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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Episode Two: Wang Wang Minced Pork Noodle!

Hello!

Time for another episode of.. Singapore Food Odyssey!!! I really should be posting this on the food blog but urm. I have to figure out logistics first. COUGHS.

Anyway. Way back in mid-June, my family and I went to Wang Wang Minced Pork Noodle which is located in the Joo Chiat/Katong/my dad's hometown area.^_^ Okay. I don't actually know exactly where it is but... I know it's near this Guan Yin Temple that I go to sometimes.xD Haha. It's also near the very famous Fei Fei Wanton Noodle store.^_^

At the Wang Wang Minced Pork Noodle store, you can also get Yong Tau Foo and great Teochew food. I didn't take photos of the Teochew food but it's really popular.^_^

The very popular Bak Chor Mee [Minced Pork Noodle] with Mee Pok [broad yellow noodles]. Minced Pork Noodles are served with minced pork [obviously], fishballs, fishcake slices, a piece of lettuce and beansprouts. This version also had a meatball and fried onions. The sauce is usually composed of a little oil, soy sauce, chilli sauce and vinegar among other yummy things.^_^

Because minced pork noodles are usually eaten "dry" [with a sauce], it comes with a side bowl of soup. Usually, you just get MSG-laden water with floating spring onions but here, you get a bowl of very porky liquid and floating spring onions. Not a bad thing to be fair, but I got a surprise when I tasted the soup and it tasted of pork.^_^

As usual, I was quite the rebel and had mine with kway teow [broad rice noodles] and no chilli. I much prefer the lighter taste of rice noodles to egg noodles [the yellow noodles] and have a low tolerance to the fiery chilli.

The fishballs were yummy! The kway teow wasn't too soggy which was good because most places have soggy kway teow which needs a shorter cooking time in comparison to yellow noodles. I can't say I know what the original tastes like, but my brother said it was pretty good.^_^

Yong Tau Foo. Not the traditional type but the type with sauce on top. [I can't quite remember the name.X__x] I liked the sauce which is quite thick and starchy but flavourful.=D I ate the fish cake! ^_^"

Sorry but I didn't take any photos of the Teochew food which looked rather urm. Unappetising.=X Well. Not unappetising but not very nice to photograph. We had 2 kinds of vegetables and steamed fish, a standard Teochew porridge dish.=)

Minced Pork Noodles! ^_^ I love Fishball Kway Teow. And some minced pork never hurt anyone.;) [Even though minced pork does contain rather scary amounts of fatty pork.=X]

If you're still hungry, you can head down the road to eat at Fei Fei Wanton Noodle [it's in a seriously grubby coffeeshop] or if you want some tea, you can buy one or two Nonya dumplings from Kim Choo Dumplings.^_^ It's the only Nonya dumplings I approve of and the only ones I can happily eat. No one else can make good Nonya dumplings! They have all the other types of dumplings though, like the Cantonese style ones or the red bean ones.^_^

If I get to go down to Katong again sometime, I'll hunt down my favourite tau kwa pau [Stuffed Tau Kwa which is a form of beancurd] and Nonya dumplings!!! [Kim Choo has pretty nice pineapple tarts too.=)] And of course, there's always the famous Chin Mee Chin Bakery which makes Kaya and all sorts of traditional baked products like the Cream Horn.^_^

And for dinner today, we had a guest over and had homemade Popiah and Kway Pie Tee! ^_^ [We bought the popiah skin and kway pie tee cups though.] Yummy!!

cheers
*[-witchstone-]*

[music : Recorded Butterflies OLIVIA inspi'REIRA(TRAPNEST)]
[mood : ^_^]
[food : popiah!]

Labels: edibles, Kim Choo, minced pork noodle, nonya dumpling, popiah, Singapore Food Odyssey, Wang Wang

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