PETALING JAYA, Jan. 20 -- There is a certain purity, an undeniable pleasure, that comes with a good bowl of noodles in the morning.

At SK Pork Noodles in Kota Damansara, that pure pleasure arrives in the form of sang nyuk mee -Sabah pork noodles done the way they should be, with fresh meat and a flavourful broth.

Unlike the pork noodle bowls many of us grew up with in the Klang Valley, where sliced pork is often taken from the freezer and dropped into boiling soup as an afterthought, this Sabahan classic hinges on absolute freshness.

Sang nyuk quite literally means "fresh meat", and it shows. The pork is sliced only when an order comes in, pale pink and supple, cooking gently in a lighter pork bone broth that tastes clean and quietly s...