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2013-02-28
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The property agent raved about Soon Heng Rojak at the HDB's basement foodcourt and the Xing Zhou Beef Noodles at the Kim Keat Palm hawker centre so we ditched our plan to eat at Astons at the recently reopened new Safra. The Kim Keat Palm hawker centre is big so we asked a passerby for directions to the highly recommended beef noodle stall. He said we could just walk around the perimeter of the hawker centre and look out for a Q that snakes out of it. True enough there was only one such Q & we w
Hainan Xing Zhou indisputably dishes out the best value beef noodles in Singapore. The $3.50 bowl of beef noodles was topped with lots of thinly sliced, good quality lean beef that was blanched to perfect timing to seal in all the juices yet remained a touch rare & tender to the bite.
The gravy was rich, tasty & of perfect consistency, coating every strand of the thick rice noodles without being too starchy. The beef balls were tasty & bouncy too.It is nice to have enough meat to accompany every mouthful of noodles. Full marks also for their hearty, wholesome beef broth which had a robust bovine flavour. The beef residue in the soup is proof that the bovine flavour is derived from cooking lots of beef in the soup which had been kept simmering on the stove over low heat for long hours. This is honest to goodness beef stock with no short cuts. My partner who ordered the beef noodles with the innards also gave his bowl two thumbs up as the beef tendon, stomach & other parts had been painstakingly cleaned thoroughly to rid them of any offensive smells and subsequently cooked just right. While this stall is hardly as famous as the Hock Lam Beef Noodles at Raffles Place which I find rather overrated, it has built up a loyal clientele who make their way back regularly whenever they have a craving for homestyle beef noodles. I am one of Xing Zhou's newest fans.
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