Kedai Kopi Melainan, Kota Kinabalu

When one talk about Pork Noodle "Sang Yuk Meen", everyone will know Kedai Kopi Melainan in Lintas. There are many Pork Noodle stalls in Kota Kinabalu, and this is one of the popular one.

Pork noodle originated from a town called Tawau and originally cooked with firewood. Firewood cooking usually taste very nice due to the extra flavour from the burning of the firewood (should be). It can be in soup form or dry (gon lou) from the choice between rice noodle (mee hoon), egg noodle (mee) or rice stick (koew teow). The ingredients consist of pork products like the meat, intestine, liver, kidney, tendon and pork ball. It also contains pork dumpling (wonton), veggies and etc.

To judge whether its a good pork noodle, we first aimed at the soup. The soup should be tasty from the pork, not the MSG. Next, we judge the texture of the dry noodle (kon lou). The noodle should not be very sticky and too soft. The sauce they use for the noodle should be able to blend well with the taste of the soup. Next the ingredient used.

Kedai Kopi Melainan is popular in its dry rice noodle. It is well done by not getting noodle sticking together. The soup also tasty and you can see tiny pork meat in the soup from meat boiling.

Another popular dish in this coffee shop is their Stuff Bean Curd (Yong Tau Foo). It is cooked in Hakka style (most people in Kota Kinabalu is Hakka). The texture of the bean curd is very smooth. Next is the Chicken Feet with Mushroom. However, I could not finish the whole things so I did not order this time. Thus, no picture to show you this time. Sorry! I will order in my next trip.

Of course as Malaysian, we like to eat our food with dipping especially chili padi. In Sabah, we like to blend it with other ingredients like garlic, ginger and etc. The result, very hot (due to Sabah chili padi is hotter compared to other region); very nice when eating with pork noodle.