Few weeks ago, my neighbours told my mum there’s this really cheap and good crab in Desa Aman Puri, Kepong. My mum, being the greatest crab lover, has since wanting to visit this restaurant.

We found ourselves heading to Kepong on one fine Sunday…

After missing a few turns, we reached Tak Fok around 5.45 p.m. Considering it was quite early and there was only 1 table occupied, we sat at one of the tables on the ground floor.

The ground floor floor space is rather small. If the tables are seated to max (i.e. 10 person), it can be very cramp inside. When I first walked in, there’s also this unpleasant smell not much to my liking. Else, there’s nothing much about the interior of the restaurant, simple round tables with chairs – typical Chinese restaurant.

On the walls, they have pasted some pictures of their dishes and promotion item. I found that Tak Fok is really famous, apparently their have appeared on television (even SG’s!) and newspaper.

According to the newspaper cut outs, their most famous dish is the Cream and Butter Crab (above pic). But mum thinks that it can be very jelak so we didn’t order that. The waitress told us that to order 3kg of crabs @ RM 20/ kg, we have to order min 4 dishes, else we have to pay a full price of RM 26/ kg. (Btw, we were told it was RM 18/kg before this, guess they increase their price after they got famous!) We ordered sweet & sour pork, stir fried fish, claypot toufu, fried yau mak and 3kgs of crab – 1kg salted egg + 2kg sweet & sour chilli. Oh, some mantou to go with the crabs too!

The dishes taste average overall. The sweet & sour pork is quite good as it uses firm lean meat compare to minced meat at some other place. Fish and toufu is ok – the normal thing you’ll get in other places. Extra credit must be give to the vege, fu yu yau mak, very crunchy and flavourful! I like it very much!

The crabs were served right after the dished were served. Not a good idea though, because by the time you finish the dishes, the crabs were left cold already. At this time, the restaurant has filled to the brim, many ppl queuing outside for tables. Hence, my advice is to come early and avoid the dinner crowd.

 
The Salted Egg Crab is quite good. For 1 kg, you’ll get 3 medium size crabs. Not bad! Lots of salted egg yolk used in this dish. But the crab meat inside is rather bland coz the taste of the salted egg yolk was not ‘absorbed’ inside.

Next up is the all time favourite of my family – Sweet & Sour Chilli Crab! We have 2 kg of these and some fried mantou to dip in the thick gravy. Taste is quite good, a bit salty and not enough spicy for us. And unfortunately it was served long time already when we ate this. I still prefer the ones in Hai Pan @ Jalan Klang Lama. Of course, you’ll have to pay more there lar!

The crabs were at RM 20-22 per kg, depending the type of cooking, very cheap for Klang Valley standard and freshness up to mark. But for sure, those RM 40 per kg cant be use in this case for fair comparison lar. The dishes are quite expensive though, the sweet & sour pork and fish were priced a whooping RM 20 & RM 25 each, and portion is very small! Toufu and fried yau mak at RM 8-10 , very good deal and yummy too! I guess this is the rationale behind the min order of dishes rule – the margin for these are to cover the margin of the crabs! Perhaps, you can consider ordering more vege less meat for the min order.

I’m hopeless in directions anywhere outside KL area, so here’s the direction quoted from vkeong.com who I’ve copied some pictures from and also has a well written review on Tak Fook.

To reach here, exit the Damansara-Kepong toll towards Kepong. Keep left and you will come to an intersection. Head straight up a hill and take a left turn at the end of the road. You will see a road sign showing that you’re heading to Rawang.

After taking the left turn, head straight until you come to a traffic light. Here, you will see Shell and McDonald’s on your left. Go straight some more and you will see a lot of shops on your right. Tak Fok is just beside the first big hawker center you see. Refer to the wikimapia if you are still unsure, I have centered its location: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=3.2113248&lon=101.6153276&z=19&l=0&m=a&v=2

-Source from vkeong.com

My ratings? 6 out of 10.