Ming Chu Che Lao Ban 名厨车老板
Hong Kong style restaurant selling char xiew, roasted duck and dishes. The shop is next to the famous (over rated) Casuarina roti prata. Tried the beef noodles (牛腩面）。 Not bad – tender with decent good sauce. Added the wonton – failed big time. Awful ! Noodles also so so only.
Ming Chu Che Lao Ban 名厨车老板
134 Casuarina Road
Open daily from 10 am till 9 pm
Sembawang Teochew Minced Meat Noodle (三巴旺潮洲肉脞面)
Based on my collection and memory, this BCM stall is the 3rd meepok stall that has changed hand over the years. The past owner of the meepok stall simply could not compete with the famous fishball meepok stall “Jin Ji” at the other side of the same hawker centre. Always empty and no queue as compared to Jin Ji. However, this BCM stall will give Jin Ji a good competition (though both are not really selling the same type of mee pok – fishball vs ba chor mee). The uncle worked for the famous Michelin award Tai Hwa BCM when he was young. No wonder the style and taste is very Tai Wah. Powered by strong vinegar with nice mixed of chili (you can ask uncle to add more chili if you like is more spicy).
Minimum $4 (Jin Ji is $3 – that’s why queue longer) but the ingredient given by uncle is generous – pork slice and minced meat (fresh), teochew dumplings, liver and meat ball. The soup is pretty god too.
Ordered separate teochew dumpling soup – nice !
I came back for Uncle meepok three times within a week craving for the vinegar based very nice BCM. Most importantly – queue is shorter than Jin Ji and obviously Tai Hwa. Good deal !
Sembawang Teochew Minced Meat Noodle
#01-29, 590 Upper Thomson Road
Sembawang Hill Food Centre
Lai Heng Mushroom Minced Meat Mee (來兴香菇肉面）
The BCM (Ba Cho Mee) stall in is super popular in Toa Payoh. It is super famous because of the super long queue – easily 30 – 45 minutes on the peak hours (especially weekends morning). They have a queuing system like in the polyclinic or Singtel shop, you order, pay, given a number and wait for your number to be displayed on the number board. I went there three times on the weekends and each time looking at the queue I gave it a miss. This time, I eng eng on the weekday and, yes, there are only 2 order in front of me, happy 🙂
But the food did not make me happy 😦 First of all I ordered Meepok and they gave me Mee Gia 😦 And I expect BCM to come with stronger favour in terms of vinegar and chili and good portion of fresh and crispy Pork Lard. Lai Heng lacks these 3 important ingredients. The soup is very bland too. The pork slice /minced meats and mushroom are generous and good though, So, I certainly will not come back if I need to queue for more than 10 minutes.
While patiently waiting for your number to be called (like waiting for I.phone 7 at SingTel Shop), order some Ang Ku Kway in the same Coffee Shop. Though it is not as good as the one at Everton Road, at least you get something to munch while waiting long long for the meepok da.
Lai Heng Mushroom Minced Meat Mee
Block 51 Lor 6, Toa Payoh
8.30 am to 4 pm closed on Wednesday
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