168 CMY Satay - 168 CMY Satay

Opens at around 9+ am in the morning. Said to be the only place that serves satay that early. The owner is very caring for its customer. Takes care of customers orders, even if you walk away and forget. Recommend only chicken satay, cos the pork satay is weaved with 3pieces of fat! It's said to be homemade satay by the stall. The satay bee hoon is extremely watery. The sauce is not thick enough. And as you know everything increase price, the satay beehoon price increased from 4 to5 dollars. Yet portion remains the same. Not that impressive and you would expect that the rent In Chinatown is cheap, hence prices would be cheaper but No! Its 5 dollars for a small plate. I guess its a specialty food, hence prices are steeper.

Usually described as a satay stall, this old school Satay beehoon, a vanishing dish at that, seem overlooked by most diners. Especially when there are no lack of famous eats at this Chinatown Hawker Centre, even myself, when after satay, go for another stall's offerings. Satay beehoon, mainly to many bloggers are about the Satay sauce. Thick fragrant and smooth satay kuah with plenty of chunky peanut drenched over fresh ingredients and blanched beehoon, thus the star is the sauce. I beg to differ. There are little satay beehoon stalls left dotted over the island, some of the most famous ones even have a factory making satay sauce delivering to other stalls islandwide. This stall, I noted over lunch, has no queue but readily walk in orders. Mainly older folks, going for their satay beehoon, or their cuttlefish kangkong, another vanishing dish. I ordered a $4 portion, pick it up and tucked in. For a start, the satay sauce is light and watery, not as thick as most, yet carry a lovely smoky note. Its was enough to coat the beehoon but gives you an easy chew on the beehoon, which was cooked just right. The ingredients were simple, fresh and crunchy cuttlefish slices, thin and fresh lean pork slices, blanched slices of tau pok, and lovely nuggets of good size blanched cockles. To me cockles are a must! And here you don't get the tiny 4 cent size but good 20 cents size, bursting with briny goodness when you chew on one. Flavours are fresh and light, no jerlat feeling at all finishing the whole plate. Now that is why seniors and the aged come regularly for this lovely plate of satay beehoon. Old school taste, well executed. It will be bland if you're used to heavy tastes. But if for an oxymoron statement, it's the lightest Satay Beehoon you can find, with cockles of course