This Long Beach Restaurant Cooks Up Unique Indonesian Street Food | Eater LA

"I think the best new addition just may be Uncle Fung Borneo Eatery, a warm, welcoming casual full-service spot that spun out of Alhambra and opened in Long Beach’s Bixby Village Plaza after Peter Then (aka Uncle Fung) ran Borneo Kalimantan Cuisine there for a decade. The tight 15-item menu leans on specialties from Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and the noodles are especially good: there are three takes on laksa mee ($9.99) in a rich, spicy shrimp-stock-and-coconut-milk broth — try it with the “curly and elastic” Alhambra-made egg noodles (vermecelli and rice noodles are available but lack the same bounce) — and every bowl is littered with puffy fried tofu triangles, firm tofu strips, sweet shrimp, chewy fish cakes, a soy-marinated hard-boiled egg, and a sprinkling of corn, bean sprouts, scallions, and fried shallots. The difference between Malaysian, Borneo, and Indo mee is mainly the toppings; start with the Borneo hokkian mee ($7.99), topped with thin-shaved sweet BBQ pork, soy-braised dark-meat chicken, and mushrooms (it comes with a chicken-broth sidecar). Fried rice and noodle plates show the “Borneo wok” smoky sear — charkway teow ($9.99) is stir-fried thin rice noodles with BBQ pork, shrimp, fish cakes, scrambled egg, greens, bean sprouts, and scallions — and the house hot sauce (Thai bird’s eye chilies, sugar, garlic, ginger, salt, pepper) is a must, with a staff “secret stash” that’s far hotter. Ayam penyet ($8.99) is a well-spiced, judiciously fried Cornish game hen seasoned with turmeric, garlic, ginger, salt, and pepper and served with a steamed rice dome topped with crispy shallots; sambal penyet (a thick red chile paste with extra sugar and seeds) adds more punch. Roti prata (one piece $3.99, pair $7.50) arrives flaky and griddled with a mildly spicy Indonesian island curry for dipping — eat it while the flakes last. The rest of the compact menu includes gado gado (tofu, egg, and vegetable salad with peanut sauce) and sate ayam (grilled dark-meat chicken skewers); drinks include tropical fruit tea, sweet creamy coffee, and milo. Uncle Fung is just getting started and appears to be part of a burgeoning Indonesian food movement across LA." - Eater