Straits of Malacca, Glen Waverley

How do I put this? I finally found the dish I have been looking for in Melbourne for a very long time. I am really excited with this find, and so close to home too. It's a really simple dish actually, a fried noodle dish called yin yong in Cantonese. I suppose translated it means yin and yang presumably called that because it consists of deep fried rice vermicelli which is white, and fried hor fun in a litle light soy sauce which turns it brown, and united with a creamy eggy sauce.

It is common to find 'Combination Hor Fun' in hawker style restaurant menus but as the name suggests, these only have fried hor fun and no rice vermicelli. The dish is essentially the same, just minus fried rice vermicelli. So why can't I just be content with hor fun and forget about the rice vermicelli? Well, for starters it adds an extra crunch to the dish which blends really well with the soft silky nature of the hor fun. It also provides a differentiation to the taste of the hor fun, no matter how subtle it may be.

I managed to stumble upon this find on accident. My friend and I had decided to grab a bite after our golfing session and settled upon the newly opened Straits of Malacca restaurant in Kingsway, Glen Waverley.

We also ordered the Indo Fried Rice which came with spicy fried rice, acar, salad, and satay chicken skewers. It tasted very nice, and the fried rice was not too spicy even though it's done in the Malay style. My only complaint about the restaurant is that the serving plates and bowls are massive yet the food portions are not that big. I just could not get enough of the yin yong. It had enough wok hei, the creamy egg sauce was tasty and the vermicelli was fried just crisp but there was not enough of it!

But I will return to Straits of Malacca, if the yin yong remains as good as the one I tasted this afternoon.

Update: This restaurant is now closed