Kin Kin Chilli Pan Mee （建记辣椒板面）

One of the food in Kuala Lumpur that I have longed and craved for is the dried chilli pan mee, where lots and lots of these restaurant are mushrooming around Klang Valley. Among the pan mee restaurant I ever tried in our capitol city, Kin Kin is the first that springed to my mind.

1). Located at the shop lots behind Pizza Hut along Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.

2). Often you'll find yourself standing and waiting for other customers alms-giving their tables.

3). To my surprise, the noodles are made and cooked by the foreign workers there. I wonder how would it affect the quality of the noodles that crazed all the pan mee seekers.

4). Something to keep your mouth busy while waiting for the meal of the day is the Sweet Potato Leaves Soup. Cooked with anchovies and egg white added in, and voila! The leaves are fresh and crunchy, the soup is tasty and refreshing.

5). Here comes the grand prize! Various ingredients are added in, namely the pan mee, fried anchovies, minced pork, topped with a half-boiled egg and most important of all - their signatured dried chilli flakes! To be honest with you, one bowl is never enough for me, at least one and a half, some even take three!!

6). Mixed all these ingredients together with the pan mee to enjoy this heavenly creation. The degree of spiciness can be adjusted according to your level of tolerance. You may add in some lime juice and chilli padi in order to spice up your life a little bit! There you have it, a simple yet addictive meal that makes you return over and over again!

7). This is their secret ingredient - their signatured dried chilli flakes, you can add all you want! But bewared, this is not for the faint-hearted and stomach-sensitive ones! However, at the price of RM5.80 per bowl is rather pricey as comparison with other pan mee available else where.

8). What would you do just for a bowl of dried chilli pan mee? Some individuals even steal it, in order to mimic the legendary chilli and make fame and fortune for theirselves, but unfortunately was caught on CCTV.. For those who lived closed to Pandan Indah, you are lucky to have the one and only genuine branch of Kin Kin located at the address as showed in the picture above.

Kin Kin Chilli Pan Mee （建记辣椒板面）

Address : 40, Ground Floor, Jalan Dewan Sultan Sulaiman 1,

                off Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, 50100 Kuala Lumpur.

Business hours : Monday to Friday 7.30am - 7.00pm

                         Saturday to Sunday 7.30am - 5.00pm

                         (Off day on occasions only)

GPS coordinates : 3.161031, 101.698272

Tel. : 016-3728069

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Big Sister Pan Mee Restaurant （大家姐板面馆）

Recently traveled down to Kampar in Perak and seek for a quick lunch. Apart from the all-time famous Curry Bread Chicken, I am looking for something else and found out a newly opened pan mee （板面） restaurant in this old mining town. To my astonishment, the shop is still relatively unknown according to our fellow Kamparians.  

1). Situated at the side alley (Jalan Ampang) in between Jalan Besar and Jalan Idris, diagonally opposite of Pizza Hut.

2). The pan mee shop has just opened for three months, since December 2010. However, the air-conditioning is terribly needed, especially during lunch hours.

3). An extensive menu of noodles is available, however to my disappointment, there is only size, the smaller mee-like noodles offered by the shop, in which I prefer the bigger size or the hand-pinch size.

4). A special drink on the menu is the Vietnamese Coffee, where you need to separate the coffee residue by using the filter provided. Before drinking it, you can mixed the coffee with the condensed milk at the bottom of the cup according your preferred sweetness.

5). The traditional style pan mee is cooked with soup (wet version), topped with potato leaves, anchovies and sliced mushrooms. The small portion priced at RM3.50 and the large portion cost extra 50 cents.

6). I have always fond of dried chilli pan mee, however only the dried version is available. Although it has all the ingredient as the wet version, the taste is just plain ordinary, nothing special about it.

 7). However the highlight of the meal comes with their signatured fried tofu, topped with plum sauce, priced at RM4.00 for 4 pieces. I really like the sweet and sour taste!

Being a pan mee specialist restaurant, there are a variety of pan noodles are available for selection. In my opinion, the pan mee is not up to my expectation and comes inferior as compared to our KL counterpart. However at least there is something new to try out whenever you visit Kampar.

Big Sister Pan Noodle Restaurant （大家姐板面馆）

Jalan Ampang, 

31900 Kampar, Perak.

Business hours : 8am-3pm, 6pm-10pm daily.