Familiar Hakka dishes would be braised belly pork with yam or with preserved vegetables. Hakka Lui Char or rice with a variety of stirfried vegetables, finely cut, and peanuts, on which is poured a mixed tea soup that has ground tea leaves, sesame, peanuts, ikan bilis and basil in it, has become popular in recent years as something quite nutritious and tasty to eat.
The Lui Char was disappointing though: the char or tea part of it was a little diluted and weak in flavour. Stirred with the rice and other ingredients, it tasted flat.
I had been looking forward to the Drunken Egg Omelette with Ginger and Rice Wine but we settled for the Drunken Chicken instead. I once had this wonderful omelette fried with lots of ginger and floating in rice wine in this restaurant.
But I must say the Drunken Kampung Chicken which came in a black claypot, cooked with lots of crunchy wood fungus and ginger, tasted just as good. It was winey enough, with a light sweetness and a lovely aroma. Im told that its hard to get a supply of good Chinese rice wine to cook with. Sometimes a batch of it may even be sour.
Crispy Pork Belly with Fermented Beancurd had also caught our fancy, and a delicious aroma floated up as it was brought to the table. The thin slices of pork had this perfect balance of lean and fat, and they were crispy as promised, without being fibrous.
The slightly crunchy pigs stomach blended well with the yam and mushrooms, and Im sure if fresh chestnuts instead of dried ones had been used, it would have tasted so much better.
Sauteed Assorted Mushrooms Hakka Style was our other vegetable dish there were shiitake, enoki and eringgi mushrooms, stirfried with red and green peppers that were naturally sweet and tasty.
The prices: Minced Pork Ban Tiao is RM14.90, Drunken Egg with Rice Wine RM16, Crispy Por! k Belly with Fermented Beancurd RM26, Stuffed Bittergourd RM21, Drunken Kampung Chicken RM36, Stirfried Assorted Mushrooms RM19.
Ying Ker Lou is in several shopping centres in Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur. The one we went to is the original one, on the first floor of The Curve, Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya (Tel: 03-7729-4229).
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