THE BEST RECOGNISED SINO-KADAZAN BAK KUT TEH CARRIED BY “XIANG XIANG” RUNNING IN THE STATE OF SABAH
“Bak Kut Teh” or also known the Chinese Herbal Pork Soup is always among the Malaysia’s local non-halal/chinese no.1 delicacy eatery which being practised since decades, and believed that was originated from Klang, Selangor favourite by the locals & visitors, nowadays carried by restaurants everywhere on respective recipes. Here in the eastern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended and the first Sino-Kadazan Bak Kut Teh Restaurant “Xiang Xiang” along the Penampang, Kota Kinabalu (Sabah). Having great positive response from the market recently.
All the local originated Sabahans, Mr. Daniel Yee Hon Hung (born 1984), together with his business partners Mr. Peter Wong Chin Yuan (born 1980) & wife Ms. Connie Goh Cheng Yee (born 1984) and Mr. Daniel Issac Hoong (born 1984) all were the initial founders, also the recent immediate owners of this best recommended Sino-Kadazan Chinese Herbal Pork Soup “Xiang Xiang Bak Kut Teh” at Penampang, Sabah presenting all their very home-cooked recipes & signature menus to the locals and visitors all under a roof.
Among the founder cum owner Daniel Yee, who at his age of 36 years old currently, been initially stepped into the f&b industry began as a kitchen trainee touched the Western &Malaysian Local Delight Cuisines in Kuala Lumpur at his 20th of age in year 2004 stayed and experienced few years in the field before returned to hometown Sabah. While best friends of him (Peter Wong & Daniel Issac Hoong), whose also having interest in eateries especially Bak Kut Teh brought them into a team later-on decided to expose into the f&b industry locally.
With the home recipes being generation-passed onto by their so-called Uncle, added with their vision to have very own eating house locally and foreseeing the market opportunity in the industry enabled them to bodied-up then successfully established their very first owned Sino-Kadazan style “Xiang Xiang Bak Kut Teh” in the ITCC Shopping Mall, Penampang (Sabah) in the end-year 2018 serving their home recipes to the local market. Finally being recognised among the best in town by the F&B E-Media for the year 2020 in the Eastern Nation, Malaysia.
In this Xiang Xiang Bak Kut Teh, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus surely will be their Signature Sino-Kadazan Style “Claypot Bak Kut Teh” which among the local’s best most wanted from the beginning. Mixtures of 14 chinese herbals boiled an hour in-house, then into local fresh pork offals (such belly, lean meat, stomach, intestine, ribs, trotter, tail etc), finally served boiling hot in claypot in mixtures of pork offals (or on customer’s request/preference of additional), topped with dried beancurds will always bring the exotic chinese herbal taste swallowed and the pork’s freshness bites into mouth that you must have a try when reached Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Secondly will be their famous home-fried “Dry Bak Kut Teh”, which also among the restaurant’s daily top seller favourite by their visitors all the while. Mixtures of boiled pork offals (commonly with belly, lean meat, stomach, ribs, meat ball & intestine) fresh fried in claypot on order mixed into long beans, dried chilli & dried cuttlefish with black soy sauce, and finally served hot on table will brings delicious fair sweet and pork’s texturing bites into mouth that you will never regret after tasted here.
Another will be their very special “Bak Kut Teh Kon Lao Mee” which being the first leading Chinese Herbal Pork Soup Noodles made available in the state, like by the customers recently. Sabah local-made Tuaran Mee (Flour-made Noodles) commonly selected, boil-cooked & mixed with their soy sauce broth into home-fried pork lards, topped onto fresh chopped spring onions and finally taken sided with a hot bowl of their Bak Kut Teh soup mixtures will be the best perfect matching in taking chinese herbal pork soup with dry kon lao mee (noodles) of eatery here that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town other than “Xiang Xiang Bak Kut Teh”.
While in the side order corner, the owners introduced their all time favourite recommended “Lihin Kidney” (Rice Wine Pork Kidney) which wanted by their regulars here. Local fresh pork kidneys commonly cleaned, then fresh boiled minutes in claypot on order with their local-made lihin (rice wine) mixed into ginger shredded, then finally served boiling hot on table will brings the best pork kidney’s freshness bites into mouth and the lihin (rice wine) sweet smooth swallowed that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Sino-Kadazan Style “Xiang Xiang Bak Kut Teh” at Penampang, on the land below the wind Sabah, East Malaysia.
XIANG XIANG BAK KUT TEH
(SINO-KADAZAN BAK KUT TEH)
Address: Lot No. G-6 & G-33B,
Ground Floor,
ITCC Shopping Mall,
Jalan Pintas Penampang,
89500 Penampang,
Sabah.
Business Hours: 10:00am to 10:00pm (Daily)