Hoe Fong Chicken Rice @ SEA Park PJ

When I was first brought to Hoe Fong Chicken Rice by my ex colleague, I was pretty sure he is bringing me to some very good chicken.

You see, my this friend is a very loyal person. He only eat chicken and he must eat chicken everyday. I never saw him eating else but chicken rice. So, he is certainly qualify to be my guide for the best chicken rice.

I am also pretty sure if he goes to the farm, all those birds will run away like no tomorrow. Chicken run!

Kong Sai Zai @ Sunway Mentari

As usual, today is chicken day and we got to have some nice chicken meal with my sis.

Kong Sai Zai has opened a branch in Sunway Mentari. We tried their chicken in Puchong before and kind of like it.

I say kind of is because, after the vote, all my family preferred except my vote.

So, why they like and why mine go the other way?

My father-in-law is Kong Sai people. As a result, my wife got to love the taste and the way of cooking, especially the "unique" sauce.

My mother think that the chicken taste good and cheaper then the Jalan Gasing one.

My sister like the yellowish skin of the chicken.

Me? I just not prefer chicken serving in cold and half cooked to preserve the texture. I like my chicken to be hot, full of steam and deep cooked even to the bone.

Chicken Day @ Kuang Xi Restaurent

My sister is allergy to chicken. Yes, chicken (ayam).

She used to suffer itchiness everyday and we do not know what happen. After long search and discovering, chicken is the cause.

So, chicken is not a usual dish in house. That's why I patron KFC so frequent.

Once a while, when she crave for the bird, she will take the medic and the day will be call Chicken Day.

Last Saturday is that day and we scout for rooster, hans, etc.

Wife says she was born in the year of "phoenix", so she is cool on that.

Kuang Xi Restaurent in Sunway supply very good chicken meal. The restaurent is in the middle of all the steamboat outlet. Easy to find.

Onn Kee Tauge Ayam @ Ipoh

I have a question:"Why Ipoh has so many good food?"

Is it because the people there enjoy eating?

Or, the crops grow better there?

Chicken Rice @ USJ

There is one food court in USJ, at the left hand side of the main road from Summit to Puchong, selling very good chicken rice in the evening.

All tables are waiting for the same food.

"kai si hor fan"

Steam chicken.

Meat balls.

There is something inside the balls.

Err... Chicken rice, must have "tau ge" right?

Wing Heong Chicken Rice @ Serdang

When I was studying in UPM 10 years ago, eating Wing Heong BBQ rice was a luxury. As one of the poor students those days, every single cent we spend counts. Rode side Indian stalls and RM1.80 economic rice was our daily staple.

There was once my Korean lecturer asked us to elaborate about our favorite food in Korean during one of the classes. One of my female course-mate mentioned about mix-rice. We were like "Wow! Her favorite food is mix-rice"? The Korean guy also stunned and speechless. Two things pop up in my mind. Is either she never thought she will have fusion food or she really satisfy with normal mix-rice. If it was the later, I would say she will be a fantastic wife to feed . :)

Back to the topic. I love food, especially BBQ stuff. So, I visited this Wing Heong whenever I safe enough money and had its asam fish and steam soup. It use up a large part of my budget on those days. But now, it is just a normal meal I can have anytime.

People growing and advancing in life. But we always treasure those hard time growing together with us. My old uncle still very much prefer ikan kembong although he can have abalone anytime now. Just because it was so hard for him to have those simple deep fried kembong on those days.

Vegetable steam soup is one of the house specialty.

Coconut chicken soup. Yummy, healthy and nutritious!

See those charsiew? My favorite!

Siew Yoke and Siew Ap (BBQ Duck) also good.

Siew Kai (BBQ chicken) serve the us for many many years, already.

Oh! This is my favorite asam fish. The sauce was so nice and thick with asam flavour. Good to have it with rice.

The restaurent is situated along the main road of Seri Kembangan old town, opposite an old shoe factory, near the junction to Bukit Serdang and Seri Serdang.

Best Chicken Rice in PJ... Restaurent Choon Yien

People call him James Ayam. A stall selling the best chicken and char siew in SS17, very near Food Foundry. James serve the best chicken rice, but the weired service.

During peak hour, customers will be very tense as the owner dose. This is because you got to prepared to be grumble and even receive some hard words from him.

Claypot Chicken Rice Reopen in Paramount.

After My previous post on Clay Pot Chicken Rice in Paramount Garden, Boo from Masak-Masak left a message stated that the shop had closed down.

It was hard to believe as the clay pot rice served there was damn popular. I went there to check it out and I confirmed that it had closed down, without any notice at all (even the sign board was taken off).

I was as sad as Boo but had no idea where did the uncle goes. Luckily I found another Clay Pot Chicken Rice in Damansara Jaya to satisfied my urge.

Few days ago I revisited Paramount Garden and found that the shop restaurant New Kim Swan surprisingly reopen. Apparently. It was closed down for some renovation (adding some tiles and lights). Maybe it did not meet the hygiene standard during checking by the authorities.

Anyway, my belove Clay Pot Chicken Rice is still there and the Ah Pek is still busying cooking his rice pot by pot, day by day.

Good Food!

Wow! Another Clay Pot Chicken Rice...

Previously I wrote about this Clay Pot Chicken Rice in Paramount Garden and unfortunately seems like that was the last chance for me to enjoy the fantastic food. According to Boo (from masak-masak), the stall had been close down (I have yet to go have a look, sorry...).


Few days back when I was finishing my work and looking for dinner at Damansara Jaya area, near Atria shopping center, I notice a restaurant call Koon Kee. I thought it was the one I had my Wan Tan Mee long time ago. I could not get any Wan Tan Mee there (there is another shop call Koon Kee, beside Atria selling good Wan Tan Mee). Instead I found a stall cooking clay pot chicken rice with lots of charcoal stove (more than the one in Paramount Garden).

How many charcoal stove there?

With such a massive set up, this should be something good ya?

I sat down and order one pot with salted fish.

This uncle is the main cook.

The chicken meat was pre-marinated and cook raw in the clay pot. The rice also cook from raw in the pot as well. So this is the original recipe clay pot, which always touch my heart.

Raw marinated chicken meat waiting to be cooked.

The rice was nicely cooked. Solid and firm. The aroma was great. Chicken meat was as nice as the other one. However, this one was less salty, and the flavor not as strong as the other. Somebody might prefer stronger taste with lots of source and salty. But I found that with less flavor, I could appreciate the taste of the rice and the tenderness of the chicken.

Taste is on the beholder of the eater. I like this clay pot chicken rice the most (at the moment). God knows next week I might discover another stall selling better one? It is truly fascinating as I keep overriding my previous blog about the best clay pot chicken rice. I keep getting a better one, everytime I thought that was the best.

Looks good, taste even better!

Embarrass? Not at all! THIS IS the core of excitement during my path of Cari Makan, my friends...

Clay Pot Chicken Rice... Special One

Previously I had written about a clay pot chicken rice stall, which cook the rice right from the pot. I was impressed because most of the seller just fill in cooked rice into pots, heat it up and add chicken gravy.

The stall I am mentioning here is even better, it use charcoal stove for cooking. The AhPek only prepare certain amount of pots (I thought about 200) and sell until finish. All rice cooked raw right from the pot. Chicken was pre-marinate and cooked with the rice from raw as well. Not like others, which pre-cook in kicap and added into the pot after the rice cooked.

The stall is situated in PJ, Paramount area, inside a hawker center call Restaurant New Kim Swan. It was an accidentally discovery when I was looking for dinner one day at the area. I saw almost all patrons there were eating this clay pot chicken rice. Something tell me that it should be really good.

Unfortunately the uncle told me that he had finish sold out the last pot that day. I saw charcoal burning and lots of empty clay pot sitting at the floor. Thus, I had made up my mind I must try it out one day, and very soon.

Few days later, I was sitting at the same place enjoying the meal, just like every other people there.

I thought by using charcoal, and cook with fresh and raw ingredients in the pot, it makes people appreciate the effort and principle of rice cooking. Appreciation of the presentation, you will have pre-determination and perception of well worth of the food served.

I found that the taste was a bit strong, which means a little extra salty. However, as the rice and the chicken was nicely cooked in the pot (for about 20 minutes), the rice was full of flavor. Moreover, the chicken was still very tender, not too raw and not too over done. I am really appreciate that Uncle had put in lots of attention to his job. He has lots of experience in playing with charcoal fire also. I do not think so cooking with charcoal is a easy task, compare to gas flame.

The serving was very rapid (out of my expectation) as he kept cooking the rice pot by pot, way before you order. This is another evident showing his confident of his business and the experience in his operation.

Have a try, my friend. Good food there!

Chicken Rice, near LDP.

I think the most popular food in Malaysia is chicken rice. In almost every corner, you can find stalls or restaurant selling chicken rice. We have Chinese style, Malay style, some even Indian style. Recently, there is one chicken rice fast food chain expending rapidly in every corner in major shopping malls. The main reason for this is chicken, as a white meat, is halal and suitable for all races here. Not like beef, most Indian and Chinese do not consume that.

So, since we have so many stalls and availabilities, how should we classified the good one and the best one?



My personal taste is, white chicken meat must be tender, soft, juicy, full of chicken flavor and most of all, "smooth" chicken. To prepare such meat is not an easy task. The Hainanese is the sifu in preparing steam chicken. However, other people thought to obtain such tender meat, they only need to dip the chicken into a luke warm water until the outer layer looks cook. Unfortunately when you bite it, near the bone area, all the muscle is under cooked and full of blood. I don't like such appearance. Seems very unhealthy. Who knows you can find Salmonella and end up in hospital intensive care unit later?


There was once my friend (who must eat chicken rice once a day, everyday... according to him, chicken is the only animal meant for eating?!) told me that a good chicken rice depend on how the person chop the meat. Each pieces must chop into size just nice to bite. Ways of debone must be correct. And the cutting angle must be accurate so that the meat muscle serve will be at its best serving condition.



This Bentong Kie chicken rice stall in Yat Yeh Hing, which located along LDP, just after Kelana LRT station (coming from 1U side), at your left hand site, offer one of the best chicken rice. The food meet all the criteria mentioned above. The stall only operate at noon for lunch. At night, people eat steam boat at the same shop.

The Ultimate Clay Pot Chicken Rice

Since 8 years ago when I first arrived in KL and had my very first clay pot chicken rice in Pudu, I could not find another stall do it just like that. It is not the special recipy or funny ingredients that make you excited. But the basic know how of cooking rice. Nowadays you eat clay pot chicken in shopping mall, in food stall, in tepi longkang, etc. What the seller interested is to serve it fast, cook it rapidly so that you will finish your food fast and leave.

So, what they do? They precook the rice first. Then they put the cooked rice into the pot and add the gravy and chicken and whalaa.... clay pot chicken rice. What the .... If you wanna sell clay pot chicken rice, don't you think you should cook the rice inside the pot?


So, today I finally found a stall, which I am very much appreciate the owner to be so stick with the principle. Sila tepuk tangan.... Clay Pot Chicken Rice in Asia Cafe in Subang Jaya. The food bazaar near Inti College.



The taste. Wonderful! The chef added salted fish and "lap cheong". The source is okay, but the chicken was nicely cooked. Not too tough and not too soft. "gam gam hor". So, if you would like to eat the, well, "original" clay pot chicken rice, and happen to be in Subang Jaya, no harm go there for a try.