Hokkien Mee @ Tititwangsa, KL

As everyone even the foreigners know that Malaysia has a lot of delicious foods but I as a Malaysian I think the best food for the Chinese especially the “hokkien” is a food call “hokkienmee”.

“Hokkienmee” is a very command food in Malaysia but do you know where you can find the best “hokkienmee” ? It is just in Kuala Lumpur which nearby Hospital Tawakal opposite a famous lake named Titiwangsa. “hokkienmee” is actually refer to fried noodles cooked in hokkien(fujian) stlye.  Hokkienmee is served in many Southeast Asian countries (mostly in Malaysia and Singapore) and was brought there by immigrants from the Fujian province in southeastern China.

There are two different types of noodles which are cooked by the hokkien style, one of them are called Hokkienhaemee and the other one is called hokkien char mee. Today I am going to introduce you what is Hokkien Char Mee. I still cannot remember that when I was young my grandfather rings me to a stall and eat Hokkien Char Mee for our supper. It is so delicious until I cannot even imagine the taste of it. I can still clearly remember how do the boss cook the Hokkien Char Mee, surprisingly, he is not using stove to cook the noodles but he is using coal to cook it. 

Using coal to cook “hokkien Char Mee” is a very traditional kind off cooking. Nowadays, in the 2012 new generation, they want everything in convenience they just simply cook it with the stove and do not care about the traditional way. The days go by very quickly my grandfather has passed away when I was still 15 year old. I cannot even find one stall that cook Hokkienmee with coal but until yesterday. I found one and it is just placed it nearby my house. It brings me back to the childhood, I will never forget the taste. I am so happy when I saw the cook is cooking Hokkienmee with coal. Why do you all still hesitate? Please move on to the Restoran Aik Yuen at the back of Tawakal Hospital for the special and traditional hokkienmee.

By, Ser Wan Qi