Flying Noodles

Have you ever told your friendly neighborhood mamak man to 'tarik panjang panjang' when he is preparing your teh tarik? Well, I have and of course we all take great delight in watching him tarik the tea and display his skills. So much so that there is now an art to 'tarik-ing teh' and many a competitions have been held, and teh tarik is touted as something not to be missed by tourists.

Today I found something else to marvel at. You can now tell this particular guy at a wantan noodle shop in PJ to throw your noodle high high!!! Don't understand? Okay, watch the video





Isn't it awesome? We had dinner at this place this evening, and I didn't realize there was anything extraordinary about it until Julian saw the guy throwing the noodles and commented that the cook played with his food! I was seated with my back to the cooking area, so I turned around to look and was pretty amazed at the antics. We prayed that our noodles will not reach the ceiling and luckily it didn't! Whew, what a relief! Would be awful if it did and got stuck there, anfd we had to wait for it to fall off!!!
You think this guy is good? (BTW, he's not Chinese- he's Myanmarese.), wait till you see his sifu!! The sifu is Chinese, and he does the whole shing ding with a lot more style than this fella. He throws his noodles in a circle instead of straight up, and it's accompanied by a little dance like jiggle. Too bad, we couldn't catch it on tape to be posted cos he caught us by surprise and he only did it once - no repeat :( All the work was done by this underling!!

But, in spite of all this, the food is nothing to shout about. The noodles are home made egg noodles, which I was hoping would taste like the Hong Kong ones, but it did not. A cousin to it, maybe but not the real thing. However, it did taste a lot better than the normal coffee shop wantan noodles. I think they actually made it the Hong Kong way though, cos I spied a thick long bamboo near the kitchen area. ( The real McCoy is made by a guy sitting astride a huge bamboo and gently pressing onto the flour, much like sitting on a see saw going up and down). I know cos I am a wantan noodle snob and I refuse to eat the noodles sold in the coffee shops as they are so inferior compared to the real Hong Kong egg noodles! It's so hard to eat them once you have tasted rhe real thing in Hong Kong.

If you want to see this guy in action, drop me a comment and I'll tell you where to find him.