Kluang Eat: Yi Jian Xiao Mian (壹見小麵) Dim Sum & Mookata

Rick
May 31
2 min read

Yi Jian Xiao Mian (壹見小麵) is a Hong Kong-style tea cafe (港式茶餐厅) located in the town centre of Kluang, Johor. Although proclaimed as a "tea cafe" due to its offering of Hong Kong dim sum, the restaurant serves a lot more other dishes, like a Nanyang kopitiam.

Yi Jian Xiao Mian may seem small from its shopfront but it has a larger space with many more seats to the rear. Some of the restaurant's signature breakfast dishes, such as toasts / sandwiches, egg tarts and wanton noodle, are showcased in posters hanging outside the kitchen. Aside from dim sum, traditional toasts, fried rice dishes and a long list of other dishes on top of noodles. They serve Thai mookata too.

Yi Jian Xiao Mian (壹見小麵) : Interior & menu

They have quite a range of dim sum dishes. I have tried the steamed spare ribs (鼓汁蒸排骨), mixed-filling chee cheong fun (鸳鸯香港猪肠粉), shrimp dumplings (晶莹鲜虾饺) and stuffed egg-plants (茄子酿鱼肉) from the dim sum list. They are nice to mix and match to make a meal.

Yi Jian Xiao Mian (壹見小麵) : Dim sum dishes

The dry-style Wanton Noodle, denoted as "Egg Noodle (全蛋面)" on the menu, is available with dark sauce only. Other than char siew and meat dumplings, crispy fried pork lards are added to the noodle too. The egg noodle is springy with tender barbecue pork and the meat dumplings are mild-savoury. This is truly delicious.

Yi Jian Xiao Mian (壹見小麵): Wanton egg noodle

The Penang Char Kway Teow (滨城炒粿条) uses broad flat noodle to stir-fry with prawns, slices of fishcake, egg, bean sprouts and spring onions. The dish has a nice wok aroma, non-oily and delicious.

Yi Jian Xiao Mian (壹見小麵): Penang char kway teow

The "Ice-Fire" Polo Bun (冰火菠萝包) has warm crumbly egg crust on top of the bun and a slit through its side. A thick slice of cold butter is served separately. Put the savoury butter in the slit and the polo bun is ready to eat. A delicious bun to try.