Fried Hokkien prawn mee + roasted pork ($5)!
Thursday hawker — fried Hokkien prawn mee + roasted pork $5. Classic hawker noodles + siu yuk topping.
Hawker lunch: fried Hokkien prawn mee + roasted pork, $5. The siu yuk upgrade. 😋
Fried Hokkien mee is the wet-fried prawn noodle classic: a mix of yellow noodles and bee hoon braised in a rich prawn stock until they soak up all that seafood sweetness, fried with pork lard for fragrance and topped with prawns and sotong, served with sambal and a lime wedge on the side. A good plate needs deep prawn-stock flavour and that smoky wok hei, and this one had both, savoury and a little smoky, properly moist rather than soggy.
The clever bit here is the roasted pork (siu yuk) on top. Adding slices of crispy-skinned Cantonese roast pork belly gives the dish a whole extra dimension: the crackling skin and rendered fat against the soft, savoury noodles, a lovely contrast of textures you don’t get from the seafood alone. A squeeze of lime and a spoon of sambal pulls it all together.
At $5 for the noodles plus the roast pork, it’s a generous, satisfying upgrade on the standard plate, two hawker favourites in one bowl.
Overall: 4.6 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Smoky, prawn-rich Hokkien mee made even better with crispy roast pork on top. Great value. Would re-order.
