Following my post on the Kway Teow Kia stall in Multi Mart kopitiam, many readers commented that I should also try the Hainanese congee or porridge in the same coffee shop. Actually, readers have also mentioned this Hainanese congee stall when I posted about the Cantonese porridge at Taman Johor Jaya.
So, with such strong recommendations, we made a trip to check out this much loved Hainanese porridge stall.
The camera shy elder Lim couple ran this porridge stall for over thirty years. They rest once a week but there is no fixed day. Also, they take two months off every two months, and another couple takes over the stall. Readers have commented that the two teams serve almost the same porridge (though I have tried this stall only once).
The porridge comes in only one style or maybe one and a half style - pork porridge and pork porridge with egg.
Without egg, it is RM4, add 50 sen for an egg.
The thick porridge gruel is nicely, naturally sweet and comes generously loaded with ingredients. It felt literary "homemade" where we don't hold back on ingredients :)) The fresh pork comes in thin slices and also in minced form. MR Lim said some customers like their pork sliced while others like it minced, so they decided to include both. The slices of liver were also nicely done - properly cooked yet tender (liver is rubbery when over cooked as you know).
The finely chopped preserved vegetables add an interesting savoury note to the porridge.
I need to make special mention of the home fried shallots. Crunchy and savoury, probably the best fried shallots I have come across so far.
The porridge stall starts at 7:00am till sold out which is usually around 1:00pm.
There is a constant stream of customers, including many who came in with their thermos flasks. This porridge is obviously a hearty, wholesome and yet convenient meal. Lovely comfort food, especially during the rainy season like now.
I liked this porridge very much. Recommended breakfast in Johor Bahru. Thank you to my readers who recommended this good food find.
Restaurant name: Hainanese Congee (porridge) stall in Multi Mart 满地好 kopitiam Address: Corner kopitiam at the junction of Jalan Harimau and Jalan Harimau Akar Map: http://goo.gl/maps/63Zn1 GPS: 1.485037,103.760108 Hours: 7:00am to 2:00pm Non Halal
Date visited: 12 Dec 2012
Following my post on the Kway Teow Kia stall in Multi Mart kopitiam, many readers commented that I should also try the Hainanese congee or porridge in the same coffee shop. Actually, readers have also mentioned this Hainanese congee stall when I posted about the Cantonese porridge at Taman Johor Jaya.
So, with such strong recommendations, we made a trip to check out this much loved Hainanese porridge stall.
The camera shy elder Lim couple ran this porridge stall for over thirty years. They rest once a week but there is no fixed day. Also, they take two months off every two months, and another couple takes over the stall. Readers have commented that the two teams serve almost the same porridge (though I have tried this stall only once).
The porridge comes in only one style or maybe one and a half style - pork porridge and pork porridge with egg.
Without egg, it is RM4, add 50 sen for an egg.
The thick porridge gruel is nicely, naturally sweet and comes generously loaded with ingredients. It felt literary "homemade" where we don't hold back on ingredients :)) The fresh pork comes in thin slices and also in minced form. MR Lim said some customers like their pork sliced while others like it minced, so they decided to include both. The slices of liver were also nicely done - properly cooked yet tender (liver is rubbery when over cooked as you know).
The finely chopped preserved vegetables add an interesting savoury note to the porridge.
I need to make special mention of the home fried shallots. Crunchy and savoury, probably the best fried shallots I have come across so far.
The porridge stall starts at 7:00am till sold out which is usually around 1:00pm.
There is a constant stream of customers, including many who came in with their thermos flasks. This porridge is obviously a hearty, wholesome and yet convenient meal. Lovely comfort food, especially during the rainy season like now.
I liked this porridge very much. Recommended breakfast in Johor Bahru. Thank you to my readers who recommended this good food find.
Restaurant name: Hainanese Congee (porridge) stall in Multi Mart 满地好 kopitiam Address: Corner kopitiam at the junction of Jalan Harimau and Jalan Harimau Akar Map: http://goo.gl/maps/63Zn1 GPS: 1.485037,103.760108 Hours: 7:00am to 2:00pm Non Halal
Hong Kong styled porridge 粥 or congee is one of my favourite comfort foods but I didn't see many stalls selling this classic Cantonese dish in Johor Bahru. Kaka Lok restaurant in Taman Johor Jaya is one of the few and fortunately their Hong Kong porridge or congee is good and popular :)
If the name Kaka Lok sounded familiar, it probably reminded you of the chain of bitter gourd soup restaurants known as Kah Kah Loke. Actually, more than 10 years ago, the bitter gourd soup stall and Hong Kong porridge stall shared this same premises in Kaka Lok restaurant. Later, the bitter gourd soup stall expanded and moved out, and the Hong Kong porridge stall remained.
I liked the texture of Kaka Lok's Hong Kong porridge. It was thick, globbly, heavy yet smooth. It's texture was somewhere precisely at the mid point between steamed rice and watery Teochew styled porridge (which I also liked).
To make Cantonese styled porridge, rice is boiled for many hours with fresh lean pork together with dried scallops and cuttlefish, to extract their distinctive savoury flavours.
Additional ingredients such as fresh lean pork, minced pork, century eggs, pulled chicken meat, cuttlefish, fresh fish slices, frog legs and so on are added into the piping hot porridge on customers' orders before serving.
We just had fresh minced pork added which was tender and delicious. The porridge was garnished with spring onions, shallot crackles and yaw char kwai.
Crispy yaw char kwai is a popular add on to go with the congee.
We also had a glass of Kaka Lok's famous home made soya bean drink. Kaka Lok's old school soya bean drink was creamy rich and robust with fresh soya bean taste and flavour. I had drank at countless soya bean stalls and Kaka Lok's was one of the very best. Definitely a Must Try.
Kaka Lok also has a chee cheong fun station making fresh chee cheong fun. We were too full, so we just took these photographs and save the food tasting for later.
Kaka Lok's chee cheong fun station was receiving a constant stream of orders and the chee cheong fun did looked enticingly delicious.
I am surely coming back for these.
Restaurant name: Kaka Lok Restaurant 家家樂香港粥 Address: 71, Jalan Dedap 4, Taman Johor Jaya, Johor Bahru Map: http://goo.gl/maps/c1hlP GPS: 1.541239,103.803610 Hours: 6:30am to 8:00pm (Closed on Monday) Non Halal
Date visited: 25 Sep 2012
Hong Kong styled porridge 粥 or congee is one of my favourite comfort foods but I didn't see many stalls selling this classic Cantonese dish in Johor Bahru. Kaka Lok restaurant in Taman Johor Jaya is one of the few and fortunately their Hong Kong porridge or congee is good and popular :)
If the name Kaka Lok sounded familiar, it probably reminded you of the chain of bitter gourd soup restaurants known as Kah Kah Loke. Actually, more than 10 years ago, the bitter gourd soup stall and Hong Kong porridge stall shared this same premises in Kaka Lok restaurant. Later, the bitter gourd soup stall expanded and moved out, and the Hong Kong porridge stall remained.
I liked the texture of Kaka Lok's Hong Kong porridge. It was thick, globbly, heavy yet smooth. It's texture was somewhere precisely at the mid point between steamed rice and watery Teochew styled porridge (which I also liked).
To make Cantonese styled porridge, rice is boiled for many hours with fresh lean pork together with dried scallops and cuttlefish, to extract their distinctive savoury flavours.
Additional ingredients such as fresh lean pork, minced pork, century eggs, pulled chicken meat, cuttlefish, fresh fish slices, frog legs and so on are added into the piping hot porridge on customers' orders before serving.
We just had fresh minced pork added which was tender and delicious. The porridge was garnished with spring onions, shallot crackles and yaw char kwai.
Crispy yaw char kwai is a popular add on to go with the congee.
We also had a glass of Kaka Lok's famous home made soya bean drink. Kaka Lok's old school soya bean drink was creamy rich and robust with fresh soya bean taste and flavour. I had drank at countless soya bean stalls and Kaka Lok's was one of the very best. Definitely a Must Try.
Kaka Lok also has a chee cheong fun station making fresh chee cheong fun. We were too full, so we just took these photographs and save the food tasting for later.
Kaka Lok's chee cheong fun station was receiving a constant stream of orders and the chee cheong fun did looked enticingly delicious.
I am surely coming back for these.
Restaurant name: Kaka Lok Restaurant 家家樂香港粥 Address: 71, Jalan Dedap 4, Taman Johor Jaya, Johor Bahru Map: http://goo.gl/maps/c1hlP GPS: 1.541239,103.803610 Hours: 6:30am to 8:00pm (Closed on Monday) Non Halal
