Li Yuan Mee Pok (Hougang)

I'm so happy this opened near me haha. For years it was only in the wild west. It's really good for its price. I ordered soup because I wanted maximum soup. It's so Chinese yet so Japanese haha. I miss it already.

My Saturday Mee Pok. This is the basic Ba Chor Mee ($5), very saucy and I love the combination of minced meat, meat ball and braised mushrooms. Super shiok with kway tiao!

Top: crayfish mee pok dry @ $10
Right: Japanese fusion mee pok dry, miso @ $7

Simply delicious.

The Japanese fusion meepok comes with choice of miso or shoyu and dry or soup. The miso makes the dish a little sweeter than the usual bakchormee, but the blend is great. Comes with generous amount of ingredients too, minced meat, sliced meat, 2 meatballs and 2 charsiew slices. The meatball is tender and the charsiew is tasty.

Went with the crayfish meepok cuz it's the same price as the charsiew meepok which has almost the same ingredients as the basic one. This comes with a bigger bowl of soup which also contains the seafood broth. The noodles and ingredients are almost the same with slight tinge of seafood taste. The crayfish itself isn't super fresh but is okay.

Super satisfying meal and will not stop thinking about it for a while.

The 𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗠𝗲𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗸 ($10) cost more than the second bowl by virtue of having three more char siew slices. While they tasted pretty good, we felt they were on the leaner side and a more fatty cut would have made them more delectable. We chose Shoyu and dry for this, but the use of shoyu was too liberal here, thus the noodles were too salty for our liking.

In conclusion, our favourite bowl was Miso soup one. The flavourful soup alone was worth the price, and the ample toppings were a bonus. Skip the $10 bowl, as the char siew slices weren't mind-blowing enough to warrant getting more of them. 

𝐋𝐢 𝐘𝐮𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐤
Blk 511 Hougang Ave 10
Singapore 530511

The 𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗸 ($7) had a choice of Shoyu or Miso, and soup or dry. We went with Miso and soup for this. In addition to the sliced pork, minced pork, meatballs and mock abalone that the former had, this came with two slices of ramen-style char siew. We unanimously agreed that the orange-hued soup, robust and moderately spicy, was the outstanding element in this dish.

𝐋𝐢 𝐘𝐮𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐤
Blk 511 Hougang Ave 10
Singapore 530511

Li Yuan Mee Pok, opened by Japanese Naoji Kuribara, offers a bak chor mee-ramen fusion that is insanely popular. 

Amid the generous servings of sliced pork, minced pork and meatballs, it was the braised mushrooms that stood out in the 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗹𝗲 ($5). Soft and juicy, they were exceptional. The noodles, tossed in a delicious sauce, were the perfect carb to go with all these toppings.

𝐋𝐢 𝐘𝐮𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐤
Blk 511 Hougang Ave 10
Singapore 530511