Banting Beggar's Chicken at Bukit Jugra, Banting, Selangor

As a picky eater, I have to disagreed with Jason (Chinese food promoter)that the Beggar's chicken over here is good... it is not. Let's read the story of beggar's chicken which I took from: http://www.louwailou.com.cn/english/chick.asp

It happened long long ago. The federal dynasty imposed heavy tax on civilians, and people were deprived of everything. Family broken up, they strayed everywhere as beggars. One day, a beggar was floating in Changsu of Jiangsu Province, cold and hungry. Little by little, he couldn't stand up and fainted. His fellow sufferers were trying to save him. They collected wood and burned it to warm him up. One fellow sufferer took out the only remained chicken and prepared to cook for him. But without any tools to cooking, they were very worried. Suddenly, one of them got an idea. He suggested wrapping up the chicken with slush, and putting the mud pie into fire to bake. They continuously collected wood and baked mud pie. Finally, when the chicken was fully cooked, they began to knock open mud. To everyone's surprise, the feather was also falling off with mud, and the chicken smelled very nice. The aroma attracted all neighbors around. They came and couldn't stop praising the unique cooking style and the unique taste.

Next, the other story taken from SuZhou China http://www.suzhou.gov.cn said that the
Chang-shu Beggar-chicken is also called stewed chicken. It is said there was a beggar in Yu-shan, Chang-shu. He once caught a chicken but he had no cookers or condiments with him. So he killed and emptied the chicken. Without plucking it up, he daubed it with mud and roasted in fire. After it was ready he rejected the mud, with which the feather fell off. It turned out to be limp and fragrant when eating. Later, people seasoned such kind of chicken with condiments and produced distinct flavors. It is thus named “Beggar-chicken”.


So, from these two stories, it is said that we should be eating a manigficent chicken, but over here, we only eat a chicken that was overpowered by herbs... to make it worst, the chicken is not 'Kampung Chicken' or the so called free range chicken. I don't mind travelled to Bukit Jugra or paying the amount for the chicken... but I really do mind eating an inferior dish. The other dishes that we have were their beggar's duck...it is not good, and duck used were frozen duck . Overall, I will only give 2 out of 5 points to this restaurant. So be warned, don't give a high expectation for the food.