Yik See Ho Bak Kut Teh - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
On our previous visit to Kuala Lumpur, a friend of hubby offered to take him for a breakfast of bak kut teh (肉骨茶) in Klang. A popular place that's frequented by locals and often sold out by 10 am! 😛
Hubby declined because he didn't feel like waking up early for bak kut teh. For those of you who have not heard of bak kut teh yet. Bak kut teh is a dish popular in Singapore and Malaysia. The name in Hokkian literally means meat bone tea. The dish is made of pork bone boiled in herbs and spices like garlic, star anise, cinnamon, cloves, etc.
I thought well, why don't we visit Klang ourselves and check out the bak kut teh there ? I started doing my research and found out there are literally hundres of bak kut teh shops in Klang. Every shops has their own special flavor. From the reviews that I read, some prefer their bak kut teh more herbal and some prefer less. I, actually, dislike the taste of herbal soup of bak kut teh. That's why when I found out a dry version of bak kut teh I never go back for the soup version.
In the end we didn't go to Klang. Not this time at least. Maybe in the future. But since I was already in the mood for bak kut teh I decided we needed to find a place for it. I then found Yik See Ho Bak Kut Teh. It's within Kuala Lumpur area and close to Bukit Bintang area. I thought after our meal at least we could check out Bukit Bintang a bit. Kill two birds with one stone.😁
The restaurant is not that big and it's not fancy. We arrived early trying to beat lunch crowd. And we were lucky because not long after they got busy fast. We ordered a dry version of bak kut teh and chicken rice wine. This dish is pretty special actually for hubby because my mother-in-law used to make it for the family. So seeing that this restaurant actually has it on the menu really surprises me.
We only ordered small size for both dishes. So to my surprise I saw you tiao (fried dough) and braised tofu skin among dishes delivered. I wasn't sure if that's how the bak kut teh shops operate. Or that's how they upsell ? 😂 Anyhow, we finished everything. Surprisingly fried dough (cakwe) in the bak kut teh broth was pretty yummy.
Both dry bak kut teh and chicken rice wine at Yik See Ho are good. Too bad we could not try their pork trotter vinegar because that's also my favorite dish. The dry bak kut teh was mostly pork belly and intestine. Each dish was indeed pretty small since it's sized for one person. The rice wine chicken was a bit gingery and sweet. Taste just like how my mother-in-law's version.
Each dish was about RM 17 (USD 3.60) and fried dough and braised tofu skin was about RM 3 (USD 0.60).
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