Hing Ket Grill House

Perhaps it's a throwback to my caveman ancestors, but I find that certain food like crabs taste better grilled au naturel. I could picture my ancestors sitting around a fire and cooking a crab skewed on a hunting spear. Once the crab is cooked, they would probably sink their teeth into the crab, shell and all. The crunch is good for sharpening the teeth or removing the plague.....no?


Anyway, society has since progressed, and in modern day KL, crabs are served in various styles, such as creamy butter and cheese sauce, Marmite sauce, fried in salted egg, sweet and spicy sauce, steamed with rice wine, and so on. However, there aren't many places that serve grilled crabs, not even the very famous Fatty Cat Crab Restaurants. 


There's one miserable restaurant in Kepong that offers grilled crabs, but the crabs are so small that the hassle of picking apart the shells is just not worth it. You can get grilled or baked crabs au naturel in Langkawi and Seremban, but that's another story.


My point is, for anyone who appreciates the natural sweetness of grilled crab meat, Hing Ket Grill House is THE place. Located at Kampung Jawa, Klang (directions and address at the bottom of the post), it serves the best grilled crab, sotong (squid), lamb chop and lala (clam) meehoon I've ever had. Take a look at what we had to start off 2011.

The crab meat was very sweet and juicy. And the claws are huge! Priced at RM52/kg, it's worth every single ringgit.

The squid was tender and succulent, cooked just right. It's great with or without the accompanying plum sauce. RM10.

We asked for the lamb chop to be served cut as opening the crab shells were enough involvement in our food, lazy people that we were. It was tender and fragrant. RM17.

The lala meehoon was perfect, neither dry nor oily. RM10


The total bill came to RM91.80 for two, inclusive of a pot of Chinese tea and two wet towels. Hing Ket Grill House is also famous for its salt baked prawns and fried tong fun, which we'll probably try at our next visit.


Address:
Lot 3569, Batu 3-1/4, Kampung Jawa, Klang.
Tel: (03) 3371-3913 / 3371-0861
Business hours: 11:30am - 2:30pm  and  5:30pm - 10:30pm


Directions:
Take the Kesas highway to Klang. After the toll, keep left. Take the first exit to Kampung Jawa / Jalan Kebun. At the traffic lights at the top of the exit ramp, turn right to Kampung Jawa. Follow the course of the road. After some distance, you will come to a roundabout junction (a.k.a. circus, in London), continue to keep straight (or, twelve o'clock). A word of caution - be extra careful there because motorists on all four legs of the circus could travel straight ahead without going around the roundabout. Continue to follow the course of the road. The restaurant, a converted house, is located on the left, just before the road curves around a bend. Kitty corner to it is a big mosque. 

We parked at the premises, though parking space is rather limited (for about 10 cars). For those not so lucky, further down the road, on the right, is an open air car park.