Best Tom Yam in Kota Kinabalu

A slightly different take to the usual seafood Tom Yam. This dish contains all the right ingredients for the Tom Yam broth but has added fried fish fillets and springy noodles topped with a blanket of fresh green parsley. A savoury yet perfect sourish flavour. A total delicacy that’ll suit your cravings for something hot and spicy. However, the spiciness may vary from time to time.

Another delightful Tom Yam dish that’s full of flavor juicy ingredients colouring a beautiful bowl. The dish is accompanied with additional Chinese flavor to spice up the palate. Bounded with a thick Tom Yam broth that’s reddish-orange with fried fish meat slices being added and a load full of noodles to balance your meal.

A delectable bowl that’s perfect for about four people for a standard size. Served in a beautiful well glossy clay pot that’s placed under a charcoal clay pot stove to keep the Tom Yam nice and warm. This particular broth covers more of an orangey colour than the usual bright reddish colour. This particular Tom Yam has chicken inside for those who prefer the non-seafood style so this would be perfect but may not be as tasty.  

An absolute popular and delectable dish that’s simply good looking and tasty. Served with a large handful of noodles, a generous amount of prawns and not forgetting the sour and spicy tastes of that Tom Yam goodness. The spiciness is said to be rather mild for the local tastes but for tourists it may be spicier but if you’re into spicy food this dish would be a delight to you.

Enticing, piquant and a total delish bowl of good old Tom Yam noodles. San Sui Baru’s famed for its noodle dishes and this so happens to be one of their customer’s favourite. A definite worth the visit for its rich reddish spicy broth accompanied with a generous amount of juicy big prawns, meehoon (rice vermicelli), parsley leaves for garnishing and its stalk to get that extra fragrant fused with the Tom Yam soup enhancing the flavour. You have the option of having the fish fillets in replacement of the prawns.

A simple light authentic Sabah style Tom Yam that’s tangy and liked among many locals. There is a wide selection of ingredients all placed in one bowl that’s bursting with flavours. Fresh red chillies, small prawns, bite size chicken meat some chopped greens to enhance the flavours together and not forgetting one of Tom Yam’s best ingredients; a few sticks of lemongrass to give that subtle sweet minty taste.

Serves a good bowl of Tom Yam seafood noodle that will keep you coming back for more. A simple dark reddish orange colour that’s absolutely enticing to view. With a hand full of noodles, medium sized juicy prawns evenly distributed in the bowl, topped with a few layers of leaves and lime to give you that extra zesty essence. 

Particular one of the better Tom Yam soups around the aside from the ones listed here. Ingredients vary depending on what you decide to order and what’s available in stock. The basis of the ingredients includes red chillies, tomatoes some greens, lemongrass garnished with fresh parsley. Level of spiciness vary depending on how much one can hold that heat.