The Hainanory, Klang

The Hainanory is Klang’s new space for Malaysian Hainanese classics, including Hainanese noodles, mutton soup, chicken chop and chicken rice.

The Hainanory’s founders hail from a family whose patriarch left Hainan in the 1930s, becoming a banquet chef for weddings, temple festivals and community gatherings in Klang.

The Hainanese mutton soup is Grandpa’s port celebration speciality, soul-warming with plenty of tender mutton, white radish, black fungus, beancurd and herbs, flavourfully meaty with mighty nostalgia.

Hainanese noodles also taste like tradition, with market-fresh shrimp, sliced chicken, Chinese lettuce, cucumber, fish cakes and pineapples in a pale-hued gravy of fish and prawn stock.

The Hainanory opens shortly after sunrise, for simple breakfasts of crisp buttered kaya toast with kopitiam tea, a short stroll from Klang’s KTMB train station.