THE RECOGNISED “KETAM ISTIMEWA” CHINESE HOMETOWN TASTE RESTAURANT RUNNING ON THE NORTHERN NATION @ PERAK
“Chinese Hometown Taste Restaurant” is all the while a kind of the local chinese cuisine eating house or dining restaurant which carrying the combination of local’s delicacy with chinese recipes under a roof, that being widely practised on our nations since decades with respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the lower northern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Chinese Hometown Taste Restaurant “Ketam Istimewa” running by the Ling family at Lumut, Perak having great positive response from the market recently.
The Lumut, Perak local originated Mr. Ling Leong Hock (born 1963), was the initial founder, together with his wife Madam Sie Pik Ling (Lumut, born 1962) and daughter Ms. Ling Siaw Fong (born 1988) all are the recent families owners of this best recognised Chinese Hometown Taste Restaurant “Ketam Istimewa” right along the Lumut territory presenting their decades hometown/home recipes in signature menus to the locals & visitors all under a roof in an manner environmental dining condition on the lower northern ground at Perak.
The founder cum first owner Ling Leong Hock, also the restaurant’s recent main chef who at his age of 61 years old currently, been initially stepped into the f&b industry at his only 14th of age reached Kuala Lumpur touched the chinese bun (pao) field following his uncle in the year of 1977, then experienced years in the chinese dim sum field stayed more than 10 years exposed in the career. And finally began his chinese cuisine eating house in the early millennium year of 2000 on the same ground, where his wife Madam Sie & daughter Siaw Fong joined helping running in a family team along their journey with patience in the industry.
With experiences & home recipes on-hand, added vision to bring their very home-cooked recipes back to hometown and foreseeing the market opportunity enabled them (Ling family) decided then successfully established their very owned family-run Chinese Hometown Taste Restaurant officially named the “Restoran Ketam Istimewa” at Taman Nakhoda, Lumut in the mid of year 2023 serving all their home-cooked 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 northern nation at Perak.
In this Restoran Ketam Istimewa, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus will be their signature “Spicy Crab” which most wanted by all their visitors. Local fresh meat/egg crab on weight of about 300grams each commonly selected, cleaned then steam-cooked followed by wok-fried with their homemade appetising sour spicy sauce paste into ginger, garlic, chili, lemongrass, chicken egg etc, and finally served hot & spicy on table will brings the wonderful tasty swallowed with crab’s freshness itself in combination into mouth that you must have a try when reached Lumut, Perak. Taken sides with their hot-steamed pillow breads will always the best matching that cannot aside here.
Secondly will be their famous “Stir Fried Squid”, which also among the restaurant’s daily selection favourite by their regulars all the while. Local fresh sea squids selected, minutes stir fried in combination of green capsicum, garlic, red chili with home seasonings mixture, and finally served hot-fresh on table will brings the excellent squid’s chewing bites itself with squid’s freshness sweet swallowed kind of their Stir Fried Squid eatery that you will never regret after tasted here.
Another will be their in-house chef’s home-cooked recipe “Braised Pig Trotter”, always wanted by all the locals from the beginning. Local fresh pig trotter selected, cleaned and followed by deep fried, then home-braised for nearly 2 hours with their home recipes (into chinese herbals & galangal/lengkuas), finally served boiling hot in claypot will brings the nice soft texturing trotter’s bites with exotic tasty salted sweet swallowed & rich natural pork collagen from the long braised itself that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Moreover, the Ling family also introduced their all time favourite recommended “Fuzhou Fish Maw Soup” among their hometown local delicacy selection like by all the customers. Few hours home-boiled chicken soup base cooked in mixture with fish maw, black fungus, local fresh bamboo shoots, celery, into chicken egg and home seasonings mixture, finally served hot on table will always bring the unbelievable starched sticky smooth swallowed with appetising sour fair spicy kind of Fuzhou Fish Maw Soup eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Chinese Hometown Taste Restaurant “Restoran Ketam Istimewa” at Lumut, Perak.
RESTORAN KETAM ISTIMEWA
Address: No. 8,
Jalan Nakhoda 3,
Taman Nakhoda,
32200 Lumut,
Perak.
Business Hours: 11:00am to 2:30pm
5:00pm to 10:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Alternate Wednesday)