<figure id="attachment_3043650" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3043650" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3043650 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/7c94dbe7-dish-bernama-250425.webp" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3043650" class="wp-caption-text">Suriati Shairi is the proprietor of Yeop Din, a stall serving this delicious dish known as bun noodles with peanut sauce. (Bernama pic)</figcaption></figure>
TAPAH: Despite increases in food prices, one vendor in Kampung Haji Hassan on Tapah Road here is selling bun noodles with peanut sauce for only RM1.50 a plate.
Maintaining a recipe that has been passed down from generation to generation for over 80 years, the &#8220;Yeop Din&#8221; stall has become a popular spot among residents in this part of Perak.
Stall owner Suriati Shairi, 41, said she had been selling the dish for RM1 since 2003, but raised the price by 50 sen in the past two weeks.
“Many are surprised by this price and question whether I can make a profit. Alhamdulillah, my sustenance is always sufficient. I can even send my eldest son to Universiti Malaysia Terengganu,” she told Bernama.
According to Suriati, making the dish is not complicated as it only uses peanuts, oil, soy sauce and bun noodles &#8211; a type of thick yellow noodle that is smooth and chewy. For her business, Suriati orders the noodles specially from Teluk Intan.
<figure id="attachment_3043649" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3043649" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3043649 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/99f775c4-noodles-bernama-250425.webp" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3043649" class="wp-caption-text">Bun noodles are a type of thick yellow noodle with a smooth and chewy texture. (Bernama pic)</figcaption></figure>
&#8220;We used to make the noodles ourselves but, due to time and labour constraints, we decided to buy it instead. After all, the main secret of this dish is our special peanut sauce: when it is mixed with the boiled and fried bun noodles, the taste is extraordinary,&#8221; she said.
According to Suriati, the recipe comes from her husband&#8217;s late grandmother, Ramlah Hassan, who was the daughter of one of the early settlers of Kampung Haji Hassan.
In the 1940s, she said, Ramlah used to sell the dish, which was considered &#8220;fast food&#8221; as it was quick to prepare and easy to enjoy.
For customer Mohamad Zaifarul Zainal Abidin, 48, the mix of fried bun noodles with peanut sauce &#8211; a combination rarely found elsewhere &#8211; makes the dish special.
&#8220;Outsiders may find it strange, but after trying it for themselves, they&#8217;re sure to find it delicious,&#8221; he commented.
<figure id="attachment_3043651" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3043651" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3043651 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/b440679f-customers-bernama-250425.webp" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3043651" class="wp-caption-text">Customers enjoying their fill of bun noodles at Suriati&#8217;s stall located in Kampung Haji Hassan, Tapah. (Bernama pic)</figcaption></figure>
The sentiment is echoed by Amirudin Mohamad Ali, 58, who said he enjoys the dish as it reminds him of his childhood.
&#8220;My mother would wrap bun noodles in banana leaves, place them on rattan trays, and eat them with my siblings,&#8221; he shared with a smile.

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