Maxwell pork chop egg fried rice ($6.50)!
Maxwell hawker — sliced black pepper pork chop strips over egg fried rice with scallions. $6.50.
Lunch today: pork chop egg fried rice at a Maxwell hawker for $6.50. 😋
What was on the plate ($6.50):
- An egg fried rice base, golden grains with scrambled egg ribbons and scallions.
- Sliced pork chop strips, with a visible dark cracked-pepper crust, 6-plus strips piled across.
This is hawker comfort food in its purest form. The egg fried rice underneath is the proper version, grains kept loose and separate with the wok’s smoky edge, bound with egg so every spoonful is golden rather than clumpy. It’s deliberately simple, a savoury base built to carry the topping.
And the topping delivers: a generous fan of sliced pork chop in a black pepper batter crust, fried crisp and peppery on the outside while staying tender within. You mix the strips into the rice as you eat, so each spoonful gets a bit of that peppery, meaty crunch. At $6.50 for six-plus strips plus a full plate of fried rice, it’s solid, generous hawker value, the kind of unfussy plate that just satisfies.
Overall: 4.1 / 5. The pork chop had a proper pepper crust, and the fried rice had clean, separated grains with egg ribbons. A reliable Maxwell plate. 😋👍🏼
