Bak Kwa / Rou Gan; Chinatown, Petaling Street, KL, Malaysia

Hawker stall, Petaling Street (Chinatown). Bak Kwa

Of all the food available in Malaysia, Bak Kwa (Hokkien) is probably my favorite. It is delicious, moist, sweet, flat squares of roast pork or chicken which, are perfect eaten hot by themselves or in a sandwich, possibly with a tiny amount of pork or chicken floss. It is Bak Kwa in Hokkien, or Rou4 Gan1 肉干, literally Meat Dry, although possibly a better translation would be Barbecued Meat.

For wonderful images of Bak Kwa click here - Sorry, it never seems to last long enough for me to take a photo of it myself.

Below is a short clip from I Not Stupid (xiao3 hai2 bu2 Ben4 - 小孩不笨) about Bak Kwa, not Ah Kwa (Homosexual).



Directions... Enter the pedestrianised part of Petaling Street from Jalan Sultan, walking past thousands of stalls, then when you get to a cross roads (with stalls roasting chestnuts) turn right and the Bak Kwa Stall is on your left.


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