Restoran Puchong Yong Tau Fo @ Bandar Puteri, Puchong

I'm a big fan of Yong Tau Foo. I would not have known that Puchong have places that serve good and tasty Yong Tau Foo until my parents brought me to the stall located in Batu 14 Puchong years back. Since then, I've learn that Puchong has their very own version of Yong Tau Foo as well.

It was one fine Sunday when I was hunting for food with my parents in Bandar Puteri Puchong. Then our attention was caught by a rather striking orange colour signboard. It reads, Restoran Puchong Yong Tau Fo. Since my family always have the craving for Yong Tau Foo, we decided to give it a try.

Restoran Puchong Yong Tau Fo, Bandar Puteri

I supposed it's business started not too long ago as almost everything from the table to the renovation looks new to me. Apart from that, I'm rather impressed with their cleanliness of the business premise as well.

Two thumbs up for the premise cleanliness

The first thing that you need to do before you get to enjoy your Puchong Yong Tau Foo is to head to the corner to pick your own un-stuffed Yong Tau Foo. They have plenty of varieties here, namely: brinjals, ladies finger, bitter groud, red chillies, fu chuk(beancurd skin) and tau pok. After picking them up with the tongs, just hand it over to the person in charge before returning to your table to wait for your Yong Tau Foo to be served.

Pick what you want

Besides Yong Tau Foo, they do offer other food as well.

Paper Wrap Chicken (RM 3.50)
This is one of the many side dishes that I won't miss ordering ever since my first visit. The chicken was well marinated and were overwhelmed with gravy, much to my liking. Be caution when you are unwrapping, because it is served pipping hot. Remember to ask for different part of the chicken as well, because I was being served chicken wing for twice already, how unfortunate!

Chee Cheong Fun (RM 0.70 per roll)
They serve the round Chee Cheong Fun here. Pretty ordinary, and a good substitute to rice.

Even though there was a large crowd, our Yong Tau Foo was served to us in less than 15 minutes.

Puchong Yong Tau Foo in Soup (RM 1.20 per piece)

Fish paste genuinity, where it should have the sweetness and a fresh fish aroma less the muddy taste and to compliment with a spongy texture, is what that distinguish a good Yong Tau Foo. At here, the fish paste scored well for me to reckon it as a good Yong Tau Foo. Not only that, the ingredients were very fresh as well.

The second thing that you should not miss out when having Puchong Yong Tau Foo is to have some sips in their soup.

Puchong Yong Tau Foo soup with star gooseberry
The soup here are no ordinary soup where you usually find it at a normal Yong Tau Foo stall. The soup were brimming with sweetness that will keep you sipping it. It makes me wonder at times, how much MSG have they poured in to the soup. However, I don't feel the extra thirst after the meal and that does the soup a justice. If you are fan of su chai choy (sweet leaves or gooseberry), you will love the abundance of it in the soup.

Deep fried stuffed egg plants (RM 1.20 per piece)
One of my favourite piece of ingredient during my Yong Tau Foo feast. I'd particularly like the generousness of the fish paste stuffed into the egg plants.

How can a good Yong Tau Foo be deprived of deep fried ingredients stuffed with paste. They have the usual variety like bean curd skin, sui kow (dumpling) and even oil fritters.

Mixed Variety of Deep Fried Puchong Yong Tau Foo (RM 1.20 per piece)
Among the varieties, you should not miss out the deep fried fu chuk(bean curd skin). Contrast to the usual preparation where the fu chuk piece is rolled, the fu chuck piece here with fish paste spread on top of it are being deep fried in a piece. It resulted to a tremendous crispiness of the fu chuk that went so well with the fish paste.

At RM 1.20 for a piece of Yong Tau Foo, some would reckon that it is a little pricey. However, I find the price are reasonable with the fact that the Yong Tau Foo pieces are huge and came with a very generous stuffing of genuine fish paste.

Forget about traveling to the deeper area of Puchong in Batu 14. I find this place serve equally good Puchong Yong Tau Foo, if not better. You will not be disappointed.

Atmosphere: 5/10

Food: 8/10
Price: 6.5/10
Verdict: A new place to satisfy my craving for good Yong Tau Foo!

Restoran Puchong Yong Tau Fo
No 21, Jalan Puteri 2/2
Bandar Puteri
47100, Puchong
Selangor

Business hours: 11.30 am - 9 pm daily

Ipoh Famous Yong Tau Foo Under Big Tree @ Pasir Pinji, Ipoh

Have long been hearing about this famous under the big tree Yong Tau Foo at Ipoh from my parents. My dad hometown is in Ipoh and I would say he is pretty familiar with most of the road and foad stalls around.

The ironic part is that, I don't know why do I always missed out this Yong Tau Foo stall whenever I happened to tag along with my parents back to Ipoh. Not during the previous Qing Ming festival anymore, as I bugged my Dad to bring me there. The Yong Tau Foo stall is located at Pasir Pinji. However, the local regard it as "Under the Big Tree" Yong Tau Foo.

Famous Ipoh Yong Tau Foo at Pasir Pinji

Price list

The stall operates on a self-service basis where you gotta pick you choice of Yong Tau Foo at the counter before they were being served to the table.

Sui Kow, Tau Pok, Fuu Chuk are amongst the fried stuff

Vegetables choice include biter gourd, chili and lady finger

Crowd picking their choice

As soon as you picked your choice, you will need to hand them to the workers who will then proceed your order by passing them to the cook, in a proper queue system.

The workers preparing the Yong Tau Foo

The queue system

The wide span of the area is large, but it seems that almost all the tables were occupied. At our time of visit, we were lucky to be able to get a table since it was during the peak hour of the lunch time.

Crowded

Our Yong Tau Foo was served to the table barely less than 10 minutes after the order. That really surprise me with the amount of large orders the have. Efficient is the word!

Fried Stuff (RM 0.50 per piece)

Fried Bitter Gourd, Turnip and Tau Foo (RM 0.50 per piece)

Dry Noodles

Soup version Yong Tau Foo (RM 0.50 per piece)

There is a particular fried stuff that I liked a lot. It is not an ordinary fried stuff where you can get it at any Yong Tau Foo stall, in fact, none that I recall.

Fried Turnip
The Chinese call them as "Sar Kok Liew". It consisted mainly of turnips. There were no fish paste but the taste was magnificent. Crispy on the outside and slightly chewy on the inside. The sweetness of the turnips is such a goodness.

Consisted of diced turnips and only turnips

All for only RM 15.50
It took me a while to digest the price, because it was way too cheap. The Yong Tau Foo was decent, but not my personal best that I have eaten. I would have liked it more should the fish paste is more original, in the context that it contained more fish meat proportion. Anyway, at the price they are selling, seriously, I could not have ask for more on what they are serving.

Besides Yong Tau Foo, there were other stalls selling other food as well. Having been here before, Mum insisted that I should not missed out trying the Popiah.

Pasir Pinji Popiah at Under Big Tree

Neat, tidy and efficient

Pasir Pinji Popiah (RM 3.20 for two rolls)
Mum was right. The popiah were rightly flavoured, generous with ingredients and most importantly not soggy. It was that good that I packed some back too.

Chee Cheong Fun at Under Big Tree (RM 3)
Pretty decent but gravy came with some slices of mushroom.

I thought the food was enough for the 3 of us. But I couldn't resist myself from ordering a bowl of pork intestine porridge.

Pork Intestine Porridge Stall at Under Big Tree

Pork Intestine Porridge (RM 2.50)
Smooth porridge and consisted a fair portion of intestines. Taste wise, can compete with the stall from the New Lane Street, Penang. The price is seriously unbeatable though.

I'm a person with sweet tooth and I can't help it when some sweet puff caught my attention.

Kaya Puff (RM 1.30 per piece)
The skin offered a mild crisp while being fluffy within. The kaya was fragrant too, the way that a good Kaya puff should taste.

Saw the big trees around?

Now you know why the locals regard them as Under Big Tree or even Dai Shu Geok (Big Tree Foot). Anything it is, everyone that come here surely will order some Yong Tau Foo as their meal.

Yong Tau Foo: 7/10
Popiah: 8/10
Chee Cheong Fun: 6.5/10
Pork intestine porridge: 7/10
Kaya puff: 8/10

Atmosphere: 5/10
Price: 9/10
Verdict: Superbly cheap decent Yong Tau Foo. Do not missed out the Fried Turnip and the Popiah stall!

Under Big Tree Ipoh Famous Yong Tau Foo
652, Jalan King
Pasir Pinji
31650, Ipoh
Perak
Malaysia
Business hours: 8.30am - 5.30pm

GPS Coordinates: N4 34.940' E101 5.181'

Jalan Ipoh Yong Tau Foo @ Jalan Ipoh

We were very hungry after the Kanching Waterfalls outing. We would not want to have Bak Kut Teh since it has been 2 consecutive weeks we had that. We opted for the famous Jalan Ipoh Yong Tau Foo. The parking there was a a little bit problem as they have limited parking space. We were lucky to be able to get a car park though without waiting.

Fruits Rojak (RM 6)

This rojak is fantastic. It was heavily drizzled with minced groundnuts making each of the fruits have a fair coating of the groudnuts. The sauce were great too, setting up a perfect appetizer before our Yong Tau Foo comes.

Paper Wrapped Chicken
The chicken were tender, juicy and well marinated. It was well flavoured with some sweetness very much to my liking. Two thumbs up from me!

Fried Foo Chuk & Sui Kow (RM 1 per piece)

The foo chuk is fluffy and crispy. It was surprise as the foo chuk is not that oily. Obviously it can't beat the Foong Foong Foo Chuk at Ampang, but definitely it is one of the better foo chuk I had around. Meanwhile, the fried sui kow tasted very ordinary.

Mixed Yong Tau Foo (RM 1 per piece)

Nothing to really shout about. It was alright for me as the fish paste tasted very original. It's not something that really wow-ed me as what I heard around.

Fish Ball & Sui Kow Soup (RM 1 per piece)

Fish ball was pure with fish paste. However the sui kow was terrible. I can't taste the presence of the sui kow paste as it lacks the prawn meat and other essential ingredients such as water chestnut.

First time I had a meal here after long hearing it from people around. It was an alright meal but at RM 1.00 a piece, it is not really a yong tau foo that I will make me go back there for more.

Atmosphere: 5/10
Food: 5.5/10
Price: 5/10
Verdict: It was alright but nothing to shout about as there is much better Yong Tau Foo serving around.

Location: Very near the roundabout at National Archive Building( Lembaga Peperiksaan Negara). Assuming National Archive Building on your left side, take the 12 o'clock exit at the roundabout. Keep going straight and after the traffic light, you will see the stall on your left side.

Ipoh Road Yong Tau Foo
67, Jalan Segambut,
Kuala Lumpur.