A Noodle Story — Singapore-style ramen ($10.80)!
A Noodle Story at Amoy Street Food Centre: the Michelin Bib Gourmand Singapore-style ramen with springy wanton noodles, char siew, potato-wrapped prawn fritters, hot spring egg and a shrimp wanton soup. $10.80.
Lunch at A Noodle Story, Amoy Street Food Centre: Singapore-style ramen, $10.80. Michelin Bib repeat. 😋
What was in the bowl:
- Springy wanton-mee-style noodles: tossed in the signature sauce, the bouncy egg noodles the base of the bowl
- Char siew: braised pork belly slices, soft and glazed
- Potato-wrapped prawn fritters: the iconic crisp items, prawns wrapped in shredded Idaho potato and deep-fried golden
- Hot spring egg (onsen tamago): the soft molten egg
- Shredded chilli + scallion on top
- Shrimp wanton soup on the side
A Noodle Story is the hawker stall that proves the Singapore noodle bowl can stand with anything: founded in 2013 by Gwern Khoo and Ben Tham, two young Singaporean chefs with fine-dining training, it has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand for ten consecutive years. The concept is a “Singapore-style ramen”, a wanton mee frame given the precision and plating of a ramen bowl, fusing local hawker flavours with Japanese and modern-European technique.
The potato-wrapped prawn is the signature flourish: a whole prawn wrapped in julienned Idaho potato and fried into a crisp golden nest, the textural showpiece that no other noodle stall does. It sits on top of the bowl like a crown.
The noodles are the foundation: springy, alkaline egg noodles tossed in the house sauce, with the braised char siew belly (soft, not the usual lean roast) and the molten hot-spring egg to stir through. The shrimp wanton soup on the side completes the wanton-mee DNA.
Why it earns the queue: every element is dialled in, from the noodle bounce to the egg temperature to that ridiculous potato prawn. It is hawker food executed at restaurant precision, which is exactly what the Bib Gourmand rewards.
At $10.80, it sits above standard hawker noodles, but the technique and the accolade justify it.
Overall: 4.5 / 5. 😋👍🏼 The potato-wrapped prawn over the springy noodles remains the standout. Reliable as ever, would re-queue.
