Pak Man Mee Kuah Ketam - Cherok Tok Kun, Bukit Mertajam, Penang

This stall one of the best, serves noodle crab gravy, Pak Man stall. It is located at Cherok Tok, at the main road side of Jalan Kulim and junction to the road to Tok Kun Hill Park or Bukit Mertajam.

Warong Aji-Don Alley - Plaza Damas, Kuala Lumpur

It has been awhile to write about this eating place, only now managed to publish this. Warong Aji-Don Alley originally came from Uncle Don in Sri Hartamas long time ago. The concept of this restaurant basically is hawker centre that serves different kind of food or meal from morning to evening by several of small stall operators at this restaurant.

It is convenient eating place where you can easily get the parking spots at the basement because it is located at the Plaza Damas shopping complex. The restaurant just located at the Block E, at the back entrance of the Plaza Damas mall. The table and seating spots are simple, warong (coffee stall) style and you order your food at the stall that serves the food and pay when it delivered to your table. It will be crowded during lunch hour but you can share the long table with other patrons, great to be friendly!

Mee Tarik Warisan Asli – Sungai Besi, Kuala Lumpur

The specialty of this restaurant, it is variety of mee tarik (kneaded, pull noodle) menu. All of the noodle that I have tasted here are my favorite, so far. Besides, they also have rice menu which my kid’s favorite – fried rice. The specialty in preparing smooth noodle started from flour, kneaded dough then pulling technique until it is served with own soup or garnish, all being done with bare hands. Hassan inherit this techniques from his family, from his great great grandfather down to him now.

Madam RizzQ Restoran Steamboat & Grill – Seri Kembangan, Selangor

It is thrill to dine here if you love cooking and grill your own food. Madam RizzQ restaurant is basically buffet steamboat and grill restaurant where you choose your food and cook or grill on the steamboat/grill set at your table. The buffet cost is RM20 for adult and RM10 for kid age 5 years above and you guys can eat all if you can but you will be charged RM10 for every 10gram left over food that you take. The buffet including drinks such syrup, orange or hot coffee or tea, dessert such ice-cream, ais-kacang, etc., plain rice, fried rice, fruits and the seafood, chicken or beef meat, varieties of vegetable and noodles. You can choose between tomyum or plain soup for the steamboat.

Homst Restaurant, Chinese Muslim Cuisine – Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, Kuala Lumpur

Homst taufu

It is well known to the city patronage, besides this Taman Tun (TTDI) main branch, it has 3 other branches in Dataran Sunway - Kota Damansara, Section 13 – Shah Alam and Prima Saujana – Kajang. Homst was established in 2002 in TTDI by Chef Yusoff Lau Abdullah aspired to serve an authentic Chinese Cuisine especially to Muslim. You can read details of the restaurant from the link above. This place always has its diners especially during lunch hour.

oyster sauce broccoli

The cuisine here is great taste as it claims, I have dined its Shah Alam restaurant few times and it served great dishes as well. So my order that day were oyster sauce broccoli (RM9), Homst taufu (RM10), fried noodle (RM6), salted egg yolk soft shell crab (RM20), lemon chicken (RM12) and Kong Po beef (RM13). The freshly broccoli not really salty but brittle and nice with the sauce. I love the taufu, great taste with mix of taufu and fish, I could even eat itself just like that, dipped in the home sauce. The lemon chicken was tasty as well as the soft shell crab, it was so crunchy and delicious. The fried noodle looked plain but do not make first thought without taste it first, well it is really tasty!

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Mee Tarik, Restoran Habatus Sauda – Sri Petaling, KL

Have you ever eaten mee tarik or hand made pull noodle? This restaurant is the best place you can try out the mee tarik because it is not easy to find the halal one. Habatus Sauda restaurant opened last year at this shop lot along Jalan 1/149J, nearby Sri Petaling Community Centre. It has nice hot wok dishes and kebab, previously but since it changed the management recently, the only main attraction or specialty menu of this restaurant is its mee tarik or La mian (拉麵)

           The pull noodle is made on demand so you can see the Chinese muslim cook press and stretch the dough become thinner then become bunch of noodles. The raw noodles then straight away are put in the hot boiling water in the pot. After few minutes the noodles will be prepared in its soup contains of baby mustard greens (sawi) or choy sum and sliced beef with some sesame oil and spring onion. The noodle is very nice with its soup and it is not spicy and hot at all, suitable for kid meal. The Chinese muslim cook is originally from China mainland and he has more than 10 years experience making the noodle, inherit from his great grandfather and family. He only knew some Malay words so we used most hand and body language to describe our word in our brief conversation.