Yin Futt Kuok Vegetarian

Vegetarian restaurant Yin Futt Kuok has been on Jalan Hang Lekiu for over a decade. Inconspicuous at first, you are forgiven for missing it as you head towards Jalan Gereja. To its regulars, it is hard to miss.

The menu here is typically Chinese and everything—and I do mean everything—is vegetarian. An individual bowl of your favorite noodle dish costs between RM5 and RM6. But if you’d rather have specific dishes eaten with rice, there’s a wide selection of faux meat and traditional Chinese vegetable options to choose from with prices between RM10 to RM30 per dish, depending on the size.

Food-wise, this is a down to earth place. For appetizer you can choose between peanuts and pickled slices of papaya. That’s it. Dessert depends on what’s available from their take-away pastry selection, which you can have at any point during your meal.

The Lotus Biscuit is pretty good. Not overpoweringly sweet, it has crumbly outer layers shaped like a lotus and melt-in-your-mouth pastry. You can choose from a variety of Chinese style noodle dishes; the Cantonese Style Yee Mee substituted with Mee Hoon is full of flavour even though it’s made with vegan ingredients. The Goose in Plum Sauce was not served with plum sauce. Instead, it came with ketchup. The 3 Kinds of Fried Mushroom was plump, juicy and fresh: delicately fried in a garlic and soy sauce and served on a generous, green bed of chunky broccoli slices. While the Fried Asparagus was buttery and only slightly spicy with a light coating of chili-based sauce, similar to belacan but lacking its pungent-ness.

Overall, two things will impress you about Yin Futt Kuok—the atmosphere, which is clean, quiet and unpretentious, and the freshness of the ingredients. The portions are large, so this is a place to bring friends to. But be punctual, this restaurant operates on aunty time, not Malaysian time.



Contact:
52, Jalan Hang Lekiu,
50100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-2070 7468/ 03-2071 5352

Website:
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Operating Hours:
Opening Hours: 1pm – 9pm (last order at 8.30pm)

Cuisine:
Local