It has been 4 years since I last stepped into Maxwell Road Food Centre. Used to patronize the food centre when I was working around the area. There are many food varieties to choose from and the quite popular and I guess have gained more popularity stall will be Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice - where Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay visited for the Singtel Hawker Heroes challenge. And Yes, Tian Tian won Gordon!
But I wasn't craving for chicken rice but Hup Kee Wu Xiang Guan Chang. A simple bee hoon with some side dish. Normally I will go for the set as I believe that all the 'best selling' dish will be in it. For S$3.60 (ok, I remembered 4 years back, it was less than S$3), you get a big plate of bee hoon with 4 different dishes. This stall has many newspaper cuttings and photos with celebrities - this shows how famous it is!
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| Hup Kee Wu Xiang Guan Chang Set - S$3.60 |
I have to say, the ngor hiang (五香 / Chinese Five-Spice Pork Roll) is really special as it is red in colour on the inside. I guess it got to do with the spices that the stall owner uses. The ngor hiang are really tasty but small in size. Next is the deep fried fritters on the side. I always wonder what it is made of as I could not really taste it. I thought it was potato or sweet potato but to my surprise, it is actually deep fried egg. A nice surprise though. Last, is their specialty -guan chang (贯肠) which is their pink pork sausage. It is handmade by the stall owner. It is tender and nice and goes well with the sauce.
The accompanying sauce is actually a thick gluey sweet sauce with chilli. Please let the owner knows if you do not take chilli so that he can give you the sweet sauce instead. When mixed, the spicy sweet sauce is lovely. All in all, the bee hoon has got the right texture that went well with all the dishes.
This dish from this stall brought back memories of me and my ex-colleagues. Is time to ask them out to revisit our favourite Maxwell Road Food Centre.
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