Chan Chiew Heng steamed Claypot Chicken

By Lee Suet Hooi
Photo by Lee Suet Hooi

 There is plenty of clay pot chicken rice stalls at Kampar old town but Chan Chiew Heng steamed Clay pot is the only one that different from out of the ordinary. Chan Chiew Heng had started his Clay pot Chicken Rice business since 1950. Therefore, old customer those lives in Kampar since 50 years ago are aware that Chan Chiew Heng is one of the first local places to sell chicken rice cooker

What’s makes Chan Chiew Heng Clay pot Chicken Rice different from others is it is cooked by using charcoal burn. With the emerge of the technology, it’s difficult to get a Clay pot Chicken Rice that cook with Charcoal burn style because most of them are using gas now. By using charcoal burn style, it ia able keeps the original taste for the Clay pot Chicken Rice. This makes the Clay pot Chicken Rice just taste somewhere nicer than those which were cook by using gas.

Other than that, the special of Chan Chiew Heng clay pot is using steamed technique. The the chicken and the salty fish is separate with a plate and put in the clay pot to steam. There are various types of fresh vegetables and steamed soups which you may take it as your side dishes. A common Claypot Chicken Rice, usually consists of chicken and sausage pieces. You are free to add on extra eggs, chickens, salter fish and sausages.

The aunty is scooping a concoction of chicken with soy sauce, dark soy sauce, probably a dash of wine, etc. ), chopped scallions, and cuts of marinated chicken meat, slices of wax sausages as well as blocks and bits of salted fish for that extra oomph.

In fact, there are many types of Guangzhou and Hong Kong Claypot Chicken Rice in Malaysia. From this claypot chicken rice, we can easily imagine that when the Chinese abcestors south, although lack of material conditions, it is hard to cook with clay pot and give us the memory of fellow home cuisine.

Casserole with cooking, rice is easy to stick pan, but it is precisely for this reason, it makes another feature of the clay pot chicken rice - the "rice crust." Many people like to eat clay pot chicken rice just because of the golden color, crisp but not burn’s rice crust.

Chan Chiew Heng steamed Claypot Chicken Rice
Address：47, Jalan Idris, 31900 Kampar, Perak
Contact number：016－560 0321／016－565 8647
Operating Hours ：1700－2200
Closed on Monday