Heng Huat Boon Lay Boneless Duck Noodles 📍 Boon Lay Place Food Village 興發文礼起骨鸭面

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Ended up at Boon Lay Place Food Village hawker centre after my errands. Circled the huge, old food centre twice and settled for Heng Huat Boon Lay Boneless Duck Noodles. It was a good choice, tasty, worth the calories, fats and carbs.

The last time I was here, I had Ho Huat Fried Hokkien Mee.

Boon Lay Place Food Village has a huge open centre court ringed by food stalls. Been around since the 1970s, but has never been very mainstream as it is in Singapore's far west. Power Nasi Lemak was the main draw here during its heyday.

Today, Heng Huat Boon Lay Boneless Duck Noodle stall is the star, though duck noodle is a boomer dish i.e. not in trend 🫢

Beautiful braised duck breasts in the window got some unkers and not a few untees excited.

My order - kway teow, chili, additional duck breast for SG$7.

"果条, 要辣, 加鸭胸" I rehearsed a few times as I moved up the queue.

A lot of bean sprouts (taugeh), don't have to ask for more 🫢

Comes with a soup.

Let's dig in.

The duck breast meat was soft tender without any of the rough chewiness we sometimes get at other braised duck stalls. The moist meat was a little pink, clean tasting and had only very slight duck gamey sweetness. I like. Can fight with even the best duck rice stalls I tried, both sides of the Causeway.

The duck skin was relatively thick, fat, and juicy. It gives off a nice gamey sweetness with every bite.

Options for yellow mee, bee hoon, and kway teow with the latter being the most popular with customers.

I like it too, as the rice noodles were the broad type which picked up the savoury, sweet, lardy, spicy sauce well. (Spicy because I asked for chili 要辣.)