The original taste no one can replace : Hakka Mee

More than 10 years ago, the Hakka Mee Stall was located here above a drain outside the unoccupied tailor's shop and a row of abandoned businesses.

My youngest sister and my second youngest sister (I have a lot of sisters!) at the infamous Hakka Mee stall.  The two brothers are hard at work preparing the mee for hungry but patient mee eaters.

When I was young, I remember the stall passing by my shop and my father would  intercept it on its way to this place and buy steaming bowls of beef balls  soup and plates of Hakka Mee!!!!

The five foot ways of Ban Sing Tailor are utilised for many tables and stools, all well patronised. Please note the precarious looking driveways over the drains, parts of which are uncovered, you have to negotiate your way dexterously over the huge monsoon drains, hardly appetising looking, yet not once do they detract from the popularity of the stall.

I wonder what happened to this locale and to the rows of pre-war shops, relics of the not too distant past.  The stall, however, has relocated to Jalan Abu Bakar now....see below:

By the same brothers (maybe their sons now) still bent over, feverishly preparing the mee for the customers.

This mee is so popular, it will be  a sell-out by 3 in the afternoon.

No need to stand and be wary of gigantic gaping monsoon drains!

YUMMMMMM!!!!! The trick is in the home made mee, crunchy minced pork or beef, chopped garlic, chee yau char, taugeh and FISH SAUCE (he lor) not soya sauce

the most beefy beef balls and tau kee.

Most Batu Pahat true blue locals swear by this.  My school mate, GS, has travelled the world and tasted gourmet beef, fine dining and all that, yet in the same breath can declare this the best beef balls in the world.  It is like RATATOUILLE, the taste that reminds you of your childhood.

Angie doing justice to the Hakka mee, the long express coach ride was really express: no stopping for lunch at all!!!