Home cooked the famous Petaling Street Tai Lok Mean

The Famous Petaling Street Big Fat Noodle

We had the famous Petaling Street Tai Lok Mean for dinner yesterday. My wife prepared the ingredients and the thick shanghai noodle for me to fry this famous noodle cuisine after I came home from work. So, instead of going out for dinner, we cooked and ate dinner at home. The Petaling Street Tai Lok Mean was made famous by the three brothers that started their noodle cuisine business in the heart of Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown way back in the early seventies. I frequented the this noodle coffee shop at the corner of Petaling Street, that was where it got its name from, a lot during the mid-eighties with my Air Force buddies.

Tai Lok Mean Petaling Street Special

Every time we ate there, I would watch how they fry the noodle cuisine because their kitchen was open and anyone can watch how the cooking was done. In fact, most of the street side noodle vendors or hawkers, as they are called in Malaysia, would actually cook in the open. And it is not difficult to learn how the cooking was done and what kind of ingredients were put into the noodle cuisines. Especially, for people like me that learn pretty fast from watching others. Then, I would try a couple of times, if I still done get it right, I will go back again to watch and learn more, maybe I have missed certain ingredients or missed out on a step.

Famous Petaling Street Noodle

So, throughout the years of observing and watching these real life master chefs, I have learn a lot. And some of these noodle cuisines are actually kind of simple to cook when you actually learned them. The Petaling Street Tai Lok Mean is an example of a simple noodle cuisine to cook. Many cooks over do the process and make it complex by adding too many ingredients. Of cause there are also different recipes in the Tai Lok Mean cuisine. But I still prefer the Petaling Street Tai Lok Mean recipe. Simple, authentic and flavourful.