We are back again. To Golden Mile Food Centre or more commenly known by NS(National Service) men, Old Army Market. In the days, maybe 5 - 10 years ago, the shops on the 2nd floor did a brisk business in selling Army stuff. That was because before you go to the army or (just in case you broke something) you could come here to the top floor for all your army needs. Now adays, it is much quieter since the army decided to source their own items and sell it to the soldiers. But a legacy from those days, is all the good food stalls that set up shop to cater the all the hungry army men.
Address : -
Golden Mile Food Center
505 Beach Rd
How to get there : -
Opposite of Golden Mile Complex
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.
This stall is run by an elderly couple. They are extremely busy since not only do they have to handle eat in orders, they also do take away. So be prepared to wait if you a taste. And they do not only do one of 2 take away at a time, they do a dozen or more. This can be done, because the Uncle will cook a huge batch of noodles in a wok then portion they out plate by plate.
Golden Mile Food Centre #B1-34
Timing
11am to 2pm, 3pm to 9pm (Closed Wed)
How to Order :-
1) Go to the stall and place your order for the noodle.
2) Make payment and then step aside and wait
3) If you come during lunch time, be prepared to wait quite awhile
4) Once you receive your noodles, find a seat and enjoy
Before you sit down and try the noodles, you will get hit by the fragrance coming out of it. It smells so good. You get hit with the smell of fried noodles, egg and seafood. From the smell, you can tell immediately that it is, at least, a good plate of fried noodles.
Firstly, my impression is that it is the portion is abit small. If you wanted to be full, then you may need to order 2 plates. But the price is $3 per plate. You get egg noddles, thin bee hoon, beans sprouts, squid and prawn. You are given alittle sambal with cut chilies.
The noddles is dry, as in that there is no stock in the bottom of the plate. If you lift the noddles from the plate, there is no stock at the bottom of the plate at all. It has all been absorbed into the noodles. And it smells great and it taste just as good. Your first bite, you get a hit of well fried noodles and good wok smell, then a slight seafood after taste. And as you keep eating, you get more of the seafood taste in your mouth.
The chili is abit sweet and dry and you can taste maybe some dried seafood like abit of dried shrimp. But the chili is abit spicy and does numbs your tongue abit. Also it is not necessary for this dish since the noodles are good enough without it.
An excellent dish. Very good and very satisfying. If you don't mind waiting. Rating 5/6 Excellent
The next stall I tried is called Haji Kadir-M.Baharudeen. In the picture, it isi n the green signage. It is suppose to be well know for their Sup Tulang but on that day, I decided to try their Mee Kuah instead. Basically, they are using the same soup base for their dish. Sup Tulang is an Indian Malay dish and it is a bone marrow soup. But it does not have any soup, it does have a thick red gravy instead. I will most likely cover this in another blog, maybe from another place. But what I took instead is Mee Kuah. It is a malay word, meaning, "mee" for noodles and "kuah" for gravy. But the dish is served in a deep red soup instead.
Golden Mile Food Centre #B1-13/14/15
Timing
12.30pm to 1.30am
Closed alternate Wednesdays
How to Order :-
1) Go to the store and place your order for what you want to eat.
2) Make payment
3) Stand aside and wait for your dish
4) Once the dish is done, collect your dish and then find a seat and seat down to enjoy your meal.
The soup base is probably mutton bones cooked for a long time , together with tomato paste and ginger and chillies and other spices. The deep red colour comes form a colouring that is added to the soup. The noodles was firm and the soup was abit spicy. There was abit of cabbage and peas and some mutton pieces. The soup is also served hot and does warm you up.
Overall an interesting dish. Flavourful because of all the spices added. Spicy and warms you up. Rating 3/6 Tasty
Next is Longhouse Lim Kee Beef Noodle. A shop that serves beef noodles. You can have your noodles in either soup or dry. For me, I prefer it dry, since it will be served with a gravy. And the gravy is usually cooked using a stock where they cooked all the bones in. The soup version used the same stock, but the gravy is thicker and more infused with all the bone stock.
Address : -
Golden Mile Food Centre #B1-21
Timing
11:00am - 09:00pm (Daily)
How to Order :-
1) Go to the stall and decide what to order
2) They have all the menu on LCD screens in front of the stall
3) Decide on dry or soup
4) Decide on noodles (Bee Hoon, Kway teow or rice)
5) Decide Beef brisket, Mixed, Beef & Tendon, Beef Ball, Beef
6) Decide size / Price $4 / $5 / $6
7) Add Beef Balls $1
8) Make payment
9) Then stay near the stall to wait for your food. If it is not a busy period, you can seat nearby and they will deliver it to your seat.
10) Then after you receive your dish, enjoy
I ordered the Dry Beef Noodles with Bee Hoon for $4. Firstly, when you take the first bite, you get hit with a herbal taste but also the strong beefy taste. And you will also notice that this gravy is not starchy but more like a thick dark brown soup. It gives you a comfortable feeling and it coats your insides with a warm coating. The beef is very tender and goes well with the chili sauce that is sour and spicy.
It was very enjoyable in the begining. But half way thru the dish, I started to feel that the strong meaty and slightly herbal taste, starts to overwhelm your tastebuds. Like numbs them abit and also the dish is a bit one dimensional in texture. Once you eat it and enjoy all the tastes, it just stays there and nothing else. Nothing else to bring excitement to it. But in the begining it was great.
Overall, not a bad bowl of noodles but missing abit of texture and contrast. Taste and flavours are there. Rating 3/6 Tasty
3 more review down from Golden Mile Food Centre. There maybe more, or I may just let you guys go and discover it yourselves.
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