9.12.07

Restaurant O & S

As penangnites, we have been searching around for a long time for a nice bowl of prawn mee and laksa in Klang Valley. Finally, thanks to Eric again, we found one stall that offers prawn mee that best resembles and tastes like an authentic Penang prawn mee. It is located in O & S Restaurant, Paramount Garden.

The O & S Restaurant
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The Prawn Mee Stall
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The Yummy Prawn Mee
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This prawn mee is certainly one of the best that could be found in Selangor. The soup is lightly spiced and with generous fried shallots complementing it. The soup doesn't give any scent of the prawn stink as distinct from the rest of the prawn mee that I have tasted in Selangor. Besides, the noodles and mee hoon (rice vermicelli ) are cooked to perfect that they are not over-cooked.

The Famous Assam Laksa
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This restaurant is famous for its laksa as well and some other food. This variation of Assam laksa offers generous serving of fish chunks, which I don't exactly like. The soup is a little yellowish and sour, not too thick nor too watery. The noodles in the soup is quite smooth, but it's just the average noodles like what most of the stalls offered. Overall, this laksa could be quite a good deal for what could be found in Selangor. However, I still prefer the northern Assam laksa where the fish chunks are perfectly blended into the soup and making the soup taste a little sweeter. Besides, there are also crispy prawn crackers served together with the laksa. In addition, the self-made laksa noodles give more texture which complement the soup well.

I have noticed a lot of people ordering the Yong Tau Foo in the restaurant, perhaps the restaurant is also famous for that. There are a lot of other food stalls in the restaurant. I have tried the banana fritters there and it's quite good actually, though I still prefer Tun Sambanthan's one. It's crispy and the batter is not too thick. It is also made of the whole banana, not like the one could be found from the Malay stalls along the roadside, where only half side of the banana is used. But, of course, using the whole banana would mean the price is more expensive, much more.

Other reviews :
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2005/12/o-s-restaurant-petaling-jaya.html
http://kyspeaks.com/2006/09/21/ky-eats-petai-prawn-rice-at-o-s-restaurant-taman-paramount-pj/
http://www.flsam.blogspot.com/2007/06/fish-head-mee-hoon-o-s-restaurant.html
http://limmeiyen.blogspot.com/2006/12/dinner-o-s-restaurant-paramount-garden.html

Address :
O & S Restaurant
Jalan 20/14,
Paramount Garden,
Petaling Jaya.

3 comments:

KY said...

while O&S's prawn me is decent, my personal favorite is at TTDI. :D

joy said...

Oh, really? Wow, I am very glad to hear that! I have more choices now, that's really a wonderful thing, especially for a Penangite...
The TTDI one is also featured in your blog? :P I will check it out. Thanks ya... :D

KY said...

yeah, it's on this link:

http://kyspeaks.com/2007/03/28/ky-eats-prawn-mee-%e7%91%95%e9%9d%a2-at-restaurant-yon-lee-ttdi/

Cheers! :D