福州云吞面 ($4 each)!
Foochow wonton noodles: thin-skinned wontons and sliced pork in a clear soup with fried shallots and greens. $4 each.
A comforting hawker dinner with BB: 福州云吞面 (Foochow wonton noodles) at $4 each. 😋
What we had ($8 total):
- Two bowls of Foochow wonton noodles: thin-skinned wontons and sliced pork in a clear soup with fried shallots and greens
This is the Foochow take on wonton noodles, and it is a gentler, more delicate thing than the dark, dry Singapore version. The wontons are the giveaway: pale, floppy, paper-thin skins wrapped loosely around a little pork filling, soft and slippery as they slide off the spoon.
They came in a clean, savoury clear soup with slices of tender pork, a generous scatter of fried shallots for fragrance, and a few leafy greens. The whole bowl is about subtlety, the light broth, the delicate skins, the fried shallots lifting it all with a bit of toasty aroma. Comforting rather than bold.
It is the kind of unfussy, soothing noodle soup that goes down easy, especially nice when you want something lighter than the usual sauced-up wanton mee. Honest and well made for $4.
Overall: 4.5 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Delicate thin-skinned Foochow wontons and tender pork in a clean, shallot-fragrant broth. Would re-order.
