Bun Heng Restaurant — Restaurant in Selayang Municipal Council

For many years, I have been wanting to take the family for a meal at Bun Heng, a very traditional Chinese restaurant nestled in the heart of Rawang, a town located in the northern part of Klang Valley.

It all started when a customer brought me for a meal here and I was impressed with the fact that the restaurant prides itself on serving dishes that used to be served during wedding banquets of the yesteryear. Due to the tedious process, many restaurants actually gave up in favour of simpler dish - but not them!

Bun Heng restaurant looks like time stood still - never seen a day of refurbishment nor renovation from day one - and not exactly spacious with just 5 tables on the ground floor. Traditional tools to make moon cake are proudly framed and displayed on the wall together with packaging of the past (yes, they do sell mooncake come Mid Autumn Festival).

Set C RM788 ◾Four Seasons Platter - all were good & I was particularly impressed by the fried egg with mock sharkfin & crab meat wrapped with fresh lettuce. ◾Eight Treasure Duck is by far the best version that I'd tried in my life. Tore open the body to reveal herbs stuffed inside the body, and everyone started to scrap for every little piece of meat soon after. ◾Sweet & sour grouper - while not particularly special, the fish was nicely fried and drenched in the sweet & sour sauce. ◾Chinese sausages steamed rice - one of few that wrap this dish in lotus leaf (could taste the fragrance of the leaf). The waxed meats were generous, while the rice had nice texture. I couldn't resist a bowl. ◾Fried prawns with soy sauce - considerably big in size with the caramelized soy sauce coating every inch of the prawns. ◾Abalone with dried bean curd - too stuffed at this stage but we summoned last inch of our tummy to fit in the abalone. ◾Longan Ice was perfect ending to the lunch.

Bonus: ◾Fried prawns, oysters with egg york in crispy shells - also known as phoenix balls, this dish was made available when one table cancelled reservations. Love the prawns meat, dried oysters and salted egg yolk wrapped with pork caul fat before deep fried. Like Chinese version of Scotch Egg but better!

Note: Tables are limited and some dishes need pre-order so better be safe than sorry.

After 2 years missing out either due to wrong timing, I finally made it hsre. And honestly I was actually impressed by the fact that all dishes were cooked commendably and not inconsistent due to the festive surge. It's a RM788 meal that everyone agreed...

Since my work has brought me to this northern part of Klang Valley so many times, I want to try what the town of Rawang has to offer. One of the restaurants in my list is Bun Heng, another decades old restaurant located in the old town centre.

Again I have to say this... Weekdays in this area especially during peak hours are nightmares. We had to park quite far away and walked here just to enjoy the lunch. It had better be good or it'll be a complete waste of time and effort, I told myself.

I observed the restaurant after doing all the SOPs like I always do - a classic Chinese restaurant with less than 10 tables, with white retro tiles covering the walls. The restaurant definitely looks tired and dated, yet something about it that makes it nostalgic to most people. Moon cake tools were proudly displayed on the wall, signalling its humble beginning as a mooncake seller. An elderly lady was seen sitting at one corner, quietly peeling the vegetables.

◾teo chew style steamed fish - fresh fish topped with generous ingredients ◾Hakka braised pork belly with yam (taro) - tasted very good but I was hoping that they gave more lean meat. The fat ratio was very high in this dish. Not that I mind... ◾beancurd with spicy minced meat - the meat gave this dish a much needed oomph. ◾Kangkung belacan

Good Chinese food if you are happened to be in this town, with decent price and limited seats. Do take note that quite a number of special dishes need to be ordered in advance - such as eight treasure pork knuckle, duck soup with orange peel just to name a few. I'd say some of these are classic Chinese dishes that are tedious to prepare hence the advance reservation needed. I'll definitely come back with the whole horde once...

if you are interested only in Cantonese old style imperial dishes, this is the place to come. Food portions and taste was great. We had the CNY menu. what attracted me was for appetizer, they gave four seasons instead of Yee Sang(which was optional, can be added on if you want. This should be the way, not forcing everyone to eat Yee Sang, which in my mind is junk food). Food here is really traditional Cantonese style cooking, We had the eight treasure pork trotters, came out amazing!!. Imagine Thai style pork trotters filled with eight types of beans, nuts and seeds. Lap Mei rice was one of the best I've tasted sitting side by side with one famous restaurant in Guangzhou. Rest of the dishes was also good. We sat upstairs, so service was non existent as they have no staff stationed upstairs. Perhaps because of too many customers during CNY. Just come here for the food, period. Would I return? definitely, many other dishes...