Ad Hog - Porky Palace

The last few years have seen the mushrooming of outright porky places. I have tried most of them: Swine, Naughty Nuri's, El Cerdo, the evergreen Vintry, 3 Little Pigs, my playpen Leonardos, Meet The Porkers, Brotzeit, Ante, Bavarian Beerhaus, The Pork Place Puchong, etc... to name but a few. 

But there was one place which I have heard of many times but can't seem to get there because of the location. Its in Kota Damansara, so to go there for dinner during weeknights will be a nightmare. Weekdays, it will be just as bad unless you work around Kota Damansara.

Now another good friend raved about the place again, so I gotta go.The place is rustically designed, very homey. 

The seemingly nondescript salad was very very tasty owing to a fascinating citrusy mix, making it very delicious.

There's no menu to speak of. Just speak to the husband and wife team of Sam Yew and Kye Yen. Just ask for their best dishes.

The best two dishes, which I would gladly come back for, again and again, the pork knuckle, crackling skin without the usual 5 spice and moist meat tearing off the bone. 10/10.... all pork knuckles should be like this.

The second top dish was the pork stew with carrots, which is similar to beef tendon stew... tender pieces with some fat and the carrots 'plumpishly' soft. The star was the sauce that went with it, served with toasted bread, it shone and declared itself as MSG-free but flavourful with the essence of porkiness all over. 10/10.

The pasta, which most of us can do, was off the charts goodness in simplicity, alio-oilio style with bacon bits, own roasted chilli flakes, garlic and maybe some seafood of the day. 9.9/10 (cause no one can make a perfect pasta). 

Chef refused to divulge full recipe but I think they oil the pan with very good pancetta fat.

I highly recommend this place and they do not charge corkage. But please make your reservations as its a two-person operations and they need to plan their resources properly. Excellent chatty hosts.

Let them take the lead, it is going to cost RM50-70pp on average. Plus ask for their homemade habanero tangy very spicy sauce to go with the pork knuckle. Its highly addictive and to die for, plus 3x more spicy than our usual red chili. Take in drops.

25 Jalan PJU3/45
Sunway Damansara
47810 
Tel: 03-78047813
HP: 019-3121922
(closed on Mondays)