Cute Oden Stall With $6 Customisable Ramen & Udon Bowls Found At Jurong Point

The cute little takeaway stall has a basic setup with the requisite simmering oden pot.

The oden ingredients go for a flat $1.20 each, and there are 10 types, though not all of them were available during our visit.

They include Daikon (radish), Chikuwa (Japanese fish cake), Gomoku Age (deep-fried fish cake), Tamago (hard-boiled egg), Konnyaku (konjac), Hanpen (triangular-shaped fish paste), Gobomaki (Japanese ‘ngoh hiang’ log with a meat or fish cake-wrapped burdock root), Naruto (the cartoonish fish cake with a pink-and-white swirly design) and obscure-sounding items like Corn Chiri and Yasai Temp.

We eyeball the ingredients while making our purchase, and the serving portions look pretty generous. For instance, you get half a naruto fish cake stick, a typically pricey item at Japanese supermarkets).

You can also add $1.50 for ramen, udon or harusame (Japanese glass noodles), or opt for a $6 noodle bowl which comes with your choice of carbs and four ingredients.

For a $6 bowl, our oden is very slurp-worthy, with flavourful broth loaded with the simmered goodies. The springy udon we pick is packed separately in a tiered tray so they wouldn’t get soggy on the way home.

Our favourite ingredient is this adorable ‘money bag’, a plump beancurd skin pouch stuffed with glass noodles and crunchy veggies like carrots, tied with a bit of kombu ribbon. Delish.

Oden & Men is at Shokutsu Ten food street, B1 Jurong Point, 1 Jurong West Central 2, S648886.

Photos: Yip Jieying