Revisiting Mak Jah

We had previously visited Mee Udang Mak Jah during a trip to Taiping, which I had written about here.

This time, we dropped by on our way back from Ipoh.

During our first visit, they told us they didn't have sotong goreng tepung, despite the fact that we had seen photos of it in reviews of the place. This time, we discovered that the sotong goreng tepung was from another stall, which had not been open during our first time there. The stall also had cucur udang, which seemed to be very popular, from the number of tables ordering it. So we tried that as well.

I was surprised that the sotong came as whole pieces of smaller sotong, and not cut into rings like most places do it. The batter is really crispy, and I feel it is similar to the batter for the fried prawns (see old post, or below...)

The cucur udang was not as special, though it was not bad either. It comes with tau kua and peanut sauce (like satay sauce, without the satay)

From Mak Jah, we ordered mee udang again, and of course the fried prawns. We also ordered a plain mee udang (without prawns), so that we wouldn't take too much cholesterol :P 

And we tried a char kuey teow, which wasn't as good as the mee udang.

I don't know what's the thing with Malay char kuey teow, but the kuey teow portion is always extremely small!

This time round, the taste of the mee udang (and the fried udang) was similar to before, but the prawns seemed less fresh. Some of them were soft. And some were smaller in size. There were more prawns in the fried dish this time, probably because of their smaller size.