Macpherson Minced Meat Noodle @ Tai Thong Crescent • Sin Keng Seng Coffeeshop

Update 9 Sep 2022. The current address of Macpherson Minced Meat Noodle is at Tai Thong Crescent.

Stall name: Macpherson Minced Meat Noodle (Bak Chor Mee)

Address: 47 Tai Thong Crescent, Singapore 347867 (inside Sin Keng Seng coffeeshop)

Nearest MRT: 10 minutes walk from Potong Pasir station

Hours: 7:00am - 1:00pm (Tues off)

My Previous Update when Mr. Yap was @ Bukit Batok

1 Jul 2021. Macpherson Minced Meat Noodle stall has moved three times since I first posted about their delicious rendition of bak chor mee in 2016. Today, Mr. Yap is operating in Bukit Batok and his loyal fans are following him there. ( 🐦 Little bird says they may move again soon 🤔 I will update again when that happens.)

Stall name: Macpherson Minced Meat Noodle

Address: 2 Bukit Batok Street 23, stall #01-17/18, Singapore 659527 (inside Fu Jiang Food Court in Bukit Batok Connection building)

Tel: 9747 2514

Hours: 7:30am - 2:00pm (Sun off)

My Review when Mr. Yap was @ Marsiling Mall

Went to check out one of my favourite bak chor mee stalls - Macpherson Minced Meat Noodles which just moved to Marsiling Mall (500 metres from Woodlands MRT station).

Less than 2 weeks at Marsiling Mall and Macpherson Minced Meat Noodles (M³N) is among the top 3 busiest stalls here already. From the familial banter between Mr Yap and customers, I believe they were regulars who followed M³N to Singapore's far north.

I went for their signature "dish & noodle" 小碗面 which costs $6.50 now. It's a small bowl of "dry" noodles and a bowl of soup.

At Marsiling Mall, most stalls do not provide trays for carrying your food. As I was alone, I dumped the cut chilis into the bowl of noodles, instead of using a small dish.



Gave the mound of flat ribbon mee pok noodles a good toss in the sauce. There was more than enough sauce to thoroughly coat every strand of noodle but it wasn't as recklessly lardy as I remembered it.



The mee pok noodles were done soft al dente. Soft with a bit of light spring to the bite. The sauce was savoury sourish from the vinegar with a subtle spicy overlay. Just a bit of lard and a couple of lard cracklings. Truth be told, the noodles didn't really stand out.



One mouthful and I remembered what I am here for.

Macpherson Minced Pork Noodles' soup is thick, full bodied, full flavoured. It has thick layers of savoury sweetness from chicken and pork, and a raw egg thrown in for more texture and an eggy taste.



There were minced pork, thin slices of fish cake and small thin pork liver slices in the tasty hot soup. However, compared to back in 2016, there was no signature stewed pork slice and no herr kiao (fish dumpling) today.




Still, I love this flavourful soup and M³N is among the top of my mind for the best bak chor mee in Singapore. Still lovely, though not as sinful as before.



The tray return station looked rather quiet. Actually, I didn't see anyone used trays during my hour there..... .

Previous Address

Restaurant name: Macpherson Minced Meat Noodles
Address: Marsiling Mall, 4 Woodlands Street 12, stall #01-18, Singapore 738623 (500 metres from Woodlands MRT station)
Hours: 8:00am - 2:00pm

Date visited: 12 Aug 2020

(Update: M³N stall is @ Marsiling Mall since 31 Jul 2020.) When I heard that Mr Yap of the famous Macpherson Bak Chor Mee (minced meat noodles) is considering retiring, I rushed down to the old stall at the junction of Opal Crescent and Serangoon Road at the first opportunity.

新加坡麦波申肉脞面是一个二十多年的老字号. 真材实料, 用料十足. 老板功夫足到, 面烫的刚刚好. 有弹性. 酱料是重口味的. 汤头浓浓的, 够鲜甜. 汤里料又多. 老板有想退休了. 要吃快快去吃. 到新加坡非食不可. 在 Opal Crescent 和 Serangoon Road 的交界处.

Needless to say, there was a queue on this sunny Saturday morning. I waited about 30 minutes for my food - I'll share in a minute why it's worth every second.



For a start, this stock is made with real food ingredients like anchovies and soy beans. Mr Yap also boils two old hens from 3:00am in the morning to create that naturally sweet, round bodied broth which Macpherson Bak Chor Mee is famous for. Yes, Mr Yap gets up at 2:00am for work - a hawker's life is hard.



Bak chor mee has been Mr Yap's life for over 30 years - the first 10 years as an apprentice and the remaining 20 years running his own stall. Yeah... in those days, people spend years learning the basics just to enter a trade 入門.



Just before sending the noodles to the customers, Mr Yap tosses in a splash of the savoury sweet sauce used to braise the mushrooms.



Thirty years of bak chor mee essence in these bowls for SGD6 altogether.  (This set is known as 小碗面 xiǎo wǎn miàn, which is "dry" noodles with accompanying fully loaded soup.)

The Michelin inspectors missed Mr Yap's stall for the 2016 Singapore edition. No one can blame them - I was born in pre-Independence Singapore and this was my first time tasting Mr Yap's noodles.



I had mee pok tar, my favorite way of eating bak chor mee.

The flat ribbon noodles were done half a notch above soft al dente - in other words, exactly the way I like my mee pok done👌



I like my bak chor mee sauce to be robust with deep strong flavours - no holds barred 敢敢来.

Macpherson Bak Chor Mee's sauce is exactly that - thick with bold savoury sweet spicy flavours plus a bit of tang from black vinegar. And, the lard laced sauce is mercilessly mined with fried pork crackers.

We died a little with each mouthful, yet can't keep that next spoonful away.



Then, there is this little strip of flavour saturated braised pork belly - it's like soft spongy sweet savoury edible chewing gum.



The cloudy round bodied broth has strong naturally sweet flavours balanced by a bit of savouriness. Rich and indulgent. It was so... yummy!! 



Everything inside the rich broth, from minced pork, pork slices, fish cake slices, pork liver, egg to fish dumpling 魚餃 were all done just right for me.




4-Star (out of 5) 👍Lovely lovely, sinful sinful bak chor mee which I shouldn't eat but cannot resist coming back again and again.



The word is already out that Mr Yap is contemplating retirement. Bak chor mee fans - go and get this while Mr Yap is still at the stall, or regret it for life 😂



Restaurant name: Macpherson Minced Meat Noodles
Address: Marsiling Mall, 4 Woodlands Street 12, stall #01-18, Singapore 738623
Hours: 8:00am - 2:00pm

Previous Address

Restaurant name: Macpherson Minced Meat Noodles 麦波申肉脞面
Address: Stall in Kim San Leng Eating House. Junction of Opal Crescent and Serangoon Road, Singapore
GPS: 1°19'38.4"N 103°52'03.5"E / 1.327332, 103.867653
Tel: +65 9757 9297
Hours: 7:00am to 2:00pm (but don't bet on it, the noodles sell out early, especially on weekends) (1st and 15th of lunar calendar off)



Date visited: 20 Aug 2016


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