KY eats – Clay Pot Fish Rice and more at Six One Seafood, Kajang

From where we stay in Shah Alam, Kajang is just about as far as one can go for a meal to be still within Klang Valley.

It usually takes a special sort of reason for us to make that journey; last weekend, with the combination of meeting up people whom we haven’t seen for a long time and the promise of very unique food at Six One Seafood, we found that reason.

Six One seafood restaurant, Kajang

Six One Restaurant is located at Taman Sri Langat in Kajang, occupying a corner lot at an area where parking isn’t particularly too challenging an affair over the weekends. Like many “tai chao” places, the set up is no different from a kopitiam, with the usual plastic chairs and well ventilated interior aided only with ceiling fans. The cooking area however, is open and even semi alfresco!

Signature clay pot fish rice + fish soup

The menu here is a series of paper plastered on the wall, with 3-6 character Chinese words that are descriptive of what you get in the dishes served only some of the time. However, the server is always helpful in giving out suggestions and clarifications.

We ordered their Signature clay pot fish, a claim of fame of this restaurant. It was not entirely unlike your typical clay pot chicken rice, but with delightfully marinated and well cooked chunks of fish on top.

Flavor wise it wasn’t as strong as most clay pot chicken rice, but carries a unique taste that I thought goes quite well with the accompanying fish bone soup that is always served with this dish. The soup carries the umami note from the fish bone, and further sweetened by red dates and cabbage, quite a nice combo.

asam okra, pumpkin tofu, baby kailan

The asam okra salad was another memorable dish, topped with crunchy deep fried anchovies and enhanced further with shallots and cherry tomato, this cold dish would probably work well as beer food too.

Pumpkin tofu and fried baby kailan were dishes you’d find at most restaurants like this, and the execution here was on par with what one should expect.

“snakehead mythological creature – hua gu long”

Then there’s this rather strangely named dish called “hua gu long” – a bit of googling says that it refers to a certain type of mythical creature that looks like snakehead but with 4 limbs.

It turned out to be a de-boned fish with its meat removed, made into a paste, and then reapplied into the skin, and then fried (entirely my guess). It was rather interesting, a bit like yong tau foo but with fish skin instead of tofu, brinjal, or okra.

“special golden dragon chicken”

Last but not least, we also had the “special golden dragon chicken”, another dish that requires skillful craftsmanship in its creation. This dish reminds me of the “golden boneless stuffed chicken” at Elegnat Inn, but with I believe, yam & sweet potato stuffed under the crispy chicken skin instead. It had a soft yet crunchy texture though taste wise I thought was a bit complex but did not land particularly well for me.

Lunch for 7 adults here ended up at about RM 300, or just below RM45 per person including tea. I thought it was quite a good change of pace from the usual offering at other such restaurants, and I can certainly imagine myself coming back again to try some of their other equally interesting dishes.

Menu:

Address:
Six One Restaurant
68 Jalan Langat 1 Off Jalan Reko,
Taman Sri Langat,
Kajang, 43000 Selangor
GPS: 2.974484, 101.789542
Tel: 012-362 2507