wantan mee @ 128 tembeling road

unlike some people, i don't know how to appreciate the soup version of wantan mee. every time i eat wantan mee, it has to be the dry version with a bit of chilli. so was it today when i ate at hong mao noodle.

joo chiat area seems to have more than its fair share of good wantan mee stalls. besides hong mao noodle, there is fei fei at 62 joo chiat place (there is more than one fei fei in joo chiat) and eng's wantan noodles at dunman food centre.

at hong mao, i like the wantan but find the noodles, just so so. it seems like all the popular wantan mee stalls, with the exception of the sin hoe hin at rowell road, share one common feature - long waiting time for your food. at 128 food corner, you can expect to wait up to 45 minutes for your wantan mee. (this afternoon, went to eat at telok blangah drive, waited 30 minutes for the wantan mee which we polished off in less than 10 minutes.)

my own ranking of the wantan mee stalls that i have tried so far is: 1st kok kee @ lavendar food court; 2nd sin hoe hin @ 12 rowell road; and 3rd hong ji mian shi jia @ telok blangah drive.