Mee hoon kuey ($5 each)!
Hand-torn flat noodles two ways: a dry bowl tossed in dark sauce with ikan bilis, and a soup bowl in clear anchovy broth. $5 each.
A comforting hawker dinner with BB: mee hoon kuey, $5 each, ordered one dry and one soup so we could have both. π
What we had ($10 for two):
- A dry mee hoon kuey tossed in a dark, savoury sauce with ikan bilis, mushroom and greens
- A soup mee hoon kuey in a clear anchovy broth with minced pork, mushroom and ikan bilis
The noodles are the star, and they are handmade: the dough is hand-torn into irregular flat pieces straight into the pot, so they cook up wonderfully chewy and rustic, no two quite the same. That springy, doughy bite is exactly why this dish is special, and getting both versions lets you enjoy it two ways.
The dry one was the bolder bowl: the flat noodles tossed in a dark, savoury sauce with a good hit of chilli, topped with crispy ikan bilis, braised mushroom and greens, with a bowl of soup on the side. The soup version was the gentle, soothing one, the same chewy noodles in a clean, savoury anchovy broth that gets its sweetness from simmered ikan bilis, with loose minced pork through it.
Both leaned on those lovely fried-shallot and ikan bilis flavours. Comforting, handmade and satisfying, and at $5 a bowl, fair value for the craft that goes into it.
Overall: 4.6 / 5. πππΌ Chewy hand-torn noodles done dry and in a savoury anchovy soup, comforting and well made. Would re-order.
