After a hard day’s work, where can you go to in Chinatown for food that is both cheap and good? How cheap do you say? How about less than a dollar!

I’m finding it amazing that one can still get a small meal for less than a dollar. Like the name implies, rickshaw noodles were named for the simple noodle soup dish that was popularised by rickshaw pullers as a quick and cheap source of nutrition. And for a job as physically demanding as rickshaw-pulling, rickshaw noodles was good value for money! This store in the Maxwell Road Hawker Centre has been serving rickshaw noodles since 1943, as chinatownboy discovers:

When I asked the lady of this stall at Maxwell Market Food Centre (I wonder if this could well be the only heritage foodstall selling a dish of this kind) how long her stall has been operating. She answered, “60+ years”, and without much of a pause, “since 1943″. As there was a steady (not heavy) flow of customers, I could not engage her with more questions. She is also selling the mee-sua, another Hokkien cuisine. And I was told that her fried beehoon (rice vermicelli) is very good. There are also other typical southern Chinese breakfast food such as the yam-cake.

Find out more about this heritage food in Rickshaw Noodles aka “Kan Chia Mee” or La Che Mian 拉车面