MUST TRY: Damansara Utama Annie1 - Menglembu Wantan Mee

DH who hails from Perak when he was child had been regaling SG foodie with tales of wantan mee from Menglembu (I hope I spelled it correctly) for many years and have spoken of visiting Menglembu for this delicacy but of course it hasn't happened though more than 10 years has passed! The furthest place SG foodie has gone to try wantan mee was in Ipoh and it was already pretty good. So when a family member told DH that he should visit Annie1 (such a cute name!), an eatery in Damansara Utama serving the famous Menglembu wantan mee, you can be assured DH and SG foodie were there in a jiffy!

In Singapore, we enjoy our dry-style wantan mee with some soy sauce, ketchup and sambal chilli all mixed in but you won't find that here in Malaysia. All the Malaysian dry-style wantan mee are served with soy-based sauces and NO ketchup or sambal chilli mixed in but a side of pickled green chillies instead. Took SG Foodie and K1 & K2 awhile to get used to this (K1 & K2 still bug me for what they term "tomato-mee" when we are back in Singapore as it's a food that they miss though thankfully we do return home to Singapore often enough to have our Singapore version of certain foods. As an aside, do you know Singaporeans and Singapore Permanent Residents are NOT allowed to drive Malaysian-registered cars into Singapore? Yup, it's true, visit LTA's website if you wanna confirm this).

So we arrived at Annie1 and it was packed even at 11am (late breakfast/early lunch) but you find yourself a table to sit at and write your order indicating your table number and someone will take your order slip from you. After a short wait, the food and drinks arrived. Of course, everyone had the wantan mee though some with char-siew alone, some with wantan alone but SG foodie also had an order of a bowl of wantan in soup.

The wantan mee/noodles is cooked to perfection, not exactly al-dente since wantan mee shouldn't be too firm but neither was the noodles too soggy - it had the right springiness/chewiness to seriously whet your appetite. The wantan dumpling skin is thin and smooth and generous fillings make this a wonderful accompaniment to the noodles. The char-siew is just as good too. SG foodie is certainly returning to this place again and again!