HOKKIEN mee, a savoury dish of thick egg noodles fried ... who has been firing up the wok for more than 50 years.

From wielding the wok to controlling the fire to infuse the ... into a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Setapak, but the Hokkien mee is just as good under the third generation of the family.

Hokkien Mee chef tends to his hot wok. Photgraph by Nicky Loh 5 min read The sound of clattering dishes, a sizzling grill and the intermittent blast of a fiery wok furnace: some sounds are enough ...

which can be a deal-breaker for many Hokkien mee enjoyers, it was mildly slick with the ‘zhup’ on the higher layers, and more moist at the bottom. So pick as you go, I suppose. The one lacking element ...

After failing to find a chef for his hawker stall, a former engineer spent months training a robot he acquired from Wuhan to perfect Hokkien mee (Fujian ... his stall, Wok AI, in Margaret Drive ...