Bah Kut Teh in Cameron Highland

Friday, June 05, 2009

To have Bah Kut  Teh as our lunch or dinner when holidaying in Cameron Highland  is considered not a good option for me because:

1. No feedback so far by others on any recommendable Bah Kut Teh in Cameron Highland;
2. There is plenty of good Bah Kut The stalls near our home in PJ. Why come so far to take?
3. Always hoping to find some good foods that are different and unavailable in PJ.

For these reasons we, as well as many other holiday makers here are seen more interested in taking steam boat and seafood meals.

We will however squeeze in a Bah Kut  Teh session if the  last one we had back home was quite some time ago, i.e. at least 2 week or when we have become stale with other types of foods. Who knows if we happen to find a “gem”  here then we can boast to our friends and looked well travelled.

With this in mind we roamed around the small eatery shops in the side roads of Brinchang at about 1.15 pm and not after long we settled to a second Bah Kut Teh shop we spotted. The first one we spotted told us that they only sell for dinner.

We ordered the following:

1. Mixed Bah Kut  Teh with soup (we were told they also serve dry Bah Kut  Teh) for 2 persos;
2. Pork leg stew with vinegar – “Chee Keo Zhou” for 1 person;
3. Oiled veggie “Kai Lan Mieu”;
4. A pot of Chinese tea;
5. One portion of “yau char kuay”.

I must say that all my enthusiasm of finding a great Bah Kut  Teh in this cooling highland begin to quickly fizzle out as soon as I saw the appearance of the vinegar pork leg served to us. A few pieces of pork throttle cuts with thick layer of fat and skin were floating in a claypotful of dark brown looking gravy. The pork pieces looked overboiled, did not look firm and without disseminating a good aroma of the any ingredients used.

I obliged to just taste two pieces and gave up.

The oyster sauced boiled kai lan mieu was also a disaster. The stalks were long and hard and rough which will take long time to chew.

The only consolation was that the mixed Bah Kut Teh tasted reasonable but not particularly special. This was the first time in eating Bah Kut  Teh that I did’nt order an extra rice even though I was not fully filled.

Total billed came to RM47.50.