Affordable and tasty skewers and hot pot combination!
I used to cross over the immigration border quite frequently from Woodlands checkpoint to Johor Bahru to patronize those vans selling skewers known as lok lok. By the way, Lok lok is a dish consisting of various deep fried food such as meat and vegetables that are served on a skewers. Those people would lay out nicely all the raw food for selection and everyone will be busy choosing what to eat. There was a time where I had an unbearable stomach ache due to slight food poisoning from eating the overly dirty and exposed skewers from malaysia. Thankfully, Lok Pot by Lucky 5 has a pretty clean ambiance and hygiene where the skewers were placed in the fridge to keep its freshness and hygiene purposes and not forgetting the huge variety of seafood, mushrooms, and vegetables! Even better than what I have expected.
You could either choose to have your food deep fried, boiled in the hotpot soup or to be barbecued by the chefs in the kitchen. Lok Pot gives you the options to choose them. One of the highly recommended skewers would be either green broccoli, oyster mushrooms, or potatoes. My highly rave selection would be to choose deep fried so that they will add spices and flavoring to the skewers after deep-frying it! You could select 2 different kid of soup combination adnd they will prepare it for you.
There are also different sauces, continents at the station for you to mix with. I personally love this because I am a big fan of mixing everything together. For instance, I would mix oyster/fish sauce, with a little garlic and spring onion! :-) They also have their very own homemade sambal belachan chili which tasted so so good dipping with the fried skewers.
When asked how they prepare the uncooked skewers, they told us that they painstakingly poke the meat into the sticks one by one slowly. So much effort!! I believe some of you might hear about some horror stories where some owners collect the sticks wash and reuse them for the next batch of customers. Urghh. Rest assured that in Lokpot, all the sticks are brand new and newly prepared. Also, the small octopus skewer will look crunchy after barbecue nicely.
The skewers are ready to serve! Grilled mushroom, and chicken slices skewers. They added some spices which tasted really awesome. They even have big Sri-lanka crabs available!!
You can request to view and choose any crab you want before it is served!
The uncle was really friendly in helping us to get the biggest crab for our tasting!
It is a must to have a selfie with the big crab!
And... you know what is the best part is?
You get to drizzle or dip those crabs with chili crab sauce!! They even provide fried mantou on the counter (free self-service even though you never order crab!) for you to dip the sauce and eat it. I am impressed with the egg taste combination and the sauce together with the crab. I just had to... scoop more sauce into my tiny bowl haha!
Then it was the...time for the mouth orgasm oysters. Okay what a word but, the oyster really tasted so good and juicy!!And the best part it comes with garlic shallots and chili or you could opt to eat it just raw. The oysters per piece are not expensive at all. I love how I could taste the freshness in my mouth. It was just pure damn good.
We also had the opportunity to go to the back kitchen and, I really like how they cook their seafood white beehoon. The taste of wok-hei stir fry and the sauce smelled so good. The white bee hoon was bathed in delicious broth.
I love it !!! It comes with different seafood such as crayfish, some clams, fresh prawns and fish and goes great with the white cabbage. Crunchy, sweet and delicious. You must be terribly hungry huh!
Check out the cool fried broccoli and the deep fried straw mushrooms yo
And after the food tasting, we managed to talk to one of them that owes LokPot eatery. We were so overwhelmed by their kindness and they kept asking if the food was okay and did we like it. :) No doubt their service standards are of A++! Bonus points to him being very young and ambitious of wanting to do well in this business with his dad. I do highly recommend this place!! Also, the eatery closes at around 2am so you can drive there grab some skewers and slowly chill, eat with your family or friends.
Lastly, special thanks to Smitten team for inviting us!
Lok Pot by Lucky 5
How to get there:
Address: 416, Bedok North Avenue 2, #01-53 (can take bus from bedok interchange or a 5mins walk away from bedok library)
Singapore 460416
Singapore 460416
Opening hours: 4pm onwards
Telephone number: 6445 8887
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/lokpotsg/
Final verdict:
verdict: 4.3/5!
Food: 4.2/5
Ambiance 4/5
Service 5/5!
Thanks for reading!
