Restoran Kong Sai, Taman Paramount, Petaling Jaya

When we don’t know where to eat, and what to eat, most of the time we’ll end up in this restaurant here in Taman Paramount. Restaurant Kong Sai is one of my dad’s favourite restaurant, and it is for a reason. This place is famous for their Chu Tou Tong , roughly translated, pork intestine soup.

Coming here, you have to be early, as the crowd starts to pack during dinner. This place used to operate in the outdoor metal shacks opposite. It’s run by a family, and they have since upgraded to a restaurant lot quite a few years back. I remember the good ol’ days, where we eat under the bright flourescent lights under that metal shack, sitting on those plastic red stools, on the hard concrete floor. The food, was of course delicious. Being Malaysian, the saying goes, the dirtier, and older the better the food. Which is true to an extent. Look at the William’s mamak at Taman Megah. Its filthy and dirty with the occasional crocroach, but still its packed every other night, and their food, great.

There were 4 of us that night so our orders were below:-

Pork Intestine soup (duh)

Stuffed Tau Fu Pok

Steamed Chicken

Ginger Steamed Fish Head

Vegetables

Let’s start with their famous trademark pork intestine soup. Arriving boiling hot in a claypot to your table, the smell of it is tempting. This is a hot peppery soup, with the pepper-ness scale topped up an extra knotch cause of the temperature of the soup.

Inside the soup, you’ll find a generous serve of pork, pork intestines, and button mushrooms. Pour the soup over your rice if you can’t take the spice, thats what I do. For those pork lovers out there, I’m sure you’ll enjoy this.

Another dish is the stuffed tou fu pok. At first I thought this was just giant fishballs, but was told by my mum otherwise. This came in a light broth, and what makes this special is that in the paste ( I think it was mince pork) they added some salted fish. So you can imagine how tasty it was. This is also one of their house specialties.

I absolutely love their chicken here. Its so smooth and tender, and it comes with this special sauce. Its made from sesame oil ( i think ) with soy sauce and with lots of corriander and spring onion with some added cha choy ( I’m not sure what its called in English, but its something like salted vegetables). Goes brilliantly with the chicken. For those who still prefer eating with the usual chicken rice chilli, fear not as they also have that here. Even better, eat it with both the chilli and the sauce. Best of both!

Lastly, our extremely HUGE fish head. I thought it was a whole fish judging from the size of it, but after careful inspection, I realised that it was a giant fish head, smothered in ginger. It smelt really good, it tasted even better. Though for a fish head so big, there were still quite a few tiny tiny bones, so be careful. And surprise surprise, we actually managed to finish it. We are really eating too much.

When it came to pay the bill, I was thinking, this must definitely be more than Rm100, judging by the amount of food we ate and the humongous fish head. But guess how much it cost? Only RM68 , for 4 of us!! Imagine that. Cheap..

So if you do drop by this area, stop at Kong Sai, you won’t miss it. Its one of the most crowded places on that road. Its situated opposite GIANT supermarket, opposite the old tin shacks. Its a few doors down a car repair shop and it has a cartoon chicken on its signboard. I hope that’s descriptive enough.Let me know should you need more info.

Restoran Kong Sai

No. 39 Jalan 20/16,

Taman Paramount,

46300 Petaling Jaya,

Selangor.

Non Halal

Mobile: 019-3842922 / 012-2984038

Hours: Mon – Fri 1130am – 230pm

5pm – 10pm

Sat 5pm – 10pm

Sun CLOSED

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