Claypot herbal sliced pork mee sua ($5)!
A claypot of herbal mee sua: fine wheat noodles and sliced pork in a dark Chinese herbal broth, topped with lettuce and coriander. $5.
A warming, nourishing hawker lunch: claypot herbal sliced pork mee sua, $5. ๐
What I had:
- A claypot of herbal mee sua: fine wheat noodles and sliced pork in a dark herbal broth, topped with lettuce and coriander
This is the kind of bowl you reach for when you want something restorative. The broth is the heart of it: a dark, fragrant Chinese herbal soup simmered with tonic herbs like dang gui (angelica root), so it comes out deeply savoury with that warming, gently medicinal, slightly sweet character that herbal soups have. Comforting in a quietly nourishing way.
The mee sua (very fine wheat noodles) are the soft, slurpable carb that soaks up all that herbal flavour, going tender and silky in the hot broth. There were slices of tender pork through it for substance, and the lettuce and coriander on top wilted into the soup to keep it fresh.
Serving it in a claypot is the smart touch, it keeps everything bubbling-hot right to the last spoonful, so the soup stays piping and the noodles never go cold. It is humble, soothing, feel-good food, the sort of thing that warms you from the inside. And at $5, brilliant value.
Overall: 4.7 / 5. ๐๐๐ผ Silky mee sua and tender pork in a warming herbal broth, nourishing comfort in a claypot. Would re-order.
