Hock Lam Beef is a restaurant to check in Singapore; indeed, the place is apparently a century old which for a country only 49 years old is quite amazing!!
Anyway I went there last week to check their famous dish: teachew beef kway teow. It is basically a beef broth with a choice of noodle and beef served with a soup or dry.
My choice resulted to this…
Not bad huh!! Overall the dish was good, but no biggie. What I liked most was the beef; it included tender, fat, and chewy slices. I had to chew it for a good five min before swallowing it, I loved it. haha
One last thing though, for a place that old I would have expect some sort of history/legacy spirit in their decoration, service, or else. But none of that, I thought it was disappointing.
Singapore is a city that value efficiency and quick access to general information (well, in most cases). One easy example is for instance to know in advance the fine you’ll receive if you break the law.
Yes correct you’ll see these anywhere near subway stations. (It’s only in the subway…obviously)
At least you don’t have to check on Google or anything, you know right away that bringing gas or fuel in a subway will give you a fine of S$5,000. lol
FYI jaywalking is S$500, stealing wi-fi (or more like trying to get a free network on the street) is considered “hacking” and you could expect a S$5000 fine. There are some other good ones, but you get the idea I think.
I mean, truth to be said, it’s still a fine place to live. I have jaywalked, chew a gum, stolen wi-fi, and as you witness I am still very much alive and not broke yet. 🙂
Last week, my colleagues took me to that place to have some Ramen (a Japanese noodle soup dish)
As usual here in Asia soup are not simply soup, they usually add so much stuff on it! At that shop, you can get a vegetables, spicy, or dry ramen among others dish; I went for the corn ramen…
The bowl of ramen in pork-bone broth came with chewy noodles, discs of char siu (Chinese barbecued pork), crispy bean sprouts, chopped spring onions, corn, and finally a hanjuku-styled egg. Yes I know a loOot of things!
But my friend, trust me, it doesn’t get any better than this. This is definitely the best meal I ever had so far. The soup itself was delicious, it reminded me somehow of a dish I used to eat when I was in Africa; it came also with semi-hard egg white, something I never have before, but really tasty; lastly, well all the other components of the dish, I can’t really say much except they all go well together.
Next time you go to a Japanese restaurant, I suggest you try ramen; because folks, Nippon food is not only sushi 🙂
