Noo Cheng Adam Road Prawn Noodle: Zion Road Food Centre Part 1 of 3
With iwatch_ueat, damien, smartgoh and introducing the very HolyC
Jumbo Prawn Mee Soup $8
This stall is a branch of the one at Adam Road which I visited previously. The dry version over there was much better then the soup version as I felt the soup there really lacked the ooomph. I mentioned this to the stallowner. He smiled and assured me that the soup here is guaranteed to knock my socks off.
Man he was right. The soup here really does beat the one over at Adam Road! Those looking for a umami rush would be very pleased. 4.5/5
I must admit that after blogging so many different prawn mee stalls, my taste for prawn mee has become more upmarket. After eating the XL Sea Prawns, it is very hard to go back to the scrawny little ones. A freshly blanched Sea Prawn has got that special sweetness and texture about it that is hard to beat!
Conclusion
Another great place for Prawn Mee! As always, it depends on your luck whether the soup is going to be super shiok that day. If you catch it just before they fill the vat with a fresh batch of soup, you will be in for a rush!
Noo Cheng Adam Road Prawn Mee
Zion Riverside Food Centre Stall 4
11am to 11pm daily
14 comments:
hmm... if the stall owner guaranteed that the soup would make your hair drop off, is he secretly telling you that he has put in loads of MSG?
Just a thought.
But I've no doubt it tastes as good as it looks... Slurps!
When i was little my parents would take me to JB for breakfast and our regular haunt was a grubby old coffe house called Restoran Agape.. No fancy large prawns in their prawn noodle, but the soup was SO rich, SO intense- that taste has lingered in my mouth til today.
And unfortunately that's made every single prawn mee I've tried in Singapore taste totally, totally sub-par. Noo Cheng's inclusive. Sorry mate.
Oh there is no doubt that they add MSG in the soup. But there is also the naturally occurring MSG in the Prawns. I need to qualify that he did not actually say my hair will drop off, he said something else in Mandarin which I translated into an English phrase that best captures the meaning of what he said.
i had e same tots as jubes! straight after reading e sentence: "He smiled and assured me that the soup here is guaranteed to make my hair drop off." i was thinking: wah, doesn't it mean tat there's a lot of msg in it? ieat still dare to eat ah?
haha.. =p
Thanks for your feedback. The sentence has been altered so that the stallowner's intentions are not misrepresented.
Can assure u that ieat's hair is still UP there, after eating that prawn mee soup.For me botak liao, see photo ieat took last Tues.
sounds good! looks like I've gotta go there to try the prawn noodles. while u were there did you notice one stall selling cze char? I last went there one evening for dinner last year and the thought of the steamed white pomfret fish I had still salivates my mouth. Regretfully I cant remember the stall name maybe if I visit it again I comment here! Maybe you can give it a try while you go there again, may or may not suit your taste buds of coz.. but I feel it's worth a try :)
oh, forget what I said... I just realised it's a different place i was talking about... The stall that i mentioned was at Zion Rd Blk 86 food centre, just behind the boys brigade hq...
I had tried both prawn mee stalls - adam and zion. I preferred the adam version. (Maybe coz I ate at this stall since 1990-but back then his dad did the cooking). Anyway the zion version had FISH CAKE SLICES(YEECH!!!). The fish cake taste terrible. Last I visited was 23/04. Now I recall why I haven't eaten it for a long time though I work nearby. I say, oahiyeel, did you try the prawn noodle at the convent garden food centre - the one you just mentioned about the cze char? The stall is by 2 old ladies.
I've heard about this stall from my aunt but didn't get the chance to go when I was back.
Next time!
Have been trying to post a comment since mid May but can't seem to get it done. So pyah say if this gets repeated.
"What's the rating for this?" My friend asked me the night while we're half way through our prawn mee. The score was swimming between 3.5 and 4. I eventually gave it a 4 cos the soup is quite tasty lah. But somehow, it still lacks the umphhh that I always look for in a prawn mee soup. Also, we were rather disappointed with the freshness of the prawns. Not sweet lah! My mum always says "It different, you know. You can taste the sweetness if it comes directly from the sea. Nowadays, they are all mass breed in the prawn farms." So conclusion, I still prefer the one at Geylang Lor 1, opp Kallang MRT - ieat also wrote about it. Read on.
i juz tried this prawn mee last nite..total disappointment as i was craving v much for prawn mee..
the mee was v hard..abit under cooked..the prawns were small for $5 version..
all the coments above, i made the comparison wif the adam rd one..there's no way i will b eating at this Zion branch ever again..
Both outlets soup taste similar to me though there was a period that the Adam Road stall fell back a lil. Recently had the Adam Road one and standard of the soup came back~
The prawn noodle sucks big time. Ordered a $5 portion, come with 5 small prawn, 3 turn out with funny taste. Standard had drop a lot since last time when a middle age man is running the store. All ingredients are keep in plastic bags!!! Stall cleaniness is very bad, saw many house fly flying around.
Last but not least, the soup taste horrible!!!
Not worth a visit at all..even it pay me to eat!!
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