With more and more of our heritage hawkers getting in their ages, it is difficult for them to continue whip out the delicious food that they have been doing everyday for so many years. And being a hawker isn’t a glamorous job, compared to being a banker, lawyer, teacher or other professionals. Therefore, most of the heritage hawkers don’t any successor, and we risk losing out all the good food, which our future younger generations will not live to eat.

Hock Lam Beef is the golden testimonial to beef kuay teow. Having been around since 1911, it is a wonder to see it continue serving out bowls of beef kuay teow everyday rain or shine up till today, for 97 years already! We have Tina, the 4th generation owner, who gave up her professional job and rather slug it out in the kitchen, so as to ensure our beef kuay teow will still be there.

To commemorate their 97th anniversary, Hock Lam decided to donate all their sales proceed on 1st Oct to to Operation Smile which is a worldwide movement to fix cleft palates in kids.

As proceeds for that day was all going to charity, Tina came up with a special menu, instead of their usual $4 a bowl beef kuay teow. There was three different selections, the beginner at $15 which had sliced beef plate. The original at $20, a mixed beef plate which included sliced beef, tendoin, tripe, shin and beef balls. And the “give me the whole cow” premium gourmet set at $30 which had the same stuff as the $20 set, with the exception of the sliced beef, and instead there was marbled shabu shabu beef.

Give me the whole cow gourmet set ($30)
The Gau lau mian (traditional dry noodles) was nice, with their sauce used. Besides having fresh beef, the other thing that makes or break a good beef kuay teow will definitely be the soup base. And Hock Lam’s one certainly was excellent. Personally i did not really like to eat beef kuay teow or noodles because from far i could detect the very strong beefy smell of the beef soup.

Hock Lam soup did not have a very strong beefy smell, but that did not mean that their soup wasn’t good, rather, the soup was very intense with beef flavours, which was evident of the many hours put in to cook the soup.

For the older generation and the traditional beef kuay teow purist, they might resist the idea of shabu shabu in a traditional shop like Hock Lam. But times are changing, and having gourmet beef at one of the best store serving Beef kuay teow, will be an interesting concept, which i believe appeals to the younger generations who will pay more for quality.

You are always welcome to visit ladyironchef for a full-up on this trip. Whatever written herein are my genuine feelings expressed in words. Food, my dear, is what they call an adventure!

I have tried it when my dad brought us to Singapore Swimming Club about 10yrs ago and that became my favorite food hunt every wkend, was so sad when it moved out...now working near to Raffles Place, i am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad to find it again. Understand from the daughter, her father (the old uncle) has retired about 4yrs ago but hey who cares, the food still taste EXACTLY the same as what I ate 10yrs ago!the soup was so tasty with very nice combinations of beef and herbs taste, no msg after effects because I don't feel thristy after that..and the sliced beef, just soooo tender that they melt in my mouth!...what downhill? what no longer the same...BS...ha...ok, I am just too happy to contain my happiness after finding my favorite beef noodle stall again....

It was so jam packed when my colleagues and I went on Wednesday but the lady at the door was so nice to usher us in, after which we were greeted by another guy staff and asked us how many of us, when he was told there were 7 of us, he assured to find us a table while we join the long Q and true enough after paying for our food, we got a nice seating area near to the back (but alittle hot though)...nice staff!

I am going to bring my whole village down this SUNDAY!

Don't know about others but for me, this is still the best that I have tried.

I heard about this place the longest time I work in raffles plc, ask almost anyone and when u hv craving for beef, they will recommend this plc...i finally decided to walk all the way from one raffles quay to this shop. the sun was souching and the heat was killing everyone of us! there were 8 of us in total, dat day...haa..was praying very hard that i din recommend the wrong place while walking there and kinda regretted the suggestion, until we tried the food!

we reached there abt quarter past 12 and the place was already half packed with seated customers and a Q has been formed. now everyone is quietly crusing me as to why i need to suggest this plc, brave the hot sun n now the long q and wait.

we order 6 soups and 2 drys, the order system was GOOD! and fast, we first order the preference of our noodles and than we gotta tell the cook, wat are the ingredients for each bowl, i was so happy i have and got the choice to choose wat i like n dun...n the dry one even comes with peanuts which i love it...

the scouching sun and wait were WORTHIT! i had the dry one and i love every bit of the taste, the richness and the flavor...the soup by the side was so robust dat i went for a 2nd bowl! seeing everyone happily eating, i sense a relieve. we were all very happy and my colleague even suggested dat we shld come back the next time! haa

the lime juice wassssssssssssssssssssssssss superb...i think they really use real lime as i can see the pulps swimming inside...

nice nice nice! yummmmmmyyyyyyyyy...

Since I have tried the one in upper serangoon and was so delighted and excited by the fact I found a super nice beef noodle shop, I will definitely drop by this branch too. The namecard listed this shop as one of the branches, so the quality must be superb as well!