping at Ang Mo, a local supermart, at block 297 and I ended up spending $30 on junk food and instant mee. If not for the 30 min time limit, I could have done even more damage to my wallet. The $90 that I have withdrawn the day before was down to a few red notes already.

Well the 30 minutes estimated waiting time came to about 45 minutes in the end. We order the deluxe version of their burger meal which is a beef burger with a piece of bacon and a slice of pineapple covered in melted cheese. The burger was served with fries. The presentation was eh, just the burger and fries, and it tasted nothing spectacular. The beef patty used was not as good as the Botak Jones version and the food was generally slightly warm, not the piping hot that we were expecting to see for freshing cooked food.

The verdict is, you don't have to come specially to try it out. It's just reasonably priced western food fronted by an Australian guy, cooked by Asian staff, which has a terribly long waiting time on a Tuesday dinner time and didn't look or taste special.

Woah, after writing all this, I really felt that I could have used a few photos which I should have taken during the meal. Felt so weird to be reviewing a food stall without Ang Kong.