Noodles is one of the staple foods of the Chinese community anywhere in the world. In Malaysia, it’s no different. Whilst it’s easy to find a whole galore of Chinese noodles places all over the country, it’s much more difficult to find a Halal restaurant serving authentic Chinese noodles. Hence today’s post. We visited, and had dinner at a fully Muslim Halal Chinese food shop serving authentic Chinese La Mian (Ramen) in Bandar Sunway in the city. This is a great place highly recommended by many, and has over 4-star reviews in Google Maps.
La Mian or how most people call it, Ramen means hand-pulled noodles in Chinese. Pulled with dough made with wheat flour. The noodles is extremely springy and has a good bite to it.
Photo below: Authentic Chinese La Mian in clear beef broth
[Photo below] Kungfu Ramen is a small setup by Muslim Chinese from mainland China who started their business here a few years ago. Google Maps Location: https://goo.gl/maps/fruQeNcNb6L77tjc9
They have 2 branches in the city as far as we can tell and all food preparations are made by their family members who came from China. The branch we visited is located in Bandar Sunway.
Photos of the staff were taken with his permission.
[Photo below] First the preparation of the noodle dough, which mainly only uses wheat flour, water, some oil and salt. And kneaded until all the gluten is formed and thus easily pulled. They work this by hand, so it’s quite a lot of hard work kneading.
Photo below: On order only, the noodle master, or at least that is what I call him. Sifu. He uses his very long experience to very quickly and effortlessly shape and pull the noodles. Seeing him work is quite mesmerizing. After a few rounds of pulling, stretching and dividing, the noodles were ready and just needed to be cooked.
[Photo below] A quick hot water bath, since the dough is fresh, quickly cooks the noodles. And the plain noodles is now ready to take on the broth or be fried with other condiments.
[Photo below] Soup bases include plain clean soup, savoury spicy type broth. There is also a dry fried version. And the shop serves really good dumplings also. Since this is a halal place, all meat bases are of lamb, beef or chicken only. I tend to prefer the spicy broth base on colder days and the plain clean soup on warmer days. Both are extremely delicious.
[Photo below] The noodles are left to be as long as possible, as long noodles symbolizes long life. So, when we eat, we need to really hold the noodles up very high! So when you get your bowl of noodles, just feel happy when you see how long the noodles are.
[Photo below] One key specialty that they have is serving very fresh green tea, unlike tea leaves that are dried, these are semi dried and have a very fresh note to the aroma.
This is our short visit to a very authentic Halal Chinese Ramen restaurant, that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. They are all very honest and humble people. A bowl of beef ramen soup noodles costs RM 8 which is under under USD 2. That’s a real steal, considering they make the noodles to order. A highly recommended place since Halal Chinese food is not easily found in the city. Feel free to go and visit them some day.
(ok that was a bad pun)
