Teluk Gong, Cheap and Good Seafood?

Once filled with palm oil estates, Teluk Gong more than 5 years ago is no more than a sleeply village. The only reason I remember passing that area back then was because that's the only road leading to West Port which was my client when i was doing advertising.

In the recent years, the name Teluk Gong have related itself to "Cheap and Good Seafood" spreading through merely word of mouth. Anyone who visits the place would definately come back as the food is good, seafood is great and price is reasonable. That was my impression two years back when I was introduced to the place.

The number of seafood restaurant there have mushroomed over the years from one to a few to many. Those older ones have also renovated themselves to compete with the new comers.

The usual chinese seafood is available here as well as non seafood chinese dishes. The more popular one would be pissing shrimp fried with mee hoon, marmite Crabs, salt baked crabs, steam fish, Chili La-la, red wine chicken, calrsberg steam chicken, salted chicken and guiness pork ribs.

I guess the most important factor in Teluk Gong success story is influenced by the ability to be creative and come out with new dishes to attract the ever demanding Klang Valley crowd while being able to keep the prices reasonable. The latest dish I know is Chicken Essence Steam Fish, yet to try that, hope to do so soon.

Most of the dishes are quite good, but I wish the crabs are just slightly bigger... on average they charge RM26-27 per kilo for crabs here and one crab weights about 300gm+. This is slightly too small and you don't get much meat. The legs are pretty much empty and you get some meat from the shell if you put in enough effort. I am just too lazy, to me crabs should be ideally 500gm and above. Some restaurant have slightly bigger one but they charge around RM30 per kilo but supply is limited.

One special thing about Teluk GOng you can't find town or city restaurant is Yeh Fah Chou - Coconut Flower Wine, which is a kind of wine which is extracted from the coconut tree. This stuff looks like thick barley drink taste slightly sour but great aroma. Mix it with guiness stout for the ultimate enjoyment, but careful a little too much you will start seeing stars!

The most frequented restaurant for me is Coconut Flower, but a recent visit to Glenmarie Bay is not too bad too. An average meal with reasonable dishes cost about RM12.00-20.00 per person depending what you order. Not bad considering that you walk away with a seafood filled and satisfied stomach.

Teluk Gong may still remains a favourite seafood place for most Klang Valley residents because of it's good variety and fair pricing. Personally I think quality is dropping but hopefully with more competitors coming up, existing restaurant would buck up their taste back to authentic rather than commercial. In the mean time, if I didn't want to go too far for budget seafood, Teluk Gong will remain my choice.