Yong tau foo ($6) + soy milk ($3) @ Chinatown Complex!
Dry yong tau foo from Heritage Yong Tau Foo at Chinatown Complex Food Centre, $6, with flat rice noodles in dark sauce and soup on the side, plus $3 soy milk from Po's Muah Chee.
A dry yong tau foo from Heritage Yong Tau Foo at Chinatown Complex Food Centre, $6, with a soy milk from Poโs a few stalls down, $3. ๐ฅข๐
What we had ($9 total):
- Yong tau foo, dry with noodles, $6
- Soy milk, $3
Chinatown Complex is the biggest hawker centre in Singapore and yong tau foo is one of the things it does many versions of, so it says something that this stall keeps its regulars. You pick your pieces off the tray at the counter, then choose how you want it: in soup, or dry with noodles like we did.
Dry is the better order if you like sauce. The flat rice noodles came tossed in a dark, slightly sweet sauce with a spoon of chilli stirred through, topped with a big handful of crunchy beansprouts and spring onion. The sauce clings to everything without turning the bowl heavy, and the beansprouts keep it from feeling like just noodles.
The yong tau foo itself arrives separately in a bowl of clear soup, which is how you get the best of both. In it were golden beancurd puffs (tau pok) stuffed with fish paste, springy fish balls and stuffed pieces still holding their shape, all sitting in a light, savoury broth with spring onion. The soup is clean and simple, there to be sipped between mouthfuls of the saucy noodles.
The soy milk came from Poโs Muah Chee by TauNai, the muah chee stall on the same floor. Freshly made, served in a paper cup, thick and beany with a good foamy head and not too sweet. It goes down very easily after a savoury bowl.
Nine dollars for both, eaten at a marble table in the middle of Chinatown Complex. Hard to beat.
Overall: 4 / 5. ๐๐๐ผ Saucy noodles, clean soup, and lovely fresh soy milk to finish. Would come back.
