Hokkien Mee

Chiak Ba Boh?

Wah Lau eh.... its been almost 3 months since I last blogged. I promised a local review the last time, so here goes.

Hard to find good hokkien mee nowadays. Too many pretenders pretending to whip up this simple dish. Soggy noodles, bland sauce, miserly prawns, shitty chilli are common grouses.

Here we have one that posses none of the above. Found this accidentally actually, tucked away on east coast road, along the same stretch leading up to siglap centre, St Michaels school and the Hong Kong Tea Cafe (Wang Jiao). This stall is located at a "FoodMore" coffeeshop right beside the road, and is called Geylang Lorong 29 fried Hokkien Mee. What is special about this hokkien mee is that the noodles are fried over charcoal...not over gas. This seemed to give the noodles a nice charcoal smell and a nice "wok hei". The noodles are done just nice, with thick pieces of sotong and prawn, and the "chup" is thick and strong. Chilli is alright though, though if belacan chilli is provided it would be better imho. Comparable to the famous Old Airport road one (the one just kenna the Makansutra hawker legend one...) even though the one at old airport rd is a little over rated...

Fatpapa rating: 3.5 stars out of 5

A few shops down, you can find a shop selling Bak Kwa... apparently been there for ages...much much much better than Bee Chun Hiang.