Borneo Kalimantan Cuisine Expands Menu with Hokkienese Food and More
When Little London Fish and Chips first converted into Borneo Kalimantan
Cuisine, they were only serving a small menu of Kalimantan style Indonesian and
Chinese Indonesian food. Now, they've expanded the menu considerably, and I am
most excited for the Hokkianese noodles on the first page.
My dad grew up in Medan, where the largest Chinese population are
Hokkianese, and they are very proud of their food. Their noodles, especially.
When my aunt has a layover in LA coming from Indonesia, she would ask for
kwetiauw (large, flat noodles like the ones used in the Thai Pad See Ew). Never
mind that she was just in Indonesia, that's still what she wants to eat! I'm partial to Kwetiauw Sirem, where the noodles are topped with a type of gravy, and Borneo Kalimantan Cuisine has it!
What I had to get: Mi Karet Hokkian
Borneo serves a thick, curly, chewy style of noodles called "Mi Karet' which literally means "rubber noodle."
The only times I've had this style of noodle is at a Hokkianese hole in the wall in Jakarta. Borneo serves this noodle in a few different preparations, but of course I have to get the Hokkian style, topped with char siu, chicken and mushroom, egg, etc. The other preparations include Hakka style mi karet, which has different toppings.
The noodles are served with a small bowl of chicken broth on the side,
which you can add to your noodle to your own taste. The mi karet here was quite good, pretty close to what I had in Jakarta! Many complained that the food here tasted just like Chinese food. Well, don't get the Mi Hokkian, then, because it is Chinese food. But if you don't mind that, this is a great bowl of noodles!
If you want something more Southeast Asian on the new menu, they are also serving Borneo style laksa, a spicy curry noodle soup. We tried the laksa with shrimp:
The broth was spicy and packs a lot of flavor! This style is pretty close
to the Singaporean laksa (although the noodle type and what they put in the
soup differs) and may be one of the best versions in town.
Borneo Kalimantan Cuisine
2 comments:
Is Hokkienese food the same as Fujianese?
so Hokkian = Fujian, just a different dialect of saying it, but Indonesian Hokkianese food is probably a bit different!
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