1. Best Street Food
in Kuala Lumpur
August 2011

2. Grilled Chicken Wings
• Wong Ah Wah Chicken Wings
This is located at Jalan Alor
and has made a really big
name for themselves as the
best grilled chicken wings in
town.
• The Hong Kong and Taiwanese
tourists love this place.
• They have expanded the
operations to cater for seafood
enthusiasts by adding
deliciously prepared seafood
dishes to their list.

3. Wanton Noodles
• Koon Kee Wanton Noodles
This old establishment is a
little more than a hole in the
wall, on Petaling Street itself.
• The waiters are a little grumpy
and you may have to repeat
your order a couple of times
but it's worth the hassle.
• One of those few remaining
old coffee shops in the vicinity.
Closed in the evenings.

4. Wanton Noodles
• Toong Kwoon Chye
Another great place for
wanton noodles with
barbequed roast pork. Been
around for years and is now
run by 3rd generation of the
family.
• Also serves up pretty good
Herbal Duck Drumstick Noodle
soup and yin yang toast.
• Open 7.30am - 7.30pm
• Located: At Jalan Bintang,
across the road from Century
Hotel on Jalan Bukit Bintang.

5. Pork Ball Noodles(Yoke Yuen Fun ) ,
Popiah
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Weng Heng Coffee Shop
Serves the best pork ball noodles in
town. And not to mention one of the
best places to go for a piping hot
plate of Penang Kway Teow.
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If that's not enough, the popiah is
superb too! However you'll have to
order this dish from the old man who
runs his little stall just outside of the
shop. It gets really crowded during
lunch hour so go early.
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Located: On Jalan Imbi, opposite the
Honda Showroom and round the
corner from Sakura Restaurant

6. Prawn Noodle Soup (Mee Yoke)
• Lai Fong Coffee Shop
Another one of those old coffee
shops with lots of individual stalls
selling all sorts of food.
• One particular one that sells the
Prawn Noodle Soup still remains
one of the best choices in town, if
you're looking for Prawn Noodle
Soup.
• Closed in the evenings.
• Located: Jalan Cheng Lock, on the
crossroads with Jalan Petaling
across from the Jukebox shoe
shop

7. Pan Mee (Meen Fun Kueh)
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Restoran Kin Kin
This family used to operate under a huge
tree nearby but due to developments in the
area, they have relocated to a shoplot.
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A very different style of preparation, one can
have it in soup or dry. The dry pan mee
topped with egg and is absolutely
deeeeelicious!
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Lunchtime is packed and the crowd is
generally made up of accountants. (The big
accounting firms are within the vicinity).
You'll see what we mean when you get there.
Open from 8am to 4pm.
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Located: Jalan Sultan Salahuddin Lorong 2

8. Restoran Kin Kin
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Adik-Beradik Chua
At the end of a row of prewar terrace houses is
this coffee shop selling delicious fish ball noodle
soup and pan mee. The chicken rice is quite
popular there too and they sell the ever popular
White Coffee here! Closed evenings
Located: on Tengkat Tong Shin
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Beef Ball Noodle (Ngau Yoke Meen)
Soong Kee Restaurant
Try the beef ball with 'loh shi fun' either dry or
with soup. It's the best, nothing like it!
Open from Dusk till dawn
Located: Jalan Tun H.S.Lee, just down the road
from Metrojaya at Jalan Silang.
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Ngau Kee
This stall sits on a five foot walkway and opens
in the evenings till late The beef ball noodles are
good here but hygiene can be improved.(a lot!)
Located: Tengkat Tong Shin, just at the bend
opposite Corona Inn.

9. Hainanese Chicken Rice
• Sin Seng Nam Coffee Shop
Noted for its hainanese
chicken rice and Chicken
Chop.
• This place has been serving
up hainanese dishes for
dozens of years and still
going strong. If you're in
town, try this place.
• Closed evenings.
• Located: just to the side of
Bangkok Bank close to the
central market in town

10. Nam Heong Chicken Rice
• Nam Heong Chicken Rice
Most reputable shop
serving hainanese chicken
rice is the one in chinatown.
• There are now franchised
shops all over town but we
still return to this one for a
good meal of chicken rice
and beef brisket soup!
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Located: Opposite Furama
Hotel and down the road
from Swiss-Inn Hotel on
Jalan Sultan

11. Fish Ball Noodle Soup
• Adik-Beradik Chua
At the end of a row of
prewar terrace houses is
this coffee shop selling
delicious fish ball noodle
soup and pan mee.
• The chicken rice is quite
popular there too and they
sell the ever popular White
Coffee here!
• Closed evenings
• Located: on Tengkat Tong
Shin

12. Cantonese Fried Noodles
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The Cantonese Fried Noodles behind the
lanes - called Tai Shi Tow
This is the best kept secret in KL…the
Cantonese Fried Noodles and Hainanese
Chicken rice stall. The sang har meen
standard has dropped quite a bit
however... not worth the RM79 we paid
for a plate for 4!
Location: On Jalan Silang but closer to the
Jalan Tun H.S. Lee junction. If turning into
Jalan Silang from Jln Tun H.S.Lee, the
alleyway will be on your right. The first
lane after the turning. Go thru this
alleyway which is also cluttered with stalls
selling chinese food, carry on until you get
to the end of the alleyway and it's smack
there. The lane is directly across the street
from Restoran Choon Tian and right
beside Hon Ming Textile.

13. Soo Kee Mee Stall
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Soo Kee Mee Stall
Another place that sells Cantonese
Fried Noodles, Paper wrapped
chicken, and seafood dishes.
A favourite is the fried sliced beef
and ginger kway teow dish ( Ngau
yoke hor) Gets really crowded during
lunch and dinner hours so either go
before or after the rush hours.
The Japanese and Korean expats
simply love this place. Opens till early
morning hours every day.
Closed Mondays.
Location: Jalan Khoo Teik Ee, just off
Jalan Imbi.

14. Bak Kut Teh
• Sem Kim Coffee Shop
This Bak Kut Teh place that's
been around for a long,long
time and serves great 'yau
fan' or fried onion rice with
your choice of pork cuts.
• Opens till the wee hours of
the morning from 5.30pm.
• Location: Shoplots facing the
Tan Chong Motors
showroom, on Jalan Ipoh

15. Bak Kut Teh
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The Old Stall Klang
This Bak Kut Teh place has been around for
generations and cooks up authentic bak kut teh - the
staple diet of the Klang Chinese community. It opens
from 5.30am and closes about 11.00am - the early
bird catches the worm!
This place serves the typical strong chinese tea used
to chase down a filling, rich breakfast.
My dad's thumbs up anytime.
Location: At Lorong Station 1, Klang. As you enter
Klang coming from KL, cross the bridge towards Port
Klang. Immediately across the bridge as you get to a
traffic light junction, take a left and left again and
then a right as this is a one way street.
Follow this road which shaped in an ellipitical loop
which will more or less take to just about where you
started but a little further down the road.
From here, left and then right into Lorong Station 1.
It's the corner shop of a row of old shoplots, right
next to a carpark area.

16. Yong Tow Foo
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Cozy Corner
Right next to the stall with a blue roof top. This place is a
really popular place for Yong Tow Foo and is especially
busy on weekends. It's open during the day only.
Location: Taman U Lek, Cheras at Lorong Durian
The mobile stalls at Imbi Corner
The car park area here is transformed everynight into an
eatery made up of a couple-a-dozen or so mobile(as some
will call it: Hawker stalls) stalls. The yong tau foo stall here
is one of the best so give it a try. Be sure to turn up early
though, the YTF is so popular that it sometimes run out
by 8.30pm. However, There are plenty of other things to
eat here if you have picky food partners.
Location: At the carpark in front of the Honda Kar
Showroom in Jalan Imbi corner, facing the Weng Heng
Coffee Shop.
Restoran Orchard View Yong Tow Foo
Good yong tow foo place, Orchard View is now located in
a corner shoplot just outside of the congested Ampang
viilage area. Try the cheong fun, it's good.
Location: It's moved location to shoplots near the
Spectrum Complex/Supermarket in the Ampang village
area.

17. Penang Fried Kway Teow
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Weng Heng Coffee Shop
Serves the best pork ball noodles in
town. And not to mention one of the
best places to go for a piping hot
plate of Penang Kway Teow.
If that's not enough, the popiah is
superb too! However you'll have to
order this dish from the old man who
runs his little stall just outside of the
shop (He sets up his stall at around
1pm). It gets really crowded during
lunch hour so go early.
Located: On Jalan Imbi, opposite the
Honda Showroom and round the
corner from Sakura Restau

18. Congee(Porridge)
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Pudu Back Lane
A Pudu back lane is transformed in the
evenings into a food street selling all sorts of
chinese street food as we call it. The chinese
custard is pretty good here and the Congee
stall is one of those must haves with locals.
Location: Off Jalan Pudu, at Jalan Sayur
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Fong Wah Teow Chew Porridge
This road is famous for its Teow Chew
cuisine, and none more enticing than a bowl
of piping hot porridge (this is also known as
broth in western countries) and all types of
preserved vegetables, curry, briskets and
other dishes that you can pick and choose at
the counters to your liking. The shops here
are open most of the day and right through
the early hours of the morning.
Location: Changkat Thambi Dollah

19. Hokkien Fried Noodles
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Kim Lian Kee
This is the one of the family's favorite dinner
venues. Been around forever and still as
good according to my father, who has been a
regular customer since the 50's - long before
petaling street became a tourists' haunt.
Nights only.
Location: At the junction of Petaling Street
and Jalan Hang Lekir. If you're unsure, it's the
corner stall facing the ever popular Longan
drink stall.
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Weng Heng Coffee Shop
Another place which serves hokkien noodles
and cantonese noodles. The hokkien noodles
here is sprinkled with fried pork fat (chu yau
char) . Open nights only too!
Located: On Jalan Imbi, opposite the Honda
Showroom and round the corner from Sakura
Restaurant
Seafood

20. • Mei Keng Fatt Seafood Restaurant
Everyone's favorite! Well, almost
everyone's except those
extremely allergic to it. Not cheap
but the food is good. Try the
pepper crabs or the sweet and
sour crabs, and the steamed
prawns. Fresh!Fresh!Fresh!!
Expatriate haunt …
• Opens daily: 11.30am-2.30pm;
4.00pm-1.00am
• Location:No.1, Lorong Awan
6,Kuala Ampang.(In Ulu Klang
area)

21. Roasted Duck Rice
• Siew Ngap Fei
This shop has been passed
down to the younger
generation but the fine
touches of granddad's is still in
the taste. If you have a
penchant for high fat
value….this is it. It's delicious
and you'd want more but
perhaps conscience may pull
you back on getting seconds!.
• Location: Jalan Landak off
Pasar Road . . It's not difficult
to find

22. Beef Brisket Noodle Soup (Ngau Lam Meen)
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The Beef Brisket noodle stall
This husband and wife team has been selling
their delicious beef brisket noodles for quite
some time now and has a steady stream of
customers every night. Just at the corner of a
little lane off Petaling Street , their set up has
only a couple of tables or so but well worth
the wait.
Location: Petaling Street , close to the Jalan
Sultan end of the street , where many beer
and food restaurants have emerged.
Lai Fong Coffee Shop
Another one of those old coffee shops with
lots of individual stalls selling all sorts of
food. One particular one that sells the Beef
brisket noodle Soup still remains one of the
best choices in town. Closed evenings.
Located: Jalan Cheng Lock, on the crossroads
with Jalan Petaling across from the Jukebox
shoe shop

23. Fish Head Noodle Soup
• Adai Village Fish Head
This is one of the best places
in town for a big, bowl of fish
head noodle soup. For about
RM7, this must be one of the
most satisfying noodle dishes
around.
• Can get pretty busy during
lunch so be prepared to wait a
bit. Open daily for lunch and
dinner.
• Location: Jalan Landak off
Pasar Road . Round the corner
from Pudu Plaza .