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Sunday, 23 January 2005 |
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Quick send in the clowns! Where are the cheerleaders???? With a name like Restoran Pom Pom you would think there would be a lot of fanfare but this is really a no nonsense chinese hawker store. It used to be called Sin Sing Kee but now it's Pom Pom and there's great fun in some of the hawker stalls here.
The mixed rice offers quite a variety of stuff, sometimes you get wild boar curry and one of my favourites, pig skin curry. Prices are what you would expect to pay at any mixed rice place - about RM3 depending on how many types of foodstuff you have with your rice. The chicken rice however is one of things you can skip here. Don't say I didn't warn you, it's one of the worst chicken rice I have ever had and John (he of Kundang fame) feels the same too.
The Indian rice and thosai is not too bad. The CKT here used to be better but it's edible though you won't be finding me eating CKT here anytime soon.
So what's there to cheer about here then?
 It's the Mee Goreng (fried noodles - almost a fried asian spaghetti.) Alex, the guy who fries the mee goreng, has been doing this for more than 20 years now. I remember him as just as a helper in the coffee shop and then he graduated to assistant cook and finally he took over the frying of the mee goreng.
He serves Mee Jawa as well which is a tomato soup mee, which is OK but it's his mee goreng I go there for. If possible try to go there when he has less customers and he'll fry an individual plate - it's awesome. During peak hours he usually fries a few plates at once, he still gets the taste but the noodles are sometimes a bit too soggy. The mee goreng is somewhat spicy so you can either ask him to go easy on the chili or you could add tomato ketchup to your mee goreng. It's one of the few asian dishes that I like adding ketchup to, the other being fried meehoon.
Restoran Pom Pom is located on SS 3/64 and the best time to catch the mee goreng is in the early evening or later at night.
Note - The Mee Goreng stall has moved to Restoran Siong Pin on Jalan SS 3/31, 47300 PJ. It's the corner shop behind the Shell petrol kiosk.
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