Sunday 22 November 2009

Duck King, Jaya One, PJ

Met up with three local bloggers, hairyberry, lyrical lemongrass and GFAB on my last visit to KL back in July and we spent an afternoon in a couple of restaurants for an extended makan session. It was something I was not very used to as my afternoon meals tended to be very small (a maggi mee would be too much) as a full stomach in the afternoon makes me sleepy in the office.

This venue was the second one we visited.


The deep freid chee cheong fun below was a new experience. Good idea and well executed. Taste was rather good too but I got the feeling that this dish was created to shift the steamed ccf from earlier in the day that failed to sell.
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This steamed bun was also something new to me. The filling was made from some egg custard and salted egg yolk mixture. Had an unusual taste when I first bit into it but quickly acquired a taste for it by the time I had finished it.
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This is their signature dish and it did not disappoint. The roast duck had a lovely crispy skin and succulent meat underneath. What I have noticed however, was that most roast duck dishes in KL was made with lean ducks or maybe that is how the ducks are locally. Personally, I prefer the fatter ducks that we get in the UK where the skin is slightly thicker which, when roasted correctly, makes it more satisfying to bite into the skin. Also a fatter duck means the meat is less dry in the breast area.


And here is the close up from a breast piece. If I remember, I will try and get a picture of a local piece of roast duck in the future and you can see a much thicker layer of fat under the skin.
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Duck King
Jaya One
Jalan Universiti
Petaling Jaya

4 comments:

Babe_KL said...

did u know i hvnt even been here kekeke

Hazza said...

babe_kl
Do give it a try. You wont be disappointed!

backStreetGluttons said...

Maybe you are right , those in the mornings become the exotic in the afternoons smacks of last minute creativity, something not common for authentic Malaysians. Anything fresh and new seems to be from another land , like Manchester perhaps ?
haha

Unknown said...

That roasted duck looks delicious! Ah, the lovely crispy skin - I want it!