Singapore Bites: Hunting For Food On A Rainy Saturday Morning

Last Saturday, we saw ourselves gathered at Toa Payoh Mrt at 11 am in the morning. It begun to rain just as we started setting out to find a bak kut teh stall at blk 177. After wondering through the maze for perhaps an eternity, we found out that the store had moved.

Lucky for us, Farid had done his research and so we proceeded to look for this famous dry ban mian stall located at (address). Braving through the bad weather we eventually found the stall...

There was a lot of customers and the place was packed. Looking around it was quite obvious what the customers came here for.

A bit of information on what we are having today. Ban Mian or 手工板面 actually means handmade noodles but here hawkers use hand-operated machine in the stall which forms noodles from the dough. The dish is usually served in soup, with pieces of minced chicken or minced pork, ikan bilis, vegetables, and an egg, and also commonly comes with sliced mushrooms.

Anyhow, we found a place - lucky us - and went to order our food. I couldn't wait to eat. This was not halal so our team members, Afiq, Farid and Fahrul couldn't eat it.

Casandra ordered the Mee hoon kuey tang/soup and me Mee hoon kuey gan/dry.

Here's Casandra having here bowl of noodles!

Here's me, can't wait to dig in, it smelled so nice. When I took my first bite I thought this was really good. And it stayed the same way till the last bite. The noodles weren't too soggy or dried out. The noodles weren't too hard or too soft. Excellent dish and about SG $3. Affordable and tasty.

Here's a picture of the noodles, The dried noodles came with soup too.

Look at the noodles, I am craving for it just looking at the image!

Darius decided to order this plate of Popiah.
Really nice too. The skin wasn't too soggy, ingredients were fresh and the chili sauce packed a real fiery kick.

The interior of a popiah consist's basically of : vegetables, meat and thinly shredded omelet

Yes, here's Darius with his mouth full and eyes closed. Picturing heaven perhaps?

We were in Toa Payoh, yes the weather had cleared. You can see the wet floors from the rain.

Next stop on the way to the famous rojak at TPY HDB Hub's basement food court.

Just look at the queue!!!

Here's a picture of Farid queuing up! No wait no food!

While Farid was queuing, we looked to the side of the stall and saw all this articles of celebrities promoting this stall. Awesome stuff.

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WE HAVE ROJAK!