Do Rae Mee Oyster Omelette📍Makansutra Gluttons Bay Esplanade

We met up at Makansutra Gluttons Bay at the Esplanade. We shared many beers, good laughs and dishes from a few food stalls.

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The over twelve food stalls were curated and handpicked by KF Seetoh founder of Makansutra.

I like the vibes here - relaxing, international crowd with many locals, the colourful stalls and dishes, cooking aromas floating in the breeze from Marina Bay, and the music from the open air concert steps away.

There were playing the Beatles.

I enjoyed all the dishes but this oyster omelette 蚵煎 stood out, caught my attention with the first mouthful.

It's nothing fanciful or indulgent, anyway historically, oyster omelette was starvation food, salvation during food shortages in old China.

It's the old taste profile lodged in my memory deep in my mind's recesses, long forgotten until triggered by a mouthful of this oyster omelette.

Intrigued, I went to speak with the lady boss.

She is Ms 王 and she had worked with 合记炒蚝煎 Hup Kee Fried Oyster Omelette at Newton Hawker Centre for over twenty years. (I didn't ask how they are related but Hup Kee's lady boss is Ms 王玉妹.)

Founded in the 1960s, Hup Kee Fried Oyster Omelette was one of the hawker stalls at the old Glutton's Square, opposite Cold Storage (now Centrepoint) at Orchard Road. National Archive of Singapore photo.

Hup Kee relocated to Newton Food Centre with another thirty other hawkers when Glutton's Square closed in 1978. National Archive of Singapore photo.

The wife of the founder (who passed on in 2025) still runs the Hup Kee stall at Newton Food Centre today.

Back at the Gluttons Bay stall, Ms 王 serves oyster omelette 蚵煎, oyster egg 蚵蛋 as well as fried kway teow and curry laksa.

Over twenty years of Hup Kee Kung Fu.

Ms 王 splashed a ladleful of sweet potato batter into the sizzling wok to make a crisp and tender crepe, broke several eggs onto it, making a fried sweet potato starch omelette.