The best Mee Goreng (or Fried Mee in English) can be found next to my former school Methodist Girls School in Jalan Tengkera, Melaka. The stall is on the right side of the road leading to the Klebang beach. You wont's miss it if you go there in the morning before 11 am. The crowd will give you a clue to its popularity. Closed on Friday, and also during Puasa month.
This mee goreng stall is also featured in The Star Guide to Malaysian Street Food (yes, I bought my copy of the Street Food Guide, at, of all places, the Star booth at the recent Disney Live magic show in KL).
If you are in Melaka, don't miss Hassan's mee goreng. The yellow noodle is fried with taugeh (bean sprouts) and sambal. That's all. Simple ingredients. No prawn, or other embellishments.
Top up the mee goreng with fried egg (fried sunny side up, bull's eye style) and some more sambal. Also add a sprinkling of vinegar and black sauce from the bottle on the tables.
And because they serve only mee goreng, you don't have to place your order with the waiters. Just find an empty table, sit down and wait for the waiters to place the plate of mee goreng after it's cooked by Hassan. Hassan and his men have good memory - they know who comes first and will serve in that order.
Tip: you may want to ask for an extra plate for seconds. 
Because of the speed they need to cook, the food gets 'plonked' onto the plate and may cause some messiness. Not fine dining, but you get good and cheap food.
Mee Goreng cost Rm 1.20 per plate.
P/s Down memory lane : Hassan's father used to sell his mee goreng on a kandar (a long bamboo stick on which he carried the kuali on one end and the mee on the other end) from house to house. He always stops by at my grandmother's house in Gajah Berang and we children will crowd round his stove watching him cook his mee goreng.
We have a name for the mee goreng - mee rot.
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