Curry Times is a subsidiary of the well-established local delight franchise Old Chan Kee. They pride themselves in serving up good local food at affordable prices.
I visited their branch at Westgate at a Sunday morning. The place was just opened and not many customers yet. The interior decoration is very 60s or 70s, reminding you of the days of guys with long hairs.
My first dish was an egg prata. The curry, and the prata, were both quite decent. The curry was not very spicy, probably to cater to the patrons who can't take very spicy food. Prata is just a piece of bread, except that all that flip flopping makes it very elastic, and the frying of the prata on a hot plate with generous portion of oil makes it sinfully fragrant and people mouth-watering. In Indian, prata is the favor mostly by the working class, especially truck drivers, who have to work very hard but with pathetic pay. Prata's social status in India is kind of low. However in Singapore, the early Indian immigrants passed down their favorite food and it is almost a national delicacy here. If you have never had prata before, you can't say you have ever seen the multi-racial, multi-cultural side of Singapore.
My second dish was sambal chicken drumstick with rice. It was served in a plate, well. probably dated before my birthday. The sambal was not bad, but it was on the sweet side, rather than the spicy side. The pickles added additional flavour to the chicken and the rice.
Overall, I think they serve decent local food in an air-conditioned environment, at affordable prices, but then you know for the many hygiene standards to meet in order to operate as a restaurant, so flavors are lost. I most probably will still go back from time to time, just for some nostalgia sensations.
I visited their branch at Westgate at a Sunday morning. The place was just opened and not many customers yet. The interior decoration is very 60s or 70s, reminding you of the days of guys with long hairs.
Prata with egg, $2.00
My first dish was an egg prata. The curry, and the prata, were both quite decent. The curry was not very spicy, probably to cater to the patrons who can't take very spicy food. Prata is just a piece of bread, except that all that flip flopping makes it very elastic, and the frying of the prata on a hot plate with generous portion of oil makes it sinfully fragrant and people mouth-watering. In Indian, prata is the favor mostly by the working class, especially truck drivers, who have to work very hard but with pathetic pay. Prata's social status in India is kind of low. However in Singapore, the early Indian immigrants passed down their favorite food and it is almost a national delicacy here. If you have never had prata before, you can't say you have ever seen the multi-racial, multi-cultural side of Singapore.
Sambal Chicken Drumstick with rice, $8.50
My second dish was sambal chicken drumstick with rice. It was served in a plate, well. probably dated before my birthday. The sambal was not bad, but it was on the sweet side, rather than the spicy side. The pickles added additional flavour to the chicken and the rice.
Overall, I think they serve decent local food in an air-conditioned environment, at affordable prices, but then you know for the many hygiene standards to meet in order to operate as a restaurant, so flavors are lost. I most probably will still go back from time to time, just for some nostalgia sensations.
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