During lunch hour, there is usually a big crowd waiting to be seated, some of the customers even resort to waiting outside just so they can get a seat in this shop. If they see a table has paid, they will stand next to the table. When I went there, it was past lunch hour, but there is still a sizable crowd in it.
This is the owner of the shop, we call him Ah See. The Ah See name has been synonymous with this business ever since his grandfather and father times. He was busy cooking when I took this picture, he even looked up to me and gave me a smile.
The main ingredients of a Wantan Mee is the wantan or wonton. Wontons (Traditional Chinese: 餛飩; Simplified Chinese: 馄饨 details), also written as “wantan”, “wanton”, “wuntun”, are a type of dumpling common in Chinese cuisine. A wonton is made with a thin ten centimeter square lye-water pastry wrapper made of wheat flour, water, salt, and lye, and filled with savory minced meat. The filling is typically made of minced pork, coarsely diced shrimp, finely minced ginger, finely minced onions, sesame oil and soy sauce. Wontons are commonly served in soup or can be deep fried.
Other ingredient would be the ‘char siew’ or ‘char siu’. “Char siu” literally means “fork roasted,” which is the traditional cooking method for the dish of the same name. Forks hold long strips of seasoned boneless pork in a covered oven or over a fire. The meat, typically pork shoulder, is seasoned with a mixture of sugar or honey, five-spice powder, soy sauce, red food colouring (optional) and sherry or rice wine (optional). These seasonings turn the exterior layer of meat dark red, not unlike the “smoke ring” of American barbecue. (Please ignore the money container =p)
A simple price list for the wantan mee, from small plate to big plate to double plate. Double plate simply means more mee or noodles. Their noodles are homemade, meaning they knead, stretch, pull and cut it in their own kitchen. The recipe of which is not known to the public but only to the See Family. Which is what makes people come back for more, the texture of the noodles.
This is what a bowl of wantan looks like. This soup isn’t too sweet like what others served. It’s homecooked soup with little or no MSG at all. Those green colored things are chopped spring onions.
My girlfriend had a bowl of soup wantan mee. Its just a plate of wantan mee cooked in the soup of wantan you saw earlier.
This is my large plate of wantan mee. One thing I like about the mee is the springy effect it gives me when I chew on it. It’s not too soft nor too hard. Stories have been told about Ah See’s father learning how to make homemade noodles from one master. One day, Ah See’s father wanted to buy the recipe from the master but the master refused to sell it, hence Ah See’s father decided that he will try to make his own noodles by hook or by crook. And that’s how the mee come to this after all these years. If you happen to sit near the kitchen, you will see this small blue room where it’s locked most of the time with people coming in and out covered in flour, thats the Ah See’s Secret Noodle Making Room.
hey,… looks so good la the food.. i know its ur hometown.. but din tell me which state la.. next time if i do come, u take me go makan k.. hahaha
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I’ve been to this shop before. It was pretty hyped up by people who lives in BP so a couple of friends and I decided to give it a try. But it was quite a disappointment coz’ it was not as good as we thought it would be. There’s this another wanton shop around a corner, somewhere near Young’s Recipe. I thought the wanton mee there tasted better.
If Ah See Wantan Mee is not to your liking, you can try the one in the coffee shop, on the next road, the traffic light junction. The Jalan Mohd Akil junction, thats operated by Ah See’s brother, or you can try out the one in Glutton Square opposite Ah Lam Ang Tau Peng. These are the other good wantan mee stalls in Batu Pahat.
is this wantan mee shop u was telling me last time to take me to? wantan mee can easily be my top 3 favourite food.
anyway, is the wantan mee in johor kinda got gravy ar? like got soup like that wor. or isit that is soup type wan?
Oh. That’s Ah See’s brother ah? I was referring to that shop. The wanton mee there tasted better.
calvin there are two types of wantan mee here, the soup and the dry type.
Good post on Ah See Wantan Mee. Many from BP town had meals or takeaways there. I once lived a street away (Jln. Sultanah) from this shop and had eaten there many times before. But personally the present taste had slipped down a bit. Anyway, I hope the Cheong Family will keep this historical Chinese Fast Food shop go on in BP.