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I first got to know about this place about 2 years back, I was caught at the Pudu roundabout in jam a few times and I noticed just below the roundabout, there’s this claypot chicken rice place with its charcoal stoves all steaming up cooking outside the place. So I got adventurous (as usual ) and gave it a try and had since love it till now .

Today I had a chance to visit Huen Kee again for lunch and I brough along makan kaki Andrew & KC. KL is pretty messed up with traffic today and we got there quite late for lunch and was mad hungry (as you can see from our faces below).

Once you reached the place, you can see their outdoor kitchen where they cook their claypot chicken rice using charcoal stoves giving it a distinctive flavour. It normal to have to wait between 15-30 minutes for the rice to cook and so explains our long faces while waiting .

Besides claypot chicken rice, they also serve the claypot rice with a choice of waxed duck or chinese sausages but I was told today, those options are only available in November when the fresh stock of waxed duck comes from China, can’t wait! Their claypot curry is also very good here and other dishes available are various types of tofu, vegetables, braised pork legs vinegar, pig’s stomach soup, etc.

I order a big claypot chicken rice accompined by the “chung yau tofu”, fried vegetables and a mid size pig’s stomach soup. Together with rice and chinese tea, it works out to about RM 47 for 3 persons.

The claypot chicken rice is cooked simple, rice with dark soya sauce, marinated chicken and most important of all, salted fish! The rice are not too sticky, in fact, as you dish the rice out, you will notice that it doesn’t stick to the side of the claypot and yet its soft and well cooked.

The “chung yau tofu” are plain cold soft tofu topped with oyster sauce, fried dried shrimps, fried garlic and chopped spring onions. Its simple yet very tasty, I especially love the crunchy fried dried shrimp on top!

The pig’s stomach soup is also very good! Its a little spicy but the pig stomach is very tender and soft, its very nice and goes very well just before having the rice. Chicken feet are added to the soup, perhaps this is the base stock?

I would recommend to give this place a try, crowd on lunch time and weekends can be heavy and be prepared to wait a little as it takes time to cook the claypot rice. I wouldn’t say the price is cheap but its good stuff .

GPS: N3 07.965 E101 42.984

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