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Wheat noodles tossed dry with minced beef sauce, or served in a deep beef broth with tripe, tendon and hand-made beef balls. A Chinatown speciality in Kuala Lumpur, with stalls dating from the 1940s and 1950s.
Beef noodles in Kuala Lumpur are a Hakka and Cantonese hawker tradition concentrated in the streets of Chinatown. Cooks simmer brisket, tripe and tendon for hours, pound beef into springy balls, and serve the noodles two ways: in the broth, or dry with a savoury minced beef gravy and the soup on the side. Soong Kee on Jalan Tun H S Lee has made its dry minced beef noodles and hand-rolled beef balls since 1945, now in its second generation, and Lai Foong on the same road has simmered its beef soup since 1956. Order dry with the soup on the side to taste both.
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Soong Kee Beef Noodle has sold dry minced beef noodles and hand-rolled beef balls on Jalan Tun H S Lee in Kuala Lumpur since 1945, now second generation.
OrderOrder the dry beef noodles with beef balls, made to the same recipe since 1945.
TipA small bowl runs about RM13. Go before 12:00 or after 14:00, since the Chinatown lunch crowd takes every table.
Lai Foong Beef Noodles on Jalan Tun H.S. Lee, across from Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown, has simmered its beef noodle soup and lala clams since 1956.
OrderBeef noodle soup and lala clam meehoon
TipGo before 10am on weekends, the beef tendon usually sells out by early afternoon.
Sin Kiew Yee Shin Kee Beef Noodles has boiled beef noodles on Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock in Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown since starting as a stall in 1949.
OrderDry beef noodles with springy beef balls and tripe.
TipOrder the dry version over soup; the minced beef sauce coats the noodles better than the broth does.
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