Ivy's Hainanese Herbal Mutton Soup (Pasir Panjang Food Centre)

Established sometime in the year 2000 by Max Ng and named after his wife, this beloved stall continually draws long queues, and on occasion, sells out within 1 hour of opening for the day.
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They source mutton from New Zealand, and are known to omit ginger in their hot soup / broth served in bubbling clay pots, which is stewed with about 20 different herbs including nam yue / red fermented bean curd paste. Their thin and light soup / broth has deep meaty savoury sweet bitter herbal flavour.
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The tender boneless mutton meat has meaty savoury flavour, the succulent bone-in mutton ribs slide easily off the bone, the juicy goji berries / wolfberries lend herbal sweet bitter flavour, the crunchy black fungus / wood ear fungus has vegetal earthy savoury flavour, the bouncy button mushrooms carry vegetal earthy sweet flavour, the spongy tofu puffs have grainy savoury flavour, and the crisp fried bean curd sheets have grainy savoury salty flavour. Pairs so well with white rice.
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Mutton Soup And Sup Kambing
Ivy's Hainanese Herbal Mutton Soup
@ Pasir Panjang Food Centre, 121 Pasir Panjang Road #01-14
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More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2025/12/best-of-singapore-hawkers-mutton-soup-sup-kambing.html

The intensity of this soup was mindblowingly good 🤯🤯 The depth in flavour was truly as deep as the ocean, and just simply so robust beyond words?? Though the price may see a little on the high side, loved that it was chocked full of ingredients (tender mutton chunks, black fungus, taupok and taukee) and the warm hearty soup was like a big hug with every mouthful, perfect on a rainy day! 🌧☔️

Chock full of ingredients, so I don't think it's worth adding meat cos it's a zero sum game(you will get less taupok etc).

Really good overall, the soup wasnt too heavy yet it's rich and full bodied in taste. There's a nice mellowness, and there's a lot of oil being rendered out. Not very sweet at all too. Meat was tender tho some pieces were rather fatty.

Chili has notes of chicken rice chili, though mouthfeel is very different. There's a secondary aroma coming from something fermented I believe, which results in the vast difference.

Probably the only complaint is the price point, I don't think many people are willing to fork out double digits at a hawker centre when their competitors hovers slightly above half their price(no doubt the quality and quantity are different). Had it been sth like 9.5nett(even with less ingredients), it would definitely be one of my favourite mutton soups

I tried the Herbal Mutton Soup with Mee Sua and an egg $11. The broth quality was the same as my first visit. The inclusion of the Mee Sua was a good idea as the silky mee sua had soaked up and was coated with the broth. May be on my next visit, I should just dump my whole rice into the broth! 

Oh boy, I had no regrets eating this! This is the best mutton soup ever! Definitely a must try! If you are someone hates the gaminess taste in mutton, you should give this a try!

Read more: http://foodiefc.blogspot.com/2018/06/ivys-hainanese-herbal-mutton-soup-pasir.html

The soup was super tasty, with tender, fatty pieces of meat. Came with pieces of taupok and taukee that soaked up the soup like savoury pockets of deliciousness. Chinese style mutton soup is so hard to find, and this is a good one!

I love the generous amount of black fungus and tau pok that gave a contrasting texture in the dish. The soup here doesn't have a distinct gamey or herbal flavour. It's so balanced that I wish they could pick one flavour to focus on to make it more nuanced. That aside, I enjoyed the lamb meat so much as it easily fell off the bone. I'm pretty sad that Hainanese Mutton Soup slowly disappears from the hawker food scene here, so better treasure it as much now.