Mie Kocok Campur $10
Combination beef flavoured soup
Okay, so Mie Kocok might send some of us into teenaged sniggers, but ‘mie kocok’ in Indonesian means “shaken noodles”, a specialty from Bandung in West Java.
It's an all-in-one beef noodle soup: chewy ropes of fresh, handmade noodles shaken about in hot water until cooked then plunged into a deep bowl of clear, sweet beef broth.
Decor inside Mie Kocok Bandung
You’ll find it at Mie Kocok Bandung in Maroubra – it’s such a signature dish here they named their restaurant after it. The soup comes with your choice of fixings, but you may as well get the lot and order the mie kocok campur, or combination, littered with springy beef balls, ribbons of beef tripe and gelatinous beef tendons. Crunchy bean sprouts, deep-fried shallots and chopped green onions add zing but it’s the giant beef ball that’s the highlight, hiding a hard-boiled quail egg right in the middle. It’s like a Kinder Surprise for carnivores.
Lo mie bandung $9
The no-fuss décor suits the Indonesian-strong crowd to a tee. It’s families and couples who roll in and out for a quick bite to eat or a noodle fix. Help yourself to the bags of prawn crackers on every table. There’s an urn of free tea in the corner too.
DIY order notepad
The DIY mentality extends to ordering – you’ll have to fill out your own docket at your table but it’s simply a matter of ticking what you want before handing it to a roving waiter. While you’re waiting, fill up at the self-serve snack station with Indonesian-style croquettes and rissoles or banana leaf parcels of rice and chicken.
Self-serve croquette and banana leaf parcel snacks
Krokets $1.50
Mixed croquettes
Lontong ayam $2
Banana leaf rice with chicken
Siomay bandung $9
Steamed mixed dim sim
Sayur asem $6.50
Sweet and soup vegetable soup
Sop buntut $9
Ox tail soup
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Mie Kocok Bandung
Shop 1, 108 Maroubra Road, Maroubra, Sydney
Tel: +61 (02) 8437 2322
Opening hours
Lunch Tuesday to Sunday 11am-3pm
Dinner Tuesday to Sunday 5pm-10pm
This article appears in the March 2013 issue of Time Out Sydney in my monthly Food & Drink column Eat This! [Read online]
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Ah, Helen? I don't think your "but" is helping any. I am giggling just as much at "shaken noodles"...
ReplyDeleteKinder surprise for carnivores. I love it! Just look at those beautiful little siomay bandung!
ReplyDeleteOh me oh my! I haven't had too much indonesian to date, but I'm willing to make the drive to maroubra to try it all. Oh man.. drooling.
ReplyDeletethe Lo mie bandung looks really good! you find the coolest places for food!
ReplyDeleteHahahaha "Mee Kocok"! Is it bad that my first reaction was: "YOU Kocok!!"??
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, those croquettes looks amazeballs! :)
Eying those croquettes! The rice and chicken in banana leaf looks pretty spectacular as well :D
ReplyDeleteSuch a great find in the suburbs. I like that you can help yourself to croquettes!
ReplyDeleteI love Indonesian food - especially all the little banana-leaf wrapped snacks they have! Everything looks delicious
ReplyDeletei love the mie kocok here! so tasty and love the avo juice!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove these photos - I can literally smell the broth. And free prawn crackers?! It's so good when a place that's already great value offers even more. There's a lesson in that.
ReplyDeleteWow Helen you always find the best most obscure places for your Time Out column. Ok so the name did make me laugh but the croquettes look great.
ReplyDeleteKinder Surprise for carnivores, hehe, love it.
ReplyDeleteWent there last night. Absolutely fantastic. I would like to go again tonight...
ReplyDeleteTalk about a great find! I could devour a whole plate of croquettes myself just by looking at that trolley.
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