Mee Sup Pipin

Last Friday I went to have breakfast with my parents and they brought me to a very unique place to try their noodle soup. It is situated in a village along Kota Kinabalu - Tambunan road with only a approximately 10cm x 30cm sign board written "Mee Sup Pipin" on the junction. Upon arrival, I was surprised that the place is fully parked with cars including luxury cars and the restaurant is so crowded. The place is actually converted from a private residence.

At first, they told me the "Sup Tulang" (Bone Soup) is good so I ordered one. At first I though it's the normal Malay style of Beef Bone Soup. To my surprise, it's Pork Bone Soup instead and it's just RM2 per bowl.

If you feel that soup alone is not filling enough, you can order their popular noodle soup with the same soup base. I tried it and found that it's not bad. The base is clear while tasty.

Other than the above, they also serve Pork Tail Soup (Sup Ekor), Stuffed Bean Curd (Yong Tau Foo), Stuffed Egg Plant (Yong Ai Gua), Braised Pork Belly with Yam (Kao Yuk), Wild Bore (Babi Hutan) and etc.

I tried the stuffed bean curd and stuffed egg plant. I like the stuffed egg plant better.


For those who like to try, sorry I don't know how to describe exactly how to get there. However, I managed to get the GPS coordination for those who have GPS Navigation device with Sabah Map. It's N 05° 56.359’ E 116° 05.774’

Kedai Kopi Houng Kee

Kedai Kopi Houng Kee is situated at Damai Plaza, near the popular bread shop "Foo Yuen". They are well known for their mixed fish noodle. Just in case, mixed fish noodle is either noodle soup or dry style served with your choice of seafood like fish slice, fish ball, fish cake, fish maw, fish roe, fish stomach, fish lips and many more... You may also mixed it with other seafood like clam and prawn.

However, I prefer their Tom Yam Noodle more. Although it taste and style is totally different from the original Thai's Tom Yam, I still like the taste. Its very thick and very unique. Hmmm... I will prefer to name it Seafood Laksa Lemak Noodle...hehehe

You can choose to order either rice noodle, egg noodle or rice stick. My choice.....rice noodle. You can mixed it with your choice of fresh seafood...... Enjoy mixing.....

Kedai Restauran Kuo Man

Situated near Sunny Garden, 1.5 Mile of Jalan Tuaran, Kedai Restauran Kuo man serves the most popular homemade fish ball and homemade egg noodle. When someone mentioned homemade fish ball, they are the pioneer that no one are unaware of. Astro AEC's Jason also visited this restaurant for his food series which will be aired around October 2009.

The most popular on the menu will be the homemade fish ball "yu wat". We can safely says that most of the tables will order this item. Usually, they will eat it their popular home made egg noodle.

Usually people will order only noodle "kosong" and separately another dish. For me, I prefer to order noodle with something inside especially fresh prawn and fresh fish fillet; and then order separately a bowl of homemade fish ball.

Also recommended in their menu is the beef slice and beef tendon in herbal soup. Give it a try or else you have never tried a real "yu wat".

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.

Restaurant Yu Hing, Kota Kinabalu

If you love seafood and noodle, you should try Yu Hing's Seafood Fried Noodle. Situated at Hilltop, along Jalan Lintas, serves my all time favourite fried noodle.

Not only the taste is unique, it also uses good quality ingredients like garoupa for its slice fish. The prawn and squid are of big ones and fresh. The frying style of the noodle is something like the Beaufort style with alot of green veggies "choi sum". Not only the ingredients are of good quality, the noodle also tastily covered with gravy from the fresh seafood.

Because of its quality ingredients, you are expected to pay a higher price. For me, its worth it once in a while for its great taste. In addition, don't expect very good services; but its acceptable to me.