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$6.50 for crispy pork, braised pork, braised cabbage & fried egg

~45min queue

Since 2000, regulars have been coming to Madam Chua and Mr Tang stall here for delicious lor mee with shark meat fritters.
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The freshly fried golden fritters are crisp crunchy flaky tender, with sweet savoury salty flavour.
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Together with the crisp fried wonton pork dumplings with meaty sweet savoury flavour, they lend a beautiful contrast to the thick starchy braising gravy and its savoury salty herbal spice sour sweet flavour.
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The chewy thick flat noodles with grainy sweet flavour, the tender braised pork belly with meaty salty savoury herbal flavour, the bouncy braised egg with eggy salty sweet flavour, the crisp bean sprouts with vegetal sweet flavour, and the chunky 5 spice roll with meaty savoury salty spice flavour, completes.
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Added crunchy fried dough fritters for greater satisfaction.
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Lor Mee
Soon Heng Lor Mee
@ Beo Crescent Market, 38A Beo Crescent #01-84
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More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2024/09/best-of-singapore-hawkers-casual-dining-lor-mee.html

Super long queue, about 15-20ppl long despite the price

They're the real deal

Their sambal squid is rlly just curry squid, not sambal at all. However the cook on the squid is excellent, definitely not your normal hawker fare.

The pork belly was superb as well, very flavourful and tender without being greasy

Veggies were decent. Curry was quite mild

For restaurant level food at hawker-ish prices, I think that's the reason why people are queueing

Overall quite light-tasting. The sliced fish was thick and definitely better. The fried fish and egg floss reeked of old oil.

The Braised duck here is not bad. 1 of the better stores here at HR-CFC.

Meat is tender, braised sauce was shiok and the chilli was great.

Many people would know about this stall because of their recognition on Michelin Guide’s Bib Gourmand for a few years.

The stall opens around 10:30am and I would already see a queue in front over the weekend.

The hawker cooks it batches by batches, so the queue is actually moved pretty fast once the he finished cooking it.

His version of fried Hokkien mee here is definitely more on the wet version, which some may find it lack of wok hey taste. But I like it as he cooked the noodle with seafood broth.

You must squeeze the lime and mix all of them with chili for a better flavour.

Didn’t have much expectation but truly amazed at how good this was! Juicy scrumptious beef plus tasty mayo sauce. Size could be a bit bigger but that’s what all hungry hippos say 😜. Paprika sprinkled fries was fantastic too & a nice small size so you don’t get jelat

It's the 1st store on the right, after the escalator.

Lao Chen's Carrot Cake is uniquely softer than the usual carrot cake that I ever had, some would call it mushy, but it did not taste like it went bad.

I actually quite like this, and this serving for "small" @ $3.50 was rather big as compared with some other places where $3.50 will get me a much smaller plate.

Chicken Cutlet here is crispy and rather huge.

Well marinated, eating this with chilli sauce is damn shiok.

The original store, Jian Bo HQ.

With many outlets sprouting around SG, at shopping malls etc, Jian Bo at Tiong Bahru is the original location where it first opened a just over a decade after World War 2.

The Chee Kueh and cai po here is damn good la, everytime I hungry after a meal here at TBM, I will surely go over to get some chee kueh.

But damn sinful man, and it's very oily, keep imagine my heart get coated in oil after each bite.

Prawn Mee. Feature the medium size, the Hokkien mee is wet version. Cooked in seafood broth, quite tasty, the ingredients fresh, wish have more wok hei.
💰$5 for medium.
📍 Hong Heng Fried Sotong Prawn Mee.
Tiong Bahru Market , #02-01.
Singapore 168898,

Serving since the 1980s and having attained the Michelin Bib Gourmand award over the last 7 consecutive years, 3rd-generation owner Manfred Lim carries on much like before.
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Their rendition tends towards balanced, leaning more to 'wet'. A robust prawn and pork stock infuses the large portion of noodles, gooey soft chewy (almost al-dente) with grainy savoury salty flavour, but has less wok hei / breath of the wok.
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Garnished with soft chicken egg, crisp bean sprouts, springy squid, bouncy fish cake, and crunchy deshelled prawns, combining for a vegetal eggy sweet savoury salty flavour. Finished with lime juice for a zesty sour tangy touch.
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Expect to queue around 20 minutes.
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Hokkien Mee
Hong Heng Fried Sotong Prawn Mee 鸿興炒蘇東蝦麵
@ Tiong Bahru Food Centre, 30 Seng Poh Road #02-01
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More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/08/best-of-singapore-hawkers-hokkien-mee.html