8. Mee Goreng: Oodles of Noodles

6pm and it is pretty busy. I nab my usual spot by the swaying plastic curtains. I can't wait - I've been looking at photos of noodles all day on Instagram (Please feel free to follow me: @fasttimesatkc). My food arrives rapidly. It is very dark for a Mee Goreng, a saucy minx of a dish. Amidst the pile of noodles are cabbage, sliced onion and great meaty hunks of chicken and beef. The beef is chewy and gelatinous and gloriously gooey. The chicken is tender and appears to be thigh - a more flavourful cut than breast. The saucy coating is slightly sweet with the flavour of kecap manis.

The yellow eggs noodles are slightly softer than al dente, but not soggy as some gorengs can be. Little slivers of stir fried egg for added protein. A mouthful of cabbage - still crunchy. A splash of sambal or other chilli would really elevate the dish, but far be it from me to criticise the masters of the wok! It is tasty but not earth-shattering like the Salt Pepper Fish With Eggplant or the Hot Sour Noodle Soup. The Malaysian-inspired picture menu is popular late at night and easy to point at and for the unadventurous, but as I have said before, the Chinese dishes on the large wall menu and the Cantonese menu is where KC really comes into their own.

At $13 it is not the cheapest Mee Goreng in town (that honour probably goes to Satay Kingdom at $10.50) but you do get more meat, if less vegetable. It is a large portion of noodly noshing and at the end of it I am stuffed. Would I order it again? Possibly, if it was late at night, I needed something to sop up the night's imbibing and I wasn't in the mood for roti. I am now two thirds of the way through the picture menu - I'll drink to that!