Address: Blk 85, Bedok North Street 4, Feng Shan Food Centre, Singapore 460085
Operating Hours: The Minced Meat Noodles stall is only open at night

A unique incarnation of the Rou Cuo Mian (肉挫面) or Bah Chor Mee (hokkien translation) or for you anglophiles, soupy Minced Meat Noodles is found here. Please refer to an earlier post on the more common dry Minced Meat Noodles. The Feng Shan food centre is a common hangout for Singaporeans living in the East looking for a bite to eat at night. Crowds gather here every night, indulging in the favourite pastime of Singaporeans of eating. At the epicentre of this supper scene, resides two food stalls selling the exact same item - the Minced Meat Noodles.

Although these two stalls (Xing Ji Rou Cuo Mian #01-07 and Seng Hiang Food Stall #01-08) belong to different owners, they are sited next to each other. The natural question to ask is which stall serves the better noodles. I have tried both but frankly I cannot taste the difference. However, self-declared experts on this subject matter (i.e. my friends), attest to it that the stall #01-07 (the one on the left) prepares soup stock that is more flavourful. I duely deferred to my knowledgeable friends and ordered from Xing Ji Rou Cuo Mian.

Each bowl of noodles (S$2) is served in a clear soup stock with 4 -5 pieces of beef balls and garnished with spring onions and cut chilli (very spicy). The noodles, minced meat and soup are an excellent combination. Perfect for supper.

We also had Sugar Cane Drinks (S$1 each) and Oyster Omelette (or Orh Luak in Hokkien, S$3 from the stall next to the Minced Meat Noodles’ at #01-06) thus ensuring we had all the basic building blocks of my typical supper - oodles of cholesterol laden fried food and a calorie filled refreshing sweet drink (to rid my taste buds of the aforementioned salty items). 

The Oyster Omelette was christened the best we had ever tried. For S$3, it was value for money. The egg was crispy, the chilli had body and the oysters were just the right size (I hate the big ones…those look like they contain a multitude of water-borne organisms ready to explode into my mouth…one of which would make me the super-prime-mega-carrier for an epidemic that would wipe out much of the human race). Strongly recommended by my learned friends and me.

With the food gone, we engaged in idle chit-chat. The issue of how a 17 year old, Gayle Goh, has triggered a revival in the arena of Political debate was brought up. For information, Gayle Goh is the author of a blog that has gathered a reputation for writing incisive and intelligent commentaries that are predominantly critical of the government formed by the People’s Action Party. Comparing this blog and hers, the amount of intellectual discourse contained in this blog would be equivalent to the supposedly self-penned biography of the cover page girl of a pornographic magazine vis-a-vis the theory of relativity by Einstein.

I guess you can call me and my friends frivolous people. That’s how the cookie crumbles (I don’t exactly know what it means…got it off the movie Bruce Almighty by Jim Carrey. It wasn’t even a good movie…you see what I mean…frivolous…)