Lèk by Lala Chong, Ara Damansara

Lèk by Lala Chong is a seafood restaurant in Ara Damansara — clams, crabs, cuttlefish — and the next-generation offshoot of Lala Chong, the long-running PJ institution.

What to Order at Lèk

The LaLa Kuey Teow is the dish that justifies the spin-off: a wat tan hor treatment of the fried mee hoon with lala that made the original famous. It arrives steaming in a gravy of ginger, spring onions and silky egg, loaded with fresh clams.

The crab meat fried rice is a Lèk exclusive, not available at the parent restaurant.

For lala in Ara Damansara or seafood in Petaling Jaya, this is the younger branch of a name people have trusted for years.