Grandma Ban Mee (Amoy Street Food Centre)

Was a good bowl of mhk soup, perfect for the rainy day! The mhk pieces were THICC and plump and chewy - their mhk is more firm compared to ah yi (my fav mhk, at marsiling mall), but it’s still pretty nice. The soup is light but flavourful, and the ingredients are not bad too - mushrooms were huge and juicy, quite a bit of spinach, crunchy black fungus, minced meat, and ikan bilis. Was a satisfying lunch!

Not the biggest fan of this - it’s alright but it’s not as nice as other dry noodles in the area, I prefer this stall for their soup MHK. The noodles are not as springy/qq as I would’ve liked, prefer it to have more of a bite to it. The sauce kinda lacks some depth of flavour, I don’t enjoy chili in my banmian so perhaps you should go for the spicy version bc I’ve seen good reviews for the chilli banmian. The mushrooms are huge and juicy and flavourful, poached egg had runny yolks, and I like that there’s black fungus as it adds a nice soft crunchiness to the dish. There’s minced pork, ikan bilis, as well as some flavouring/powder(?) that I would opt out of next time. There’s spinach in a small bowl of soup as well for some greens. Overall still a decent lunch option, but I’ll still go for their soup mhk!

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Grandma Banmian from Amoy Street Food Centre!

If you have always wanted to try Grandma Ban Mee 老妈子板面 (from Amoy Street Food Centre) but not quite ready to brace the long queue or cant travel to Tanjong Pagar area for weekday lunch, now is your time to try it! Because Amoy Steret Food Centre is now closed for renovation until 10 Jan 2022, @grandmabanmian came up with frozen ban mian to continue its operations these few months!

The banmian package is delivered frozen, and it consists of banmian/youmian packed separately with the ingredients (minced pork meat with mushrooms and black fungus, iikan bilis, dark soy sauce and red chilli!

All you have to do is to boil them in a pot of boiling water for 3-7mins for the noodles (i prefer 7 mins! It was still the qq chewy bouncy texture after boiling for 7mins) and 5 mins for the ingredients and then mix them up in a bowl !

To zheng-ed up your dry banmian/youmian bowl, add an onsen egg to go together with it! (My simple way of cooking onsen egg - boil some water and immediately submerge eggs in the bowl of boiled water with lids on for 30minutes; followed by immediately submerging it in a bowl of ice cold water placed in the refrigerator until ready for consumption).

Super love their qq noodles, very springy. Coat the noodles up with the dark sauce and chilli sauce to have a slurping good meal! (In case you are afraid the chilli looks too spicy, it wasnt! Spicy level just right, wont leave you running for water)

Do check out the link on @grandmabanmian profile page if you are interested to order this frozen ban mian! Each frozen noodle pack costs $4.90. There is free delivery islandwide for over $100 worth of orders, so do jio your neighbours /friends to group order together! :)

Ban Mee Chilli 辣辣板面 (large)

Available at @grandmabanmee
Ban Mee version
Mushroom 冬菇, minced meat 肉碎, black fungus 木耳, dried anchovies 江鱼仔, shallot oil 葱头油, egg 鸡蛋, dried shrimp chilli 虾米辣椒, spinach
Chilli sauce and broth packed separately
Slightly dry and stick together after the long journey but can be solved easily with some broth.
Nice noodle texture.

老妈子板面
Address 🏡 : 7 Maxwell Road, # 01-07 Amoy Street Food Centre, Singapore 🇸🇬 069 111

Grandma Ban Mee has been a stall that I had been looking forward to try at Amoy Street Food Centre for quite a while — the stall’s operating hours as listed at their shopfront suggested that they were only open on weekdays, so it was pretty much a surprise to have found them in operation when we made our visit here on a Saturday afternoon.

Wasn’t quite a Mee Hoon Kueh person until I had been exposed to a home cooked rendition of the dish by a friend’s family for quite a while — and that’s how I found myself learning to appreciate the noodle dish; especially those that features handmade noodles that painstakingly made from scratch and torn by hand. Grandma Ban Mian’s Mee Hoon Kueh is just that sort of Mee Hoon Kueh I am looking for — opting for the Mee Hoon Kueh Chilli sees the bowl of hand-torn noodles come with their mix of chili, dark sauce, a soft-boiled egg and Ikan Bilis coming in an entire package; the item also comes accompanied with a bowl of spinach soup that comes on the side. Grandma Ban Mee’s Mee Hoon Kueh is everything to love — the dark sauce provides a rich, earthy and savoury note that goes so well with their punchy chili that would work well for those with moderate tolerance to spiciness; tickles the taste buds sufficiently without being too overpowering — all that with the chewy hand-torn noodles that wasn’t too doughy. Mixing the soft-boiled egg into the bowl also provides a silkier texture for all of the condiments in the bowl, while the Ikan Bilis carries a good crispness that provides for the myriad of textures that goes on within the entire bowl. The accompanying bowl of spinach soup was surprisingly clean-tasting, yet flavourful — does it job well where it cleanses the tastebuds from the heavier notes of the dark sauce and chili from the bowl of Mee Hoon Kueh Chili

I have few foodie friends who actually swears by the various items that Grandma Ban Mee has to offer — and having finally tried them, I think it is easy to understand why; it is pretty homey comfort food that speaks to the soul — all that with great execution and served with love considering all the handmade goodness that is going on in here. It’s little wonder how Grandma Ban Mee is one of those stalls with a short queue at any point of time during the Saturday afternoon which I made my visit — and one of the stalls that is being talked about periodically on social media. Yet another one of those dishes I would be thinking of if I am around the area, and even likely to develop cravings for to revisit them again.