Ah Hoe Mee Pok

  Ah Hoe Mee Pok. It is located in the same coffeeshop as the Bukit Purmei Lor Mee. Actually it is just beside it. And when you go and eat this noodles, you will have to queue up too. The name of the shop, you are saying to yourself. Doesn't it sound familiar somehow. Like I have heard it before. Well, you many definitely have heard it before, especially if you have been hearing about the Japanese girl who cooks mee pok. This is not that shop, but, the owner of this shop is actually the man who taught the japanese man who is the father of that Japanese girl how to cook mee pok. Doesn't this sound abit like one of those old Hong Kong Kung Fu movies.


Anyway, I digress. so how to get there?

Address : Food Loft @ 501,
                Blk 501 West Coast Drive
Timing : Open from 6am to 2pm,
               except on Mondays

 

The nearest landmark is the Ayer Rajah Food Centre. The coffee shop is located in one of the shop houses that surrounds Ayer Rajah Food Centre.

Suggestion : - Come early, as in come for breakfast if you want to have a wider selection of dishes. I was there before noon and most of the selections were sold out. What I mean is that beside the store, there is a huge board with the selection of dishes they sell, once they sell out of a dish, they will come out and put "sold-out" sticker on the dish. There are like 8 items on the board and by noon, only 2 selections were left.
How to order :

1. Once you get to the front of the line, one of the workers will ask for your order
2. Price/size : $4/$5/$6
3. Select the type of noodle Mee Kia (thin egg noodles), Mee Pok ( flat egg noodles) or kway teow (flat rice noodles)
4. Dry or with soup
5. Chili or not

   After you place the order, you just observe the owner, behind the counter, cook the dish for you. And if you see someone who has been doing this for a long time, you can see that they are skilled by their movements. There is no wasted movements. They instinctively know how long to cook the noodles, and how long to let the water drain. How long to cook the other ingredients and when to add them together to the dish. They then slide the dish to you.
So bring you dish to your seat and enjoy.

First look at it. I ordered $5 dry mee pok noodles. It comes with 1 bowl of noodles (dry) with a bowl of soup. If you ordered soup. There will be one bowl, with the noodles added to the soup.

Comment :- Portion of noodles is not that large. Well,... I ordered the middle pricing, so I guess it is medium but you do get alot of "quality" ingredients. Especially the prawn. You actually get 2 big prawns and "abalone" slices are quite generous. But I must say that the name of the shop is Ah Hoe Mee Pok. So with Mee Pok in the name, you,.... or at least, me,... I expect the noodles quantity to be slightly more. Maybe next time I should get the higher priced one.

 Eventhough, the noodles was mixed by the owner, but you should still mix again. You want to get all the sauce to coat all the noodles, completely and well. There is chili and vinegar and pork lard in oil. After the first taste, the noodles was not firm and that is expected with this type of noodles. The taste, well,... to be honest, there was nothing missing from it. It was spicy from the chili, sour from the vinegar and "unhealthy" from the pork lard. But there was no kick. No umphmmm..... Just ordinary and expected.


But then........

 I notice the chili sauce given together with the noodles. Well, this is not usual. This is extremely unusual. Not the bright red or the cut chili with soy sauce. I tasted it and it was garlicky, vinegary and chili-y..... And so I took some of it and put it on my noodles. And POW..... WHAM..... this was the kick and umphmmm that I was looking for. This chili brought the flavours, that was ordinary, the exactly flavours that I was expecting,.... and brought it out of the realm of ordinariness and kick it into the goal...... It might not be unexpected to mention that i actually poured all the chili into my noodles and wolf down the rest of the noodles like a starving man.... let me just say,... it was like magic.... one second it was there and the next few..... gone

The soup was also good. You could just eat it all by itself. Like mentioned earlier, there was 2 huge prawns. Also lean meat and mince meat. Cabbage and some kind of slippery dumplings. Soup was filled with porky goodness and fine mist of mince meat in the soup.


Overall, if you are not hungry and don't mind to queue. It is a very satisfying dish that I would recommend. I have not tried his Japanese disciple cooking yet, but we should always go and try the teacher's version first.  Rating 3/6 (without the chili sauce), 4/6 (with chili sauce)



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