Xin Mei Xiang Lor Mee, Old Airport Road Food Centre, Singapore (27 July, 2017)
Xin Mei Xiang Lor Mee 新美香卤面 (GPS: 1.30824, 103.88582) is a lor mee stall at Old Airport Road Food Centre in Singapore. It is a very famous lor mee stall in Singapore. When I came to Singapore, my friend Stanley decided that we should meet up and have lunch here, but he warned me in advance that the wait can be as much as an hour.
Sure enough, when we arrived at the stall at 11:35am, there was already a queue. Stanley ordered the S$4 bowl. He had wanted to order the S$6 bowl with added ingredients, but the hawker told him she couldn't sell the S$6 bowl on that day, because she didn't have enough ingredients. So, S$4 it is.
While Stanley queued up, I took photographs of the long queue that lined up in front of the stall. It was so long that it had to curved to one side. We arrived at the head of the queue at 12:00 noon. Not one hour later, but 25 minutes.
One look at the lor mee told me that, in terms of ingredients, it is very different from the lor mee I enjoy in Penang. There's no chicken feet here.
Xin Mei Xiang Zheng Zong Lor Mee at Old Airport Road Food Centre (28 July 2017)
Just look at the queue at Xin Mei Xiang Zheng Zong Lor Mee (28 July 2017)
Long, long queue, for the sake of lor mee. (28 July 2017)
Whoopie, I finally received my order. (28 July 2017)
Mixing up the ingredients in my lor mee bowl - you can still see a long queue at the lor mee stall behind me. (28 July 2017)
And this is how my lor mee looks like, before I stir it up. (28 July 2017)
So what's my verdict with regards Xin Mei Xiang Lor Mee? The taste of the "lor4" 滷 is similar to the lor of my favourite lor mee stall in Penang, so I have no complains there, but for S$4, I found the lor mee lacking in ingredients. Much of it is just noodles, with only a bit of "liau33" 料 . Perhaps I might have changed my opinion if I had the chance to try the S$6 bowl (but that has to wait till I return to Singapore). The taste is not bad, but the amount of ingredients does not justified that long queue.
Taking the MRT to Xin Mei Xiang Lor Mee
On foot, Xin Mei Xiang Lor Mee is 250 meters from Dakota MRT Station (CC8).
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