What is Mee Suah Tau
Mee Suah Tau, also called mee suah kor, is a vermicelli soup topped with shredded crab meat. I had it the first time several years ago at the Senior Citizen Club along Jalan Ramanathan (Scott Road). Shortly thereafter, I learned that a stall at Restoran Bee Hooi, a coffee shop in Pulau Tikus also sells Mee Suah Tau. I prefer the one at Bee Hooi, which is cheaper than the one at the Senior Citizen Club. Nevertheless, if you have never tasted mee suah tau, I suggest you try both and then decide. Oh yes, there's also Mee Suah Tau at the Teow Chew Meng Restaurant, which is a more upmarket place than the coffee shops - but my wife was unimpressed.
I have to concede that the best is the home-cooked Mee Suah Tau made by my wife. No, she didn't make me say it. It's just that, there's no way stall food version can compete with home-cooked version in terms of ingredients. When my wife makes mee suah tau, she uses a lot of enoki mushrooms, shittake mushrooms, dried prawns (heh-bee) fried in oil, fried garlic in oil, real as well as imitation crab meat. With all that ingredients, the soup is really rich and sweet.
Ingredients of Mee Suah Tau:
vermicelli (mee suah)
crab meat
fried garlic in oil (suah tau eu)
dried prawns fried in oil
mushrooms (shittake, enoki)
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Mee Suah Tau
Where to find Mee Suah Tau
Mee Suah Tau is available at the following locations in Penang:
Penang Bowling Center, Farquhar Street, (lunch, dinner), 1 vote
Restoran Bee Hooi, Jalan Burma, Pulau Tikus
Senior Citizen Club, Jalan Ramanathan (Scott Road)
Teow Chew Meng (Pulau Tikus and Sunway Tunas)
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