Quick review today. Starting out as a stall in the KL-adjacent town of Subang, LFC or Lim Fried Chicken is nearly 40 years old, and it now has at least 8 outlets (hard to tell, as the website is old and broken). We went to the one at Ampwalk, which opened a year ago after the commercial building had a renovation. It has a wall with an entertaining mural, mostly featuring food they don’t sell, oddly. What they do sell is fried chicken dishes, nasi lemak (though with plain rice), mild mutton curry, and chee cheong fun kosong.
It’s a fried chicken shop, so it doesn’t have a lot of choice for vegetarians. The staff tried to be helpful, saying they could serve everything separately, but they weren’t able to say if the sambal (which comes with all but one dish) or the curry sauce were meat/fish free, as they are prepared at a central kitchen and just heated up on site. This meant I went for the safe chee cheong fun with sweet sauce. It had just about the right amount of slightly runny sweet sauce for the chopped rice noodle rolls, and a scattering of sesame seeds. It was okay for a fairly basic dish.
Wife and daughter shared their signature crispy fried chicken with rice and cabbage. You get a lot of rice and cabbage, which were very plain. Sambal and curry sauce were delivered later, and were fishy and and a bit dull respectively. However, the chicken was apparently crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle, and was worth the trip, I’m told.
We shared one of their interesting and allegedly healthy drinks (spoiler alert – they are way too sugary to be healthy): Cockerel Tea with konjac. Konjac is a edible plant bulb, which you can make a jelly with. I thought I hadn’t had it, but it seems as if this is what they make vegan ‘sashimi’ with. This jelly was flavoured with Chinese herbs; the drink was therefore like drinking very sweet milk tea with bits of liquorice in (disgusting to me, but ok to wife!).
I don’t have a huge desire to head back to LFC, but maybe I will check with the central kitchen which bits are vegetarian, and then I could try something else. Probably going to steer clear of the drinks, though. I would also like to mention that LFC works with the food poverty charity What a Waste to supply underprivileged people in the Klang Valley with food parcels.
Address: Lot G-06, The Ampwalk, 218 Jalan Ampang, 55000 Kuala Lumpur
Telephone: 01111882296
Website: http://www.lfcmalaysia.com
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