And now for the final act at @fattchoyeatinghouse, we finish with some noods. The off menu Not Your Singapore Hokkien Mee with Abalone ($48++), which I prefer to call the 3.5x Hokkien Mee. It’s essentially a KL Hokkien Mee that’s been made posh with the inclusion of abalone. The sauce is the familiar sinfully rich sweet & salty soy sauce based concoction that has imparted both colour & flavour to the thick noodles. The sauce has also been fortified by a generous amount of wok hei from the cooking process, making this pot of noodles even more delicious.⠀
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Abalone on its own is rather flavourless and is almost totally reliant on the sauce it is cooked in, and the sweet & salty sauce is a dream pairing for the mollusk. Better yet, the abalone is cooked just right with just the right amount of chewiness, and the texture fits in with the bouncy qualities of the noodles seamlessly. And of course, who can forget all that crispy, perfectly fried pork lard chunks that garnish the 3.5x Hokkien Mee. It provides the much needed texture contrast in a sea of soft & chewy elements, and ratchets the sinfulness of this noodle dish to heart stopping levels.⠀

Thank you so much for the hospitality, @fattchoyeatinghouse & @kevin._.ngan!⠀