Yoong Kie Seafood Restaurant, Gohtong Jaya

I used to go up Genting really frequently, a few times a year..

No not for gambling...just up and lepak..

Lily had this really delectable bacon dish and she told me about it. Since it was at Gohtong Jaya and not very hard to find, we tried it and well, we never turn back since.. :)

We had brunch before we came over to Yong Kie, hence we only ordered 4 dishes for the 6 of us.

Obvious order would be the very scrumptious deep fried bacon with sticky sauce...I cant recall it's chinese name, but the staff would know when you ask for the "fried crispy pork with sauce". It's basically sliced fatty meat (three layer pork), deep fried until it's really crunchy. It's then cooked with marmite, dark soy, sugar/maltose, onions that coats the pork beautifully. Goes well with rice or as a snack on it's own with beer....very addictive porky goodness here

My next must order at Yoong Kie would be the stir fried water cress...Don't be deceived by this plain jane..as there's nothing plain about it at all! Of so many stir fried water cress I've tried (well, not that many as it's not that easy to find this dish in KL ;p), Yong Kie serves the best stir fried water cress. They chose young water cress, stir fried with garlic. The dish is simple, yet alluring in its own way; sweetness and lovely fragrance from the vegetables is good enough to eat it on it's own. Heck, we ordered 2 plates of this in the end.

I wanted to try some new dishes from this restaurant that day, hence we asked for recommendations.

The lady boss recommended chicken with special mayonnaise sauce, which we agreed to order..I did not have much expectation on this dish as I've tried some rather unimpressive mayonnaise chooks. So, I was nicely surprised that this dish was quite tasty. The sauce that was clinging the chicken was tangy, sweet and spicy at the same time, which, again, is rather addictive.

The last dish was the very normal fried homemade taufoo. Was just mediocre.

Overall, we still had a good meal, we're still returning..just for the bacon dish...because it's worth it ;p

Though we were stuffed from brunch and lunch, Gohtong Jaya had loads of durians around...our defenses crumbled and we had another feast of durians..hehe

Yoong Kie Seafood Restaurant is located at No 25, Jalan Jati, Gohtong Jaya, Genting Highlands, 69000 Pahang. Tel: 03-61001168. It's at the long row of shops at Gohtong Jaya, somewhere in the middle.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: A reader, Gary Liew, informed me that he was practically "slaugthered" when he went to Yoong Kie on 20th March 2008. They ordered half a "Sultan" fish, in which they were not aware costs RM320 per kg. They paid RM420 for that half fish! Though I've never paid more than RM20 per person everytime I'm there, just be carefuk if you do pop by Yoong Kie in the future. Do check with them the price of their fish!