Beef Kway Teow at Golden Mile

Lazy Sundays with nowhere to go and nowhere to be are the best.  I get tired of packed trains and buses during rush hour – people get aggressive and there’s the body odor issue, particularly on the evening rides.

Fished out my Makansutra and started down the A’s…Abacus Seeds, Ah Boling, Ang Ku Kueh, Asian Desserts, Ayam Penyet…nothing was calling out to me…well I didn’t know what any of it was and I was not feeling THAT adventurous.  It was a lazy Sunday after all. And then the Bs…Bak Chang, Bak Chor Mee, Bak Kut Teh, Bak Kwa, Ban Mian and then….BAO! I love bao…the steamed soft flour buns filled with BBQ pork or something else savory.  But it was 4 pm already and Char Siew Bao is normally a morning dim sum staple.

Next up, Beef Kway Teow…rice ribbon noodles in a fragrant and flavorful beef broth.  Decided on Diandin Leluk at the Golden Mile Complex which was rated “Divine,” one rank lower than “Die die must try.”  I was aware that Golden Mile had a Thai grocery store and I was eager to dust off my little souvenir cookbook and experiment after a great lesson in Chiang Mai at Siam Rice Thai Cookery School back in February.  The urge was so great that I didn’t even bother opening the cookbook and making an ingredients list.  Such are my grand culinary illusions, more like delusions.  [I did check out the grocery store and found lemon grass, galangal, all the varieties of basil, kaffir limes, but the urge had weakened considerably by that point.]

Golden Mile wasn’t just about a Thai grocery store but an entire mall of Thai restaurants, bars, shops and even a disco! Diandin Leluk is a full Thai restaurant, not really a hawker stand and the noodles in my 3SGD dish was served with a lovely aromatic beef broth.  The meat wasn’t particularly tender – I’ve had better, but I think the better meat was a fattier meat. These were lean strips.  The condiments–crushed peanuts, fish sauce, chilli sauce–did give it some Thai flavor.   Overall, a very tasty dish but wasn’t a fan of the meat or the meatballs.

Finally, for dessert, it’s good old KFC and an egg tart…the only thing I’ve ever eaten at KFC.  I’ve not been able to get into egg tarts very much as much as I love eggs.  But there’s something about this one simply melts in your mouth.  Divinely warm, perfectly flambe’d like a creme brulee and a flaky crust.   Happy ending indeed!

May 30, 2011 | Categories: Food, Hawker food, Restaurants, Singapura | Tags: beef kway teow, golden mile shopping center, singapore thai food | Leave a comment