SINGAPORE – The recently refreshed 60-seat Heavenly Wang at Thomson Plaza now offers more than just Nanyang coffee, toast and staples such as mee siam and mee rebus. Diners can go for new items on the expanded menu, such as freshly cooked nasi lemak, complete with boneless chicken thighs deep-fried to order.

The kiosk’s kitchen can now fry foods – thanks to the installation of a new kitchen exhaust system during a three-week renovation in October. The new items are exclusive to the Thomson outlet of the halal-certified home-grown chain, which started in 1953 and now has 18 outlets islandwide.

Try Laksa Poached Rice ($6.90), a comforting bowl of rice in laksa gravy – a newfangled version of pao fan. Each bowl is topped with crispy rice, prawns, fish cake, tau pok, a hard-boiled egg, deep-fried wonton skins and finished with chopped laksa leaves. Though the broth is thin, it has flavour.