Ex-Kilo Kitchen Head Chef Opens Eatery Serving Excellent $12.80 Charcoal-Grilled Duck Ramen
Two years after selling noodles from his HDB flat, the 29-year-old finally fulfilled his dream of opening a physical eatery.
Since launching his home-based noodle kit biz in February 2022, Soba25’s owner Hubert Arnold, 29, had been driven by a clear goal: to open a noodle bar. Back then, burnt out from the gruelling demands of his head chef job at buzzy casual diners like the now-defunct Kilo Kitchen and Raw Kitchen Bar, Hubert ditched his whites to start Soba25, which offered DIY cooking kits with noodles made from scratch at his family’s HDB flat in Jurong East.
And now, just two years later, the Eurasian chef has realised his dream with the opening of LiuLangMian Noodle Bar, a 20-seat joint at Alexandra Central Mall. His noodles are not your typical soba, made from buckwheat flour. Instead, Hubert’s version is a fusion take on whole wheat ramen. In Japan, soba can refer to ‘noodles’ in general and not just the buckwheat noodles that we associate with the name ‘soba’.
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