Restoran Yong Len

One of my favorites places to go during lunch, albeit it being a little far to walk from my office. Yong Len is your typical Chinese coffee shop selling delicious and hearty hawker food. Price wise, this coffee shop is one of the cheapest places to eat near my work area. Taste wise, it takes the lead too!
I’ve tried the Wantan mee, char kuey teow and prawn mee there. I love, love, love their prawn mee and char kuey teow. I usually order a big portion and if I’m not mistaken, it only costs me around Rm6. And mind you, the portion is BIG. My colleagues love the char kuey teow. They keep ordering it almost every single time we frequent the shop!
This coffee shop also sells an assortment of pastries, buns and dim sum.
Only downside is it gets a little crowded and stuffy during lunch hours, especially with this hot Malaysian weather.
That aside, the food is good and the price is low. What’s not to love?

Yong Len is a restaurant that i usually go to for brunch whenever I am in TTDI. This restaurant is right behind Devi’s Corner in TTDI. Being a popular restaurant in a very busy location, parking is nearly impossible to get as it is always occupied. But nothing shall stop me from eating there ;), so I usually park at the roadside opposite the shop and keep an eye on my car while eating.
The restaurant serves many dishes including their famous kuey teow, prawn mee, chicken rice, wantan mee, curry mee, chee cheong fun and yong tau foo. They also sell a variety of pau’s and pastry items, but my ultimate favourite is the kuey teow. The kuey teow stall is located at the back portion of the shop and its run buy 2 people; one uncle and one aunty. Their kuey teow is ridiculously amazing because of these 3 things :
1. The type of kuey teow use (They use the thinner one, which in my opinion looks nicer and absorbs more flavour)
2. The size of the prawns in the dish. (Whenever i order kuey teow in any other shop, the prawn size is so small that you can barely even savor the taste. But, in this restaurant, the prawn used are medium sized ones which taste so succulent.
3. The gravy/​sauce/​sambal they use to combine all the ingredients together. This «gravy» that they use is what makes the dish so spicy and wet. I prefer wet kuey teow compared to dry ones because they definitely taste better.
Other than the kuey teow, their wantan mee is also pretty good. Definitely a very chilled place for a malaysian brunch!

One of my favourite hawkers in TTDI, I was told the Prawn Mee here was good by a friend and so he brought me to try out this Prawn Mee he always tells me about. It’s quite good I must say but I’m not a fan of it as I have another place that I prefer for Prawn Mee.
Apart from that, I’ve tried out the chicken rice here which was so-​so. There are other stalls such as Char Kuay Teow and Wan Tan Mee which I have yet to try. Parking is a pain here and it on a hot day, eating here will definitely make you sweat.
Taste: ⁶⁄₁₀ (non-​halal)
Parking: ³⁄₁₀
Ambiance: ⁴⁄₁₀
Cleanliness: ⁵⁄₁₀
Food Variety: ⁶⁄₁₀
Business Hours: 10.00am — 3.30pm

Restoran Yong Len is best remembered as your childhood’s only place where your grandparents might bring you to eat your breakfast at, and it is still the same ol’ coffee shop after all these years.
Char kuey teow is one of the many reasons why humans tend to flock here just to eat something to fill their stomachs for the impending long day. Its noodles are nestled with pork lard and fish cakes, which makes it fluffy and tender to the mouth. The other would be the wanton noodles, but it is really just because I love dumplings.
Parking may be a hassle, but if you disregard all that, this is the place for you to eat that obligatory meal that your TV nutritionist demands you to eat.

The way all coffee shops should be.
Yong len has been around for as long as I can remember. The iconic spot is a favourite for local residents in TTDI.
The coffee shop is usually jam packed during lunch hours and obtaining a table would be a hassle. Parking is hard to come by as well.
However, the food served here is some of the best in the area.
Personally, I’d recommend you try everything here at least once because it’s just that good.
My favourites include but are not limited to their:
— Prawn noodles
— char kuey teow
— wan tan mee

I would usually have my breakfast here after a walk at TTDI park.
That is usually the best time to have a meal at Yong Len because parking will be a hassle later in the day.
Yong Len is a typical coffee shop but the food stalls serve very delicious food.
My favorite is the fried kuey teow. I like to customize my order to have extra chili, no cockles and vegetable because that’s the way I like. Haha. Well, I believe adding beansprouts will only spoil the taste.
Next would be the wan tan mee, prawn noodles and chicken rice.
There’s a decent variety of food to choose from and sometimes we Malaysians are too spoiled for choice.

This shop is a kopitiam that houses a number of hawker stalls. This kopitiam is approximately 10 minutes walk from my work place. It is always packed with people during lunch time. So whenever my colleagues and I plan to go there, we need to get out of the office slightly earlier than our usual lunch hour. Though it is quite far away from my office, we are still willing to go all the way there because their food is delicious and ‘affordable’ for those who are working in this area.
The average lunch in TTDI cost around RM10 to RM15. This place, with RM5, we can get a bowl of noodles already. Guess that is one of the reason why this place is always packed with people. Other than that, it was of course because of the good food too. Most people are here for the char kuey teow. I am there for the prawn mee as well! Their char kuey teow is one of the highly ordered food, sometimes we have to wait for 15 – 30 minutes for it to be serve. But it was worth waiting.
Besides this two, there is other stalls that sells chicken rice, noodle soup, wonton noodles, chu cheong fun, Nyonya kuih and baos.
The kuih and baos was not bad too. I usually buy some of them to have it during tea time. Sometimes I even drop by in the morning to buy them as breakfast.