Monday, February 14, 2022

紅醬豬腸粉 Chee Cheong Fun with Red Sauce @ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yooi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL

14 February.2022 Breakfast
Day 702 since MCO1.0 行動管制領 Covid-19 
51, 49, Jalan Petaling, City Centre, 50000 Kuala Lumpur
GPS Location: 3°08'39.5"N 101°41'52.6"E
招牌豬腸粉 Chee Cheong Fun with Red Sauce rm$5 👍👍👍👍😋😋😋 8.5/10
Total bill: rm$5  
Budget: rm$5 - rm$10++
Payment: Cash  
Cuisine: Chinese
Pork free: Pork, Pork innards, Chicken
Alcohol free: no Beer here
Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: No
Internet Wifi speed: N/A
Digital Nomad Work-friendly Cafe: No
Electrical outlets for Digital Device: No 
Free Drinking Water: No
Menu prices: Net  
Order & Delivery: Table Service
On-line Delivery Service: Not sure
Indoor Seating tables: Also available as a stall in nearby Kopitiam
Outdoor Seating: maybe 5 (1-2ppl/table) 
Drive Through: No
Take away : Yes
Dine-in: Yes
Happy Hour: N/A
Parking: DBKL
Photos taken using: Samsung Note 8
Thoughts: One of the 老字號美食 time-honored food in KL's China Town is this simple home-made 紅醬招牌豬腸粉 Red Sauce Chee Cheong Fun. The 八十年家族事業 80 years old family business of 蕭氏 Xiao Family has gone through ups and downs and is now managed by the 第三代 3rd  Generations in the 蕭 Xiao family. The old shop location also along Jalan Hang Lekir was established in 1943, the year after the 二戰結束日本軍投降 Japanese occupation ended in Malaya. I believe it was April 1, 2021 (last year) that the old shop decided to call it a day after 79 years (visited on November 15, 2016 and August 25, 2017) and move into the Kopitiam called 唐城美食中心 Tang City Food Court (which is just opposite the old stall location) as one of the hawker stall in that Kopitiam which is also along Jalan Hang Lekir. 裔記 Yooi Kee can still be found at that Kopitiam today (just behind the 炸番薯蛋 Fried street Potato ball stall), but less than 20m at the junction between Jalan Hang Lekir and Jalan Petaling and just next to 漢記靚粥 Hong Kee Porridge is another small operation of 裔記 Yoi Kee with 5 or 6 tables on the road shoulders of Jalan Hang Lekir, and if I recall correctly, this junction spot was a 水果攤 fruit stall which must have been succumbed to the Pandemic Apathy!   
Original 裔記 Yoi Kee location (42, Jalan Hang Lekir) now occupied by 金蓮記福建面 Kim Lian Kee
New 裔記 Yoi Kee location (21-27, Jalan Hang Lekir) 唐城美食中心 Tang City Food Court
New 裔記 Yoi Kee location (51 & 49, Jalan Hang Lekir) next to 漢記靚粥 Hon Kee Porridge
The 紅色甜醬 Red Sweet Sauce (rm$4 for 小點 small plate and rm$5 for 大點 big plate) that goes on top of the Chee Cheong was a secret recipe that was brought from 唐山 Tangshan (中國廣東 Guang Dong China) by the family's grand father who migrated from China to Malaya. It is said that the same Red Sweet Sauce recipe is still being used today. The Grand father came to Malaya and worked as a 打雜(後生) for a wealthy 地主 Landlord in 舊吉隆坡 Old Kuala Lumpur, later the Grand father got help from the 地主 Landlord to start his small little stall of selling his hand-made Chee Cheong Fun with the secret red sweet sauce from China at the old stall location along Jalan Hang Lekir! This nostalgic simple 紅醬招牌豬腸粉 Red Sauce Chee Cheong Fun still have many local fans who have been visiting the stall for a few decades. 
Of course there are modern Retro-Inspired Cafes (recently mushroomed around KL China Town, but some of the nostalgic food perhaps street foods worth sampling in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling and Jalan Hang Lekir are:
鳳凰餅家 Fung Wong Biscuit (since 1909) Jalan Hang Lekir
金蓮記福建面 Kim Lian Kee Hokkien Mee (since 1927) Jalan Hang Lekir
裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yooi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge (since 1943) Jalan Hang Lekir
漢記靚粥 Hon Kee Porridge (since 1949) Jalan Hang Lekir
冠記雲吞麵 Koon Kee Wantan Mee (since 1950) Jalan Hang Lekir
義欽豆腐花豆漿水 Kim Soya Bean (1950s) Jalan Petaling
茨廠街四眼仔鹹鴨 Sze Ngan Chye Roasted Duck (since 1959) Jalan Petaling
茨廠街老字號鹹肉粽 Ho Yoke Kee rice dumplings (1970s) Jalan Hang Lekir
茨廠街炸番薯蛋 Petaling Street Sweet Potato Balls (since 1973) Jalan Hang Lekir
麻芝皇后陳玉環 Madam Tang's Mochi (since 2010 maybe) Jalan Petaling
茨廠街阿伯曼煎糕 Apek's Apam Balik (not sure) Jalan Hang Lekir
The "紅醬豬腸粉 Chee Cheong Fun with Red sweet Sauce" can be found at 3 spots here in KL's Petaling Street:
金蓮記福建面 Kim Lian Kee Hokkien Mee
漢記靚粥 Hon Kee Porridge
裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yooi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge 
As for 裔記 Yoi Kee, it is not only until about maybe 10 or 11 years ago, maybe around 2010 that 裔記 Yooi Kee decided to offer 炭煲粥 Charcoal boiled porridge as an additional choice for their customers. Of course, it is getting a lot of competition from the next door famous 漢記靚粥 Hon Kee Porridge which has more than 70 years of congee (Porridge) experience. And on a Monday morning in 茨廠街 KL China Town today, perhaps maybe it is also that some Cafes and the Petaling street morning market are closed on Mondays; that the street of Jalan Hang Lekir was unusually quiet on a Monday morning.
Food today: 8.5 / 10 👍👍👍👍😋😋😋
Price: 6 / 10 👍
Value for Money: 7 / 10 👍👍
Service: 7 / 10 👍👍
Ambiance: 4 / 10 😐😐
Parking: 6 / 10 👍 (Private Parking nearby but expensive)
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport:  7 / 10 👍👍 (350m+ from Pasar Seni LRT station)
Website: not found
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YooiKee/
Menu: https://www.facebook.com/YooiKee/menu/
Telephone: +6013-678 4788
Operation hours: 08:00am - 04:00pm (Wednesday closed)

紅醬豬腸粉 Chee Cheong Fun with Red Sauce rm$5
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紅醬招牌豬腸粉 Chee Cheong Fun with Red Sauce rm$5 @ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
紅醬招牌豬腸粉 Chee Cheong Fun with Red Sauce rm$5 @ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
紅醬招牌豬腸粉 Chee Cheong Fun with Red Sauce rm$5 @ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
紅醬招牌豬腸粉 Chee Cheong Fun with Red Sauce rm$5 @ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
  
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@ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
@ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
  
裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fu & Porridge
@ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
@ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
@ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
@ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
@ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
 
@ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
@ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
@ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
紅醬招牌豬腸粉 Chee Cheong Fun with Red Sauce rm$5 @ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL
紅醬招牌豬腸粉 Chee Cheong Fun with Red Sauce rm$5 @ 裔記茨廠街豬腸粉 Yoi Kee Chee Cheong Fun & Porridge in 茨廠街 Jalan Petaling, 吉隆坡 KL