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7 Best Prawn Noodle (Hae Mee / Har Mee) Spots in KL & PJ (2026)

From a 1980s roadside stall on a Jalan Ipoh hawker row to a food truck that's parked beside Sea Park's market for over two decades, here are seven currently-operating prawn noodle specialists across Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya — the prawn-shell broth soup, not the dark-soy fried Hokkien mee already covered elsewhere on this site. Re-checked on 5 September 2026: every stall's opening hours and weekly rest day were pulled from its own Google Maps day-by-day table, four of them were wrong in our previous version, and Madam Chong's in Kuchai Lama has been dropped — the owner's own Facebook page confirms it shut.

Jamie Tan10 August 202610 min readUpdated 5 Sept 2026

Great Prawn Noodle Starts With the Shells, Not the Prawns

The single thing separating a forgettable bowl of prawn noodle (hae mee, sometimes spelled har mee) from a memorable one isn't the prawns sitting on top — it's what happens to the shells and heads before the noodles ever arrive. The best stalls simmer prawn shells, heads and pork bones for hours to build a stock with real depth, then finish it with a touch of chilli paste, dark or light soy, and a scoop of sambal on the side. Into that broth goes yellow noodles and bee hoon, kangkung (water spinach), taugeh, a half-boiled or hard-boiled egg, and a protein that varies stall to stall — pork ribs, pork slices, poached chicken, or all three. Don't confuse this with KL-style Hokkien mee (thick noodles wok-fried dry in dark soy sauce with pork lard, which we covered in a separate list) — prawn noodle is a soup, full stop, and the two dishes share almost nothing beyond both using prawns.

Clear Broth vs Spicy Broth: Two Schools in the Klang Valley

Most Klang Valley stalls lean into the Penang style — a broth spiked with dried chilli and belacan until it turns a deep reddish-orange and carries real heat, the version most people picture when they hear "prawn mee." Choon Prawn Mee House, Lim Mee Yoke and Aik Prawn Mee & Asam Laksa all fall into this camp, each with its own take on the chilli-to-prawn-sweetness ratio. San Peng Prawn Mee in Pudu is the outlier on this list — its broth stays clear and savoury rather than spicy, built almost entirely on hours of boiled prawn shells and heads, and it swaps the usual pork for poached chicken slices as the default protein. If you've only ever had the fiery Penang-leaning bowl, San Peng is worth a detour just to taste how different "prawn noodle" can be within a 20-minute drive.

Kepong, Pudu and the PJ Kopitiam Circuit

Geography tells you something about how this dish clusters in the Klang Valley. Kepong alone carries two of the names on this list — Soon Lee on the Jalan Batu Ambar hawker row off Jalan Ipoh and Uncle Chua's a short drive away in Bukit Menjalara — both decades-old operations that locals will argue over, and between them Kepong is covered from 7.30am to 9.30pm every day except Monday: Uncle Chua's now runs a full 7.30am–9pm seven days a week, while Soon Lee opens at 1.30pm and works the evening. Pudu is the other KL pocket, home to San Peng's clear-broth stall on Jalan San Peng; neighbouring Kuchai Lama used to hold Madam Chong's, but that shop is gone (see below). Over in PJ, the trade runs through kopitiam stalls-turned-standalone-shops like Choon and Lim Mee Yoke, plus Aik's food truck holding down its corner of the Sea Park market since well before the surrounding shoplots gentrified.

What We Left Out

A few well-known names didn't make this list. Hoo Yee Kee, once considered Kepong's flagship prawn mee stall, has relocated several times over the years and recent commentary suggests quality has slipped from its peak — we couldn't pin down a confidently current address and standard worth recommending, so it's out. Cing Kei on Jalan Sultan near Petaling Street serves excellent prawn wontons, but its headline dish is Ipoh-style kai si hor fun (shredded chicken rice noodles) rather than a full prawn-shell broth bowl, which makes it the wrong dish for this particular list. We also looked at Restoran Hup Soon in Kelana Jaya, whose prawn mee has its fans, but couldn't find current, independently verifiable activity strong enough to clear our bar, so we swapped it for Green Lane Noodles, which had better recent verification across multiple branches.

Madam Chong's Prawn Noodles House has closed. Our previous version of this list carried Madam Chong's at Dynasty Sentral, off Jalan Kuchai Lama, on the strength of blog coverage that is now years old. It has been removed. The shop has no Google Maps listing at all — five different search phrasings return neighbouring restaurants instead, while every other stall on this list resolves on the first try — and the operator's own Facebook page settles it: a post dated 4 April 2023 opens "结束营业了两年" ("we've been closed for two years"), which puts the shutdown around 2021, and nothing has been posted since. Madam Chong first set up in Pudu in 1968 and the family reopened as a proper restaurant on 12 December 2009; if you are searching for it in 2026, it is not coming back. San Peng in Pudu is the nearest surviving stall in the same style.

What a Bowl Actually Costs in 2026

We said in the previous version that no prices could be found. That was too cautious, and here is what a proper check turns up.

All seven stalls sit in Google Maps' lowest spend bracket — RM1–20 per person — reported by 101 diners at Soon Lee, 123 at Uncle Chua's, 184 at San Peng, 38 at Green Lane, 500 at Choon, 230 at Lim Mee Yoke and 64 at Aik. That is not a menu price, but it is a useful boundary: prawn mee in KL and PJ is still a sub-RM20 meal per head everywhere on this list, which is not true of the Sichuan and porridge shops in the same Kuchai Lama row (both RM20–40 a head on the same scale).

Three specific bowls we could pin down:

Choon Prawn Mee House — Signature Prawn Mee, RM13.90. Quoted with a photograph in a TheFoodBunny review dated 29 October 2025; the Nyonya asam dry curry noodle on the same visit was also RM13.90.
Lim Mee Yoke — standard prawn mee, about RM11. Reported across 2025 diner reviews, with pork ribs adding roughly RM3.50 and extra prawns roughly RM2.50 on top.
Soon Lee Prawn Mee — small bowl, RM11. From a Google Maps review posted in August 2026, which is the most recent hard number we found on this list.

Read that as the shape of the market rather than a price list: budget RM11–14 for a plain bowl and RM16–20 once you load it with extra prawns or ribs. None of the seven publishes a live menu online, so the signboard at the stall is still the only authority on today's number.

Which Ones Are Open Today

This is the single most useful thing we can give you, because the rest days do not line up and the summary line Google shows you on a phone hides them. Hours below come from each stall's own day-by-day table on Google Maps, checked 5 September 2026.

Soon Lee Prawn Mee (Taman Kok Lian): 1.30pm–9.30pm, Fridays to 9pm — closed Mondays.
Uncle Chua's (Medan Putra, Kepong): 7.30am–9pm — open all seven days.
San Peng Prawn Mee (Pudu): 7.30am–3pm — closed Tuesdays.
Green Lane Noodles (Taman Taynton View, Cheras): 7.30am–4pm — closed Wednesdays.
Choon Prawn Mee House (Taman Paramount): 8am–4pm and 6.30pm–9pm — closed Thursdays.
Lim Mee Yoke (SS2): 9am–4pm, Thursdays to 3.30pm — open all seven days.
Aik Prawn Mee & Asam Laksa (Sea Park): 12pm–4pm — closed Mondays.

Four practical consequences. Monday knocks out two stalls — Soon Lee and Aik — leaving Uncle Chua's as the pick if you want prawn mee on a Monday night. Only two of the seven serve dinner at all: Uncle Chua's to 9pm and Choon in its evening session, plus Soon Lee, which is the only one that is *exclusively* an evening stall. Lim Mee Yoke closes at 4pm, not 9.30pm — an error we carried in the previous version, and the one most likely to cost you a wasted trip across PJ. And Choon shuts for two and a half hours in the middle of the afternoon, so a 5pm arrival at Taman Paramount finds the shutters down even on an open day.

KL & PJ Prawn Noodle (Hae Mee) — Hours and Rest Days, Verified 5 Sep 2026

Stall	Area	Hours	Closed	Known For
Soon Lee Prawn Mee	Taman Kok Lian (off Jalan Ipoh), KL	1.30pm–9.30pm (Fri to 9pm)	Mondays	1980s roadside stall, evenings only; rich pork-and-prawn broth
Uncle Chua's Prawn Noodle	Kepong (Medan Putra), KL	7.30am–9pm	Open 7 days	~30 years; soupy or dry versions; the only reliable Monday dinner
San Peng Prawn Mee	Pudu, KL	7.30am–3pm	Tuesdays	Clear-soup style; poached chicken instead of pork
Green Lane Noodles	Taman Taynton View, Cheras, KL	7.30am–4pm	Wednesdays	Multi-branch Penang specialist; white curry mee too
Choon Prawn Mee House	Taman Paramount, PJ	8am–4pm, 6.30pm–9pm	Thursdays	Signature prawn mee RM13.90 (Oct 2025); kangkung, fried shallots
Lim Mee Yoke	SS2, PJ	9am–4pm (Thu to 3.30pm)	Open 7 days	Ex-Chow Yang stall; also known for curry mee; ~RM11 a bowl
Aik Prawn Mee & Asam Laksa	Sea Park, PJ	12pm–4pm	Mondays	20+ year food truck; prawn mee and asam laksa combo

Soon Lee Prawn Mee — Kepong Baru, KL

A roadside stall in the row of hawker stalls ("wai sek gai") on Jalan Batu Ambar off Jalan Ipoh in Taman Kok Lian, close to the Jalan Ipoh/Jalan Kepong roundabout, Soon Lee has been serving prawn noodle since the 1980s and still draws coverage for the depth of its pork-and-prawn broth. Expect thick beehoon or yellow mee in a rich, well-balanced soup, with prawns and pork as the standard toppings. Note the hours: this is an evening stall — 1.30pm to 9.30pm, to 9pm on Fridays, closed Mondays — so turn up at breakfast and you'll find nobody there. A Google Maps review from August 2026 puts a small bowl at RM11; the stall rates 4.0 from 447 reviews and sits in the RM1–20 per person bracket.

Image: Dreamtrooper / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) — representative prawn mee

Uncle Chua's Prawn Noodle (泉记虾面) — Kepong, KL

Built up over some 30 years starting in Kepong's Bukit Menjalara/Medan Putra area, Uncle Chua's serves both soupy and dry versions of its prawn noodle alongside lam mee and pork noodle, plus breakfast staples like nasi lemak and toast. The brand has since grown into a small chain with additional branches around the Klang Valley, including Ampang, though the original Kepong shop at Medan Putra Business Centre remains the reference point most regulars point to. Correcting our earlier version: the Kepong branch is **not** a morning-only, Monday-closed shop. Its Google Maps day-by-day table now reads 7.30am–9pm every day of the week, which makes it the one stall on this list you can rely on for a Monday dinner. It rates 4.2 from 400 reviews, RM1–20 per person.

Image: Uncle Chua's Prawn Noodle

San Peng Prawn Mee — Pudu, KL

A roadside stall on Jalan San Peng off Jalan Loke Yew, opposite the Pudu carpark and a short walk from Pudu LRT, San Peng is the clear-broth outlier on this list — its soup is built almost entirely on prawn shells and heads boiled for hours, without the chilli heat of the Penang-style version, and poached chicken slices stand in for pork as the default topping. Reviews through 2025 continue to single out the prawn-forward broth as the draw. It also serves kai si hor fun on the same menu. Hours are 7.30am–3pm and it is closed on Tuesdays, so this is a breakfast-and-lunch stop only. It rates 3.7 from 854 reviews — the lowest score on this list, and worth knowing before you queue — at RM1–20 per person.

Image: Alpha from Melbourne, Australia / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) — representative prawn mee

Green Lane Noodles (青草巷面家) — Cheras, KL

What started as a bakery pivoted into a dedicated Penang-food operation, and Green Lane Noodles now runs multiple Cheras-area branches (Taman Taynton View and Desa Cahaya) plus an outpost in Sri Petaling, all serving Penang white curry mee alongside prawn mee, duck meat koay teow soup and Hokkien char. The Taman Taynton View branch — the one we verified — runs 7.30am–4pm and is **closed on Wednesdays**, tightening the vaguer "a closed day most weeks" we ran previously. It rates 4.1 from 180 reviews, RM1–20 per person, and because the kitchen shuts mid-afternoon this is a breakfast-or-lunch trip, not a dinner one.

Image: Green Lane Noodles

Choon Prawn Mee House (春虾面) — Taman Paramount, PJ

Choon started as a stall inside a Taman Paramount coffeeshop before customer demand pushed it into its own air-conditioned shop at Jalan 20/14. Bowls come loaded with kangkung, taugeh, fried shallots, egg and fresh prawns in a broth diners frequently call among the richest in the Klang Valley; recent reviews note the shop has swapped some pork slices for chicken as pork costs have risen, though the prawn stock remains the headline. Also known for its Penang chee cheong fun. It runs a split shift — 8am–4pm, then 6.30pm–9pm — and is **closed Thursdays**, a pattern confirmed three ways: the operator's own Linktree, a dated diner review and the Google Maps entry. That review, from October 2025, puts the Signature Prawn Mee at **RM13.90**, the firmest price on this list. With 1,844 reviews at 4.3 and 500 diners reporting the RM1–20 band, it is also the most heavily documented stall here.

Image: Choon Prawn Mee House

Lim Mee Yoke (林虾面茶室) — SS2, PJ

Now running its own shop at Jalan SS2/10 in Taman Bahagia after starting life as a stall inside the old Chow Yang kopitiam, Lim Mee Yoke builds its broth from prawn shells and tops it with prawn meat, pork slices, kangkung and a half-boiled egg. It's equally known for its Penang curry mee and a mixed "cham loh" option combining both soups in one bowl. **Correcting our earlier version: this is not an evening shop.** Google Maps' day-by-day table has it at 9am–4pm all seven days, closing at 3.30pm on Thursdays — so the "10.30am–9.30pm Monday to Saturday" we previously published would have sent you across PJ to a closed shutter. Diner reviews through 2025 put a standard bowl at about RM11, with pork ribs around RM3.50 and extra prawns around RM2.50 on top. Note also that the restoranlimmeeyoke.com address Google lists no longer resolves — the Facebook page is the live channel.

Image: Restoran Lim Mee Yoke

Aik Prawn Mee & Asam Laksa — Sea Park (海城), PJ

A food truck that's held down its corner beside the Sea Park wet market for over 20 years, run by a hawker with Penang roots serving prawn mee alongside asam laksa from the same stall — a combination that lets regulars order either or both. Expect a roadside, takeaway-friendly setup rather than seating comfort. The window is genuinely narrow — **12pm to 4pm, closed Mondays** — which makes this the hardest stall on the list to catch, and it rates 4.0 from 270 reviews at RM1–20 per person.

Image: Aik Prawn Mee & Asam Laksa

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between prawn noodle (hae mee) and KL-style Hokkien mee?

They're unrelated dishes despite both using prawns and noodles. Prawn noodle (hae mee/har mee) is a soup — yellow noodles or bee hoon in a broth built from simmered prawn shells and heads, usually with an egg, kangkung and pork or chicken. KL-style Hokkien mee is dry — thick noodles wok-fried in dark soy sauce with pork lard, no soup involved. If you order "prawn mee" expecting the soup and end up at a Hokkien mee stall (or vice versa), you'll get a completely different plate.

Should I order the wet (soup) or dry version?

Most stalls on this list offer both. The wet version is the classic — noodles fully submerged in the prawn-shell broth. The dry version tosses the noodles in a thicker, less diluted sauce with the same broth served on the side for dipping or sipping, which lets you taste the stock more concentrated. If a stall is known specifically for its broth (like San Peng or Soon Lee), the wet version is the better first order.

What time should I go to avoid queues or a sold-out pot?

Five of the seven shut by 4pm, so the default answer is go early. San Peng (7.30am–3pm), Green Lane (7.30am–4pm), Lim Mee Yoke (9am–4pm) and Aik (12pm–4pm) are all daytime-only, and broth can run out before closing — arrive in the first hour or two. Only three serve dinner: Uncle Chua's Kepong, which runs a straight 7.30am–9pm seven days a week, Choon in its 6.30pm–9pm evening session, and Soon Lee, which is evening-only at 1.30pm–9.30pm. Then check the rest day, because no two match: Soon Lee and Aik close Mondays, San Peng Tuesdays, Green Lane Wednesdays and Choon Thursdays; Uncle Chua's and Lim Mee Yoke open all seven days. All hours verified against each stall's Google Maps day-by-day table on 5 September 2026.

Is prawn noodle (hae mee) in KL and PJ generally halal?

No, not by default. Every stall on this list is a Chinese-run operation, most using pork stock, pork slices or pork lard in some form, and none carry a confirmed halal certification we could verify. If halal certification matters, don't assume from a stall swapping pork for chicken (as some now do for cost reasons) — always confirm directly with the operator rather than reading it as a halal signal.

Where can I find clear, non-spicy prawn noodle broth in KL or PJ?

San Peng Prawn Mee on Jalan San Peng in Pudu is the clear-broth pick on this list. Its soup is built almost entirely on prawn shells and heads simmered for hours, without the dried chilli and belacan that turn most Klang Valley bowls a deep reddish-orange, and poached chicken slices are the default protein instead of pork. It opens 7.30am–3pm and is closed on Tuesdays. Everywhere else here — Choon, Lim Mee Yoke, Aik, Soon Lee, Uncle Chua's and Green Lane Noodles — leans Penang-style and spicy, though most serve the sambal on the side so you can control the heat.

How much does a bowl of prawn noodle cost in KL and PJ in 2026?

Budget RM11–14 for a plain bowl and RM16–20 once you add extra prawns or pork ribs. The firmest recent figure we could source is Choon Prawn Mee House's Signature Prawn Mee at RM13.90, quoted with a photograph in an October 2025 review. Lim Mee Yoke's standard bowl runs about RM11 in 2025 diner reports, with pork ribs adding roughly RM3.50 and extra prawns roughly RM2.50; a Google Maps review from August 2026 puts a small bowl at Soon Lee at RM11. As a sanity check, all seven stalls sit in Google Maps' lowest spend bracket, RM1–20 per person, against RM20–40 for the Sichuan and porridge restaurants a few doors away in the same neighbourhoods. None of the seven publishes a live menu online, so treat these as the shape of the market and read the signboard before you order.

Is Madam Chong's Prawn Noodles House in Kuchai Lama still open?

No. Madam Chong's has closed and has been removed from this list. The shop has no Google Maps listing — five different search phrasings return neighbouring restaurants instead, while every other stall here resolves on the first try — and the operator's own Facebook page settles it: a post dated 4 April 2023 opens "结束营业了两年" ("we've been closed for two years"), placing the shutdown around 2021, with nothing posted since. The business began as a Pudu stall in 1968 and reopened as a full restaurant at Dynasty Sentral, off Jalan Kuchai Lama, on 12 December 2009. Blog posts and directory listings for it are still online and still rank, which is why the question keeps coming up. For the nearest surviving equivalent, San Peng Prawn Mee in Pudu is the closest in style and about 15 minutes away.

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