Gyuniku Beef Noodle House Desa Sri Hartamas

If you are looking for Beef Noodles set in a comfortable atmosphere, and don't mind paying more for your meal, than at the coffee shops (or road side stalls), then Gyuniku Beef Noodle House will suit you just fine :)

The place is cozy and really cute! They even have this "pseudo-volcanic" stone floor concept going on... pretty cool ...

Presenting, my favourite dish at this restaurant (which you will not get at your regular roadside beef noodle stall).... BEEF TONGUE!!! Ooooo... soft and sweet and oozing with juice and flavour! This is the bomb! Don't forget to order this as a side dish.

And then... as if that's not enough... enter the beef brisket and TENDON noodles..! Man ... just look at the tendon! It's soft and cartilagous and magnificent. Melts in your mouth like butter over a flame.. killer! RM8.00 for this baby.

The Beef Noodle straight up is not bad too. The Beef strips are obviously harder, and less melt-in-your-mouth than the tongue or tendon. This bowl costs RM8.00 as well.

And finally, the claypot brisket and tendon... similar to the bowl of brisket tendon but the claypot sauce is FAR more thick and sweet. RM9.50 for this beauty and it comes with dry noodles!

One other thing to note, the people at this Noodle House really take their filtration seriously i tell ya. I mean look at this... You don't need to worry about getting amoeba poisoning here!

Tendon : 8/10
Tongue:8/10
Beef:5/10
Price: high end compared to stall food
Service: good
MSG levels : moderate

Bygone Era - Ipoh Leong Char Mui

Look at this structure!

It's such an eye-sore.

My fav place for Ngau-Lam Mee (Beef Brisket and 'bits-and-bobs' noodle.. !) in Ipoh is near a dilapidated, abandoned, ex- feng tau (ecstasy) joint...


It's really run down and horrific to look at.

It kills the entire scenery. It really does.

Not only that....


... it's located just next door to one of the TOP Chinese government schools in Ipoh. SRJK Sam Tet Chinese school!
Thank God the ex-feng tau joint is no longer functional.

Back to Sam Tet School.. apparently during exam weeks, the library at Sam Tet stays open round the clock. 24/7 .
Really. Talk about dedicated to excellence!
And it pays off... every year, they churn out top results and top students in Ipoh. No joke.




We were early ... Don't let the empty seats fool you.
This place, affectionately known as WAI SEK KAI, Ipoh, is TEEMING with activity and people from like 7pm onwards, till MIDNIGHT.

We were early so, no jam.




I have a story to tell you. Back in the day... and I mean THE 50's...

These two ladies... SISTERS.. were the BOMB!
They were the infamous sisters from The Ipoh Leong Char Mui Era.
I.e. THE Sex Kittens... the Nubile Nymphs... the epitome of all that was feline, languid and svelte...

The young men of Ipoh (my Dad included.. ahem)... use to cook up excuses to go eat at the 2 sister's, just so they could spend many a humid afternoon, ogling the gorgeous gals... Such was life in Ipoh in the 50's , i tell ya.


Anyway, that's all past now. End of story...
(But u get the picture, don't you.)

Well, these 2 sisters, though no longer spring chicken... are still bloody awesome at what they do.

And what they do best is NGAU-LAM Mee !



Cheong Kee Stall, Ngau-Lam Mee is the bomb!



The beef balls are springy and delicious.

The other beef spare-parts are soft with cartilage and succulent with juice...

The soup is heavy and thick with beef stock which has been boiling for days and days...

The chili they serve with it is greasy and hot, and has a life of its own!

The best part is that a LARGE bowl of beef noodle is only like RM3.20!
Where to get in KL? Where? It normally costs you anywhere between RM4-5bucks in KL.


I love the 2 SISTERS.

Girls... don't ever change.



Food : 7/10
MSG levels : low
Price : dirt cheap!

Next stop... Ipoh Curry Mee... The Grand finale to my northern BINGE.

Ngau Kee Beef Ball Noodle Tengkat Tong Shin

Immediately after LA, even before i had time to drop my bags at home, we headed straight for Beef Ball noodles!

My roadside stall craving was insatiable... i could not (jet lag) ... and would not sleep (hungry) ... till my appetite for BBN had been appeased...


So here we are.... at my favourite beef ball noodle stall in Tengkat Tong Shin.
Ngau Kee Beef ball noodle was thriving with business even though it was pretty late that night...

I remember someone once told me that they preferred Soong Kee Beef Ball coffee shop down by Jln HS Lee... Ya, well, we find that whilst the soup is sweet, it lacks that thick beef stock aroma.

Unlike Ngau Kee!


No doubt not as clean as Soong Kee, but if your stomach is strong, and you have poor night vision (hahaha), then this place is by far , the better of the two..

The noodle is cooked .. needless to say, al dente... chewy chewy baby....

The beef mix soup is bubbling hot... (balls and innards... hahahaha.. I feel like Hecate.. one of the 3 witches of MacBeth... )

Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn, and cauldron bubble !!!

And the final touches to the boiling cauldron... smoking hot chilli :):)

The meal was satisfying.. and I gladly went home to bed...

before my head hit the pillow, I was already asleep...

... but did not dream of boiling cauldrons...

Food : 7/10

Price : low

MSG level : moderate

Cleanliness : leaves much to be desired

"Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,

Witches' mummy, maw and gulf

Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,

Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,

Liver of blaspheming Jew,

Gall of goat, and slips of yew

Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,

Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,

Finger of birth-strangled babe

Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,

Make the gruel thick and slab:

Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,

For the ingredients of our cauldron"

Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble!!! "

- Macbeth, Shakespeare