Teluk Pulai Bak Kut Teh @ Klang

NON HALAL POST

A long time ago, when people mention the words "Bak Kut Teh", the next word they mutter is "Klang". These two phrases has always been referred together, abit like Yin and Yang.

Apparently after many years, one can have Yin and the other have Yang, with other variations like Yan and Ying.

Bak kut teh will always in my eyes be one of the pioneer non halal dishes that has flourished in a country where half of the population dont eat pig or pork. Not only that, no longer do you need to drive down all the way to the smelly ports of Klang, because you see stalls that sell the pork broth and simmer parts of the pig everywhere, from the stall outside your house to KL, PJ and any other place you can imagine except for halal areas, i suppose.

Now you got KL version of Bak Kut Teh that has a lighter colour, more easy going, with the same kick akin to Coke. Then again, how come you compare Diet Coke with Coke right?

Thus the journey to Klang.

Now eating Klang Bak Kut Teh is different from having it in KL.

First, you have got to make your own tea, from cleaning the pot, to putting it in the leaves and pouring tea to the cup. Juniors have to do the job, with starring eyes waiting to pounce if you didnt follow all the steps properly. Some say, there is even a manual to do it right, i say quickly get the tea out, so the Bak Kut Teh can come.

Once that is done, you wait, very patiently. The open kitchen says it all, claypot after claypot they dish it out, big containers of the fragant dark pork soup that shouts drink me and pig after pig chopped up. Sounds sick? You missed out one of the world's greatest invention.

Now it was in Klang, that i learn to eat my Bak Kut Teh like a true master. Gone are the days when you ask for dry Pai Kuat ("Ribs"), then came a time when you call for Yun Kuat ("Soft Ribs"), then Zhu Zhang ("Some akin to the 3 layer meat, like the cut they use for roast pork"). Now i only eat Peh Yuk or in Hokkien, Sui Kut ("The mothers of all drumsticks").

One can ask for fish balls (alright i suppose), intestines (no smell, absolutely gorgeous), all kinds of mushrooms to balance the diet and more heavenly soup.

Writing this down makes me saliva, damn you Bak Kut Teh.

Just another picture to torture me on a Monday morning.

Address and contact details:
Teluk Pulai Bak Kut Teh
32, Jalan Batai Laut 5,
Kawasan 16, Taman Intan,
41300 Klang

Tel: 03-33445196

Please go early mornings to avoid being disappointed.

Verdict: 4 stars out of 5 stars. To get soup that is thicker and tastier then this, you got to eat Bak Kut Teh real early, stalls that sell out by 10am. As an alternative, this is the best bet because by the time you drive up to Klang it aint going to be 9am. Consistent good meat and soup, oil rice with shallots, what more can you ask for? Claypot for 3 with misc will cost you RM38.

I do eat cheap food!