Date: 15 Nov 2007 Comments: 7 so far

Do read the first part of Teluk Intan Chee Cheong Fun (Part I) first k?

Your tasty chee cheong, no matter where you eat them all over Teluk Intan, will most likely come from one of the handful chee cheong fun factory that looks like the above.

All factories (or restaurants selling chee cheong fun that also owns this piece of machinery) start making the chee cheong fun mostly in the evening, and out of three places making freshly steamed chee cheong fun, two of them serves dine in customers, whereas the most popular of the trio only cater for takeaway. (no drive thru!)

The modus operandi of this chee cheong fun business is, the factories will start making the chee cheong funs throughout the night, and these factories supplies chee cheong funs for the whole Teluk Intan. These chee cheong funs are delivered to the sellers in rectangular stainless steel boxes, which can be seen at all chee cheong fun sellers, if you look close enough. So, it doesn’t matter which coffeeshop or hawker stall you had your chee cheong fun for breakfast, chances are that, they come from the same factory, and the only difference would be the sauce that the vendor pour on it.

The chee cheong fun wrapped in newspaper is bought at Liew Kee in Jalan Hill, the most popular chee cheong fun supplier in Teluk Intan. Chee cheong funs are best eaten hot, as the white skin will give you the melt-in-your-mouth sensation whereas the fillings explode with every chew, leaving a myriad of salty, tangy and crunchy aftertaste in your mouth. Yeah, pretty much like that. Steaming hot chee cheong funs are mostly sold wrapped in newspaper. Weird eh?

Eating cold chee cheong fun for breakfast, however, is a different affair altogether. Because the chee cheong fun is already cold, the fluffy, white skin hardens, and the fillings soften. Even if the taste is still there, the texture is sorely lacking, and therefore, most breakfast chee cheong fun vendors drench the chee cheong fun with your choice of sauce before serving.

So, sometimes when visitors drop by Teluk Intan in midday to find chee cheong fun, they will most likely end up with chee cheong funs made the night before, and they will go home, not knowing how the chee cheong fun should taste and proclaim them nothing special.

I would say, if you have the time, try the chee cheong fun at night and you will get the right stuff. Better yet, you can watch the whole process of making chee cheong fun if you are going to eat at one of the places with the huge steaming machine complete with rollers.

You can get steaming hot chee cheong funs from these places at night:

• Liew Kee at Jalan Hill (a small lane that joins Jalan Pasar and Jalan Bedamar)

• Tuck Kee at Jalan Sultan Abdullah (same row as Hoover hotel & restaurant)

• Sam Siu Yeh at Jalan Sultan Abdullah (same row as Sze Chuan restaurant)

Whoa! That is a long entry talking bout my hometown’s chee cheong fun! I hope you find it useful.

Update: earl-ku wrote an interesting post on the chee cheong fun as well, and he even got their number. Just in case you want a preorder, call them at 012-5088812.

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