109 teochew yong tau foo @ syed alwi road

yesterday, had lunch with thai soon and tye thong at syed alwi road. thai soon gave us a choice: laksa at golden mile or teochew yong tau foo at syed alwi road. since tye thong is a teochew boy, we opted for the teochew stuff.

thai soon went for the soup version while both of us ordered the dry type. after you had selected the items and handed the bowl over, you would be given a small number plate to take back to your table. thai soon came back with number 33. when it came to my turn, i mentioned 33 but the lady insisted that everyone had to have his own number even if we were sharing table, so i got 35 and tye thong's was 34.

thai soon explained that they heated up or fried the items again and so each order would be prepared separately. the number was to identify the order, not the table where we would be seated.

the dry version came with the cut items sitting in a shallow bowl of brown gravy, similar to the gravy for lor mee. the soup came in a separate bowl. the condiments were placed in containers next to our table and we had to help ourselves to them.

after a satisfying lunch, we walked over to jalan berseh to check out the stalls. the pig's trotters and shark's meat stall was closed. the stall with a queue was the fish soup stall on left end of level 2. we had 'kopi karsi' from the stall next to the fish soup stall.

from there, we moved on to sungei road thieves' market. after browsing for more than half an hour, tye thong bought a nice picture frame. we had a beancurd drink each at beancurd city before calling it a day.