TASTE THE AUTHENTIC TEOCHEW CLAYPOT BAK KUT TEH (CHINESE HERBAL PORK SOUP) IN “TONG KEE” @ MID SOUTHERN
“Claypot Bak Kut Teh” or commonly carrying the meaning of claypot chinese herbal pork soup eatery which believed that was originated from Klang, Selangor (Malaysia) among the chinese’s traditional authentic herbal-boiled soup with pork offals that favourite by the locals and most wanted by visitors since decades. Here in the mid southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Claypot Bak Kut Teh eating house “Tong Kee” running at Tangkak, Johor. Having great positive response from the market recently.
The Muar (Johor) originated Mr. Tong Chen Long (born 1985), was the initial founder, together with his wife Ms. Lim Li Pei (Tangkak, born 1990) both are the recent immediate couple owners of this best recommended Chinese Herbal Pork Soup Restaurant “Tong Kee Bak Kut Teh” along the Tangkak township in the state of Johor all the while presenting their home-cooked soup/dry bak kut teh and other signature menus to the locals & visitors all under a roof in manner.
The founder cum owner Tong Chen Long, who at his age of 35 years old currently, been initially touched the f&b industry since his teenage work as a part-timer experienced the bak kut teh field at Tangkak, Johor. Later-on been fully stepped into the career after his secondary education age of 18th, exposed about another 10 years in the field. Then began his very first owned Bak Kut Teh foodstall named it the “Tong Kee” in a chinese coffee shop along Tangkak township in year 2014, where his wife Li Pei stepped & joined helping her husband Chen Long thoroughly.
With vision to further his (Chen Long) exposure in the industry, added with the experiences & recipes on-hand and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry (especially in Bak Kut Teh) allowed Chen Long in year 2017 decided then successfully expanded & moved his career into the very first owned eating house along the Jalan Solok, Tangkak officially on “Tong Kee Bak Kut Teh” continue serving all their home recipes to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the F&B E-Media for the year 2020 in the mid southern nation.
In this Tong Kee Bak Kut Teh, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus surely will be their home-cooked TeoChew “Claypot Bak Kut Teh Soup” which most wanted by all their regulars. Home soup base boiled in about 2 hours with nearly 10 chinese herbals mixture, then boiled another an hour into pork offals such spare ribs, belly, trotter, stomach, liver, intestine, kidney etc, and finally served boiling in claypot (pork mixtures on customer’s preference) with mushrooms, dried beancurd sheets & veges will be a perfect pot of their exotic herbal taste with pork’s freshness bites texture of Bak Kut Teh that you must have a try when reached Tangkak, Johor.
Secondly will be their very special “Dry Bak Kut Teh with Cheese”, which among the restaurant’s signature favourite by the visitors recently. Mixtures of pork lean meats & pork belly fried in claypot with black soy sauce, dried chilli, dried cuttlefish shredded, lady fingers into home recipes and finally served hot in claypot topped onto cheese will brings a pot of their cheesy salty spice kind of special dry bak kut teh eatery that you will neither found the same nor better elsewhere in town. Only in this Tong Kee Bak Kut Teh.
While in the side order corner, their home-cooked “Braised Chicken Feets” will always among the local’s selection taken sided with bak kut teh here. An hour home-braised chicken feets (deep fried) with garlics, into slight chinese herbals & recipes mixture, served toppings with fresh chopped chilli & garlics will brings appertising salty sweet in soft texturing bites of braised chicken feets into mouth that you will never regret after tasted here.
In order to complete your bak kut teh meal here, their “Braised Dried Beancurd” or locally known as the Tau Pok and “Home Stewed Salted Veges” are always cannot be aside while taken with bak kut teh here. Other than hot-boiled white rice, their famous “Home-Cooked Yam Rice” will also be their customer’s favourite taken in set either with their Bak Kut Teh Soup or Dry Bak Kut Teh that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Chinese Herbal Pork Soup (Bak Kut Teh) eating house “Tong Kee Bak Kut Teh” at Tangkak, Johor.
TONG KEE BAK KUT TEH
Address: LC. 14,
Jalan Solok,
84900 Tangkak,
Johor.
Business Hours: 8:00am to 4:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Alternate Monday)