Long Ji Zi Char

chinese restaurant — Tiong Bahru · Singapore

About Long Ji Zi Char

Long Ji Zi Char is a Chinese restaurant on Outram Road in Tiong Bahru, Singapore, with a 4.1 Google rating and a website listed here for details.

Zi char — roughly "cook and fry" — is the Singaporean trade of economical, cooked-to-order dishes shared over rice. Good kitchens are judged by wok hei, the smoky breath of a properly hot wok, and the tell is in the plain things: hor fun, sambal kangkong, fried rice. Menus run long, from tofu and vegetables to whole fish and crab, and dishes arrive as they are ready, so order a few for the table and pace the meal around the rice. Regulars watch the evening crowd and order whatever the kitchen turns out consistently, because on a long zi char menu not everything is equal.

On Outram Road, between Tiong Bahru's flats and the Outram Park interchange, Long Ji Zi Char keeps that shared-table way of eating close to home.