Generally, the easier the stall title, the higher the meals. An ideal instance could be HK Wanton Mee positioned at Ci Yuan Hawker Centre. I’m undecided if the ‘HK’ within the title stands for Hong Kong, however I did discover out that the homeowners hail from Malaysia.

I found this stall a couple of months in the past after I ordered takeaway, and was blown away by how tasty their noodles had been. I felt I wanted to introduce this stall to my fellow readers at Sethlui.com, and so I returned to check out their different choices.

What I attempted at HK Wanton Noodle

I kickstarted my lunch with the Wanton Noodles (S$3.80). On the plate was a heap of noodles, slices of char siew, one fried wanton and inexperienced greens. It was accompanied by a bowl of soup containing 2 items of boiled wantons.

The noodles had been finer than our regular mee kia, much like these served at Hong Kong eateries.

After giving the noodles a very good toss, the skinny golden strands of mee had not solely absorbed the savoury and spicy notes coming from the sauce combine, however had additionally taken on a horny darker hue.

Each slurp of the noodles was pure enjoyment— {smooth} and completely seasoned.

Don’t anticipate charred and fatty slices of char siew right here, they serve your old-school selection— lean and meaty. The one and solely treasured piece of fried wanton was nothing to shout about. It simply supplied a pleasant crispy factor to the plate.

Moreover the noodles, the opposite star of the dish was the boiled wanton. The meat was remarkably tasty and the pores and skin was silky comfortable.

I wasn’t having excessive hopes of the clear broth, however I used to be blown away after I had my first spoonful. It was clean-tasting and naturally candy. I wished an additional big bowl all to myself.

I used to be intrigued by the following dish, the Braised Smooth Pork Ribs Noodles (S$5). It’s a dish not generally seen at hawker stalls (a minimum of in my view).

It had about 5 items of soppy pork ribs, a mattress of positive noodles doused in the dead of night sauce combine with items of inexperienced veggies.

Describing the pork ribs as comfortable could be an understatement. The meat was fall-of-the-bone tender and had fragrant flavours of the herbs that had been used within the braising liquid.

I simply popped the entire thing in my mouth and spat out the tiny items of soppy bone. Tremendous satisfying!

I then moved on to the following dish, the Smoked Duck Roll (S$4.50 for five pcs). I used to be a bit disenchanted with the measly portion, which didn’t actually justify its worth. There have been 5 golden-brown items of rolls, served with a dollop of mayo. I might have favored the rolls to have been bigger.

Regardless of ending every roll in 2 bites, the saving grace was its style. After my tooth sank via the crispy and paper-thin pores and skin, my style buds had been greeted by the smoky and creamy notes coming from the items of smoked duck (meat and fatty pores and skin included).

Dipping the rolls into the marginally candy mayonnaise lifted the expertise to a different degree. Merely divine!

The final dish I attempted was the Shredded Hen Hor Enjoyable (S$3.80). It had shreds of rooster, black mushrooms and inexperienced greens resting atop a pile of Ipoh-style skinny hor enjoyable. I requested a non-spicy model for this.

The hor enjoyable was ultra-smooth and had absorbed the delicate smoky notes of the darkish soya sauce combine. Nevertheless, as a result of absence of chilli, the style of the Shredded Hen Hor Enjoyable paled compared with the opposite 2 noodle dishes.

The mushrooms had tons of flavour jam-packed into its tiny physique, which created a celebration in my mouth after I popped them in.

The rooster shreds had been moist and tender whereas the inexperienced greens supplied some hints of freshness in-between bites, decreasing the richness of the hor enjoyable.

Last ideas

The nice-tasting noodles and wallet-friendly costs at HK Wanton Mee have transformed me to develop into considered one of their common prospects.

I’m really appreciative that I discovered one other spot to get Malaysian-style noodles proper right here in Singapore. Preserve them coming, I ain’t complaining!

Anticipated harm: S$4 – S$7.50 per pax

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