Maybe it’s better this way…

I’m not a fan of zhao chai hung ngang (big mihun/rice vermicelli in preserved vegetables soup)…

*recycled pic*

…but the other day, I noticed a new stall at this coffee shop.

I went to check it out and found that it was selling porridge, lor mee and a choice of mee sua (string noodles) or hung ngang in chicken soup cooked with traditional Foochow red wine.

I love mee sua (RM5.50) served this way but I thought I would give the hung ngang (RM5.00) a try…

The soup was very nice with the fragrance of the red wine but it was slightly sour probably owing to the quality of the wine. The chicken meat was well-marinated and very red in colour…

– exactly the way I like it.

There was also an egg and a few dried shitake mushrooms.

Well, it definitely wasn’t better this way…or at least, not to me. All in all, I did not really enjoy the hung ngang that much and I still think that mee sua would be nicer so the next time around, I would be having just that.