Rainy day curry chicken noodles at a hawker stall ($6)!
Rainy day comfort food — curry chicken noodles with thick bee hoon, chicken thigh chunks, fried tau pok, fishcake and potato in spicy coconut curry broth. $6.
Singapore monsoon hit, so I went straight for curry chicken noodles at a hawker stall. $6. The bowl that fixes any rainy day. 😋
What was in the bowl ($6):
- A nest of thick bee hoon swimming in orange-red coconut curry broth — lemak from coconut milk, kicking with chilli, properly oily-fragrant.
- Chicken thigh pieces — bone-in, tender, soaked through with curry.
- A piece of fried tau pok absorbing the broth like a sponge.
- A slice of fishcake for the bouncy bite.
- A chunk of soft-cooked potato for the carb-on-carb comfort.
- A scatter of dried chilli flakes on the surface adding the floating spice slick.
What makes this curry chicken noodles work vs the others I’ve had: the bee hoon was the thick variety (vs thin) which means each strand holds more of the broth and rempah. The chicken thigh chunks were the right tenderness — falling-off-bone but still pull-apart-able rather than mush.
Curry chicken noodles on a rainy day is the SG version of chicken soup for the cold — the chilli warmth in the throat + the coconut lemak coating the stomach = guaranteed mood lift.
Total: $6. Hawker pricing.
Overall: 4.4 / 5. Broth was the highlight — proper rempah depth without going too oily, chilli came through without burying the coconut. Reliable rainy day pick. 😍👍🏼
