Tomato Mee in Bau: Luk Kol Fook Food Corner's 'Mee Sos' With Crispy Pork Belly & Char Siew
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Ask for tomato noodles in Bau town and the answer keeps coming back to the same corner: Luk Kol Fook Food Corner in the Senggi-Poak Land District. Locals have two names for the plate — 'Mee Sos', noodles with sauce, or 'Mee Dawai', barbed-wire noodles — and both describe the same sight: a nest of crispy-fried noodles resting in a pool of velvety tomato sauce, stacked with crunchy homemade crispy pork belly and tender char siew.
Source: DayakDaily — Mee Sos Special at Luk Kol Fook Food CornerBehind the counter is 36-year-old Liew Shan Lip, who looks nothing like a typical kopitiam uncle. He used to lecture at NIIT and Management & Science University, while his wife Ngen Sok Tian practised architecture before the couple chose the family trade over their first careers. The roast recipe he works with today came from her — she marinates, he roasts — on a base he learned from his mother and then improvised over time.
Source: Follow Us To Travel — 2026 Kuching food guideLuk Kol Fook Food Corner opened in 2020 as the second coffee shop of a 36-year-old family business founded by Liew's father Liew Oi Sen and mother Chai Mui Jan. The first outlet, Luk Kol Fook Cafe on Jalan Ong Guan Cheng in Bau, is still run by his sister and sister-in-law. Even the name is family history: his parents took it from a chocolate-powder brand that came from China, and the Chinese characters happen to read as a wish for happiness and good fortune.
Source: DayakDaily — Luk Kol Fook Food Corner in BauThe house rule, put simply, is quality over margin. They will not cut down on key ingredients — cooking wine included — just to protect profit, and it shows in the roasted pork that also lands on kolo mee and fried rice. On the tomato noodles, the fried nest stays crackly until the sauce soaks in, and the tart-sweet tomato pool is what makes the plate feel unmistakably Sarawak.
If you are heading to Bau, I would time this for a weekday morning and let the meal sit at the centre of the day trip. The shop opens every day except Tuesdays, from around 7am to about 4pm, and the tomato-noodle special with crispy pork belly and char siew is the order that explains why people drive out here for breakfast.
Address: Senggi-Poak Land District, Bau (Greater Kuching), Sarawak
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