Soon Huat Prawn Noodle North Bridge Road Bib Gourmand 顺發虾面排骨面

Soon Huat Prawn Noodle 顺發 | 10 North Bridge Road, #01-105, Singapore 190010 (North Bridge Road Market & Food Centre) 🚅 10 minutes walk from Lavender station ⏰ 8:30am - 2pm (Sunday off)

Finally came to try Soon Huat Prawn Noodle at North Bridge Road hawker centre. It's a very well loved stall serving nice old school prawn noodle with prawns, pork and fishcake.

No secrets here, just follow the good ol' way.

I was here an hour early and so went away for a coffee at Heap Seng Leong, my usual parking port when I need to wait around the area.

When I came back at 8:30am, uncle gave me queue #9 😂

But, it didn't take long. I got my food within 30 minutes.

I ordered yellow noodles, soup and prawn (sans pork), but there was a miscomm and I was given pork & bone as well. Nevermind lah.

This serving for SG$5. It's true. Good hawker food is still priced affordably for most in Singapore.

(Pork slice option comes with fishcake slices.)

The prawn heads & shell, anchovies and pork yielded a layered umami savoury sweet, golden brown medium bodied soup with depth of flavours. First mouthful wasn't that robust, though.

Then, priming my palate with hot chili pepper made the depth of flavours more robust and pronounced.

Chili makes everything tastes better 🤭

Not much to say about the generic yellow noodles except that they were spongy chewy, well blanched and properly rinsed and drained. Nice as they picked up the flavourful soup well. (Bee hoon would do an even better job of sponging up flavours but I don't really like the texture and taste of blanched generic rehydrated rice vermicelli.)

The forefinger size prawns were alright, fresh enough. I appreciate it that they were shelled and deveined.

The pork that I didn't want at first.

It's not that I don't like pork, but I thought I needed to cut back on meat a little 🤭

But, the pork turned out to be Soon Huat's winner in my humble opinion.

Soft fall-off-the-bone tender, porcine sweet.

Indeed a nice traditional prawn noodle, worthy of its Michelin Guide inclusion.

Other customer's order

Looking around, the dry version seemed more popular this morning. And, there's lard croutons which I must request for next time (didn't get any today as I didn't know to ask). Yeah, next time it will be dry for me.