Being a Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient, Lao Fu Zi often attracts a queue. It is also rather slow moving because each plate of CKT is made to order instead of in bulk.
I do admire the hawker for his dedication to provide each customer with a fresh plate of CKT. His CKT is the dry version with a decent amount of wok hei. It is also sweeter than most plates of ckt. Gerald from TeamofTwo stated in his review that it tasted similar to the kway teow you get from the economical beehooon stall in the morning. A little harsh IMHO but I can see why he described it as so as it is dry and rather sweet.
It is an above average plate of CKT though I don't really get the hype. It's definitely not a plate I would go across the island for or stand in line for 30 to 45 minutes. I will however gladly grab a plate if I was craving a ckt and there isn't a queue!
Arrived at 11.57am and placed my order for one plate of black char kway teow (you can order white as well) at $5.00. The stall supposed to start at 11.45am but today they started preparing late so didn’t start cooking until 12.09am. Already I was #10 in the queue.
Finally got my plate at 12.33pm. By then the queue was 30 plus orders with many still in the queue, yet to place an order.
The plate of char kway teow was not too dry, got some wok heat but a bit sweet. You can ask to add lard bits but no prawns for the small serving. I am guessing only from $8.00 onwards. There’s a few decent sized cockles inside, along with Chinese sausages, bits of fish cake, bean sprouts and a few stalks of Chye Sim vegetables.
Overall a good plate of char kway teow worthy of their Bib Gourmand award. But you must be prepared to queue during peak hours. Maybe 40 minutes or more!
Priced at $5 for the smallest portion, there was already a queue once the shutters were up. Waited for about 15 mins as each plate were individually fried and prepared. The dish was packed with wokhey and the it was a comfortable sharing dish/ portion for 2 people.
Named after the iconic 'Lao Fu Zi / Old Master Q' comic character, owner Tan Lee Seng carries on his late-mother's 30-year legacy, frying each plate individually.
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His style tends towards the dry non-greasy rendition, though you can request for it to be more sweet or more savoury, for which they'll adjust the amount of dark sweet soy sauce used.
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Semi-healthier as pork lard is used only on request, and there's a decent portion of crisp bean sprouts and crunchy chye sim / chinese flowering cabbage within, along with wispy egg, tender fish cake, chewy lup cheong / dried cured pork sausage, bouncy blood cockles, and white pepper.
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Serving size is rather filling, with the premium version having prawns.
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Char Kway Teow
Lao Fu Zi Fried Kway Teow
@ Old Airport Road Food Centre, 51 Old Airport Road #01-12
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More details:
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Not as good as I thought, but still pretty decent.
Quite popular here at OAR.
Felt it tasted a little similar to economic kway teow though.
Decent savoury Kway Teow with good amount of bean sprouts, lup cheong, egg, spring onions and cockle. Portion quite big. Paired it with their solid spicy sambal to fully feel satisfied. We had the sambal not cooked in it cause they don't eat spicy but I believed if cooked tgt will certainly hype up the taste.
While Lao Fu Zi was my favourite comic character, the namesake char kway teow is most definitely not my favourite char kway teow in Singapore. I’ve had it a couple of times before and my opinion still stays the same: I don’t understand the hype.⠀
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It’s definitely not revolting by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s awfully bang average. Sure there’s an ample amount of wok hei in the messy mound of fried noodles, and they don’t skimp on the cockles, but that’s about it. Everything else is just industry standard and it ain’t anything to write home about.
Not sure why but it seemed like today's order came with extra amount of dark soya sauce as compared to usual, which was nice, but it was a bit too sweet. We think that this is an average plate of charkwayteow that might be a tad overpriced. Note that the fried kway teow at this stall tends not to have the wok hei fragrance that many look out for.
So i did homework to find out which Char Kway teow that have delivery service.
And i found Lao Fu Zi from Old Airport Food Centre has delivery service.
So i gathered neighbours (yes, im the host this time 😆, all for ckt ),and placed order ystd.
Finally i can have char kway teow.
Its still warm when reach my house, sweet and spicy (i asked for chilli) ckt with light wok hei. .
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💰$5 for small.
Delivery fee $6 for radius 5 km and islandwide delivery fee $10.
To place order,can WhatsApp 8614 9191. .
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📍Lao Fu Zi.
51 old airport road, #01-12.
It’s lunch time and Michelin Bib Gourmand aside, CKT will always be our most favourite noodle dish that we are drawn to. Luckily there is no queue (we even manage to get the boss smile!! 😁...later on our IG 🤗📸)
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We order $5 small size with no hum. Then commute back to Bishan (20 mins). The wok hei aroma is still in the pack. We got 2 prawns, Chinese sausage, beansprout and of course Kway Teow noodle (dry and not soak with sauce like black CKT). This is no boring CKT and we have to admit that it is well seasoned and guess pepper might be in! We will most likely come back if in Old Airport Road Food Center again! 👍
Located at 51 Old Airport Rd, unit 01-12, Singapore 390051.
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Fried Kway Teow, $8. [Michelin Bib Gourmand] There’s different prices and you could choose between white or black version! Don’t be deceived, although the que was pretty short like 5 pax, we had to wait about 20 mins to get our hands on it. 😢 All worth it after we taken our first bite on it! Noodles and Kway Teow texture were both on point! Fried fragrantly and has a wok-hei taste which we adores. It also comes with generous ingredients of bean sprouts, egg, Chinese sausage and hum! A satisfying plate of fried Kway Teow!! .
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Located at 51 Old Airport Rd, unit 01-12, Singapore 390051.
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Fried Kway Teow, $8. [Michelin Bib Gourmand] There’s different prices and you could choose between white or black version! Don’t be deceived, although the que was pretty short like 5 pax, we had to wait about 20 mins to get our hands on it. 😢 All worth it after we taken our first bite on it! Noodles and Kway Teow texture were both on point! Fried fragrantly and has a wok-hei taste which we adores. It also comes with generous ingredients of bean sprouts, egg, Chinese sausage and hum! A satisfying plate of fried Kway Teow!! .
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#hungryunicornsg #friedkwayteow #michelinbibgourmand #oldairportroadfoodcentre #laofuzifriedkwayteow
This Michelin Bib Gourmand Fried Kway Teow keeps you waiting for at least half an hour during meal times and even when we went at 8.30pm on a Saturday evening, it was still a 20-min wait.
There’s a choice of black or white Kway Teow. I prefer my char kway teow to be black, so yes, the dark soya and sweet sauces were on point but disappointingly, lacking the wok hei that’s essential. There were lots of bean sprouts, and reasonable amount of other side ingredients like cockles, lup cheong, egg, vegetable.
Address :
#01-12 Old Airport Road Food Centre, 51 Old Airport Road, 390051
Operating Hours:
Mon to Fri: 10.00am - 12.00am,
Sat & Sun: 9.00am - 12.00am
Tel:
+65 83334828
Didn't have any impressionable experience with this kway teow previously as it has been a long standing stall holder in the food center for years. Decided to give it another try after its recent attainment of Michelin Award. Regrettably, it's still as underwhelming as I could recall, with the lack of adequate dark black sauce and wok hey aroma:( The price tag of $8 for three normal sized prawns and few sotong rings was not very justifiable as well.
Having dinner here on a Friday night. Had char kway teow & prawn noodles. The char kway teow is surprisingly not very oily. It is pretty dry even towards the end which is the kind i like.
Finally get to try Lao Fu Zi char kway tiao. I've been wanting to try their char kway tiao previously but the queue is quite long.
It smells good when it's served to me but I find the taste to be quite average. I prefer the sweet dark sauce of Char kway tiao. Lao Fu Zi offers both black / white char kway tiao at the smallest plate for $4.
📍 老夫子炒粿条 | #01-12
Was in the vicinity and decided to try the hawker fare at old airport road food center.
Fried kway teow always my choice of a sinful supper! Today's hum was big and fresh!
