Nam Sing Hokkien Fried Mee

Best Hokkien Mee in Singapore. Is there any other way I can say this? Alright, Nam Sing Hokkien Fried Mee has the best hokkien mee in Singapore! 

(photo credit: Love Singapore Food)

This doesn't taste like your ordinary hokkien mee. Dry version of the ordinary soup-soaked hokkien mee, yet hidden with gravy goodness within the nook and cranny of the noodles! The result is that you get dry noodles that are actually don't feel dry, but deliciously moist. The noodles are not soggy, prawns and sotong are fresh, lots of egg, fresh chilli and lime to add zest to this dish! 

Sold for $3/4/5. I've been eating this for a few years, many times a year. If that doesn't tell you how good the hokkien mee is, I don't know what does. 

Tip: Call them in advance and order the number of packets you want and specify the time. Otherwise, you will queue up for at least a good 30-40 minutes. Learn to ignore the looks of envy/irritation from the queue. Another tip, they close as they please, so call them up just to make sure that their stall is open.

Nam Sing Hokkien Fried Mee (Hougang)
Old Airport Road Food Centre
51 Old Airport Road
#01-32
Tel: +65 6440 5340

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Lao Ban Dou Hua (老伴豆花）

Singaporeans love queuing. Singaporeans love queuing for good food. Singaporeans love queuing for good food that is cheap.

This is the beancurd ($1.50) from Lao Ban Dou Hua (老伴豆花) from Old Airport. Unless you have been living under a hole, you would have heard of this new food phenomenon. Queues snake around like nobody's business and everybody snaps at least 20 bowls of beancurd at one go.

And there is actually an uncanny resemblance between the man on the plastic bag and the real man behind this stall (Mr Li Hui Shing). His wife (Mdm Hui Ywai Kwai) doesn't look that similar though.

So how's this different from other soya beancurd? Makansutra tells us that they use fresh soy bean milk, tame it with coffee-mate like milk and malt mixture with some gelatin. Then it's steamed, cooled and chilled for a few hours. Some even claim that they have found the recipe to this stall that attracts insane queues.

(photo credit: Lao Ban Soya Beancurd)

Maybe because expectations were too high, or maybe because yesterday I had tried something like this at Amoy Street Food Centre already. But my first response does not match the hype that it deserves. Yes, it's incredibly smooth, push it through your teeth and your teeth becomes an instant soya bean machine making beancurd into soya bean milk (new function for teeth). Unfortunately, it was a tad too sweet for me. Unlike the normal beancurd where you can adjust the sweetness level by telling them how much syrup to put, you can't tell them to adjust it here simply because there's no syrup!

It's lovely to try the beancurd form of soya bean and to participate in the national activity of queuing. Here's just an idea, but maybe they could sell different sugar levels (thereby adjusting the sugar level before refrigerating it) so that it can cater to different tastes, just like bubble tea. That said, here are just my two cents worth and in any case, you should give this new food phenomena a try!

Lao Ban Dou Hua (老伴豆花）

Old Airport Road Food Centre
51 Old Airport Road
#01-127
Tel: +65 8181 2201

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Victor's Japanese Delights (日本小吃）

I love Old Airport Road Food Centre to bits and pieces. It's almost as though if you didn't know what to eat and just threw a stone, it would hit a stall where your tastebuds would be satisfied. Nam Sing Hokkien Mee is one of the best hokkien mee around, although I couldn't have it for lunch this afternoon because there was a long wait for it. 

Instead, I tried my luck at Victor's Japanese Delights (日本小吃) and ordered a bowl of Tempura Udon ($5.50) because I was craving for deep fried stuff. 

Anyway, I'm determined to learn more about ramen so ramen experts out there, kindly enlighten me on any errors that I make in this post. Afterall, it was only today that I realised that those fish cake with lovely pink swirls are called narutomaki. Anyway, the ramen had a miso soup base (i think) which was refreshing and not oily at all. The abundance of unidentified green-black stuff (I would like to think that it's seaweed but its texture doesn't feel like it) added to the springy texture of the udon. 

The star of the show- tempura prawn. Another discovery today- apparently the word tempura comes from the word tempora, a Latin word meaning "time period" used by Spanish and Portuguese missionaries used to refer to Lenten period or Ember Days, Fridays and other Christian holy days. (from Wikipedia)

Anyway, this batter was perfect. Light, crispy, not oily. Prawns were fresh as well!

For $5.50, you are getting a steal for Japanese food. But if you are looking for ambience or wishing that you had green tea served to you, then perhaps this is not the place! If you are looking for a relatively cheap place to satisfy your Japanese food craving, then by all means, go to Victor's Japanese Delights!

Victor's Japanese Delights (日本小吃）

Old Airport Road Food Centre
#01-05
Tel: 97619626

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