Most everyone knows that Kota Kinabalu, being located by the crystal clear and beautiful South China Sea, is famous for seafood when it comes to .. well, food. One of the ways to enjoy this sea bounty without having to bring a crowd to a seafood restaurant is by heading to one the few fish noodle restaurants in the city.
Today, we look at one of the more famous shops – Restoran Wan Wan.
Wan Wan fish noodle, Kota Kinabalu
Wan Wan is located at Bundusan, some 15 minutes away from the city center, which coincidentally, is also nearby another one of my favorite seafood restaurants – the original branch of Welcome Seafood.
Parking isn’t an issue in this part of tow, and being only some 12 mins away from airport, it’s not a bad idea for pre-flight meal, which was what I did.
Wan Wan runs a bit of a self-service kinda operations. While you do get to order from the server and have the food served to your table, you do have to get condiments and cutlery DIY style.
home made noodle with chunky fish fillet
For lunch, I chose jewel garupa with extra fish skin to go with their version of dry noodle.
The fish were certainly worthy to be labeled “KK standard”, fresh, succulent, and certainly super fresh tasting. At Wan Wan they do it super thick cuts too, which I thought retains more of the fish’s own juiciness. The “kan lou” noodle was springy and makes for good companion to the seafood for sure. Soup was packed with seafood sweetness, with very minor tomato note, quite different the stronger tasting Fatt Kee, but rather nice in its own way.
For those who likes it spicy, there’s tomyam soup base, and of course there are prawns, and quite a few other choices of fish to choose, there’s even fish paste noodle too.
jewel garupa is always one of my favorites
If you love fish noodle and likes your fish chunky, this is certainly a place to check out.
Address:
Wan Wan Fish Noodle
Lorong Bundusan,
Hsk Industrial Centre,
88300 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
GPS: 5.924120, 116.092525
Tel: 088-716 698
Hours: 6:30 am to 2:30 pm, close on Tuesdays
Anything in clear soup and I’m sold!
suituapui: healthy choice kan? 😀
kk wouldn’t be a bad place to retire in – great seafood for the rest of our lives 😀
Sean: you’re right, tho Penang.. hm.
kekekeke… ‘wan wan’ … sounds like a KK nightclub with gyrating pinays #oi #shhh
kekeke: every nightttt
you went there every night? oic 😉
kekeke: i sent reps.
oh ohhhhh you sent your member into the nightclub icicic i understand #lol
kekeke: shhhh it’s a secret.
that explains the multiple trips to KK….. ehehehehe #shh #bachelor
kekeke: cisss.
Isit hala?
Stephen: it should be.