Kwai Luck Cook Food serves an excellent mee siam kuah with a rich, well balanced sauce full of savoury, umami, sweet, sour and underlying spice flavours. The sauce has a lot of flavours, all in "a bit, a bit" portions playing hide and seek with your tastebuds, if you are attentive. I really enjoyed this little traditional treat.
Restaurant name: 96 Kwai Luck Cooked Food
Address: Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, stall no. #01-20 Chong Boon Market, Block 453, Singapore 561453
Tel: +6596190196
Hours: 4:00am - 1:00pm (Mon & Tues off)
Today, I am in Aaron's home ground in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore.
Aaron knew uncle Lawrence since he was a child. Many times, uncle Lawrence's mee siam saved Aaron after early morning live soccer matches as Kwai Luck Cooked Food stall opens at 4am.
Yes, for 41 years, uncle Lawrence (who is 77 years old) and his father who founded the stall in 1979, start preparing their food at 1am. By 4am, they are ready to serve their first plate of mee siam kuah. Since 1979, Kwai Luck Cook Food stall sells only one dish - mee siam kuah.
In the plate, there's bee hoon (rice vermicelli), tau pok, sliced hard boiled egg, a dollop of sambal chili and a calamansi lime.
The magic is in the kuah or sauce which uncle Lawrence had spent 41 years perfecting. Uncle Lawrence's father used to sell bak chor mee but switched to selling mee siam kuah in 1979 after learning the recipe from an Indian man.
If you follow my blog, you will know that I don't like sourish things. So, I don't really enjoy mee siam kuah that is sourish from too much tamarind paste.
Kwai Luck's mee siam kuah tastes just right for me. The kuah has body from fermented soy beans and coconut milk. The flavours are savoury, umami, sweet, spicy, and tangy but all in small portions and everything in harmonious balance.
If there is anything that stood out slightly, they were the layered savouriness from tau cheo and dried shrimp, and sweetness from coconut milk. It's a taste profile uncle Lawrence spent 41 years perfecting. If you like a bit more zest, you can squeeze in the calamansi juice (but I didn't).
$2.50 a serving. It is more a light snack than a meal for most guys. So, whatever you come to Ang Mo Kio Chong Boon Market for, try a shot of this Kwai Luck mee siam kuah. It might become a good
Date: 27 Aug 2020
This store serve one of the most savory Mee Siam especially considering it's start at 2.50.
ReplyDeleteHighly recommended. Cheap but delicious, with savory soup hat you will surely slurp it clean.