A Noodle Story is no stranger to many by now. Now that Amoy Food Center is under renovation, the outlet has moved to the basement of Guoco Tower, where they’re sharing a stall’s premises with Ya Lor Braised Duck. While the duck rice stall is making pretty decent business, one can tell that most have come for A Noodle Story.

Priding themselves on their aesthetically presented fusion bowl of noodles, A Noodle Story’s main (and only) dish on the menu is named ‘Singapore Style Ramen’ to reinforce that very message. However, I’m inclined to not see it as a fusion dish as it’s more of a combination of very segmented elements together. Fusion wasn’t in its flavour, rather, a literal fusion of Singapore style wanton yellow noodles paired together with ingredients that you’d usually find in ramen — flavoured egg, cha shu, and an ebi this time because their Idaho potato-wrapped prawn was not available (sadly). I personally did not know what to expect in terms of taste other than a very beautiful noodles, but I was a little disappointed to know that it was a simple combination of Singapore noodles + ramen ingredients.

What truly wow-ed me was their wonderfully executed ingredients. First off, Cha Shu was amazingly melt in your mouth tender, and for $10.80 at a regular bowl, it was a pretty decent portion. Replacing the Idaho potato-wrapped prawn was a fried ebi that was so crispy. The flavoured egg blew my mind. Yolk was runny, whole egg was so flavourful, I was upset that I didn’t add one more to my bowl. My favorite ingredient was however, the prawn wantons (unfortunately not pictured) which were served in a bowl of soup on the side. 2 prawn wantons were served with a regular portion, and these 2 juicy, plump, wantons made me regret not getting a whole bowl of wanton soup on its own (it costs $6 for a bowl of soup!).

Ultimately, the Singapore Style Ramen was to me a mashing up of decent quintessential Singaporean sauces up yellow noodles with a couple of premium, amazingly well-executed ingredients. Both aspects of the noodles and the ingredients felt separated to me in terms of flavour, so this fusion bowl of noodles is more in terms of putting different elements together. That being said, I love Singapore noodles and I adore the ingredients here so much that I’d come back for it.

P.S. I think getting the large bowl at $13.80 may be more worth it than the regular bowl with the greater portion of ingredients!

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