If you’re in Kota Kinabalu and, for some reason, are craving Penang hawker food, Jin Siang kopitiam in Luyang serves a competent bowl of Penang-style prawn mee… plus a surprise option!
Jin Siang is located at Luyang Commercial Centre, about 5km away from KK town centre. The prawn mee here tastes very similar to what is served in Penang; the soup is fragrant, the noodles well-cooked, and the ingredients plentiful.
The sambal could perhaps be improved a bit, but overall it would certainly satisfy anyone’s cravings, being more than 1,700km away from the island of origin.
This pleasant kopitiam also serves something more unusual – fried prawn mee! This is probably not a dish you would find in Penang or even Kuala Lumpur.
True to its name, it contains all the ingredients of the soup variety but is fried, creating a semi-dry dish that’s rich with the flavour of prawn stock but without the soup.
It’s definitely worth a try if you are looking for something unique – that is, if you have grown tired of Sabah’s homegrown dishes such as tuaran mee.
Kedai Kopi Jin Siang
17, Lorong Damai Point,
Luyang Commercial Centre,
88300 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.