Batu Caves Pan Heong food review

When people talk about Batu Caves, normally they just knew that Batu Caves has only caves that the Hindu gather around during some big festival. Many of them don't know that there are some hidden famous food spot near the cave. Pan Heong restaurant famous among the food spot there by serving some nice and unique food. You know what. Every weekend, the crowd there was crazy. You need to take your number card and wait for your turn. Normally it takes at least 20 mins to reach your turn. Arghh!!! Can't wait to review the food to the rest of the world. Slurpppss!!!

This is the shop of Ban Heong of different angles. The restaurant not as luxury as 5 star hotels but the food are way in front of many high class dining area. The atmosphere there wasn't as good as you think. There was very very hot inside (I bet you will sweat like hell while eating) and the loud voice turn in and out your ear non stop (chinese restaurant is like that one). But only in this kind of atmosphere suitable for that kind of food.

Pan Heong was famous because of the porridge they served. Among the best was the "shang yu" porridge and silver prompet porridge. Nomally when we prepare porridge we only used the flesh without the bone. But in this place the what they do was just cut the whole fish into smaller pieces and cook with the porridge. Bone was cooked with the porridge too. I think this was a better wasy to cook fish porridge because the real taste of fish was preserved. And the most important factor that made the porridge awesome was the porridge was free from fishy smell. Thumb up for the porridge.

The conroe (taro pork) bihun (扣肉)was the must order food when you visit this shop. One of the highlight of the shop just like when you visit Penang you must get few box of "tou sha bing". The half mean half fat meats was awesome combination with the bihun. With some nice sauses mixing with the combination made the plate of bihun juicy enough.

You know what. Vegetables must always be on the dining table for healthy life style. Any vege will do. But I prefer "Yau Mak" cooked with "fu yu" (preserved taufu). Great combination!!!

Steamed prawn. The steamed prawn threre was awesome. Big prawn with roe steaming with some alcohol remain the natural taste of the prawn. The most imporatant things was the fresh seafood taste of the prawn had brought out by the alcohol. The flesh of the prawn was juicy and bouncy like eating jelly like that. The roe of the prawn was the highlight. Without the roe the prawn won't be so perfect. Not recommended for those who had high cholestrol.

"Nam Yu" fried chicken. Deep fried chicken mixing with nam yu was totally different from the ordinary fried chicken. The chicken was cripier nicer than the normal chicken provided that you love nam yu (sauce made using yam).

And the last yet the best. That was my favourite order here. Mamak Mee. Chinese style mamak mee was way nicer than the one you try at those mamak store. Yellowish mee stirring with vege, pork, egg, beancurd with some fried union sprinkled on top of the dish. I managed to whallop the whole big plate if I was foodless for a few days. Left and Right thumb up

Overall Rating : 8.5/10

address : No. 2, Jalan Medan Batu Caves 2,

              Medan Batu Caves, 68100 Batu Caves.
             (Malaysia)

Operating hours : 8.00am to 3.30pm

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