Amoy Street Boon Kee Prawn Noodle @ Mei Ling Market & Food Centre 厦門街文記肉骨暇麵

Amoy Street Boon Kee Prawn Noodle 厦門街文記肉骨暇麵 | 159 Mei Chin Rd, stall #02-06, Singapore 140159 (Mei Ling Market & Food Centre 🚅 10 minutes walk from Queenstown station ⏰ 7am - 1pm (Sat & Sun off)

Last night, I asked my Tony Boey Facebook friends for prawn noodle recommendations. Evan Ng suggested Amoy Street Boon Kee (now at Mei Ling hawker centre).

And, so here I am the next morning 🤭

Thanks buddy for your recommendation 🙏

Not yet lunch hour but there was a constant parade at Amoy St Boon Kee.

My SG$5 pork bone and prawn noodle soup order.

The soup was watery but golden brown cloudy with full stack of crustacean umami savouriness, salty and sweet flavours.

It's a blend of prawn and pork with lard, fried aromatics and spices. Fully loaded.

For the SG$5 serving, there weren't too much noodles, which is a plus for me 👍 Nowadays, the less carbs the better, doctor say.

Done slightly on the soft side (partly because I took one millennial of time to take photos), but the soup clung to the noodles well carrying its savoury and sweet flavours.

The prawns were good - forefinger size, shelled, meaty, tender firm, springy, succulent, felt fresh and tasted sweet. Just two pieces.

Some five pieces of pork with meat, bone, cartilage and fat.

Fall-off-the-bone tender, chewy, porcine sweet with layers of umami savoury flavour from the soup.

Actually, I hesitate to share this 🤭

Uncle works alone most of the time, so he is under a lot of pressure during peak hours. But, he still obliges customer requests for extra soup top up. And, he don't just give any old soup, but the exact same soup he serves with his usual orders.

Love the soup so much but I would ask for top up only once and only when boss is free 🙏

Definitely a nice traditional prawn mee in my books.

Maybe, la la clam and prawn version next time.

Next time, I shall try the dry version and have their pork liver too.

Stall name: Amoy Street Boon Kee Prawn Noodle 厦門街文記肉骨暇麵

Address: 159 Mei Chin Rd, stall #02-06, Singapore 140159 (Mei Ling Market & Food Centre)

Nearest MRT: 10 minutes walk from Queenstown station

Hours: 7am - 1pm (Sat & Sun off)

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Amoy Street in the 1980s. National Archives of Singapore photo

As the stall name says, this stall started at Amoy Street before moving to HLY Eating House coffee shop near PSA (Port of Singapore Authority) Tanjong Pagar Complex, before finally settling here in Mei Ling hawker centre.

This type of prawn noodle originated in Xiamen (Amoy) in China's Fujian province. Brought to Singapore (and Malaysia) by Xiamen migrants during British Malaya days. In Xiamen today, you can find the same dish served by hawkers and in restaurants. My observation is prawn noodle is today more pervasive in Singapore than in Xiamen itself. Example in Xiamen 👉 Two Mile Prawn Noodle.

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Written by Tony Boey on 16 Jun 2025