When ever we go to KL, my sister & brother in-law which was the permanent KL citizen will surely bring us to makan. I actual fact they need us to help 'hantam' the left-overs and to have more people to sit in so that they can try more food!  They can't handle the big feast by themselves...lol

Sai Kee, was one of the pioneer in KL Chinatown as they had occupied here more then 50 years, as my title says, 3 generations, from grand pa, father and follow by son. But i wonder how and why they choose to operate the stall at the back lane for half a century?!  Guess a name BACKLANE is not a ideal dining area right? Especially the old town house, you really can imagine how dirty, smelly, rats & roaches crawling here and there along the lane, and don't mention about dining there!

Alright, i couldn't believe my eyes when i heading to the stall. Guess what? 80% tables were patronized by the supporter! I was asking myself, are they really serving good food here, in  a DIRTY BACKLANE? Well, lets fine out!

Dishes Rating:

Traditional Hand Made Fish Paste Soup with Vegetable Thong Ow: 3.5/5
Steam Pork with Salted Fish: 3.5/5
Roast Pork Stir Fry with Tofu : 3.7/5
Black Bean Fish: 3/5
Balacan (Shrimp paste) Brinjals: 4/5

Average rating for this place:

3.5/5 for value
3.8/5 for taste & texture
3/5 for service
1.5/5 for cleanliness  (very dirty....at the back lane, what do you aspect?)
1.5/5 for atmosphere (back lane is very stuffy)

P/S: Teh Cehf has a heavy hand, 70% of the dishes are pretty salty, so do remember to ask for some adjustment to your liking OR opt for non salty dishes....lol. Actually, I dont like to dine here as it was really dirty to me.

For the full experience at Sai Kee, do visit our already not so new self-hosted food blog at:

http://www.gourmetgarden.com.my/2009/05/13/3-generations-cantonese-old-school-dishes-sai-kee-kl-chinatown-back-lane/

Yet another chicken rice review! It seems that we have been posting a number of chicken rice businesses for the past few weeks. What to do?!

It was Sunday, just after Sunday service at around 10:00am and not knowing what to have for breakfast or lunch, we just stopped at the first 'makan' place(eat place) that came to sight. The shop, Restaurant 98 or Big Fat Boy Chicken Rice, is at the junction of Burma Road and Kedah Road. Just next to the future Tune Hotel by Air Asia. This place offers quite a number of dishes from your basic chicken rice to like kiam chai boey, pork knuckle, stew pork, etc.So, don't worry about just having to settle with chicken rice only.

On that sunny Sunday morning, we ordered a plate of roast and poached chicken, char siew(sweet BBQ Pork strips) and chicken intestines.

The poached chicken served were from the breast section, which is my favourite past because it is meaty and less fatty. The breast meat was not too dry or hard to texture and still preserved a hint of chicken scent. Just about average I should say. The roast chicken was similarly average on texture and taste, in fact the serving of the roast chicken was so rationed that an exact review was not possible.

The Char Siew served was nice but slightly too fatty. May be because we did not specify our preferred cut and fat and meat composition. The best is half fats and half meat. The Char Siew brought back Gill's memories of the Char Siew Wantan Mee at Tiong Nam off Jalan Air Itam. The char siew and its drippngs compliment the wantan noodles like bread and butter. Those memorries remain as memories, the stall has stopped roasting their own char siew.

The other dish that we ordered was the chicken intestines. It was crunchy and slightly chewwy, but the taste was not quite right. Or I should say that the chicken intestine were not really well prepare. The intestines had an after tatste of alkelie. Traditionally, the intestine were either washed with 'sai mai sui' (water from washing rice) or flour, which would not have the after taste taste of lie.

After the meal, we still had room to try the Wantan Mee stall just next to the chicken rice stall. We saw many people ordering from that stall, so we were querious. We ordered 1 plate regular dry noodles and 1 bowl of wantan soup, and they only cost us RM 4. Still at a good price! The noodles taste traditional old school type. But the wantans are not that exceptional, it taste more like fish balls to me.

On average, I would give this place:

• 2.8/5 for value9(RM20 or 24 for the portion of chicken, char siew, intestines and rice a bit expensive for 3 head counts, the soup should be free I hope)
  
• 3/5 for taste & texture(the best dish was the char siew but was too fatty for us)
  
• 3/5 for service
• 3/5 for cleanliness
• 3/5 for atmosphere

GPS Coordinates: N5*25'9.1" E100*19'37.9"

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Here now, chulia street has added another Chicken / Roast Pork Rice Stall (Siu Lap Fan in conto) member just besides the Air Asia Office and but don't be confused, this is definitely not Goh Chew Kee Chicken Rice (吴绍泽) but they are neighbourhood.

Ching Tien Roast Chicken / Pork Rice (青天) & Goh Chew Kee Chicken Rice (吴绍泽) are the most famous along the road for many years.....but, i never try Ching Tien before due to the long que for most of the time! and Goh Chew Kee surely will not be my choice! famous doesn't mean good...well, leave it to you to find out......heeee

Anyway, my uncle who is working in town's hostel, introduced this newly opened Long Jiang Chicken & Roast Pork Rice to us, and mentioned about their big portion of Kiam Chai Boey been served without any charges and the chicken is good too. So, we decided to make our way to this yummy chicken on last 2 week, Saturday around 11am near to 12pm.


see the picture? Airasia office is just right to the next door. We were just wonder why just have few table having lunch inside the Long Jiang coffee shop but Goh Chew Kee has already crowded with "Fans".

Anyway, since we were there to try my uncle's recommendation, so we have ordered a plate of Roast & Boiled Chicken, Chicken Gizzards and Char Siew for 2. We didn't order any Roast Pork is because it looks dried.

A plate of Oil Rice with hint of chicken broth flavour (original chicken broth not MSG), not salty & heavy, it goes well with chicken...

Rating: 3.5/5

Smooth and Tasty Boiled Chicken
Actually we have ordered both boiled & roast chicken but ended up just 2 pcs of roast chicken has been given....haaa. some how the roasted chicken was slightly dried and taste just normal, so we didn't bother it much. And comes to the boiled chicken, the meat was pretty tender and smooth, and the skin can easily dissolved in your mouth! wonderful.
Rating: 4/5


Chicken Gizzards, kinda small in size, but very springy. The soy sauce on the plate was pretty appetising, it taste different compare with chicken sauce. tiny drops of chili would goes well with gizzards.
Rating: 3.8/5

wah...thinly slice of Char Siew and the meat evenly surrounded by lark....OMG. I believed they chosen the correct part of meat but unfortunately it was over flavour. Too sweet and the meat was cutted too thin, can't really taste the meat but just the glace sauce only.....gee, really wasted.
Rating: 3/5

Kiam Chai Boey

Their worker is friendly and good in service, after seeing our soup has gone fast, they automatically "top up" another half a bowl of soup for us. not just only soup, but alot of vegetable and some meat too. Well, to be honest, their soup is too sour for our taste bud, end up we left the whole bowl there...wasted....

Rating: 3/5

After we finished up all the items above, we ordered another plate of boiled chicken, gizzards & rice again! haha...really bad eating habit nowadays.

while we were enjoying our lunch, the tar pau crowd has come in a sudden, means they have their fans too. Probably is just because of newly opened so would not have much people knows about them. After chatting with the worker, he saids the boiled chicken was prepared by himself, but those roasted chicken, pork, and char siew were took from supplier. And he told us, he sells Ipoh Taugeh Chicken in the same Kopitiam at night. So, we might have to visit them again at some other night...

On average, I would give this place:

3.3/5 for value
3.8/5 for taste & texture
4/5 for service
4/5 for cleanliness
3.5/5 for atmosphere

Posted by gill