GUAN HWAT RESTAURANT @ SEKINCHAN

My Makan Gang wanted to make a trip to Kuala Selangor for some grocery shopping and instead of stopping at our favourite seafood restaurant in Bagan Pasir for lunch, this trip we made an exception. We went further up and made a stop for lunch at Sekinchan instead. Apart from being a fishing village, Sekinchan is also famous for producing rice! Oh..and on the way to this town, you will also see lots of roadside stalls offering local produce such as mangoes, corns, salted fish and at times live clams too.

There are quite a number of seafood restaurants in Sekinchan. Our pick was Guan Hwat Restaurant, a blue wooden shop which is rather difficult to miss once you make a turn into the fishing village.


This restaurant was listed in the 'Northern Selangor" good food guide featured by Flavours magazine too.


The moment I stepped into the restaurant, I was shocked. Pieces after pieces of tissue were scattered all over the place by previous diners. It was such an eyesore. We were there at 11 a.m. and it could be possible those tissues were from the night before, but Wong said it could be from the breakfast crowd. He reminded that this village produces rice and many paddy farmers have their meals early. How true. According to the guide book, this place opens from 7 a.m. till 2 p.m.!


Wiping away the tissues from my thought, let's focus on food now. Our first order was a little out of expectation. We were asking for prawns and we were given a choice of either oyster sauce or chili. Now, the thought of having prawns cooked with oyster sauce seems weird to me. Never had it cooked that way before so we thought the chili was a better option. We were expecting big whole prawns, shelled with heads. And this was what we were served instead.......


It was shrimps (I won't call it prawns) all chopped up and cooked with chili paste. A little out of expectation once again, it was quite yummy! Spicy and aromatic, goes well with rice! Priced at RM11.

We were told they had fresh white snapper that day, so we opted to have it steamed. Not exactly Thai style but it came with lots of sliced onions and lime to zest up the dish. At only RM15, cheap. Tastewise, it was just okay, no wow factor.


With so many variety of clams out there, I still find this version the best. I remember growing up eating only this kind of 'lala'. It has got much sweeter and firmer flesh. This dish (RM10) was wonderfully cooked with spicy soy bean paste, in fact, I love this dish the most out of all other dishes we ordered.


Their Crispy Sole with Taucheo (fermented soy bean) was also recommended in the food guide. . Honestly, I was too contented with the Lala dish, so I didn't quite pay attention to this.


Baby Shark meat soup (RM8) is their specialty here. Basically, the soup tasted exactly like salted vegetable soup and it came with shark's fillet, fishballs, tofu, tomatoes and of course salted vegetables!


I expected the shark meat to be tough but surprisingly it was soft. No fishy smell too. Being a soup lover, I enjoyed every drop of the sweet and tangy broth.


Restoran Guan Huat is located at
Lot 2942 Jalan Bagan,
Sekinchan, Selangor
Tel: 012-292.8986
Open from 7.00 a.m. - 2.oo p.m.
Closed on Tuesdays

Also attached, the location map taken from the food guide...hope it helps!