19 Jan
Kepong Food Crawl Part II – Gou Lou Chao Fern & Tim Pan Gor Gor
A food crawl isn’t complete with only satays right? Our walking food guide, Simon suggested Kou Lou Chao Fern (Tall Man’s Fried Noodles) at Kepong Dai Gai (Jalan Besar Kepong) as the next destination. Our eyes lit up immediately, and everyone started to nod frantically because we were famished!
“Take us there, NOW!”
So here we are, at this nostalgic looking coffee shop name Seng Yuen. The coffee shop was full, with tables spilling out onto the corridor as well. We leave it all to Simon to take the orders while we found ourselves busy snapping pictures around.
Our food took forever to come, so we subjected our hunger to warm tea, and more warm tea which did not help one bit. We were here before 11 pm and we started eating only at 12 am!
Simon’s Expression – an hour before
Simon’s Expression – an hour later
My favourite – Kong Fu Yin Yeong (RM 6) was the first to arrive. Drenched in eggy starchy sauce, laden with generous helpings of vegetables, fishcake, pork slices and prawns, it sure looks good. However, I took a bite and was disappointed that the noodles tasted pretty bland. Down it with more chili sauce, says WMW.
Kou Lou’s signature noodles – Hokkien Mee (RM 12). This was alright; the only let down would be a lack of wok hei. Down it with more lards, says WMW. All were forgiven after I stirred in those deep fried greasy cubes into my bowl of noodle. The hokkien mee emerged as the best dish that night.
Braised Yee Mee (RM 6) – Palatable and nothing fantastic.
Guess the old uncle was too tired dealing with the massive crowd that night. Given Simon’s raving and witnessed the number of patrons that wait patiently for their plate of hokkien mee, it still warrants a possible future visit.
Despite feeling rather full from the food that we had, desserts always have an extra space. So, we dropped by Tim Pan Gor Gor (opposite Carrefour) for some sweet soups and desserts.
*shy*
almond sweet soup + black sesame sweet soup (RM 3.30)
almond sweet soup + red bean soup + lotus seed (RM 3.30)
I love the varieties this place has as they are not the usual things that you get, ie flavored taufufa, mango noodles, mochi and various mixed tong sui.No complains for the sweet soups as the combinations were really nice an special.WMW and Jason shared the mango noodles. The strands of noodles sure look like the usual hor fun but they were actually jellies.
We called it a night at 1 am and guess how much we spent? RM 15 per person! Pretty amazing isn’t it? Next food crawl – Seri Kembangan? Old Klang Road? Or Puchong?
Posted by kampungboycitygal on January 19, 2009 at 10:59 am
Simon’s saham dropped dy :p
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Posted by Simon Seow on January 19, 2009 at 10:59 am
Thanks for covering the chinese tea and tax for the dessert for me. If not sure not enough money. lol
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Posted by rokh on January 19, 2009 at 1:00 pm
desserts look good! yum!
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Posted by J2Kfm on January 19, 2009 at 1:01 pm
nice pics. i’m not a fan of fried noodles either, so no matter how much wok hei, I wont be crawling my way over for a taste.
the mango noodles is exactly like HK’s! thought those jelly made from coconut.
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Posted by jason on January 19, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Long time didn’t do any food crawl… such a good way to end the year, isn’t it? Let’s go Seri Kembangan next!
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Posted by ai wei on January 19, 2009 at 4:28 pm
ierrrr. such a nice food crawl!
mango noodles seems really really yummy and special!
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Posted by cumidanciki on January 20, 2009 at 1:59 am
Simon’s face AFTER is extremely CUTE… lol…:P
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Posted by foodbin on January 20, 2009 at 3:18 am
to eat good food, must wait!
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Posted by xin on January 20, 2009 at 3:33 am
the mango jelly looks really funky! like wat tan hor
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Posted by Jessey Ui on January 20, 2009 at 4:11 am
Sometimes business too good will bring down the food quality abit ya.. Guess I will try out Hokkien Mee next time if I’m visiting the place..
And almond sweet soup + black sesame sweet soup looks good..
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Posted by YilingL on January 20, 2009 at 7:36 am
Nice new layout!
The strands of jelly looks cute.
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Posted by Christine on January 20, 2009 at 8:31 am
emo again dy… those kong fu yin yeung and hokkien noodles… miss em so much. plus,cny approaching somemore
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Posted by eiling on January 20, 2009 at 9:28 am
wah all the food pictures so tempting. will be difficult to believe if it’s not good!
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Posted by adel on January 21, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Nice pictures and certainly brings back the memories of hot and comforting stir fry noodles …
I look forward to your next and next post..
Jia yoU!
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Posted by ryan on March 9, 2009 at 3:48 am
you all shud try the fried mee suah….
the best in kepong so far….
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Posted by loon on October 9, 2009 at 1:44 pm
i’m a great fan of that gou lou chao fan… me and my friends always hang there…
they don’t open on sunday and if u go on fri and sat night u might end up frustrated in waiting for it will have to take around 1-2 hours for ur food to come…
and DO NOT approach the moustache guy who do the ordering for he won’t entertain u…
he will come to u when its ur turn…
in the end, the hokkien meehun (pure mee hun) is the best along with garlic mixed with dark sauce (hak si yao)
never had such a good hokkien char in my life….
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kampungboycitygal Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
hi loon, tq for sharing this with us ;p.
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