Hock Kee Kopitiam (福气安康), started in 1980, is a Nanyang Kopitiam chain with various outlets in Malaysia, mainly in Johor Bahru and Kuala Lumpur, serving Nanyang dishes. Its new branch in JB City Square Shopping Centre, on Level 4, is opened in March 2024.
Although located in JB City Square, Hock Kee Kopitiam serves breakfast as early as 8am — there are special arrangements for breakfasters to enter the shopping centre from 8am to 10am. Hock Kee's breakfast set menu is available only for the breakfast session. There are set meals at special prices and last order is at 9:45am.
The Hock Kee Roti Prata with Curry Chicken (福气煎饼加咖喱鸡腿) + 2 half-boiled eggs set meal comes with a choice of beverage. The flaky roti prata is accompanied by a curry gravy that is mild spicy and the chicken drumstick is very tender. Hock Kee's traditional kopi-o is aromatic, thick and not bitter. Great breakfast!
Outside of breakfast time, Hock Kee has a thick menu with a wide range of dishes, including Malaysian local delights, Nanyang dishes, vegetarian, traditional pastries, desserts, etc, and western dishes too. A new series of mee hoon kueh dishes are recently added to the menu. When spoilt for choice, flip to the "Top Picks" page and pick one of their best-sellers.
Hock Kee has Fried Kuey Teow and Satay Fried Kuey Teow dishes and the satay version is one of the "top picks" — it is not simply a dish of fried kway teow topped with satay sauce.
The Satay Fried Kuey Teow (特色沙爹炒粿条) uses broad-flat rice noodle that is stir-fried with satay sauce with all its ingredients, including two big prawns, eggs, shreds of chicken, fishcake slices, beansprouts, and garnished with spring onions and fried shallots. An additional scoop of satay sauce accompanies the fried noodle for enhancing its flavour further if desired. The kway teow has a slight chewy texture and not over-fried. It is a nice dish with new taste experience.
The Shanghai Grilled Chicken Chop with Fried Rice (上海鸡扒留香炒饭) is a bowl of egg fried rice topped with chopped grilled chicken, corns, sio pak choy (小白菜) and dribbled with a savoury sauce. Stir-mix the contents thoroughly with the sauce before eating. The chicken chop is tender and tasty and the fried rice is very nice tasting. This is the first dish I tried in Hock Kee and it captivated me.
The Laksa Pumpkin Mee Hoon Kuih (叻沙金瓜面粉粿) uses pumpkin-flavoured hand-torn dough cooked in a rich sweet-savoury-spicy laksa broth made with coconut milk. The noodle dish is topped with shiitake mushrooms, fishballs, fishcake slices, tofu puffs, fried anchovies, fried shallots and spring onions. It is accompanied by a special dipping sauce made with minced green chillies and fish sauce — and it tastes sweet. A really unique mee hoon kueh dish that is good and tasty.
The Signature Lontong with Chicken Meat (福气招牌隆冬+特制香料鸡块) is a rice dish using compressed rice cubes in a light curry broth with tofu puffs, egg, fishcake, cabbage, long beans, carrot slices and added with chunky fried chicken meat. The chicken meat are specially spiced and the curry broth is creamy, flavourful and mild spicy. This is also a nice dish to go for, especially for breakfast.
Other than serving food, Hock Kee's traditional coffee (original), white coffee, milk tea, hor ga sai (虎咬狮 or traditional kopi with chocolate powder), pineapple tarts, various styles of instant noodles and homemade condiments are available for sales to take home or as gifts. Hock Kee's signature egg tarts with different flavours are available as take-aways too.
Hock Kee Kopitiam's wide range of Nanyang dishes and homemade products will definitely be able to satisfy everyone's palates. Visit the kopitiam, try the dishes and find something that you will like.
Address:
Level 4, Lot J04-08 & 09, JB City Square, Jalan Wong Ah Fook, 80000 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
8am to 10pm | Daily
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