I was in Kota Kinabalu few months ago for a short break. It was also time for me to venture to the streets to try new Kota Kinabalu hawker food!
Jin Jin Seafood Restaurant @ Taman Hilltop
Jin Jin Seafood Restaurant is well known for its fish noodles. It does not taste like the normal fish noodles we have back at home. The soup is sour and their serving is massive! When ordering, you have a choice of deep fried fish or steamed. Their serving of fish meat was generous. You can also opt for fresh milk in your soup. I heard that fresh milk makes the soup tastier.
Overall, the meal was great! Almost wiped the entire bowl clean.
However, the price is quite steep. It was around RM10 per bowl. Drinks on the other hand was terrible. Don’t ever order their Nescafe.
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Restoran Beaufort
Sabah has various Chinese hawker dishes which are not available in the Klang Valley and one of them is the Beaufort noodles.
Finally I managed to try the famous Beaufort noodles at Restoran Beaufort. It comes in dry and wet version. The latter’s portion is huge where the former was in reasonable size.
This Beaufort noodles come with thick egg noodles, vegetables and roasted pork.
The wet version is similar to our Cantonese fried noodles (Wat Tan Hor) but it is quite tasteless.
Fried version was mediocre. Nothing to shout about.
Notwithstanding the mediocrity of this noodles, Restoran Beaufort was packed with people. I guess the noodles is an acquired taste.
If you would like to have a taste of Beaufort noodles, you can head to Restoran Beaufort located at the map below:-
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Fook Yuen @ the City
My all time favourite place in KK is Fook Yuen, well known for their roti kahwin. I wrote a review about Fook Yuen @ Damai some time ago.
I just found out that Fook Yuen opened an outlet in the city. It looks like an Old Town outlet and it fact it is next to Old Town. I initially thought it was part of Old Town. Their signboard is not very visible!
Unfortunately, the roti kahwin and coffee here are terrible. It doesn’t taste as good as the ones they have at Damai. I wouldn’t recommend this place if it’s the first time you’re trying Fook Yuen.
Original Fook Yuen Roti Kahwin
Teh Madras at Fook Yuen. It’s basically 2 layered tea.
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