THE RECOGNISED “BIG BROTHER” CHINESE HERBAL PORK SOUP (BAK KUT TEH) RUNNING ON THE EAST COAST NATION @ PAHANG
“Bak Kut Teh” or commonly known as the Chinese Herbal Pork Soup is all the while among the local chinese’s favourite authentic delicacy eatery that believed was been originated from Klang, Selangor nearly a century ago being widely practised on our nations with respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the east coast nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established Chinese Herbal Pork Soup (Bak Kut Teh) “Big Brother” running at Raub, Pahang having great positive response from the market recently.
The Raub, Pahang local originated Mr. Nicholas Lui Mun Hon (born 1988), was the initial founder and also the recent immediate sole-owner of this best recognised Chinese Herbal Pork Soup (Bak Kut Teh) “Big Brother” running right along the Raub township presenting their very home-cooked bak kut teh recipes with other signature menus to the locals & visitors all under a roof on the east coast ground at Pahang.
The founder cum owner Nicholas Lui Mun Hon, who at his age of 37 years old currently, all the while having interest in eatery & culinary been initially stepped into the f&b industry at his teenage 15th of age began as a kitchen trainee touched the chinese cuisine field at Gohtong Jaya, Pahang for a year, then reached Kuala Lumpur continued his exposure in the field practically experienced the western, curry noodle, roasted mix & chinese cuisines for another 5 years along his culinary journey with patients before returned to hometown Raub also being exposed in the Telecommunications and Construction Industry then taken up the responsibility to run his family’s career in the Agriculture Industry at his early thirties.
With experiences, added wishing to have his very owned eating house locally and being inspired by his wife (who originated from Klang, Selangor), also foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry especially the local delicacy chinese herbal pork soup/bak kut teh enabled Nicholas Lui decided then successfully established his very first owned Chinese Herbal Pork Soup (Bak Kut Teh) eating house officially named the “Big Brother Bak Gut Teh Cafe” in the first quarter of year 2025 at Dataran Bukit Idaman, Raub serving all his self-studied home recipes to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2025 on the east coast nation at Pahang.
In this Big Brother Bak Gut Teh Cafe, the owner’s very first top recommended in menus surely will be their healthy “Claypot Bak Kut Teh Soup” which most wanted by their visitors here. At least 5 hours home-boiled chinese herbal soup base (from 15 chinese herbs mixture) then into pork offal such belly, knuckle, tail, rib, lean meat, intestine & pork feet/trotter, finally served boiling hot in claypot furnished with beancurd puff (taupok), enoki mushroom, button mushroom, dried beancurd sheet & lettuce/vege will brings the wonderful herbal’s smooth swallowed with nice fair salty sweet tasty kind of bak kut teh/chinese herbal pork soup eatery that you must have a try when reached Raub, Pahang.
Secondly will be their special “Dry Claypot Bak Kut Teh”, also among the eating house’s daily selection wanted by their customers recently. Combination of pork offal (somehow on customer’s preference) fresh stirred in claypot with their home herbal soup base into mixture of lady finger, dried cuttlefish shredded, garlic, dried chili, black soya & home seasonings, then finally served hot in claypot will brings another sweet fair spicy with cuttlefish’s fragrance tasty itself swallowed kind of dry bak kut teh eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Another will be their founder Nicholas’s grandmother home recipe “Vinegar Pork Trotter” which wanted by the locals from the beginning. Local fresh pork trotter commonly selected, cleaned then kept soaked overnight, followed by about few hours slow-braised with black vinegar into their home-planted bentong’s matured ginger, rock sugar & seasonings mixture, finally served in traditional authentic sour sweet tasty with soft trotter’s texture bites itself into mouth that you will never regret after tasted here. Especially the natural pork collagen from the long-braised itself that you cannot aside here.
Other than pork eateries, their famous “Steamed Fish Head with Ginger Paste” too among the local’s favourite selection all the while. Local fresh big head carp fish head on weight of about 1.2-1.5kg commonly selected, home-steamed for about 10 minutes, then served dressing with their in-house hand-grinded ginger paste (made from their home-planted bentong’s matured ginger) will brings the excellent ginger’s exotic fair spicy with fish’s smooth freshness tasty swallowed itself in combination that you need to have a try here.
In order to complete your chinese herbal pork soup/bak kut teh eatery here, the owner also introduced their home-cooked “Spicy Sour Mustard” which like by most of their customers from the first day. Local fresh mustard veges boiled for at least 4 hours with dried chili, assam slice, garlic, ginger, tomato & roasted pork skin, then finally served with appetising sour fair spicy tasty will always the perfect matching taken sides with a pot of their bak kut teh and a hot bowl of their onion oil rice that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Chinese Herbal Pork Soup/Bak Kut Teh eating house “Big Brother Bak Gut Teh Cafe” at Raub, Pahang.
BIG BROTHER BAK GUT TEH CAFE
Address: No. 37,
Jalan Pasar,
Dataran Bukit Idaman,
27600 Raub,
Pahang.
Business Hours: 11:00am to 10:00pm (Daily)