Ah Song Hakka Noodle Mee @ Cedar Point Food Centre, Johor Bahru 亞松客家麵

✍️ 10 Dec 2023. Came to visit Ah Song Hakka Noodles after he shifted from Jalan Lumba Kuda to here at Cedar Point Food Centre (since Oct 2023).

Ah Song Hakka Noodles was one of the first places I blogged when I started Johor Kaki back in 2012. I was wandering along Jalan Lumba Kuda near JB CIQ when I stumbled upon Ah Song's little stall in a rustic coffee shop.

Ah Song has a loyal following built over the years and they are making their way to his new location at Cedar Point Food Centre.

Nothing changed at Ah Song all these years except for his new location (he had to move as the old coffee shop near the CIQ was sold and is undergoing refurbishment - so yeah, redevelopment is picking up pace fast in JB).

Ah Song's Hakka mee is made up of two parts - the first is the bowl of Hakka style noodles.

It's a mound of blanched wheat noodles thicker and wider than mee kia, liberally laced with lard, soy sauce and optional spicy sambal. Then, there's scallion and signature stewed minced pork topping.

The noodles were done soft tender, well enveloped with saucy stewed minced pork, lard, soy sauce and sambal. So, it's a blend of savoury, lardy and spicy hot.

Nice 🐽

Where Ah Song stood out, for me is his bowl of soup with hand made fish ball, fried fish ball, fried tofu, and fried fish roll.

Through all these years, Ah Song still makes his own fish balls.

After he closes for the day at the stall, Ah Song will spend the rest of the day making fish balls for the next day.

So we get excellent, soft, springy, crunchy fish balls with a nice subtly briny taste and fresh fish flavour.

There's also a fried version in the bowl. The fried fish ball has a more chewy texture and frying intensifies the savouriness and fish flavours slightly.

Fried fish roll, fried tofu, there are loads of goodies in the bowl of savoury sweet pork bone and fish soup.

Spike up the taste of all these with this sharp spicy hot, sourish chili sauce 

Today's brekky is Ellone's treat 🙏 Ellone runs the Ah Song Hakka Noodles outlet at Impian Emas 👈 click

Choice of kway teow version.

If you are looking for a simple, comforting, tasty, accessible, affordable breakfast in Johor Bahru, come and give Ah Song Hakka Noodles a try. Who knows you could become a regular too.

Stall name: Ah Song Hakka Mee (stall inside Cedar Point Food Centre) 亞松客家麵

Address: 10, Jalan Musang Bulan, Taman Abad, 80250 Johor Bahru, Malaysia (5 minutes drive from JB CIQ)

Hours: 7:00am till sold out (usually about 10:00am) Monday off

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[ Archive ✍ 9 Feb 2020 ] This is my favourite Hakka mee @ 亞松客家麵 in Johor at Kedai Makanan Heng Kee along Jalan Lumba Kuda, near the JB immigration building. It was just as good, if not better than, when I first tasted it in 2012 (the early days of Johor Kaki blog).

Ah Song Hakka Mee has a branch outlet in Impian Emas 👈 click

Time seemed to have stood still at this quieter corner of JB where few tourists or Singapore day trippers venture to (even though it is walking distance from CIQ). The same time weathered signboard, the same local breakfast crowd. Besides the coffee / drinks stall, there are only 2 food stalls here - a wanton mee stall on the left, and Ah Song Hakka Mee on the right.



Ah Song looked exactly the same as I remembered him 7 years ago.



The pot of stew is the heart (minced pork) and soul (sauce) of Hakka mee.



The mound of Hakka noodles topped with stewed minced pork and sauce.



Roll, fold, and toss the noodles with the minced pork, so every strand is well coated with sauce and bits of stewed meat.

It's delicious.

The noodles were tender and crunchy with a light spring. Each strand was well enveloped with the savoury lardy sweet taste of the minced pork stew, sauce and lard.

(Compared to the benchmark Tow Kee of Seremban, Ah Song's flavours are slightly less robust and Tow Kee's thicker home made noodles have a more al dente bite. Still, Ah Song has the best Hakka mee south of Seremban.)



But, Tow Kee doesn't have this - Ah Song's excellent handmade Yellowtail fish balls.



The pork bone soup was robustly savoury but slightly flat tasting.



The hand made Yellowtail fishballs were light and springy, and burst with delicate fresh fish sweetness when we bite into it.



Gently savoury fried fish roll (like a sort of lekor).



Then, there's fried fish ball which is something I've not seen before in Singapore.

It has a nice tenderly chewy squeaky bite with savoury sweet taste. Nice way to eat fish balls.

(Update: Okay... stumbled upon Meng Boon in Sims Vista Singapore in 2021 which has fried fish ball with their noodles.)

Recommended for you 👍 Ah Song has the best Hakka mee south of Seremban and one of the best handmade fishballs in Johor and Singapore.

My brekky today (2020) costs RM11 (gone up quite a bit from 2012 😂 ).

Old location.

Restaurant name: Ah Song Hakka Mee (stall inside Heng Kee Coffee Shop) 亞松客家麵
Address: 126, Jalan Lumba Kuda, 80300 Johor Bahru

GPS: 1.462514, 103.768336
Hours: 7:00am till sold out (usually about 10:00am) Monday off

Date visited: 9 Feb 2020

[ Archive ✍ Jan 2012 ] Ah Song 亞松客家麵 is an unassuming small stall in the equally non-descript Heng Kee Coffee Shop along Jalan Lumba Kuda near the JB CIQ.

Yet every morning Heng Kee is the hub of activities along this unremarkable side street. Heng Kee attracts a loyal congregation because of its two stalls. One is Hup Kee wanton mee (which I covered in another post. Update - sadly, the elderly couple that ran Hup Kee serving their own house made egg noodles has retired).

The other is Ah Song Hakka mee. This stall which occupies the right hand corner of the coffee shop has only a Chinese sign written with red paint on the glass case fronting the stall. So look out its Chinese sign which is  亞松客家麵 .

Ah Song’s Hakka mee is served with a little topping of fried minced pork and just enough sauce to lightly coat the noodles after vigorous tossing and mixing which the customers have to do themselves. It may seem a little dry to people who are used to noodles dripping with sauce, but once the noodles entered my mouth, I was instantly converted.

The sauce was subtly and delicately fragrant with the fried minced pork adding to the flavour. The sauce was light – very different from the greasy, salty and sugary goo we sometimes get elsewhere.

The noodles were outstanding. It was crunchy and springy. Biting this noodle was itself a pleasure. In my ear bones, I could hear the soft sound of the strands popping apart as my jaws chewed down on the crunchy noodles.

Along with the noodles came a bowl of soup. In here, the star was definitely the fish balls.

The taste sensation of Ah Song’s fish balls was simply amazing. These handmade fish balls were springy and taste of the natural sweetness of fresh fish meat.

When I bite into the fish ball, its flesh was firm and seemed to be softly pushing back my teeth. When I persisted the skin of the fish ball broke apart and opened up its insides, giving up the delicate flavours stored within. Subtle flavours delighted my taste buds and olfactory sense (smell). When I took another bite, the pleasure was repeated, making the entire experience a joy. I found myself unconsciously slowing down my chewing to prolong the pleasure.

Now I understand why Ah Song’s fans keep coming back to this quiet corner of JB. I too self enlists as a member of Ah Song’s fan club. We have found the meaning of simple joy.

This little bit of gastronomic heaven costs RM5 (2012 price).

Old location.

Restaurant name: Ah Song Hakka Mee (stall inside Heng Kee Coffee Shop) 亞松客家麵

Address: 126, Jalan Lumba Kuda, 80300 Johor Bahru

GPS: 1.462514, 103.768336
Hours: 7:00am till sold out (usually about 10:00am) Monday off

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Date visited: 4 Jan 2012

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