Old Coffee Shop Chilli Pan Mee

There is an old ordinary old coffee shop tucked away in an old corner of Kuala Lumpur, quite hard to access unless you know the roads of the city but I guess with Waze/GPS, there should be no problem. The shop is always packed with customers.

It is owned by an old man who employs foreign workers to help him make drinks, churn out the noodles and to cook them. The noodles are round instead of the usual flat ones.

He has a machine which makes it easy to cut the noodles from slabs of dough.

                                    Noodle making machine with the slabs of dough on the right

He inserts the dough into the machine which then cuts it into thin strips. These strips of noodles are then passed to those who do the cooking.

There is a bottle of dry chilli flakes which you toss into your pan mee when it is served. You can have the mee in soup or dry. There is a poached egg on top of the mee, some crispy ikan bilis (white bait) and minced pork.

                                                Dry version of the pan mee

People from outstation usually make a beeline for this coffee shop. No other shop has managed to duplicate the taste of this old man’s chilli pan mee.