Bao Bao Restaurant

Situated at the other end from the Sedap mamak in Aman Suria (Dataran Prima) that faces the main road, Bao Bao Restaurant is a basic looking restaurant with hawker-style sitting; low wooden tables and stools and serving a single product - Pan Mee.

The restaurant was quite packed when Adrian and I walked in. It was already off lunch hours. Just before that I was wondering if it was opened as I missed taking a good look when we drove past. "Not open or not, more like if we could find a table," he said, obviously amazed at his wife's naiveness.

I ordered luk mei suet (a cold dessert with six different ingredients - dried longan, winter melon, barley, cincau, and two jelly-like ingredients which I had no idea what they were made from). Not overly sweet, it was very freshing and thirst quenching and priced at RM2.30.

Three choices of noodle preparation

There were four varieties of pan mee available - two with soup (traditional and special) and two dry (with garlic, and special) - with any of the three choices of noodle preparation (thin, flat or peel-slice). Adrian had the flat with special soup and I went for its specialty, special dry and peel-slice.

Special dry, peel-slice pan mee

The special soup pan mee came with soup that was light, both in taste and texture. Adrian added the Boa chillies and it tasted a whole lot better. The dry version was quite good, served with dark brown, sweetish sauce. Whilst the soup version came with vege mani and small chunks of crispy pork, the dry pan mee also came with both the former and sliced BBQ pork (char siew), which were just so so.

Special soup with flat noodles

The staffs were all well coordinated with one working on the noodle preparation, one cooking them, one serving the ready orders, one taking orders from customers, two working in the back cleaning up. Orders were served up reasonably quick despite running almost a full house.

Though price a little weighty on the wallet for pan mee as small portion was priced at RM4.80 and Iarge at RM5.50, I would defintely re-visit this place for a treat of dry pan mee :)

Preparing the noodles and cooking them

Staff refilling the different chillies in the stainless steel containers

Four different varieties of chillies - chopped red-green bird's eye chillies; chopped red-green bird's eye chillies with light soy sauce, grinded bird's eye chillies with sambal belacan (Bao Chillie) and dried chillie flakes.

Boa chillie for sale

Jalan PJU 1/43

(few shoplots away from Sedap in Aman Suria/Dataran Prima, facing the main road/NKVE)

47301 Petaling Jaya