MY Little Herbal Tea may not sound like a place where you can get a hot and punchy curry mee but that was what we had come for.

Afterwards, if we felt like releasing the heat from our liver, we could get a bottle of herbal tea that does just this here.

My Little Herbal Tea is the restaurant adjoining Mega Herbs & Grocery store in Taman Megah, Petaling Jaya.

It has become well-known for its curry mee with roasted pork or with kampung chicken (RM13.50).

For me the noodles with roasted pork in a robust red curry did it for me. It was generous with the roasted pork with crispy skin, which kept turning up in the delicious curry as I dug in.

Tofu puffs, long beans, eggplant and pieces of deep-fried fu chuk topped the noodles.

I read about claypot mice noodles (RM11.50) on the menu, but it’s really those short white rice noodles known as “lo shu fun”.

There’s lots of seasoned minced pork atop the noodles which come sizzling hot in the pot, tossed in a dark sweet sauce and finished with a raw egg.

I found the noodles a little sweet and lacking. They got a bit better when I tipped the sambal into it.

I was so delighted with the Bentong ginger honey drink (RM5.90) that I ordered. I got a strong whiff of the ginger as it was served.

I loved the fine bits of aromatic and hot ginger clouding the drink and the subdued sweetness of honey. I felt the warmth in my chest as I drank this, on a cool rainy morning.

I have heard good things about the wantan mee here and they did not disappoint. I had the village chicken wantan mee (RM14.80), which also came with soup and two pork wantan. The noodles were thin and springy, with the right supple feel.

Best of all, there was the rich aroma of lard in them, but I should have specified the chicken part I wanted for my noodles, not chicken breast.

We shared a plate of assorted yong towfoo (RM1.50 each) – bitter gourd, eggplant, chilli, ladies’ fingers, fish balls, fried wantan and fu chuk, but found the filling of fish pate and meat a little too firm for our taste.

Chicken thigh herbal soup in a claypot, with rice (RM16.30) was lightly sweet and comforting.

The soup had been simmered with chicken, dong sum, dried longan and kei chee, and enoki mushrooms.

I should come back for its village chicken rice, roasted pork nasi lemak, curry zhu cheong fen, Hakka noodles, and its three combination roasted meats rice.

My Little Herbal Tea carries a wide range of herbal drinks such as five flower damp heat, sore throat aphonia, cat whisker Java tea (for lowering blood sugar), apple hawthorn (good for the heart), ba zhen (for women’s health), and anti-inflammatory lungs, among others.

You could also pick up a rather large jar of chilled black herbal jelly with honey (RM9) to share with the family.

There is also a pastry counter with egg tarts, kaya puffs and baked siew pau. Of the three, the kaya puff is worth considering, for the fluffy pastry and not-so-sweet pandan kaya filling.

My Little Herbal Tea is at 1 Jalan SS24/8 Taman Megah, Petaling Jaya, tel: 03-7806-4992. It is open from 8am to 9pm every day. – June 25, 2022.

* Eu Hooi-Khaw has been writing about food for the longest time, covering all aspects, from restaurant reviews to cooking and recipes, as well as the healthy side of it. She has written for major newspapers and magazines, published the cookbook Fresh Ingredients, and also writes for her website hooikhawandsu.com.

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