Skip to main content
Home The New Paper
  • Home
  • News
    • Singapore
    • World
    • Business
    • Views
    • Backstage
    • Others
  • Sports
    • Football
    • Singapore Football
    • Team Singapore
    • School Sports
    • Athletics
    • Basketball
    • Cricket
    • Swimming
    • Tennis
    • Golf
    • Racing
    • Others
  • Entertainment
    • Movies
    • Music
    • TV
    • Star Style
    • School of Frock
  • Lifestyle
    • Makan
    • Hed Chef
    • Weets Eats
    • Health
    • Tech
    • Travel
    • Fashion
    • Shopping
    • Biker Boy
    • Celeb Chow
    • Others
  • Racing
  • Your Tip-Offs
  • Read E-Paper
  • Contests
  • Coupon
  • Team

Popular

  • COURT & CRIME
  • Food & Drink
Makan

Makansutra: Get a leg up with chicken and pork leg bowls at The Leggy Business

Get a leg up with chicken and pork leg bowls at The Leggy Business
Leggy BowlPHOTOS: MAKANSUTRA
Get a leg up with chicken and pork leg bowls at The Leggy Business
Red Curry Chicken BowlPHOTOS: MAKANSUTRA
Get a leg up with chicken and pork leg bowls at The Leggy Business
Jovan and Joel Goh. PHOTOS: MAKANSUTRA

The Leggy Business stuns with its natural flavours

KF Seetoh
KF Seetoh
Food columnist
Feb 07, 2019 06:00 am
  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on WhatsApp
  • E-mail this article
  • 0 Engagements

Before you get flustered over more meal invitations to more yusheng and dishes with fish, prawn, chicken, pork, mushroom and sea cucumber, I have to invoke the Chinese New Year act again - if the old does not go, the new won't come.

So make space for something fresh this week.

Jovan Goh, from the new "thinking" breed of hawkers, studied at the local At-Sunrice GlobalChef Academy and went on to gigs at Shangri-La Hotel and other restaurants.

He then decided to pack it up and slogged for no remuneration at the highly awarded and ranked Bo.lan in Bangkok under the guidance of chef Duangporn "Bo" Songvisava, a presenter at the World Street Food Congress.

Goh's key takeaway from her was how he must "utilise natural ingredients to create the flavours of your land". In short, stay away from opening packets and boxes where possible.

He set up his food stall, The Leggy Business, at StarHub Green - using only the legs of chickens and pigs - with his former banker brother, Joel.

Nusa’s Vegan Lontong Bowl
Weets Eats

Keeping it traditional and affordable

Mar 04, 2021

Related Stories

Food FYI

Enjoy a cook up with the kids with FairPrice Xtra recipes, promotions

7 ways to eat healthy and lose weight

He offers Asian-influenced rice bowls (plus a noodle) and it is quite well thought out.

SIGNATURE

The signature Leggy Bowl ($7.50) has quite a bit going on with touches of Thai braised pork (made via sous vide and was soft), minced meat sauce, pickled papaya, an onsen egg plus some vegetables.

The symphony of flavours and textures, with a rich umami and pickled accents plus rice with the runny yolk, was music in my mouth.

After his time at Bo.lan, Goh makes all the sauces with natural ingredients.It was the natural flavour that got me, and the sweetness came from palm sugar, not out of a pack.

To me, his Zha Jiang Mian ($4) has elements of the Philippines - the sauce was made with a complex blend but has an own-blended peanut paste ringing softly in there.

It felt like a boldly savoury kare kare (peanut butter stew) noodle dish with white sesame paste and minced meat sauce.

It was not the zha jiang mian we know it to be, and that is the Asian progression in Goh's kitchen.

The one that made me do a double take was the Red Curry Chicken Bowl ($5.80).

The chicken leg was smothered in a red curry rempah and again, Goh blended his own curry paste.

I adored the hints of kaffir lime leaf in the bowl, and just when you think this may be too spicy, you realise he has longan fruit in there to sweeten things up just a bit.

By now, the Bun Cha ($6.50) - Vietnamese grilled pork noodles but done with rice instead - was tame, only because I tried three bolder dishes prior.

But I could still taste the 12-hour pork stock sitting with the rice, and the lemongrass grilled pork had bite and flavour.

The tempura enoki, sweet basil, onsen egg with bits of deep fried lemongrass were beautiful accents too.

While you have a great Year of the Pig, eat well, be well and celebrate new-thinking hawkers such as Jovan and Joel Goh.

The Leggy Business

StarHub Green, 67 Ubi Avenue 1, Jia Wei Food Hub, #01-12

10am to 3pm, closed on weekends

Get The New Paper on your phone with the free TNP app. Download from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store now

Food & Drink

KF Seetoh

Food columnist
KF Seetoh, the founder of Makansutra, dabbles in street food businesses like Food Markets, his own TV shows on cable, publishing food guides, consultancy and online content. He is also the creator of the World Street Food Congress. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 
tnp@sph.com.sg
@kfseetohsg
Read articles by KF Seetoh
  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on WhatsApp
  • E-mail this article
  • Newslink -  Purchase this article for republication

Top Stories this Month

Irfan Fandi (left) with fellow Singaporean Benjamin Tan, the Thai League's deputy chief executive and director of club licensing.
Singapore Football

Irfan first S'porean to win Thai L1 title

Mar 05, 2021
Actor Terence Cao and guest charged over rule breaches at party
Singapore

Actor Terence Cao charged over rule breaches at party

Mar 03, 2021
Old RGS used as Sunday gathering site for maids till end-June
Singapore

Old Raffles Girls' School used as Sunday gathering site for maids till end-June

Mar 08, 2021
Home
  • Contests
  • Coupon
  • Team
  • Home
  • News
    • Singapore
    • World
    • Business
    • Views
    • Backstage
    • Others
  • Sports
    • Football
    • Singapore Football
    • Team Singapore
    • School Sports
    • Athletics
    • Basketball
    • Cricket
    • Swimming
    • Tennis
    • Golf
    • Racing
    • Others
  • Entertainment
    • Movies
    • Music
    • TV
    • Star Style
    • School of Frock
  • Lifestyle
    • Makan
    • Hed Chef
    • Weets Eats
    • Health
    • Tech
    • Travel
    • Fashion
    • Shopping
    • Biker Boy
    • Celeb Chow
    • Others
  • Racing
  • Your Tip-Offs
  • Read E-Paper
  • Contact TNP
  • About SPH
  • Privacy Statement
  • Data Protection Policy
  • Member Terms & Conditions
  • Website Terms & Conditions
SPH Digital News Copyright © 2021 Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. Co. Regn No. 198402868E