Heng Heng Pontian Wanton Noodle (兴兴笨珍云吞面) is a legendary family-run eatery in the town of Pontian Kechil, in Johor. Established in 1948 by Mr. Loh, it is famously known as the pioneer that created the uniquely Johor, tangy tomato-sauce wanton noodle — or Pontian-style wanton noodle. Run by Mr Loh’s son today, Heng Heng is well-loved by locals. The noodle house is located along Jalan Parit Mesjid on the northern edge of Kampung Atap.
Heng Heng’s signature dish is the tomato-sauce wanton noodle using their homemade egg noodle to dry-toss in a special sauce, made using tomato ketchup, sesame oil, soy sauce and chilli (optional). The slightly thick, round noodle, is topped with slices of pale-looking lean char siew (barbecue pork) that is wok-boiled rather than barbecued and a separate bowl of clear soup containing wantons (meat dumplings) and fishballs — two other characteristics of Pontian wanton noodle.
The noodle has springy, slight-chewy texture with tangy, sweet-sourish-savoury sauce and the tender char siew slices are juicy when chewed. The meat dumplings with soft, slippery skins have nice flavours of fresh minced pork in light marinade.
Aside from ketchup-based sauce, Heng Heng also offers wanton noodle in white style (sesame oil), dark style (dark soy sauce, sesame oil, etc) and oyster sauce. The dark-style wanton noodle, dry-tossed in their dark sauce mixture, and has sweet-savoury flavours. When the shop runs out of fishballs, extra wantons will be added as replacement.
To go for more of their meat dumplings, add-on either a dish of 10-piece wantons in tomato-chilli sauce or a bowl of 10-piece wantons in soup — however, all noodle dishes will already have a bowl of soup containing few pieces of wantons, the dry dish offers an alternative to try it differently. The drier wantons have slightly firmer, chewier skins as compared to the soft, slippery skins of boiled wantons.
Heng Heng’s original Pontian wanton noodle is a must-try when in Pontian.
By the way, Heng Heng and Ah Chuan Noodle House (亚泉面店) are related. Ah Chuan, run by Mr Loh’s daughters, offers similar Pontian wanton noodle and other variants. (Ref: Johor Kaki’s post)
Address:
766, Jalan Parit Mesjid, 82000 Pontian, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
9:30am to 2:30pm | Closed on Friday
How to Get There:
Take BAS.MY J50 from Larkin Sentral or CW4 from Singapore to Pontian Bus Terminal and take cab. Read: JB Bus: To Pontian / Pekan Nanas in Johor.
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