taste of singapore in clayton

when we were coming back from geelong via the princes highway, ivy decided to stop at a small eatery in clayton for lunch. she wanted to give me a treat of familar home food. told her i was not hungry enough to eat lunch yet, so i asked for a teh tarik. she ordered a nasi lemak, which cost aus$5.50, which is cheap by australian standard. she also had a teh tarik for aus$1.50. the nasi lemak is quite authentically singaporean although the chilli paste seems to have more salt than the norm today.

the taste of singapore eatery is located across the road from clayton north primary school. if you are driving towards clayton, it is on the left after the 7-eleven petrol station. it is actually next to another fuel station. it is open from 10 a.m. onwards.

it is a family run restaurant. a number of customers who were in the eatery when we dropped in spoke malay. it seems the owner of the place is a malay family from singapore who have been there for about 6 years. i saw the man preparing the roti prata on his own. the roti prata costs $1.50, which is cheap, compared some places which sell it for as much as $7.00.

satays are available on fridays, saturdays and sundays and they cost aus$8.00 for ten sticks. i suppose they have chicken, beef and mutton satays.

the eatery is within walking distance from ida's place. she can go by brown street, cross wellington road and walk a short stretch of the princes highway to get to the taste of singapore at clayton road.

today (14 jul) i took ida to try the food there and i bumped into the same malaysian couple who ate there when i was with ivy.