https://www.8days.sg/eatanddrink/celebfoodies/yvonne-lim-hack-beach-road-prawn-noodles-823536
Prawn mee – specifically the one from Beach Road Prawn Noodles – is the local dish Yvonne Lim, 47, misses the most when she’s overseas.
The actress used to live in the east and would frequent the popular eatery at East Coast Road, a century-old hawker institution that is now run by a third-gen successor. Her go-to order is its Jumbo Prawn Mee and it’s her must-eat when she returns from a work trip.
“It’s my comfort food after returning from an overseas shoot in the past. I know the boss very well. When I see him, it feels like home,” Yvonne tells #JustSwipeLah host Seow Sin Nee.
Jumbo Prawn Mee, $13.50
Yvonne really loves hae mee and though she seeks out new stalls, her fave is still the one at Beach Road. She says she loves its robust, umami broth and roe-filled tiger prawns. Most intriguing is the fact that she has a unique way of enjoying the hae mee here – something she's been doing since she was 18.“I will order the dry version with thick bee hoon which comes with their house-made chilli sauce, and request for a second extra bowl of soup on the side (on top of the one free small bowl, which Yvonne saves to sip on its own). Then I add the soup into the dry noodles, mix it up and eat. The noodles, when tossed in the flavourful chilli sauce, is already very tasty, but adding soup to it levels it up,” she gushes.
“When you compare this soup to the original prawn broth, you will realise it’s a different taste altogether.”
Sounds a little like Yvonne has concocted a DIY spicy Penang-style prawn mee soup (which has sambal stirred into the broth).
Sin Nee was impressed after trying Yvonne’s method of eating prawn mee. “The sauce and soup are very rich and but they don't overpower each other. You can taste many different flavours in one dish,” she says.
“The boss is going to start rejecting requests for extra soup when this interview goes out.”
“I hope he will still give me my extra bowl of soup,” says a worried Yvonne.
Beach Road's second-gen boss Justin Lee later clarified with 8days.sg that they do not give extra bowls of soup, but make an exception for Yvonne as she is an "old friend". Customers, however, can ask for free refills.
