Yong Huat Delight Review: Handmade Chee Cheong Fun With 9 Fillings In Marine Parade

Yong Huat Delight has handmade chee cheong fun in Marine Parade

Chee cheong fun (CCF) is the perfect breakfast food. Simple, light, and customisable with so many different fillings, it’s even better when eaten fresh and hot, while it’s silky smooth. The good news is you can find such quality CCF right at home in our hawker centres: Yong Huat Delight is well-known at 50A Marine Terrace Market for their nine types of handmade chee cheong fun starting from $3! 

What makes Yong Huat Delight’s chee cheong fun special is that the CCF here is made from scratch. Instead of using rice flour, hawker Ms Liang Yuan soaks and grinds actual rice every day to make the rice slurry needed for the perfect chee cheong fun. 

Each roll is made to order, using methods Ms Liang learnt in her native home in Guangzhou. While this means that your order will take some time, you’ll be rewarded for your patience with soft, thin rice sheets that don’t easily tear, packed with your choice of nine different fillings available. The CCF is then soaked in light soy sauce. 

Food at Yong Huat Delight

Plain Chee Cheong Fun is $3, while CCF with egg or mushrooms costs $3.50, and meat fillings such as chicken or char siew cost $4. There’s also the classic Chee Cheong Fun with Prawns ($4) combo and the lesser-seen Chee Cheong Fun with Mangkuang ($4). 

The latter features crunchy shredded turnips and dried shrimp, a fun contrast to the soft, smooth texture of the rice roll. There’s even the more luxurious Chee Cheong Fun with Beef Brisket ($5.50), which you rarely find at hawker centres. 

Given the wide assortment of CCF here, we were spoiled for choice. We sought recommendations from the stall owner and eventually got their Prawn Chee Cheong Fun and the Char Siew Chee Cheong Fun to try.

Starting with the prawn, the CCF sheets were one of the silkiest I have tried, with an incredible melt-in-the-mouth texture that I was quite in awe of. They were also slightly on the thicker side which I preferred, as it gave a good bite to the dish. I could also tell that the prawns were fresh, a major plus in my books when it comes to seafood. 

The prawn CCF was delicious, but it paled in comparison to its char siew counterpart. The generous amount of char siew encased within the wrapped rice sheets was meaty and smoky, greatly elevating the otherwise simple dish.

Tip: top your CCF with lots of their house-made chilli to zhng up the dish!  

Besides their famous CCF, Yong Huat Delight has a range of porridge options if you prefer something more substantial for breakfast. Or you can pair the CCF and porridge together for the ultimate comfort meal. Some popular options include the Lean Meat With Meatball And Century Egg Porridge ($4.50), the Batang Fish Porridge ($5.50), and the classic Chicken Porridge ($4). 

We went all out and opted for the Boat Porridge ($7), also known as sampan congee. FYI: Sampan translates to boat in Malay; this dish is named as such as it used to be sold off boats. 

Their version of this unassuming dish came with various ingredients such as batang fish, prawns, meatballs, fish maw, and cuttlefish atop a thick, creamy congee stewed with pork bones for an added flavour. There were also fried peanuts and spring onions as the finishing touches. 

The porridge had an added umami not only from the pork bones, but also from the medley of seafood and meat ingredients. My only gripe was that it was slightly bland on its own, but this could easily be solved by adding a dash of soya sauce and diced chilli, which they had on the side. I don’t exactly consider myself a porridge connoisseur, but this was a pretty solid bowl that will fill your stomach nonetheless.

Ambience at Yong Huat Delight

The hawker centre is well-loved by the neighbouring crowd, who often patronise stalls that open early for breakfast—Yong Huat Delight being one of them. The space fills up quickly in the early morning, and the crowd typically dissipates after peak lunch hours. The stall is located at 50A Marine Terrace Market, which is an 11-minute walk from Marine Terrace MRT Station. 

The verdict

This was one of the best chee cheong fun I’ve had in a while. Despite its simplicity, the dish sold at Yong Huat Delight stood out for its fresh handmade quality. You’ll also find a variety of CCF fillings here, more than the typical rotation at other stalls. CCF enthusiast or not, I urge you to drop by and try their offerings.

In related content, check out Grandpa Homemade Cheung Fun for green and pink-coloured CCF made with a traditional stone mill. Otherwise, check out Cornershop for cafe-style drinks, located at the same Marine Parade hawker centre.

Address: 50A Marine Terrace, #01-297, 50A Marine Terrace Market, Singapore 441050
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 5am to 2pm
Yong Huat Delight is not a halal-certified eatery. 

Photos taken by Marcus Neo.
This was an independent visit by Eatbook.sg