Chan SinKee Noodle — Restaurant in Petaling Jaya

Being Singaporean working in Malaysia, it's hard to find Wanton Noodles that's reminiscent of home, i.e., the version that's not inundated with dark soya sauce the way Malaysians love theirs. Someone recommended that I visit Chan Sin Kee Wanton Noodles for the Singapore experience, since the founders of Chan Sin Kee Noodles hailed from Singapore. (Note: Hearsay and not a fact.) Of course, I jumped at it, but regrettably, the establishment serves Pontian-style Wanton Noodles, decidedly not Singaporean. 😔😒😔

Avoiding the Black soya sauce version for obvious reason, we tried the small tomato chilli (Red) Mee Pok (which came with too much sauce) and the plain (White) Mee Pok at RM 9.90 each, which is a lot pricier compared with the typical Wanton Noodles from the local food courts or kopitiam (approximately RM 8 for a big serving, with twice the amount of noodles).

Although tasty, I didn't find Chan Sin Kee's Wanton Noodles that we had exceptional. The Char Siew is the braised type -- limp, dry and devoid of that porky-ness. If the focus is on the house-made handmade noodles, then mine was overdone much to my displeasure, and not QQ the way we like ours. Wantons in the lukewarm soup was at best average. 🥴🥴🥴

Oddly, the star of the show was that one single fish ball swimming in the soup, which had rough edges and not uniform. It didn't look not tasted like one of those smooth, round factory-made ones. 👍

Service by the foreign staff was standard fare.

Will I especially make the effort to have Chan Sin Kee's Wanton Noodles?...

Once in a while, I love a good plate of noodle - I mentioned "once in a while" because I seldom take carbs nowadays so meal like this can be considered as indulgence at best! To be frank, this meal was kind of unexpected experience. Why? I was taking the kids to find a lunch place after their class and I noticed this restaurant located opposite my intended destination.

Utilising power of social media, I read good reviews on this place so I decided to pop in for for a quick meal and boy I'm glad I did. Hailed from Pontian, the specialty is definitely the homemade wantan noodle.

◾White wantan noodle - the variety that I chose as I could taste the original taste without being blanketed by the usual dark soy sauce. Simply drenched in oil but just enough, it came with generic char siew and spring onions as toppings. True enough, the texture was very good - springy and eggy. I paired the noodle with pickled chilly as this combination is always perfect! Came with a bowl of soup containing wantan and fish ball. ◾Homemade wantan - at RM4 for 5 pieces of wantan, I found that the wantan skin was a bit thick to my liking but with generous filling. ◾ Pontian coffee - quite good to fix the caffeine needs.

Apart from the white wantan mee, they do have other varieties such as black chilly, regular dark wantan mee, chilly wantan mee and tomato wantan mee (both regular and chilly)... I read that the chilly wantan mee is quite good and that is exactly what I'll be going back to...

This is one of the better joints that serves authentic Pontian style Wantan mee. Basically they have different sauce options such as chili sauce and tomato ketchup. This round I tried their signature variation, Tomato Ketchup and Chili Sauce. My weekend greediness, ordered Large. Firstly the noodle texture is spot on, al dente but not too firm until need to use scissors. Then here comes the sauce, you know usually it will taste quite kiddish with this combination but it's not. The tomato ketchup is hardly present and the chili sauce is not sweet plus it has a spicy sting after taste, reminds me of Kampung Koh like sauce. Surprisingly nice. Caution! Not really for kids unless they can take spicy. The soup, wantan and fish for me is ok. Nothing to shout about. Then I added the Deep Fried Wantan, verdict it's ok also, a bit oily and salty for my liking. Nevertheless you should try their noodle. They have the usual black sauce ones if you don't want to be adventurous. Overall I would certainly...