Wah Kee Big Prawn Noodles

Singapore is small and thankfully so, seeing that people will go anywhere for food. If there's one thing that brings most people together, it is food anyway. Most of us enjoy food anyway, agreed? So it's no surprise that a popular shop like Wah Kee Big Prawn Noodles has customers from all over Singapore. This shop is so popular that they even have a group of Japanese business men that have been regularly patronizing their stall for the past 15 years!

I've been psychoing Terence to try this prawn noodles as I swore it is better than Beach Road Prawn Mee and River South Prawn Mee. Finally yesterday Terence and I went to Pek Kio market where this prawn noodle gem is located. We thought we couldn't make it as this shop closes pretty early, thankfully we made it just in time(We were one of the last few customers). And we were privileged to get to speak to the owner of the shop. A friendly man who is already hitting 70, he shared with us about the time he started out after taking over from his father, to his loyal customers and even his kids. Wah Kee is tradition, when this uncle took over his father's business it was 1968, so I wonder when his father started the business? After World War 2 maybe. So they've got over 40 years of experience in making prawn noodles!

Business for them starts at 5am when they start to prepare the stock. It is boiled for several hours(not sure what are the exact ingredients though, he didn't say). They start selling their prawn noodles at 7 plus and are usually done by 2pm. The uncle told us that he doesn't keep any left over soup, it is all thrown away at the end of the day and he makes a new batch the next day. He insists everything must be fresh or else it will not taste as good(what a waste of good soup though, can give me la haha)

If you're gonna take in all that cholesterol might as well go all the way right? So we ordered the $10 bowl of noodles. It arrived in 2 portions, the noodles in the bowl, and the prawns in the mini wok. Note that the soup served with the noodles and the soup served with the prawns taste different. The soup served with the prawns is much richer and fragrant. The auntie was nice and offered to top up our soup. =D

Having tried some of the better prawn noodles out there, I must say this one has a unique taste to it's soup. It is tasty in its own right, but not as salty as the others that kinda make you feel thirsty after drinking it. The uncle said that he did not believe in using MSG to flavour his food, and that he wanted his soup to taste special so that people will always come back for more. I couldn't agree more. He also joked that some people often ask him if he put something funny in the soup, like a chemical or drug, because if they go without his noodles for more than a week they will feel weird and will pop back to his stall for their regular dose.

For $10 you get 3 hugeass prawns! These prawns seriously out of this world. I didn't manage to capture it, but there's like a lot of prawn roe on these things, not to mention that the prawns are really fresh and succulent. The uncle revealed that why he can offer so many prawns for this price is because he has set up shop for so long, and is under the old rent scheme. Not to mention that he doesn't want to short change his customers.

Besides their wonderful soup and prawns, the noodles served are also very good. It is available in both soup and dry versions, and there are a few types of noodles to choose from. I will definitely be back. Ok this looks like a pretty long entry, but I just had to blog about what the uncle said la. =)

Wah Kee Big Prawn Noodles
Blk 41A Cambridge Road Hawker Centre (Pek Kio Market)
#01-15
Opening Hours: 7am - 2pm