The wantan mee .. worth waiting...

My family (or rather my dad) has this thing for wantan mee or as he calls it "kolo mee". In fact, all his brothers and sisters and my granpa can eat it at least once every 2 weeks. There are 3 places of wantan mees stalls which the Tan Family are die-hard fans of(and we have our own names for them).. first is "Joo Chiat kolo mee" (known famously as fei fei wan tan mee), second "eng ko kolo mee" (named as such because the cook's name is Eng) and the last "Lor Mydin kolo mee" (its a wan tan mee stall along Lorong Mydin).

We used to patronise fei fei wan tan mee alot until after the old stall owner passed away then we frequent it slower and then hardly ever. Standard has dropped alot and it has become overly commercialised. I can still rem when I was a young gal.. where we had a long tables of 20 pple (family outing) waiting just for feifei wantan mee. We always had it with the rojak there. Nice!

Its only within these 2 years which I start to fall in love with eng ko wan tan mee. I dun rem eating it when I was young but I always hear my dad and uncle toking abt it. Apparently this wantan mee has killer chilli. So anyway, dad started tao-baoing it for me. U might think tao bao(packet) noodles will not be nice and be soggy. For his wan tan mee, u r wrong. The packed noodles of cos become "pong" (expanded) means i have a bigger pack to it. But the noodles is still al-dente and has soaked up all the flavours. ANd his chilli sauce! 1 teaspoon can kill! but yet, the excitement of the spiciness, i cant resist not to add it. Only thing.. his cha siews and wan tan are not much of a rave. Who cares? the noodles itself is making me crave for it again.

It was only until last month I managed to go down dunman food centre to eat it there. The place seems empty YET we had to waited for at least half hour. Waiting is no issue for my family when it comes to food we love. We used to wait for an hour for 85 ba chor mee.. and nearly every weekend an hour for simpang bedok ah lim mee pok! Even my husband (who comes from a family who hates waiting) also waits patiently with us for his meepok. keke! Greedy husband!


Ok back to noodles, the noodles came abit wet and messy. Guess good food matters over presentation for old stalls like his. It still taste good but i really prefer it packet. I thot I was being wierd until i brought my husband down to eat it himself and he agrees with me. So I should jus wait for dad to tao bao for me next time for i can minus the waiting time, get a "bigger packet" for the same price and taste nicer! MMmmm... sounds evil! keke!




The stall at dunman food centre.