虾面 ($3 each): prawn mee!
Two bowls of prawn mee: one in a deep prawn-stock soup and one dry in chilli, both with prawns, sliced pork and flat noodles. $3 each.
A hawker dinner with BB, a bowl of 虾面 (prawn mee) each at $3, one soup and one dry. 🦐😋
What we had ($6 total):
- Prawn mee soup: flat noodles in a deep prawn-stock broth with prawns, sliced pork, bean sprouts and fried shallots
- Prawn mee dry: flat noodles tossed in chilli with prawns and sliced pork, with the soup on the side
Getting one soup and one dry is the way to do prawn mee, since the broth is the star either way. The soup version had it front and centre: a deep, orange-amber prawn-stock broth reduced from heads and shells over hours, rich and savoury, with the noodles soaking it up. Sweet prawns, slices of tender pork and a scatter of fried shallots on top.
The dry version put the same toppings over noodles tossed in a tangy chilli, with a separate bowl of that prawn broth on the side to sip and pour over as you like. Both used wide, slippery flat noodles that carry the flavour well.
A spoon of cut chilli lifts either bowl. Honest, deeply savoury prawn-stock comfort for $3 a bowl, the kind of cheap, satisfying hawker eating that is getting harder to find at this price.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. 😋👍🏼 A deep prawn-stock broth done both soup and dry, sweet prawns and tender pork throughout. Would re-order.
