Ah Seng Bah Kut Teh

Dryyyyyyyyyy, that’s the only word I have for the pork, in soup or braised with the preserved vegetables.
I love my bak kut teh in Singapore, dipping you tiao in the never ending refillable black peppery soup, complete with salty vegetables and some braised meat/​beancurd skin! I chanced upon this stall on my way to liang seah street to hunt for other food stalls. So my colleagues and I, 4 of us, decided to give this stall a try as it truly looks appealing!
We ordered 2 bowls of the signature bak kut teh, 1 sliced pork soup, 1 pigs stomach soup, 1 preserved vegetables and braised pork, 2 bowls of you tiao and completed with rice and vermicelli. Total bill is slightly less than S$ 50, which I thought it’s slightly on the high side for bak kut teh.
The taste of the soup is not that peppery spicy, and I think it’s good for tourist. This is easy drinking soup, and it’s not too bad. Being a Singaporean myself, I prefer my bak kut teh to have stronger punch of the black and white pepper combination! The pig’s stomach is great, and really cleaned properly with no nasty smell. I’ve a mixed feeling with the preserved vegetables with braised pork. It’s well flavored, a hit on the salty side, and they used thick slices of pork belly to braise it with the vegetables. The skin of the pork belly is yummy, but the meat is dry, like really dry which I thought it’s kind of weird on a pork belly. The pork ribs from the soup are also dry and tasteless, and I feel that there’s a lack of fragrance in the soup, probably ties in with the lack of pepper and onion.
Well, this is ok for me and it’s probably somewhere I will bring friends traveling from states here to try. Local taste bud, not really.

The dry mee sua picture caught my attention I hardly see dry mee sua in many noodle stalls.
The coffee shop is spilt into two sections, separated by some pillars but you can order from either the noodle/​coffee stalls section or from the bak kut teh side.
I had the dry mee sua which was not as good as the one in Yan Kee over at BK Eating House (Boat Quay area). The mee sua was a bit more sticky and soggy. The sauce could also be better. At $ 3.50 it is the same price as Yan Kee but this seemed to have more ingredients. Besides mee sua, you could have the usual mee pok or mee kia and other noodle items.
I also ordered bak kut teh as I wanted the soup. I chose the premium which came with long rib bones, instead of the usual chopped up shorter or smaller ribs/​bones. The soup is of the clear peppery kind, with no herbal taste. It was good but I would not say mind blowing. As I hardly have BKT, I do not know much about it. It is pricey at $ 6 for just 3 ribs.
The soup is refillable. Just ask the staff for a refill and they will come round with a kettle of soup to pour into your bowl.