Located just across the Malaysia-Singapore Causeway lies
Restoran Kam Long, a Chinese restaurant located in Johor Bahru that has been in
operation for more than 3 decades. Unlike a large number of Chinese restaurants
similar to this, this restaurant only serves one dish and have been doing so
for all these years – curry fish head. The dish is so popular that it has come to
the point where you’ll have to rule out coming here for lunch and arrive for
breakfast instead as the crowd fills this restaurant in the mornings, also
taking into account all the fish is finished midway in the afternoon.
When it comes to this famous bowl of curry fish head, only
fresh red snapper fish heads are used. As far as the curry itself is concerned,
it is made using a variety of spices normally found in Malay and Indian curries,
as well as having coconut milk, ladies’ fingers, cabbage, long beans, fried
tofu skin, and tau kee (soy bean sticks) which are all cooked in a claypot. One
of the things to note about this pot of fish curry is that it is less tangy
than other servings of fish curry out there. This pot of fish curry goes well
with a steaming plate of rice, which is often the case in the restaurant.
In short, very few places pull off a great bowl of curry
fish head at the level of that served in Restoran Kam Long, so going to the
restaurant is most certainly worth the trip.
