So we got hungy again in the evening and this time we were prepared, having checked out which food center to go to /before/ actually heading off. So we arrived and this time plenty of stalls were open @ the Maxwell Food Centre.
At first we strolled but there were not many queues at this time so we could not try to pinpoint the favourite stalls that way, so we went for the “what do we actually want to eat” method. Tried and true. We decided to eat some fish/seafood/meat noodle soups and found a stall that looked nice and where a few people had gotten their orders already.
It turned out that the woman and I both fancied squid (sotong) that evening and so we ordered Sotong Ball Soup and a Sotong/Meatball Noodle Set. What we got looked quite tasty indeed..
Sotong Ball Soup / Sotong+Meatball Noodle Set
Not only did it look rather nice, it also tasted very nice. The main ingredient — the seafood and meatballs — were excellent. If you buy them frozen then usually they are missing a certain texture since they are soft, these were almost “springy” and tasted very fresh. The meatballs in my set were just as nice and apparently were either freshly made or I want the brand of meatballs they buy.
Usually when you answer a hawker who asks “spicy?” with “Yes, please”, there are two possibilities…one likely, one unlikely. Since we are clearly westeners, the likely one is we get no spice or very little. The unlikely one is that we get what we order. This time, the noodles were supposed to be spicy and were indeed spicier than any food I had in Singapore. Not only that, they complemented my soup nicely and tasted well to boot.
The food cost us S$10 altogether and we got up very satisfied….satisfied but a bit peckish yet. And close to the soup stall, there was one selling potato dumplings and we could see two friendly looking ladies making/sorting the dumplings. It smelled nice from the stall so we decided to go there.
Stall with delicious potato dumplings
We bought one of each of the dumplings since we could not decide which to get. Not a very pricy decision, we got 6 of them for less than S$5. All of the dumplings were fried in fresh oil and tasted very good but were rather fatty (which we did not mind at all..). They had been eaten within minutes of purchase and since they all looked a bit alike, we did not take any pictures of them. If you got a sweet tooth, this stall will not let you down for sure, so visit stall no. 76 for a desert.
