TacoCat's TrEats #201: Simple Savoury Fishball Noodles 😊
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Hey Steemit!
We're back with more of our hawker adventures! It's been a while but one of the things we do on dates is trying out different stalls in different hawker centers to find which are our favourites!
If you've never patronised a hawker center before, they are typically non-air conditioned buildings that house all kinds of food stalls specialising in one or two signature dishes. They're ubiquitous here in Singapore and Malaysia and are known for delicious and affordable food - the perfect combination! They're definitely where you can find the best food in Singapore and is our go-to place for food!
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A few weeks ago, we visited a different area in Singapore for a doctor's appointment in the afternoon and went exploring the neighbourhood after that for some dinner. We decided to check out this market and hawker centre pretty close by to see if there were some stalls still open.
Some of the older hawker centres in Singapore look like this where it's a wet market on one side and the hawker stalls on the other side. The wet market is typically only open in the day time, so everything is closed by then and usually that's when the hawker side comes to life. But the stalls are also open in the day too, so some of them close by evening as well.
Unfortunately most of the stalls were closed by then but we did see there were a few that were still open. It was a pretty big hawker centre though, so I imagine it gets quite lively in the day here.
We walked around the whole hawker centre to see what stalls were open but most of them weren't selling meals but more like snacks.
Ultimately the stalls with the most traffic at the time were the ones near the entrance of the building.
So we decided to try this stall selling fishball noodles. It resembled one of my favourite fishball noodle stalls in the East side of Singapore but sadly it wasn't part of the same chain.
Fishball noodles is a pretty standard hawker dish but one that can be overlooked by non-locals. It's a Teowchew recipe that typically consists of flat yellow noodles (colloquially known as mee pok) mixed with a special blend of sweet sauce, chili sauce/ketchup and topped with sliced fishcakes, fishballs and sometimes minced pork or fried lard.
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It's not the healthiest but it's one of my favourite noodle dishes and is a good snack or breakfast as well.
We were pretty hungry since that was my first meal of the day so unfortunately I didn't take any more pictures but the noodles were pretty good. It was a lot more saucy than what we're used to, but it was still delicious albeit a little oily. The soup was nice and light though but still peppery and full of flavour.
It was a light meal and definitely did not fill us up but it was a good snack to tide us over for a while at least. There's definitely a lot better fishball noodle stalls in Singapore I would recommend over this one though. Not that this was bad, but it's pretty average and nothing noteworthy. I am curious about the other stalls here though but I'm not sure when we would come back here. It's a good place to see how locals are day-to-day though.
There were also a few nice murals around the neighbourhood and we actually saw this one with a real-life "model" in front of it. It made us chuckle since it seemed like life imitating art.
But that's all for now! Thanks for reading!
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