If you have heard of the famous Teochew food especially crab porridge by Cheang Kee Restaurant in Nibong Tebal, make sure you do not go to the wrong one!
We went there recently and had a rude shock when we realised the real Cheang Kee Restaurant had moved to another location while another owner has taken over its old shoplot.
We did not even bother to take pictures of the place (the old shoplot where Cheang Kee used to be) after eating the very first dish, boiled baby octopus. I did not even want to bother with taking pictures of the food either. I do not want to waste camera battery and memory on this lousy restaurant.
The new restaurant, Law Chang Kee Restoran, was a far cry from the old Cheang Kee Restaurant. We ordered boiled baby octopus, butter prawns, fried fish, crab porridge, siau pai chye (green veg) and mantis prawn fried with dried chili.
The baby octopus, even though a simple dish which required literally little cooking skills to prepare as it is just boiled and served with chili sauce, were overcooked and stringy.
The butter prawns were oily, soggy and tasteless. They put some soya sauce over it to give it some taste which makes it worse.
Crab porridge- they obviously had it in with the crab because they smashed it to smithereens so we had to spend a whole hour picking out tiny, minute pieces of crab shell from the porridge. Oh, and the porridge was bland. Bleagghhh.
The green veg – nothing remarkable. I could have cooked better one at home.
Mantis prawn fried with dried chili – extremely soggy and too much of ketchup. It tasted like they fried the mantis prawn and pour in a whole bottle of ketchup and then add the dried chili for decoration. Ugghh.
Fried fish – well, again nothing remarkable. It is just the normal fried fish you can find at any economy rice stall.
Rating: 2/10
Now, if I had not eaten the real Cheang Kee Restaurant’s food, the rating for this faker restaurant would have been a tad higher, perhaps 4/ 10 but it definitely would not have me going back there ever again.
Price: $$$ (for that kind of food!!!)
Luckily, we found the real Cheang Kee Restaurant which had moved to a more prominent location right on the main road just after the toll plaza and with ample parking space too! After the toll plaza, turn left at the traffic lights and go straight. It is on your left at the first traffic light. You won’t be able to miss it since it is a corner lot with a huger signboard.
Here’s the new address for the famous Cheang Kee Restaurant (which I would have rated 8/10):
Restoran N.T.Cheang Kee
No. 60 & 62, Jalan Besar, Air Lintas, Taman Merbah, 14300 Nibong Tebal
Tel: 04-5943728
So, remember. The Restoran Law Chang Kee has lousy food so go only at your own risk! I will do a review of the Restoran N.T.Cheang Kee when we go there next and with loads of pictures too.
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How about the waitress? Tits big or not ??
ah long: lol..if you are into old wrinkly auntie with sagging tits and a sour face…
Hahaha…..old wrinkly auntie, sagging teeth, sour face and when smile that time NO TEETH !!!! Alamak….eat dragon meat also no taste.
Oh, when did they shifted? I was there with my family early December last year.
Luckily you found out or else we might be going back there again. Thanks for sharing.
cklam: They shifted only recently, about a month ago, I think. The Law Chang Kee restaurant will insist that they are the same as Cheang Kee when they are not. Totally unethical!
[...] of going to the old shoplot in Nibong Tebal where now there is another restaurant by the name of Law Chang Kee Restaurant, we made a point to pay the real NT Cheang Kee Restaurant a visit the next time we passes [...]
I like this category of yours “Don’t eat here”. You dare to point out to ppl those unethical and not-nice-to-eat restaurants. Not many bloggers do so.
cariso: I find it highly unethical that some food bloggers tend to gloss over their posts instead of being honest in their reviews…that’s why I have this category although I don’t have much places in this category as I tend to avoid lousy places with bad reputation! Thanks for dropping by my blog.
Hi everyone here, pls dun believe in this guy, i dunno who is this guy, and i m staying in nibong tebal for a 25 years and i can say i had my meal at the “lousy chang kee” he mention above several time a week. there is no such thing happen to me and other customer as well since the first day until now i never saw any staff there with the rude attitude to the customer, but as wat i know from the new chang kee which is at traffic light corner shop there, its alot flies, beside, the staff there is ok, jz they work too slow when u ask something from them, and i not dare to compare the food between this both “chang kee”. but from my opinion, the lousy chang kee he mention more delicious and also not so much ajinamoto.:) anyways, both of this chang kee is the real brother from a pair of parents. there is no fake chang kee at all.. i dunno why this guy kind have a question to this “lousy chang kee ” he mention about. i hope all the people here can find out the true about the delicious food in nibong tebal, especially “chang kee”. the another chang kee he mention is at Jalan Atas, which is at after u turn left from the jawi tol, go straight all the way to the flyover then take ur left to turn down to the under fly over road, then keep straight all the way u will see maybank public bank and after is cimb bank on ur left, and u keep going down, u will see the chang kee at ur left. thanks for paying attention.
hey…bro…pls watch ur mouth with the words u mentioned…ie,fake chang kee…pls,there is no so called ‘fake chang kee’…u maybe sued for defamation…
they are siblings just taking different location/spot of business because of contrary ideas…
Ya la!!! Don’t believe this!! I support what Jason said.