Rahim Muslim Food. Mee Rebus vs Mee Soto. Which One More Power?

We came here drawn by the hype stellar online reputation of Rahim Muslim Food's Mee Rebus Power in Ang Mo Kio's Chong Boon Market. It was nice but we thought their Mee Soto is a sort of unsung hero. Truth be told, their mee soto is my number one choice at Rahim Muslim Food.



Restaurant name: Rahim Muslim Food
Address: 453A, Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, Chong Boon Market, stall no. #01-01, Singapore 560453
Tel: +65 9786 7362
Hours: 12:30pm - 7:00pm (Sun off)

Halal

I joined the lunch time queue while Aaron go chope a nice table. As I inched up in the queue, I kaypoh, kaypoh... took note of what the others were ordering. Most had their famous mee rebus but I also noticed that many also had their mee soto. That got me curious.



The two customers ahead of me in the queue each ordered 6 or 7 packets and only mee soto. Didn't order any mee rebus at all 🤔

So, as a good Singaporean I covered both sides by ordering both loh 😂



The Mee Rebus Power does look the part.

Mound of yellow noodles smothered by a heavy thick yellowish brown starchy sauce topped by a heap of chopped poached chicken and slathered with peanutty satay type sauce.



The tender juicy poached chicken breast cut in large chunks was chicky sweet. It was comparable with the same at good Hainanese chicken rice stalls 👍



Mixing the mee rebus sauce, satay sauce and sambal chili together, we got a thick sweet nutty sauce with underlying spice flavour and subtle heat.

This is probably the most famous mee rebus in Singapore but the taste profile is not really my cup of tea. All that carb from sweet potato starch and yellow noodles was quite jelak. 

Then, the nutty peanut sauce overpowered everything. Personally, I prefer mee rebus sauce with more pronounced crustacean umami (e.g. from dried shrimp or even flower crab) such as that from Afandi Hawa at Haig Road Market.

(I know lah... it is the nutty satay sauce that made Rahim Mee Rebus Power the most celebrated mee rebus of Singapore.... 🤷‍♂️ The satay sauce over mee rebus concoction was created at the request of a student customer years ago as Rahim sold mee rebus as well as satay. Then wham! the rest is Singapore mee rebus history.) 



The mee soto comes in a bowl of yellow noodles (or bee hoon) in a chicken and spice soup. There were pieces of chicken and a begedil (fried potato cutlet).

The tender juicy chicken was nice, nicely chicky sweet and the infused subtle spice flavours made it even better.



I love the soup with its chicky sweetness, a bit of savouriness and nice spice flavours all in harmony.

At a lot of mee soto places, the soup is rather mild and rely on a potent sambal kicap pedas to boast flavours. No need for that here at Rahim Muslim Food as the soup was flavourful enough on its own. In fact, I didn't add it into the soup as I didn't want the sambal kicap pedas to change the soup's taste profile.

That's why I neglected to take a picture of the savoury spicy sweet sambal kicap pedas 😓  But, I did try it neat and can assure you that it is Power! 🔥🔥🔥



So mee rebus power or mee soto? At Rahim Muslim Food, my money goes to mee soto here.

Give it a try and share with us your choice in the comments.

Date visited: 27 Aug 2020