Outram Park Fried Kway Teow Mee (Hong Lim Market)

The fried kway teow flavourful, not overly sweet, moist and not dry, all balanced with moderate wok hei.
Served with pork lard and cockles.
Swipe to see how clean I eat my CKT 🤣
💰$5.5
📍Outram Park Fried Kway Teow.
Blk 531A Upper Cross Street, #02-17.

The never-ending queue is the reason why this has been on my wish list forever. I knew it was finally time for me to try when I was early on a weekday morning for work. This has got to be one of the shiokiest CKT in SG. The CKT served here leans towards sweet and savoury with a good amount of crunchy bean sprouts in there. Very sinful and definitely worth the cholesterol 》$4

At Hong Lim Food Centre

Operated by Ng Chin Chye and his wife for over 2 decades, this legendary stall has a history stretching back to 1939, and still attracts queues of up to 30 minutes.
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Ng learnt the trade by watching his father and practising. To prepare for each day, up to 18kg of pork lard is deep-fried, and his blend of signature sauce is made with dark sweet soy and fish sauce.
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Frying in batches of 20 plates each time takes great strength and skill, and his mastery of fire control ensures the noodles are evenly cooked with smoky wok hei / breath of the wok.
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His version tends towards the wet and sweet side, with lots of gooey beaten egg, crisp bean sprouts, crunchy pork lard, bouncy fish cake, and plump blood cockles, combining for robust smoky sweet savoury salty eggy flavours.
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Char Kway Teow
Outram Park Fried Kway Teow Mee
@ Hong Lim Market & Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross Street #02-17
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More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2022/06/best-of-singapore-hawkers-char-kway-teow.html

The fried kway teow still as good as last visit , flavourful, not overly sweet, moist and not dry, not too garlicky, all balanced with moderate wok hei.
Served with pork lard and cockles.
💰$5.
📍Outram Park Fried Kway Teow.
Blk 531A Upper Cross Street, #02-17.

My ah gong's favourite plate of char kway teow is also my father's favourite of char kway teow, and is needless to say my personal favourite plate of char kway teow.

My first plate of this CKT was at the ground floor of a now demolished block of flats behind Outram Park MRT Station and across the road from SGH, and we have followed them wherever they shifted to. It used to cost $2 per plate and now costs $4 per plate but the taste of the wet gooey and umami laden plate of CKT remains consistently golden.