猪杂汤 ($9)!
Thursday hawker — pig organ soup $9. Teochew mixed pig offal soup.
Hawker dinner: 猪杂汤 (pig organ soup) at $9. Old-school Teochew comfort. 😋
What was in the bowl ($9):
- A clear, peppery pork-bone broth.
- A mix of pig offal: intestine, liver, kidney, stomach and lean pork.
- Sometimes a pork meatball or two.
- Scallions on top, with chilli sauce and rice on the side.
Pig organ soup (猪杂汤) is a Teochew classic and a proper nose-to-tail dish: a clear, long-simmered pork-bone broth loaded with an assortment of offal. The joy is in the variety of textures in one bowl, the intestine chewy and bouncy, the liver tender and rich, the kidney with its distinctive bite, the stomach pleasantly springy. Good preparation (thorough cleaning, careful boiling) is everything here, and this bowl had no off notes, just clean, savoury, comforting soup.
The broth is kept deliberately light and well-peppered, in the Teochew style, so the natural flavour of the pork comes through rather than being masked by heavy seasoning. A good shake of white pepper warms it up, and the chilli sauce on the side is there for dipping the offal. Eaten with a bowl of rice, it’s a hearty, soul-warming meal.
At $9, it’s fair value for a generous, well-made bowl, the kind of unpretentious heritage hawker food worth seeking out.
Overall: 4.6 / 5. 😋👍🏼 A clean, peppery broth and a generous, well-prepared mix of offal, comforting Teochew classic. Would re-order.
