Penang hay mee @ AMK

The Penang prawn mee at a coffee shop next to AMK Hub is value for money. For $4 you can have 2 medium size prawns plus a delicious strong prawn flavoured soup. The hor fun is average.

Cooking prawn mee in Japan

We bought 9 fresh big prawns, 3 small packets of fresh noodles and about 300 gm of pork (twee bak). We deshelled the prawns and with the heads, we boiled them to make soup stock. Thin slices of pork were added to the stock. A little bit of salt was added in the soup. The veggie (daikon leaves) was from our garden. While boiling the soup stock, we simultaneously cooked the noodles.
The results are the 2 lovely bowls of "hay mee".

Breakfast and busking at AMK

This busker was serenading us with the good oldies songs while we were having our pork rib prawn noodles at block 453 Ang Mo Kio this morning. Must admit he was good at what he did. I dropped  a small donation into his donation box 3 times in a span of 30 minutes. I also observed within that 30 minutes we were there, at least 15 people put some money into his donation box.
With his permission I took the above video.
Enjoy! 👌👍😀🤑😎

Had my usual oh luwak and kopi O at Ang Mo Kio " Chong Boon" Food Center this afternoon. Not satisfied, I decided to try the Prawn Mee with soup nearby. In fact, I was recommended by a friend to try the mee. It was quite good and substantial for the price ($3). There was no queue at all.

Chai Kee Prawn Noodle

I was recommended to eat prawn noodles from a stall called Chai Kee at Kovan hawker center this afternoon. At first, I wanted to try (I've eaten at Ah Hui before) Ah Hui's prawn noodles which is also at the same hawker center but my friends discouraged me from doing so. Instead they recommended Chai Kee's and it turned out to be better. The above is $5 (small bowl cost $4) and it came with a nice prawn flavoured soup. The address is #01-66, Hougang Kovan Food Center. The operating hours is from 7am till 2pm.

Meals for Thursday

I like the papaya salad so much that my wife prepared another one for me today. We also had the prawn mee from a hawker stall which was delicious ($4).

Dinner at home

We had dandan noodles and potato salad for dinner. Needless to say, it was a simple and yet oishii meal.

Prawn mee day

This prawn mee at Kovan Station hawker center perpetually has a long queue of customers. I was curios and joined the queue this morning. It took 20 minutes before I got my number 4 pork ribs prawn mee ($5). I was a bit disappointed because I thought it must have been fantastically yummy judging by the long queue of customers. Won't say it wasn't nice but not worth the waiting/queuing time.

Not satisfied with the prawn mee at Kovan, we went to Serangoon Central for another prawn mee in the evening. This one is only $3.50 and a little better than the one at Kovan. Besides, there was no queue and the hawker served us instead of the "self-service" type at Kovan.

Lunch@ Serangoon Central

We drove to Serangoon Central and had pork ribs/prawn noodles for lunch. The meals are satisfying and this particular stall that sells noodles are usually not too crowded. Each bowl costs $3.50 and the prawn soup noodles is $3.
We were surprised to find that a nearby Giant supermarket prices of goods are cheaper than the one that we visited at Tampines yesterday. For example, the pomegranates are going for $2.95 each instead of $4.50 at Giant Hypermart, the Australian broccoli is 39c per 100 gram instead of 49c (NTUC Fair Price is selling at 69c per 100 grams).

Prawn Mee near Lavender MRT Station

We had prawn noodles for breakfast. The place was the North Bridge Road Food and Market Centre. It's about 100 meters from the Lavender MRT Station and the ICA Buiding. Must admit that the noodles were good. The soup has a strong genuine prawn flavour. Each bowl cost $2.50 which is one of the cheapest in Singapore. Be prepared to wait for 15 minutes as the Q is quite long and the old hawkers are slow.

Yesterday's home-cooked meals plus Texas Chicken

Besides the usual fruits and kopi for breakfast yesterday, we cooked the prawn noodle for lunch and the rice set for dinner. Don't know whether one would believe me when I said we had Texas Chicken 3 piece combo set for supper. On top of that we ordered extra 2 biscuits.
It didn't surprise me when I stepped on the weighing scale this morning, yes up 600 grams!

16 October 2015 Friday

The Dow, Nasdaq and S& P finished off brilliantly. Dow added 217 to 17141, Nasdaq + 87 to 4870 and S & P + 29 to 2023.  Oil is up 1.03% to $46.86.
It looks like the STI will open higher today when it starts trading at 9 am.

At the same time the air quality is deteriorating again from the PSI reading of around the 80s last night to a high of 114 as at 5 am.

I noticed that I will sleep very well if my dinner is non-oily and void of vegetables. An example was last night's dinner which was sashimi and sushi (90% salmon). No veggie at all and therefore my bladder wasn't irritated to the point that I would've to wake a couple of times to visit the toilet.
In fact I had a pleasant dream of me being a successful and busy businessman. In my dream, I met some of the cabin crew I knew. When they asked me which flight I would be on, I told them I didn't know except that I would be flying to either Perth or Sydney. I think I had an agent who would arrange my flight itinerary. Before my dream could continue, I was woken up by a loud howling noise apparently from my dog. I looked at the clock and it read 5:46 am. After that I tried going back to sleep but without success.



Buns from Ang Moh Kio

These buns with different type of fillings were sold for about $1.30 each at AMK but at the mall nearby each cost an average price of $1.50. I call this outright profiteering.


My dinner: Penang Prawn Noodle

I used the instant Penang Prawn noodles and added 6 big prawns,some kang kong and cooked it for my dinner. The taste turned to be very good. The paste and the seasoning in the packet were excellent. However, the noodle was just ordinary. I expected something special but it wasn't so.
The next time, I will just use the paste and the seasoning and cook it with fresh yellow noodles.

The STI is up today
The STI is + 15 to a high of 3030. Noble is up 1 cent to 0.505, SIA + 2 cents to 11.03, Wilmar is unchanged at 2.95 etc...
There will be no trading tomorrow and the day after as it's a weekend.