One afternoon this week, 8days received an unexpected phone call from hawker Koh Lim Chye. “I’m reopening. Havelock! Havelock! Block 22A, okay ah,” he boomed before hanging up rather abruptly.
Back then, his shop in Tiong Bahru had no signboard, but was generally known as Sixties Chaozhou Traditional Bak Chor Mee. Ah Chye was famous in Tiong Bahru for serving something hard to find these days: Nostalgic, old-school bowls of lard-loaded minced meat noodles that he has been selling since almost 60 years ago, when it was 20 cents a bowl .Ah Chye operated his stall at Seng Poh Road for several decades, having shifted his business there from Sago Lane in Chinatown.
“It’s a pity, everyone knows me here. I have been here since I was unmarried and now my son is 40 years old. I want to work for a few more years; my daughter-in-law has asked me to reopen elsewhere and she will help me ,” he told 8days in 2023.It took Ah Chye a year, but he finally found another nearby hawker centre to restart his business. “Menu still the same, prices still the same,” he chirped.
And it looks like his regulars have found him quickly, along with his spanking new signboard emblazoned with a new, lengthy official name: Authentic Teochew Tradition Mushroom Minced Meat Noodle.Netizen Daryl Lim, who dropped by for bak chor mee, wrote on Facebook foodie group: “ Today raining cats and dogs… but the queue is long and move slowly… my wait time… 45 mins…”
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