CURRY MEE AND
ASAM LAKSA
At the entrance of Petaling Street wet market,
opposite Hotel Chinatown Inn

I'm very particular about my curry mee. the curry gravy must be thick and the sambal that accompanies it must be good. Many times I would be very disappointed as the gravy is more like a watery soup than anything else. No matter what ingredients you put in it, if the gravy is off, I won't bother coming back. 

This stall, however, is different. It's run by a gang of very nice  aunties and one old man. The prices here are reasonable, considering the generous portions served. It is only open from 4.30pm onwards, which explains why I just came upon it this year, after been walking around Petaling Street for around 20 years during lunch. Since then, I've been to this place at least three times, and that says a lot as I hate traffic jams!

Don't expect much from the dining area, as it's at the entrance of what is the morning wet market. The smell of the market is also pretty strong, but the food is so good that the smell is of little consequence. 

Now, this is a small bowl of curry mee with the addition of fu chok. The curry mee comes with pig skin, slices of fish cake, char siu and tow pok. And did I mention that there was a container of delicious sambal on every table?! The gravy on it's own was very good, but the sambal took it to a different level altogether! As some of you who know me well know that I don't like those oily yellow noodles, as such I would normally either use bee hoon or ee mee for the curry mee. Really excellent stuff! 

This is also a small bowl of asam laksa, but there's nothing small about the portions given! You will never get a piece of fish that size, let alone a few pieces of it at any other asam laksa stall! I absolutely love the tangy gravy, and you can add as much prawn paste as you like because like the sambal earlier, there's a container of prawn paste on every table too! I used to think the asam laksa at the Sri Petaling pasar malam was good, but this is streets ahead in terms of taste and value! Excellent stuff!

This is a bowl of fish ball soup that comes with pork balls, fish cake slices and the fantastic fu chok in a ikan bilis broth. The broth itself is really good. The fish balls are nice and springy, and the fu chok, oh the fu chok! The auntie who took my order suggested that since I already had the fu chok in the curry mee, I should choose something else, but I LOVE the fu chok! Give it to me! ;-) And what Bernard wants, Bernard gets, so........

The total bill inclusive of 2 glasses of chin chow cost rm19, not cheap but not expensive either, as the portions were extremely generous! You can pay the same amount elsewhere but you can never get the same quality and portions of food that you get here. Real value for money meal!