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
Lai Lai Heng Wonton Noodles (來來兴云吞面）
This wonton mee stall always form a long queue at Teck Ghee hawker centre (ang mo kio ave 10). Normally, I will patronize either the mee pok stall or the mee rembus stall at this HC but was curious why there is always a long queue at this wonton mee stall which is consuming and unheard of. It is my interest to discover gem where most other popular food blogger has not found yet. Wow, the noodle is surprisingly good ! Springy texture and well cook. The noodles they order is of good quality (more eggs) that make the noodles with very good texture. Credit goes to the uncle who put his heart and soul to cook a good wonton noodles (these days hard to find good one). The ingredient (char siew, wonton) and the soup are ok, fine only. Queue is long but moving quite fast. Aunty collecting the orders is very friendly despite the long queue.
Tai Wah Pork Noodle (大华肉脞面)
Needless to go into details or introduction, the most famous mee pok in Singapore (or may be the world) – one of the two Michelin Star hawker food stalls. Though the Hong Lim stall is not awarded (Crawford Lane is), but the standard of the 2 stalls remain the same. Different is you only need to queue for 15 – 20 minutes here. That morning I went there and see a very short queue and was so happy yhat I could get it soon. Jesus, the uncle took his time to toss the noodles to the perfection and still make me wait for 20 minutes. Yes, perfection ! The mee pok is so well cooked that they really deserved to be number 1 in Singapore. The ingredients are fresh and generous, especially the ti pok is so well fried. This is the prefect combination – noodles, chili, ingredients, soup – yes Perfection.
Tai Wah Pork Noodle
#02-16 Hong Lim Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross Street
Daily 10 am to 8 pm
Yong Kee Famous Fishball Noodles (荣记驰名鱼圆面)
One of my famous upper place during university time. They used to open till like 4 am. Since renovation, they have stopped at 1 am.
The fishball and meat balls are home made (not factory supply) and are very bouncy and tasty. Good!
The mee pok is well cooked and springy, coated with adequate lards. Good !
Chili – AH, big let down. No taste, no punch, not hot, not spicy. What a waste. They seem have ot improved this area since 80s. That is why in the past I normally patronized the other mee pok stall (which since moved to old airport road HC after ABC went through major reno but subsequently disappeared) – which always had better business than Yong Kee then. Of course now that the rival stall (cant remember the name) and Yong Kee is the king of mee pok at ABC market! Pls improve your chili, Ah Yong !!!!
Yong Kee Famous Fishball Noodles
6，Jalan Bukit Merah ABC Brickworks Market # 01-121
Open Daily : 0700 – 0100
Fatty Cheong Char Siew Wonton Mee (肥仔祥云吞面）
One of the famous chr siew stall in Singapore. The Char Siew is well camerlised with a bit of chow ta on the char siew which is nice. The pork part they use is quite fatty and it is bit more oily to my liking. I prefer the one at Kong Siang street than here.
The Xio Bak is not as good as the one opposite Serangoon Stadium which is the best xio bak in Singapore. There are too much fat in the pork belly.
#01-120 ABC Brickworks Food Centre 6 Jalan Bukit Merah
Fri – Wed : 11 am to 10 30 pm close on Thurs
Newton Song Kee Teochew Fish Porridge (纽頓松记魚粥）
Very cheng cheng (clear soup) and not adding MSG (if any will not be a lot) as after eating the porridge – you do not feel very thirsty. The batang fish is very fresh. The only regret is the tipo (deep fried sole fish) is not given enough and making the porridge a bit bland. I like to have more condiment (fried garlic / tipo etc) to be added to have more shiok taste. But if like to have real cheng cheng porridge, this stall is good. $5 / $8. The fishes are not very generous – probably the rental is killing them (which I can understand).
Newton Song Kee Teochew Fish Porridge
Newton Circle Food Centre Stall 37
Daily – 11 pm onwards
Eng Huat Fishball Mee （永發魚圆面）
Yes Meepok again! I am a mee pok man. Cannot resist on mee pok. This stall was formerly from the old Zion hawker centre (next to the point block) and has now moved to this L shaped Havelock hawker centre (very old hawker centre). You will find so many good food in this hawker centre (Char Siew rice, Laksa, Prawn Mee, Curry Rice, Turtle Soup, Balanchan Fish, FIsh Soup, DU DU Kway etc etc).
The old aunty is still manning the stall with his sons. The uniqueness of this stall is their handmade fishball and the fishcake ($2 per piece). They are really fresh and very nice as compared to some stall that get from the factory. Be there early as normally before 12 30 – they have sold out. But if you are eating other food – do remember to buy from them the fried fish cake !
Unfortunately – the noodle is not very well cook. Though it is not those that left with lots of water ( I hate those cooking style), the noodles are not QQ enough. The worst part is their chili. Understand they use very bland technique – without adding any balanchan or dried shrimp etc. It makes the chili very very bland.
Eng Huat Fishball Mee
Havelock Road Cooked Food Centre
6am to 1pm (Closed on Saturday and Sunday)
Lian Heng Food Stall Toa Payoh Mee Siam
This corner stall is located in Toa Payoh Blk 127 – my favourite hawker centre where they sell the overrated Cheng San Carrot cake and the teochew pao. I pass y the stall many times but always saw a long queue and not sure what they selling. Last Sunday went to eat Ah Piaw Mee Pok and realized they have closed down (need to track them down) and saw this stall has no queue and told my wife lets give it a try. As usual, my wife eat anything I ordered. The stall sell Laksa, Lor Mee, Prawn Mee and Mee Rebus. I look around and there are many tables ordered the mee siam – so I thought it may be good.
Turn up – yes it is good ! The sauce is very well done with a pinch of lime juice and the asam and the chili paste is well cooked. It is old school styles – not too spicy or sweet. I must say it is very well balance – spiciness / Sweetness, and sourly taste. I enjoy the mee siam very much. We also ordered the Prawn Mee – very bland and normal!
Lian Heng Food Stall Toa Payoh Mee Siam
Block 127 Toa Payoh Lorong 1 #02-21
7 am to 1 pm
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