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Raffles City Shopping Centre has an exciting food basement. There are SO many food outlets there and plenty of them are actually quite good! Having eaten too many of Central Mall's delicious ramen, we chanced upon Sapporo Ramen Bishamon and decided to give it a try.
We ordered their Shio and Shoyu ramen. Shio mean salt while shoyu means soy sauce.
Well, the ramen here are different from the ones at Central Mall or at Liang Court. I would say even though each strand of ramen looks about the same size as the previously mentioned places, the version here actually tasted as if its thicker. So I would guess they use more flour maybe?
This is how the noodles look like...
The char siew is actually thicker too. It isn't melt in your mouth but more meaty. The seaweed they used is quite good. Very strong seaweed flavour when you eat it, even though it has been soaking in the soup for a while. The shio ramen soup tasted more of a pork based one and it was kind of milky too. I thought it was slightly above average but not as good as Marutama ramen (I've wrote an entry on them before) but its not really fair to compare cos Marutama uses chicken as their base.
For their shoyu ramen,
the char siew and seaweed are the same, but the soup does not have the milky taste. Its more light. And don't worry if you think this is just soy sauce plus water. Its better than that. But as again, just a slightly above average ramen.
Their egg is very good though! The yolk will just flow out.
If you have never tried the ramen at The Central Mall before, you'd think the ramen here is maybe good. But the ones at the central mall is still better - Marutama (3rd floor) and Santouka (2nd floor).
And also, the prices here are a little more expensive too.
Would I go back? Yeah. If I am in Raffles City and I feel like having something soupy. But I wouldn't crave for this ramen.
Sapporo Ramen Bishamon
Raffles City Shopping Centre
252 North Bridge Road
#B1-17
Tel: 6235 2890
Adam Road Hawker Centre is most famous for their nasi lemak, but today we're not gonna talk about that. Since nasi lemak can be quite subjective and I don't eat nasi lemak.
There is a prawn noodles stall there which is quite prominent. Crabs filled with a salivating amount of orange and yellow roe and big, fat and juicy prawns stare out at you from within the stall display. They serve pork ribs prawn noodles too, but I have not thought of it till now, but maybe you can order pork ribs prawn noodles with crab! I bet that will be the most expensive bowl of noodles you will ever buy at a hawker centre. It sounds like a dream combination though ;)
Their soup is the clear kind and while there is prawn flavour to the soup, its not strong enough for me. The kuay teow that I ordered with the prawn noodles is at the bottom and its the thinner kind. Having such big prawns are a major plus factor for me and I will say that this dish is above average. I would say the prawn noodles stall at Lavender Food Centre has the best soup. Just mentioning it is enough to make me want a bowl now.
The crab version is the same. Just no prawns inside the soup that is cooked with prawns. The treasure you are looking for is underneath its shell. You should go discover it yourself. It will burst any cholesterol meter. But it will not hurt once in a while. Haha. It costs something along $8 to $10 for a bowl with half crab. One full crab will be almost twice the price.
There is another stall which is quite good. It only specialises in Mee soto and mee siam! This is a Malay stall and it has a red sign board. For me, this is the best mee soto in Singapore. The soup is damn tasty and satisfying. The chicken meat soft and tender enough. Extremely good for rainy days or when you are looking for some savoury soup.
Alternatively, you can just order the chicken and soup without the noodles and that will be fantastic too.
No, the stall's signboard is not "Tiong Bahru Wanton Mee". Just that I can't read the sign. Too cheem. And sorry about the dark photo.
At Tiong Bahru Food Centre, there are a lot of famous food. The lor mee, the min jiang kueh, the roasted pork, the well-loved Tiong Bahru Bao are just some to name a few. And now, to add to the list, is this wanton mee stall. It is extremely easy to spot this stall. Just look for the one with the looooongessstttt queue. The queue never ends at any hour of the day. I think it opens till lunch time. It starts selling its fantastic food even before 7am.
However, being able to enjoy the wanton mee is like a luck game (It's not as tough as striking 4D though). That is because they open on any day they like. On weekdays, its not as easy, but most of the time I'd catch them on some Wednesdays or Fridays. Weekends are a bit easier. Since there are only 2 days to try your luck on. But Sundays seem quite a good day. Who knows, maybe they're opened on both Saturdays and Sundays too.
The actual portion for the soup is not that big. I ordered an extra big bowl for $2 (there's $3 too) as its hard to satisfy my greedy self. The actual bowl of soup only has two wanton! That will never do for me. The noodles are well cooked but may be a bit dry at times. But that is not a problem. Just add some soup. Their noodles are not the wet kind anyway. A lot of people like to order their chicken feet noodles too. Their chicken feet are very soft! If you've never tried chicken feet before don't worry, you won't be put off by the version here.
In the spoon, behold the gastronomical delight. The wanton here is heavenly. It seems to have come out of this world. Could such a delicious thing even exist? Just look at it. It is of a good size (I hate puny wanton - like is there even anything in my mouth?!), and it is as if the meat is covered by a long flowy dress which hugs and shows off the correct angles. Placed inside your mouth, you will notice how smooth the skin actually is and as you chew on it, it is as if the wanton is melting on its own and without noticing it, everything has slided down your throat and into your expectant stomach. THAT is when you will spoon for another one - and it never stops. It is hard to ever get enough of it. Sometimes I think I can just skip the noodles and eat a $3 bowl of wanton. But even so, I wonder if that is enough. The only bad thing I can think of is that the wanton is kind of salty but it is never as bad as any potato chips.
Why are you still reading this? You should be out there trying out for yourself now! ;)
Tiong Bahru Wanton Mee
Tiong Bahru Food Centre
Level 2, #02-24
Opening Hours/ Days: ??? (Good Luck)
Singapore is noodles crazy. Almost everyone eats noodles everyday (except me). Be it bee hoon, yellow noodles, ban mian, kway teow, spaghetti or what nots. Singaporeans can consume it for any meal of the day.
Koo Kee Yong Tow Foo Mee is one of my personal favourite. And this is something quite rare because I have no interest in noodles at all and I cannot stand laksa or fish ball noodles. Even minced pork noodles, as great as they are, I can't really appreciate them because it has an alarming amount of oil.
I've never tried the soup version of the Koo Kee mee before, but the dry version is very good. They will add some minced pork on top of the mee before they serve to you, and try pouring one saucer of their chilli into it (pour more for chilli lovers =D) and mix them all together. It's really goooood and yummy. Usually after one bite, you will feel like having more and you will be surprised by the fast rate you are devouring it. And when it's all gone, you'll go "Eh? No more already?" Then maybe you will move on to the soup.
Being a yong tow foo thing, you'll get the usual tofu and beancurd skin "liao" (also known as ingredient) inside the soup. The stuff in the soup used to be better, but now, its only very ordinary and average. The soup used to be better too, but well at least it's not redundant because when your mee gets too dry, you can scoop one or two spoonful of soup and make your mee moist and "glistening" once again.
Try the mee! It worked for a non noodle/mee/etc person like me!
(It rhymes)
Koo Kee Yong Tow Foo
Northpoint Shopping Centre (Beside Yishun MRT)
Basement Food Court
Can be found at other shopping centre food courts
But quality of mee may differ. I'm not sure.
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