It doesn’t get more old-school than this.
Cooked with great care by an old man who looks to be in a perpetually bent position (he stops once in a while as though to ease some discomfort), and assisted by his elderly wife who takes orders, handles the payments and does all the slicing of ingredients for the topping, this is a hawker dish you will need to be patient for. Just like everyone else in the queue for “Covent Garden Prawn Noodles” (stall 01-25 at Havelock Road Cooked Food Centre).
Unless you like your soup light and delicate in terms of prawn flavour, I would recommend choosing the dry version here because the noodles are tossed in a very tasty combination of savoury chilli sambal and pork lard oil (complete with a few heavenly pieces of crunchy fried lard).
My $5 bowl had such a generous amount of mee and beehoon that I had a hard time finishing all of it. So for those with a small appetite, the $4 serving should suffice.