#crispy wanton

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It is very convenient for us to get to Sembawang Shopping Centre with the provided free shuttle bus. In term of food varieties, there isn’t a lot to choose from unless we headed over to the opposite enclave which mum is not keen to. So, here we are at XO Minced Meat Noodle (XO 肉脞麵) for our dinner.

Mum just wants the Chicken Cutlet Noodle (炸鸡扒面) with thin yellow noodles and no chilli. Beside the pieces of sliced fried chicken, the noodles and bean sprouts are tossed in savoury brown sauce with a sprinkling of crunchy tempura bits and lettuce. A bowl of soup is provided for every order of dry style noodles.

I opted for Scallop Minced Meat Noodle (鲜贝肉脞面) which is also dry style thin yellow noodles but I asked for chilli paste to be added. On top of it are a lot of other ingredients like a pair of scallops, fried dumpling, Fuzhou fish ball, fish ball, braised mushroom, sliced fishcake and pork with plenty of minced pork, tempura bits and lettuce.

[buffetlicious]

This XO Minced Meat Noodle (XO 肉脞麵) at Sembawang Shopping Centre used to be a cheap place to sate the hunger. But not anymore after they revamped the menu (shown below is the old menu) by coming up with small, medium and large portions range. For the same price I used to pay, I am getting a small portion which is way lesser than previously.

Mum got her Laksa (叻沙), a popular dish in Singapore, containing influences from Chinese, Malay, and other cultures. At its core, laksa is a spicy soup comprising the base ingredients of coconut milk, dried shrimp, fishcake, fish balls, fried bean curd puffs, blood cockles and prawns. This bowl doesn’t have prawns and mum don’t like cockles so we asked for it to be excluded. The noodles here is the thick rice vermicelli and topped with finely chopped laksa leaves (Persicaria odorata).

I went with the dry style XO Minced Meat Noodle (XO 肉脞面), opting for thin yellow noodles. For the toppings, it came with minced pork, sliced pork, braised mushroom, fish ball, fishcake, a fried wanton and crispy tempura bits. Mix the noodles up with the savoury brown sauce and tuck in.