Well, I could not stay away. I came back to Golden Mile FC (Food Centre) for more. More yummy food. More places to go but I always come back here. Golden Mile FC is ideally located, being opposite Golden Mile Complex (aka Little Thailand) and walking distance to Arab Street, it is a nice place to visit to fill your fuel tanks before exploring more of Singapore.
Address : -Golden Mile Food Center
505 Beach Rd
How to get there : -
One of the tallest landmark in the area is The Concourse.
The nearest MRT station is Nicoll Highway. Use Exit A and take the escalator to the overhead bridge. Cross the highway using the overhead bridge and walk until you reach Beach Road (The Concourse is along Beach Road). Turn right on Beach Road and walk along the road until you can see Golden Mile complex on your right. Directly opposite from Golden Mile Complex, you will see Golden Mile FC.
Since I did an introduction to this place previously, I won't repeat myself. So lets just dive into the food.
One of the places that I can not resist is Chili Mee. I know the name is very basic and does not leave much to the imagination. You would imagine, chili and mee (noodles). Basically you do get that and it is much more, or at least the chili sauce is much more. I am sad to say that I only discovered this dish, afew years ago and before that, i did not know what I was missing.
Address : -
Golden Mile Food Centre #01-59
Timing
Mon, Wed-Sun : 8am-8.30pm
Tue : Closed
How to Order :-
1) Go to the end of the queue and wait until you reach the front of the queue2) Place your order. They serve 3 types of noodles here. Chili Mee, Prawn Mee and Laksa.
3) Choose your size / price : $3 / $4 / $5
4) Choose your noodles.
- Egg Noodles
- Bee Hoon (rice vermicelli noodles)
- Thick Bee Hoon (Thick rice noodles)
- Mee Pok (Flat egg noodles)
- Mixture of noodles
5) Wait for them to prepare your order
6) Make payment and bring the dish to your table to enjoy
This is Chili Mee. I choose the egg noodle, which i felt goes well with the chili sauce. Firstly, the noodles is cooked in hot water and then the other ingredient is added to the hot water to cook. It is placed in a bowl and some other ingredients are added. Usual process for many noodles out there. Here is where it differs, they put in this chili sauce into the noodles. And this sauce is not your usual chili sauce, it is almost like a gravy and it coats every strand of noodles thickly. A simple name for a dish that is far from ordinary.
After you mix it all well, your first bite, you will get a kick of spiciness. After the first bite, the taste all meld together and it is no longer that spicy. But the chili sauce is the star of this dish. It is spicy and flavourful, with belacan, dried shrimp, garlic and many other stuff. The deep fried shallots they sprinkled on top, add a fragrance and sweetness to the finish. The slices of pork rib in this dish was cooked so long that it is nice and tender. The noodles, since I choose the egg noodles, has a nice texture and was not over cooked.
Overall, I like this dish. I like it so much, that each time I come to this stall, I always order this dish. I have not tried the other dishes made by this store. But I am sure they are fine, but I just can not miss out on the dish with a simple name but is far from ordinary. Rating 4/6
Healthy Fried Kway Teow. Can any Fried Kway Teow be healthy? But it can be healtier as shown by the stall. He took a favourite, that was unhealthy, filled with oil and pork lard and made it healtier, by not adding pork lard and less oil. And did not lose any of the tastiness. That is why, during the lunch hours, there are long queue for his food.
Address : -
Golden Mile Food Centre #01-91
Timing
Tue - Sun : 11am-8.30pm
Mon : Closed
How to Order :-
1) Go to the end of the queue and wait until you reach the front of the queue2) Place your order. 3) Choose your size / price : $3 / $4
4) Additional ingredients : Add Cockles $1
Add Veg $0.50
Add Silvery Fish $0.50
5) Wait for them to prepare your order
6) Make payment and bring back to your table and enjoy
If your perception of good char kway teow is pork sausage and lots of pork lard, then this dish is not for you. That is because those ingredients are not present in this dish. What they do have, is well fried noodles, with "wok hei" or breath of the wok. There is deep fried anchovies with blanched veg. Cockles and 2 type of noodles, the flat rice noodles (Kway Teow) and egg noodles (Mee)
The noodles were well fried and tasty, even without the pork lard and chinese sausages. I think he uses some kind of preserved veg to give it the flavour. When you eat the noodles, you can almost taste it with a slight sour taste. The blanched vegetables don't add much taste but does add fiber to your diet, for when you need it most,.... many many hours later in a small room with a throne. The baby deep fried anchovies gives it a salty and crunchy texture that you were missing from the pork lard. Also this version of char kway teow is less oily.
And if you happen to be at this stall during the office lunch rush, you can see the owner, with quick hands and almost machine like precision, cook plate after plate of noodles, for the queue that form infront of his stall.
Overall, for the healtier version of fried kway teow, which I think of all those who fry this version, his is the best. The rating would be lower if you wanted pork lard and Chinese sausages in your fried kway teow, but for me, it does taste like what a good fried kway teow should taste like. Rating 4/6
What attracted me to the stall was the huge pot of boiling soup in front of the store. You don't usually see this now a days in your usual hawker stall. Most will cook it behind the scene but here, they are cooking it right infront of you, while you are choosing which items you wanted. So it took me awhile to decide what I wanted, since I kept looking at what they were doing.
Address : -
Golden Mile Food Centre #B1-44
How to Order :-
1) Look for a table and take note of the table no.
2) Head to the stall and stand at the end of the queue. If there is no queue, head to the left side of the stall
3) Take a bowl and tong and select the yong tau foo items you want.
4) Price $0.50 / piece and min 8 pieces.
5) After you made your selection, hand over the bowl to the owner.
6) Decide if you want it dry or with soup
7) Decide if you want it with noodles or not.
8) Give them your table no.
9) Make payment and head back to your table and wait for them to deliver your bowl of yong tau foo to you.
Yong Tau Foo is a dish where you have various type of bean curd (tau foo), bean curd stuffed with meat or fish paste, veg stuffed with meat, fish ball or meat balls. These items are either cooked in a clear broth or deep fried. They are then served together with noodles or with just the broth. Sometimes, it can also be served dry ( noodles and items cooked in the broth, then the broth is drained out and they put some sauce in the bowl) together with a bowl of broth. It is available in many food courts, hawker centres and food centres in Singapore. Some even come with laksa or curry soup to replace the clear broth.
The most sought after kind, are those hawker that still make their own yong tau foo items. And at this stall in Golden Mile FC, some of the items are hand made ( those with fish paste).
The soup is a clear broth but don't be mistaken by the clear soup. It is actually quite tasty. I actually thought the they used ikan bilis (anchovies) to flavour their soup. But I later learned that they actually boiled fish bones with the water that they used to make the fish paste. A clean and fish bones flavourful taste.
Another surpise was the chili sauce. Normally for yong tau foo, you will get 2 sauces. One will be a chili sauce and another a sweet brown sauce. Here you are only given one. It is sweet and slightly spicy and there is a sourness that I feel comes from some kind of tamarind like fruit that was pleasant. It went very well with the bean curd and fish paste yong tau foo items.
Overall, a good bowl of hot soup, with many pieces of different yummy items. Some of them hand made by the stall itself. Paired together well with a unique chili sauce. What is there not to like. Rating 4/6
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