Wolf Bargain(Geylang Traditional Carrot Cake)

(Queue forming up at around 6.45am)

One of the most versatile food you can find in Singapore is the humble fried carrot cake. You can have it for breakfast, lunch or even dinner. You can find them in hawker centre, coffeeshop or foodcourt . For the benefit of non local readers of my blog, carrot “cake” is not a cake. Our version of carrot cake is made with a mix of flour and white radish which has a jello like texture. It is stir fried with preserved sweet turnip, finely diced garlic, eggs, dark sweet soya sauce(optional) or chilli(optional) and garnish with spring onion.

(Black carrot cake)

(White carrot cake with generous amount of eggs)

Geylang Traditional Carrot Cake is located at Upper Boon Keng market since 2011. In my conversation with the owner, I got to know she used to work for a hawker stall previously selling the same food. She decide to strike it out on her own 10 years ago. 

The stall is what I consider a purist set up. No fancy neon lights, no extensive menu just carrot cake black or white on the signage, trays of eggs stacked up high by the side with all the condiments neatly placed along the big frying pan for easy dispatchment. 

(Condiments neatly placed)

The taste of the carrot cake is superb, the best I had tasted ever since my usual go to carrot cake stall in North Bridge Road market went into closure a few years ago due to owner retirement. The fried carrot cake is not overly seasoned. Addressing the elephant in the room, the carrot cake is not oily or at least in my view, the black carrot cake that I had doesn’t taste or smell like an oil slick as most carrot cake are notoriously associated with excessive use of oil when pan frying the food. The auntie use preserved sweet turnip that makes a lot of difference to the taste of the final product. It gives the carrot cake a different elevation in taste, savoury with a tiny bit of sweet after taste(white version). There is a generous coverage of eggs on my carrot cake. I personally prefer them in black. The outer layer of the carrot cake coated with eggs is lightly charred, caramelised by dark sweet soya sauce and stir fried to perfection. Words alone can’t describe that first bite, really “Shiok ah!”. The white version without the dark sauce is equally tasty.

It is amazing how a plate of carrot cake that cost only $3 can activate so much taste sensory and joy. Life simple pleasure can be achieved with no silly money. You can ordered a small plate for $2.50 if you are on calorie watch. Now the difficult question. Do you order the Black or white? “It doesn’t matter if you are black or white”, one should be dancing to the tune of Michael Jackson with a short rendition of the moonwalk after you tasted the carrot cake which is light years ahead of the competition .🕺🏿

Do help out our hawkers in these trying times. They need every support we can give to stay in business.🙏

Address : Geylang Traditional Carrot Cake

17 Upper Boon Keng Rd 380017, Upper Boon Keng Hawker Centre stall number #01-21

Operating hours : 6.30am to 1pm Monday to Saturday excluding Sunday 

*Review are unpaid and unscheduled

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