Heng Kee Curry Chicken Mee VS Ah Heng Curry Chicken Bee Hoon Mee

    Heng Kee
         VS
    Ah Heng

I have tried both places and I really like both places. Both make a really really good bowl of Curry Chicken Noodles. And if you refer to my previous posts, you will see that I have given both of the a Rating = 5/6 Excellent. And it is both well deserved. But just because they have the same rating, don't mean that we can not have some fun, picking the better one. So lets go....

Lets start with, : -

Location
Heng Kee - Address : Hong Lim Food Centre #01-58
Ah Heng -  Address : Hong Lim Food Centre #02-58

Their units are directly on top of each other. How is that for competition. So unless you have extreme phobia of heights or can not walk up a flight of stairs, then Heng Kee will win for location.

Availability
Heng Kee - Operating hours :   Mon - Sat         :     11am - 2pm

                                                  Sun & Public Holiday Closed

Ah Heng  - Operating hours :   Mon - Fri         : 10am - 9pm

                                                  Sat, Sun & PH : 8am - 9pm

Heng Kee only opens for lunch hours while Ah Heng opens for longer operating hours( both lunch and dinner.... maybe even late breakfast) So if you have a craving for curry chicken noodles at any other timing other than lunch, you will most likely find Ah Heng more available. (supper time excluded since you should not be eating this before you sleep. You either get heartburn, upset stomach or nightmares from it)

The actual food itself
Yes, now for the reason you read until now. The comparison of the food. The meat of the hamburger. The sausage of the hot dog. The crab in the chilli crab. The.... errrr...... some food porn before more words.....

Ah Heng Curry Chicken Bee Hoon Mee

Heng Kee Curry Chicken Mee

The curry soup or gravy. (i call it soup since, i would slurp down every last drop of the soup from the bowl)
Ah Heng's curry soup/gravy, has a smooth finish. The spices and ingredients meld together well and creates a very enjoyable finish.  The curry soup from Heng Kee is more red. More chilli oil on top. But taste-wise, Heng Kee taste better. You get the hit of flavour when it first touches your tongue. It gives you a nice kick and maintains it there. The Ah Heng soup is milder but you need to add the chilli sauce into the soup and you can get an equal kick you get from the Heng Kee soup. For the Heng Kee soup, you do not need to add the chilli sauce, since the soup has already been flavoured enough in the big pot, and also, i feel that it does add some more spice to the noodle but also saltiness. Since the soup does not need it, then don't add it.

The Noodles. 
Both stalls offer the same type of noodles. The one I like to order for the dish is thick bee hoon. I feel that Heng Kee cooks the noodles better. Even when you look at the pictures, you can see that it looks abit firmer and more bouncy. 

The Chicken
For Ah Heng, I remember only getting breast meat and from Heng Kee, I got different parts of the chicken. The parts I got from Heng Kee was more tasty. 

Other Ingredients
The fish cake and tau pok (fried bean curd), I felt that it went well with the soup and noodles. I can not remember enough to compare the both since I ate them at different days. 

Consistency
Heng Kee standard is mostly consistent. As in, they have never disappoint me in the bowl they gave me. As for Ah Heng, maybe owing to operating for so many hours, and the baton being passed to afew different hands, the standard does vary. Still good but not as good as it can be. 

Presentation
Ah Heng bowl looks more presentable. It looks like some one came and tune the colours or put in filters on the picture. Heng Kee on the other hand, put all the goodness on the bowl and that is why it is there for. No prettying up. you get what you see. Bones and all. 

Chilli Sauce

 Ah Heng's Chilli Sauce, you need to put it into your soup. Trust me. It will boost the flavour of the dish to another level.

Heng Kee's chilli sauce is slightly darker than their competitors, and has a dried shrimp taste. It is also abit salty. If you put it into your soup, it will make it spicier, but also saltier at the same time. In my opinion, you do not need to pour it in.

Overall
If you have Ah Heng's standard at the top, and you add in the chilli sauce to the soup, and compare it with Heng Kee directly. It is very close to each other. Very very close. Ah Heng version, the presentation of the noodles is more polish, the soup is more smooth, the finish is more refine, all the spices and ingredients, all wrapped up nicely in a box with a bow. Whereas, Heng Kee's version is more robust, the spices less fine, more kick you in the taste buds and with a homemade feel. It is by no means uncivilised but just that you can tell the story from looking at the noodles. 
Both very very good bowls of noodles, but worthy of their long queue.  

They both rate almost as close to each other than as possible but one does beat the other. And only slightly, the smallest of margins. And that is... Heng Kee Curry Chicken Mee. Somehow, they let the ingredients shine abit better than their competitor. But good job to both and I would happily eat both of noodles.

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