Look, I’m not a food critic but I’m very much a Klangite. Although I wasn’t really born in Klang, but I spent more than a quarter of century here in this little town called KLANG.

Now Klang is famous for BKT, everyone knows about that. What boils me is when people do not know how to appreciate the best of Klang.

I have this sudden crave for pork today. So during lunch time, there’s a new BKT stall just opened nearby my office in Bukit Jalil. Okay, I should know better not to complain about other places for BKT when I know Klang is the best. But then again, how would I know Klang is the best when I haven’t tried others, right?

I’m not a big fan of any other parts of the cute little piggy, so I usually stick to lean meat or ribs. The next thing the towkay asked whether I want additional mushrooms, I said no.

After a good 10 mins, food is served. There’s nothing fancy about BKT, usually is a bowl of pork and a plate of rice. But the taste of the BKT is horrendous. The soup is so freaking diluted it taste like boiled water with soya sauce. Not the mention the PLAIN white rice instead of the fragrant rice they usually served in Klang.

As if that was not bad enough, the meat, oh gosh…the meat.. I can hardly chew it. I hate it when they pre-cook the meat separately from the soup and then heat it up together before serving to customer. KNN, It doesn’t taste good at all, don’t they get it!?

My indian colleague had a sip of the soup and she don’t like it either. She told me that the other stall we had BKT earlier in Old Klang Road was much better. I was like WTF!?!?!?!? That stall is a rip off and it’s not much different from what we’re having now!!! OMG!! I lit up a cigarette and let off the topic.

My crave for pork was not satisfied, so for dinner I had BKT again. Sadly, the sameeeeeeeeee shit happens again. Diluted soup, raw tasteless pork and worst of all, freaking plain white rice?????

Okay guys, enough is enough. As a patron, know that BKT is not just pork in soya-sauce like soup. I’ll spare you the history lesson, go read it on Wikipedia. Let me show you how the original KLANG BKT is served!

THE ORIGINAL WAY. See carefully! Plate of rice with a bowl of BKT only.

Here’s the YES and NO of how we have BKT in Klang:

YES, we have BKT in the morning. Usually a single bowl of pork with a plate of rice. Of course, tea is a must!

NO, BKT is not just meant for lunch, dinner or even supper! Some may try to grab the opportunity to sell BKT for hungry drunkards at night. Fuck, you are drunk and you’re hungry. Anything you eat taste good, damnit!

YES, the original BKT is served in a small bowl with pork and soup ONLY! No other extra ingredients! Extra mushrooms, taupok or even abalone is just to make extra money. Those extra stuffs will totally kill off the herbal taste.

NO, claypot BKT is not as good because of the extra ingredients in it. The bigger it is, the more the charge! Don’t be fooled!

YES, we eat BKT with a plate of rice, folk and spoon.

NO, we don’t eat BKT in a bowl with chopsticks. Screw the tiny bowl! We like to flood our plate with soup.

YES, the original BKT herbal soup is thick and dark. Not too salty and not too sweet with the right among of chinese herbs in it.

NO, BKT soup is not diluted like kopi-o nipis with ice.

YES, the pork is boiled in the soup for hours and the meat must be really tender and juicy.

NO, the pork must not taste like raw steak with a SPEARMINT brand on it. Damn, I hate chewy pork.

So know your BKT. It’s your right!

Klang - Bandar Di Raja is also well known for its Hokkien Community. Being a Klangite and a Hokkien myself, I wish to tell the whole world that Klang is not just all about Bah Kut Teh. There are plenty of other good stuffs that can be found here… for example, me! … well ok, not ME but the Hokkien Mee!

If you’re ever in Klang at night and craving for some Hokkien Mee, why not go to Restoran Nam Yang for some tasty and full of chu yau char (fried pork lard) Hokkien Mee!

Restoran Nam Yang is located along Jalan Meru, just around the corner of Klang Parade. The restaurant is just beside yet another famous food restaurant, Restoran Lai Choon Bah Kut Teh.

My family usually goes there for dinner. They serve the best kung-po fried mantis prawns (kung-po lai liu har) in town. But since there are only 3 of us for dinner, we decided to have Hokkien Mee only.

Although this is not my first choice of place to go, Restoran Nam Yang do dish out quite good Hokkien Mee too. The Hokkien Mee here in Klang is definitely better than those I had in PJ. Some may disagree with me but then again, I grew up eating Klang food :p

There’s generous amount of fried pork lard (chu yau char) and the right amount of time on the wok. The dish is not too saucy and not too dry.

Unlike other places out of Klang, we Klangites do not really fancy to have fried lala with Hokkien Mee. So don’t be surprised if you don’t see any lala dish around.

But if you really do crave for some lalas, there is a stall selling fried lala omelette (lala jian) and it’s one of the best in Klang too, well at least it is for me. The omelette is rather thin which makes it really crispy on the outer layer but once you make your way in, it’s really yummy and chewy.

Garnished with generous amount of spring onions and bean sprout (tau geh), it doesn’t just taste great, it looks really appetizing too.

Nothing beats a good, satisfying meal. A simple meal for 3 person only cost us RM20. Reasonably cheap for such a good meal.

Restoran Nam Yang
Off Jalan Meru, 41050 Klang, Selangor.

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Hunger Rating is to tell how hungry I am at the moment of time and Satisfaction Rating is the overall rating for the food and presentation.

Monday basketball was really tiring but it was good. I didn’t have dinner so I dropped over at KY’s to see whether they want to go yumchar or not. I totally forgotten that KY has got his Monday badminton session with some friends, so it was myself and Sotong.

We went over to my favourite nasi lemak panas place in PJ, Gerai Selera 223. This place is kind of hard for someone to find if you’ve never been there before. You’ll never thought of such place existed, it’s a small food court located right smack in the middle of huge office blocks and factories. Anyways, the food court is just right across AMWAY Headquarter in PJ. At night, there are a number of stalls open for the night crowd but the rest of the stalls only serve the day crowd.

Whenever I’m craving for some cheap nasi lemak panas, this is the place to be. Now there are 2 mamak stalls and a number of malay food stalls operating at night. I usually go to stall No. 1, the first mamak stall on the left.

Once seated, the first thing you must order is the Milo Ais Kaw (iced Milo). The mamak stall No.1 served the best milo ais I’ve ever had because it’s really really kaw! Even if you’re not a milo fan, give it a try, you’ll love it.

Another thing you must have is the telur setengah masak (half-boiled egg), trust me and get yourself a set. They served the best telur setengah masak, not too cooked and not too raw.

On your table, you’ll probably have 2 trays of nasi lemak. There are 2 different stalls serving nasi lemak, you can tell the difference from the coloured stamping on the wrapper. I usually go for the black stamping nasi lemak because the sambal is not too hot. The other nasi lemak (in red stamping) is not quite my taste. Sambal is not as tasty and sometimes they missed out on the good stuff, ikan bilis.

Lately, I’ve been trying to eat moderately. We usually take 2-3 packs of nasi lemak but this time I only had 1 pack of nasi lemak panas with a set of telur setengah masak and milo ais.

The bill came up to RM3.50 for a pack of nasi lemak panas, a set of telur setengah masak and a glass of milo ais kaw. Rather cheap for PJ standard.

Gerai Selera 223
Jalan 223, Petaling Jaya

Hunger Rating : Satisfaction Rating :

Hunger Rating is to tell how hungry I am at the moment of time and Satisfaction Rating is the overall rating for the food and presentation.

It was yet another impromptu plan to go down to Malacca for sight-seeing and some good food. Suggested by none other that our favourite Baba, Mr. Damien Yong. One good thing about such trip is that it usually works out.

As usual, we were all late… well, except for poor Farid who had to be over in Subang since 12 noon. By the time I picked up Damien and Amy, it was already 2 pm. We had a quick lunch and off we go.

The trip down south was quite a breeze. By the time we hit the toll, it was around 4 pm. We really took our time driving down. There’s no rush and it was a holiday for us.

The purpose of the trip was for makan, makan and more makan. Our first stop was over at Tengkera. Damien suggested that we should try out the Mee Sup Tengkera and some Popiah Goreng. The Mee Sup was rather good since they use fried chicken meat floss instead of the usual boiled or steamed chicken meat. And the Popiah Goreng, gosh… excellent! Crispy on the outside, juicy and yummy on the inside.

Only the pakcik preparing the noodles. The others are helpers.

The soup is rather plain but tasty. That’s because they use fried chicken instead of the normal chicken meat.

The Popiah Goreng was really crispy and it’s selling like hot cakes!

You can tell that these guys are really hungry.

Since we’ll be having more food, we decided not to over stuff ourselves and head on to the next destination for some desserts. Taking a drive through Malacca town is quite an eye-opener. The colourful and unique century old buildings are quite a sight. It’s really nice to slow down once in a while in your life, to breathe the air and to enjoy sights ancient old history. It’s quite a mesmerizing view, sometimes funny too.

Oookaayyy, I’ve seen plenty of funny convinient stores but this is too much. LOL. Oh ya, only handsome guys are allow to have seafood in this restaurant.

We stop over in town where you can find the fountain, clock tower and Christ Church. The place was flocked with tourists and tour buses. There’s plenty of colourful trishaws too which kinda stole my attention. Trishaws are quite a rare sight especially in busy cities like KL and PJ. While the rest of them are enjoying their Cendol right across the street, I went on snapping more photos around that area.

The posers!

Baba and Nyonyas?

We were quite tempted to go for the famous Chicken Rice Ball but unfortunately it was quite late and the shop was already closed. So we proceeded to the fort A‘ Farmosa. Along the way to the fort, we were quite surprised to see the changes in the town of Malacca. A few new food court and shopping complexes popped up.

After more than a century, part of the fort is still standing strong.

Damien was ecstatic being back in Malacca.

St. Paul Church

It brings back good memories being at fort A’Farmosa again. The last time I’ve been there was during primary school days. It was a school trip to Malacca and we visited the fort, the crocodile farm and a few other places.

It was getting late so it’s time to leave. We wanted to go for some Popiah with Chu Yau Char (fried pork lard) and some fried lala omelet but unfortunately the stall only opens at 7.30 pm. Not wanting to wait, we decided to go straight for Satay Celup at Jalan Ong Kim Wee. There are a number of restaurants serving Satay Celup but Damien brought us to Restoran Ban Lee Siang. It was my first time trying Satay Celup, although something new, I’m no stranger to food like Lok-Lok in KL.

Similar to Lok-Lok, you cook/heat up your food by dipping it into a saucy peanut gravy instead of hot boiling broth

By the time we got back to KL, it was already 10pm. Though it was a short trip, we were all really tired and we ended up in a foot reflexology parlour. Hehe.

Ahhh… Bliss!

As promised, here’s my next food review on Hokkien Mee as mentioned on my last posting. The name of the place is Restoran Mey Yen in Paramount Garden, PJ.

For those who are familiar with PJ Paramount area, this restaurant is not really hard to find. It’s the only chinese restaurant that’s located in the alley of two rolls of shoplots along Caltex petrol station.

Restoran Mey Yen boasts of their famous ‘Hokkien Char‘ of Hokkien Mee and they did live up to that for quite some time. Whenever we’re in PJ and crave for some Hokkien Mee, we will end up in Restoran Mey Yen for some quick bite. They are pretty fast sometimes and food is usually served no longer than 10 minutes.

Last night, after watching a 7 o’clock movie in Subang, we decided to go for some Hokkien Mee. There are 6 of us, 2 of us are ladies and the rest are well known ‘big eaters’. So as usual, we ordered quite many dishes.

The first dish is no other than their famous Hokkien Mee. Now Restoran Mey Yen is definitely another place I would go for Hokkien Mee anytime because they cook it just the way it should be, thick and sticky! The sauce is really thick and sticky and the taste is just nice. They used to fry their noodles on charcoal fire but too bad they had to turn to modern gas stove for speed and convenience. I don’t know why but anything that’s cooked with charcoal fire taste better. There are 6 of us, so the big plate of Hokkien Mee didn’t get cold after it was served. Yummy!

The second dish that came was the Yin Yong and it was pretty good too. It’s not easy to dish out a good plate of cantonese fry but the cook did yet another good job. The sauce is really tasty and rather sticky too. Just the right amount of corn starch and egg mixture. The best part of Restoran Mey Yen is everything is cooked fresh; even the noodles. Unlike some other place, the bee hoon are not pre-cooked. So you don’t get that disgusting overnight cooking oil taste in your bee hoon.

Ok, men do eat their veges too; we are not all meat eaters. They next dish was Kangkong Belacan. I guess it really common to have Kangkong Belacan with noodles every now and then, right?

The dish that came together with the vege was the Loh Mee. I have to admit, they do serve rather good Loh Mee there. Just the Yin Yong, they Loh Mee too had the right amount of corn starch and egg mixture but cooked in a different style. Loh Mee has got more starchy sauce than the Yin Yong. Oh ya, it goes well with a little bit of black vinegar.

I don’t know why but it’s quite common that most Hokkien Mee restaurants to serve fried lala. This is not my first time to Restoran Mey Yen and definitely not my first time trying their fried lala. I used to love their fried lala a lot but not this time. Perhaps I’ve tried better ones like the one in Restoran Aik Yuen but that is not the reason why I don’t like it so much this time. I think it’s because that the lalas are not fresh this time. Unlike others, they cooked the lalas with lots of garlics and gingers. Even that, it didn’t help to cover that strong lala smell. Too bad.

By the time the serve the last dish, we’re quite stuffed. The last dish that came was another good dish. Fried Bee Hoon with canned Khow Yuk (stewed pork). Now this dish is delicious if you love khow yuk. The mee hoon gets to absorb the khow yuk sauce and it makes the dish ever more tastier. The dish is just nice, not too saucy and the khow yuk is excellent! Fatty and tasty! Hehe.

Well, we had a good meal but was quite dissappointed with the fried lala. Though the Loh Mee was good but we didn’t finish it too as well.

Even though we are big eaters, enough is enough and we do have good taste for food too. The fried lala just didn’t quite make it so I’m not really keen about having that dish again.

Restoran Mey Yen
Jalan 20/7, Paramount Garden,
Petaling Jaya

Hunger Rating : Satisfaction Rating :

Hunger Rating is to tell how hungry I am at the moment of time and Satisfaction Rating is the overall rating for the food and presentation.