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My idea of a happy meal, even as a child, was neither a dry hamburger nor chicken nuggets from McDonalds. My comfort food has always been flat rice noodles or hofun that are really smooth. When I crave hofun or when the blues hit, I head over to Yee Cheong Yuen. They started off selling hofun from a stall in a coffee shop nestled among a row of shophouses behind Holland Road Shopping Centre. Now they have upgraded to their own aircon shop a few doors away from where they had first started their
My idea of a happy meal, even as a child, was neither a dry hamburger nor chicken nuggets from McDonalds. My comfort food has always been flat rice noodles or hofun that are really smooth. When I crave hofun or when the blues hit, I head over to Yee Cheong Yuen. They started off selling hofun from a stall in a coffee shop nestled among a row of shophouses behind Holland Road Shopping Centre. Now they have upgraded to their own aircon shop a few doors away from where they had first started their business. Other than the prices, nothing about their signature item of ipoh hofun has changed. By not opening other branches elsewhere, the family business has managed the food quality & standards well.
I recommend the $7.50 ipoh hofun set which comes with a small bowl of shrimp dumpling soup and a choice of homemade beverages such as barley drink. The thin strands of hofun are really smooth & do not clump together. The hofun is bathed in a tasty thick brown gravy & topped generously with 1cm thick slices of chicken cooked just right, unlike other hofun vendors who handpull the chicken into such measly thin shreds that one can hardly taste the chicken let alone appreciate its texture. The leafy green vegetables that are included in the plate of hofun have been blanched quickly in chicken stock so the stems remain crunchy to the bite. The shrimp dumplings have a good mix of prawn and minced pork, each carefully handwrapped to a plump semi
circular pouch. I like the dumplings here because they do not pack in too much black fungus to overshadow the taste of fresh prawns and minced pork. Customers have the option of replacing the hofun with HK style thin egg noodles, and the 'white' chicken with soya sauce chicken. Yee Cheong Yuen sells excellent chicken rice too but it was the hofun that made them famous. Some of my lunch mates rave about their chicken feet but I cant comment since I dont eat that.If you're coming for lunch do try to arrive before 12:30pm as the small shop has limited tables which are taken up quickly. Service is brisk to cater to fast customer turnover.
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