Lots have been written, youtubed and talked about noodles like knife cut noodles, hand kneaded noodles, egg noodles, rice noodles, but what about hand torn noodles? Malaysian hand torn noodles called mee hoon kueh is difficult to find in Melboune. There is literally only a handful of restaurants that serve this dish! Even in Malaysia, it is not widely served because the dough has to be freshly made by hand to order, and it is time consuming to make. Imagine having to spend 10 mins to knead and tear by hand, to make 1 bowl of noodles when the vendor can make 10 bowl of noodles using premade noodles with the same amount of time!
I am sure I have written about mee hoon kueh before in the past on this blog, about my attempts to make this noodle. Alas, making these at home is not as tasty or easy as going to a restaurant for a hot bowl. Finally, there is a restaurant that serves this dish! For $12.90, one can get a bowl of mee hoon kueh and a drink at Mini Dragon.
The noodles are thin and silky, the size of a mouth. The fluttering edges of the dough makes the slide down the throat most satisfactory. The soup is an anchovy broth that is the familiar taste of home. Salty, umami taste that is needed to accompany the noodles.
The obligatory minced pork, deep fried anchovies are sadly not adequate. The minced pork was cold, and the deep fried anchovies are not crunchy. It was quite difficult to chew actually and it detracted from the whole experience. Otherwise, I really liked the mee hoon kueh. Just the noodles and broth was so good.
Another lunch special is the Hainanese Chicken Rice. This was not too bad, but I prefer the rice a bit less mushy and the chicken silkier. Overall, it was not too bad.
Parking at the front of the shop is limited to half or 1 hour but there are more all day parking spaces around the corner from the shop.
If you are hankering for a nostalgic taste of mee hoon kueh, have a try of it here.
Later that month, we returned to try their dinner menu and ordered Marmite Pork Ribs and XO Fish Fillet. Both the dishes were deep fried before doused with sauce, and both were brown! What a coincidence. There were not many interesting vege dishes, except for stir fried sweet potato leaves but it was not great value, about $23 per plate.
The dishes on the dinner menu are about $25-$30. The hawker food dishes on the lunch menu at $12.90 are great value.
The Marmite Pork was tasty and reminded me of the same dish that can often be found in 'dai chow' stalls in Malaysia.
The best value dish on the dinner menu are the fish fillet dishes at $18.80
The fish fillet used are barramundi fillets. There are a variety of sauces to choose from, like Nyonya sauce (their bestseller), XO sauce, Thai, Sichuan, Special and Sambal sauce. Gaz wanted to try their XO sauce and liked it. I would like to try the Thai style sauce next time.
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