Chinatown Eats

You know, I have been visiting Chinatown pretty frequently. Haha, some of you know why. Yes, I needed to get supplies of ribbons and clips for my new hobby. Actually I am not making them for Sweetie anymore, she has a whole load of new clips already. I am making them for my friends' kids mostly. haha.

Ipoh Tuck Kee Sar Hor Fun 2nd floor, Hong Lim Food Centre

This is an icon. It has been here for ages, it has a faithful following lining up outside its stall during lunchtime, and its cheap and good.



There is the long queue. It moves quickly though.


The dumpling soup is tasty and cheap - $3 for like 10 dumplings, and a whole prawn in each dumpling. Delicious!


The crayfish horfun, is a steal at $3.50, and it is simply delicious. Slippery smooth hor fun with savoury prawns and crayfish. Yum Yum Yum.

Loh Mei Specialist People's Park Centre Food Court

Ever heard of Loh Mei? It is a stewed dish with chicken wings, cuttle fish, kang kong, pig's intestines and other interesting things. Hard to find nowadays, but interesting and tasty nonetheless. My mom cooked it once sometime back and it was delicious.


This stall is probably the only stall in Singapore, but it's standard is nowhere near Por Por's! Anyway it is not bad for $4.


An assortment of goodies.


Served with rice, it makes a filling meal.

Chew Kee's Braised Chicken Noodles, Chinatown
This one is also pretty famous. There are 2 stalls side by side, owned by brother and sister, and they are competitors. Not sure which is better, but my friends think that the brother is more friendly so we always go to this one.


The braised chicken ($12 for a 4 person portion) is always good and tasty.


Some greens to up the fibre intake.


Delicious noodles, and they also serve hor fun too. I usually prefer hor fun, but today i just felt like noodles.

And of course lots and lots of ribbons for new hairclips... Here are some in my new collection:

Wing Kee Noodle @ Changi Village Hawker Centre

There are accolades pasted all over its shop front, and there is usually a queue if you come during the peak hours.

We were here for breakfast, so no queues were formed yet. So I chose the chicken cutlet hor fun (SGD 3).

I think its legion fans will beg to differ, but I found this mediocre at best. The hor fun was clumpy and the chicken cutlet, though generous, was too salty.

Crayfish Hor Fun @ Hong Lim Food Centre

Hong Lim Food Centre is home to many famous hawker stalls, all of which have garnered a large following of die-hard fans.

I usually eat the crayfish hor fun (SGD4) with an additional order of dumpling soup (SGD2) when I come here.

There was, as usual, a long line in front of Tuck Kee (Ipoh) Sah Ho Fun (Block 531A Upper Cross Street #02-41 Hong Lim Food Centre), but the queue moves quickly and I got my horfun and dumpling soup within 15 minutes.

The hor fun was smooth and silky, and delicious. The crayfish was fresh and well-cooked. The prawns, sliced in half, are meticulously cleaned of the icky black intestine in the middle. The gravy was hearty, and made from true crayfish and prawn stock.

The dumplings are made with a whole prawn, no chopped-up bits of non-descript mystery meats here. And they don't dump in bits of fat either. It's very good.

A hearty meal for just SGD6.