Never too prawny

Based on past blogger's comments and feedbacks on my blog on Tiger Jit Singh Chapati, I decided to heed their advice and check out the Har Mee/Lam Mee stall just a few blocks away. Thanks for the tips, food bloggers :)

They were right! As we approached the place.. the smell of Har Mee hung thick in the air!

We were pretty excited to try out the noodles...

First the Lam mee... at RM4.50 per bowl, it was thick and sweet.. but a little on the starchy side. The chicken tasted excellent, but the soup stock was just a little salty with not much taste... Good thing the succulence from the "pak cham kai" (white chicken) made up for it.

That's mine! I decided on the har mee and prepared for the moment of truth.

This bowl is not cheap i tell ya... the price for large prawn and additional ingredients (Kar-liew) is ... RM10.50 ! Wow... this better be good.

Again the chicken was great! Unusual that they serve chicken with har mee.. but very effective. The sweetness of the white meat came through for this bowl of noodles. Unfortunately the soup was just salty and lacked any "prawny" taste.. To me.. the prawniness of the Har Mee is the make or break factor.. Har Mee can never be too prawny!

Oh well.. at least the LIAO was sweet and filling... however, the soup still leaves a lot to be desired.

The home-made chilli was hot and good! No complaints there!

All in all a good choice if you are looking for a quick roadside hawker, with loadsa "old world KL" feel :)

Address:

Jalan San Peng Har Mee Stall,

Jalan San Peng,

Off Jalan Loke Yew,

KL

Food: 5/10
MSG levels : moderate
Salt levels: High

the upper echelons of dhall-dom

Huat Kee Fish ball on Jalan Loke Yew was recently closed for 10 days and this was our second visit back to try the dancing fish balls... Lucky for us, it was open this time!

Touted as one of the BEST fishball in KL, we just had to try it!

Since the build up to this place had been so great, we were expecting great things for this fishball.
Well, the 'konlow' (dry) noodles was at best, average. It wasn't terribly tasty or different from other kwey-teow noodles we have tried.

The fish balls were small and rather so-so as well... Though the style is rather different, we much prefer the foochow fish ball/mee-suah shop on Jalan Yew (which as recently moved, just a block across the street. Not too far walking distance; near a Cantonese Methodist Church and opposite Fathima Court.)

Photo of the old location of Foochow fishball/mee suah place (Hup Yick)


New place the fishball moved to.. called Taste of Foo Chow (click to enlarge)


Anyway, back to Huat Kee, even the owner doesn't eat his own fishballs.. and that's telling you plenty.. innit?

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Hmmmm... after that rather unsatisfying meal..we were still hungry....
So, the man, suggested we go look for more food... near San Peng flats...

Ah! I see it! My all time favourite Chapati stall... ! The TIGER! The man! (or should i say WOMAN.. because the owner is this cute, unassuming indian lady...)

Out on the walk way of Tiger Jit Singh Capati stall, the pickles simmer and dry in the noon-day sun... the smell is intoxicating... makes me want to tapau some to snack on in front of the TV later... :)

Here it is ... that wonderful thing called Chapati! The ones they serve here fresh, are a little doughy but really tasty.. and go down oh, so well, with the mutton curry .. (as you will soon see...)


The yellow dhall (chick pea) is magnificent... full of flavour, and chunky with chick pea bits. None of that watered-down nonsense that some places dish out...
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but while the yellow dhall is delicious...

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It's the GREEN dhall that i totally KILL for!.... Mmmmmmmm... green lentils.. the best! And this place does it amazingly well... I just died and went to heaven..

Anyway, be it Yellow or Green, this transcends to the upper echelons of dhall-dom.


The mutton here can hold its own too, i tell ya. Soft and succulent, and full of tendon and cartiligeous bits... none of that hard-meat "cooked to death" stuff, that has you fighting with your food, tooth and nail...

Finally, wash it down with the cool, cool lassi... and know that the world has become a better place the moment this meal entered into it :):)

The Fish :4/10
The Tiger:7/10
(the Tiger wins.. hands down!)

Wonder lust... wantan mee

I don't know what it is about this place... maybe it's near our church on a sunday... or maybe we are just plain ravenous and lazy to look any further...

but truth be told...

THIS... is lousy...


and THIS is actually the saving grace.... (how sweet the sound!)...



and while the wantan noodles are tasty.... as well as the sang har mee (camera died on me)...



you really should pick , what you eat HERE! ( i don't care how old and established and famous/infamous and wonderful and entrenched and reputed and CROWDED this plc is... :O)

Place : Hung Kee restaurant, Jalan Loke Yew
Char Siew :6/10
Sang har mee:5/10
Duck:2/10
Siew Yok:2/10

Verdict: be choosy... be VERY choosy