Kedai Makanan Teik Seng

Picture of the 'chu char' place

This is one of Ed's and Ian's favourite 'Chu Char' shop to eat. There were times when they both could visit the place 1-2 times a week. But I must say every trip there is satisfying. The place opens for lunch and dinner. However if you plan to come, do come early as the place gets full during the peak hours. The shop is located in one of the lanes found along Chulia Street. It's the road opposite Love Lane. I have eaten here so many times but never took notice of the road name. Picture on right shows the kitchen. Man with the tall hat is the chief cook.

So last Sunday after church, Ed made a date to meet up with Ian and Stella for lunch. I guess you can know who chose the place.....Ian. Me and Ed arrived there early. We were the 3rd customer. However we had to wait for an hour before Ian and Stella came. We had some communication breakdown on the meet up time....hahahha. But the wait was good as I got to see the different dishes coming out from the kitchen.

So let me tell you what is good here. Well for one thing, they have a signature dish here which every table would order. It's the Char Sui (black char pork). It's charred in oil and sweet soya sauce. The pork meat contains fats in it which can be very guilty on those who are trying to loose weight. But then again, who can resist in not wanting to eat this dish. Two thumbs up for this dish.

Char Sui Pork. After eating the amount of oil on the plate could fill a small saucepan for chilli

Then there is the Assam Prawn dish which would be another recommendation from me. The prawns are marinated in Assam Jawa to give that assam taste. Of course there's soya sauce, sugar and other secret ingredients which would never be revealed to me. It was so good that I sucked and chewed on the prawn head...so juicy!

Besides the two dishes we also ordered a Sambal Kacang Botol and a Assam Curry Fish. The curry was good. Kacang botol was good but I would suggest to them to cut down on the salt as it was abit salty. Probably from the sambal.

Our last dish was a dish which I saw them bring out to another table. It was Nestum Chicken. Well it looked good, but the taste wise was disappointing. The chicken was deep fried with Nestum, curry leave and chilly padi. But somehow it was not tasty enough. So this dish I would not recommend.

Assam Prawn. Look how black it is. Coated well with the assam marination..MMmmm

Left: Sambal Kacang Botol Right: Assam Fish Curry

Nestum Chicken which I would not recommend

Ian had a good time eating his prawns to the extend he even had some sauce on his cheeks. What a baby. Double thumbs up from him! and the below picture the damage done to our food.