I’m sure many of us love prawn mee very much. In Petaling Jaya, Mee Yoke Lim in SS2 Cheow Yang is one of the famous ones known for the good taste in it. During my visit to Singapore last year, I happened to bump in to this stall in Hong Lim Food Centre that sells Hokkien prawn mee. It is really difficult to hunt down some good food in another place that you’re not familiar with without the locals bringing you around so I was actually quite lucky to be able to bump into this stall.

The Old Stall Hokkien Street Famous Hokkien Prawn Mee is located in Hong Lim food centre and in my opinion it isn’t that difficult to find it, locals should be able to find it without any problems while tourists could just ask around and you’ll be there in no time. There’s also a MRT station near this place but I can’t recall which station is it, perhaps someone could enlighten me on this ?


Prawn Mee (dry)

Now most of us actually have eaten prawn mee with soup so this stall offers it in a dry version and is one of the favourites among the regulars here. The prawns were fresh too when I tried it. Now I really couldn’t ask for more. :D


Prawn Mee (with soup)

Now this is the one people are more familiar with, however it does not look the same because the soup is not as thick as the rest. Well there is a reason behind this which will be explained later on. According to the owner Michael, the soup will be boiled early in the morning together with lots of ingredients to have the best possible soup for the prawn mee.

Now I said that there were reasons for the soup not being thick, the owner said that the chili powder provided should be put in to the soup to add more “oomph” in it. The chili powder is also for sale but I am not too sure of the price though.


Me with the owner Michael

Overall I think that this stall offers a really good and satisfying prawn mee. I dare not compare this stall with the rest because I’ve not tried others yet but I dare say that the prawn mee here is good and many celebrities from other country do come to this stall for the prawn mee too as said by the owner. I have also read many other comments on this stall in other blogs and most of it are giving good comments so you can be rest assured that the quality of the prawn mee here is good. :D

The Old Stall Famous Hokkien Prawn Mee
Hong Lim Food Centre
531A Upper Cross Street #02-68
NOTE : Closed on Thursdays