According to legend, came to Southeast Asia across the ocean to make a living at the time of our ancestors, the Straits Settlements at the time of the British Empire in the Far East when labor, as the British in Malaya plundered a lot of resources need to be shipped home, so in Klang, Selangor, to establish a port ( Port Klang is now). Since that time many fathers are not highly educated, I do not know the word but no capital to do business, then went to the mines in mining tin miner. Miners have long needed a soak in the lake or in Jinshan trench ore mining, as local perennial rainy, cold groundwater intrusion heart, a lot of miners therefore need tonic overwork, but can not afford expensive medicines that make up the body. Later, a little understood and cherished traditional Chinese medical knowledge benevolence of tin mines boss, compassionate miners suffering, on the other hand also want their staff to be able to improve the efficiency of health, so he wrote a Chinese herbal formula told the kitchen boil a pot of soup bones staff fend off the cold medicine. Then boil bowl fend off the cold medicine with meat and bone soup plus a bowl of rice, it is the old fathers used to fend off the cold and fatigue, appetizers and a rich meal. Bak Kut not only delicious and nutritious, can provide the necessary energy, and resistant to cold, soon spread among the workers come. He said more Chinese herbal medicine soup is, so there Rougu herbal tea is known, later referred to as the 'trotters. Gradually, Bak Kut The Singapore and Malaysia became everyone loved the food. Now that the people's economic conditions change for the better, but it turns into added a colorful, rich materials Bak Kut luxury version, and some even add the abalone, sea cucumbers and other expensive delicacies, herbs recipe along with regional taste preferences of people Slowly make changes.