Shredded chicken hor fun + fried fish dumpling + crab meat ($5.50)!
Raffles Place hawker shredded chicken hor fun: flat rice noodles in savoury gravy with hand-shredded chicken, fried fish dumplings, crab stick, bok choy and wood ear. $5.50.
Lunch at Raffles Place: shredded chicken + fried fish dumpling + crab meat hor fun, $5.50. Loaded bowl. ๐
What was on the plate:
- Flat hor fun: the wide white rice noodles in a savoury brown gravy
- Shredded chicken: hand-torn poached chicken piled over the noodles
- Fried fish dumplings: two golden battered fish-paste pieces, the crisp items
- Crab stick: the pink-and-white pieces (the crab-meat element)
- Bok choy + wood ear mushroom: the greens and the chewy fungus, with goji berries dotted through
This is the loaded hor fun bowl: rather than a single protein, it piles on shredded chicken, fried fish dumplings and crab stick in one savoury-gravy plate. The gravy is the lighter brown sauce rather than the dark dish, cornstarch-thickened, savoury and clingy, the kind that coats the wide noodles without drowning them.
The shredded chicken is the base protein, hand-torn poached chicken that soaks up the gravy. The fried fish dumplings are the textural highlight, fish paste in a thin batter, fried crisp and added on top so they stay crunchy against the soft noodles, at least for the first few minutes before the gravy softens their undersides. Eat those first.
The wood ear mushroom and goji are the small touches that lift it above a basic gravy noodle: the wood ear adds a chewy crunch, the goji a faint sweetness. It is a multi-protein bowl that tastes like more than the sum of its budget parts.
At $5.50 for a loaded shredded-chicken hor fun in Raffles Place (where lunch usually costs more), this is genuine hawker value.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. ๐๐๐ผ The crisp fried fish dumplings against the silky gravy noodles were the standout. Multi-protein value, would re-order.
