I arrived at 10.15am, after the breakfast and before the lunch crowd. Ordered their prawn paste mee hoon kway at $5.50. Owner tells me they are opened everyday except Sundays, from 7.45am to 2pm.

This mee hoon kway checks all the boxes. Hand torn dough, sayur manis, crispy ikan bilis, chilli sauce instead of cut red chilli and soya sauce and an egg dropped into the broth. The dough was cooked right. Smooth to slurp into the mouth and chewy. Soup was clear and tasted of yellow beans and ikan bilis. Break the yolk of the egg and immediately the soup has added another dimension of flavour. They were a bit stingy with the sayur manis though but who can blame them when you can go for days without finding this particular vegetable in the markets. There were also 3 small meatballs and a few slivers of mushroom. The prawn paste was soft but not crunchy, so it was not spectacular. Unexpectedly, the star of the dish is the chilli sauce. Do not dunk your dough or meatball or prawn paste into the chilli sauce unless you are very comfortable with spicy chilli. This one is very high on the chilli heat scale so my advice is to test the waters first with little smears of it using your chopsticks. It goes well with the dough, the mushrooms, the meat balls, everything. I like it very much.

Now that I know their opening hours. I’ll time a return visit soon for their dry version. Do they have one?