Kedai Mee Ah Chuan, or Ah Chuan Noodle House (亚泉面店), is one of the many eateries in Pontian that serves wanton noodle, especially the Pontian-style tomato-sauce wanton noodle. “Ah Chuan” is the alias of Mr Loh, the pioneer who created the original Pontian wanton noodle back in 1948. Using his name for the shop, Mr Loh’s daughters run Ah Chuan Noodle House and continue to offer his style of wanton noodle. The eatery is located near the new business cluster at Kota Emas along the Skudai-Pontian Highway, just few steps from New Dawn Hotel.
Ah Chuan’s signature dish is their red chilli tomato-sauce wanton noodle — can opt for non-spicy, of course. The noodle dish uses thin egg noodle topped with their “flying” char siew slices (barbecue pork) and wantons (meat dumplings) in a bowl of soup. The noodle has springy, slight chewy texture in the sweet-sourish-savoury-spicy sauce and the char siew is thinly-sliced to ensue its tenderness and juiciness on chewing. The wantons are of reasonable size and quite meaty with nice savoury flavours.
Ah Chuan’s Pontian-style wanton noodle is nice-tasting and cheap with generous amount of ingredients. Other than the tomato-sauce version, the wanton noodle is also available with sweet-savoury dark oil-sauce.
By the way, Ah Chuan Noodle House and Heng Heng Pontian Wanton Noodle (兴兴笨珍云吞面) are related. Heng Heng, run by Mr Loh’s son, offers similar Pontian wanton noodle and other variants (ref: Johor Kaki’s post). For those taking public buses from Johor Bahru, Ah Chuan is easier to get to.
Address:
130, Skudai-Pontian Highway, Kampung Atap, 82000 Pontian District, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
9:30am to 3:30pm | Daily
How to Get There:
Take BAS.MY J50 from Larkin Sentral or CW4 from Singapore and alight at New Dawn Hotel. Read: JB Bus: To Pontian / Pekan Nanas in Johor.
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