✍ 23 Jul 2024. Haven't been back at Tua Thow Teochew kway teow for a very long time. Wondering if anything changed 🤔
Aunty Chua and son Tan are still running the popular stall.
Tan still fillets and slices whole fishes the way Aunty Chua and his dad taught him - thick and big slices.
Tua Thow was busy as ever. The old school, somewhat gritty coffee shop still looked the same from ten years ago, and fully packed as usual. Very bright, hot and humid, as the morning sun beats down outside.
As we were on a whole day food trail, we just ordered an "everything in" soup with dry kway teow mee.
First the soup. The cloudy concoction was rich in natural savoury, and sweet flavours from the pork, fish, seafood, lettuce and scallion.
The thick slices of sea bass were fresh and sweet without the earthiness we often find in other places.
Good quality fresh pork slices with nice natural sweetness.
"Everything in" so we also had pork kidney and liver which were fresh, well cleaned, expertly cooked to just the right doneness. Taste good.
There were several succulent, soft, creamy, umami sweet fresh oysters.
The kway teow mee came with a savoury sauce, lard, and garnished with lardons and freshly fried shallot which Aunty Chua and Tan personally fry. No buy from factory shortcut.
Give the noodles a good toss and let the soy sauce, lard and fried shallot do their magic. Muacks!
Prices are very competitive too. Our fully loaded breakfast cost us RM18.
Still one of the best Teochew kway teow soup noodle place in Johor. Fresh ingredients, generous portions, lovingly prepared, rustic warm atmosphere, friendly hardworking hawkers, competitive fair pricing.
So, so glad to be back and reconnect 🧡
Stall name: Tua Thow Restaurant大头粿条汤
Address: Jalan Tun Abdul Razak (Susur 4), Taman Bakti, 80100 Johor Bahru
Tel: +607 223 3140
Hours: 7:30am - 2pm (Fri off)
✍ 5 Jun 2016. In JB, I like it when I have to share a table with strangers. I always take the opportunity to ask my new friend why s/he like this stall. I would go further to ask him/her for other recommendations. That's how I was introduced to Tua Thow kway teow thng which old customers refer to as "Larkin Bomba kway teow thng" because it is across the road from the fire station. That was in January 2012, and I have been back at Tua Thow regularly ever since.
(Important note for drivers - As you drive along Jalan Tun Abdul Razak in the direction of Skudai, slow down and keep a lookout on your left for the small Mobil station, then filter to the left exit. If not, you'll miss Tua Thow coffee shop and now disused Shell station altogether and there isn't any other entrance to the entire Susur 4 lane.)
As usual, it's full house at Tua Thow on a Sunday morning.
Lady boss Mdm Chua busy at her station, the way it has been for the last 30 years.
Our usual order - a bowl of "dry" kway teow, soup with fish, pork liver and kidney. From the adjacent stall, fried leather jacket fish and braised tofu.
Mdm Chua cooked everything perfectly - pork liver, kidney and sea bass fish all had nice textures and flavours. All the ingredients are fresh.
I especially love the pork in Johor for it's freshness and the skill which good hawkers like Mdm Tan cooks them. I can taste the porcine flavour in this slice of kidney and it has a soft crunch and slight spring to the bite.
The cloudy stock bone broth was light bodied and rich with savoury sweet flavours.
The kway teow was tossed in a soy sauce and lard blend. The aroma of porky lard rise teasingly to our nose when we tossed the noodles. I like the rice noodles which they use at Tua Thow as they are soft, clean tasting and have a subtle rice sweetness.
The adjacent stall has sio bak, braised pork belly, braised pork trotter and more, but we always opt for their fried leather jacket (this piece for RM18 in 2016). I prefer something light tasting to go with Tua Thow's kway teow soup.
The leather jacket fish is crispy outside, meaty, the tender white meat is slightly dry and gently sweet. It complements Tua Thow's fish and pork bone soup perfectly.
The generic tofu is soft, smooth and braised in a gently savoury sweet sauce. I like to eat this braised tofu with Tua Thow's kway teow soup.
After we were done, we can't bear to leave, so we ordered another round. This time it's kway teow thng with everything together in the large bowl (RM7).
Actually, I feel the kway teow soup tastes even better with everything thrown in, as each ingredient impart a bit of flavour into the broth. For example, the rice noodle's sweetness sweetens the whole soup.
The bill for all the food we had today came to RM40.
👍 Local JB folks love this old coffee shop slightly off the beaten track for the Teochew kway teow soup and braised and roast meat stalls, side by side. Well, Tua Thow's no gimmicks simple old school kway teow soup outlasted the Shell station next door - that should say something about their food :-D
My first post on Tua Thow back in 2012 👈 click
More good kway teow soup places in Johor Bahru 👈 click
Restaurant name: Kway teow soup (stall inside Restoran Tua Thow 大頭餐室)
Address: Susur 4, Jalan Tun Abdul Razak (next to disused Shell petrol station), Johor Bahru (filter left once you pass the Esso station, otherwise you cannot enter the side lane).
GPS: 1.484281,103.751953 / 1°29'03.4"N 103°45'07.0"E
Tel: +607 2233 140
Hours: Daily 7:30am to 2:00pm (closed on Fridays)
Non Halal
Date visited: Numerous times since 18 Jan 2012
^ click for details
As usual, it's full house at Tua Thow on a Sunday morning.
Lady boss Mdm Chua busy at her station, the way it has been for the last 30 years.
Our usual order - a bowl of "dry" kway teow, soup with fish, pork liver and kidney. From the adjacent stall, fried leather jacket fish and braised tofu.
Mdm Chua cooked everything perfectly - pork liver, kidney and sea bass fish all had nice textures and flavours. All the ingredients are fresh.
I especially love the pork in Johor for it's freshness and the skill which good hawkers like Mdm Tan cooks them. I can taste the porcine flavour in this slice of kidney and it has a soft crunch and slight spring to the bite.
The cloudy stock bone broth was light bodied and rich with savoury sweet flavours.
The kway teow was tossed in a soy sauce and lard blend. The aroma of porky lard rise teasingly to our nose when we tossed the noodles. I like the rice noodles which they use at Tua Thow as they are soft, clean tasting and have a subtle rice sweetness.
The adjacent stall has sio bak, braised pork belly, braised pork trotter and more, but we always opt for their fried leather jacket (this piece for RM18 in 2016). I prefer something light tasting to go with Tua Thow's kway teow soup.
The leather jacket fish is crispy outside, meaty, the tender white meat is slightly dry and gently sweet. It complements Tua Thow's fish and pork bone soup perfectly.
The generic tofu is soft, smooth and braised in a gently savoury sweet sauce. I like to eat this braised tofu with Tua Thow's kway teow soup.
After we were done, we can't bear to leave, so we ordered another round. This time it's kway teow thng with everything together in the large bowl (RM7).
Actually, I feel the kway teow soup tastes even better with everything thrown in, as each ingredient impart a bit of flavour into the broth. For example, the rice noodle's sweetness sweetens the whole soup.
The bill for all the food we had today came to RM40.
👍 Local JB folks love this old coffee shop slightly off the beaten track for the Teochew kway teow soup and braised and roast meat stalls, side by side. Well, Tua Thow's no gimmicks simple old school kway teow soup outlasted the Shell station next door - that should say something about their food :-D
My first post on Tua Thow back in 2012 👈 click
More good kway teow soup places in Johor Bahru 👈 click
Restaurant name: Kway teow soup (stall inside Restoran Tua Thow 大頭餐室)
Address: Susur 4, Jalan Tun Abdul Razak (next to disused Shell petrol station), Johor Bahru (filter left once you pass the Esso station, otherwise you cannot enter the side lane).
GPS: 1.484281,103.751953 / 1°29'03.4"N 103°45'07.0"E
Tel: +607 2233 140
Hours: Daily 7:30am to 2:00pm (closed on Fridays)
Non Halal
Date visited: Numerous times since 18 Jan 2012
^ click for details
Authentic soup.Beware of those that are made from packets of "pork bone"ingredients from C....
ReplyDeleteAwesome bowl of noodles but it's super hot and humid inside. But that's the charm of the place.
ReplyDeleteWhile waiting for the noodles, can order the sayur manis (mali veg) and fried batang from the cai png store ..
Awesome bowl of noodles but it's super hot and humid inside. But that's the charm of the place.
ReplyDeleteWhile waiting for the noodles, can order the sayur manis (mali veg) and fried batang from the cai png store ..
I've been there many years ago.
ReplyDeleteWill Surely visit soon.
我啊嬤最爱🥰🥰🥰
ReplyDeleteAfter I read your blog, chiong to JB this morning RM 18 bowl of goodness. Thank you for your recommendation.
ReplyDeleteis the soup sweetened with sugar? I went to KL and Genting recently and was surprised the pork soup sans any of the noodles they called it 豬肉粉 I had twice in 2 separate places exceptionally sweet with definitely sugar added....
ReplyDeleteJavier Yong-En Lee no. I am very particular about sugar too. Yes many popular stalls play cheat use sugar but I cannot detect in this one. I will never recommend those sugar famous stalls
Delete古早味的食物越来越少了😉能吃到 心头爱真是太棒了❤
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