FIND THE RECOGNISED “MAMA & ME” LITTLE NYONYA KITCHEN CARRYING BY THE MOTHER & DAUGHTER @ NEGERI SEMBILAN
August 6, 2022 Negeri Sembilan
“Little Nyonya Kitchen” is among a kind of our nation Malaysia’s local authentic traditional peranakan recipes eating house, which commonly carrying by the Baba or Nyonya (Peranakan) in combination of local Malay & Chinese cuisines being famously practised in Malacca and Penang since decades with respective home recipes on the ground. Here in the middle southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established Little Nyonya Eating House “Mama & Me Kitchen” running in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan having great positive response from the market recently.
The Muar, Johor local originated Madam Lim Ah Ngoh (born 1952), together with her daughter Ms. Yong Chern Ling (born in Malacca) were the initial founders and also the recent families owners of this best recognised Little Nyonya Eating House “Mama & Me Kitchen” at Seremban S2 Heights, Negeri Sembilan serving all their home-cooked nyonya’s recipes and other local signature menus to the locals & visitors all under a roof in manner on the middle southern ground today.
The founder cum owner Madam Lim Ah Ngoh, who at her age of 70 years old currently, was formerly all the while a full-time housewife having interest in eatery & home-culinary (been generation passed onto the Malacca’s local nyonya recipes by family). Added Madam Lim’s daughter Yong Chern Ling (who formerly was a Stewardess) also having great interest in eateries, with vision to have her very own eating house locally and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry. Both mother & daughter also wishing to bring their Malacca’s authentic traditional nyonya recipes into the Seremban grounds enabled them decided then successfully established their very first owned family’s Little Nyonya Eating House officially named the “Mama & Me Kitchen” at Saujana Commercial Centre (S2 Heights), Seremban in the early year 2022 introducing all their home-cooked selections to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year 2022 in the middle southern nation at Negeri Sembilan.
In this Mama & Me Kitchen, the founder Madam Lim’s signature authentic Malacca’s home recipe on “Nyonya Laksa” is always their very first recommended in menus wanted by their regulars. Homemade laksa paste (from nearly 10 ingredients mixture), cooked into laksa soup broth with fresh coconut milk (santan) & lemongrass (serai), then served with noodles option on customer’s preference, and toppings of fish cake slices, hand-shredded chicken meats, dried beancurd (taupok), beansprouts, cucumber shredded, dried beancurd sheets (from Malacca), home-planted laksa leaf flakes (daun kesum) taken sided with their homemade salty sweet fair spicy sambal paste will always bring the laksa’s smooth swallowed tasty eatery that you must have a try when reached Seremban.
Secondly will be their signature nyonya recipe on “Udang Masak Nenas Lemak” (Lemak Prawn with Pineapple), which also among the restaurant’s daily selection. Local fresh Sea Ming Prawn on weight of about 30grams/each commonly selected, cooked with their sauce broth (kuah lemak) in mixture of turmeric (kunyit), lime leaves, chilli padi, lemongrass (serai) & fresh coconut milk (santan), and finally into pineapple cubes (nenas) will brings lemak’s smooth swallowed with salty sweet slight spice taste eatery that cannot aside here. Taken with a plate of their hot boiled rice sided half a boiled chicken egg & sambal paste to be the best combination here.
Another will be their “Nasi Lemak Kukus Ayam Rendang”, which prepared in home recipe favourite by their visitors recently in the main course selections. Home-steamed (45 minutes) nasi lemak (santan rice) with coconut milk, lemongrass, onions, fenugreek (halba), gingers & pandan leaves, then served with their about an hour home-cooked chicken drumstick/thigh with coconut paste (kerisik), assam slices, turmeric (kunyit) into seasonings, finally taken sided with cucumber slices, home-fried peanuts & ikan bilis, toppings of a fried sunny side chicken egg & sides of their homemade sweet salty fair spicy sambal paste will brings a plate of their wonderful fragrant Nasi Lemak Kukus Ayam Rendang eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Moreover, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended “Mama’s Lobak Rice” (Braised Pork Rice) among the local’s wanted in options. Local fresh pork/pork belly prepared in cubes pieces, braised at least half an hour in their home recipes mixture with herbs & greater galangal (lengkuas), into boiled chicken egg, and finally served with a plate of their hot boiled rice with homemade sambal paste in a set will brings exotic salty sweet tasty Lobak (Braised Pork) eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Little Nyonya Eating House “Mama & Me Kitchen” at Seremban S2 Heights, Negeri Sembilan.
MAMA & ME KITCHEN
Address: No. 137-G,
Jalan Pusat Komersial Saujana 3,
Pusat Komersial Saujana S2 Heights,
70300 Seremban,
Negeri Sembilan.
Business Hours: 9:00am to 4:00pm (Monday to Friday)
(Closed on Sat & Sun)