I Love Hokkien Mee. Such a wise selection of shop's name. Immediately hooked me up. So they successfully hooked all Hokkien Mee lovers.
A single-unit shoplot but looking spacious and the arrangement of the tables made it cosy and comfortable for customers.
I love Hokkien Mee. My tastebud synchronised with the shop's name.
A good amount of large Hokkien Mee, with salty sweet savoury sauce and a good wok-hei chewy yellow noodlea fried using pork oil and with generous amount of pork lard. Super flavourful.
Very delicious fried chicken which was marinated in Nam Yu sauce — a kind of Chinese red fermented beancurd. Super flavourful and juicy meat with crispy tasty skin. Wow!
What a refreshing drinks to end our night. Chrysanthemum tea drinks, just the correct one to cool down our heaty body.
Earlier on before dinner when I was having tuition, but student was late for 20 minutes. I chose to stay outside to wait to get some fresh air, because it was full of plants and greeneries at this neighbourhood. I so needed that!
These plants were just outside the student's house. They had a little mini garden here and I totally relaxed myself while having some me-time winding down.
It was a hectic Friday, with many random things cropped up since Monday, it was good to have a short time with husband eating at a place we had never been to but wanted to. We needed to have a last minute meetup to sign some document before we fly off the another state to visit my parents for 10 days. For the meetup, it was at a further venue from where we stayed, hence we asked Mum to help take care of our children.
Before the meeting, I had my tuition which was rather out of my expectation too. I purposely reached earlier at my student's place but to find out he was not at the tuition table. The entrance was not locked so that I could enter but there was no one at living room. I tried calling the mother but she did not pick up too. So I dropped a message to her. Realising it was unethical to be in their house when no one was at living room, I went outside to wait at the foyer. It was a good time waiting because little did I know, that short time of being alone helped to recuperate my mind, sort of a time of quietness to recalibrate. The foyer was full of plants and greens. I could hear the sounds of bugs too. Such tranquillity. After 20 minutes of waiting, the mother returned my call, apologised and quickly called her maid to wake up my student. They were at 3rd floor.
Finally, my husband and I got to have a short time together, although not for something holiday-related, but to sign documents, it was still precious time together. We drove for about 40 minutes to reach the venue, had a short meeting, then we proceeded to a restaurant nearby to have our late dinner — the restaurant I had been wanting to go.
I Love Hokkien Mee
Location: 35-G Jalan PJU 5/12 Sunway Damansara, Kota Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
There are many version of Hokkien Mee. The Singapore style one will be more leaning towards sweet-salty-broth based with chewy thick yellow noodle. You will find the popular Hokkien Mee at Penang which is shrimp-based spicy noodle soup. While the one I like most is Kuala Lumpur Hokkien Mee which is stir fry chewy yellow noodle in dark soy sauce, rich salty flavourful taste due to pork lard and pork oil, and some sweetness due to the sweet soy sauce too. If you are a lover of crispy pork fat and a lover of noodle, you will love this tasty treat!
The Hokkien Mee from 'I Love Hokkien Mee' restaurant was rather brothy but still it had enough hot wok taste which was superb. The chewy egg noodle was also of good quality so every bite was satisfying. The only thing lacking was shrimps. I wonder why this plate of Hokkien Mee had no shrimps which usually it supposed to have. Never mind, overall, it was still a delicious plate of Hokkien Mee! Yums!
I noticed there were many other people who ordered their Anchovies Fried Rice and Cantonese Fried Yin Yong besides the Hokkien Mee, so I guessed these two plates were highly recommended too. Next time if we have chance to come here again, I shall try those.
Husband wanted to eat meat and not too big a portion, so he was eyeing on their fried chicken after noticing almost everyone ordered. So happened there was a set catered for two people, consisted of a large plate of Hokkien Mee and 2 pieces of fried chicken and two drinks for RM29.90. We chose herbal tea and it was great that the herbal teas served were cold chrysanthemum tea. So refreshing. The plate of Hokkien Mee really large and I asked my husband to eat half although initially he actually intended to only eat meat. (Sorry, Darling, suddenly your diet had carbs included).
The fried chicken was super duper good according to my husband. It was the Chinese style fried chicken which used marinated chicken with fermented red beancurd (Nam Yu) style. If my husband said the food was good, just trust him. Haha.
Although it was a tough week for both of us, with many random happenings, husband himself was unwell and my youngest son had fever, we still gave thanks for many good happenings around us. We chose to focus on all the positives rather than the negatives, and that will help our hearts be set on the things which are from above.