The classic sweet and sour crabs... very yummy,PORT KLANG, April 30 I am lucky to have friends who know Port Klang well, and who can lead me to the best place here for seafood without us getting lost. So here we are, somewhere in North Port, in an area called Tanjung Harapan, walking along a long wooden platform into Port Village Seafood Restaurant.Its obviously been around for a long time and the restaurant has a view of the estuary, with a couple of fishing boats on it. We are here for the crabs and since we cant decide which style we want them cooked in, we have three the classic sweet and sour, Kam Heong with dried prawn sambal and curry leaves, and salted egg yolk.
The chiu yim mantis prawns were a surprise.We also order some Hainanese noodles, oyster omelette and mantis prawns, chiu yim (salt and pepper) style, and a plate of healthy greens sweet potato shoots stirfried with garlic.You catch a whiff of the sweet and sour crabs as they are brought to the table, the crabs glistening with the thick orangey and eggy sauce poured over them. Tart and sweet came out in perfect balance, with a little chilli hotness gelling with the tomato sauce and a little vinegar used to cook them. I loved the crab in the sauce; it was even better with the very light, fried mantou to mop it up.The next best one was the Kam Heong crabs. They smouldered with chilli in the sambal dried prawns, the strong aromas coming through, including those of fried curry leaves.The salted egg sauce for the next cooking style was mellower, with bites of salted egg yolk chunks on the crabs tossed in this.The mantis prawns were dipped in a light batter, deepfried with dried chillies and tossed in salt. They were surprisingly fleshy and you could detach easily the sweet and fresh meat from the shell. They were sublime. You could also have these deepf! ried wit h butter, but I prefer the subtler chiu yim treatment.
The Hainanese noodles are a must-try.I would also come back here for the light and fluffy Oh Chien or oyster omelette, which was studded generously with oysters.The Hainanese noodles were delicious. They were exactly as I remember them in a restaurant in Bangsar Baru which I used to frequent many years ago. The yellow noodles were finished in a sauce that had a sour lift from lime juice and on top of them were lots of finely cut onions and cucumber, fish cake, pork and omelette. It had all the right ingredients, and the right flavours. I could just have the noodles at this restaurant and be happily satisfied.The restaurant is also known for its Kam Heong bamboo clams, assam curry fish, steamed fish Teochew style and Marmite crabs, among other dishes. Its not all that expensive eating here.Restaurant Port Village Seafood is located at LMS A 12800, Tg Harapan, 42000 Port Klang, Selangor. Tel: 03-3176 4531, 03-3176 4522.Call for directions or get acquainted with Google Maps before you set off.
A view of the estuary,,, serene,
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