Alliance Seafood - #01-27 Alliance Seafood

Another Michelin recommended hawker stall at Newton Circus, and this is a seafood zi char. In Singapore terms, freshly made upon order dishes. The recommended dish here is the Singapore Chilli Crabs. Though they offer many more popular Chinese zi char dishes, including BBQ stingray. Stall presentation is clean and customer service friendly. On crabs order you will be given plates, cutlery, gloves and paper tissues at your table. Excellent comparing that most stalls in Newton uses disposable foam plates and plastic cutlery. Not too long a wait even during early Sunday dinner time, we only waited 20 minutes. The smallest portion ordered since we are here for many other popular beer food. $40 gets you a 400-500gm size Sri Lankan Mud Crab. The crabs were fresh and tender, flavourful. Chilli sauce was a good choice. Unlike many places, where the sauce taste like watery ketchup, here you can taste crab umami in the savoury egg sauce, and the viscosity is perfect in coating the crab and mantous. A little more and it becomes heavy, a little less, watery. This is perfect. We also ordered some sambal kang kong to munch. Crunchy and the bean paste shrimp flavour comes through. Singapore's famous chilli crabs that doesn't burn a hole in your pocket. Definitely coming back for more

Very tasty food here. Try the sting ray and chili crab with the sweet mini buns. Both are spicy, the sting ray is a little more spicy than the crab, but is very tender and I love the flavor. The crab comes with plastic gloves so you don't need to destroy your hands while eating, and the bread is fantastic for dipping into the sauce or just an intermission from the seafood. We also tried the calamari and hollow vegetable. The calamari was very tender and was my wife's favorite. The hollow vegetable used the same sauce at the sting ray so the flavor was a bit repetitive. All in all, the spicy food along with a cold beer in the humid hot weather was amazing!

They charged $50 just for the Chilli crab. We hardly ate it because the sauce was way to overpowering and there were small pieces of crab shell in every bite. I don’t understand how it was Michelin recommended as it tasted bad as well as costing more than all the other dishes we ordered combined from the other stalls.

#01-27 Alliance Seafood Another popular stall at Newton Food Centre, Alliance Seafood is located just right next to Heng Carrot Cake so it makes it easy for one to sample the dishes from both. Alliance Seafood serves up various types of seafood dishes either in Zhi Char style or BBQ style. Craving for some stingray, an order was put in for the Sambal Stingray. The wait was not too long and soon a piping hot Sambal Sting Ray was brought to the table. The sting ray was juicy and succulent. Alas, the sambal sauce was a tad heavy handed and was a tad salty. Had to scrape off the sambal sauce to truly enjoy the Sting Ray General Verdict: Popular stall with a loyal following. The Seafood served are fresh and yummy. Sauces are a tad heavy handed and salty though. Better to ask for the sauces to be served separately or placed at the side Opening Hours: Weekdays 3pm-11pm Weekends 1pm-11pm Queue Situation: About 5 mins to 15 mins to put in your order than another 15 mins to 30 mins for your order to be served Payment Mode: Cash, Local Internet Banking by QR code or AMEX (Singapore) Pay Is this worth a try? Yes. Is it worth making a trip just to try it? Maybe not. Is this worthy of the Michelin Bib Gourmand Singapore Award? Unlikely. Item Ordered: 1) Item: Sambal Sting Ray - Sting Ray wrapped in banana leaves and grilled over charcoal in sambal sauce and is a spicy dish Description: Fresh and succulent stingray let down by a very salty sambal sauce. Had to scrape the sambal off and put it aside to truly enjoy the stingray. Verdict: Acceptable, Order only if you want to try Price: SG$12

It is a shop listed in Michelin Bib Gourmand. The chilli crab seems to be famous, but I stopped because it was a seasonal price and I was alone. The seafood fried rice was the smallest, $ 6, but it was full of volume with lots of shrimp.

Go to place in Newton. More expensive than heartland zi chars but the ambience in Newton can't be beat. Chili crab is probably one of the best out there. All usual dishes are good, even the kangkong is good. Courteous staff as well.

We ordered 1 chili crab and 1 pepper crab and fried mantou ? It takes a bit long to have our food because of too many people I guess but anyways the mantou with chili crab is 11/10!! And the crab is nice also~ If there’s no plan to go other famous crab restaurant, the crab here is worth a try for visiting SG!

Excellent hawker stall to fill up on some tasty seafood. I absolutely dig their black pepper crab, the sticky sauce is fragrant, zesty and packs a pretty punch. The live mud crabs they use are big and meaty, really good quality. Other stand out dishes are the tiger prawns, which are massive and full of that lobstery goodness, and the stingray. The latter is especially succulent and plump if ordered in the bigger portion sizes, which I did on another visit here. The pictured is the smallest portion size at 12$. Prices are very competitive given the popularity of Newton food center and the service is fast and efficient. By the time of my visit they were awarded with a Bib Gourmand by the Michelin Guide, which I would say is fully justified.