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Jin Xi lai (Mui Siong) Minced Meat Noodle 金喜来梅松肉脞面 (Rochor Centre)

*Closing on 31 Oct 2015
Shifted to 3791 Jalan Bukit Merah #01-03 E-Centre, Singapore 159471*

金喜来梅松肉脞面 Jin Xi lai (Mui Siong) Minced Meat Noodle is a Minced Meat Noodle (Bak Chor Mee) stall located at Good Time Coffee Shop in Rochor Centre. I first chanced upon this stall 3 years ago and have been coming back frequently for it. I have been wanting to write on this but have not got the chance. Well, its never too late! 

I have only visited this stall during weekdays for lunch and on all occasions the waiting time varies from 20 minutes to 1 hour. That is how popular this stall! It would be ideal to ask how long the waiting time would be before ordering. They specialises in both Minced Meat Noodles (Bak Chor Mee) and Fishball Noodles. The former is more popular. The cost of each bowl ranges from $3 to $3.50. So affordable. Some customers would also add liver at an extra cost of $0.50 (reason for this? find out more below).\

Business at this stall is so good that they even occupy the next unit next to it to take orders and prepare the ingredients.

Bak Chor Mee (Mee Pok) Dry $3.50 

Bak Chor Mee (Mee Pok) Dry $3.50 is what I normally order. Yes, I upsized it from $3 to $3.50. 

Bak Chor Mee (Mee Pok) Dry $3.50 

Scallions and shallots were added on top of the Mee Pok. It was decent but not fantastic. 

Bak Chor Mee (Mee Pok) Dry $3.50 

As I upgraded to $3.50, my bowl of soup came in a bigger bowl. Ingredients such as fishball, fishcakes, minced meat, fishcakes and livers were put into the soup. The ingredients were all normal. But what I particularly like (and what made me keep coming back were two things). The livers and the soup.

The liver was perfectly cooked, not overcooked. It was soft and in terms of thickness and size was just perfect (not thinly sliced or in small pieces like what you would normally get elsewhere). The liver was also very fresh! If you like livers, this place would not disappoint!

As for the soup, it was very flavourful and tasty. There was a hint of smokey fragrant and tasted as if it was cooked using a charcoal stove, but they were probably using gas stove. I do not think that they added MSG as I always finish the soup and do not feel thirsty after that. 

Bak Chor Mee (Kway Teow) Soup $3

I seldom order my Bak Chor Mee with soup. But I was curious how this stall would fare with it. Hence, I ordered the Bak Chor Mee (Kway Teow) Soup $3. 

Bak Chor Mee (Kway Teow) Soup $3

Decent bowl of Kway Teow Soup, but I still prefer mined dry with chilli.

Overall, I would recommend this Minced Meat Noodle (Bak Chor Mee) stall. The price here is value for money and taste wise it beats most places. 

Jin Xi lai (Mui Siong) Minced Meat Noodle 金喜来梅松肉脞面 (Rochor Centre)

Good Time Coffee Shop

Blk 1 Rochor Road 

Rochor Centre
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Orchard Yong Tau Foo (Cuppage Plaza)

Orchard Yong Tau Foo (Cuppage Plaza) is located at level 1 of Cuppage Plaza. This Yong Tau Foo has a small seating capacity of around 15 seats.  Despite that, many shoppers and office workers frequent this stall.

Customers would first need to choose the ingredients they want. After choosing the ingredients, they would need to choose the choice of rice / noodles ranging from bee hoon, kway teow, yellow egg noodle to mee pok. They would need be assigned a number and be asked to wait for their number to be called.

I went on two occasions and waited for less than 20 minutes. Do note that if you are coming with a group of more than 3, it would likely be a longer wait and you would be assigned to sit in a row.

Orchard Yong Tau Foo offers wide variety of ingredient such as stuff tofu, mushrooms, golden mushroom, bitter gourd, fish balls, fish cakes, meat balls, hotdogs, seaweed, cuttlefish, quail eggs, century egg, salted egg, broccoli, and Chinese cabbage.

The ingredients were fresh!

A rough gauge of the price range, 7 items of ingredients (excluding the noodles / rice) would cost $4.90.

Once your number is reached, you will be assigned to a seat. The space inside is pretty narrow and small.

I ordered mine with Kway Teow and with soup.

Kway Teow Yong Tau Foo.

On another occasion I ordered it with bee hoon.

Overall, this bowl of Yong Tau Foo was delicious. The ingredients were so fresh and well cooked. Take for example, the radish was soft, not hard. And for those ingredients that were too big such as bitter gourd, radish and fish balls, they would be cut into smaller pieces. The soup stock was another star of its own. Made from soy beans, it was clear, flavourful and hearty. Mind you, it was not salty unlike those you would normally get elsewhere.

The chilli and sweet sauce was excellent too! Personally, I preferred the sweet sauce. It was mild sweet and yet so tasty and fragrant. They had extracted the sesame flavour into the sauce!

Lastly, despite the narrow, small seating capacity, another aspect that would make me come back was the service. The service was excellent! The uncle who called out the queue number, clear the tables, collect the cash and serve the items to the tables was so attentive and friendly! He would notice and ask customers if they require a refill of soup when he noticed that had drank most of their soup. He would also ask if he noticed that customers need a refill of sweet or spicy sauces. Kudos to him as I noticed that he was already so busy, yet I noticed him asking those around me all these questions.

Orchard Yong Tau Foo (Cuppage Plaza) 

5 Koek Road #01-09 

Cuppage Plaza

Singapore 228796 

Tel: 9067 5245

Opening Hours: Mon to Sat 8am - 630pm

                         Closed on Sun

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