While we're on the subject of beef (cf my last post), particularly stewed beef, I have another little rave in a very different category of restaurant: the Tan's homemade beef noodle stall in the Holland Drive Market place hawker centre.
Mr Tan is a personable chap who uses a 60 year old family recipe from his Taiwanese mother-in-law to stew beef to the point of melting tenderness. No MSG and no pork is used to flavour so the result is a wonderful broth and tender thin slices of shin beef, cooked for what must be hours in a pressure cooker. It's flavoured also with his special blend of chilli and chilli oil, fragrant and unlike the usual sambal type flavours or cut chilli normally favoured by Singaporeans.
The noodles too are a treat being smooth and silky in texture with enough "bite" to their texture to create that "la mien" type experience but less glutinous. They come with an optional side dish of piquant pickles (mainly turnip and speckles of carrot) to offset the depth of the meaty broth.
I down the whole meal with a glass of pineapple juice from my favourite juice seller across from the beef noodle stall whenever I'm there who invariably serves me promptly with a smile. Somehow it seems so far away from the far more commercially charged atmosphere of Holland Village just 10 mins away but a world away in terms of pricing and sophistication. Holland Drive market is still where you got good food for very good prices and real people unhurried by the pace of a more urban lifestyle.
For opening hours please refer to his website www.tansbeefnoodle.com
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