Mee Suah is one of my favorite form of noodle out there. Made of rice flour and usually served in soup with a wide variety of other ingredients, mee suah is silky smooth and usually has a very soft texture.

herbal soup mee suah at Ming Tien food court

Mee Suah is also often consumed during traditional Chinese birthdays, the long strands of noodle signify longevity, and you’re supposed to not break it into smaller strands when having mee suah for such occasions.

As for me, I just love mine with some herbal soup and some chicken/duck drumsticks.

a bowl of herbal soup mee suah with chicken drumstick

The Herbal Soup Mee Suah stall at Ming Tien food court at PJ happened to offer pretty decent versions of these herbal soup mee suah this side of Klang Valley. The dish comes with your choice of meat, flavorful Chinese herbal soup, mee suah, and some green onion sprinkled on top. Very simple and yet rather delicious. Soya sauce with chili padi usually accompanies the dish as condiment.

A bowl of chicken drum stick mee suah goes for RM 4.50, they also serve the same dish with duck meat (RM 5), duck drumstick (RM 6), and pork spare ribs (RM 5).

4-eye KY, Gareth and Kim, Haze the awesome artist

The general standard of food at Ming Tien has shown a marked improvement from a few years ago too. Other things that I like there include the fried lychee, soy duck with rice, and  fried dumpling. It also helps that this is a dog friendly place, especially you choose one of the tables at the side that’s closest to the pet store.

Address:
Ming Tien Hawker Center
Jalan SS24/8, Taman Megah,
Petaling Jaya, Selangor
GPS: 3.114334, 101.611658

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Posted by KY | 26 Comments »

It’s been a while since yours truely posted some wholesome healthy dishes that you too can make at home. Here is the latest invention of the KY herbal soup that I am quite sure, no ordinary chef will serve at any decent restarants, enter the KY’s herbal glass noodle soup.

glass noodle, herbal soup, chicken, shrimps, yumm..

So here are the ingredients:

• a pack of herbal soup.. er.. herbs
• a piece of chicken breast
• some pork ribs
• some shrimps
• two portion of glass noodle
• some garlic
• half a chinese cabbage

Simple enough isn’t it? Now here are the steps:

• First pre-boil the ribs seperated in a small pot
• Remove the ribs from small pot and put it in a bigger pot, boil this with the herbs
• Let the herbal soup simmer in a low fire for at least an hour
• Boil the shrimps and chicken breast (cut into pieces) with some garlic in a seperate pot
• At the same time, add some Chinese cabbage to the herbal soup, add some salt accoreding to taste
• After the shirmps and chicken are about cooked (only takes a couple minutes), add in glass noodle
• Cook for another couple minutes, then remove the water and empty the good stuff into serving bowls
• Finally, add herbal soup with vege and ribs into the bowl that already has glass noodle, chicken, and shrimps

are you hungry?

This is just about as wholesome a meal one can get in a dish. Seafood, poultry, meat, vegetable, all in the rejuvenating herbal soup. I had some red chilies in soya sauce on the side too. It’s all pretty simple to make, impress your girl friend, or mother in law, or something..

By the way, the ingredients were not really chosen by design, though they ended up mixing well and being absolutely delicious. Cheers!

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Posted by KY | 12 Comments »

We have noticed the Friendship Herbal Soup restaurant (捕一宝) for quite a few times when we went to KAYU mamak or Segambut Seafood Noodle restaurant in SS2. We had thought that the place only offers herbal soup, turns out, they are a full fledge Chinese restaurant, offering a pretty big selection of Chinese dishes, and of course, lotsa herbal soup choices.

nice little setting, clean, and fully air conditioned

The restaurant is not terribly big, just a single shop lot, with tables probably enough to fit a total of 50 hungry guests. The ambience is pretty nice, environment is clean, and it’s fully air conditioned.

three different types of soup, and they offer yam rice too!

We ordered a bowl of soup for each person, and four other dishes to go with the rice, probably a little too much. Ended up stuffing ourselves to finish everything. The soup we ordered were the peanut soup (花生荡), eight precious soup (八珍荡), and the python soup (蛇羹). My god, they were yummy, I had the python soup, the texture and taste reminds me of sharksfin soup, but with stronger aroma and heavier flavour. The peanut and eight precious soup were excellent too, stocked with generous amount of herbal ingredients and meat while being not too salty nor bitter.

another 4 dishes, chicken, tofu, vege, egg.

As we were having rice, we oredered four other typical Chinese dishes. We had the claypot three cup chicken (三杯鸡), tofu with minced meat and mushroom, vegetable (油麦), and an egg dish. These dishes did not dissapoint either, the claypot chicken dish was particulary good. The gravy had a very strong and excellent taste while the chicken absorbed alot of the flavoring from the spices. I think a hint of rice wine was used in making this dish. It reminds me of the paper wrapped chicken I had in Belakong a while back.

the food was great, and we emptied everything

Total cost of the meal for three of us was RM 43.00. Pretty good deal for 7 total dishes and 3 drinks I’d say. The soup costs RM 4.00 to RM 6.00 while the dishes were RM 5.00 tto RM 8.00. Value for money and excellent taste, will definately go there again.

just a few shops down the road from KAYU

Address:
No. 40, Jalan SS2/10
47300 Petaling Jaya
Tel: 03-7877 7827
GPS: 3.115834, 101.617023

Tags:  chinese-food,  herbal-soup,  PJ,  python-soup,  SS2 SS3 SS4

Posted by KY | 13 Comments »