Xiang Ji Lor Mee • Zha Jiang Mian (Old Airport Road)

Having branched off from their legendary competitor over a decade ago, this stall commands a fast moving queue during peak periods.
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I like how generous they are with the ingredients, including the chewy thick flat noodles, crisp bean sprouts, bouncy braised chicken egg, tender braised pork belly, soft 5 spice roll, and heaps of flaky fried mackerel fish.
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The braising gravy starts out a thick gloopy stew, thinning out to a warm soup as you go.
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Added black vinegar, minced garlic, sambal belacan, bird's eye chili, and parsley. This has robust savoury salty herbal sour spice meaty eggy fishy sweet flavour. Nicely filling.
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Lor Mee
Xiang Ji Lor Mee
@ Old Airport Road Food Centre, 51 Old Airport Road #01-81
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More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2024/09/best-of-singapore-hawkers-casual-dining-lor-mee.html

Xiang Ji now has the longer lor mee queue, ever since the other popular stall here expanded to be easily available nation wide.

The gravy here is Thick and garlicky.

Generous serving of ingredients.

my personal opinion, it’s very good lor mee too. It’s flavourful, the gravy consistency just nice, not too starchy and not too watery, served with very generous ingredients.
Don’t forget to add and combine all condiments, from raw minced garlic, sambal,chilli padi and vinegar. It’s really enhance the flavour.
💰$5.
📍Xiang Ji Lor Mee.
Old Airport road #01-81.

💸: $6

💬: Doused in a thick starchy gravy, the biggest portion came with a whole lot of noodles and a generous sprinkle of fish and other ingredients. Would have been better if there was just a tad more vinegar but otherwise, this was okay, wouldn't travel to the East for it 😖

I know the other stall at Old Airport Road Hawker Centre is very popular but my parents and I have been happy ordering from Xiang Ji Lor Mee (stall #01-18) for a couple of years now. Anyway, rumour has it that the owner of “Xiang Ji Lor Mee” use to work at that stall but modified the dish to make it his own when he started this business (FYI - the only other dish he sells is Zha Jiang Mian).
What makes us return customers is the gravy which is decently flavourful compared to many others, and the generous toppings (to be fair, I always order the $5 bowl). I like that their fish comes in big chunks and isn’t fried till crispy oblivion but I do feel the braised pork belly, as flavourful as it is, could be sliced a little thicker for a more satisfying chew. Another plus point is they don’t blink an eye if you ask them to spam a Lor Mee’s all-important condiments of raw minced garlic, sambal, chilli padi, cilantro and black vinegar.

There was a mini- queue (7-8 people before me) form. Stall #01-81. Went for the $4 Lor mee. (They have $3/4/5/6 options). Their boss was super friendly and you can ask for as much vinegar, garlic bits and condiments as you want! The best thing about this Lor Mee is that it's packed with lots of real semi-fried fishes and less of those fake starchy stuff. Satisfying breakie! Xoxo, wet tissue no have