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When you say bak kut teh (bkt) in oldtown, most people will refer you to Heng Kee, but unknown to many, just opposite Ah Lek fish shop and just outside the Magnum shop across the road from Public Bank.

This place is almost the only bkt place in oldtown I know since I was a kid, mainly because its my family’s favourite and even when we no longer stay in oldtown, my mum will go there quite often to pack the bkt for dinner for the family to enjoy.

The style here is unique, just like heng kee, no claypot, just bowl and everything comes in its own separated bowls, the meat, the tau foo pok, mushrooms, etc.

The bkt here have stronger herbal taste and smells, just as you are walking to your table, the fragrant of herbal is all over the place. Soup is not as thick as those in Klang but tasty and less fat. Taste wise is more salty rather than the sweet type of bkt.

I guess each place have its own unique taste for bkt, from klang to sg. buloh to oldtown to KL, but it all depends on personal preferences. Bkt for 4 persons, 2 bowls of tau foo pok, 2 bowl of yau char guai plus some drinks and rices set us back by RM46.00.

So far, this is still my favourite bkt in PJ, sorry la, bias a bit, this is the bkt i grow up eating you know. Unfortunately, my makan kaki in video below don’t know how to eat la

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This is probably the best kept secret of PJ Oldtown when it comes to food. I have at first wanted to take details photograph on locating this place, but decided not to… why… simply because its already quite crowded and the wait is already long. Plus, it wouldn’t be a secret after that right? Hahaha… so if you want to know where is it exactly, I will take you there and you pay my bill ok

This place, does not have signboard, its just table and chairs laid in at the corridor of a house in PJ oldtown, passing the front of the place, you won’t even know it exist! At the back is a small kitchen where the owner cook the noodles bowl by bowl, no shortcut, that’s what makes it good. There are also additional place to sit inside the house, but you have to go in from the back.

The wait here average 30-40 mins, so if you can’t wait, don’t come. This is because there are loads of people who come, willing sit down and wait for their take away orders of like 10 packets, the lady boss cooks them one by one. Hehe… also, for drinks, they only have loh han gou and barli, nothing else. They opened 8am to 2.30pm, close on Thursday and Sunday.

They are famous for their fish paste (yee wat) noodles here, but I saw a lot of people ordering minced pork (yok sui) noodles too. The fish paste noodles are soup based, I saw the owner taking the stock from what looks like a big pot of chicken stock from my observation, not exactly sure. Anyway, the noodles are serve in soup with a very generous amount of vegetables, some seaweed, a piece of fried foo chuk and 3 big chunks of fish paste. First thing to try is the soup and its excellent, filled with taste but yet very clear (ching) and natural. The chunky fish paste fills your mouth with a bite full and its soft, no fishy smells and tasty. I can now understand why the crowds keeps coming!

Greedy me (as usual) topped up with 2 side dishes, dumpling (sui kau) and stuffed bittergound (yong foo kua). The dumpling are excellent with 1 huge big prawn in it and the paste have a good mixture of veges inside too. But I fancy the bittergound more, its hardly bitter, soft and the fish paste stuffing are very very generous.

Worth waiting, definately, just need to come earlier next time, can get a bit hot but lucky they have plenty of stand fans around . 3 fish paste noodles, 2 siu kau and 4 bittergound, 2 drinks cost RM18.90.

GPS: N3 05.110 E101 38.767

Makan first, think later

What better to cool down a hot day than a cup of yo yo ice (yau yau ping). Comes in all sort of flavours such as red bean, lychee, assam boi, longan, etc.

I had mine at Restoran Yo Yo Ice. This place is located near the Giant hypermarket in Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Klang. They also sell some very good and crispy fried chickens.

The yo yo ice goes for RM1.50 per cup, you can mix 2 flavour or have the same kind in a cup. Its basically crushed ice flavoured with different taste.

The yummy fried chicken goes from RM2.00 to RM2.20 depending which part you take. Outside is crispy while inside are still soft and tender. Very nice and good for sitting down and chit chat the day away kind of place

GPS: N3 00.473 E101 26.085

Makan first, think later