Guangzhou Mian Shi Wanton Noodle

The best Singapore-​style won ton noodles in Singapore. Expect a queue.

My mum, who is more food-​obsessed than I am, has been sneaking out of the house late at night whenever she’s hungry. She had finally found the wanton noodles that reminded her of what wanton noodles should be, she said. They weren’t trying to be HK-​style wanton noodles, which was important to her, because she doesn’t like HK-​style wanton noodles unless she’s having them in Hong Kong. Since she’s usually got punishing standards for our hawkers (she thinks too many of them are faffing about, destroying our food heritage with ketchup and ready-​made sauces), I was curious.
My dad joined in the fun tonight. For $ 2.50, we got a large bowl of wanton noodles that was very promising. No ketchup. That’s how low my expectations of wanton noodles in Singapore are these days: ketchup really sucks with noodles.
The noodles were the right amount of «QQ». The soup, served on the side, was very tasty. The wantons and shui kows were quite large (again, very low standards: for $ 2.50, you don’t expect normal-​sized wantons) and stuffed full of fresh pork and prawn.
«This tastes like the wanton noodles of our childhood,» both my parents enthused.
I never had the luck to have tasted the era of even-​better-​than-​now hawker food, but this bowl was pretty darn good.