永珍 Yong Zhen Lor Mee & Prawn Mee

Address: Blk 6 Jalan Bukit Merah, #01-40 ABC Brickworks Market & Food Centre S150006
Hours 08:00-17:30 (closed on Wednesday & Thursday)

Visited 2 May 2016.

We chanced upon this lor mee stall unexpectedly. We had came to ABC Brickworks Market, not knowing what to eat for lunch... except with me telling hb that Amelia told me there's a lot of good food here. So we just randomly tried stalls. Hb and I both love lor mee, and so we tried out this stall and fell in love with it. I think that week alone, we must have ate it thrice! It is must better then the famous Bukit Purmei lor mee... which is famous only for their crispies, their sauce lacks the punch and the flavour. Yong Zhen's lor mee sauce is just awesome... flavourful and yet not too gooey and starchy.

If you are packing this lor mee home, make sure to request for the sauce to be packed separately from the noodles. I feel that soaking the noodles in the hot sauce, overcooks the noodles and makes it too soft.

You can also request for braised eggs, additional ingredients or noodles.

Hb has tried the prawn mee on a separate occasion. It is pretty decent but not mind-blowing like the prawn mee from Zion Road... it's more like your old-school canteen-style prawn mee. Gives you a nostalgic feel like you are back in Primary School.

Hawker Centres - Cleaning

As hawker centres are part of our daily lives, it is somewhat frustrating when you travel all the way to the hawker centre you want, for the food you want, only to be met with disappointment when you realized it's closed for cleaning. Very very frustrating.

When I discovered that there was actually a website that tells you when the hawker centre is closed for cleaning... OMG, it was god-sent! Most most most helpful website. So I must share it with everyone. :)

No more frustrations. No more disappointments. Yippee!

老档 Prawn Noodles

Address: Blk 120 Bukit Merah Lane 1,  Alexandra Village Food Centre
Hours: 09:00 - 19:30 while stock last (closed on Thursday)

Visited on 2 Apr 2016.

Hubby and I went to Alexandra to check out the refrigerators and decided to come here for brunch. We walked around the food centre and surprisingly a few stalls caught our eye, especially this prawn noodle stall. We saw someone else ordering and the color of the soup, milky white with a tinge of orange/yellow, reminded us of the prawn noodles at Zion Road.

The prawn noodles was quite good, but definitely doesn't win the Zion Road one. The flavor wasn't as intense because the Zion Road one is more 重口味, but overall still not bad.

He Zhong Carrot Cake 合众菜头果

Address: Bukit Timah Market & Food Centre, 116 Upper Bukit Timah Road, #02-185, Singapore 588172
Hours: Daily 7am to 10pm

Visited on 11 Mar 2016.

Finally found the carrot cake that hubby has been talking about. The last time we went to the food centre and couldn't find it at all. There are a lot of carrot cake stalls in this hawker centre and it was just impossible to know which was the original famous carrot cake stall. My dad brought us there back in March and finally we know which stall it is!

Just before we ordered, I told hubby that I wanted extra eggs and extra black. He couldn't stop laughing. Why? Cos this stall only sells white carrot cake lor. *facepalm *dumb blonde moment

We tabao-ed the carrot cake home and kept it till dinner time. Even though it had gone a bit cold, it was still super delicious.

This stall sells carrot cake that i ate when i was a kid 30 years ago, back when the time when the most popular shopping center was Yaohan! To me a trip to Bukit Timah Shopping Center's  Yaohan was not complete without going through the toys section and mashed potatoes at Waffletown at the basement level.

What i always felt was the best is this old shop that an old uncle was frying 菜头粿. Whats amazing about this you ask? Lotsa Eggs, lotsa Garlic and lotsa 菜圃! The old uncle will slowly and skillfully cook his dish while 10 over customers wait for their orders. And guess what this is where i learn how to eat chilli as a kid! Why? Cause the uncle always give me the order wrong, carrot cake for kids end up with chilli! But it was so so good that, because of it, now me and my siblings all take chilli! (K mebbe abit exaggerating but yeah lol!)

New generation of chef tending the stall but the food still is good! I feel that its second best in SG, but since not everyone can eat my wife's cooking, it might be best for for most of you. Trying is a must, cause this is how i think carrot cake should taste like, every mouth of it will make you want to go for another!