Bak Kut Teh, Malaysia's own invention, is where pork is cooked with Chinese herbal soup. There are various styles of cooking. The most popular is the Klang styles where the soup is darker in colour and usually less soup compared to the KL styles.
In Sabah, people will prefer more soup. Ordering extra soup is the most common thing we will do when eating Bak Kut Teh. The style of cooking is a bit different from the one from West Malaysia. Not only more soup, its also milder in taste.
However, Sandakan is one of the popular place for its unique style of Bak Kut Teh in Sabah. The most popular is the white pepper soup base. Not only that, being cooked with seafood also make it unique.
Sandakan's Seafood Bak Kut Teh is cooked using a selection of fresh seafood in white pepper soup base. Customer have the choice of prawn, fish fillet, rabbit fish, fish ball and etc. All are served in individual serving/bowl. Thus, you can either order single selection in a bowl or mix it e.g. fish fillet and prawn.
The seafood being served are not only fresh, they are of good quality too. e.g. big prawn.
If you don't like seafood, they also serve traditional Bak Kut Teh selections like pork ribs, pork belly, pork intestine, pork kidney and etc. Sounds normal but with the white pepper soup base, its something special and worth a try.
My personal preference, I think their cook the best Bak Kut Teh pork ribs. It was cooked at the right timing where the meat is still tender and smooth. Not the over cooked rough type. They also uses only spare ribs not pork bones for soup. That also make it taste better as spare ribs has a smoother texture compared to soup bones.
Another special thing about Sandakan Bak Kut Teh, customer can either enjoy their delicious Bak Kut Teh with rice like normal, or they can choose to eat with noodle. My favourite is rice noodle. They too are cooked with Bak Kut Teh soup.
There are various popular Bak Kut Teh places in Sandakan. One of my favourite is Nam Chai Restaurant Bah Kut Teh situated at Bandar Nam Tung (Tanah Merah). Bak Kut Teh in Sandakan is served both for lunch and dinner. Please try and give your feedback.
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