Usually it isn’t quite my idea to order Fried Kway Teow — a dish I pretty much rather have shared considering how it tends to get a little bit too greasy and heavy for me. There again, it’s difficult not to have one if the trip to the food centre was planned — and that’s how we had ended up with this Fried Kway Teow from Chuan Kee Fried Kway Teow at Whampoa Drive Food Centre.

Pretty impressed with the Fried Kway Teow here which is fried by a somewhat elderly uncle — the Fried Kway Teow here being served with quite a good portion of other condiments such as beansprouts, Chinese sausage, a small amount of pork lard, Hum, and some greens. The end product was a plate of fried noodles that is pretty savoury and smoky from the wok hei — the lack of sweetness for the Fried Kway Teow brings their variant closer to the Penang Fried Kway Teow than the local version; something which I was actually pretty fine with since I am not a big fan of sweet sauce in general. Coming in a rather generous serving size at $3 that is rather close to the $4/$5 portions elsewhere, I liked how every spoonful comes with other elements that adds a lot of texture to the noodles; crunch from the greens and beansprouts and a bite from the Chinese sausage. Pretty much of a respectable rendition of Fried Kway Teow that may not be the best, but certainly one that is executed with some skill that sets it apart from the average plate of Char Kway Teow elsewhere.