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

Kopitiam SFS 747

Recommended by another patient at the chiropractic clinic that I am currently seeking treatment at, I decided to try it out. This was also after my hubby and a few friends tried it out after his round-the-clock support at client's data centre.

Kon loh (Dry) wan tan noodles served with BBQ pork (char siew) from a stall in an ordinary nextdoor chinese coffeeshop in Sunwaymas Commercial Centre in Aman Suria. It was a long wait of 45 minutes as practically all tables were waiting for their servings. "This must be good," I thought. I almost finished my glass of 100 plus drink during the wait. Then the lady, presumably the hawker's wife, asked if we'd like to have the char siew with fats or lean. I askedfor one with lean meat and another with fats. Finally, the helper carried two plates in a tray headed for our table.

I dugged into the noodles having tossed them abit to get them evenly flavoured with the dark soy sauce. Chewing the first piece of char siew, I was not impressed. Came recommended and even my hubby, a pork lover, thought it was good. By the second piece, I was disappointed. I turned to tell him that he has to try the char siew at Meng Kee in Tengkat Tong Shin, or its branch in Glenmarie Shah Alam. That char siew was REALLY good. I am one that hardly take fatty part of any meat. The Meng Kee char siew were roasted to perfection, tasty flavourful on the outside, the inside was tender and the fats melted in the mouth. The other place is at Choon Yin coffeeshop, front corner lot of the same block of Happy Mansion flats as My Elephant in Section 17, Petaling Jaya.

Restoran 747
31-1, Jalan PJU 1/3D
Sunwaymas Commercial Centre
47301 Petaling Jaya