Dinner at Jin Wee, Siglap

Just had dinner there with my mother and cousin. Been a while since I last went there. Everything still looked more or less the same this evening - the retro decor, the homey food, the rather large dinner crowd. When we sat down at the table, I realised there had been one change. Whereas before you had to listen to the waiter/waitress reel off the dishes to decide what to order, they now had a laminated menu displaying the dishes on a double-sided A4 paper. "What an improvement," my cousin remarked. Jin Wee's the Hainanese kopitiam equivalent of Chin Bee Chin further along the East Coast Road. People love it because it's stubbornly, stalwartly old-fashioned and unchanging. You come back here years later and find it exactly the same as it was before.

Here's what we ordered.

The trademark pork chop with tomato, onion and potato in tomato sauce. My cousin prefers the one at Han's though.

Fuyong omelette. I didn't know this came with shrimp. Are fuyong omelettes supposed to have shrimp in them? Except for the shrimp, this was a classic comfort dish. Additional note of interest - my grandparents used to have the same plates as the one the omelette was served on.

Claypot tofu. Another classic. It was still steaming hot long after it was served.
Sambal long beans. Everyone's unanimous favourite dish of the evening. We took a vote after dinner, and everyone named the same dish on the count of three. The secret is in the sambal sauce, just the perfect mix of savoury and spicy.
Hope to find the food still as comfortingly yummy the next time I return to Jin Wee for a meal.