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8 Best Yong Tau Foo Spots in KL & PJ (2026)

From Madras Lane's 50-year dry-style stall inside Petaling Street's wet market to Foong Foong's wok-seared Ampang original since 1974 and a self-service counter at The Gardens Mall, here are 8 real yong tau foo spots across KL and PJ — re-checked stall by stall on 4 September 2026, with the rest days, the split shifts, the one that is shut for renovation until mid-September, and the per-piece prices that have quietly moved past RM2.

Jamie Tan11 August 202611 min readUpdated 12 Sept 2026

What is yong tau foo, and why KL and PJ do it differently

Yong tau foo (酿豆腐) began as a Hakka dish — vegetables and tofu stuffed with a paste of minced fish or fish-and-pork, poached or fried, then served either dry with a sweet-and-spicy sauce or ladled into a light broth. In the Klang Valley it has splintered into distinct camps: old-school Hakka stalls that still stuff their own tofu by hand behind the counter, self-service pick-and-pay setups where you fill a tray and pay by the piece, and the Ampang variant, known for its distinctive wok-searing technique. None of it is quite the same as Singapore-style yong tau foo noodle-soup bowls — expect much more emphasis on the stuffing itself, less on a fixed noodle format.

Dry versus soup: two ways to eat it

Most stalls on this list let you choose. Dry-style comes with a sweet bean-based sauce (sometimes cut with chilli), tossed at the table — this is how Petaling Street's Madras Lane serves it, and it's the format most associated with Cantonese and Hakka hawker stalls in the older parts of KL. Soup-style ladles the same pieces into a clear pork or ikan bilis broth, closer to what you'll get at Hup Soon in SS3 or Ah Keong in Damansara Uptown. A few, like Fatty Mok and 126 Hakka, will do either depending on what you order.

Ampang-style: the wok-seared original

Ampang's version of yong tau foo diverges from everything else on this list. At Foong Foong Restoran, running on Jalan Merdeka since 1974, pieces are seared in a screaming-hot wok, rocked over open flame, then splashed with stock and simmered briefly before serving — a technique locals say hasn't been replicated the same way anywhere else in the Klang Valley. It's also closely associated with sui kow (dumplings) served fried or in soup, and remains a family-run operation that fills up well before noon. It trades 9am to 4pm and closes every Tuesday, and at RM2.20 a piece plus 6% service tax it is the priciest per piece on this list — the wok work is what you are paying for.

KL cluster: Petaling Street to Kepong and Salak South

Inside KL proper, the spread runs from Chinatown to the northern and southern edges of the city. Madras Lane Yong Tau Foo has operated out of the Petaling Street wet market for over 50 years, cooking each piece fresh in front of customers rather than pre-frying and reheating. Up north in Kepong's Taman Intan Baiduri, 126 Hakka Yong Tau Foo — relocated from its original Paramount Garden, PJ address — still offers the increasingly rare choice of a pork-and-salted-fish filling alongside the standard fish paste. South in Salak South Garden, Fatty Mok Hakka Yong Tau Foo has grown from a roadside stall into a two-shoplot restaurant over more than three decades, running roughly 20 varieties of stuffed items self-service style, alongside its equally well-regarded curry mee — though it is the one entry here you cannot visit today, having closed for renovation on 3 August 2026 with a reopening its own notice puts at mid-September. And inside The Gardens Mall, Pulau Ketam Yong Tau Foo gives shoppers a mall-format, air-conditioned version of the same self-service model — pick from a tray, pay at the till.

PJ cluster: SS3, Damansara Uptown and Taman Paramount

Petaling Jaya's picks lean toward kopitiam-attached stalls rather than standalone shops. At Restoran Hup Soon in SS3, Kelana Jaya, the yong tau foo counter is one of several hawker stalls sharing the coffeeshop and is popular enough to sell out most mornings — but the whole shop shuts on Tuesdays, which is the easiest way to waste a drive out here. In the Damansara Uptown hawker centre, Ah Keong Yong Tau Foo has been run by the same family for several decades and sticks to fish-only stuffing with no meat, making it a practical stop for diners avoiding pork even without formal halal certification; it closes on Sundays and breaks for two hours between 3pm and 5pm. And in Taman Paramount, Yong Tau Foo Khong Kee pairs its yong tau foo with a well-liked century-egg-and-dried-oyster porridge — go to 57, Jalan 20/7 rather than the 22, Jalan 20/16A address its own Facebook page has been carrying since it stopped posting in February 2021.

Rest days and hours: the part that actually ruins trips

Yong tau foo is a morning-and-lunch trade, and the stalls that have been going longest keep the shortest hours. Four of the eight here take a weekly day off, and no two take the same one. Madras Lane closes Mondays, and even on the days it opens the window is only 10.30am to 2pm (10am to 2pm at weekends) — the tightest on this list. Foong Foong closes Tuesdays and runs 9am to 4pm. Restoran Hup Soon also closes Tuesdays, so a Tuesday in the Klang Valley knocks out both the Ampang benchmark and the SS3 kopitiam at once. Ah Keong closes Sundays and splits its day into 12pm–3pm and 5pm–11pm, meaning a 4pm arrival finds a shuttered stall even mid-week.

The three that never close are 126 Hakka (11am–9pm, now listed on all seven days rather than the Friday-to-Wednesday pattern older round-ups give), Khong Kee (9am–9pm) and Pulau Ketam at The Gardens Mall (10am–10pm, on mall hours). Those three, plus Ah Keong outside its afternoon break, are also the only realistic dinner options — everything else on this list is finished by late afternoon.

On top of the weekly pattern, Fatty Mok is closed altogether: its own Facebook notice, posted 4 August 2026, says closed for renovation from 3 August with a reopening expected mid-September 2026. Its Instagram bio was still advertising 8am–10pm daily when we checked on 4 September, which is a good reminder that a stall's social bio is not a schedule.

Self-service vs hawker-style: how ordering works

Two formats dominate. At classic hawker stalls (Madras Lane, Hup Soon, Foong Foong, Ah Keong, Khong Kee), you typically tell the stall what you want or fill in a paper order slip, and it's cooked or assembled to order. At self-service counters (Pulau Ketam, and to an extent Fatty Mok and 126 Hakka), you pick items straight off a tray or display counter yourself, and staff count pieces at the till. Neither is inherently cheaper — pricing runs per piece either way — but self-service tends to be faster for solo diners and less predictable for portion control if you're not used to eyeballing quantities.

What We Left Out

126 Hakka Yong Tau Foo's original Paramount Garden, PJ storefront came up repeatedly in older coverage, but reporting from late 2025 confirms that location has closed and the stall now operates solely from Kepong — so we've listed only the current address. A stall referred to online simply as "Yong Tau Foo Hawker" on Jalan Perak, KL kept surfacing in older round-ups, but the most recent review we could find dated to 2016, with no fresher confirmation it's still trading, so we left it off rather than risk sending readers to a shuttered stall. 3A Yong Tau Foo & Cheong Fun is the halal-friendly, air-conditioned name almost every KL round-up reaches for, and this article did too — but its Petaling Jaya premises at 31, Jalan SS 21/56b, Damansara Utama are now marked permanently closed, so any list still calling 3A a PJ option is sending readers to a dead address. The business does survive: a 3A Yong Tau Foo & Cheong Fun trades at 75F, Jalan Foss, off Jalan Sungai Besi, 55200 Kuala Lumpur, rated 3.9 from 441 reviews, in a higher RM20–RM40 per-person bracket than the hawker stalls above. Halal certification in Malaysia attaches to a specific premises rather than to a brand, so if this matters to you, check the certificate displayed at that outlet rather than relying on the reputation of the closed one. We also came across a newer-generation stall, Restoran Sungai Way Hakka Yong Tau Foo in PJ, flagged in a Malay Mail piece from mid-2025 — promising, but without the multi-decade track record of the eight spots above, so it's one to watch rather than include outright. Franchise-style "pick your own" yong tau foo chains exist across the Klang Valley, but we couldn't verify a specific, currently-trading KL/PJ branch that met this list's bar for direct confirmation, so none made the cut.

A Note on Prices

Yong tau foo in KL and PJ is priced per piece rather than per bowl, plus the cost of noodles or rice if you add them. None of these operators publish an official rate card, so the only honest way to price the dish is to read what people actually paid — and on that evidence the familiar RM0.80–RM2 band, which this article carried until today, is out of date at the well-known stalls.

The two firm figures we could verify are the two most famous names. Madras Lane is RM2.00 a piece, confirmed in customer reports from January 2025 through to a review posted three months before this update; its own price history is a neat index of Klang Valley food inflation, running RM1.00 in 2013, RM1.20 in 2015, RM1.40 in 2018 and RM2.00 by 2025. Foong Foong is RM2.20 a piece with a 6% service tax on top, about RM2.33 all-in, which makes the Ampang original the dearest per piece here and roughly 66% above its 2015-to-2020 level of RM1.10 to RM1.60.

So treat RM2 as the floor at the landmark stalls rather than the ceiling, and reserve the sub-RM2 end for plain tofu and vegetables at neighbourhood stalls. Eight to ten pieces is a normal solo order, which puts a real one-person meal at those two stalls at roughly RM16–RM23 before noodles or a drink — above the RM8–RM15 figure round-ups still quote. Google's own crowd-reported spend band puts every stall on this list at RM1–RM20 per person, which is consistent but too wide to plan with. Prices at the other six were not published anywhere we could verify this run, so confirm at the counter.

KL & PJ yong tau foo: hours, rest days and what we paid (checked 4 Sep 2026)

Stall	Area	Hours	Rest day	Price / known for
Madras Lane Yong Tau Foo	Petaling Street, KL	10.30am-2pm (10am-2pm Sat-Sun)	Monday	RM2.00 a piece; 50-year market stall, dry-style
Foong Foong Restoran	Ampang, KL	9am-4pm	Tuesday	RM2.20 a piece + 6% service tax; wok-seared original since 1974
Fatty Mok Hakka Yong Tau Foo	Salak South, KL	Closed for renovation since 3 Aug 2026	Reopening mid-Sep 2026	~20 varieties, self-service; call 03-7981 4888 first
126 Hakka Yong Tau Fu	Taman Intan Baiduri, KL	11am-9pm	None listed	Handmade; rare pork-and-salted-fish filling
Pulau Ketam Yong Tau Foo	The Gardens Mall, KL	10am-10pm	None	Air-conditioned self-service; lowest rated here (3.3)
Restoran Hup Soon	SS3, Kelana Jaya, PJ	7am-10pm	Tuesday	Kopitiam-stall Hakka YTF; sells out by late morning
Yong Tau Foo Khong Kee	Taman Paramount, PJ	9am-9pm	None	Go to 57 Jalan 20/7; century-egg-and-dried-oyster porridge
Ah Keong Yong Tau Fu	Damansara Uptown, PJ	12-3pm, 5-11pm	Sunday	Fish-only stuffing, no meat; stall No. 1020

Madras Lane Yong Tau Foo — 50-year Petaling Street institution

Tucked inside the Petaling Street wet market on Lorong Bandar 20, this stall has been run by the same family for more than 50 years, cooking each piece of stuffed tofu, brinjal and lady's finger fresh in front of customers rather than pre-frying in batches. It's served dry-style with a sweet sauce, and popular items regularly sell out by early afternoon. Pieces were RM2.00 each when we checked on 4 September 2026 — up from RM1.40 in 2018. The window is tighter than "lunch only" suggests: 10.30am–2pm Tuesday to Friday, 10am–2pm Saturday and Sunday, closed Mondays. Cash, and expect a queue from around 10.30am.

Madras Lane Yong Tau Foo (official Facebook page)

Foong Foong Restoran — the original wok-seared Ampang yong tau foo

Running on Jalan Merdeka in Ampang since 1974, Foong Foong is the reference point for Ampang-style yong tau foo — pieces are seared in a blazing-hot wok, rocked over open flame, then splashed with stock and briefly simmered before serving. It's also known for sui kow (dumplings), served fried or in soup. Pieces are RM2.20 each with a 6% service tax added on, so about RM2.33 a piece all-in — the dearest per-piece price on this list. The address is 621-A, Jalan Merdeka, Kampung Baru Ampang, 68000 Ampang. Hours are 9am–4pm, and it is **closed every Tuesday** — a rest day older write-ups routinely leave out.

Ampang yong tau foo. Photo: Brownc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Fatty Mok Hakka Yong Tau Foo — 3-decade self-service Hakka spread

**Closed for renovation, and still closed today.** Its own notice, posted to its Facebook page on 4 August 2026, reads: closed for renovation from 3 August 2026, expected to reopen in mid-September 2026. Google Maps has carried a matching "Temporarily closed" flag since an owner update dated 3 August. Note that its Instagram bio still advertises 8am–10pm daily except Wednesday — that bio is stale, so do not plan a trip on it. When it is back: what started as a roadside stall in Salak South Garden has grown into a two-shoplot restaurant at AS 27, Jalan Hang Tuah 3, run by the Mok brothers for more than three decades, with around 20 varieties of stuffed fish paste and beancurd laid out self-service style and a curry mee the kitchen is equally known for. Call 03-7981 4888 before going.

Restoran Fatty Mok Hakka Yong Tau Foo (official Facebook page)

126 Hakka Yong Tau Foo — handmade, with a rare pork-and-salted-fish option

Now based on Jalan Taman Intan Baiduri in Kepong after relocating from its original Paramount Garden, PJ address, this stall stuffs its tofu and vegetables by hand and offers a choice between standard fish paste or a pork-and-salted-fish filling — an old-school Hakka option that's increasingly rare in the Klang Valley. The stall now lists 11am–9pm on all seven days — the Thursday closure older round-ups give, this one included, is no longer shown on its listing, so Thursday is worth a call to 012-790 1277 rather than an assumption either way. Find it at Gerai No. 1, Jalan Intan Baiduri 11d, Taman Intan Baiduri, 52100 Kuala Lumpur.

Hakka yong tau foo, dry style with sweet sauce. Photo: Banej, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pulau Ketam Yong Tau Foo — self-service counter inside The Gardens Mall

A mall-based, air-conditioned take on the self-service format at LG-K13B, Lower Ground Floor of The Gardens Mall — pick items straight off the display tray and pay at the counter by piece. A practical option for anyone wanting yong tau foo without a hawker-centre trip, and the only pick here that keeps mall hours: 10am–10pm daily, no rest day. It is also the weakest-rated entry on this list at 3.3 from 72 Google reviews, against 4.0 and above for the hawker picks — convenience is what you are buying.

Pulau Ketam Yong Tau Foo (official Facebook page)

Hup Soon — kopitiam yong tau foo that sells out by late morning

One of several hawker stalls operating inside the Restoran Hup Soon kopitiam at Jalan SS3/29, Taman Universiti, Kelana Jaya. The Hakka-style yong tau foo here is popular enough that it's often sold out well before lunchtime, so an early visit matters. The kopitiam at 7, Jalan SS 3/29 runs 7am–10pm — but **not on Tuesdays**, when the whole shop is closed. That rest day is the single most common way to waste a trip here, and it is not mentioned in most round-ups. Phone 03-7874 8616.

Representative Malaysian kopitiam yong tau foo counter, not Hup Soon's own — photo: Dr.Francostein1975, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Yong Tau Foo Khong Kee — Taman Paramount favourite, now in a roomier unit

A three-decade-old Taman Paramount shop, and the one address on this list worth double-checking. Its own Facebook page still gives 22, Jalan 20/16A — but that page has not posted since February 2021, and the live listing, with customer photos from within the past fortnight, places it at **57, Jalan 20/7, Taman Paramount, 46300 Petaling Jaya**, on 012-911 0832. Go by the Jalan 20/7 address. Alongside its yong tau foo, it's well known for a century-egg-and-dried-oyster porridge — the porridge, not the yong tau foo, is what most of its 505 reviews talk about. It runs 9am–9pm daily, well into the evening rather than stopping mid-afternoon.

广记酿豆腐 Yong Tau Foo Khong Kee (official Facebook page)

Ah Keong Yong Tau Foo — fish-only stuffing, family-run for decades

Based at stall No. 1020 in Uptown Eats, the Damansara Uptown hawker centre on Jalan SS 21/39, this family-run stall has sold yong tau foo for several decades and uses fish-only stuffing with no meat, alongside its Teluk Intan-style chee cheong fun. It runs a **split shift every day it opens — 12pm–3pm, then 5pm–11pm — and is closed on Sundays**, so the 4pm craving and the Sunday family outing are both dead ends. Its own Instagram now also lists a second outlet at Uptown Kota Damansara, described as its first branch; we could not verify that branch's hours, so treat Damansara Utama as the sure thing.

UPTOWN AH KEONG 1990 (official Instagram)

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between dry and soup-style yong tau foo?

Dry-style pieces are tossed in a sweet, sometimes chilli-spiked sauce and eaten without broth — the format at Madras Lane and most Cantonese/Hakka hawker stalls. Soup-style ladles the same stuffed pieces into a clear broth, usually pork or ikan bilis based, as served at Hup Soon and Ah Keong. Several stalls, including Fatty Mok and 126 Hakka, let you choose either.

Is yong tau foo halal in KL/PJ?

None of the eight stalls on this list is halal-certified — they are traditional Chinese-run hawker operations. The name usually offered instead is 3A Yong Tau Foo & Cheong Fun, but its Petaling Jaya outlet at 31, Jalan SS 21/56b, Damansara Utama is now marked permanently closed, so 3A is no longer a PJ answer at all; the surviving 3A is at 75F, Jalan Foss, off Jalan Sungai Besi, Kuala Lumpur. Among the stalls here, Ah Keong Yong Tau Foo in Damansara Uptown uses fish-only stuffing with no meat, which some diners avoiding pork treat as acceptable, though it holds no formal certification. Halal certification in Malaysia is issued to a specific premises rather than to a brand, so check the certificate on display at the outlet you visit rather than trusting a brand name.

What is Ampang-style yong tau foo, and how is it different?

Ampang-style, best represented by Foong Foong Restoran, sears the stuffed pieces in a very hot wok over open flame before splashing them with stock and briefly simmering — a distinct cooking method not typically used at standard Hakka stalls, which usually poach or deep-fry. It's also closely associated with sui kow (dumplings) served alongside.

When's the best time to visit these stalls to avoid missing out?

Go early, and check the day first. Madras Lane sells only between 10.30am and 2pm and closes Mondays; Foong Foong runs 9am to 4pm and closes Tuesdays; Hup Soon opens from 7am but also closes Tuesdays, and its yong tau foo counter regularly sells out before lunch. If you cannot make a morning visit, the evening-capable options are 126 Hakka (11am–9pm), Khong Kee (9am–9pm), Pulau Ketam at The Gardens Mall (10am–10pm) and Ah Keong (5pm–11pm, but closed Sundays and shut between 3pm and 5pm). Fatty Mok is closed for renovation until mid-September 2026, so it is not an option at any hour right now.

How much does yong tau foo cost in KL and PJ?

Yong tau foo in KL and PJ is priced per piece, not per bowl, with noodles or rice charged on top. At the two landmark stalls we could verify on 4 September 2026, Madras Lane charges RM2.00 a piece and Foong Foong charges RM2.20 a piece plus a 6% service tax, about RM2.33 all-in. That puts RM2 at the floor rather than the ceiling at the famous names, and makes a normal eight-to-ten-piece solo order roughly RM16 to RM23 before drinks — more than the RM8 to RM15 figure most round-ups still quote. Cheaper pieces do exist at neighbourhood stalls, generally plain tofu and vegetables rather than fish balls or fried items. None of these operators publish an official rate card, so confirm at the counter.

Which yong tau foo stalls in KL and PJ are open on Mondays, Tuesdays and Sundays?

On a **Monday**, everything on this list trades except Madras Lane, which takes Mondays off. On a **Tuesday** you lose two at once — Foong Foong in Ampang and Restoran Hup Soon in SS3 both close — so a Tuesday plan should point at 126 Hakka, Khong Kee, Pulau Ketam or Ah Keong. On a **Sunday**, Ah Keong in Damansara Uptown is the only closure, though Madras Lane shifts to a 10am–2pm window. Fatty Mok is out on every day of the week until it reopens from renovation, expected mid-September 2026. The three with no rest day at all are 126 Hakka, Khong Kee and Pulau Ketam.

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