Fishball Noodles 
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Fishball Noodles is a very popular dish with Singaporeans. It is served either dry (if you want it with chilli or tomato sauce), with soup on the side, or with the soup already in.
As the name implies, Fishball Noodles is noodles served with fishballs. The magic of the dish lies in the fishballs which are made from a mixture of fish (normally parrot fish) and flour. The fishballs should be springy and slightly crunchy to the bite, with a strong clean flavour of fresh fish meat. If it has a fishy smell or flavour, this is an indication that the fish was not fresh.
Both the dry and soup versions of Fishball Noodles are available. For the dry version, the noodles (your choice) are served separately. They are cooked and mixed with oil, soya sauce and chilli or tomato ketchup. The fishballs will be served in a bowl of chicken-based soup. The noodles and fishballs are served in the soup for the other version.
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Fishballs
Fishballs are made from raw fish which is mashed, stretched and kneaded. The paste is then flavoured and shaped into bite-size balls. They are laborious to make because the fish hsa to be cleaned, minced and mixed with other ingredients such as onions and egg and finally shaped into round balls. The traditional way is to use the wooden bucket for the whole making process. But machines have taken over the process now. Handmade fishballs are irregular in shape and more springy and moist than machine-made ones. The fishballs when cooked, are soft and if they are good, gives you a chewy taste.
Fishball is one of the main theme of this Singapore Cuisine but the noodles, can be topped with minced pork, slices of fried fishcake (fish paste that are shaped like bars of soap), bean sprouts, slices of pig liver, seaweed or black mushrooms.
Noodles
You can choose from a variety of noodles like Bee Hoon(米粉,rice vermicelli), thick or thin yellow wheat noodles [thick (熟面)，thin (幼面)], Kway Teow (粿條，flat rice noodles) or Mee Pok (薄面,yellow wheat noodles that looks like fettucini) and mee ta mak (老鼠粉,made from rice flour that are shaped like small cones).
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