Springy egg noodles, bouncy wantons and char siew with caramelised edges: wanton mee is Singapore's most-debated hawker dish. We ranked the 10 best stalls for 2026 and grouped them by area, with every address, opening time, rest day and price re-checked in September. Two corrections most guides still get wrong: Eng's has left Tanjong Katong for 360 Joo Chiat Road, and Fei Fei is no longer 24 hours (it now runs 6am to 2:30am), so no famous-name wanton mee in Singapore trades round the clock.
Wanton mee is Singapore's most-debated hawker dish, and the category where the internet is most out of date.
> Quick view: the bowl to beat is Eng's at 360 Joo Chiat Road, which is no longer in Tanjong Katong. Prices run S$3.50 to S$8.50. The catch nobody prints: Fei Fei now shuts at 2:30am, so nothing famous is open between 2:30am and 6am.
Wanton mee near me: which of these is closest
The ten stalls here are not spread evenly across the island, so this is the honest map.
East (Joo Chiat, Katong, Tanjong Katong, Old Airport Road). Five of the ten sit in one corner of the east, and it is comfortably the best area in Singapore for this dish. Eng's is at 360 Joo Chiat Road (S427605), Fei Fei two streets away at 45 Joo Chiat Place (S427769), and Rong's at 287 Tanjong Katong Road (S437070). Old Airport Road Food Centre (51 Old Airport Road, S390051) holds two more at opposite ends of the building: Hougang Traditional at #01-35 and Cho Kee at #01-04. Nearest MRT stations are Eunos and Paya Lebar for the Joo Chiat cluster, Dakota for Old Airport Road.
Central and the CBD. Ji Ji is at Hong Lim Market & Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross Street #02-48/49 (S051531), a few minutes from Chinatown and Telok Ayer. Kok Kee's flagship is at Bistro 8, 30 Foch Road #01-02 (S209276) near Lavender, walkable from Bendemeer or Farrer Park, and the chain also has Toa Payoh HDB Hub and the Rasapura Masters stall at Marina Bay Sands.
South and Bukit Merah. Yong Chun is at 115 Bukit Merah View #01-56 (S151115) inside Bukit Merah View Market & Hawker Centre, and Tong Le at 120 Bukit Merah Lane 1 #01-87, which is Alexandra Village Food Centre. Both are closest to Redhill; Queenstown works for Alexandra Village. These two are ten minutes apart, so if one has sold out the other is the fallback.
North, north-east and west. No independent stall on this list trades north of Toa Payoh or west of Bukit Merah, and pretending otherwise is how these guides go wrong. Your realistic options are Kok Kee's outlets at 630 Ang Mo Kio Ave 4 #01-972 (S560630), 301 Punggol Central #01-06 (S820301) and 26 Tai Seng Street #01-02 (S534057), or a Pontian outlet, which is the only name here reaching Jurong East, Bukit Panjang, Pasir Ris and the north-east.
Opening hours and rest days
Wanton mee is a morning and lunch trade, and the single most common way a trip goes wrong is turning up on a rest day.
For supper, it is Fei Fei or nothing, and only until 2:30am. There is no famous-name wanton mee open anywhere between 2:30am and 6am. For late dinner, the latest closer on this list is not the one most guides name: Kok Kee's Rasapura Masters stall at Marina Bay Sands trades 9:30am to 10:30pm daily, a full hour past Kok Kee's own Foch Road flagship at 9:30pm, and past Rong's and Cho Kee's weekday second service, both of which stop at 9pm and 9:30pm. For breakfast before work, Yong Chun opens at 5:30am and often sells out by noon. If you need somewhere open any day of the week, Kok Kee, Fei Fei and Rong's are the only three here with no rest day.
Watch the rest days, which is where most wasted trips come from: Eng's is closed on alternate Mondays, Hougang Traditional on Tuesdays, Ji Ji and Yong Chun on Thursdays, Tong Le on Fridays, and Cho Kee all weekend. If you are going to Old Airport Road for the head-to-head, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are the four days both stalls there are open.
Two mid-service breaks catch people out. Cho Kee shuts between 2:30pm and 6:30pm, and Ji Ji between 3pm and 5pm, so a 4pm arrival at either is a wasted trip.
What changed, and what most guides still get wrong
This is a category where the internet is badly out of date, and two of the errors are big enough to waste a whole trip.
Eng's is no longer at 248 Tanjong Katong Road. It trades from a shophouse at 360 Joo Chiat Road, while the old end of Tanjong Katong is served by Rong's, the renamed former Eng's Noodle House. Fei Fei is no longer open 24 hours; it runs 6am to 2:30am, which we re-confirmed against its own listing on 4 September 2026. On top of that, Kok Kee's old Lavender Food Square address no longer exists, Wei Min at Alexandra Village has closed and reopened as Tong Le, Hua Kee "Hougang" has renamed itself and moved to the back of Old Airport Road Food Centre (and it was never in Hougang), and Golden Roast Char Siew at Whampoa, which we listed in earlier editions, has closed permanently.
One open question we could not settle. An unclaimed Google listing for a Pontian Wanton Noodle stall at 925 Yishun Central 1 shows "open 24 hours", which is almost certainly the 24-hour coffeeshop's own hours rather than the stall's. Pontian publishes no website and the listing has no phone number, so we have not counted it, and we would not send you to Yishun at 4am on it.
How to order
Three asks at every stall: thin or pok? Dry or soup? Extra chilli or no? The springy egg noodles, bouncy fresh wantons and char siew with caramelised edges should all land on the same bite. Mee kia is the thinnest noodle, mee pok the flat ribbon, and the price is the same whichever you pick.
Bring cash. Several of these stalls are cash-and-PayNow only, and the older uncle-and-auntie stalls are cash alone. Delivery costs a lot more than the counter: Eng's own delivery menu prices the wantan mee at S$7.70 against S$5.50 at the stall, so the queue is worth roughly two dollars a bowl.
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