Jian Kang Noodles 建康麵食

Blk 119 Commonwealth Drive

Commonwealth Crescent Food & Hawker Centre, #02-77

A sudden craving, one early afternoon, I have. To this wonton mee place I go. A very popular dish in Singapore wonton noodle 云吞麵 is . My favorite noodle dish it too is.

Back to normal "speak", Jian Kang Noodles sells the typical local Cantonese styled wonton noodle consisting of BBQ pork slices (叉烧 - char-siew) and bite-sized wontons 云吞 (pork dumplings) accompanying the noodles. This is unlike the Hong Kong wonton noodle which does not have the BBQ pork slices. BTW, Hong Kong wonton noodle seldom has the dry version that we've with chili sauce. Also, typical Cantonese wonton noodle does not include the dark sauce that many wonton noodle stalls are putting in nowadays. This a typical Malaysian Chinese influence.

A plate of Jian Kang's wonton noodle costs $2.50. However, I ordered the $3.00 plate for more noodles, and a generous serving of char-siew covering the plate of noodles and plenty of green vegetables, Cai Xin (菜心). However, there was only a serving of 3 wontons that came in the bowl of soup.

Jian Kang's noodle is just springy enough, and all the rest of the accompanying meat and wontons made by the owner, Mr. Chen and his people, were tasty. I find the wontons the best of them, alas I've only 3. Must remember to up the wonton supply on the next visit. I ordered the dry version but I requested for a bigger bowl of soup. I am a "soup" person and the soup tasted just great. I reckon the soup version will also be very tasty, if one feels like up to it. We all like good chili sauce don't we?

The stall's opening hours are from 7.30am to 4.30pm daily (except Wednesday) with the lunch hour peaking in sales. This stall has received many good reviews and accolades in the past.

Other than wonton noodles, they also sell shredded chicken noodle 

(鸡絲麵), pork ribs noodle (排骨麵) , wonton soup and shrimp dumplings (水餃).

The noodle goes at $2.50 a plate minimum.