Located barely a few clicks from the seashore, Restoran Makanan Laut You Kee brings forth a torrent of culinary seafood delights fresh out from the sea and onto the table. Available throughout the day, anyone craving for seafood in the vicinity of Sungai Rengit -or further, if you don't mind the drive; can pay a visit to this seafood restaurant of gastronomical proportions.
Amongst the myriad of seafood up for grabs, You Kee's signature dishes entails the members of the crustacean family: crabs and lobsters. In terms of both the shellfishes, regulars who frequent the seafood joint will opt for either salt-cooked or deep-fry with savoury sweet butter sauce. The lobsters, that comes in different sizes -determined when issuing your order- will have retained all the natural juicy sweetness, bouncy texture and briny flavours in the flesh. The flesh of the crabs, on one hand, will be harder to access but the satisfaction obtained when tasting the flesh will be doubled from all the effort.
Of course, with seafood, one can be hard pressed to miss out on fish, and here in You Kee, their rendition of pomfret dish will leave you mum with awe. Best way to taste the flavours of the fish is by simply steaming the fish as it helps retains the texture along with nutrients and before long, you will be experience the rich flavours of the sea-dwelling fish swirling in your palate.
If you are up for a rather exotic dish, and don't mind splurging a tad more, the mantis shrimps are viable options. Either that or you can also have a go at the unconventional toad dish of You Kee, either steamed or fried, with the latter having an option of lathering sauces of your preference.
