Bak Kut Teh 肉骨茶 (non Halal)

Bak Kut Teh is a romanised Chinese word, we refer to a local delight. Bak is meat, Kut is bones, Teh is tea. According to nonhofficial speculation, the recipe came from Klang. However, later Singapore also said it's their ancestor's recipe. How to prove it? I guess none.

Had an opportunity to head west and look for a friend, as he's leaving this country and going "back" to the Philippines. He's a long term expatriate there, so we refer him "back to Philippines". We decided to meetup again this week, probably one last time before he go back.

Klang is west from Kuala Lumpur, it's not exactly that far from my office. Sometimes, the traffic can really make you think it's far away. Can't help that due to the town located right there at our country's west port.

Initially, I did thought of the dish named it meat bone tea was due to the pot of soup is made of tea. However, after further study, there no definite recipe for eh food. Matter of fact, the name simply mean a person eat with meat, bone and drink tea. Therefore, despite only two of us, there so many cups are given. One thing good about this is, we can pour tea to the cups and let them cool down. Whilst drinking one cup, the other two cups are resting.

We ordered a bowl of this meat bone tea, it came with beancurd, pork shoulder, pork knuckle, and we also ordered to add an additional spare ribs. The crazy part was, the butter rice were properly cooked with fried scallions. The fried scallions really brings the rice itself to a whole new level of tastiness.

Well, we will have to get a dish of lettuce, so we can snap photo of that lettuce and show it to our diet coach. What? You think we will show her that bowl of porky bowl? 🤣