Padi field eel and wildfrog @ Restoran Shi Zhi Wei.

For me, Restoran Shi Zhi Wei in Tapah,is the one of the best 
place to savor padi field eel, wild frog and good "wok hei" food.

It's a small, clean, no-fuss place with about 15 tables but service is 
fast (about 15 minutes)

The live wild frogs, padi field eels or farmed fishes are only slaughtered 
upon ordering of food.

So you get to eat the freshest and best, straight from the wok.

Whenever we are here, our must order food are:

Steamed wild frog with blended ginger and spring onion.

Kiong choong tinkai -stir fried wild frog with spring onion,onion and ginger. 
Kong po padi field eels - de-bone and filleted and stir fried with 
dried red chillies, onion and spring onion. 
Their in-house made assorted Yong tau foo.
Deep fried fu pei (beancurd sheet) filled with full of springy fish paste.
Stir fried sweet potato leaves with garlic.

Pretty affordable food.

Ample parking spaces around the restaurant.

 

Location:No. 9, Taman Tapah, 
Tapah, 35000, Perak.
Tel:05-401-9315.

Restoran Wan Loy@Sg Buluh.

Restoran Wan Loy is nestled among some big factories along the main road in Kg Matang Pagar, Sg Buluh.

From the front it looks just like an ordinary Chinese eatery with an air conditioned dining area at the rear of the restaurant.

Can be quite a noisy place if the restaurant is filled to the brim.

Their menu is quite varied and cater to any age group.

Prices are reasonable and the food are OK.

Parking is OK.

Butter Squid-crispy, fresh and chewy-the star of the lunch-Rm13/A

Thai's styled pig trotter (1/2)-crispy skin, gelatinous and meaty-served on the side with sliced strawberry and Thai's chillies sauce-Rm24/

Sliced cold white Tofu topped with gelatinous like shark fin and a superior crab meat gravy-goes well with rice-Rm19/

Sweet Potato Leaves with garlic to finish off the meal-a bit over fried-Rm9/..

 Total Bill:Rm70/
Location:A72,Jalan MP4,
Kg Matang Pagar, Sg Buluh,
Selangor.
Tel:012-220-5202/012-630-6578.

Amu Coconut Villa Seafood Restaurant@Kampung Cina.

The predominating Foochow enclave in Sitiawan is not only famous for it's red rice wine chicken and kompiah- fresh seafood  / toddy are available in many restaurants in Kampung Cina. 

After a visit to the hottest place to visit this year-the new KUAN YIN temple in Pasir Panjang which is a ten minutes drive from Kampung Cina.

We went to Amu Coconut Villa Seafood Restaurant@Kampung Cina for for our late lunch.

Parking is ample.

Steamed Flower Crabs @ Rm40/kg- fresh, sweet and meaty.

Deep fried Sha Joi (Silver Whiting)-crisp and sweet white flesh.

Fried Tong Fun (glass noodle) with shrimp, squid, beansprout, spring onion, egg-a bit oily.

Oyster omelette- golden brown and very fluffy with tiny oyster-goes well with Kampung Koh Chilli sauce

Stir fried Sweet Potato Leaves with garlic-leafy and thick stem.

Fresh fragrant young coconut after the meal.

Total bill:Rm73/
Location: Kampung Cina,
Sitiawan, Perak.

Weekend Lunch @ Kedai Makanan Laut Hai Ung.

The fresh fishes and crustaceans sold in the local markets and Pasar Tani in Selangor are mostly from the Kuala Selangor district.

The long weekend holidays plus the beckoning of the freshest seafood was a good excuse to wander into Pasir Penambang for a seafood lunch and stocking up of fresh sea food for the coming Chinese New Year.

For my daughter Michelle's bff Edmond, it was his first visit to Pasir Penambang !!

On arrival-mum and wife headed straight to the seafood stall beside the restaurant to make their purchases while we ordered food for our lunch.

Even though the food served was not exceptionally good-what we liked was it's freshness and affordability plus the great view of the swift flowing seawater, mangrove trees and fishermen bringing in their catches in their boats right next door.

Parking is ample.

Fried Glass Noodle with fishcake, chicken meat, mushroom.egg, spring onion, dried shrimps and garnished with deep fried shallots-Rm10/

Oyster Omelette-big juicy and briny fresh oysters-delicious-Rm17/

Koong Poh Mantis Prawn-sweet and spicy-would have preferred the fresh ones but Michelle can't handle the de-shelling part-Rm22/

Boiled Cockles-mum's favorite-fresh but some were overcooked-the chillies sauce did not gave her much "kick"- Rm8/

Stir fried tender sweet potato leaves with sliced garlic-tender and leafy-Rm10/

Steamed Crabs with julienne ginger and spring onion-very fresh, sweet with fine meat-Rm55/

Total Bill:Rm125/
Location:Bagan Sungei Yu,
Pasir Penambang, Kuala Selangor.
Tel: 03-3289-6828 / 012-385-8815.

Restoran SPOA @ Kg Pasir Puteh, Johor.

Johor Baru or JB located at the southern tip of Peninsular Malaysia is much more laid back if it's compare to KL.

Here the weather is windy and the atmosphere seems to be much fresher.

If you love seafood - the west and east coasts of Johor is the paradise !

My bil Anthony and Kam treated us to a sumptuous seafood dinner in Restoran SPOA located off an uneven gravel road, a kilometer after The Tanjung Puteri Golf and Resort,Pasir Gudang. 

The restaurant is built on stilts with a creaking plank floor extended out to the sea facing Pulau Ubin, Singapore.

Live fishes and crustaceans can be chosen from the many aquariums or straight out off floating cages by the sea.

The sounds of roaring waves beating along the bank made by speeding boats was delight to hear.

Garoupa -steamed to perfection seated on good grade soy sauce/peanut oil and garnished with spring onion-fresh, fleshy, sweet and flaky.

Clay pot seafood Japanese tofu-the gravy was best with white rice-children favorite.

Buttered Mini lobster (14 pieces)-fragrant, fleshy, sweet, a bit coarse with head full of roe.

Deep fried squid lightly batter with oats-crunchy and chewy.

Stir fried sweet potato leaves with chopped garlic-the only green of the night.

Yong Chow fried rice-with anchovies, shrimp, sliced fish cake and egg-fragrant and fluffy.

Black pepper crabs-was not meaty maybe because it was the first day of the Lunar month.

 

Location: Restoran Spoa  合德宝阿期里海鲜

Telok Kabong, Kg Pasir Puteh, Johor

Tel: 07-2162798

East Oriental City Restaurant.

Saturday lunch with my buddies at East Oriental City Restaurant located in Taman Maju  Jaya, Cheras.


It is a small corner lot air-conditioned restaurant which caters mostly for office workers during lunch and for family diners at night with tables and chairs spilling out to the pavement.


According to their menu, they serve quite a varieties of typical Chinese cuisine and river fishes, too !


Prices are affordable and the food portion are generously sized.

Parking is OK.

Sweet and sour fish fillet with white rice-the generously sized Tioman fish fillet was fresh-cooked with red tomato,big onion, red and green capsicum in a vinegared sweet tomato sauce-Rm6.50.

Char Tang Hoon (fried glass noodle)-with lots of beansprouts, strips of lean pork, shrimp,Chinese long cabbage,spring onion, red chillies and egg-the glass noodle was a bit wet, springy with lots of elasticity-Rm 6.50.

Stir fried fat stemmy Sweet Potato leaves with cloves of garlic to accompany the other dishes-Rm8/.

Total bill:Rm22/
Location:No1-1, Lorong Bunga Melati 2A,
Taman Maju Jaya, Cheras,
Kuala Lumpur,
Tel:03-9284-9121.

RESTORAN FOON LOCK-BUKIT TINGGI, BENTONG

After the late 8 course dinner and more entertainment in Genting Highland, we overslept and missed our buffet breakfast.

On our way back to KL, we stopped by Gohtong Jaya to visit a strawberry and mushroom farm.


Then we drove eastward to Kg Bukit Tinggi, Bentong for our lunch.

There were quite a number of restaurants to choose from and we settled for Restoran Foon Lock as it was packed with people (a sure sign of good food).

A pretty lass took our order and within twenty minutes all the food were served.

Claypot Tilapia-came in a huge claypot but filled with a small fish (700g) the fish was very fresh and sat on a gravy of good grade Soy sauce, onion and sliced Bentong ginger-Rm18/.

Stir fried fresh moist and earthy mushrooms with diced garlic, sweet peas, ginger and carrot-delicious!-Rm12/

Steamed Udang Galah (river prawn-500g) with egg white-was super fresh, sweet and succulent-Rm33/.

Stir fried sweet Potato leaves with Sambal Belacan (chilli prawn paste)-too bland, no oomph!-Rm10/

Total bill:Rm80/
Location:84, Kg Bukit Tinggi,
Bentong, Pahang.
Tel:09-233-0170/012-955-3832.

RESTORAN PORT VILLAGE.

Whenever we visit the North Port area, we will go to Restaurant Bagan Hailam in the Bagan Village for their fresh salt baked Crabs and Hailam mee.

Yesterday, we found that the restaurant had ceased business.

We, then went to Restoran Port Village located at Tanjung Harapan, a few 100 meters away.
This family owned restaurant served halal food.
The place was huge and could accommodate up to 70 tables with a sectioned area for air conditioned dining.
The restaurant's structure are built of planks and mangrove wood with concrete pillars and a solid, creaky 60 feet long plank gangway entrance.

As it was high tide, we could see and hear the sounds of rolling sea waves hitting the side embankment and mangrove trees at the side of the restaurant.

We selected a table with a sea view sights of ships, tugboats, motorboats and the occasional submarine-like Pulau Ketam ferry plying the sea lane.

Our orders were quickly taken by a girlish man supervisor.

Parking is ample and free.

Signboard at the front of the restaurant.

Hailam mee (thick yellow noodle) -with slices of Chicken meat, Fish cake, Shrimp, crunchy Beansprout and garnished with fine slivers of refreshing Cucumber-the noodle was smooth and tangy in flavor after squeezes of Lime juice were added to it-passable-Rm12/.

Deep fried Mantis Prawn meat tossed with slanted sliced Ladyfinger (Okra), Onions and Red Chillies-overfried to the point of dryness-too small in sized and tasted awful-Rm15/.

Or Chien-Oyster Omelette was nicely browned and crispy but the fresh Oysters were way too tiny and weeny-Rm12/

Stir fried sweet Potato leaves-refreshing and leafy-Rm8/.

The Star of the lunch- freshly delivered Roe Crabs-have it steamed-full of enriching red Roe-fine textured, meaty and sweet-Rm69/.

After the meal, went to the Esplanade at Tanjung Harapan for a breather-a photo of a replica boat on display.

Total bill:Rm140/
Location:LMS A 12800, Tanjung Harapan,
Pelabuhan Klang, Selangor.
Tel:03-3176-4530/1