Pak Antok has a fast food kind of set up. Order and pay at the counter on the right as you enter, collect a receipt, go back to your table, and collect your food when the number on your receipt is called.
There are three sets to choose from with different combinations of chicken (crispy or original), various sides and drinks. Clear and efficient.
They have other dishes like bakso, soto, pecel lele, etc., but I was there only for their ayam gepuk.
Pak Antok has two levels, so there is ample spacious and comfortable seating.
I got the everything set (C) which included an iced drink. Fried chicken, kobis, taukwa, fried offal, lettuce, tempeh, and the signature sambal and cashew nut sauce.
Pak Antok also provides their house brand of kicap (sweetened dark soy sauce) which was nice, especially with the rice.
The type of batter they use at Pak Antok is very crispy and even almost shatteringly, crackly.
The golden batter formed a crispy crackly "protective" shell around the chicken meat which remained moist, tender, tasted fresh and naturally sweet.
I like this style of fried chicken better than the global brands.
Sambal was spicy hot and fresh. The cashew sauce was nutty, rich. I like Pak Antok's sauces as they were freshly grounded and flavourful. We can choose the levels of spiciness, but it is just different proportions of sambal and cashew nut sauce.
Pak Antok provides self-service top up of spicy sambal, cashew nut sauce and rice.
While I like the fried chicken, the sambal and cashew nut sauce, they don't seem to go well together in my opinion. The fried chicken by itself was excellent.
For this sambal and cashew sauce, I believe I will prefer chicken fried without any or very little batter i.e. the original.
I shall ask for the original next time I am at Pak Antok.
All the other components in the set - kobis (fried cabbage), tempeh, taukwa (fried bean curd), fried offal, lettuce, cucumber, were alright.
Nice, comfortable environment, relatively big portions, free top up of sambal and cashew nut sauce, competitive pricing. Give them a try!
(I declined the colourful drinks included in the set as they all come with sugar added, which I avoid.)
Restaurant name: Ayam Gepuk Pak Antok (Cawangan Larkin)
Address: LOT 14 & 14-01, 2/2, Jalan Garuda, Larkin Jaya, 80530 Johor Bahru
Public Bus: Bus J13 from JB Sentral ↔️ Larkin Sentral
Tel: +6010 658 5242
Hours: 10am - 9pm
Written by Tony Boey on 28 May 2026
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There is a free water dispenser next to the cashier. I prefer their original over crispy and i think their sambal is da best. The fried toufu and tempe are so good.
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