Duck King @ Jaya One, Petaling Jaya

(Non-Halal)


If one were to drive along Jalan Damansara, you might notice a large overhead sign about Jaya One being The Food Place for PJ folks. Well, I have not been to all the restaurants in Jaya One and there are many indeed to choose from (and I can now have my Wendy's Shrimp Burger here too. Yay!).



With most of us being duck fans (the eating kind!) and the birthday girl being a big duck fan, it was decided rather easily to dine at Duck King - bracing ourselves for a weekend dinner!

Making dinner weekend reservations, we were told that there are two sessions to choose from; 6-8pm and 8pm-10pm. Yes, they are THAT packed - apparently since they first opened their doors in February this year.

So, try weekdays if you want a more blissful ambiance (meaning lower noise level) and more attentive service. You know what they say about noise and Chinese restaurants, and here's one originating from Indonesia.

Here's a pic of the lovely roast meat and poultry, talk about shooting ducks! Hahaha...I know, lame but I can't help myself! The steam chicken at the bottom seems to be alive and doing some sort of a dance! Must be the Chicken Dance...ok, ok...I gotta stop myself, must be high on sugar!


Well, one thing for sure I was probably a bit intoxicated from this Drunken Prawn dish (RM24/USD7) at that time (plus the red wine we had). The prawn was fresh and springy and the soup certainly put us in a merry mood :o)




I liked this Beancurd with Minced Chicken (RM16.80/USD4.80). I'm still pretty much a kid at heart, you know - how kids love gravy! We cleared everything on this plate with probably about a teaspoon of gravy left!


The half Roast Duck (RM26.80/USD7.70) was lovely...with skin that "breaks" when we bit into it. Tender and none of the gamey taste at all.


We also had the Black Bean Clams (RM14.80/USD4.20) which also came with bell peppers/capsicum. It was very flavourful indeed; bordering on the salty side though. Must be accompanied by steamed white rice for balance.

If one is in the mood for something different when it comes to rice, you can try the Lard Oil Rice aka Sinful Rice (RM2.00/USD0.60).

Drizzled with some light soy sauce and lard oil, this will send lard lovers not to the heavens but to the moon and back while the health conscious usually cringe in horror and disgust upon seeing this.

But of course, this is not to be consumed daily...the thought of that makes me cringe too even though I'm one of those who have been to the moon and back.....

"Fly me to the moon
and let me sing among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
on Jupiter and Mars..."

(eh...time to go for karaoke soon!)

But of course we just had to order Peking Duck (though Duck King serves duck in nine variants) but found it just okay. Maybe the duck skin wasn't as crispy as the roast duck because of the added sweet sauce which could have soften it. I also found the quantity of skin in each roll inadequate, therefore lacking "oomph".



But the night ended on a good note when these buns were served. Having ordered the Peking Duck earlier and stripped it of it's skin, we opted for these buns with Black Pepper Duck Meat.

We loved these as it was very tasty but I felt that the duck meat was minced a tad much, it should be a bit chunkier so that we could actually feel the meat when we bite into one of these deep fried buns.

Duck King
8-G Block M, Jaya One
No. 72-A Jalan Universiti
46200 Petaling Jaya
Tel : 03-7957 9819

Opens Daily : 11 am- 10.30 pm &
from 9 am on Sundays & Public Holidays

Others who have either gone to the moon and back or cringed in horror : -

Ling239

Jet

Pure Glutton

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck - Billie Holiday