No. 25 Minced Meat Noodle (#01-3749, 161 Bukit Merah Central) generated a bit of buzz a while ago. Mostly because of the soup they served with their signature bowl of bak chor mee and that it was a young couple who had no prior experience in this specific trade that was running the business. That's garnered them interest and obviously a queue for their bowls. Oddly enough, I spent about 25 minutes in that queue.
Regarding their soup - there's at least a couple of articles and their copycats bandying about the words tonkotsu and tonkotsu-inspired to describe the broth. Haven't a clue who has been smoking what but it didn't not look or taste anything like tonkotsu. The closest I can think of for comparison might be the one at Seng Kee. It's different though. I could have sworn that I tasted crab in this bowl. 😳 Anyways, I enjoyed it.
Noodles were not bad...saucing is a little wet but the flavours made up for it. Their sauce concoction wasn't special. It just struck what was a good balance of light spicy savoury which resonated well with me. Delicious both with and without the splash of vinegar you could help yourself too. Portions for the noodles felt a little small though.
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