Hello peeps! So it’s my first post here. A friend recommended Hungry Onion to me to help exposing food that I thought are worth to be recommended as you know there are many hawkers out there spent tons of money to promote and yet there are also hawkers who can’t afford the advertising costs.
So today I would like introduce a Char Koay Teow (CKT) which I personally think it’s real compatible compared to the one which are famous, famed and especially long queue!
I happened to tried this CKT two weeks ago in this coffee shop and was caught stuck with it until now. Apparently this is a newly opened coffee shop and according to some of the eaters, this CKT boss, Mr. Yam used to fry in the old CF Food Court which is currently named Jeti Food Court, right opposite of the coffee shop where I had my CKT.
Spoke to Mr. Yam and he tipped me a clue on CKT. He said the most important thing for a good CKT is the ‘gas fire’ and of course alongside the way you utilize it.
Mr. Yam has many returned customers and when I asked him why don’t you have queue like the famous one CKT like Lorong Selamat and Siam Road, he said he doesn’t really promote. Those who think it’s good will eventually come back.
So then my friend introduced me this platform to introduce Mr. Yam to the outsiders. If you are challenging enough, if you hate queuing like I do, if you don’t mind giving yourself and Mr. Yam a chance, check him out at Bom Baa Kopitiam, a kinda hidden yellow coffee shop in between Chew and Tan Jetty.
I do recall Chen Chong Wooi aka “Ah Yam”'s story now. At 47, I was surprised that he had been frying char koay teow for less than 3 years! His taste better than the ones produced by others who’d been doing it 3-4 decades.
Finally came to Ah Yam’s 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳 𝘬𝘰𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘰𝘸 @ 𝟵𝟵 𝗠𝗰𝗡𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗯 on McNair Road today. Still truly one of the best 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳 𝘬𝘰𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘰𝘸 I’d had - I first came across him when he was frying at Jetty Food Court back in 2016, then Bom Baa Kopitiam in 2017, and was last at Gurney Drive Hawker Centre before he finally moved here at the beginning of this year.
53-year-old Chen Chong Wooi @ Ah Yam still produces one of the tastiest 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳 𝘬𝘰𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘰𝘸 in town. His master/“sifu” fries at King Prawn Char Koay Teow, Khoon Hiang kopitiam on Dato’ Keramat Road - but I much prefer Ah Yam’s version to his sifu’s - quite close to Ah Leng @ Zoo Road’s style.
