What I know about the origin of K L Hokkien Mee (KLHM) is different from the story narrated here. Growing up in Bukit Bintang in the early 50's everyone knew there was only one place to go for KLHM. I affirm, there was only one and only place and nowhere else throughout Malaya. This make-shift stall operated only night time. Day time you won't find a clue. Located slightly diagonally opposite Federal Hotel was a Shell petrol station set back far enough from the road edge. Adjoining this lot were a few old shop houses and a little further down was the Liew Mansion. The first old shop house held a greasy bicycle shop and the KLHM stall was set up against its outside wall. The boss nicknamed Low How Sui (Dripping Saliva) was well known as the original KLHM inventor. His recipe included razor clams supplied by a friend's father. People from all walks of live, famous or otherwise, came from far and wide to savor this delicacy a rising star among delicious food when I was a kid. As for Kum Lin Kee in Chinatown - Petaling Street, I know this place well. Good to see old Mr Ong in the photo with the video. For the sake of history it must be noted they were at that time selling bakuteh in the morning only and nothing else. They switched to KLHM years later.
Just asked my mom for fun Jus now... Indeed there was Shell... Low How Sui.. But she is not sure if there is Hokkien noodle available... Low How Sui is indeed a popular with stir fry noodles... But there's a famous beef noodle on Federal side called Sam Kan Chong (3 unit apartment??)... Also there's photo shop along Shell known as Qin Doi (Thousand Generation).. Cookware shop etc... I was born in Alor.. 1969...... As for Hokkien Mee... I believe It's from Klang... Started with thinner noodles before Federal Highway existence introduced thick noodles from KL... lor Mee influence.. Till today Klang Hokkien still eat noodles on important occasion.. Even to pray ancestors.. It's a culture... I still remember fondly of 3 wheel Shell Delivery Bike... Always move around town... With small gas tanks... :)
Who said so. That was a tenant. The people in the video are the nephews of Ong Kim Lian's wife .You get the whole story in many Chinese newspapers interviews.
Most Hokkiens like my father and siblings migrated to Singapore, hence we have Hokkien St and Upp Hokkien St where Hokkien Mee were sold. Another famous street for Hokkiens in Singapore is Amoy St which is nearby. All these areas were populated by Hokkiens where Hokkien Mee was popularly and cooked in charcoal in those days. Unlike KLHM, Singapore Hokkien Mee is yellow flat noodle and lightly black sauced unlike KLHM that is overly black and broken up. Not many can cook authentic Singapore Hokkien Mee in Singapore except for Swee Ting in Maxwell Market which normally open after 5 pm. I know that the old man is no longer helming the stall and hopefully it is passed on. I LOVE HOKKIEN MEE. My niece told me my Hokkien Mee that I cooked is the best she had tasted. I'm in my 70s. Let's keep Singapore Hokkien Mee alive.
Different variants. That's normal. But we are used to the Malaysian version and most Singaporean too. I prefer the KL version as it has the caramelised taste of black sauce. Singapore type is quite bland. Good to keep it alive as a testament to how Malaysian food is more creative. But hey, Singapore wantan mee wins the trophy. No black sauce but sweet sauce instead. No comment lah.
I remember past time in Bandar Kerayong Bera Pahang there was a retaurant name 888 RESTURANT , cooked the best hokkien mee ever in the world.Nowhere else, In childhood always been there.Miss so much it taste.Dont know where is chef now and 888 Closed long time ago. Legend
Being an Ipoh boy, it was never a familiar dish to me until I came to KL for studies. Hokkien mee to me in those early days meant prawn noodles. I do notice a shift in the meaning of the name Hokkien mee to mean this dish.
Correct, this black Hokkien mee with big noodle really originate from kl. Back in the 70s you won't find this type of mee outside kl. Hokkien mee in penang is prawn mee, other places uses the yellow noodles with dark soy sauce to cook.
What's wrong with you people here? They are merely giving an interview in the dialect that's more common in Malaysia. And they are clearly struggling in speaking Cantonese.
Yup and they're using gas now. You can hear the roar of the gas flame through the covered cooking area. They obviously don't want people to see they're NOT USING CHARCOAL.
Its one of my favorite noodles Hokien mee in Singapore! I love it. First time I ate that was 1996 and till now i am always wishing to eat that hokien mee.i will tryto make it this by myself because i also love cooking!
Jessica Flores Singapore is only a copy.....if m'sia switch off the tap and electricity....Singapore can't cook crap....Singapore don't forget where you come from!
Bisa Boleh ..no mam coz if you forget where you come from.....then using words with more than 3 syllables does not make a difference!!! stick with your chilli crabs!😅
+May Lin www.google.com/maps/place/Jalan+Jinjang+Permai,+Jinjang+Utara,+52000+Kuala+Lumpur,+Wilayah+Persekutuan+Kuala+Lumpur,+Malaysia/@3.2089767,101.660383,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x31cc47b5630264a1:0x3aa92b5b661ad575 Copy paste this to your URL, you should able to get it. Its call Jinjang Food Court Do call them for their working hour incase they're close. Cheers.
Friends from china, Of cause they are hockien and they speak hockien, in the video they speak cantonese because that is the language of commerce in KL. They speak in cantonese because that is what the market in KL required.
@@appl2597 do not comment if you don't know the lives of ethnic Chinese in Malaysia. In KL, Chinese from different dialect groups speak mostly in Cantonese and the same goes for Penang where Hokkien is widely spoken. I have even seen how ethnic Indians and Malays speak fluent Cantonese in KL because of the influence in their interaction within their environment. That is the beauty of Malaysia that cannot be found in other parts of South East Asia. And we don't bloody care if other Asians are laughing at us for our highly mixed languages when Bahasa Melayu should be the dominant language. It is precisely the dynamic freedom that we have in our country, brought forth by the blessings of this land and the wisdom of our ruling leaders, past and present that makes our country the 35th ranking as the Happiest Nation in the world in latest 2018 survey. Just one rank behind Singapore although their GDP is 5X higher more than us! The result says it all. We don't even need to bother to see other South East Asian nations where their national language permeates their daily life but does nothing to uplift their quality of life. Lol
@@dllm1084 Exactly! In HK, there are also many hokkien and hakka descendants. And they speak Cantonese. Same goes Hakka people in Taiwan who either speaks minnan dialect or Hokkien. I don't know what's so pretentious about such situations when people doesn't understand the history behind these backgrounds.
So what? Majority of Malaysians Chinese speaks cantonese, so any other dialects will eventually adapt to the most common use language, you can see they are not very good in canto. So stop being a salty b1tch
this is not hokkien me... hokkien people don't cook hokkien mee like this.. in kl they called it prawn mee but in penang we call ithokkien mee (comes in soup form). Prawn mee in kl is in soup form as if no chinese term for it, so need to use english words to describe it? which means the black mee is not hokkien mee at all. On top of that KL people most cantonese which means crappy chinese food. when comes to chinese food Hokkiens, Teo Chews and Hakka cooks are best. Cantonese talk cock and pretend onie
Bullshit ! Hokkien Mee is always light brown in colour n never that dark. Round yellow Mee is used unlike those big ones used these days. Authentic Hokkien Mee is found in Muar n Klang. Not those in KL.This video is a disservice to those who looking for authentic Hokkien Mee
Hokkien Mee as the name says is cooked by the hokkien hawkers as old as i can remember (65yrs old of age) Those in Muar are probably cooked by hailam or teochew so they duplicated the style of cooking but not adding the dark soya sauce , which hokkien favourite sauce. I surmise to say thats the reason south noodle should not be called hokkien mee.
You are so ignorant and fucking rude and who tell you the standard is light brown in color? Different city have different styles and only people so "shuan gu" like you hardly trying different food in different city, a real 井底之蛙。Spore Hokkien Prawn Mee is yellowish in color mixing with Mi hun also very nice.
Finally I hear someone explain the difference between gas and charcoal cooked hokkien mee.....
The origin of my favorite food. This is very touching
U r in everywhere. Who r u?
What I know about the origin of K L Hokkien Mee (KLHM) is different from the story narrated here. Growing up in Bukit Bintang in the early 50's everyone knew there was only one place to go for KLHM. I affirm, there was only one and only place and nowhere else throughout Malaya. This make-shift stall operated only night time. Day time you won't find a clue. Located slightly diagonally opposite Federal Hotel was a Shell petrol station set back far enough from the road edge. Adjoining this lot were a few old shop houses and a little further down was the Liew Mansion. The first old shop house held a greasy bicycle shop and the KLHM stall was set up against its outside wall. The boss nicknamed Low How Sui (Dripping Saliva) was well known as the original KLHM inventor. His recipe included razor clams supplied by a friend's father. People from all walks of live, famous or otherwise, came from far and wide to savor this delicacy a rising star among delicious food when I was a kid.
As for Kum Lin Kee in Chinatown - Petaling Street, I know this place well. Good to see old Mr Ong in the photo with the video. For the sake of history it must be noted they were at that time selling bakuteh in the morning only and nothing else. They switched to KLHM years later.
Just asked my mom for fun Jus now... Indeed there was Shell... Low How Sui.. But she is not sure if there is Hokkien noodle available... Low How Sui is indeed a popular with stir fry noodles... But there's a famous beef noodle on Federal side called Sam Kan Chong (3 unit apartment??)... Also there's photo shop along Shell known as Qin Doi (Thousand Generation).. Cookware shop etc... I was born in Alor.. 1969...... As for Hokkien Mee... I believe It's from Klang... Started with thinner noodles before Federal Highway existence introduced thick noodles from KL... lor Mee influence.. Till today Klang Hokkien still eat noodles on important occasion.. Even to pray ancestors.. It's a culture... I still remember fondly of 3 wheel Shell Delivery Bike... Always move around town... With small gas tanks... :)
Who said so. That was a tenant. The people in the video are the nephews of Ong Kim Lian's wife
.You get the whole story in many Chinese newspapers interviews.
Those are Mr. Lee not Ong.
Wow... !!! My best friend, Great Good... !!! I wish you every day of your development.
Most Hokkiens like my father and siblings migrated to Singapore, hence we have Hokkien St and Upp Hokkien St where Hokkien Mee were sold. Another famous street for Hokkiens in Singapore is Amoy St which is nearby. All these areas were populated by Hokkiens where Hokkien Mee was popularly and cooked in charcoal in those days. Unlike KLHM, Singapore Hokkien Mee is yellow flat noodle and lightly black sauced unlike KLHM that is overly black and broken up. Not many can cook authentic Singapore Hokkien Mee in Singapore except for Swee Ting in Maxwell Market which normally open after 5 pm. I know that the old man is no longer helming the stall and hopefully it is passed on. I LOVE HOKKIEN MEE. My niece told me my Hokkien Mee that I cooked is the best she had tasted. I'm in my 70s. Let's keep Singapore Hokkien Mee alive.
Same goes to the wanton mee malaysia look darker than sg 1 .... even laska also different frm sg
singaporean trying to steal malaysian dishes again. lmfao.
Different variants. That's normal. But we are used to the Malaysian version and most Singaporean too. I prefer the KL version as it has the caramelised taste of black sauce. Singapore type is quite bland. Good to keep it alive as a testament to how Malaysian food is more creative.
But hey, Singapore wantan mee wins the trophy. No black sauce but sweet sauce instead. No comment lah.
Perhh masak pakai dapur arang. Sedapp tuu 👍
Mee nampak sedap..slurrppp..yummmy...Sepatutnya kasi kekal itu nama Kg. Baru Hokkien Mee..baru nostalgia kembali..we are Malaysian.👍👍👍
I remember past time in Bandar Kerayong Bera Pahang there was a retaurant name 888 RESTURANT , cooked the best hokkien mee ever in the world.Nowhere else, In childhood always been there.Miss so much it taste.Dont know where is chef now and 888 Closed long time ago. Legend
Being an Ipoh boy, it was never a familiar dish to me until I came to KL for studies. Hokkien mee to me in those early days meant prawn noodles. I do notice a shift in the meaning of the name Hokkien mee to mean this dish.
Correct, this black Hokkien mee with big noodle really originate from kl. Back in the 70s you won't find this type of mee outside kl. Hokkien mee in penang is prawn mee, other places uses the yellow noodles with dark soy sauce to cook.
Matthias Tham, you can have a visit to them located at Kepong Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. =)
Best la klhm
Which parts of kepong is this place pls ? Anyone pls update.. Tqvm
兄弟同心👍
love this video so much
wow I love hookien mee❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 thank you very much for the vid😀😉😍😘🤩
It’s worth a try. The noodles in the videos look thorn.
What's wrong with you people here? They are merely giving an interview in the dialect that's more common in Malaysia. And they are clearly struggling in speaking Cantonese.
They are probably more used to speaking Hokkien or Mandarin.
福建面有传授下去，很可惜福建话没有。。。。
现在两兄弟在哪里卖了?
Would love to learn from them if I have a chance! - Cheers from SG
Now in Malaysia especially KL we call it Myanmar Hokkien mee.
Kim Lian Kee Myanmar cooks doing their frying.
The original Lee is still frying at Tmn Kok Lian at the Temple compound.
I love the original HKM.
Yup and they're using gas now. You can hear the roar of the gas flame through the covered cooking area. They obviously don't want people to see they're NOT USING CHARCOAL.
Gem of living food history
You will see the indonesian will say hokkien is from indonesia.
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Its one of my favorite noodles Hokien mee in Singapore! I love it. First time I ate that was 1996 and till now i am always wishing to eat that hokien mee.i will tryto make it this by myself because i also love cooking!
Hi the Singapore hokkien mee is different from the Malaysia one. The MY one taste like crap.
SG version taste good too but MY ways better
Jessica Flores Singapore is only a copy.....if m'sia switch off the tap and electricity....Singapore can't cook crap....Singapore don't forget where you come from!
Twisted Tiger let's me more magnanimous boleh tak?
Bisa Boleh ..no mam coz if you forget where you come from.....then using words with more than 3 syllables does not make a difference!!! stick with your chilli crabs!😅
why the guy from the right, whose father is from FuJian, is speaking Cantonese?
KL chinese speaks cantonese
Cheong SL actually mandarin and Cantonese as major dialect. But there are others.
@@Opfor-NYC I know. I was born there.
go sue him la, stupid
yup make sure you dont wear white color shirt when eating this noodle.
其实 金莲记我和朋友5人大概在4年前叫了5蝶炒粉 有焖伊面 滑蛋河 福建面..... 吃了到现在 我们都念念不忘到现在 从来没吃过那么差的炒粉 没有一碟是合格的！！真的没乱说 只少5人都这样的认为！！这是我第一次 也是最后一次 不会再到这么烂的炒粉档口吃！！！！虽然当时是外劳炒 但根本没控制品质 没严格教导
在福建是否也有這種福建麵？
MrMilanoLau 福建有打卤面
中国福建省绝对找不到类似的KL大祿福建黑面，這是大馬KL改良版，大馬其它地方很多是用細黃面，但不如KL的炭火大祿福建黑面好吃。
What the different between hokkien char mee & tai lok mee?
From the video, I think "Tai Lok mee"... literary means "Big sized noodle" in Cantonese. So it's the same. Correct me if I'm wrong.
hojichi Tq for info ☺
somfender
somfender where are you？
Tai lok mee refers to the thick noodles used to cook the dish. Hokkien mee is the name of the dish.
Can you give the exact address please?
+May Lin www.google.com/maps/place/Jalan+Jinjang+Permai,+Jinjang+Utara,+52000+Kuala+Lumpur,+Wilayah+Persekutuan+Kuala+Lumpur,+Malaysia/@3.2089767,101.660383,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x31cc47b5630264a1:0x3aa92b5b661ad575
Copy paste this to your URL, you should able to get it. Its call Jinjang Food Court
Do call them for their working hour incase they're close.
Cheers.
I believe the place has already been demolished for railway project. Does anyone know where they are now located?
This is the correct location goo.gl/maps/L6XS1CrTbpiKXJ2T9
Is it proven ?
Kindly preserve the authentic hokkien mee taste must use charcoal.. is very hard to find my childhood taste
Hokkien Mee invented in Singapore?
singapore only invested fake claims and kiasu mee
Basically to Singaporean, everything invented in Singapore. Lol
The kiasu Singaporean trying to mess up any food that’s originally from Malaysia , shame on them 😠
Singapore Hokkien prwan mee is totally different from KL Hokkian Mee in taste and color. I like both versions.
I am just a Hokkien Peng !!!!!!!!!!
Weh sedapnya 😭
讲福建面，用广东话？？？ 你是福建面传人吗？
+Uspi III Return i am hokkien people yet i cannot speak only know listen
人家是在 KL 市区，那里主要以广东话来沟通。福建话是巴生一带比较通。这是人文环境的塑造，不是什么籍贯就说什么籍贯的话。
福建面用广东话来解说就没那么精致了。
Friends from china, Of cause they are hockien and they speak hockien, in the video they speak cantonese because that is the language of commerce in KL. They speak in cantonese because that is what the market in KL required.
假福建人.
福建面说广东话有点不正宗
明明是廣東人，如何是褔建麵傳人
听他讲话就知道不是广东人！问题是如果他讲回方言访问者回会听得懂吗？
@@Wcool2024 吉隆坡的通用方言是廣東話。福建，客家，海南，潮州人在外都被迫使用廣東話，而且他說的不太流利，自來水都只能用華語來說。
“福建面”这个看起来很中国的名字其实是地道的马来西亚美食，除了创始人来自中国福建外，跟中国没有什么关联了。我去马来西亚的时候尝过一次，口味不太习惯。
They claim to be of Hokkien descendants but why are they speaking in Cantonese?????
because majority of chinese in KL speaks cantonese and this is KL hokkien mee
Fake Malaysians pretending to be something they're not.... What's new?
@@appl2597 do not comment if you don't know the lives of ethnic Chinese in Malaysia. In KL, Chinese from different dialect groups speak mostly in Cantonese and the same goes for Penang where Hokkien is widely spoken. I have even seen how ethnic Indians and Malays speak fluent Cantonese in KL because of the influence in their interaction within their environment. That is the beauty of Malaysia that cannot be found in other parts of South East Asia. And we don't bloody care if other Asians are laughing at us for our highly mixed languages when Bahasa Melayu should be the dominant language. It is precisely the dynamic freedom that we have in our country, brought forth by the blessings of this land and the wisdom of our ruling leaders, past and present that makes our country the 35th ranking as the Happiest Nation in the world in latest 2018 survey. Just one rank behind Singapore although their GDP is 5X higher more than us! The result says it all. We don't even need to bother to see other South East Asian nations where their national language permeates their daily life but does nothing to uplift their quality of life. Lol
What wrong with hokkien descendant speaking cantonese??? Hakka people at penang also speak hokkien
@@dllm1084 Exactly! In HK, there are also many hokkien and hakka descendants. And they speak Cantonese. Same goes Hakka people in Taiwan who either speaks minnan dialect or Hokkien. I don't know what's so pretentious about such situations when people doesn't understand the history behind these backgrounds.
Hokkien mee but they speak cantonese and not the Hokkien language. Im not sold. :/
-video about hokkien mee
-speaks canto
gtfo
people who chinese also writing in English,,Dont act here.
壹貳 exactly my thoughts 😂😂😂
william seow That's because I'm on youtube and not 優酷
So what? Majority of Malaysians Chinese speaks cantonese, so any other dialects will eventually adapt to the most common use language, you can see they are not very good in canto. So stop being a salty b1tch
" Majority of Malaysians Chinese speaks cantonese"
Lol no
KL chinese doesn't represent malaysian chinese
this is not hokkien me... hokkien people don't cook hokkien mee like this.. in kl they called it prawn mee but in penang we call ithokkien mee (comes in soup form). Prawn mee in kl is in soup form as if no chinese term for it, so need to use english words to describe it? which means the black mee is not hokkien mee at all. On top of that KL people most cantonese which means crappy chinese food. when comes to chinese food Hokkiens, Teo Chews and Hakka cooks are best. Cantonese talk cock and pretend onie
Bullshit ! Hokkien Mee is always light brown in colour n never that dark. Round yellow Mee is used unlike those big ones used these days. Authentic Hokkien Mee is found in Muar n Klang. Not those in KL.This video is a disservice to those who looking for authentic Hokkien Mee
The large noodles KL type of hokkien mee taste better than the one in muar or melaka.
Hokkien Mee as the name says is cooked by the hokkien hawkers as old as i can remember (65yrs old of age) Those in Muar are probably cooked by hailam or teochew so they duplicated the style of cooking but not adding the dark soya sauce , which hokkien favourite sauce. I surmise to say thats the reason south noodle should not be called hokkien mee.
Lu siow ar? Mai luan luan lai oh. .
You are so ignorant and fucking rude and who tell you the standard is light brown in color? Different city have different styles and only people so "shuan gu" like you hardly trying different food in different city, a real 井底之蛙。Spore Hokkien Prawn Mee is yellowish in color mixing with Mi hun also very nice.