Hokkien Noodle

Fried Hokkien mee, or sometimes called fried prawn noodle, is a dish quite uniquely found only in Singapore. Using both yellow noodles and thick white noodles, they are fried in a seafood broth. Served with just enough moisture, or sometimes with a thin layer of broth, some like it dry as described in the former, while some like it wet, everyone likes it hot....

Prawns, octopus slices, pork pieces, egg pieces and bean sprouts, this is a popular dish.

As a side note, Malaysia has their own fried Hokkien mee, which is fried dry in a black sauce. Totally different from the Singapore variety which has only the colours of the noodle and ingredients.

Come Daily

Swee Guan

Hong Heng

Bao Er Cafe

Treasure Toast

Geylang Lor 29

Hokkien Mee

Oct 2020

Lovely charcoal aroma from the wok seeps into the noodles, fantastic!

I have to admit that this is a dish I don’t really like, or try to avoid since my weight watching days (ie since tomorrow…), but Swee Guan’s is the only one I am always tempted to go for, and would sometimes have craving for.

The history is this, I am a big satay fan and Kwong Satay used to be in the same coffee shop, I’d go there for satay. If I’m with company, needless to say, I’d order the Hokkien Mee to share, however, at times, I’d leave the weight watching to the next day and have another cheat day and get a “small” plate with the satay.

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Swee Guan’s hokkien mee is very distinct in that it has this beautiful charcoal taste. Fried over charcoal (duh), the smell of charcoal is retained in the noodles, and it gives the noodles an extra oomph, or 3. Its soup base is meaty compared to some that use a seafood soup base. It is of the drier variety, not swimming in a good soup base.

By far the most impressive Hokkien noodle I have tasted.

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It is not cheap at $6, $10, $12 but the small plate of hokkien mee gives you 3 prawns and a lot of octopuses.

You will see a long Q at the place but generally the wait is about 15 mins. How it operates is that a big wok of noodles is fried at one go, which takes about 15 mins. As he cooks, the Q starts to form. After 15 mins, noodles are dished out along the Q, everyone in the Q will usually get it. If you’re lucky and arrive as he starts dishing out, you might just wait the 3-5 mins to be served, just pray that there is some left when it’s your turn!

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Swee Guan is located at Lorong 29 Geylang. There is another fried Hokkien noodle stall called "Geylang Lorong 29 Charcoal Fried Hokkien Mee", this was operated by the elder brother. Now operated by the children of the brother. You can read my views on them just below.

Swee Guan Hokkien Mee

5 Lorong 29 Geylang, s388060

5 – 10pm, closed on Wed

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Swee-Guan-Hokkien-Mee/188813567824125

Hokkien Noodle

Jul 2021

TTL

When we arrived at around 2pm, I was horrified to learn that they had sold out! Thankfully, our friend Howie had placed advanced order and three packets were there waiting for us! Phew! Ours was not the only order waiting too, I assume this was a normal practice.

Definitely one of the better Fried Hokkien Mee. Served to the wetter side, there were remnants of the sauce after I finish, which I gleefully slurped up, with a spoon of course. Moments like this you appreciated that lunch was packed on paper, how else could you ensure every drip can be scooped up?

The chilli compliments the noodle well, and mildly spicy. I won’t go daily, no… but this is one I would bring my Fried Hokkien Mee loving friends to. Need to remember to pre order!

Come Daily (Tian Tian Lai 天天来)

#02-27 8am – 230pm, closed on Mon. 96717071

https://www.facebook.com/comedailyfhpm/

Hong Xing

Hokkien Mee

Apr 2025

Fried Hokkien noodle with a delicious and rich flavour

Embarrassingly, it was only this year that I found out this was a fried Hokkien prawn noodle stall! Michelin rated, rated from the early days as well! Thought I should give it a go, especially after I asked the jiak kakis, everyone loved it, or it is the favourite of someone in their family.

Chef here cooks the noodles in large batches, the Q would build up as he starts a new batch, which takes about 5-6 minutes to be ready. Then comes distribution and the Q moves quite fast. There were about 8 ahead of me (I was VERY lucky, it would be 28 five minutes later!) and I waited about 12 minutes, with distribution ending about 5 ahead of me and one person ordering 8 packets... The wait was quite decent. probably one customer per minute.

I knew this would be good when I saw the broth that the chef used to flavour the noodles, it was rich with orange bubbles, dark broth too. It would be a deeply flavoured prawn flavour.

It was indeed. Rich and strong savoury prawn-based flavour engulfed the noodles. Even the ingredients had this wonderful flavour, the shrimps, octopuses, eggs, pork pieces and bean sprouts were well flavoured. My only complaint would be that octopus pieces were small and few; pork pieces worse, it is easier to find hair on my head... 😎😂

This would not take away the fact that it was majestic in flavour, definitely one of my top 3.

Hong Heng Fried Sotong Prawn Mee 鸿兴超苏东虾面

30 Seng Poh Road, #02-01, s168898

1030am – 230pm, closed on Sun and Mon

Geylang 29

Fried Hokkien Noodle

May 2024

Tasty Hokkien noodles, yummy satay

At Lorong 29 Geylang, there used to be a satay stall that I loved, they have since moved to Lor25A. The fried Hokkien noodles there were quite irresistible too, Swee Guan, sometimes (more often than not actually), we would get a small dish to share on top of the satay…

This Geylang Lorong 29 Hokkien noodle is the elder brother (now nephews and nieces) of Swee Guan. While Swee Guan sells only Hokkien mee, this one does carrot cakes, oyster omelette and satay. They brought the whole Lorong 29 coffee shop over! (the carrot cake and oyster omelette at Lorong 29 is also quite well known)

I’d say the oyster omelette and carrot cakes were decent stuff, but clearly in the supporting role, a decent addition if you’re greedy.

The satays were quite good actually. The chicken satay especially was tasty and juicy, pretty impressive. While the pork belly were a bit chunky and odd looking, they had good tender and fattty pork belly, well flavoured. They were ok taste wise but I just cannot get over the chunkier than usual skewered satay. I might just go with the ordinary pork satay which were just as well flavored and tender. A personal preference.

Finally for the main Hokkien mee. Good amount of noodles and ingredients; prawns (big prawns option available), octopus, and deep fried pork lard. Unlike Swee Guan, a $6 plate here was more than enough for a regular person.

Hokkien mee was well flavoured, level of dampness just right, no soup to scoop but moist. A hint of charcoal that was fleeting but disappeared before you can taste it.

They used to have another hawker stall at Lagoon Hawker Centre, but seemed to have separated, with the hawker stall's name and address cancelled out from their name cards at the Siglap stall. A very good Hokkien noodle, and decent satay.

Geylang Lorong 29 Charcoal Fried Hokkien Mee

936n East Coast Road, s459129

12pm – 8pm, closed on Mon

https://www.facebook.com/p/Geylang-Lorong-29-Charcoal-Fried-Hokkien-Mee-100063609636933/

https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/1502943626492275/geylang-lorong-29-charcoal-fried-hokkien-mee/

Bao Er

Hokkien Noodle, Breakfast

Mar 2024

Four Heavenly Kings. Fantastic fried Hokkien noodles, tasty kaya butter toasts, fabulous fried chicken, and their fried bee hoon breakfast brilliant

Despite being located in a quiet "mall", this place was bustling. Came on a weekday morning at 10am and it was three quarters full. Another visit during lunch, seats were not easy to come by. One bite into any of their signatures and you'll know why!

Accompanied by lots of prawns, octopuses, pork strips and fried lard, the fried Hokkien noodle was delicious. Ingredients were in abundance, especially the pork strips which I love, but the noodles had a very nice and strong base taste and just wet enough without any "scoopable" gravy, it was so good I can eat it sans ingredients. Add some of the lime given for some acidic excitement. This is so good they term it "prawnography", we can only smile and agree...

The accompanying chilli was mildly spicy, but more sour and savoury. Didn't really need it to thoroughly enjoy the noodles but it was quite good too.

Sliced across the body so that each original slice of a loaf is a thin sandwich, the toasts are grilled so that almost the entire sandwich is crispy. Toasts come in a set with soft boiled eggs, and a basic cup of hot coffee or tea, which are good strong stuff!

Served with very generous amounts of butter and kaya, it is guaranteed to overflow, so be careful not to grasp too tight when picking them up🤣. This is reminiscent of the old Ya Kun charcoal grilled toasts at the old Lao Pasat, and the reason we used to wait an hour or more for them！

They seem to be using some mutant chicken for their prawn paste fried chickens. Wings only and they are huge.

Freshly fried with each order, it was piping hot and remained so for quite a while. Battered skin thick and crispy, the meat within hot and tender. Lots to bite into given the size of the wing is bigger than most I’ve seen.

The more we visit this place, the more impressed I get! Besides the 3 marvellicious items mentioned above, their fried bee hoon, breakfast style where you choose what items to go with, were simply brilliant. Fried to absolute fragrance, bee hoon and ingredients were fresh and delicious, one of the best out there.

There are many other items available too, like a prawn noodle, a variety of fried rice and western dishes. We have tried the fried rice and prawn noodles, both not half as impressive as the above, so we extrapolated that the rest were more mediocre.

Besides the one at Balestier, they have a branch called Treasure Toast along Purvis Street which may be more assessable, but parking there is not easy, will probably have to use Bras Basah Complex or Raffles Hotel for parking spots.

Treasure Toast concentrates more on their toasts, which I think is the best available in Singapore, JB, and I’d say Batam too… Actually, I’d say the say for the Hokkien noodles, and arguably the breakfast bee hoon and fried chicken wings too. This would be a good place to bring friends from overseas as they can sample 4 top notch local dishes.

Bao Er is quite cute, aptly calls themselves Prawngraphy, actually they are not just food porn, it’s a massive orgy 🤣🤣🤣! They even have t-shirt uniforms and cartoon emblems for that too!

With FOUR items that each can contend to be THE best available in Singapore, the title of "Four Heavenly Kings" to describe this is apt; you will have to have a plan on what to eat before entering their premises! At best, you can only order 2, so best to come with a gang with hungry pangs!

Bao Er Café

400 Balestier Rd, #02-01 Balestier Plaza, Singapore 329802

Daily 8am – 8pm

Treasure Toast

23 Purvis Street, #01-01, s188600

Daily 7am - 10pm