Yut Kee Breakfast And Koon Kee Dinner

Posted by : foongpc | Sunday, May 22, 2011 | Published in

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One fine Sunday morning in January, my two friends and I went to attend Joey Yap's feng shui seminar at KL Convention Centre. The seminar was scheduled to start at 10am but we were already in KL by 8.30am.

Why did we go to KL so early? To get the best seats at the seminar? Not at all.

We went early for our breakfast! It was a whole day seminar and we needed to fill our stomachs first! So we woke up early and I drove my friends to Yut Kee Restaurant at Jalan Dang Wangi.

We ordered lum mee. It was delicious!



Although we were early, there were already many people having their breakfasts there! We ended up sharing a table with a couple and their two children. Sharing table (or tap thoy in Cantonese) is a common practice in Yut Kee, which reminded me of how the people do it in Hong Kong.

We also ordered a plate of roti babi (bread with pork) to be shared among the three of us.



My friend cut the piece of bread into a few chunks.



We ate the roti babi by dipping it into Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce. This is a must when eating this bread. Ooh so yummy!!



I am not sure if I have eaten imitations, but this Worcestershire sauce at Yut Kee was the original one from Lea & Perrins.



Yut Kee is an old school Hainanese restaurant that has been operating since 1928. It is so famous that even my parents knew about it. I heard recently that the restaurant would be moving out of the building as the landlord had plans to develop the place. Read about it HERE.

There were a lot of delicious food I wanted to eat like toasted bread, half boiled eggs, kaya roll, butter cake, beef noodles and roasted pork (gosh, all so yummy!!) but I guess the Lum mee and roti babi were enough to keep me full until lunch that day.

After a whole day feng shui seminar with Joey Yap, my friends and I decided to go over to Petaling Street for our dinner.

We went to Koon Kee Restaurant at Jalan Hang Lekir for their famous wantan mee.



Do I spell it as wantan or wanton mee? Maybe I should just stick to wantan since wanton is not a very positive word in the English language!

Anyway the wantan mee at Koon Kee was delicious! The mee was springy, which was how I like it best! I never like soggy mee - all my mee and noodles must be cooked "al-dente", even instant noodles! Haha!

The char siu (roasted pork) was also juicy and succulent. Absolutely yummy!

The only problem was, they ran out of pickled green chilies which to me, is a must when I eat wantan mee! What a pity for that plate of wantan mee would have been perfect!



We had a bowl of sui gao (or pork dumplings) to accompany our wantan mee. The sui gao was so yummy I am having a hard time not drooling looking at this photo now.



Koon Kee was also another very old restaurant, started way back in 1947 by a couple from Guangdong, China. My parents told me they have eaten there many times during their younger days.

After this very satisfying dinner, I went to get myself a cold air mata kucing (longan with rock sugar) drink at the famous stall near the Koon Kee restaurant. I did not take a photo of the stall but if you go to Petaling Street and ask around, I bet people there will point you to the right direction.

OK, I have covered breakfast and dinner. What about lunch? I did not forget about lunch of course, but that would be another post for another day. Meantime, if you'll excuse me, I need to raid my fridge for FOOD!! Smiley

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oh my they are making me hungryy!! yum yum :)
1 reply · active 722 weeks ago
H aha definitely I can't eat at this place!
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2 replies · active 722 weeks ago
No roti babi for me pls! <3
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1 reply · active 722 weeks ago
Looking forward to ur next food post with food I can actually drool at lol! :p
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1 reply · active 722 weeks ago
YUM! Roti Babi!

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Looks like a nice place and the shrimp dish looks yummy :)
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1 reply · active 722 weeks ago
wow..so scrumptious! and i missed Joey's yap seminar..
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wah roti babi! first time heard of it.

i nvr liked pickled chillies. i like fresh cili padis! haha :D
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1 reply · active 722 weeks ago
hey, i've heard a lot about this Yut Kee.. they have the very famous roti babi, but i've not tried that before..
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1 reply · active 722 weeks ago
and they also have very nice hainanese chicken chop.. you didn't try that?? but i guess the service there is not good at all given it's so old style and all the old waiters working there.. :D
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hehe, and you know Koon Kee wantan noodles too, surprisingly to this PJ guy who doesn't like KL at all huh?? hahaha :D
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1 reply · active 722 weeks ago
actually there are a lot of nice food in Petaling Street, sometimes i'd just purposely go there for the asam laksa, the chee cheong fun and the beef noodles..
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sui gao?? i want!!!!!! omg
1 reply · active 722 weeks ago
Reading this when my stomach is starting to ache because of prolonged hunger is so so wrong!!

The roti babi looks good! I should try it someday.
erk! Looking at food in the morning is not a good idea for me! ;)
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2 replies · active 722 weeks ago
I only ate that roti babi once..... many years ago! But without sauce. Missed them so much.....
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i can understand why you're drooling over the sui gao. it does look tempting. yum yum!!
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aloha! :D
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1 reply · active 722 weeks ago
how does lum mee taste like ah???? i wanna try!! :p
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the wantan mee looks so delicious!!! yish! make me hungry again! :(
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3 replies · active 721 weeks ago
yerrr! till now havent tried any roti babi yet. :( :(
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ahhh i love pickled green chilies! i love to eat it especially with roasted duck noodle!!! xD
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1 reply · active 721 weeks ago
the noodle look terribly yummy! LOL
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