There is something very odd about sitting in the middle of an air-conditioned mall eating oh chien (fried oyster cake). Oh Chien should be eaten under the street lights, sitting in the open, watching the old man fry the eggs and oyster in his griddle and send it to you piping hot.
But try Oyster King I did at The Gardens.
I tried it out of curiosity and because at 9pm, all I wanted was a quick bite to line my rumbling tummy. Rather what you’d do when cruising the streets for street food too.
I had Set A which came with a drink, pumpkin cake and fried oyster for RM9.80. Perfect.
The Pumpkin cake was pan fried. Essentially its like carrot cake or Loh Bak Ko just made with pumpkin. Tastewise it was so-so. A little too sticky but the sambal that was served with it was good. Ala carte will set you back RM5.
The star of the show of course is the Fried Oyster. I expected it to be like the traditional street fried oh chien where the oysters are fried and folded into the egg and starch like an omelette.
But nope. What you get is fried egg and starch with some fat oysters sitting on top. I was quite disappointed.
I’m not that much of a fan of oh chien or oysters, but I like having the taste of the oysters in the dish. Cooked this way, you can see the oysters but there is no taste of oysters in the dish. The starch was also rather strange. Instead of being mixed in with the egg, they were fried into little flat bits that tasted like kuey teow.
Strange.
Ala carte, the fried oyster alone will cost RM6. Price wise I’d say its alright. Eating this dish at a hawker stall where hygiene is more suspect (but where its more delicious) would likely set you back about the same price or maybe even more for oysters of this size! To be fair, they did call this Fried Oyster not Oyster Omelette 
Oyster King is at the LG floor of The Gardens, outside of Din Tai Fung. I’m not sure if I’d return. Maybe one day when I’m having a craving for egg fried with oysters, not an oyster omelette.
Oyster King is probably halal.
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Personally, I prefer small oysters in the oh chien. Too big an oyster can make one “jelak”. And this is definitely not how an oh chien should look like. Can’t fight the ones in Johor
@pablopabla: I agree. I prefer smaller oysters too and nothing beats sitting by the roadside
Make it the seaside ala Muar and Pontian
i actually prefer oyster to sit on top