Jalan Mata Ayer
Along Sembawang Road
'Uncle, ah... 15 sticks mutton extra onions please!' That was how our Friday night satay galore began.
At $0.50 a stick, these well-marinated sticks of meat are sure to make any vegetarian feel like a rotten cucumber. This is old school satay-making I'm talking about. Smokey-ozone-depleting-carbon-footprint-leaving barbecuing. So you know it's bloody good.
The peanut sauce they have is so thick and filled with peanuts (you can see whole peanuts in there) that you can turn the bowl of gravy over and it'd take 13 minutes before the sauce actually leaves the bowl. If you're really cheap, you can just get the sauce and eat it. It's good enough to eat on its own and sure to fill you up.
We had 15 sticks of glazed, flavor-dripping mutton satay and they're really tasty. How many satays have you had that you could taste the smoke and feel your heart, kidneys and internal organs failing simultaneously the moment you swallowed a juicy bite? Jane was ploughing through the sticks like crazy. All I had was the onions. I asked for extra cos I knew Jane would have all the meat and leave me the onions... Okay no not really, I just wanted to annoy her with onion breath.
So if you're on a diet, this might cause you to fall off the wagon. But who cares? You could get really fat and I'm sure if you order enough satay from them, they'd deliver them.
Don't miss this the next time you're along Sembawang Road! You know what, even if you live in Tuas, make a detour and travel along this road. Wait, does anybody even live in Tuas?