Sekee Segget · Ah Hua Traditional Kway Teow Soup in Johor Bahru near City Square 亚华司机餐食

✍️ 21 Sep 2023. After some 80 years at its gritty old shoplot at Jalan Segget, Sekee Restaurant or Ah Hua kway teow has moved.

Fortunately, Ah Hua only moved across the street (Jalan Segget) just a stone's throw away.

Restaurant name: Restoran Sekee 司機 Ah Hua Kway Teow 亞華粿條

Address: 49C, Jalan Segget, Bandar Johor Bahru, 80000 Johor Bahru

Hours: 8:30 am - 2:00 pm (Fri & Sat off)

They had to give up their previous place because the old building had changed hands and is slated for redevelopment.

At the new location, everything looked and felt familiar. Boss Lily is still in command over the steamy pots of simmering pork bones, personally cooking every order, meticulously, deftly assembling each bowl according to customer's preferences.

The flame at Ah Hua is still burning steady after 80 years like the Olympics torch.

My RM20 bowl had kway teow, soup, lean pork, liver, kidney and oysters.

The soup was slightly cloudy, tastes gently savoury porcine, most of the flavours were teased out of the socket bone, marrow and attached sinew. Bits of lardons, fried shallots and aromatic oil dressed up the basic porcine flavour.

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The kway teow (rice noodles) were soft and slurpy smooth, the kind I like. The savoury porcine soup clanged well to the flat noodles which had a very subtle sweet rice taste. Nice.

The pork liver, kidney and lean meat were all fresh, nicely done, though it had stiffen a little because I took too much time to take photos. For everyone else, it should be perfect.

I love these oysters. They were thumb size, not that big. They taste like those good fresh oysters we can get in good restaurants but it was the texture that impressed me the most. It had a gentle kind of firmness outside but once we bite through the thin membrane, it was all soft and creamy inside like warm cheese. Must get these oysters into your bowl, if you are an oyster fan.

Comforting, satisfying, I need my Ah Hua kway teow fix regularly like an old Teochew (though I am actually Cantonese Ah Seng from across the Causeway).

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Photo taken in Jan 2012

✍ Updated 23 May 2019. Ah Hua 亚华 Teochew kway teow stall has been in Restoran Sekee coffee shop for decades. The name of the coffee shop 司機 suggests that in its past life, the coffee shop catered mainly to taxi, bus and lorry drivers as it is literally only a stone’s throw from the old JB checkpoint.

 

Kway teow soup boiled over a charcoal stove?! The only one in Johor and Singapore.

Today, a younger (third) generation is in charge and judging from the loyal older clientele still eating here, the taste of Ah Hua 亚华 must have been faithful to the original. 

Some of the regular customers here include government and business dignitaries. There are also younger customers, indicating that a new generation of clientele is taking to Ah Hua’s traditional kway teow soup.

The easiest way to find Sekee coffee shop is to look out for this giant duck along Jalan Segget. Sekee is two doors away from the famous duck stall. (Update: The prominent giant duck that once dominated JB's old downtown "skyline" has been taken down.)

This steaming hot bowl of kway teow soup for RM5.

Pricing is at RM5, RM8, and RM16. RM5 gets you the basic, and the full works which includes kidney and abalone, at RM16.



Look at that huge bone used to made the delicious soup. 

The pork bone based soup is light, clear and sweet. Not oily and not salty, just the natural flavour of fresh pork bones.

Look at the quality and freshness of the ingredients that go into Ah Hua's kway teow soup. It looks so delicious even before it is cooked.

The pork liver is thinly sliced. Very fresh. Cooked just right. Sweet and crunchy.

Thin slice of fresh lean pork. Naturally sweet, lightly chewy yet tender.

The generic kway teow is light, fresh tasting and smooth. Much better than those thick, oily and salty kind found in some other stalls.

->> When I want good, old style Teochew kway teow soup without venturing too far from the JB CIQ, I look no further - this is it for me. The bone broth is still cooked over charcoal as in the old days.

Since this first visit, I regularly drop by Restoran Sekee for my kway teow soup fix especially in the early morning after clearing JB Immigration. Quality of ingredients and cooking have been consistently good while price adjustment have been slight. Here is the update post 👈 click

Restaurant name: Ah Hua 亚华 kway teow soup (Restoran Sekee 司機)

Address: 30, Jalan Segget, Johor Baru Town

GPS: 1.458202,103.764383 / 1°27'29.5"N 103°45'51.8"E
Hours: Daily 7:30am to 2:30pm (closed on Saturdays)

Non Halal

Date visited: 19 Jan 2012

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