Sadly, the closure of one more one in every of our favorite stalls has come. After cooking up hundreds of thousands of plates at Tiong Bahru Yi Sheng Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee, the proprietor has formally closed the stall as of Feb 2023 attributable to retirement.
The stall has jumped from location to location from Kim Tian Market to Mei Ling Street Food Centre to its present location at ABC Brickworks Food Centre. For over 4 many years, they’ve been specialising in one in every of Singapore’s iconic dishes, hokkien mee.
If you’ve patronised the stall from 40 years in the past, you’d bear in mind how they bought satays (with pineapple puree!) alongside the standard dishes. Now, not solely do they now not promote satay, Tiong Bahru Yi Sheng Hokkien Prawn Mee is owned by the unique proprietor’s son, Uncle Toh.
After mending the stall for a number of years, the 2nd-generation proprietor has determined to retire for good. With age catching up, we weren’t very stunned by the closure. After all, Tiong Bahru Yi Sheng Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee has been fairly erratic with their opening hours since late 2022.
Most of you shouldn’t be unfamiliar with this Michelin-Bib Gourmand stall— meals blogs and google critiques have been flooding the web page on how good it’s. So good, that they’ve a loyal queueing of as much as an hour. So good, that they eliminated their Michelin-bib sticker to stay “low key”.
Obviously, that didn’t work out for them they usually nonetheless continued to attract lengthy queues.
At a beginning worth of S$4/S$5/S$6, a plate of Hokkien Mee shall be served at an ideal wetness of neither too moist not dry. Not overly moist nor dry, the springy noodles are superbly sapid with the immense wok hei flavour. Uncle Toh provides in scoops of prawn broth meticulously to enunciate the seafood flavours as effectively.
The sambal, nevertheless, is the true star of the present. It blends seamlessly into layers of fried noodles that ultimately creates an an ideal plate of citrus-spiced hokkien mee.
Well, now we will solely reminisce as it’s time to bid goodbye to the most effective hokkien mee in Singapore. All of your followers want you a cheerful retirement, Uncle Toh!
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Tiong Bahru Yi Sheng Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee
6 Jalan Bukit Merah, ABC Brickworks Food Centre, #01-13, Singapore, Singapore 150006
Tiong Bahru Yi Sheng Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee
6 Jalan Bukit Merah, ABC Brickworks Food Centre, #01-13, Singapore, Singapore 150006
Operating Hours: 3pm – 10.45pm (Tue, Thu, Fri & Sun), Closed on Mon, Wed & Sat