246M Upper Thomson Road

Singapore 574370

Tel: 6459 5260

Opening Hours: 24 hours a day

 

My family and I were in the vicinity, and we spotted The Roti Prata House. The signage said “Recommended by The New Paper” and we were thinking it must be not bad.

 

So we went in and ordered 4 crispy roti pratas and 1 nasi goreng with ikan bilis and mutton keema. We also ordered 3 drinks – 1 teh alia (tea with milk and ginger), 1 teh chino and 1 ginger tea. I’m not sure how much each item costs individually but we paid S$10.30 on the whole.

 

To my horror, the roti pratas came out exactly not what I expected! I wanted roti pratas that are crispy, somewhat expecting them to be like the Jalan Kayu version (that was mum’s expectation too). When the poor guy was serving the roti pratas to us, mom kept commenting, “I prefer the Jalan Kayu ones.” I could understand as the ones that were served to us were brown literally. Crispy pratas, true, but they never mentioned that they deep fried the pratas to make them crispy! Imagine when you bite into the pratas, a wee bit of oil oozed out. I think they used cold pratas and deep fry coz not only was it a bit oily, it came out as chewy too. I was hungry so I had to finish the pratas but it was definitely a horrific experience.

 

Dad enjoyed his fried rice with ikan bilis and mutton keema. Actually, it wasn’t mutton keema per se. They just fry the minced mutton together with the rice and gave him ikan bilis toppings. Not bad really except that they put a lot of pepper in the fried rice, probably to mask the mutton taste.

 

Drinks are totally out of this world – in the sense that they are all too sweet. Mum’s ginger tea came out like the teh alia – she was expecting plain tea with ginger. More a miscommunication I think. And she said it was too sweet – she doesn’t take sweet stuff, so it really depends on your taste. No complaints from Dad so I guess the drink is okay for him. My teh chino was half milk tea and additional milk on the bottom half. Overall, it was too sweet for me even though I had a sweet tooth. It’s better to ask them not to make the drinks too sweet and then later on, if you want to sweeten the drink, you can always add more sugar (which is easily available on every table).

 

I finally found the New Paper article on the web (http://www.singaporefood.com.sg/rotiprata/) but just keep in mind that the crispy roti prata is not what you see on the web.    ST Foodies Club also recommended the pratas here (http://www.stomp.com.sg/stfoodiesclub/lifeeats/Hawkers_RotiPrata/index.html).

 

Sadly, I won’t recommend the crispy pratas here. You can definitely find better quality pratas elsewhere.