+ Outings | TomYam Paradise

East Point Shopping Mall photo courtesy of Albert Lim from ArchNet

Both my wife and I love Thai food. Tom Yam Seafood Soup or Noodle is our favourite to be precise.

We can only sample those that are Halal (food prepared in accordance to the Muslim requirements), so there definitely are places with even better tasting foods, but we have narrowed the best Tom Yam Noodles to three places across the island:

1. East Point Shopping Centre.

The Banquet Food Court on 5th floor called Prawn Noodle specialising different types of noodles with many types of soups.

We like to have our Maggie-like noodles or sometimes the Chinese calls it as "egg-noodle" served "dry" in a separate bowl from the Tom Yam Seafood soup.

The soup is not as spicy as we would hope to get, but the correct amount of sour and a thinge of lemongrass is heavenly.

Since the place is the nearest to our Tampines home, it is our most frequented "port" to satisfy our tastebuds for Tom Yam any day of the week. Even the stall assistants know us as regulars to their stall.

2. Raffles Hospital.

Also a Banquet Food Court on the ground floor of the private hospital. The foodcourt is facing the dry market wholesalers' near Rochor Centre and Bugis MRT station.

Here we have to spend at least half to one hour, to slowly savour a big bowl of Tom Yam Noodle Soup. The first thing you would notice is the big while bowl.

In it would be slices and slices of beaten pan-fried eggs, and thick slices of deep-fried Ikan Kurau that has a correct hint of saltiness.

The soup is clear but spicy enough with little chops of Chili Padi, and sour enough with slices of lemongrass and two cubes of tomatoes.

3. Marine Parade Hawker Centre.

Now this has the Thai Tom Yam Noodles Soup with a strong influence of Malay spiciness that is intense, that will burn your tongue and make you cry a little.

The stall is the first in the second inner row of food stalls. It is facing the cinema. You will immediately notice the hot and spicing reddish soup, with a long uncut lemongrass in the soup.