THE RECOGNISED “MAMA ZEN” AUTHENTIC HOKKIEN PRAWN NOODLE RUNNING ON THE NORTHERN NATION @ KEDAH
“Hokkien Prawn Noodle” or somehow known the Hokkien Mee at the northern nation or Prawn Mee by the locals is all the while among the local chinese’s traditional authentic delicacy noodle eatery which being taken & practised since decades with respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the northern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Hokkien Prawn Noodle House “Mama Zen” running more than 10 years at Alor Setar, Kedah having great positive response from the market recently.
The Alor Setar, Kedah local originated Madam Seow Chin Chuann (born 1967), was the initial founder, together with her son Mr. Kee Zi Yan (born 1993) and partner Mr. Tay Swee Keong (born 1993) all are the recent immediate owners of this best recognised Hokkien Prawn Noodle House “Mama Zen Hokkien Noodle” right in the Alor Setar territory presenting their very home recipe on hokkien prawn mee and other signature selections to the locals & visitors in better manner on the northern ground thoroughly.
The founder cum owner Seow Chin Chuann, who at her age of 57 years old currently, was all the while a housewife having interest in eatery & culinary been initially stepped into the f&b industry in the year of 2014 began her very home-based home-cooked hokkien prawn mee “Mama Zhen” at Kampung Pisang, Alor Setar for about 2 years all the while helping by son Kee Zi Yan on the ground. Then moved into their very first noodle house along the Jalan Menanti right in the Alor Setar township continued their exposure for another about 5 years reached 2023. Later-on stayed their noodle stall in the Shanghai Food Centre (on-going) still serving their very home-cooked recipes.
With experiences & recipes on-hand, added with vision to further expose in the field and full encouragement & support from partner Tay Swee Keong, who all the while in the Agriculture Industry wishing to touch the career foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry locally enabled them to bodied-up and then successfully established their very joined first Hokkien Prawn Noodle House officially named the “Mama Zen Hokkien Noodle Enterprise” at the Tandop Industrial Commercial Centre, Alor Setar in the mid year of 2023 serving all their signatures to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2024 on the northern nation at Kedah.
In this Mama Zen Hokkien Noodle House, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus surely will be their very home-cooked “Hokkien Mee” or commonly known the Hokkien Prawn Noodle most wanted by the locals. At least 5 hours home-prepared soup base from the combination of their hours boiled pork bone soup into with home-blended boiled prawn’s shells, shrimp oil, homemade chili & boiled shrimp’s broth, served with noodles option (on customer’s preference), and finally complete with an boiled chicken egg, shrimps, pork slices, fish cakes, kangkong vege & beansprouts, toppings of fried onions oil, taken dipping or mixed onto their delicious homemade sambal paste will always bring the wonderful prawn’s freshness swallowed kind of their authentic Hokkien Mee/Hokkien Prawn Noodle eatery that you must have a try when reached Alor Setar, Kedah.
Secondly will be their signature “Loh Mee”, which also among their visitor’s wanted selection from the beginning. In-house 2-3 hours boiled chicken soup base, cooked into loh paste broth with their seasonings mixture, into chicken egg & potato starch, served with noodles option on customer’s preference, toppings of chicken meat shredded, fish cake, beansprouts, boiled chicken egg, chopped spring onions & fried onions will brings the best exotic salty sweet tasty Loh Mee eatery that you cannot aside. Complete with their sided appetising sour sweet green chili paste will always the perfect matching here.
Another will be their famous “Braised Pork Rice”, always among the main course/rice menu selection favourite by the customers here. Local fresh pork belly commonly selected, prepared in dice/cube pieces, home-braised nearly 2 hours in their seasonings mixture, served with boiled oil rice, an braised chicken egg, sides of pak choy vege and toppings of chopped spring onions & fried onions will brings a nice hot bowl of their excellent authentic salted sweet tasty Braised Pork Rice eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
While in the breakfast toast corner, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended “Steam Kaya Toast” which like by most of the locals recently. Daily fresh local-made soft white breads commonly selected, home-steamed few minutes, then served with sweetie local-made pandan kaya paste (taken dipping onto or spread) will brings the best hot steam bread’s softness in bites with the tasty sweet pandan kaya in combination that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Hokkien Prawn Noodle House “Mama Zen Hokkien Noodle” (Mama Zen Hokkien Noodle Enterprise) at Alor Setar, Kedah.
MAMA ZEN HOKKIEN NOODLE ENTERPRISE
Address: No. B-141,
Tingkat Bawah,
Jalan Tandop 6,
Taman Perindustrian Tandop Utama,
05400 Alor Setar,
Kedah.
Business Hours: 8:00am to 3:30pm (Daily)
(Closed on Wednesday)