noodle affair 1

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The Tok-Tok Noodle Man

If you are a pre- Lee Kuan Yew relic, then you probably were playing mahjong or listening to Li Dai Sor (story telling on Redifussion) reruns on a lazy afternoon when suddenly, albeit expectedly - "tok-tok, tok-tok-tok-tok...". (I was then lulled to sleep by my mother's weekly mahjong jaunts which made a repetitive din that was hypnotic, broken only by the sound of "tok-tok-tok"). The tok-tok man came. I would double hop down the pre-war steps of the hairdressers' row of shop houses at Geylang and intercept that noise made from wooden chopsticks knocking on a bamboo cup. I'd give my order and he'd return half an hour later with a bowl of kway teow soup. The sweet stock (no MSG those days), the kway teow, the hee piow (fish dumpling), fish ball and pork slices sang such a unified flavour that it is still humming at the back of my tongue today. They were the original Mee Pok Man! Ta-Mee (dry chilli noodles) were perfected by them. Sadly the advent of health conscious people killed passion from the cooks and removed lard from the cooking nowadays." - KF Seetoh, Makansutra Related Link: www.makansutra.com



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