KL Hokkien mee & 鸳鸯 Cantonese style + 2 drinks (RM$46.85)!
A KL noodle lunch: dark, wok-fried KL Hokkien mee, and yuan yang (mixed crispy and soft noodles) in egg gravy, with two drinks. RM$46.85.
A proper KL noodle lunch with BB across the border: KL Hokkien mee and 鸳鸯 (yuan yang) Cantonese-style noodles, with two drinks, for RM$46.85 (around SGD$16). 😋
What we had:
- KL Hokkien mee: thick yellow noodles wok-fried in a dark, glossy soy sauce
- 鸳鸯 (yuan yang): a mix of crispy fried noodles and soft hor fun under a silky egg gravy
- Two drinks
The KL Hokkien mee is a completely different beast from the Singapore version, and we came for exactly that. Instead of a soupy, lighter prawn-stock plate, KL’s is dark and dry: fat yellow noodles wok-fried hard in thick black soy with pork and a good hit of lard, so they come out glossy, smoky and deeply savoury. Properly satisfying, the real KL thing.
The 鸳鸯 (“mandarin duck”, for the pairing) was the comforting counterpart. It mixes two textures in one plate, crispy fried noodles that go soft where the gravy soaks in, plus slippery hor fun, all blanketed in a savoury, slurpable egg gravy (wat tan hor style). You get crunch and silk in the same forkful.
Two very different but classic Cantonese-KL noodle plates, eaten the way they should be, at the source. And at RM$46.85 for the lot, lovely cross-border value.
Overall: 4.7 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Dark, smoky KL Hokkien mee and a silky egg-gravy yuan yang, two KL classics done right. Would re-visit.
