Let's talk about noodles. To the uninitiated, noodles are just that. But there's so much variety - the type of noodle, the type of sauce or soup can be mind boggling and then you have the different types of dishes from different regions - China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, etc.
One of my favorite noodles growing up in Singapore is Mee Pok (noodles from Chaozhou, South China). El dente wide noodles with a soya-chili-vinegar sauce. It is topped with fish ball, minced meat, sliced meat, fried garlic and sometimes fried lard. It is highly popular and good Mee Pok stalls always have long queues of customers. My favorite store growing up is Tai Wah Pork Noodles. The eatery used to be situated in a corner shophouse on the banks of the Singapore river. I would remember watching the workers ferrying goods into the godowns from the wooden bumboats as I slurped on Mee Pok.
San Francisco has it's very own Mee Pok store too! Hai Ky Mi Gia is a Teochew Vietnamese noodle house (Vietnamese Chinese from Chaozhou province) in Tenderloin (707 Ellis Street). The noodles were bouncy and el dente and the fish ball tasted home-made. You will have to add the soya-chili- vinegar sauces yourself.
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