Restoran Fook Kee Claypot Chicken Rice (福记瓦煲鸡饭)

There is several shop selling claypot chicken rice in Kampar, but the most famous one should be the Restoran Fook Kee and every families in Kampar will dine at there especially during weekend. We've actually can consider ourselves as a regular customer for this restaurant. Five of us will went there on every Friday after end our class. #TGIF

Before 6pm, many customers already come and wait for the seats

Fook Kee will open from 6pm to 10pm one every day of the year (Monday to Sunday) except for public holidays. We normally will go there at 5.45pm and find a seat during their preparation because the place is already crowded before 6pm.

The address is 155, Jalan Idris, Kampung Masjid, 31900 Kampar, Perak. You may refer to the map below:

Or, you can search for this place using its GPS latitude and longitude coordinates:

Latitude : 4.3139049

Longitude : 101.1522575

          Sea Level: 33m

The boss start preparing to cook the rice first

They cook outside the shop

Preparation

This shop is easy find and spotted as they cook the claypot chicken rice outside of their shop, whenever you pass by, you'll get to smell this delicious claypot chicken smell. The shop looked pretty in age, it has its stories behind it, you'll get to know more if you continue to watch this blog =P.

History of Claypot Chicken Rice

Now, come along as we take a short history of the dishes served by Restauran Fook Kee:

Claypot chicken rice is an Asian dinner dish and it is origin from China region. It is also mixed and cooked with the rice and chicken together in a clay pot. The dish is especially popular in Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Singapore. Rice is a staple food in many southern regions or Asian countries. It is grown in paddy fields and grain without a strong flavor. Besides, it is usually boiled or steamed to cook and is also eaten with various type of meals.  For instance, fried rice is often made with egg and a mixture of vegetables.

Claypot chicken rice is easy to prepare and tastes absolutely delicious. There’s a reason that claypot rice is called a one-pot meal. Inside the claypot, you’ll get steamed rice served topped with delicious chicken meat chunks, Chinese sausages and chopped onions, and completed with some soy sauce and salted fish. The rice is cooked in the claypot first and the chicken is usually marinated in sesame oil and rice wine before being added to the rice. The entire mixture is then cooked in a traditionally of claypot, over a charcoal stove, so that it can absorb the flavors until its ready to serve.

There have many different parts of a chicken can be used for meat, but the most people eat are the breasts, thighs and legs, and wings. For the claypot chicken rice, it is usually used either breast meat or thigh meat, but any cut of chicken meat would be suitable. The breasts are boneless cuts of meat, taken from the underside of the chicken, and the thighs or legs, and wings are the limbs of chicken, which include a few bigger bones.

Value proposition of Restoran Fook Kee

Fook Kee serve a simple and easy menu for their customer:

Menu

1) Claypot Chicken Rice

2) Vegetable

If you want to add more chicken meats or salted fish or Chinese sausage in it, just inform them and they'll very welcome make it for you. The price will be different according to the ingredients you want to mix with.

Vegetable

There’s the man who’s outside manning all the claypots, while the lady boss is in charged of making the vegetables. Another lady will be the one putting all the ingredients on to a finished pot of rice. 

Above picture is large size that was ordered by us and before mixed. The color looked pretty nice right?

It took 15-20 minutes to cook a pot of claypot chicken rice. We were very lucky as we only waited for about 15 minutes. Some customers after us have to wait for 30-40 minutes due to the crowd of customers.The portion is relatively huge and could easily accommodate 4-6 person.

We ordered 2 large size pot which enough for 5-6 people

The rice here is very fragrant, and cooked to perfection. Like every claypot chicken rice, there is some burn part stick inside bottom of the claypot. The sauce they cook the rice, is different from others, it is not salty but the smell and tasty is very nice. 

We prefer to add in more Chinese sausage with little salted fish because we’re not a fans of salted fish. The spring onions may look just for better presentation but after mix, it'll bring better taste and aroma of the claypot chicken rice. So, you better to ask from the lady boss to add more spring onions for you. Chicken meats was well marinated and they are skinless.You may also add some chilies for additional spicy taste.

A quick mix of everything up before digging in!

Green Chilies

Besides, you also can order the drinks of the shop. We normally will order the barley because it taste good and special (mixed with soya).

Barley and Herbal drinks

The services provided by Restaurant Fook Kee quite good compare with   other claypot chicken rice shops. The waiter will tells customers that food will arrive bit late due to the long waiting list. Furthermore, the food comes very fast. This attract many customer support their shops always especially UTAR students. 


Some feedback by the customers:

Chi Shian

Chi Shian: “I always want more and more. It is very tasty and I believe that everyone will love it!”

Yancy

Yancy: “This is an awesome claypot chicken rice! All the dishes taste great at reasonable prices. Besides, the food serving is quite fast at here so we don't really need to wait for long time.”

Hui Fen

Hui Fen: “The skinless and boneless tender chicken thigh and lean Chinese preserved sausages with dried shrimps and veggie all in one claypot. Amazing claypot chicken!”

Chryst: “The Claypot Chicken was cook with charcoal and it may take some time for them to cook it but it worth the wait. If you are looking for traditional Chinese home cooked style comfort food, this is the perfect place.”

Feedback from the facebook

Last, we create a short video for you to have a quick look about Fook Kee Restauran. We hope you guys enjoy the video.

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