Wandering around Taman Mount Austin during the "dead zone" between 2pm to 5pm when most restaurants take their afternoon breaks in JB, I stumbled upon JD Wan Tan Mee. I am always curious about successful one dish restaurants as it takes a lot of self confidence to put all of one's eggs in one basket. Anyway, JD Wan Tan Mee opens from 12 noon to 12 midnight, so it was my lifesaver today when I was famished at 4pm.
Restaurant name: JD Wan Tan Mee 简单云吞面 总行
Address: 47, Jalan Mutiara Emas 9/3, Taman Mount Austin, 81100 Johor Bahru, Johor
Tel: 011 3333 3789
Hours: 12:00 noon - 12:00 midnight
The restaurant is air conditioned, simply furnished but clean and comfortable, and quiet at this time of the day. Exactly what I needed at that time.
JD have many variations of wanton noodles in their menu. For classic, they have both black and white. I opted for black and medium size serving.
It came served in a non traditional container, a partitioned ceramic plate like a ceramic army tray 🙄
I asked for medium size because I wasn't sure what is the right size for me. The huge mound of noodles came sitting in a pool of dark watery sauce. Have scallion but have neither choy sum (greens) nor char siew over the noodles 🤔
A good toss wet every strand of noodle with the watery sauce.
The noodles were crunchy to the bite, nearly but not wiry stiff, firm but not hard. It would be well appreciated by people who like firm crunchy QQ texture. To me, it was crunchy (脆) but not lively, springy (爽口). I couldn't detect any egg flavour (but most wanton mee have no egg taste nowadays anyway).
The sauce blend was mainly dark soy sauce with a bit of lard, so porcine aroma was absent. Personally, I prefer plenty of lard and a bit of dark soy sauce.
Still, I enjoyed my afternoon snack of crunchy savoury spicy noodles and probably many others would too.
As I finished my noodles, I struggled with myself if I should follow up right away with a "white" as well 😬 Decided to take a rain check as I was too full already.
The wantan noodle set came with the customary bowl of wantons and choy sum.
There were five (din count lah) big pillow shaped mixed pork dumplings.
The finely minced pork filling was tightly packed and there was more meat than most traditional wantons. The traditional taste of sesame oil was slight but no pepper.
The juicy little cubes of sweet savoury radish was a nice touch - I am a radish lover.
On my way out, I saw a customer having his abalone wanton mee. At RM15.80, I want to come back to try it. I also want to try the classic lard heavy (I hope) white version too.
Check out what other takes on wanton mee does JD serves.
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