Good Seafood in Cheras - Hau Kee Seafood

Not known to many, but well known to the local residents, Hau Kee Seafood is a three shoplots seafood restaurant in Taman Yulek, Cheras which serve chinese dishes. Heard from a colleague that the owner actually owns a seafood distribution business nearby as well.

Went there on Sunday night to celebrate father's day and the place is packed! Had to park my car in some alley far away and luckily we manage to secure a table, not the ideal size for 9 person but we figure there isin't much choice (went all the way there from Subang Jaya!).

Right before we order, the captain asked if we are ok to wait 1 hour plus before being served! Since we came all the way, we just say it's ok. Not the case for the table next to us, at least 3-4 families came sat on the table and left after they found out how long they have to wait. But surprisingly someone still fills up that table at the end of the day.

We ordered the salted egg prawns (one of their signature dish), pig's intestines in black pepper, fried snow fish, 4 kings of the heavens, fried pork and japanese tofu.

The salted egg prawns is good, fried to crisp cover in salted eggs, you actually eat the whole prawns, everyone loved the prawns. The other dish that's good is the steam snow fish, a slice of the snow fish about 2cm thick is fried lightly then cover with sauce (mainly soya sauce, very light) and top with some fruits salad (honey dew and longan mix in mayonese). The fish is tender and taste just right in the light sauce while the salad works as a great appetizer.

Pig's intestines is stir fried with black pepper and chili padi, you have to eat the intestines with the chili padi or add on the belacan chili sauce (which is really good) they served with it as the intestines doesn't absorb much taste. So what in the world is the 4 kings of the heavens (sei tai tin wong), well it's actually 4 types of bean vegetables fried in belacan, quite a common dishes and I know of many other places that serve this as well.

The pork is marinated with the usual chinese spices like any other fried pork. It has a slighly creamy taste when it hits the mouth not sure if they add mayonese or anything else to it but you can taste a little beer or liquor in the meat. The tofu is normal, served with crabmeat and egg sauce.

The total damage for the night was RM 128.90 inclusive of tea, rice & etc. The portion is ok so not too bad for it's price and the taste is good to, no wonder people are coming all over the places outside of Cheras to eat here.

The other dish popular here is their claypot mutton, have to try that next. Unfortunately I was told the crabs here is rather small in size, just like Teluk Gong, 1 kilo 3 crabs, so you can't ready get much of their meat. I think there are still lots of other dishes to try here, so I will definately come back again soon!

If want to go to the place, my advise is weekends be there 6pm or so, otherwise you have to wait for tables and food. Ok, directions now, if you are coming from Kesas (Bdr Tasik Selatan) towards Ampang, right before Makro, go down to the roundabout (instead of the overhead brigde across). At the roundabout do a 12 o'clock, then keep right. At the traffic right turn right and you are in Taman Yulek. You will come to another traffic light which you have to go straight. Once you passed the 2nd traffic light, go straight (you see BP on your left and 7/11 on your right), it's one way street, then take the first turning to your right, go all the way till then end and the next right (right before Rest. Ben something) and you will see Hau Kee.

Here's the address to the place:

HAU KEE SEAFOOD
No.12 Jalan Kaskas 2, Taman Cheras, KL Tel: 03-91300113

My only regret of going to Hau Kee is I didn't manage to take any pictures of the place - charger out of order, just bought a new one but didn't manage to charge in time :(