Kheng Heong Hainan Cuisine Restaurant, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur

We recently stumbled upon a restaurant in Brickfields serving excellent Chinese food which also happened to have appeared on the weekly TV show Ho Chak, in an episode featuring their famous steamed fish head.

Their butter squid was exquisite, soft and fresh on the inside, light, fluffy and crispy on the outside, with loads of the crunchy, salty batter bits fried with curry leaves. We loved it! At RM12.00/plate it was a pretty big serving for 2. Succulent boxing chicken. The 4 pieces of chicken were nicely deep fried to perfection, leaving the insides tender and juicy. We tasted crispy salty skin, seasoned with soy sauce and 5-spice powder, we think. It was good to the bone, and the 4 big pieces cost just RM5.00 in total.


The claypot tofu (RM 10.00) had assorted ingredients - sliced meat, prawns, baby corn, carrots, snow peas.....the gravy was just rich with the flavours of all these ingredients. We loved this simple yet hearthy dish.

We were so utterly stuffed and satisfied by the end of our meal. We are SO coming back here to try out all their famous chiu pai dishes!



Kheng Heong Restaurant
Stall # 297-8, Jalan Tun Sambanthan,
Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-22741032
Mobile: 012-3051888


This restaurant is one of many restaurants in a single row, facing the Brickfield's police station.



Our rating system for overall satisfaction with what we eat and where we eat....

1-bam = don't even bother
2-bam = good enough to fill the tummy
3-bam = a very good restaurant in its category
4-bam = excellent cooking, worth a detour
5-bam = exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey



We would give Kheng Heong a 4-bam rating, we plan to be regulars here.

Yut Kee Restaurant, Jalan Dang Wangi, Kuala Lumpur

Yut Kee has been an old favourite for breakfast, and last Saturday, we were there again. It's a quaint old kopitiam (established in 1928) serving all types of Chinese and Western dishes, as you can see from their extensive menu board.....

We had chicken chop (Hainanese style). The boneless chicken whole-leg was covered in eggy batter and deep fried. The gravy comes with potatoes, peas and onions....I like to add lots of Lea & Perrins sauce (the restaurant provides) on the chicken before eating, gives it an extra ooomph. The chicken chop costs RM7.00 per plate.

The other dish we ordered was roti babi, which is a traditional nyonya snack. The filling is pork (of course) and slivers of crab meat, stir fried before being stuffed into the bread. The entire package is then dipped into egg and deep fried. We enjoyed this tasty treat with extra sprinkles of Lea & Perrins sauce and a dollop of tomato sauce. The roti babi costs RM7.00 as well.

2 soft-boiled eggs at RM2.00, topped with white pepper and soy sauce. Free-range eggs were used, tasted creamier than the usual farmed-eggs.

Business is brisk on weekends, and there's usually a bit of a wait for tables. The restaurant is closed on Mondays.

Yut Kee Restaurant

35 Jalan Dang Wangi,

50100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Tel: 03-26988108

Mobile (Jack Lee): 012-3071208

Our rating system for overall satisfaction with what we eat and where we eat....

1-bam = don't even bother

2-bam = good enough to fill the tummy

3-bam = a very good restaurant in its category

4-bam = excellent cooking, worth a detour

5-bam = exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey

We would give this restaurant a 3-bam rating.