KUALA LUMPUR, April 19 – Mothers do know the best. Especially when it comes to drawing out the best for a bowl of superb beef noodles.

New start-up Mama Lek certainly hits a home run with their offerings of Thai beef noodles and Penang assam laksa.

It's a family venture run by a Thai-Malaysian woman whose mother cooks up beef noodles, based on her Isan heritage.