May 26, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR – Despite price hikes for food, a stall in Tapah, Perak, is selling peanut sauce noodles for only RM1.50 a plate.
What makes these noodles special is that they are shaped in the form of a bun.
The Yeop Din stall in Kampung Haji Hassan on Tapah Road has become a popular destination for residents around Tapah.
The dish is made from an 80-year-old recipe that has been passed down generations.
Stall owner Suriati Shairi said she has been selling “bun noodles” in peanut sauce for RM1 since 2003 but raised the price by 50sen recently.
“Many are surprised and question whether I can make a profit.
“I make enough and have been able to send my eldest son to Universiti Malaysia Terengganu,” she told Bernama.
According to Suriati, the noodle dish is made with peanuts, oil and soy sauce.
She said the bun noodles, thought to have originated from Teluk Intan, were made using a traditional method that produces a chewy and smooth texture.
“We used to make the bun noodles ourselves but due to time and labour constraints, we resorted to buying it even though it tastes a little different.”
She said what made the stall’s dish special was the peanut sauce.
“When (peanut sauce) coats the boiled-and-fried bun noodles, the taste is extraordinary,” she stated.
Suriati said the recipe for the bun noodle dish came from her husband’s grandmother, the late Ramlah Hassan who was the daughter of one of the early settlers of Kampung Haji Hassan.
Suriati said Ramlah used to sell the dish in the 1940s.
It was considered fast food because of its quick preparation.
A Yeop Din customer, Mohamad Zaifarul Zainal Abidin said the combination of fried bun noodles with peanut sauce was rarely found elsewhere, making the dish quite special.
“Outsiders may initially find it strange to eat fried bun noodles with peanut sauce, but after trying it, they are won over.”
Another customer, Amirudin Mohamad Ali said eating bun noodles with peanut sauce reminded him of his childhood.
“In the past, my mother would wrap bun noodles in banana leaves, put them in rattan trays and serve them to my siblings and I,” he said.