Muar Street Food

This is my first time visit to Muar, a small town in Johor. It was my friend's wedding on a Saturday of September. So on Sunday morning, another Muar's friend brought us for breakfast and walking around Muar town.

For breakfast, my friend, Kyi said, we must try all the street food in Muar! So her whole family accompanied us for the breakfast at a food court named Hao Zai Lai (好再来). 

Wow this surprised me! The food tasted more than home-cooked food rather than street-food! We ordered all different types of food and all of shared it.

I like this the most, the Char Keow Kak, the fried carrot cake. Our normal Char Keow Kak taste burnt normally, or "Chao Hui Da" and black in color. But this Char Keow Kak, is the best one i ever tried, and i found it in a small town of Muar! Each pieces of the carrot cake seemed to be finely coated with egg. At the bottom, there was a thin layer of sweet sauce tasted like honey. I think the chef must have put in lots of patience in cooking every plate of Char Keow Kak for his customer. Remember you must try this when you visit Muar! I think choosy small kids will like this dish very much!

Char Keow Kak of Muar, the fried Carrot Cake with egg

And the second dish i will highly recommend is, the fried Prawn noodle (虾面). Famous Penang Prawn noodle is cooked in spicy chilly soup. But this Muar Prawn noodle, was fried and it tasted totally different from the soup version. It tasted even nicer when we squeeze the lemon juice on it.

Fried Prawn Noodle of Muar

Muar famous kuih is called Jui Kuih (水粿). I tasted Jui Kuih before at Singapore food court for breakfast. But i didnt know that actually Jui Kuih is from Malaysia! This Jui Kuihwas topped with salted carrot (Chai Bo). It was very Q when biting, leaving the saltiness of Chai Bo in my mouth after eating.

The famous Muar kuih, Jui Kuih

The Curry noodle tasted almost the same as other states, but it was more thick and more "curry".

Muar Curry Noodle

My friend also recommended Mi Pok (面薄). It means thin noodle. It is something like a type of Sarawak noodle. This noodle reminded me of the "Sai Yong (細蓉)" Wan Tan noodle in the drama named "You are hired" (絕代商嬌). "Sai Yong" is described as best Wan Tan noodle in the small bowl. Are they similar? Hmm..

Mee Pok of Muar

After breakfast, we went for a quick-Muar trip, to the main six Muar roads with different color of building: Red, Yellow, Blue, etc. We had the Lai Jui (梨水), thanks for the recommendation Kyi. It tasted sour, i guess we had never see the fresh fruits before. I only remember my mother mentioned before during her youth time, she ate before Jiao Lai and this was the taste she described. I guess this is the fruit! But the uncle who sells Lai Jui didn't bring along his fresh Lai with him that day. 

And not only Sai Yong of the drama, on the way to beach, we also found the hole where Mak Tai Song (麥提爽)always use to talk secret! haha..If you watch the TVB drama, you will understand what i mean.

Owh, i found this after one year!

The tree hole Mak Tai Song used to talk secret

Besides food, Muar also produces Namewee and other politicians. Namewee, Wee Meng Chee (黄明志) is the producer of Muar's Mandarin (麻坡的华语), Negarakuku, etc. Recently his famous Malaysian movie Nasi Lemak 2.0 gets good response.

You can visit Muar Facebook for more information about Muar. There is a link of Namewee's video of  Introduction to Muar.