Tucked away in the Haji Lane / Beach Road area is this place that I chanced upon purely by accident. I'm generally not a fan of Fishball Noodles, but this place was pretty good. We ordered both the soup and dry versions just to try, I was quite happy with my soup noodles because it wasn't clear soup (the auto-fail metric), and it was actually pretty flavourful. The Foo Chow fishballs are also did not have the characteristic smoothness of a factory-produced fishball. Some further investigation reveals that this place indeed does still make its fishballs by hand, the same way it has been doing so for the past 70 years.
(70 years! Dafaq that is mind boggling)
*Disclaimer: I don't regularly eat fish ball noodles, so I may not have the most expert opinion on this specific item. Still, general food quality metrics all apply.
To eat:
Foo Chow Fishball Noodles
Cost:
$5 a bowl? I think? I actually forgot, but it was cheap for the amount of fishballs for sure.
Pros:
Hand made fishballs. Quaint little coffeeshop run by a few happy aunties. It has a very old-world, unpretentious feel to it. It felt like I was teleported back maybe 20-30 years, the sort of place that I usually don't find in Singapore anymore. And while I have only tried the fishball noodles I hear they have other good stuff like the Red Wine Soup with Noodles and Meat. Quite empty when I was there at 8pm. It's also located near the Malay heritage area and Haji lane which makes for a good dinner before going for other activities.
Cons:
Not the easiest place to get to via MRT, the closest is Nicoll Highway and still a 10-minute walk away. I also hear that it is quite crowded during lunch time and crowd + queue + heat is not a good combination.
Opening Hours:
10am - 10pm daily.
Address:
33 Sultan Gate Singapore 198481
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