Review: Lee Tong Kee (3 out of 5 bear paws)
Lee Tong Kee
278 South Bridge Road
Tel: 6226 0417
This noodle shop has been around for ages - the website says since 1948. My 86 year old auntie, sister of my 93 year old cake-loving auntie, first brought me there for lunch about a decade ago. I tend to gravitate towards the "LTK special". I feel strangely motivated to order menu items with "special" in the name, or accompanied by notations like chefs' hats (note that this logic should never be extended to SQ airline meals, but more about that another time). The fact that the dish carries the founder's name makes it even more compelling, but what it comprises is really a small serving of very smooth velvety hor fun assembled with chicken and prawn pieces in brown gravy. You might start to imagine how small it is when you consider that it's sold at $3.80 in a nicely appointed airconditioned establishment. Trust the 2Bears that you're not going to feel satisfied with the snack-sized serving, and you should be ordering something else to go with it. I wrote earlier about the shui gao soup I had - the dumplings are fine, but the only distinguishing thing about the soup was its saltiness.
278 South Bridge Road
Tel: 6226 0417
This noodle shop has been around for ages - the website says since 1948. My 86 year old auntie, sister of my 93 year old cake-loving auntie, first brought me there for lunch about a decade ago. I tend to gravitate towards the "LTK special". I feel strangely motivated to order menu items with "special" in the name, or accompanied by notations like chefs' hats (note that this logic should never be extended to SQ airline meals, but more about that another time). The fact that the dish carries the founder's name makes it even more compelling, but what it comprises is really a small serving of very smooth velvety hor fun assembled with chicken and prawn pieces in brown gravy. You might start to imagine how small it is when you consider that it's sold at $3.80 in a nicely appointed airconditioned establishment. Trust the 2Bears that you're not going to feel satisfied with the snack-sized serving, and you should be ordering something else to go with it. I wrote earlier about the shui gao soup I had - the dumplings are fine, but the only distinguishing thing about the soup was its saltiness.
posted by 2Bears at 12:12 AM
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