THE AUTHENTIC HOMEMADE MENUS & HAKKA YONG TAU FOO CARRIED IN THE FUSION “JESS CAFE” @ PAHANG
“Hakka Yong Tau Foo” is a kind of the chinese Hakka’s traditional eatery being frequently practised and among the favourite taken by the locals since hundred years ago on our nation, which are vegetables & beancurds commonly stuffed with mixtures of pork and fish presented on respective recipes. Here in Kuantan, Pahang we successfully found and being recognised the best recommended traditional authentic homemade Hakka Yong Tau Foo carried by the fusion eating house “Jess Cafe”, since year 2009.
The Pahang local originated Ms. Jessie Kwong Siew Wai (born 1980), was the immediate founder, and also the only recent owner of this best recognised fusion cafeteria “Jess Cafe” at Star City, Kuantan presenting not only her family’s generation passed onto Yong Tau Foo (stuffed beancurds) recipes, but also serving most of their home-cooked chinese & western cuisines all under a roof to the locals & visitors for their 10th subsequent calender year on the same ground.
The founder cum owner Jessie Kwong, who formerly an Account Executive all the while exposed in Singapore, since teenage having great interest in eatery & culinary or chefing. Also since young having vision to have her very owned cafeteria (or “Cafe Dream” according to Jessie Kwong), added with her family’s home recipes generation passed onto as advantage and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry allowed Jessie initially stepped into the field in year 2009 at her 29th.
After ends her professional in Singapore early year 2009, Jessie Kwong decided to return hometown Kuantan, Pahang and had spent nearly a year seeting up her eating house with great supports from family members enabled Jessie in year end-2009 successfully established her very first & own fusion eating place (cafeteria) officially named “Jess Cafe” in Kuantan township introducing all her home recipe selections to the public. Also all the while having positive response from the market made her cafe being recognised among the best by F&B E-Media for year 2018.
In this Jess Cafe, the founder Jessie’s very first top recommended in menus surely will be their traditional authentic homemade “Hakka Yong Tau Foo” or Stuffed Beancurds which most wanted by their regular customers. Options of eggplant, bittergourd, dried beancurd (tau pok) & water beancurd all stuffed insided with their home-mixed paste made from pork, fish & vege, then prepared in deep fried and finally to be served either in curry soup, chicken soup or with poured onto their homemade brown sauce will on customer’s option that you must try when reached Kuantan, Pahang. Especially the mixtures freshness and bites texture into mouth you will like it.
Secondly will be their “Curry Noodles”, which also among the cafeteria’s daily top seller like by the locals. Curry soup prepared from the mixtures of homemade curry paste spices and their home-boiled soup base (mixtures of chicken & ikan bilis), then commonly cooked with famous Sg. Lembing homemade egg-flour noodles, and finally served topped with 3-options from their stuffed beancurds (yong tau foo), beansprouts & dried beancurd with fresh coconut milk poured into will brings a bowl of local’s traditional curry mee recipes eatery that you cannot aside.
Another will be their famous “Bittergourd-Egg Mee Hoon Soup”, which also favourite by the visitors recently. In-house soup base cooked insided with fine rice noodles (mee hoon), then served topped with bittergourd-egg (pan-fried chicken egg with fine bittergourd slices), fresh prawn & squid, poured into slight rice wine will brings wonderful freshness taste eatery and delicious rice wine tasty into mouth neither found the same elsewhere in town other than Jess Cafe here.
Moreover, the founder Jessie Kwong also introduced their signature “Butter Milk Chicken” made from chicken drumsticks in boneless, marinated overnight in recipes, followed by floured-up then served after minutes deep fried topped onto nice tasty butter milk sauce brings excellent crispy bites and exotic tasty eatery you need to taste. And also their special “Japanese Style Seafood Pan-Cake”, which also the customer’s favourite among side order menu, made from the mixtures of squids & prwans prepared in well-blended, mixed with home recipe flour-paste, chicken egg & veges then pan-fried for about 15 minutes and finally served topped with Japanese sweet sauce & mayonnaise that you will never regret after tasted here.
While at dessert & beverage corner, the owner’s best recommendation will be their homemade healthy “Black Sesame Papaya Milk” which only in Jess Cafe. Also their famous “Jess Cafe ABC” among the signature snow-ice dessert/beverage favourite by the visitors. After meal, you should also try their daily special hot soup “Pumpkin Sweet Corn” which prepared in an hour boiled in-house from mixtures of steamed pumpkin blended with sweet corn. And their delicious authentic “Homemade Kuih” such Molberry Dumpling, Srimuka & Glutinous Rice Ball insided with red beans & peanuts that you really cannot missed when stepped into this recognised Chinese & Western Fusion Cafeteria “Jess Cafe” at Kuantan, Pahang.
Jess Cafe
Address: No. A15,
Jalan Seri Kuantan 80,
Star City II,
25300 Kuantan,
Pahang Darul Makmur.
Business Hours: 9:00am to 4:30pm (Daily)
(Closed on Monday)