THE RECOGNISED “LEE WAH SAN” NEARLY 100 YEARS CHINESE TRADITIONAL HERBAL TEA & DESSERT HOUSE @ NEGERI SEMBILAN
August 2, 2022 Negeri Sembilan
“Chinese Herbal Tea & Dessert” is all the while among the local Chinese’s traditional authentic kind of beverages/eateries prepared from the mixture of chinese herbals into home recipe of seasonings believed to bring healthy solutions, which being practised since century on our nation brought into by the Chinese migrants. Here in the middle southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended nearly 100 years history Chinese Herbal Tea “Lee Wah San” running into their 4-generations at Seremban, Negeri Sembilan having great positive response from the market recently.
The Seremban, Negeri Sembilan local originated Mr. Cheok Kah Lok (born 1992), was the founder (4th generation), together with his mother Madam Lee Siow Meei (3rd generation, born 1967) are the family’s owners of this best recognised “Lee Wah San” Chinese Traditional Herbal Tea & Dessert House right in the Seremban city presenting their Lee family’s 4-generations chinese herbal tea options and also signature menus on dessert & cooked food selections to the locals and visitors all under a roof in better manner today on the middle southern ground.
The restaurant’s first owner Cheok Kah Lok’s great-grandfather late Mr. Lee Wah San who initially reached Seremban (Malaysia) from Guangdong, China holding knowledge in the chinese herbals began his very roadside Chinese Herbal Tea (Lee Wah San) right along the Seremban old-township in the 1940s serving his home-cooked herbal tea recipes to the locals, then generation passed onto the next generation on the same ground. While Cheok Kah Lok, who at his age of 30 years old currently was formerly in the Logistic Industry (in his father family’s career) all the while having interest in eatery been stepped into the f&b industry at his 28th of age been passed onto grandmother’s home recipes in the traditional charcoal roasted egg-biscuit (kuih kapit) started his very home-based career, later-on began his family’s 4-generations chinese herbal tea career in the early year 2021 running his herbal tea stall in the night market at hometown Seremban. Then also been running his food stall in a restaurant where Kah Lok touched the cooked food and grandmother’s homemade yam cake (taro cake) eatery on the same floor with his passions in the field.
With family’s home recipes on-hand, added with his vision to have his very own eating house locally and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry. Also wishing to bring again his great-grandfather’s 4-generations chinese herbal tea recipes back to the reality and support from mother Madam Lee Siow Meei allowed Cheok Kah Lok decided then successfully established his very owned Chinese Herbal Tea & Dessert House officially named the “Lee Wah San Herbal Tea” (by CKL Maju Enterprise) in the end of year 2021 along the Uptown Avenue (Seremban 2) introducing all their signatures to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year 2022 in the middle southern nation at Negeri Sembilan.
In this Lee Wah San Herbal Tea House, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus surely will be their family’s 4-generations home-boiled “Bamboo Sugarcane Tea” in the chinese herbal tea selection most wanted by their regulars. Bamboo sugarcane few hours home-boils with arrow roots into brown sugar, then finally served in fair sweet with wonderful sugarcane’s freshness taste swallowed that you must have a try when reached Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. Also their famous “Pear & Honey Dates Tea”, which also among the herbal tea house’s daily selection wanted by most of the locals from the beginning. Local/imported pear boiled at least 2 hours with honey dates into slight sugar in seasonings, and finally served with pear’s sour fair sweet freshness taste of herbal tea that you cannot aside here.
While in the Chinese Dessert Soup corner, their home recipes on “Red Bean Soup” is always their visitor’s wanted option here. Selected red beans cooked at least 2 hours in-house, into dried orange peels & brown sugar in seasonings, then served hot/warm on table will brings excellent red bean soup’s freshness smooth with red bean’s bites texture itself into mouth that you will never regret after tasted here. Another will be their special “Peach Gum & Snow Fungus Soup” among the signature chinese dessert soup prepared in hours home-cooked with mixture of peach gum, gei zi, snow fungus, dried longan & slight sugar in seasonings, then served in chewing peach gum & snow fungus bites with fair sweet chinese dessert soup eatery that you neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Other than chinese herbal tea and dessert soup, their “Soy Sauce Braised Pork with Rice” also the daily selection in the cooked food main course menus like by their customers. Owner’s (Kah Lok) mother home recipe soy sauce braised pork using local fresh pork meats prepared in diced pieces, marinated overnight in home recipes then fried & followed by home-braised in soy sauce with seasonings, and finally served on hot boiled white rice sided-around with chopped long beans, mali leaves, dried radish & choy sum will be the best matching of their delicious salty sweet tasty Braised Pork Rice eatery that you need to taste in this eating house.
Moreover, the owner Kah Lok also introduced his grandmother’s home recipes on “Yam/Taro Cake” which among their all time favourite side-eatery in menus. Thailand imported yam (taro) selected, prepared in cutted cubes, then home-fried with dried shrimps, garlics & onions, then mixed into selected rice flour with seasonings followed by about half an hour steam-cooked, finally served toppings of fried onions, chopped spring onions & red chilli shredded taken dipping onto their homemade sweet sauce & chilli paste will brings authentic exotic yam’s (taro) tasty with juicy bites of their Yam Cake eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Chinese Herbal Tea & Dessert House “Lee Wah San Herbal Tea” (by CKL Maju Enterprise) at Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.
LEE WAH SAN HERBAL TEA
(CKL MAJU ENTERPRISE)
Address: No. 294G,
Jalan S2 B13,
Uptown Avenue,
70300 Seremban 2,
Negeri Sembilan.
Business Hours: 9:30am to 9:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Monday)