THE RECOGNISED “MEI LUN” BAK KUT TEH (CHINESE HERBAL PORK SOUP) RUNNING ON THE SOUTHERN NATION @ JOHOR
“Bak Kut Teh” or somehow known the Chinese Herbal Pork Soup is all the while among the local chinese’s traditional authentic herbal pork soup eatery which being practised since the early 20th century, also believed that was originated from Klang, Selangor among the visitors must taste selection on our nations with respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established Bak Kut Teh Eating House “Mei Lun” running at Kluang, Johor having great positive response from the market recently.
The Kluang local Johorean Mr. Esmond Thong Mui Ken (born 1980), together with his partner Mr. Chong Yee Loon (Kluang, born 1970) both were the initial founders and also the recent immediate owners of this best recognised Bak Kut Teh Eating House “Mei Lun Restaurant” running along the Kluang territory presenting their very home-cooked chinese herbal pork soup with other signature menu selections to the locals & visitors all under a roof with their patience on the southern ground at Johor.
The founder cum owner Esmond Thong Mui Ken, who at his age of 44 years old currently, was formerly in the Entertainment Industry all the while having interest in eatery. And Chong Yee Loon, who recently at his age of 54th was grown up in a f&b families (whose grandparents running the family’s hainanese kopitiam locally) having interest in culinary and holding the chinese herbal pork soup recipe (being passed onto by his master in the 1990s) added with vision to have their own eating house and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry especially the bak kut teh field enabled Esmond Thong & Yee Loon decided to step into the field and began their night session bak kut teh eating place right in the Kluang township in the mid of year 2023, then expanded and moved into their very first owned Bak Kut Teh Eating House officially named the “Mei Lun Restaurant” at Taman Tasik Indah, Kluang after months in the same year continue serving 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 of 2024 on the southern nation at Johor.
In this Mei Lun Bak Kut Teh Eating House, their nearly 3 hours home-cooked “Bak Kut Teh” (Chinese Herbal Pork Soup) boiled with 13 selected chinese herbals mixture, into pork offals such pork ribs, belly, trotter & tail, and finally served boiling hot in claypot also in options mixed into stomach/tripe, kidney, intestine, meat ball, button mushroom, enoki (needle mushroom), dried beancurd sheet etc will always on their customer’s preference will brings the authentic herbal’s smooth swallowed tasty kind of Bak Kut Teh soup eatery that you must have a try when reached Kluang, Johor.
Among the signature selections, their “Claypot Pork Ribs” in Bak Kut Teh serving always among their regulars’ most wanted in menus from the beginning. Local fresh pork ribs commonly selected, cleaned then prepared in cutted pieces followed boil-cooked in their chinese herbal soup base, and finally served boiling hot in claypot will brings the excellent pork ribs’ freshness texturing bites itself into mouth that you never regret after tasted here. Complete their bak kut teh eatery here sides with a hot bowl of their yam rice toppings of crispy fried shallots, their home-cooked sour salted veges with pork lards, beancurd puff (taupok), deep fried dough fritters (youtiao), taken or dipping onto home-prepared chopped chili with garlic into black soy sauce will always the best combination that you cannot aside.
Another will be their famous “Braised Pork Trotter”, which also among their visitor’s favourite in selection recently. Local fresh pork trotter/pork leg cleaned then home-braised for nearly 2 hours with their seasoning mixture into dried chili, and finally served also boiling hot in claypot will brings the wonderful pork trotter’s soft chewing bites itself with tasty salted sweet swallowed and the nice natural pork collagen from the long-braised in-house that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Moreover, the owners also introduced their newly favourite recommended “Dry Bak Kut Teh” which also among the restaurant’s daily selection like by the locals. Combination of their boiled pork belly & ribs (or options on customer’s preference), fresh stirred in claypot on order with dried cuttlefish shredded, lady finger into black soy sauce & their seasoning mixture and finally served hot on table will brings another cuttlefish’s exotic with tasty salted sweet kind of their Dry Bak Kut Teh eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Bak Kut Teh Eating House “Mei Lun Restaurant” at Kluang, Johor.
MEI LUN RESTAURANT
(BAK KUT TEH)
Address: No. 59,
Tingkat Bawah,
Jalan Tasik Indah 1/4,
Taman Tasik Indah,
86000 Kluang,
Johor.
Business Hours: 8:00am to 2:30pm
5:00pm to 9:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Thursday)