Finally decided to give Ya Hua (#B1-44B Raffles City, 252 North Bridge Road, tel : +65 +65 6264 7066) a go after passing by this shop so many times and wondering if they were any good. I didn't recall not liking the food from their Havelock Road shop.
Was pretty surprised that their broth tasted weak. We had initially thought that their fish and pork ball mee sua might have been served with another broth that wasn't for their pork ribs. After we had accepted a top up of that soup, we learnt from them that it was the same as the one they used for their pork ribs. I'm not sure if it even had pepper.
The fish had a muddy taste of fresh water fish. The meatballs had a nice soy sauce flavour but were a little too soft. Almost mushy with no yield to the texture. If I had to do an apple to apple comparison, we've had better mee sua. Portions here were also little small.
Speaking of small portions, the menu mentioned that the mee sua came with dough fritters. We got exactly two pieces of those. Could taste the oil that they used to fry those fritters and I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
Their chap chye wannabe tasted not bad. Generous with the tau kee which I liked. Tau kwa wasn't too bad too but this was usually difficult to mess up. Don't think these dishes alone were good enough to be an incentive for a return.
Didn't try any of their pork ribs but we felt this was an indicative experience. Between Old Street and this for a convenient go to, the choice was pretty easy.
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