✍️ 19 Jun 2024. Dropped by Din Kee in Bukit Indah this morning as I was in the area for errands. It's one of my favourite beef noodles in Johor Bahru.
Ah Koon and wife Pei Yun founded the little stall in 2007 in the Bukit Indah market and after a couple of forays downtown, is back in homeground for the past 5 or 6 years.
Fans say Din Kee is reminiscent of JB's beef noodle legend Ah Deng at Jalan Lumba Kuda. The legendary Ah Deng closed in 2011, a year before I started blogging, so I have never tasted it before 😔
Anyway, Ah Koon's father-in-law and Ah Deng were buddies, badminton kaki kaki 🏸
Din Kee is a simple, no frills eatery. Clean, cool, comfortable and most importantly, their beef noodle is among the best in Johor Bahru, in my opinion.
Din Kee's menu. They also have pork and fish options for those who prefer these.
We ordered a dry version to share (we were on a whole day food trail, so had to share the load 😂 ).
The kway teow noodles were smothered with a black gooey sauce, then generously topped with beef meat, tripe and tendon, preserved mustard (kiam chye), scallion, peanut and calamansi.
The flat rice noodles were done a little soft. Slurpy smooth when coated with the savoury gooey dark sauce.
Next time, I shall go for their lai fun or thick rice noodle 瀨粉 (thick bee hoon).
The thick strips of lean beef were soft tender, moist and beefy, with a subtle bit of herbal taste. Nice.
I like Din Kee's beef tripe a lot as they were soft, spongy and well infused with savoury, sweet, herbal flavours.
The tendons were nice too. Though they don't have their own flavour, I love their spongy jelly texture.
We had beef soup.
The soup was herbal with savouriness and a bit of tanginess from kiam chye, and subtle beefiness.
There were lots of lean meat slices.
Truth be told, I was initially a little worried that the lean meat would be fibrous and chewy.
Turned out, they were tender and moist, sweet and beefy. The nicest part of today's meal.
Have to mention their tasty chili sauce. It was sharp spicy hot with sourness and a robust umami savouriness.
Still among the best beef noodle in Johor Bahru.
Stall name: Din Kee 鼎记牛腩粉 鼎记牛腩粉
Address: 56, Jalan Indah 1, Taman Bukit Indah, 81200 Johor Bahru
Tel: +6016 736 1522
Hours: 8:00am - 3:00pm (Thurs off)
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Ah Koon operated Din Kee at Pelangi, and then near KSL for a short while.
✍ 4 Jun 2015. Thanks to Jenny Chee's recommendation and positive members' reviews in 吃的平台 (JB foodie group) about Din Kee's 鼎记 beef noodles, I went to Bukit Indah this morning to try it out 😄
I recently tasted 2 well established, big name beef noodle stalls (not in JB) but was not inspired to blog about them. They relied heavily on dark soy sauce and MSG with little, if any beef stock, and pitiful amounts of beef.
Where's the beef? I wondered.
Thankfully, Din Kee 鼎记 restored my faith in beef noodles.
Chunky strips of beef in this bowl of beef noodles at Din Kee 鼎记 in Bukit Indah.
Din Kee 鼎记 is a tiny hawker stall in Guang Xing Long kopitiam in the old, residential section of Bukit Indah.
When the bowl of beef noodles arrived, the thick strips of beef immediately caught my attention. Next, the beefy aroma that greeted my nose got me excited.
The tossing sauce was a rich, flavoursome blend of dark soy, fried shallots and syrupy thick beef stock extracted by boiling beef bones and meat. The boss, Ah Koon makes fresh beef stock everyday which takes 5 long hours of slow cooking.
Giving the kway teow (flat rice noodles) a good toss in the blended sauce. Oh my, the kway teow smothered with the rich beefy sauce was oh so...... delicious.
The tender lean beef with some fat were cut in thick strips / chunks like thick fries / wedges. The juicy beef strips / chunks were spongy and the gentle tasting sauce allowed the natural bovine flavours to shine through.
The beef tendon by itself doesn't have much flavour but it has interesting texture. The tendons had a jelly-like soft gummy bounce and took on the flavour of the savoury sweet tossing sauce.
The fried peanuts added a bit of nutty flavour and crunch to the beef noodles.
The watery broth is savoury and slightly herbal.
The hand made beef balls were dense, mildly savoury and took on a bit of the broth's herbal flavour. Personally, I prefer the beef tripe and tendons 😝
The fresh chili sauce is savoury, tangy and has a sharp lingering sting. I ate it neat for the thrills but did not dip my beef in it. I prefer the beef neat too as I like to savour the delicate bovine flavours unadulterated 😄
Ah Koon and wife Pei Yun have been running this beef noodle stall for nearly 3 years. Ah Koon makes his beef noodles according to his father-in-law's own Hainanese recipe.
This is my favourite beef noodle in JB and Singapore now. Lots of tender flavourful beef with delicious noodles in rich beefy sauce - all for RM7 (SGD2.50 2015 price) for the basic set (as shown in the picture above).
👉 Beefy satisfying Hainanese style beef noodles.
Date visited: 4 Jun 2015 | Reviewed 31 Jul 2022
Previous Address
Restaurant name: 鼎记牛腩粉 Din Kee Beef Noodles
Address:5, Jalan Indah 5/7, Taman Bukit Indah, Johor Bahru, Malaysia (stall inside Guang Xing Long coffee shop) (Behind Bukit Indah Police Station) Restoran 101 茶餐厅 One Zero Plus One Restaurant).
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get here today 11.30am, dry one no more. manage to get a soup noodle....yes, this the best beef noodle I ever had at Johor...Tangkxx, MoGxx beef noodle go away....haha
ReplyDeletewould like to Tapao beef soup just after empty my bowl, boss said sold out already...
heard other stall worker kidding around with beef noodle boss that a Singapore blogger had publish the beef noodle, he is soon need 2 cows everyday.... haha
hahaha glad that you enjoyed it too ;-D
DeleteVery nice...thanks for recomandation... ! I like the taste!!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome. Glad that you like it too :-D
DeleteLoved it...want to try the mutton tomorrow
ReplyDeleteGlad that you like it too :-D
DeleteHi, is this the only coffee shop around this area? I mean Jalan Indah 5/7. Are there other choices of local food? Should I come in the morning or evening if I am looking for other variety, like lakes, dim sum, zichar, satay....I don't drive, plan to stay around Bukit Indah Aeon. Thx
ReplyDeleteI was there on Wed 20 April 2016 and evening, from about 6pm onwards, the main road area has 2 kopitiams on both sides of the block, and al fresco dining under the stars with PLENTY of food to sample. Had Lok-lok, ipoh chicken without the rice or towgay, cuttlefish kangkong (jiu her eng chye) but there's plenty more varieties. Food is so-so though.
DeleteHi, thanks for the recommendation. My family and I loved it. By the way, the stall has moved a few shops down from Guang Xing Long coffee shop. It is now at Restoran 101 茶餐厅 (One Zero Plus One Restaurant).
ReplyDeleteThank you for the info. Appreciate it :-D Glad that you enjoyed this beef noodle too.
Deletewent and try it today.It is worth eating it. The dry beef noodle is really good. I would rank it no 2 after the famous 15 storey beef noodle but i is now closed for good. This shop is the best now. really worth trying.
ReplyDeleteI reached 1pm 2 days and they are cleaning up, they claimed usually they close at 11am, so sad
ReplyDeletei stay near that area,i fell not that good, can be better.
ReplyDeleteThank you KC. Could you recommend us your favourite, please. Appreciate much.
DeleteShifted to Jalan Bukit Indah 1 from 22/9/2018. The signboard of the shop is "Din Kee Beef Noodle".
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to go to Century Garden as it has closed down. You can only taste it in Bukit Indah.
ReplyDeleteThis place is still open for business despite being indicated as 'permanently closed' in Google map.
ReplyDeleteIs there any pork in here?
ReplyDeleteNot in the beef noodles, but they do sell a separate pork noodle dish
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