FIND THE “DONG YAN” HOME RECIPE CHINESE CUISINE RESTAURANT IN THE SOUTHERN NATION @ JOHOR
“Home Recipe Restaurant” is a kind of Chinese Cuisine Restaurant which presenting all their signatures on in-house recipes that totally differ from the others in town, all the while being practised everywhere on respective manner & recipes. Here in the southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Home Recipe Restaurant “Dong Yan” leading by their more than 30 years experiences Chef Ee in Kulai, Johor.
The local Johorean Mr. Ee Fook Seng (born 1968), who was the founder, together with his daughter Ms. Amber Ee See Teng (born 1992) and son-in-law Mr. Jovan Pang Teck Chien (born 1990) all are the recent immediate owners of this best recommended Chinese Cuisine/Home Recipe eating house “Dong Yan Restaurant” at Kulai (Johor) serving all their very home recipe and signature menus to the locals and visitors in better manner.
The founder cum Main Chef Fook Seng or known Chef Ee, who at his age of 51 years old currently, initially stepped into the f&b industry at his 18th of age in year 1985 began as a kitchen trainee touched the chinese cuisine field exposed for about 8 years in Singapore. Then started his very first own eating place “Dong Yan Seafood & Steamboat” at hometown Kulai, Johor in year 1990s running nearly 20 years there presenting his home recipe chinese, seafood & steamboat cuisines to the market all under a roof.
While owner Jovan Pang’s wife Amber Ee, who since kids touched the career helping father in their family’s restaurant made Amber having great interest in eatery, added with the couple’s (Amber & Jovan) vision to have their very own restaurant and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry. Also wishing to continue and further expose father’s home recipes allowed Amber and husband in year 2018 successfully established their home recipe chinese cuisine eating house named again “Dong Yan Restaurant” at Bandar Indahpura, Kulai. Leading by father Chef Ee from the beginning, also finally being recognised among the best in town by the F&B E-Media for the year 2019 in the southern nation.
In this Dong Yan home recipe restaurant, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus will be their famous “Tomyam Seafood Pot”, which favourite by their visitors all the while. Homemade tomyam paste (from more than 10 spices mixture) boiled into tomyam soup broth, then served boiling in metal pot with seafoods option such grouper fish head pieces, squids, sea prawns, lala clams and sometimes added into crabs will brings excellent sour & spicy and the seafood freshness taste swallowed into mouth that you must have a try when reached Johor. Served sided with noodles and veges option from customer’s preference will complete their best tomyam seafood pot eatery in-house here.
Secondly will be their signature authentic “Fish Head Pot”, which prepared in traditional TeoChew style that most wanted by their regular customers. Home soup base boil-cooked at least 3 hours in mixtures of chicken & fish, then whole day long boiled in metal pot insided with some chinese herbal ingrediants, grouper fish heads, water beancurd cubes (taufu), yam cubes, white cabbage & tomatoes and finally served with slight fresh milk poured into will brings wonderful authentic fish head’s and herbal’s exotic freshness taste into mouth that you will neither found the same nor better elsewhere in town.
Another will be their “Signature Lotus Leaf Beancurd”, which also among the restaurant’s daily top seller recently. Homemade beancurd or taufu steamed 25 minutes in-house from mixtures of fresh soya milk & chicken egg in shape, followed by deep fried then mixed onto minced pork, chopped long beans, mushrooms & yam shredded in home sauce broth, steamed for another few minutes on lotus leaf will brings unbelievable beancurd’s smoothness itself and the nice lotus leaf taste that you will never regret after tasted here.
Nonetheless, the owners also introduced their Chef Ee’s all time favourite recommended “Garlic Fried Belly Pork” which like by all their visitors and locals. Local fresh pork belly commonly selected, prepared in fine sliced pieces, deep fried then followed by a minute wok-fried with garlic, chilli padi & home sauce recipes will brings the best wok-taste and crispy bites pork belly pieces into mouth that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Home Recipe Chinese Cuisine “Dong Yan Restaurant” at Kulai, Johor.
DONG YAN RESTAURANT
Address: No. 551,
Jalan Kenanga 29/18,
Bandar Indahpura,
81000 Kulai,
Johor.
Business Hours: 11:00am to 3:00pm
5:00pm to 11:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Tuesday)