I heard a lot of good review about Toa Payoh Fu Zhou Ban Mian! This stall is famous for their dry ban mian! What is dry ban mia? Have you eaten before or have you heard about it before? Normally with dry meepok or dry meekia you'd expect some combination of the classic chili/vinegar/tomato/dark soy sauce. However, with ban mian, one would probably be curious as to how on earth do you serve it dry. At Fu Zhou Ban Mian (whose signboard just states Ban Mian), for $3.50, what you get is a huge bowl of handmade broad noodles (ban mian), mixed in dark soy sauce. Apart from the crispy ikan bilis, a cracked egg and minced pork, this dish is a vegetarians' delight.
Dry Ban Mian - $3.50
The dry Ban Mian came with a very generous portion of soup! A generous amount of ingredients (minced pork, vegetables, anchovy (ikan bilis) and Noodle was given. There was dark sauce at the bottom of the bowl. Before eating it, the sauce should be mixed with the noodles till every strand was well coated with the dark sauce. Be honest, it was just average! But the soup was good!
Taste 1.5/5
Overall, The dry ban mian was just average, maybe should try the soup version as i find the soup was good!
福州板面 (Fu Zhou Ban Mian)
Blk 186, J99 Eating House, Toa Payoh Central, 310186
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat, 6:00-21:00; Closed Sun
Thanks for reading!
Jthejon
