Ah Hoe Mee Pok: Japanese Mee Pok Girl

@bryandmlee the one with the japanese meimei

It’s little wonder that my facebook post about a teenaged Japanese girl selling mee pok generated so much interest from the public! Here we are in Singapore, struggling to find enough young hawkers take up the mantle of selling traditional hawker fare when suddenly we see a young Japanese girl sweating it out in a coffeeshop to make a bowl of mee pok which will put a lot of other stalls to shame. I think it is the fact that she’s Japanese that got everybody excited because the first thing you probably wonder about is how the Japanese approach to cooking is going to affect a bowl of bak chor mee? Well, that was what I initially wanted to find out when I visited Mr Naoji Kuribara who made news a while ago as a Japanese man selling bak chor mee. The question I had at the back of my mind was: “Will a Japanese make use of Ramen techniques to bring mee pok to the next level?” I ...

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