While I was in KL, my uncle brought me to Klang for Bak Kut Teh breakfast. I always heard that there has a lot of good bak kut teh, but it was just hearing from people mouth and never been there to try before. Finally the chance is here, my uncle lives in KL so he knows the way around. He brought me there for breakfast, the place has like over 20 shops selling Bak Kut Teh and if you are not people around there, you would not know which one to go in.

Alright, the restaurant name is Mo Sang Kor, it’s not a very good looking one, it’s very simple but the food look good.

It’s all pork. Pork leg, the big bone part and also the meat part. When it was served, I felt surprise to see that the Bak Kut Teh was very different with what I had in Penang. The pork meat is big, there’s only mushroom, garlic and pork, unlike here, we got other ingredient like tao pok, fu zhok and more. Another thing is that the soup is not waterish like us, it’s more creamy and it’s very nice to eat with rice. I ate a lot that morning and I will visit this place again. Great.

As you know that Nicholas Chan will be away for 3 months right? So I am GenYong here helping him to update this food blog and hope that this blog can be update frequently.

So now what I want to recommend for those foodies is the famous economy rice which opposite Chung Ling High School. The Chung Ling guys usually will go there for lunch if they are stay back in school. I went it on last Thursday to take a try on this economy rice. What I can comment here is totally better than school-served economy rice.

The location of this shop is quite special because many people called that place as 三角洲 which located along the Jalan Air Itam. The shop also provided take away service and many office workers also come over to have the lunch!

For me, this stall of economy rice is nice and it’s worth to eat it. Take a try on it.

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Ipoh is very famous for the beansprout chicken, it’s actually not beansprout cook with chicken but they are in separate dishes of beansprout and chicken. Everyone likes Ipoh beansprout chicken, I like too, but to be honest, there’s better chicken at other places, like Penang. Hehe.

Since it’s famous, we will not miss it every time we go to Ipoh. Located in Ipoh’s old town, there’s 2 beansprout chicken outlet on Jalan Yau Tet Sin. One is Lou Wong and another is Onn Kee. Two also I have visited before, if you do listen to the radio, Lou Wong’s have made radio commercial before.

What’s so special about Onn Kee is that they have many photos of Asian’s celebrities eating out at there. Maybe this outlet is more famous then the neighbour’s shop? I don’t know. I like this place because it’s air-conditioned, not too hot.

Separated dish of beansprout and chicken. I like beansprout and I like chicken. The chicken is just more likely same as our Hainanese chicken rice’s chicken, though this chicken I ate was a little bit tough. I know a place in Penang has better chicken, but since it’s 2 different place, this maybe the best in Ipoh.

Here’s something different and that is their char siew (Roasted Pork). It’s honey barbequed and it’s something different and never eat before in Penang, not same like the char siew sell in Penang’s chicken rice’s stall.

Another thing is their speed is very fast, we sat down, ordered and in less than 10 minutes, everything is served. In so unlike in Singapore where I queued up for 45 minutes at Newton Food Centre for their Singapore’s famous chicken rice. That time was really OMG.

So which do you prefer? Lou Wong or Onn Kee? Or you have a better place to introduce?

Hope that I got a chance to visit this restaurant in the future to try their real food instead of the course dinner’s food.

First out was always the standard 5/4 season, it was a FIVE season, there’s 5 different food. I always like the first dish that is out in a course dinner, because it’s always very hungry at that time. It’s a little bit special, different from so many that I had before, there’s satay, scramble egg ala Chinese style, kelabu, fried prawn, and another thing is like the dim sum’s Har Kao, but no one on the table really know what it was.

I’ll skip a few dishes. The second dish is always a soup, most of it probably is shark fins soup which has like 80 percent tang hoon (hokkien) /dong fen (mandarin), crab meat, other thing, a lot of MSG and 20 percent of shark fins.

There’s this Chicken cooked in herbal soup. This is a little bit special from what I’ve tried before at other place, the soup was more creamy with a lot of Chinese herbal ingredient. I don’t really like this because of the creamy soup, I prefer a more waterish herbal soup.

The fish was good, it’s some sort of fresh water fish, cooked with sour curry and tasted spicy.

At like 5th or 6th dish, there’s always the abalone with brocoli and mushroom. Abalone is an expensive food but then I don’t know whether it’s really abalone or not, there’s a lot of fake in the market. The only way for me to know it’s a real abalone is that the whole uncut cooked abalone is served. Then, for sure it’s not any imitation. =)

I don’t really like to eat prawn in a course dinner because I don’t want to get my hands dirty and I’m pretty lazy on taking off the prawn. The above right photo is the prawn-on-a-stick dish, the prawn shell had already taken off so it’s easier to eat. =) Not a bad one, quite nice.

Not last, but the one before the last dessert was the curry pork ribs with Chinese bun. I just tried a little bit as I was already feeling full at that time. The taste was a little bit weird because I believe there’s a lot of coconut milk used to cook the curry, I don’t like strong sense of coconut milk and so this was not my dish.

After all, I was fulled, some were good, some were not but the food portion were big for every dishes.

They have a website for it. Check it out.

This one of the famous dishes at the Bak Kut Teh King outlet in Penang.

There’s 2 Bak Kut Teh King outlets, one is at New World Park and another is at Gurney Plaza, fourth floor. This was my second time visit to this restaurant. I saw people eating this noodle and I ordered one and try. I tell you what, the noodle is nice but then it’s too little already. I like the ingredient there, there’s meat, vegetable and mushroom. Tasted a little bit spicy, just a little bit and it’s ok for everyone I guess. The price is a little bit high, around RM10 per bowl but it’s a good one. I like it. I want more noodle, it’s crisp.

I think a lot of Penangite has already know about this famous hai nan chicken rice in town, Wen Chang’s Chicken Rice. It is located in the heart of Penang on Cintra Street. This chicken rice shop has gone on to papers and magazine before and my dad is a frequent visitor but not me.

This lunch visit, I got my camera with me and I am gonna share with you some chicken. =)

First up, they bring you the soup, it’s free (with order of chicken rice).

Then is the side dishes that dad order.

On the left we got chicken feet cooked with mushroom, different from what you eat at dim sum, dim sum’s is softer and hotter. This is not a bad one.

Right are lobak and some chicken’s organ etc liver and don’t know that the other is. I don’t really eat it, I eat lobak. Though the lobak is not very nice because it don’t have a crispy skin.

White chicken and black (roasted) chicken. One word, nice, but then what I tried in Bangkok and Singapore seems better, different cooking style I guess and different places, different taste.

Click here for the map to Wen Chang Chicken Rice in Town.

Georgetown do have nice Hainanese food. Sin Heng Aun or Shin Kheng Aun restaurant is one of the old restaurant that have been in town for a long time that serves nice Hainanese food. The restaurant is also operate by Chinese Hainanese, Mr Ong who is a very friendly person.

Located near Chulia Street where you see 7-11 then with a turn into Lorong Chulia and you will see Sin Kheng Aun. A little parking space is provided so parking is not really a problem there, a Indian man is always taking care of the parking space.

Above picture showing is Mr Ong who runs the restaurant over years. He had been here for many years and remember when I was small like few years old, dad has already bringing me to eat out at Sin Kheng Aun. Restaurant is not AC but then it won’t be hot because air ventilation is good and there’s fan. =)

Sharing here are some dishes that we always ordered. It’s always been nice to me and that’s why sticking with the same dishes over and over again does not bored me off.

Greens we got 菜心清炒 which is plain fried of heart of cabbage. Remember to ask for “not so oily” because oily dish is not good for health.

Next is fried liver and pork. This dish taste sweet, I don’t like the pork liver because I don’t eat it but then the meat is nice and I love the gravy too.

A famous dish in the restaurant is the curry pomfret (gulai tumis tow tay), soup in the fish is sourish and not very spicy. This is good, in fact all of these are good. Haha.

Chinese loves soup, I love soup and we got fish bone soup with a lot of toufu and pork.

3 dishes and 1 soup for 3 person. It’s just nice.

Good place to eat some homecooked Hainanese food in a old coffeeshop restaurant.

Click here for map to Sin Kheng Aun Hainanese Restaurant.

It’s open during lunch hour and during dinner time, so in between this two time, the restaurant is off for break.

Most of my visit to the restaurant is during lunch time.

Let’s get into the food. There’s only 3 people and we ordered 3 dishes and it’s enough to us.

First, we got vegetable, kangkung fried with sambal and shrimps. Not very spicy but taste good.

Next is the black pepper fish fillet in pieces with lots of onion. This is quite nice as that was the first time trying this.

One of their famous dish is this Chinese Softshell Turtle in a pot (cantones: shui2 yu2 bo4). Cooked with mushrooms and other chinese spices, the gravy is nice to eat with rice and you should this out.

Last but not least, there’s a dessert for us. It’s a hot homecooked soya bean juice.

I noticed that there’s a lot of tourist as well as local like to visit the restaurant. They do have room for private function like a family gathering.

Located on Jalan Sri Bahari. Click here for the map.

Talking about the direction first. Imagine you are on Chulia St, you now there’s the famous Wen Chang Hainan Chicken Rice Shop, there’s a junction beside shop, turn right in and you will came across a flat, Boey Chong Kee is located just right below the flat.

My dad told me that the flat there is the earliest flat that exist in Penang. I have been to this place for a lot of time, since many many years ago, like when I’m small. Funny is we order the same dish every time we go there for dinner.

Vegetable is good for health. Plain fried Choi Sum 菜心 is nice but the portion is quite small.

Dad loves beef and he will other this fried Ngao Zhap 炒牛杂。There’s beef, beef’s organ and eggs.

Here comes my favourite dish of all time, the Ginger Duck Meat where it taste a bit salty and the sauce is nice. You should try this if you got a chance to visit this restaurant.

The fish head is also quite nice, it’s called the Hong Siu Yu Tou 红烧鱼头.

Seriously, I recommend this place, it maybe hard for you to look out, just check out the junction beside Wen Chang Chicken Rice Shop at Chulia Street at night. Though, you may need to get there early because there will be a lot of people at night and by then time you will have to wait long for the food to be served.

Check out the map here to the restaurant here.