Legend Wanton Mee

This coffee shop located is not so obvious from the outside and you need to find your way to get here, if you never been here before.

But on the weekend, you still see this place still occupied by many diners. Most of the stalls open and I’m here particularly to try this stall.

Opened by ex–MasterChef Singapore finalist Aaron Wong. Go for their signature dry wanton mee and you would love the texture of their pork belly char siew. So tender and lean, I ordered extra portion to savour it.

The wontons are handmade and filled with pork meat inside also.

Aaron Wong continues to be a prick. He talked up his wanton mee by contrasting with others. Then he named it "legend". Anyway, he said he wants every component of his version to be good, so my expectations were high. The fatty char siew and tasty wantons he obviously delivered, but there are better noodles out there and his soup was standard issue.

From MasterChef Singapore finalist Aaron Wong, who owns a chain of mee hoon kway stalls, comes his new venture, a wanton mee stall. Despite being tucked in a canteen hidden in an industrial compound, the queue was interminable.

The 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗲 ($5.50) featured springy noodles, three plump wantons, a large stalk of kailan and a few slices of char siew that were beautifully charred and fatty. Everything was on point, though I wished the sauce was more flavourful.

The 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗽 ($5.50) curiously did not have any char siew, though it did have more wantons. What’s praiseworthy is that the wantons are filled with meat; no minuscule, thumbnail-sized wantons commonly seen at other stalls here.

The individual components couldn’t be faulted — even the tiny orbs of pork lard were crisp and not overly greasy — and my main gripe was that I still felt hungry after devouring one bowl, but Legend Wanton Mee sneaks into my top 10.

𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐞
3752 Bukit Merah Central
Maddox Canteen Bar
Singapore 159848