Ever have cravings for meat dumplings and ikan bakar at the same time? Well, Kota Kinabalu apparently has enough people who have this unique combo from time to time to warrant a few of these gyoza + grilled fish restaurants.

Today let’s look at one of the most popular of them – Kedai Kopi New Mui Vui.

Restoran New Mui Vui, Kota Kinabalu
Restoran New Mui Vui, Kota Kinabalu

New Mui Vui restaurant is located at Hilltop, some 10 minutes away from the heart of Kota Kinabalu, and a stone’s throw from one of the most popular tomato soup fish noodle in town – Fatt Kee (it’s good, check it out!)

Like many local eateries in this part of the country, service isn’t looked at as an area of emphasis, so don’t take anything personally. Overall however, the restaurant is comfortable enough, and hygiene is passable.

gyoza, seafood fried rice
gyoza, seafood fried rice

The restaurant serves gyoza, grilled fish/squid/lamb/beef, fried chicken wings/quails, as well as a fried rice and a selection of different noodle. Do note that your dishes may not come all at the same time. Menu is linked below.

We ordered those dumplings to go with a plate of seafood fried rice, as well as grilled stingray and squid for dinner.

ikan pari bakar, sotong bakar
ikan pari bakar, sotong bakar

Those grilled fish and squid were actually pretty good, even though the chili sauce it came with wasn’t much to shout about. Fried rice too was rather delicious, as most seafood ingredients from KK are of rather good quality. The gyoza however, was pretty subpar if you ask me, but if you’re in KK and long for gyoza, this is one of the few places you can get some, so I guess it’s… OK-ish?

Next time I may just have chicken wings instead of gyoza.

map to new mui vui, Kota Kinaabalu

Address:
New Mui Vui Restaurant
 2, Lorong Gunung Ulu Merak 2,
Taman Far East,
88300 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
GPS: 5.950502, 116.092648
Tel:  013-870 5781

new mui vui menu 1 new mui vui menu 2

KY eats – Ikan Bakar and Gyoza at New Mui Vui, Hilltop, Kota Kinabalu
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12 thoughts on “KY eats – Ikan Bakar and Gyoza at New Mui Vui, Hilltop, Kota Kinabalu

  • August 26, 2019 at 4:29 am
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    Hilltop? That is where Kah Kiong ngui chap is! Best in the world. Fock Ping is there too, very nice dim sum.

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    • August 27, 2019 at 10:51 am
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      suituapui: ooo I need to check that out!

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  • August 26, 2019 at 1:31 pm
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    Order gyoza, get boring gyoza. Order wor tip, get juicy delicious dumplings #realnews

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    • August 27, 2019 at 10:52 am
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      Hodor: hahahah same thing different names!

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  • August 26, 2019 at 5:21 pm
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    Are those gyoza or wor tip? Looks more like Chinese-style wor tip to me. Not great chilli sauce = not great ikan bakar wor (even if it’s fresh) coz the chilli sauce is really important…it’s what makes or breaks the dish, no? 😉

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    • August 27, 2019 at 10:53 am
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      eatwhateatwhere: i can’t really tell what’s gyoza what’s wor tip! LOL. Ikan bakar is in the fish!

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  • August 27, 2019 at 2:36 pm
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    with gyoza, grilled fish and maybe some chicken wings, only one more thing is missing – a splash of sake! 🙂

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    • August 27, 2019 at 4:07 pm
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      Sean: You’re not wrong! not at all!

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  • August 30, 2019 at 9:58 am
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    The Malay name and the Chinese name totally different ler, I wonder why.

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    • August 31, 2019 at 4:12 pm
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      Choi Yen: that’s the beauty of it, I guess? lol.

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