I ate: Super Kitchen Chilli Pan Mee

Since the previous post on madam chiam's chilli pan mee it pretty much had me craving for more of that spicy concoction stuck on homemade noodles. News got to me that along the new row of shop houses in Sri Petaling opposite The Store supermarket there was a booming cluster of eateries among which Super Kitchen Chilli Pan Mee opened its sixth branch. Arch rivals of Kin Kin pan mee which always shouted out by offering a better eating environment and better service but as to who remains as the original brain child of this dish remains as a matter of opinion to many.

Like most thriving food areas around KL presents the same old problem of sufficient parking space even for a newly developed area of shophouses. The good service reputation came through from the very moment we walked in and were promptly shown to our table where orders were placed for two bowls of dry pan mee for me and my dining partner.

Food arrived in a matter of minutes despite the heavy dinner crowd at that time. But before i digged into it i opened the white plastic container laid at the side of each table next to the cutleries which revealed the magic of this dish which is the roasted dry chilli.

The unadulterated dry pan mee comes with a standard of shallots, minced pork meat, anchovies and poached egg served along side with a bowl of sweet leaf soup. After adding around a full spoon full of dry chilli the next step before devouring it was to mix it sufficiently to give and even spicyness around each bite. As fot the taste of it the fragrant dry chilli was another unique take on dry chilli as compared to Madam Chiam's as it had a certain quality of spicyness which swells up in your mouth with each bite.

Perspiration and a strange desire for more was the feeling playing through my mind.

It was pointed to me by my dining partner that i finished my soup last as opposed to eating it concurrently with the noodles. Well for me i believe that the sweet leaf soup was a useful tool to extinguish the slight burning sensation around in your mouth to complete the whole meal.

As for those who have always sworn your loyalty to this Clan of Chilli Pan mee its good to know that you'd need not subject yourself to the horrible jams in Jalan TAR to satisfy your cravings with its latest branch. So super kitchen or kin kin still remains a question left unanswered until i do make a trip down to the latter. But for now its nice to add a decent eatery nearby my residence.

Location:

Restaurant Super Kitchen
No.43, Jalan Radin Bagus,
Bandar Baru Sri Petaling
57000 Kuala Lumpur

I ate: Madam Chiam's Chilli Pan mee

Its been a while since i actually written anything and probably one of the most valid excuses for that could be the change of an OS to Mac, yea so this means i lost my mac virginity and probably the best cherry to pop to date i’d say.

Being raised with the Window’s OS even attending computer classes in school with Windows OS and boy those years i can ever remember was plaqued with all sorts of malfunctions despite that i’d tip my hat of to the simplicity if windows os, im no computer geek but now that i made the change the only question was why didnt make this transition earlier.

To get the ball rolling again is a place which i tried quite some time back and to much suprised hasnt been blogged about that much. Chilli pan mee itself has been creating waves recently with every franchise pan mee restaurant coming up with their own interpretation of the dish with some faring better than others. One particular place that stands out for me other than the established super kitchen and Kin Kin would be Madam Chiam’s.

It takes quite good sense of direction to be able to search for this place even by relying on gps as its tuck beneath the fascias of residential area’s and workshops surrounding it. It was the peak of the lunch hour when we arrived but service was pretty brisk.

In a matter of minutes we’d receive our bowl of spicy-nasal-works-inducing goodness which comes in 4 variations of sizes and the largest called simply extra large which to much surprise only cost 5.50. the trick here would be to squeeze lime into your noodles before mixing the homemade chilli concoction to give that extra citrusy flavour. The mixture of noodles which by the looks of it ressembles instant noodles minus the flaky-ness, the citrusy lime element, fragrant dry spicyness of their homemade chilli flakes and the sweetness from the potato leaves did the trick for me. Those fine tweaks in the chilli flakes the hint of sweetness in the noodles gives this bowl the edge over others.

I also did make a point to order their own homemade soyabean and gingko desert which these days i would say a rare item to find in most menu’s other than diluted concentrated syrup derived versions. This for a change was a fresh difference at only 1.60.

With all this said, probably the only qualm i have with this restaurant is their strange policy of no photo’s which from previous experience can only be seen in certain area’s of factories or top secret facilities? Something to hide perhaps?

Anyways this would probably the best bowl of pan mee i’d have minus the exorbitant price and bad service and if not for their strange policy would definitely be popping up more frequently on the blogosphere.

*photo’s we’re taken in the stealthiest manner with an iphone 4.(dont fine a poor bloke like me, rules are meant to be broken)

Madam Chiam Curry Noodle House
No. 20, Jalan Cerdik
Taman Connaught
Cheras
Kuala Lumpur