Yue Lai Xiang Delights – Beetroot & Blue Pea Mee Hoon Kueh in Sin Ming

You have probably eaten mee hoon kueh before. But how about blue pea mee hoon kueh? In Sin Ming industrial estate lies a new coffeeshop stall, Yue Lai Xiang Delights, which sells colourful mee hoon kueh. Think blue pea, pumpkin, spinach and beetroot mee hoon kueh!

Joy, the owner of Yue Lai Xiang Delights, used to work in the printing industry before venturing into F&B. Mee hoon kueh was a dish that Joy’s grandmother had been cooking since a young age. After Joy’s grandmother passed on, Joy started to cook for her family, especially her mother.

She left the printing house in 2015 and started her first stall in Ang Mo Kio. It’s tough, considering that she does not have any F&B experience. But thankfully, business picked up. They are now at a new location, and her mother helps out at the stall as well.

Super QQ noodles in intriguing flavours, a robust pork bone broth made without MSG, an addictive chilli dip made from scratch, Yue Lai Xiang Delights sure knows how to make a bowl of fantastic ban mian and mee hoon kueh. The noodles were so delicious!

From the soup to the noodles, Joy makes everything from scratch at Yue Lai Xiang Delights. “Every dish I cook has to be good enough for my family to eat,” said Joy.

After receiving the order, Joy will tear the mee hoon kueh by hand, and place them into the pot of soup. She started out with just plain and pumpkin mee hoon kueh but later on created many other flavours, including spinach, beetroot and blue pea. The kueh is made from real puree and the texture is indeed very springy.

Joy’s mee hoon kueh soup is probably something my ah gong will love because the soup is really light and easy to drink. It is cooked with pork bones, ikan bilis, sweet corn and dried sole fish. I wish that the flavours of the dried sole fish were more pronounced though. I am surprised to see mani cai in my bowl of mee hoon kueh. Not many stalls add it now because it is difficult to procure. But mani cai makes the broth sweeter.

If you wish to enjoy a more flavorful soup, go for the Premium bowl ($7 for original noodles; $8 for flavoured noodles) because you get fresh prawns and clams too. The seafood is cooked together with the broth so that the broth will have a lovely crustacean sweetness.

Even though most of the flavours at Yue Lai Xiang Delights do not have a very distinct taste, the beetroot one had a subtle earthy tone. Each bowl of mee hoon kueh ($4 original noodles; $5 flavoured noodles) comes with sliced pork, meatballs, egg and fried ikan bilis. They also have tom yum broth for those who want something spicy.

After having somewhat similar bowls of mee hoon kueh soup, the dry version ($4.50 original noodles; $5.50 flavoured noodles) stood out the most. Joy fries the chilli paste with dried shrimps and ikan bilis oil for at least two hours to achieve a fragrant and not overly spicy paste. The chilli sauce lends a great balance of sweetness, spiciness, and umami to the noodles. Give the noodles a good toss, so that each ribbon of mee hoon kueh is well coated with the sauce. Don’t forget to pair your noodles with extra pork lard.

On top of this chilli sauce, Joy also serves another chilli sauce which is a dip for the meat. Similar to chicken rice chilli sauce, this orange chilli sauce combines chilli, lime juice, vinegar, and minced garlic. It works nicely with anything!

Just by adding vegetable puree into mee hoon kueh gives a new spin to this traditional dish. I am definitely coming back to Yue Lai Xiang Delights for the dry version again!

MissTamChiak.com paid its own meal at the stall featured here.

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