Lamian and the best choux pastry

While looking for something to eat at Lalaport, we saw this lamian shop called Mee Hiris China Muslim which offered a Grab dine-out discount. We decided to try it, and was pleasantly surprised at how good the braised beef noodles were; better than the usual beef noodle soup that we like.

beef noodle soup, RM18.90

The beef noodle soup had a very light taste. The beef slices were not especially tender. So this was not very special.

The braised beef noodle soup, on the other hand, had very tender beef chunks, and was not even spicy (we expected it to be spicy because the soup was red). All of us preferred this one. 

braised beef noodle soup, RM21.90

We also ordered fried dumplings, which was quite good.

chicken pan-fried dumplings, RM13.90

chicken fried noodles, RM22.90

(Add 10% service charge and 6% SST to the prices.) 

The fried noodles arrived at the very end, which was a pity because this was unexpectedly the most spicy. Especially at the bottom where all the spicy oil had pooled... The taste is actually not bad, but not outstanding like the braised beef noodles.

Following the discovery of these braised beef noodles, we ordered it again at One Bowl Lanzhou Lamian when we visited Pavilion Bukit Bintang. We had already tried the clear soup noodles there before, without Snorlax. This time I wanted to eat that again, so we went there after letting Snorlax try all the other foods from our previous visit (see this post).

mutton skewers, RM20

traditional lanzhou beef lamian, RM19.80

braised beef noodles, RM26.80

hot soybean milk, RM6.80

The soybean milk was rather special, unlike the usual ones we get in Malaysia.

As you can see, the prices at One Bowl are higher. The clear soup noodles are better than at Mee Hiris; the soup has better flavour and the beef is extremely tender. However, the braised beef noodles were not as good in my opinion (the others were happy with it though). If I want braised beef noodles, I'd go to Mee Hiris, but I'd go to One Bowl for the clear soup beef noodles.

The lamb skewers are good, of course...that was why I wanted to order them again!

Both lamian shops offered 25% off with Grab dine-out. This should have been a good reason to order more skewers, except that we had too many different foods to try.

In Pavilion, I spotted a stall called Chez Choux. It basically sells cream puffs, but there was a new item advertised on the menu. They call it a baguette puff, and it was a long puff that looked crispy on the outside. I bought one for the exorbitant price of RM12, but oh it was so good...

baguette puff with vanilla cream

There were other flavours of cream, but they were more expensive. I decided that the basic flavour was enough, because what I wanted to try was the puff, not the cream! (Psst: the table is One Bowl's table; we ate this while waiting for our order to arrive.)

a very crispy puff