I’ve always been a big fan of old style charcoal steamboat dining, and Tian Wai Tian is a legendary Singapore restaurant that serves fish head steamboat. Read more here: http://migrationology.com/2016/01/singapore-food/'>http://migrationology.com/2016/01/singapore-food/
For this video I was hanging out in Singapore with Daniel, and he wanted to bring me to his favorite restaurant for fish head steamboat. Although it’s called fish head steamboat, it actually includes the entire fish, so it’s not just fish heads, but the entire fish and body. Tian Wai Tian is a pretty awesome restaurant, old style, and famous throughout Singapore. They are quite well known for having a lack of service, or not much service at all, but it still remains packed out every single night because of the delicious food. When you arrive at Tian Wai Tian the first step is to find an open table and then you sit down - but instead of a waiter coming to take your order, you have to go up to the front of the restaurant, stand in line, order and pay.
Once the food is ready, it’s then delivered, or kind of just dropped off at you table. One of the great things about the restaurant is that it’s very laid back, and you can walk around and kind of do whatever you want to do. If you want to see what’s going on in the back of the kitchen you can. If you want to walk around the outside of the restaurant you can as well. They let me do some filming inside, and it was amazing to see the chefs at work. Two chefs were making all sorts of stir fried and deep fried dishes, while one chef was strictly making the fish head steamboats. For the steamboat, the broth was I believe a combination of chicken feet and fish, and once you ordered the fish of your choice, he’d mix up some broth in a wok with the fish, dump it all into a steamboat filled with hot charcoal, and then add in some extra soup and ingredients and lots of vegetables and it would be delivered.
The fish head steamboat was incredibly delicious, both my wife and I loved it. The soup was salty and flavorful, a combination of the fish with chicken feet stock, and also what I really liked was the addition of taro in the soup as well. Additionally there were quite a few vegetables like Chinese cabbage and water morning glory.
There are also a number of other Chinese deep fried and stir fried dishes you can order when you eat at Tian Wai Tian, and we had a couple of dishes including some fried Teochew style chicken wings, and a sambal squid.
Tian Wai Tian Fish Head Steamboat
Address: 1382 Serangoon Rd
Open hours: 5 pm – 11 pm daily
Prices: Our total bill for 3 for everything was $59 SGD
How get there: It’s about a 5 minute walk from Potong Pasir MRT station

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