The Quality of Hor fun sucks in Singapore nowadays!

[BuiKia]

There used to be one stall that serves great Hor Fun in Bedok South coffeeshop. I ate it around 10 years and it cost $10 per plate. The prawn is huge and meat aplenty. The name was something like "肥仔".

 

[Narong Wongwan]

All precock now. Before Malaysian cock now mostly PRC cock or young Malaysian all bohchap type.

ya now all PRCs....
precooked, pour gravy and ganish with veggies....no standard....even the mong kok dim sum opposite knows this and churning out their own beef hor fun....much better quality

 

[BuiKia]

i think I found it!

 

[Fishypie]

OLd schooL hor fun are actuaLLy prefried with dark soy sauce and abit burnt with the wok hei worked in. Ingredients
wouLd be some sotongs,fish sLices, mid sized prawns, sLiced meats, with a few pieces of cLams thrown in.Plus Lots
of chye sim or other avaiLabLe vege of the day.
SadLy, aLL have been repLaced by fish cakes, faked crabs sticks, smeLLy farmed prawns, and bLand whiteish thick kway teow w/o any pre-frying ! :(

 

[laksaboy]

I guess everything is mass-machine produced these days, even hor fun.

 

[Hwheels]

Agree. Have stopped ordering hor fun these days. Worst thing to get is slimy pork, droopy prawns and rancid oil if u get what I'm trying to describe.

 

[hokkien]

BROS how about the sin hai san? or the fei zai weng?

 

[Fishypie]

BROS how about the sin hai san? or the fei zai weng?

Sin hai hun have dropped from 7.5/10 to 5/10, cos they are now being runned Like a zhi cha fast-food joint !
Food served is Luke warm, Like they have been pre-prepared in anticipation of the church goers nearby..

 

[kopiuncle]

....

My god, what has happened to all the good Horfun i use to have?

Who is to blame for such bad standards ?

Price increase but quality decrease!

Guess this is new Singapore...quite sad ...

This wonderful dish has disappeared! Lousy like fart! No wok no smell nothing.All starch with cheap ingredients.And more expensive. Pre-fried kuey teow.Pre-made gravy. Just add gravy into the cold kuey teow.That's your mor fun!!! $4!!! Yes, very sad!!! The best horfun I ate was the one in People's Park ...well fried and wok ....simply delicious! NOw it's horrible!

The young ones take short cuts.The worst are those prepared by young FT cooks in foodcocks!

 

[kopiuncle]

I guess the rental costs have killed this dish....sigh...

I am sure other dishes will suffer the same fate in due course as Landlords wants more money!

simple fried beehoon gone. simple mee goreng gone. nice simple wanton mee also gone in most places.mee ribus gone.meesiam gone.nice juicy tender satay gone. what is left i don't know. everything that i ate as a young man gone liao. more expensive.less ingredients.and horrible taste. damned sad. beranyni is just coloured rice with some chicken and mutton. chicken rice with plenty of the sweet sauce. what do we have left - some good dying stalls nobody want to continue will soon die a natural death....so what we have now?

 

[Fishypie]

Not only the hor fun standard drop others too,,,,fried rice used to have char siew now no more liao :(

Now it's onLy the faked suraimi crab sticks that they cut into cubes and passed them off as char siew ! ; where one
pack of 20 sticks cost $1.00 at NTUC ..

 

[Alamaking]

Try the 1 at the junction of jalan sultan and north bridge road, The Quest Food House. Their hor fun got 锅味 (wok smell), best I have eaten recently.

 

[fukyuman]

I use to go all the way to blk 82 whampoa drive corner shop near the canal and order his hor fun. Although the ingredients are on the thin side, the broth is prepared with fresh chicken parts which makes a different. Stopped now because of too much carbo in my diet.

 

[PissNPiss]

Any recommendations?

I'm a hor fun lover.

You may try the stall at People's Parks Food Centre which is next to the OG. Turn right at the middle entrance. It's just beside the mint stall. It's a zichar cum chicken rice stall which is beside the curry noddle stall.

Sorry, i duno the name.

 

[Fook Seng]

There used to be one stall that serves great Hor Fun in Bedok South coffeeshop. I ate it around 10 years and it cost $10 per plate. The prawn is huge and meat aplenty. The name was something like "肥仔".

Used to be one with that name in Sentosa before RWS was built and the Musical Fountain was still at the original place, like 30 years' ago.

 

[Fook Seng]

OLd schooL hor fun are actuaLLy prefried with dark soy sauce and abit burnt with the wok hei worked in. Ingredients
wouLd be some sotongs,fish sLices, mid sized prawns, sLiced meats, with a few pieces of cLams thrown in.Plus Lots
of chye sim or other avaiLabLe vege of the day.(

Ya. Remember the two Hokkien Street stalls in those days when the 同剂医院 was still at the old place. Those stalls were next to it in fact. They served hor fun the way you described.

 

[Fook Seng]

Anyone can remember the famous old hor fun stall at Circuit Road? Where is it now?

 

[cunnilaubu]

There used to be one stall that serves great Hor Fun in Bedok South coffeeshop. I ate it around 10 years and it cost $10 per plate. The prawn is huge and meat aplenty. The name was something like "肥仔".

肥仔 was operating at Joo chiat road until about a year ago. Not sure where it shifted to now.

 

[toolanliao]

try this one lah.

their hor fun is quite good though it is not their best dish. and cheap some more. only problem is sometimes too many orders they will not accept new orders.

http://sg.openrice.com/singapore/restaurant/nan-zhen-seafood/22156/

 

[nato33]

The original hor fun came from Ipoh. The full name is Sar Hor Fun. The reason being water from the Sar River was used to make the rice noodles. Sar Hor is the Cantonese name for Sar River (don't know the Malay or English name for the Sar River).

Anyway, Ipoh is full of limestone mountains and caves and the rivers there are more alkaline and hence when the alkaline water from the Sar River was used to make the Hor Fun, it had a very smooth texture. I remember in the 1970s, relatives that came from Ipoh used to bring bundles of uncooked hor fun wrapped in newspapers and when cooked in soup, it tasted really good. With "progress", the type of water used is no longer from Sar River and hence you get all kinds of different types of Hor Fun nowadays.

So in summary, Hor Fun aka River Rice Noodles and Sar Hor Fun is the original name of rice noodles from Sar River in Perak.