One Prawn & Co.: One Prawn Noodle Too Good

Updated: Jul 6, 2023

Prawn noodles shop with a young crew that serves up old flavours.

I've got to be honest. When I first stumbled upon this prawn noodle restaurant and took a peek into it, I was kinda disappointed.

That's because all of its staff, including the chef, are youngsters — a very young crew indeed. And I thought to myself that there is no way that they are going to serve up prawn noodles that will taste much better than my heart's favourite. But I was wrong.

In fact, this has got to be one of the tastiest prawn noodles I've savoured so far. Like I always say, soup's the soul of prawn soup noodles, and that's really what sets One Prawn & Co. apart from the rest of its fraternity.

On this trip, I ordered the prawn soup noodles with pork ribs. And the interesting thing here is that the soup noodles were served in a separate bowl from the prawns with pork ribs, which were served in small claypot with a thicker soup that's probably three times more flavourful than that of the soup noodles.

The sheer orangey soup in the claypot is evidence of a blissful marriage of prawn roe and the already lip-smacking prawn soup — a sure sign of a delicious soup that I know I will finish the last drop of — and I did. And that scored a big "wow" from me!

The noodles were well cooked and bouncy to bite, and simply enjoyable with the delish soup. Prawns were very fresh too — another hallmark of an excellent rendition of prawn noodles.

But it's not perfect, yet. For one, the pork ribs were not cooked long enough to fall off the bones when I tucked into it — a surprise that's not so pleasant.

The prawn fritter and ngoh hiang I ordered as side dishes were good, but didn't blow me away. But I guess those are probably not meant to be the protagonists.

For sure, this is a prawn noodle restaurant that I know I will return for more. It could even qualify as one of my new comfort food pit-stops. And I really hope that when I'm there the next time, my teeth won't have to work that hard anymore, as I chew away at the pork ribs.

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