Place Category:
Chinese
Joo Huat Restaurant, 336-G1 Lintang Slim, off Jalan Perak, 11600 Penang (approx 100m from Jalan Perak Fire Station/Harmony apartments)
+6016-4775152
7:00am - 4:00pm
Breakfast,Lunch
Coffee Shop,Hawker
What can you say when you are nicknamed after a product category like The Banner King orThe T-Shirt King. In this case, “Kim Leng Tua Lor Au” rightfully earned the title of “Mr Loh Mee”. Mr Loh Mee serves fresh, delicious and cheap loh mee to his customers daily (except Thursdays).
Mr Loh Mee took over the business from his sister who was too old to continue the business. Mr Loh Mee who had no experience is making loh mee slowly perfected his sister’s recipe over the years and slowly build up a loyal clientele.
Mr Loh Mee has a very simple business approach. Serves the best and freshest loh mee and cheap (value for money) too (RM2.30 per bowl) . He makes his profits by just selling more bowls. He also make the “loh” or gravy fresh and not a lot of quantity. And when the gravy is gone, he just makes more at his home nearby. The reason is that gravy that have been cooking too long has a burnt aftertaste. Mr Loh Mee’s loh mee is well garnished with pork strips, a half egg and pork inerts like tribe and intestines. Yum….delicious!
Mr Loh Mee also sells chicken paws for those who are more adventurous for only RM2:30 a bowl. Double yum! Mr Loh Mee who was recently featured on Astro’s “Taste with Jason” has seen it customer based doubling and during peak time, you can see the bee line of customers for take aways stretching over 50m. No better luck if you sit in the cafe for the famous loh mee. My orders took 30 minutes to come and I had to remind the stall workers about my two bowls orders. The portion is smaller and I finished the two bowls in no time.
The orders are huge that production and service cannot cope especially on weekends. Later on, I managed to learn how I can get my orders quick which is to remind the waitress about my order while she is carrying the loh mee bowls to customers. She just give me the bowls that she had on her tray. I think the waitress also cannot remember who ordered what and just bring the bowl out and asked the customers if they ordered or not.
I recommend this loh mee. The gravy is aromatic with five spice and thick enough to completely sticks to each noodle strands. It is cheap. At RM2:30 per bowl, its about 40% cheaper than usual pricing. Although the portion is a bit smaller but it is still cheap.
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Dunwan Leang, September 09, 2011
always so crowded, but they can serve the noodle very fast. the soup very sticky and i felt it’s sweet, quite big porsion
Lauyee Lim, August 12, 2011
Oh man! If you like thick starch and strong aromatic flavor of the lor mee this is a must try! They are cheap and served so quickly that you don’t have to put up with some possibly negative attitude of the hawkers. If you’re up for some snack, their chicken paw is simply marvelous!
Darren Jelly, June 30, 2011
Penang is legendary for its local cheap and mouthwatering hawker food.
Loh Mee is one of the local must-try delicacies.
Loh Mee is a Chinese-inspired noodle and Bee Hoon dish served in a thick, black and grooey broth.
There may be a lot of Loh Mee sellers, but i can count on the fingers of one hand the number of them who serve truly yummy ones.
So far, the best one that i have ever encountered is at Joo Huat Coffee Shop, Perak Road.
The coffee shop is positioned on your left hand side approximately a half mile after passing through Old Town Cafe if you are coming from Gelugor.
I believe a site map will be a better presenter than i am.
The Loh Mee is very reputed since long time ago and Jason Yeoh, or more commonly known as Ah Xian had been here for his food show.
Anyway, there are three options to choose from, small (2.70 bucks), medium (3.20 bucks) and big (4.50 bucks).
My serving was the medium one and there were no pork slices and chicken feet for my Mee as they are not my cup of tea.
Hence, there was only egg inside my bowl of Mee.
So far so good, they never got my order wrong!
It ended up with disappointment.
Today, the taste was way off their usual standard.
Although the taste was still acceptable, but it was terrible, compared with the old times.
And, i hope that the quality will be improved once more.
The starchy gravy was gooey enough and the thickness of the sticky gravy was just excellent.
The only problem was that the gravy today lacked of flavor.
I sensed a significant difference in the taste as i am considered a regular customer of the Mee.
I will be looking forward to try it out once more.
Just hope that it won’t be resulted in another letdown.
By the way, there are not much parking spaces in vicinity and during lunch time, the coffee shop will be surely crowded.
Operation hours : 0700 – 1600 (Closed on every Thursdays)
http://eaterland.blogspot.com/2011/03/kim-leng-loh-mee-perak-road-penang.html
Alan Choong, May 29, 2011
Cheap and good….even Jasan from Taste with Jason recommends it!
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