Hakka food ... interesting

Interesting & healthy
If there were to be any Chinese ethnic that has unique taste buds, it has to be the Hakkas ... a few years ago, I tasted for the 1st time, their 'salty tea' dish and that made quite an impression on me, since I have never thought of tea being served as salty ... with a good combination of vegetables (in huge quantity) without any meat in it (quite a good health food) ...

But since then, I have not really touched any Hakka food ... and as fate has it, food experiences always turn out in the most unexpected places (trust me on this, especially when I was in Europe, but guess that's another story altogether) ... so the story's quite short ....

So my friend, YL dropped me the usual, SMS & go plans over evening yesterday and after a couple of dashes here & there ... we hit the road for Cheras ... and into the unknown of not even deciding where to eat. Fortunately, we had DL, whose salesman forays enlightened us with a possible target of a place famous for charcoal fried Hokkien noodle (sounds delicious already) ...

So, the place's quite compact & buzzing with lots of people ... and we got a slightly exposed area in the drizzly evening weather but the rain stopped, so that's fine. The wait's quite long ... but the Hokkien mee was worth every second of the wait ... packed with aroma, prawns & lard in the slightly moist concoction ... simply, heavenly ... followed up by a safe bet in yin-yeong noodles. But the last one was a surprise, this Hakka soup noodle was something different ... the fat yellow noodles, in law mee style, but packed with cucumber, bird's eye chilli, onions, lime ... pretty much my idea of Hakka dish ... with piping hot thick soup ... simply a healthy noodle dish.

Would rate this place as an interesting place to go again :)