Saturday 6 May 2017

Charcoal Noodles @ Little Wonton Cafe, TTDI

I was surprise that is a noodle shop above the 99 Speedmart at Lorong Rahim Kajai, TTDI.
Since it shop names is Wonton (means small dumpling in Chinese), therefore, I am expecting that they will be serving authentic Chinese egg noodles soup/dry with wonton either fried or soup. Guess what, we got it all wrong... 
This cafe is nothing as like I expected (I refer to the menu), cause they serve charcoal noodle in few different favor from soup to dry and the wanton also have 2 type which are salty or sweet. Interesting right? 

Modern Chinese and Fusion decoration

The atmosphere is cozy and clean

We had to order at the counter, and since we are only 2 pax, so we opt to have the set dinner for 2, which included, 2 bowl of noodle, 8 pieces of wanton and 2 drinks for RM30 nett. As for the price, I think is quite reasonable to try and it was quite pack after we reach where there are more youngster dine in as well.

Prawn Noodle soup (left top) and Curry Noodle (left bottom)

Banana Caramel wonton (left) and Spinach wonton (right) 
Drink is Ice Lemon Tea

 From the potions and the taste is both thumb up, I really like the noodles and for the wonton, since I am not a fan of fried wonton but I do find it interesting to have tasted something different, as sweet wonton. This place would be bit noisy when there are more customer, and since they only have 1 cashier and waiter, so please be patient on the food serve.

Overall, the food is nice and I do enjoy the charcoal noodle. The wonton is a must try since you don't get to taste the sweet type of wonton everyday. I will definitely to drop by again to try the dry noodles next time.   
  

Sunday 1 January 2017

Charcoal Fried Hokkien Mee @ Good View kopitiam

When is the last time you go for a jog or exercise?
Staying healthy is very important but getting lazy is something much easy to be done. Please agree with me...

After a long nice jog in the evening, besides feeling tired and exhausted. I am hungry... 
Thought of not wanting any rice cause it will be quite heavy so I thought of having some noodles. Recommended by my husband that this noodles is super famous in Sekysen 17, so we drove there and hope that famous hokkien mee is available. For those who been grow up in KL, hokkien mee means the fried big fat noodle and black in color. As a Penang-Lang (my husband), hokkien noodle = prawn noodle in KL.

Maybe due to I grow up eating both Hokkien Mee and Loh Mee, therefore, my expectations for this fried Hokkien noodles is extremely high. Besides the pork lard, sauce, the most important ingredient is the big fat yellow noodle. You can never replace it with any other noodles cause it will taste totally different. Back to this kopitiam I went, reach there at 8pm and the kitchen told us the waiting time is 45mins?! OMG !? no choice, just agree and be a good girl and wait.

The kitchen - looking for the charcoal~ ^^

The different between normal fried Hokkien Mee and the charcoal fried Hokkien Mee is just due to the burn smell and taste. Using the charcoal to fried Hokkien Mee is normally means having the higher temperature to cook the broth and noodles and you might get some burn smell and taste bit sweet bitterness from the plate of noodles.

After waited for 30 minutes, my Hokkien Mee arrived first, while my husband still waiting for his fried 'Ying Yong' noodles. Ying yong, basically is the mixed of both vermicelli and Kway Teow noodles. If I not mistaken, this is a Cantonese type of fried noodles with lots of gravy. 

Kong Fu Ying Yong Noodle - RM8

Charcoal Fried Hokkien Mee - RM8

Now, let comment about the taste, erm...I love my fried Hokkien Mee, since it do taste like what I had expected. No wonder they were sold out by 9pm, I saw lots of patron coming to take away than dine-in here. Well, it might due to the weekend after all. As for the Ying Yong, is just normal and nothing special or to be highlighted. But curiosity, is the Ying yong also charcoal fried too?

Overall, for the price we had been paying and the time spending for waiting, I think if maybe the chances for me to come back again might be very slim. But I might come back again if I really craving for the Hokkien Mee or when I wanted to try the Loh Mee next time.