Salty Kuantan Hakka Yong Tau Foo

Worth going >>>>> OK!!!

I went back to my hometown in Kuantan last weekend and got a chance to visit a shop serving Hakka Yong Tau Foo. The outlook of the shop impress me. Modern looking with some cute display at their counter. Since when Kuantan has such modern looking shop? The drawback is the limited table and chairs available there. We waited for good 10 minutes for our seat. Mind you! Kuantan people don't wait fro table but since bro says this shop serve good Yong Tau Foo so we waited... waited and waited.... At last!!!! The food better be good i thought at that time :)


Kuantan got such shop already. No more coffee shop and kopitiam only.  

The main dish of course is the tofu cubes heaped with minced meat (usually pork and fish) and herbs, then fried until golden brown but there are also variation of oddments which include eggplants (my fav!!!), bittergourd, cabbage with the same meat paste. But this shop make some light changes as there include salted fish in the paste. It is somehow unique taste.

The unique Yong Tau Foo (RM1.50/pc). Worth trying as it gives a out of norm taste.

We also ordered their famous curry noodle. Generous amount of noodle that they serve us but…… the soup is too light taste. Not so much of curry taste and not to mention the coconut milk taste. Fail!! Worse, the normal ‘sambal belacan’ that we usually found in the kopitiam is nowhere to be found in this shop. The serve the blended chilies with dash of soya sauce!!!! *head slap on head*. The rest of the noodles that we ordered taste so-so only. Out from my list the next time I go there.

Although its a generous portion of curry noodle (RM7.20/ bowl) but the curry gravy just fail to impress me. Tasteless!!

Another failure. Curry mee just don't go well with such chillies.

My bro is the big fan of butter prawn and surprisingly they had it there.. not bad for variety. The prawns are naked… without their shell I mean and agreeably fried thus their crispiness. The butter to coat the prawn is nicely done. Right on taste and nothing I wish to complain out this dish.

The 'naked' butter prawn (RM7.20/ plate). Crispy prawn and tasty gravvy.

Besides the noodle and their Yong Tau Foo they have some small delicacies namely the egg tart and hakka dim sum. Egg tart is OK … nothing special to shout about but their Hakka dimsum is somehow special. The skin is normal but the ingredient inside taste excellent. One will taste the presence of the leak (vegetable normally found during Chinese New Year) inside together with the salty filling- fried of bean cubes, water chestnut, dried shrimp and carrot. All finely chopped.

Hakka small delicacies. OK taste of egg tart (RM1.80/pc) and their Hakka Dim Sum (RM1.40/pc)

The filling inside the Hakka Dimsum

Conclusion….. The Hakka Yong Tau Foo worth trying but price is slightly dear. The noodles I shall pass the next time while the small delicacies OK to try too. Butter prawn? Definitely a must try.

Address

Hakka Specialities Restaurant

Lorong Seri Kuantan 46

Jalan Beserah, 25250 Kuantan.

(Behind Old Town Kopitiam)