When was your 1st time you tasted Punggol Mee Goreng ?

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The reason I use the name Punggol Mee Goreng is that I feel that this dish is lost. I am not related to any restaurant or food business.

The 1st time I tried Punggol Mee Goreng was at the World Trade Centre (now Vivo City) in the mid or late 90s. Followed by a building next to those chalet at East Coast Park. Never fail to impress overseas Visitors.

Somewhere past 2000, Punggol Restaurant seems to have dissapeared. And a few stalls in food court or kopitiam have stalls selling Punggol Mee Goreng. Those are fake.

For the past few years, I had tried restaurant with the name Punggol and their so call Mee Goreng. Many do not even come close to the standard. Ingredient use are missing.

Do any guys out there know where is the real Punggol restaurant ?

mancha SG

When the original is gone, many fakes sprout up.

How many Jalan Kayu Roti prata are there? Waterloo Rojak, Shenton Way Mee Goreng, Orchard Road Ikan Bakar. Punggol Mee Goreng? The original was at the end of Punggol Road fishing village, now resettled elsewhere and the others sprout up like musrooms all over Singapore.

So we are looking at the best of the copys

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I went to Jln Kayu for Roti Prata just last weekend. The original is Thasevi. I am familiar because my military service required me to be attached there (Seletar camp) for some months and go back there once in a while during my service.

Did not know there is a Shenton Way Mee Goreng !

I heard that the Punggol fishing village was gone >20 yrs ?

I went to the restaurant (Hock Kee) at Punggol end few yrs ago. Very dissapointed. Everything they cook is below average. Saw the restaurant owner in the Newspaper that they are the one who invented Punggol Mee Goreng. Yet not able to produce any Punggol Mee Goreng !

Also been to the restaurant (Seng Choon) just beyond Changi village. A waitress in her 50s told me she worked in the old Punggol restaurant when she was young. The inventor was the restaurant owner's younger sister. Chilli was supplied by a Malay family who stay in a Malay compound behind the restaurant, curry powder ..... Nobody could cook the original taste nowaday.

I wonder how come nobody can adjust the taste like Da Chang Jin ?

Clivebenss SG

Punggol mee goreng. Long story.

Originally it was a small malay stall on the right side at Punngol Point selling normal mee goreng but good chili.

Later the big restaurant Hock Kee follows but serve with seafood (prawns and squids) added. Most people know the later seafood version.

Depending on modern definition, Punggol mee goreng is the Hock Kee version but original it was just a plain malay mee goreng with a good chili sambal.

But the story don't end here. The Punggol sambal mee goreng is actually more a copy of what I tasted in Tuas end at least 45 years ago.

lce SG

tot the chinese version started in the resturant at the end of punggol rd

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The Malay version of Mee Goreng make sense. I bought Mee Goreng from a make shift stall during a Ramadan few years back from an elderly lady. It was with a tinge of chilly, nothing much.

Look like Hock Kee is "more original". I guess the restaurant owner do not know how to cook.

This is the problem with bosses who do not know their trade they are in.

Clivebenss SG

tot the chinese version started in the resturant at the end of punggol rd

Hock Kee was the one on the left at Punggol Point.

lce SG

somehow the chinese version tastes better than the malay version

maybe due to the ingreden

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Read in Newspaper that it was the Indian Mee Goreng in Punggol that inspired the Punggol restaurant to create a Chinese version.

I feel that those Mee Goreng in food court / kopitiam are as follow :

1. Cook by Malaysian - full of pork taste

2. Cook by mainland Chinese - full of MSG (mono sodium glutamate)

The word "Punggol" have been removed in the food court / kopitiam nowaday.

Look like Clivebenss had been to the actual Punggol Point in the old days. He know left or right on where the shop is.

Perhaps Clivebenss can write where and how are the Punggol Mee Goreng nowaday ? Or some histories.

Clivebenss SG

dunno much about Punggol mee goreng were nowadays. Anyway not my favourite so I dun bother to find out. I used to go to Punggol point for seafood back in the 70s.

jmstar~ SG

Tasted great! Can't remember when I ate it.

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Does anybody know where to eat Punggol Mee Goreng that taste great ? Feel free to comment the poor one.

lce SG

Tasted great! Can't remember when I ate it.

i cook for u Laughing