If you are in Kepong, there is a new restaurant for you to check out. The Champ Kitchen brings you classic chinese food that will satisfy your gut. Located in the midst of the industrial area in Kepong, this restaurant is casual and comfortable even on your wallet.
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| The Champ Kitchen @ Kepong |
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猪多宝 (zhu duo bao) Pork Treasures
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| Clean and casual |
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| Pork being their specialty |
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| Herbs are the core ingredients |
The Champ Kitchen's specialty is their pork knuckle. When you enter the restaurant, there is a quiet but huge wok at the front. Inside, lays their treasure. Pork knuckles are braised for 72 hours in their family recipe that has been inherited from the owners ancestors. The pork meat is tender and infused with the fragrance of the special mix of herbs and spices.
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Claypot Pork Knuckle RM28.00 (small) RM38.00(medium) RM45.00 (big)
Drunken Pork Knuckle RM55.00 |
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| Great for communal eating |
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| Pork knuckles broiled in a huge pot for hours to seal in the herbs and spices |
Big bowl rice is a classic Chinese representation. With a chopstick, get ready to push hot and fluffy rice with pork knuckle, salted vege (ham choy) and preserved vege (mui choy) and egg into your mouth. This yummy bowl of pork knuckle rice completes your meal at a very reasonable price. Comes in variations of meat and gravy.
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| Pork Knuckle Slice Noodle Dry RM10.00 |
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| Pork Hind Noodle Soup RM12.00 |
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| Very flavourful |
This Pork Lard Rice is heavenly. Forget about its sinful side and just indulge. This is the most fragrant rice one can have. Take it with Crispy Pork Lard. I guarantee that you leave the restaurant smiling!
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| Pork Lard Rice RM3.00 |
Crispy Pork Lard is nothing like eating fat. It is not oily at all. It is fried till it is light and aromatic. It will leave you asking for more, trust me.
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| Add-ons: Crispy Pork Lard RM2.00 |
If you do not know what to eat, choose this fried man tau bun with pork gravy that cannot go wrong. The fried mantau is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Every bite exudes the breads natural sweetness.
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| Snack: Fried Man Tau Bun RM3.00 |
Minced Meat Toufu is one of the best sellers in The Champ Kitchen. Salted fish as it is known, will make you go for doubles on the rice. The saltiness is occasionally diluted with chunks of soft toufu that makes it more lip-smacking.
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| Minced Meat Toufu with Salted Fish RM12.00 |
This dish creates a very invigorating sensation in the mouth when its cold toufu awakens the palate. Wait for the taste of the century eggs to emerge after the bland toufu.
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| HK Cold Century Egg Toufu RM12.00 |
The pepper masked the lamb odour very well with a little gravy on the grilled flesh that just falls off the bones. Spiciness can be numbing...well, it is Szechuan style...what do you expect?
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| Grilled NZ Lamb Belly with Szechuan Pepper RM18.00 per100g |
The chef does not skimp on herbs and ingredients in this Forever Young soup boiled in a coconut shell that inherits all the sweetnes. Black chicken feet, fish maw and mushrooms were boiled to create a soup texture that soothes the throat.
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| Forever Young RM38.00 |
.Watch out for different soups of the day that makes your meal more interesting. This Lotus Root Soup is smooth and rich in flavour.
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| Soup of the Day- Lotus Root Soup |
The Grilled Horse Mackerel, or known as Saba fish is sweet but the gravy a little to the salty side. I thought the minced radish at the side was rather refreshing when eaten with fish.
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| Grilled Horse Mackerel with Szechuan Pepper Sauce RM15.00 |
The Dang Gui Salted Chicken flesh was smooth and toothsome. Wolfberries and Dang Gui paired well to give a wholesome taste.
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| Dang Gui Salted Chicken RM18.00 RM33.00 |
Minced Meat Omelette is down-to-earth yummy as minced meat falls from the folds of the eggs. The concentrated gravy makes it more charming and enticing.
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| Minced Meat Omelette RM10.00 |
The Braised Lamb Belly however, made my appetite shrink as the odour was a tad too strong. Having said that, I found my friend who is a very gamy meat-eater appreciating this dish.
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| Slow Braised NZ Lamb Belly with Foo Zuk and Fermented Beancurd Sauce RM38.00 |
The wanton skin is thin yet textural. I enjoyed biting bits of turnip mixed with the meat. Soup was mediocre.
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| HK Wanton Soup RM 20.00 for 8 |
Wrap-up with a scoop of their homemade ice-creams. I must say that they are very smooth and silky. The Sea Salt flavour is pretty interesting. There were mixed feedbacks as some like its eccentric taste and some dismissed it. Truffle with bacon also has the salty feature. Go try them and see for yourself.
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Homemade Ice-cream RM5.00
From left: Macha (greentea flavour), Sea Salt, Truffle with Bacon |
It was a pleasure eating hearty big bowl rice in this restaurant. Would definitely introduce it to my relatives who are big fans of olden and classic chinese food.
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| My hearty meal |
For more information:
The Champ Kitchen
No. 19, Jln KIP 1,
Tmn Perindustrian KIP,
Kepong,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
03-6275 1919
https://www.facebook.com/thechampkitchenkip
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