NEARLY 40 YEARS ENG GE FISH HEAD PORRIDGE BY “CHOONG RESTAURANT” INTO THEIR 2ND GENERATION @ KEDAH
“Fish Head Porridge” is all the while among the local’s delicacy chinese porridge & fish combination of eateries which being favourite by the locals, especially in the northern that practised by carriers since decades on respective recipes on the ground. Here in the upper northern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended nearly 40 years “Eng Ge Fish Head Porridge” into their 2nd generation running by the Choong family at Sungai Petani, Kedah having great positive response from the market since the year 1980s.
The Sungai Petani, Kedah local originated Mr. Choong Phei Keat (born 1994), together with his couple partner Ms. Ivy Khoo Sing Yi (Segamat, born 1994) both are the recent immediate owners of this best recommended “Choong Restaurant” Eng Ge Fish Head Porridge eating house along Bakar Arang, Sungai Petani serving their Choong family’s decades home recipes to the locals & visitors all under a roof in better manner continue to expose in the field, also fully assisted by parents the Phei Keat’s father Mr. Choong Eng Hong also known Eng Ge (Kedah, born 1963) and mother Madam Teoh Pek In (Kedah, born 1971) whose were the initial founders of the Eng Ge Fish Head Porridge initially in town.
Madam Teoh (Phei Keat’s mother), who since teenage helping father in running their family’s TeoChew Porridge food stall along Bakar Arang at Sungai Petani in the year early 1980s all the while experienced in the f&b industry. Later-on been touched the fish head porridge together with her husband Mr. Choong Eng Hong began their fish head porridge food stall in the late 1980s all the while along Bakar Arang, Sungai Petani on their homemade recipes with named “Eng Ge Fish Head Porridge”, still running recently at Pekan Baru Sungai Petani. Then being exposed into their 1st eating house by son Phei Keat with couple Ivy Khoo in the year 2020 officially named the “Choong Restaurant” (Eng Ge Fish Head Porridge) along Bakar Arang, Sungai Petani continue their exposure in the field as 2nd generation.
In this Choong Restaurant, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus surely will be their family’s famous “Fish Head Porridge” which most wanted by the locals all the while. The combination of their home-cooked porridge and 8 hours boiled soup base (mixtures of pork bones, chicken bones & sengkuang), cooked with gingers into their home recipes and delicious home fried barracuda fish head (ikan kacang kacang), and finally served boiling hot in claypot toppings of chopped spring onions & deep fried garlic oil will be their best smooth fish head porridge eatery with fish freshness taste into mouth that you must have a try when reached Sungai Petani, Kedah.
Secondly will be their “Signature Kuey Tiao Dry”, which also among the restaurant’s daily top seller wanted by their regulars from the beginning. Home soup base cooked with mixtures of their homemade pork minced, fresh fish balls, deep fried barracuda fish fillets & veges, served sided with bowl of their home recipe dry kon lou soya sauce kuey tiao (flat rice noodles) will be the perfect combination of eateries with their soup freshness sweet swallowed and the texturing fish balls, fresh minced pork and crispy fried fish fillets that you will never regret after tasted here.
Another will be their “Signature Lo Mee”, which also among the Sungai Petani’s local delicacy noodle eatery that serves on their family’s home recipes like by their visitors recently. Their home-cooked Lo Soup Broth in mixtures of home boiled soup base into potato starch with recipes, black soya sauce & chicken egg, served with noodles option (on customer’s preference) and topped onto home fried salted pork slices, braised chicken egg &fried fish fillets, toppings with chopped spring onions taken with chilli paste or black vinegar will always on customer’s option that you should have a try here.
Nonetheless, the owners also introduced their special “Sour & Spicy Rough Mee Hoon Soup with Fish Fillets” which brought into the menu by the Choong’s 2nd generation favourite by the customers today. Home soup base cooked with their homemade sour & spicy recipes into tomatoes, chilli, gingers & plums, served with rough mee hoon (rice noodles) and either fried or fresh fish fillets (on customer’s preference) will brings tasty appertising sour & spice taste into mouth along of the fish freshness & texturing bites into mouth that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised 2-generations Eng Ge Fish Head Porridge &Noodle Soup eateries in the “Choong Restaurant” at Sungai Petani, Kedah.
CHOONG RESTAURANT
(ENG GE FISH HEAD PORRIDGE)
Address: No. 72H,
Jalan Kampung Baru,
Bakar Arang,
08000 Sungai Petani,
Kedah.
Business Hours: 8:30am to 2:30pm
5:30pm to 9:30pm (Daily)
(Closed on Wednesday)