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Puchong Lok Lok Street’s amazing feast
The Puchong Lok Lok Street food heaven is set up appropriately for a banquet all night long. – All pics courtesy of HungryGoWhere, November 19, 2015.Come sunset, when the heat and humidity eases a bit, the space between Jalan Kenari 9 and Jalan Kenari 10 in Puchong comes alive.
Food trucks, stalls, tables, and benches start appearing and before long the loud Mando-Pop songs blaring from truck speakers beckon hungry crowds to the fold.
Prepare your walking shoes and rumbling stomachs as HungryGoWhere shows you around Puchong's famous Lok Lok street.
Just have a look at the lok lok spread.Lok Lok
There are easily five to six lok lok trucks parked in this area. Almost all of them serve the same kind of skewered goodies. Some arrive with deep-fryers and grills to offer fried and grilled goodies if you are tired of boiled skewered food.
We like this particular truck of Lok-Lok as the cheerful vendor also has a pot of bubbling skewered pig intestines in a wicked dark sauce. Prices of skewered food start from RM1.10 each.
Anyone with brains would probably love the otak-otak at this 'wai sek kai'.Otak-otak
The assam laksa stall also sells otak-otak (RM3.30). Done the traditional way, the packets of banana leaf-enclosed steamed fish in a spicy custard is delicious. The texture is just nice, not too mushy and the spice blend is perfect. We do hesitate to say if the one in Muar "wai sek kai" is better sometimes.
The kind of crackers that doesn't need cheese or lighting up.Fried Prawn Crackers
At the same stall that sells other fried goodies like fishballs and fried chicken, comes crispy prawn crackers (RM1.50 a piece). The prawn crackers made a good, lasting impression on us as the prawns used were very fresh and sweet, embedded in a thin crunchy batter, made more fragrant with specks of scallions.
Crunch some numbers here, for the popiah, both fried and freshly-rolled, will leave you definitely wanting more.Popiah
Adjacent to the oh chien stove, a big sign shows "popiah". Both the freshly-rolled popiah and deep-fried popiah are available and they are usually sold in a set of twos, a piece of each type at RM4 per set. The fried popiah remains very crispy and it's good to note that it's not oily either.
The filling of julienned sengkuang and carrots may seem simple but it's refreshingly sweet to the bite.
With all the cooking fires around here, you'd need to cool down somehow.Cold Sweets
Next to the popiah stall, check out the Pat Poh Ping Soya dessert offered in the drinks truck. The huge bowl of soya milk is like a treasure trove of kidney beans, snow fungus, grass jelly, sago, longan, and chunks of sweet potatoes. At RM4 a bowl, this is like a super-indulgent concoction of ABC (ais batu campur).
Lok Lok street isn't done with you yet, so check out it's other offerings! If you like walking around for food then we also recommend the best "wai sek kai" in the Klang Valley. Just make sure to stock up now, it's hungry work!
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