| | Bak kut teh.. a type of dish that is widely popular in the west malaysia especially in klang has been around for ages.. The literal translation in english would be Bone Tea, which is I guess could be due to the fact that the soup is brewed in chunks of pork ribs and bones. It can either be served in bowls like in typical klang bak kut teh's restaurants or in a claypot, which i personally prefer. So, i had been to klang for bak kut teh with my lovely dearie a couple of times one month ago and hasn't had bak kut teh for few weeks when suddenly Valz msged me and asked me for lunch. She said she had been wanting to taste this Yu Kee bak kut teh in ss14 which had been luring her with the aromatic smells. So we both went to this restaurant for lunch.
We ordered the food suitable for servings for 1 person and we didnt had to wait long for the food. However, the bad omen were apparent when the garlic first came. The garlic which was supposed to go together with the light soya sauce and cili padi. To my dismay, the chopped garlic were chopped so pathetically that they might as well just leave it as it is because, yes, it is still so big and not nicely chopped! Not that i am very particular but when it is as big as half a mentos, it's a definite NO! Anyway, the bak kut teh was served within 15 mins of ordering which is pretty quick. However, again to our disappointment, the soup is rather tasteless and rather than bak kut teh, it should be called hot-water-with-a-very-limited-herbs-in-it-that-it-is-so-tasteless but i guess that wouldn't be that appealing to customers. So, they had to go with the trend and named it bak kut teh to torture us who genuinely believed that it's the authentic bak kut teh. Even the yau char kwai is cold and not crispy, so when you dip it into the soup, instead of being soft yet crispy, it became hard to chew. The food is so bad that we had to struggle to finish them. And expectedly, we couldn't finish our rice, and everything else. Thankfully the chrysanthemum tea taste normal and that's the only thing we managed to finish.
The above picture merely is one of the item that we couldnt finish. Costing about RM26 for two of us, i would strongly recommend everyone else to spend some extra 20 minutes and drive to klang instead for a more authentic and satisfying bak kut teh. Heck, i would rather just eat the wan tan mee outside my house. At least for RM3.50, i get more satisfaction. All in all, double thumbs down for this restaurant. Remember this saying, 'Eating bak kut teh in Yu Kee Restaurant, you'll definitely complain and rant!'
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