The All Time Favourite

Almost every Saturday, when I am out for a meeting with Cypher, Dope and Max, most of the time we will just go Uncle Duck for lunch. All of us comes to an agreement that Uncle Duck is by far one of the most value for money restaurants in Times Square. Today, we had out usual lunch at Uncle Duck and this time, I'll decide to do a little bit review on this outlet.



Cheese Baked Rice is synonym with Hong Kong Restaurants. In malaysia, cheese baked rice was made famous by hong kong style restaurants such as Kim Gary (the pioneer in the industry), Wong Kok Char Chan Theng, Tsim Tung and many more. Those who frequented these restaurants mentioned knows little about the existence of Uncle Duck, particulary its first outlet with a different name- Hong Kong Food Culture.

Today I'll focus more on the Cheese Baked Rice. It costs RM 14.80 per plate, a little tad higher than its competitors but it is worthy. First of all, the rice is fried with some egg, to give it some distinctive aroma before it was loaded into an aluminium foil together with other ingredients such as your choice of meat (chicken, fish, beef, pork etc), ham bits, peas, white sauce and cheese before it was brought into the oven for baking.


Chicken Chop Baked Rice with Cheese and White Sauce

Cypher's all time favourite. Maybe it satisfies his big appetite since he's kinda err.... =X


Seafood Baked Rice with Cheese and White Sauce

My choice of Baked Rice. However, compared to 3 years ago, the seafood variant inside has dropped significantly because of rising costs. 3 years ago, this particular baked rice comes with oysters, a piece of scallop, a generous amount of lala, squids, cuttlefish, prawns, a slice of Grouper fish and a few slice of other fish (two types of fish given). Now, oysters, scallop, lala and grouper fish has gone. What's left now is just a few slices of fish meat, some fish cakes, prawns, cuttlefish and a generous amount of squid. But hey, the price has only risen RM1 comapred to 3 years ago and the baked cheese rice at Kim Gary is practically empty. Just some cheese on top of your meat of choice and some corn and that's it. The rice is not even fried.

A good meal have to be accompanied by good drinks. Another specialty of Uncle Duck/HK Food Culture is its Lemon Tea. Brewed to perfection and one can savour the unique taste of lemon and tea infused perfectly together. Whenever I drink Lemon Tea at any restaurant, I'll pit them against this lemon tea as benchmark (and usually they would fail badly XD)


Iced Lemon Tea at front and Ribena Special at the back.

There's some rules to follow when drinking this marvelous beverage. One need to poke the sliced lemons at the bottom to bring out the lemon juice which will flavour the tea with zesty lemon taste. A small hassle but definitely worth it.

There were more good things in this restaurant but unfortunately there's always circumstances. First, I don't have a huge wallet and secondly I don't have a huge tummy like... =X

Uncle Duck (HK) Steamboat
得哥火锅餐厅
Lot 03-107, 3rd FLoor,
Berjaya Times Square
No.1, Jalan Imbi
55100, Kuala Lumpur