Ng Soon Kee Fish & Duck Porridge
Opening hours: Mon-Sat: 12pm-9pm
Price: from $3.00
Rating: 4/5
Of all the fish soup in this review, this one had the most oomph! Besides fish bone, there's also preserved Szechuan vegetable, salted mustard (kiam chye), ginger and tomato to give body to the soup. The result was a rich, appetising stock with an explosion of savoury, sweet, and tangy flavours.

Ng Soon Kee also uses the more premium horse mackerel, which has more delicate flesh compared to Spanish mackerel (batang). On its own, the soup was too salty to drink. But it's just right when accompanied by a bowl of rice, making it a nourishing and value-for-money meal.

Hong Qin Fish & Duck Porridge
Opening hours: 5.30am-2.30pm, closed on 1^st & 15^th of each lunar month
Price: from $3.00
Rating: 3.5/5
The best part of Hong Qin's fish soup is the stock! It's incredibly clear, and hence looked deceptively tasteless. But don't judge it by its appearance because the stock was delightfully flavourful. We could taste the delicate sweetness of the fish and hints of ginger in the soup. The sliced mackerel was fresh and firm but tender at the same time. There's no fishy smell at all. The only gripe we had was that there were too few fish slices.