叉烧云吞面 + 烧鸭 & 叉烧 + 烧鸭饭 ($12.50)!
Outram Park hawker — char siew wanton mee with roast duck + char siew & roast duck rice combo. $12.50 for two solid Cantonese roast plates.
Saturday lunch with BB at the Outram Park hawker centre — the area’s basically a Cantonese roast meats playground if you know which stalls to hit.
We ordered:
- 叉烧云吞面 + 烧鸭 (char siew wanton mee + roast duck)
- 叉烧 + 烧鸭饭 (char siew + roast duck rice)
Total $12.50 for both plates.
The 叉烧 (char siew) was the headliner. Properly caramelised, lacquered edges, with that fatty-shoulder cut that goes slightly crisp on the outside and stays juicy in the middle. Glossy red glaze, sweet-savoury balance, not the dry blocky kind some stalls put out.
The 烧鸭 (roast duck) had crisp skin and a clean roast flavour — no off-notes from over-marination. Pieces were chopped through the bone the proper way, so a few bone-in bites kept things rustic.
Wanton mee base — springy egg noodles tossed in a light sweet-soy with chilli, a few plump wantons in clear soup on the side. Roast duck rice came over fluffy white rice with a dark sweet-soy gravy ladle, pickled greens on the side.
Outram Park is the right kind of hawker centre for this lunch — old-school stalls, longer queues for the famous ones, and the kind of regulars who go straight to the same stall every Saturday.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Strong roast meats lunch — would happily revisit.
