For our first meal of 2020, we went to Chinatown and surprisingly, there weren’t too many people. In fact, I even spotted a female tour guide and the angmoh family she’d brought to the hawker centre! Apparently, there are foreigners who are happy to ring in the new year on our tiny red dot of an island! I don’t know how awesome our countdown celebrations were last night since I went to bed really early. 
Anyway… our very first order was from Ah Heng Curry Chicken Bee Hoon Mee as there was no queue.
Ah Heng Curry Chicken Bee Hoon Mee (#02-58)
The mixture of noodles – yellow, thick beehoon and thin beehoon – was delightful! Spicy curry that’s not too lemak so you can possibly finish it all. Priced from just $5. I’d thought the chicken would be dry and tough but surprisingly, it’s tender and quite juicy. No wonder the stall has gotten accolades from the Michelin guide lah.
Then we went over to Tai Wah Pork Noodle where there was already a long queue.
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Tai Wah Pork Noodle (#02-16)
This stall has a never-ending queue which seems to hardly move at all because many people buy more than one bowl of noodles each (some ‘tabao’ for the folks at home). Expect to stand in line for an hour or more. Priced at $6, $8 and $10. The longer you wait, the bigger a portion you might be tempted to order just because you’ve gotten increasingly hungrier. (@_@) My darling ordered the $8 portion, and I can only say the bowl is huge but the noodle portion is rather small / manageable. Truth be told, I don’t know what is so fantastic about this stall’s noodles. It’s good, yes, but probably doesn’t warrant queuing for an hour unless you have nothing else to do. I’d love to try the char kway teow opposite the next time I’m here (the stall was closed today).
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Granny’s Pancake (#02-39)
I bought the red bean pancake which cost $1. It was surprisingly good! It’s soft and freshly prepared so you can taste the goodness. There are a total of 4 flavors – peanut, red bean, coconut, and peanut with peanut butter. The first three cost a dollar each while the last one costs an additional 20 cents. And the signs state that you cannot request for the “edge and corners”. Alright then. I’ll definitely visit this stall again – certainly one of the best Min Chiang Kueh (面煎粿) makers in Singapore.
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Seems like we’ve indulged quite a bit today. Time for a workout tomorrow.
And you’ve probably heard this a million times already, but still: HAPPY NEW YEAR!