THE RECOGNISED “DAI YU” CHINESE CUISINE FAMILY KITCHEN CARRYING BY THE 45 YEARS EXPERIENCES CHEF CHONG @ PAHANG
“Chinese Cuisine Family Kitchen” is all the while a kind of the local chinese’s favourite place for friends & families dining or eating restaurant which carrying the combination of chinese, local & seafood recipes under a roof, being famously & widely practised everywhere on our nations since decades with respective home recipes. Here on the east coast nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Chinese Cuisine Family Kitchen/Restaurant “Dai Yu” running by the 45 years experiences Chef Chong along the Karak, Pahang having great positive response from the market recently.
The Karak, Pahang local originated Mr. Chong Kong Wah (born 1961), was the initial founder and also the sole recent immediate owner of this best recognised Chinese Cuisine Family Kitchen/Restaurant “Dai Yu” right along the Karak territory presenting all his local delicacy home-cooked eatery selections and signature chinese recipe menus to the locals and visitors all under a roof with his patience on the east coast ground at Pahang.
The founder cum owner Chong Kong Wah (also known Chef Chong), who at his age of 62 years old currently, all the while having interest in eatery & culinary been initially stepped into the industry at his only 17th of age began as a kitchen trainee at Kuantan, Pahang in the year 1978 all the while experienced in the local chinese cuisine field. Also reached Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Terengganu, Sarawak, China, Hong Kong and been stayed about 20 years in Singapore exposed in the career along his culinary journey, being positioned as a Chinese Cuisine Chef at his 20th then running his very first owned chinese cuisine restaurant at hometown Karak in the year 1983. Later-on further his exposures into Kuantan (Pahang) & Kepong (Kuala Lumpur) on his entrepreneurship.
With strong experiences & recipes on-hand, added with vision to have his long-good eating restaurant locally and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry recently enabled Chef Chong decided then successfully established his very hometown based Chinese Cuisine Family Kitchen officially named the “Dai Yu Restaurant” at Taman Karak Jaya, Karak in the year 2020 continue serving all his signatures to the public in better manner. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year 2023 on the east coast nation at Pahang.
In this Dai Yu Restaurant, the owner’s very first top recommended in menus will be their signature “Sizzling Hot Plate Seafood” which most wanted by the locals all the while. Combination of local fresh sea ming prawns, squids/cuttlefish & lala clams cooked with their homemade sour spicy paste into onions, red chili & beans, and finally served boiling hot on sizzling hot plate will brings the excellent tasty seafood’s freshness swallowed of their Hot Plate Seafood eatery that you must have a try when reached Karak, Pahang.
Secondly will be their famous “Thai Style Pork Trotter”, which always among the restaurant’s daily selection wanted by their regulars from the beginning. Local fresh pork trotter (pork leg) commonly selected, cleaned then home-braised for at least 2 hours in home recipes into chinese herbals, followed by deep fried and finally served with their home-mixed sour sweet spicy thai sauce will brings wonderful trotter skin’s crispy bites with juicy meat’s texturing into mouth of their Thai Style Pork Trotter eatery that you will never regret after tasted here.
Another will be their special “Ying Yong Pork Ribs” (Dual Taste Pork Ribs), which also among the founder Chef Chong’s killing menu favourite by most of the visitors here. Local fresh pork ribs cleaned, marinated in hours followed by deep fried, finally served in a portion with the in-house chef’s special homemade sour sweet sauce king mixture and another portion with home-mixed salad/mayo sauce toppings of sesame seeds will be the best matching of their Dual (2) Taste Pork Ribs eatery with pork rib’s juicy tasty bites itself into mouth that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Moreover, the owner also introduced their customers’ all time favourite “Deep Fried Pork Belly with Garlic” among the restaurant’s signature menu like by their comers. Local fresh pork belly prepared in fine slices, hours marinated & floured-up in recipes, followed by deep fried with garlics, and finally served crispy hot on table with exotic garlic’s fragrant tasty swallowed kind of eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Chinese Cuisine Family Kitchen “Dai Yu Restaurant” at Karak, Pahang.
DAI YU RESTAURANT
Address: No. 384,
Jalan Hijau 7,
Taman Karak Jaya,
28600 Karak,
Pahang.
Business Hours: 2:00pm to 10:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Alternate Wednesday)