Huen Kee Claypot Chicken Rice, Pudu

Happily indulge with my kind of Claypot chicken rice this afternoon. The rice is well seasoning with soy sauce marinade and love the slightly burn yet crispy dark dark scorched rice at the bottom of the claypot. Yeah, I really love foods that made of soy sauce based. Huen Kee Claypot Chicken Rice is recently awarded as Michelin Bib Gourmand. Friend bought me here not because of the Michelin title, it is because of I wanted to try those old established and well known claypot chicken rice around in Klang valley. We shared a large claypot chicken rice, a small pig stomach peppery soup and also added an extra salted fish since my friend loves salted fish. Now it is Ramadan, less traffic on the road during lunchtime peak hours so it's a good time to drive to Pudu for lunch. So blessed to be able to enjoy nice claypot chicken rice again and also blessed to have a foodie friend to enjoy the food (or fight for the food) together hehe.  

Old school taste claypot chicken rice~ Kim Poh, Segambut

I've lost count of this is my 2nd or 3rd clay pot chicken rice hunt in nearby neighborhoods. Google reviews said this shop is a hidden germ in Segambut industrial area. Well, it is kind of 'hidden' at a row of shoplot next to the housing area and Kim Poh is the one and only eatery while the rest are doing auto-parts trading. From the front look, you can tell this place has been running for business for many many years. We order claypot chicken rice for 2 pax, with lap-cheong, and a double boiled watercress soup (sai-yeong choy tong).  

Slightly different from those claypot chicken rice we've eat before, the chicken meat unseasoned with dark soy sauce. The soy sauce is pour on top of the chicken meat and lapcheong after it is all cook. Salted fish is not cook together in one pot. It was served separately in a small sauce bowl with shredded ginger by placing it on top of the claypot chicken rice when it is serve. Chicken meat is quite tender and juicy. Maybe I am too get used to those claypot chicken rice that already seasoning, I find it a little bit tasteless so I ask for an additional plate of salted fish. Like my friend say, this is an old school taste claypot chicken rice.

Choong Kee Kampar Claypot Rice, Damansara Jaya

7 days self quarantine end. Luckily, I am Covid negative and still Novid (covid virgin). Told my friend I want to eat claypot chicken rice after I end my quarantine. And he recommend this claypot chicken rice restaurant that operate more than 3 decades in Damansara Jaya. Anyway, out of topic~ the name 忠记 (Choong Kee in Chinese) somehow reminds me of my pen pal during my secondary school time. Sadly we have lost contact after I graduated from University and starts working. Back to Choong Kee Kampar Claypot Chicken Rice~ here's our decent Claypot chicken rice of the day~ together with lotus root double boiled soup and yau mak (romaine lettuce veggie) with garlic & oyster sauce. With those common ingredients that a claypot chicken rice normally have~ the tender marinated chicken pieces, lap-cheong, a bit of salted fish all on top of the cooked rice, just mix all well so that everything is caramelized and coated with the dark soy sauce~ and eat it while it is hot. Simple yet savoury! The crispy scorched rice at the bottom layer what I looking forward the most at the end of the meal. A pot of claypot chicken rice can makes me very happy for the rest of the day.