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


The Prawn Mee Stall


The Yummy Prawn Mee


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


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.

Yut Kee Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur

Warning : This is a highly non-halal post!

Yut Kee Restaurant is a restaurant with nostalgic settings. It has the decorations like an old coffee shop but with modernized services (and the government tax). It's after the normal tea-break time and far to early from dinner time. However, there area still quite a lot of patrons there. Some ordered the "chops", some ordered the bread toast while some went all the way for the Swiss rolls.

As for us, we ordered the Pork Chop and Belacan Fried Rice. The pork chop is served fast, which I think is ready-made and just pour in the brown sauce and reheated a little upon order. However, the meat is quite tender while the brown sauce's thickness is just appropriate. It has a mild sweetness as well. There is a satisfying serving of the sauce which is a good thing for people like me who favours lots of gravy served together with the food. In ordinary chicken chops, etc, the western salads are served. But here, the potatoes, onions, green peas, corns and carrots are served instead. I do think that this combination is not bad, as the sauce can complement these side dishes well. As for the Belacan Fried Rice, the taste is average in my opinion. But the egg mixture in it is still soft and in small chunks which provides some additional textures to the dish. I would definitely order it again, if I would like to have rice the day I would be there again.

Actually, besides the pork chop and belacan fried rice, the recommended food are Roti Babi (I know the name is a little bit... But that's really the name of the dish!) and Kaya Swiss Roll. When we were there, it was 4 pm already and the Roti Babi had sold out. And then, after the pork chop and belacan fried rice, we were too full for the Kaya Swiss Roll. Thus, we would just leave them for next visits. For reviews of the famous Roti Babi, do check out the reviews below.

This restaurant has been a little bit commercialized and there is government tax included in the bill. However, the service there is quite good. When one of the waiter saw that I were to share the fried rice between the two of us, he offered to bring us the bowls and an additional pair of spoon and fork. That's so nice of him, having to be able to try to serve our needs automatically! I think he is a foreigner, and he speaks English, a Filipino perhaps?

Overall, this restaurant is worth at least one visit, for the pork chop (or any other chops, which I suppose would taste similar... :P), the Roti Babi and the Swiss Roll, although I don't have any comments on these two items yet.

The Menu


The Menu


The Restaurant


The Restaurant


The Pork Chop


The Belacan Fried Rice



Other Reviews :
http://wp.peachjon.com/edition_2004_06/2006/09/old-style-kopitiam-yut-kee.html
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2006/12/nostalgic-dining-yut-kee-jalan-dang.html
http://www.friedchillies.com/fc/more.php?id=1501_0_1_0
http://vsdgrain.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/food-post-yut-kee/
http://makankings.blogspot.com/2006/09/roti-babi-yut-kee.html

Address :
Yut Kee Restaurant (Est. 1928)
35, Jalan Dang Wangi,
50100 Kuala Lumpur.

Wikimapia Coordinates :
3°9'22"N 101°42'0"E

Contact Number :
03-2698 8108

Jack Lee
012-307 1208

Business Hours :
8 am - 5 pm (Mondays off)

Taste of Foo Chow, Kuala Lumpur

Thanks to Eric, we discovered this place that serves nice Fuzhou cuisines. This restaurant is famous of its Fuzhou delicacies such as Fuzhou fish balls, Fuzhou meesuah in red rice wine, etc.


Fuzhou cuisine: taste is light compared to other styles, often with a mixed sweet and sour taste. Emphasis is also on utilizing soup, and there is a saying in Fuzhou style: One soup can be changed in ten forms.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian_cuisine)

Red rice vinegar is darker than white rice vinegar, and paler than black rice vinegar, with a distinctive red colour from Red yeast rice (红曲米), which is cultivated with the mold Monascus purpureus. This vinegar has a distinctive flavour of its own due to the red mold.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_vinegar)

Misua, mee sua or miswa, is a very thin variety of salted Chinese noodles made from wheat flour. They differ from mifen and cellophane noodles in that the latter two are made from rice and mung beans, respectively and typically a lot thinner than the two.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misua)

The storefront of the restaurant


The Restaurant - Hup Yick Liquor Shop (?)


Newspaper cuttings promoting the restaurant


A closer view to one of them


The Fuzhou Meesuah in red rice wine


The Fuzhou Meesuah in red rice wine


The menu of the side dishes


The Fuzhou fishball


The dumpling


The fried tofu


If you have tried the meesuah in ginger wine soup before and love it, you should like this. However, this Fuzhou meesuah doesn't have the strong ginger taste. In exchange, it has a nice Chinese wine smell and when you take a sip of the soup down your throat, you would immediately feel the warmth that the Chinese wine brought. The soup is red in colour due to the red rice wine. The meesuah' texture is pretty smooth and still in good form when served. For those who cook meesuah before, they would know that cooking meesuah is no easy task as if the time taken is too long, the meesuah would deform and sticking each other. I think the meesuah used is not the normal type that we could get from supermarket, as it is slightly thicker. As for the soup, the thickness of the soup is just nice, it is not too thick nor too watery. However, it does have pretty strong taste of liquor. The restaurant also offers generous serving of meat (I am not heavy meat-eater, :P) together with the meesuah.

Another specialty of the restaurant would be the Fuzhou fish balls. Fuzhou fish balls ain't ordinary fish balls as there are some meat fillings inside the fish balls. You could say that they are fish paste-coated meat balls too, if you like to. :P Personally, I am not too into fish balls and fish pastes. Thus, I don't have special comments about this. But the combination of meat and fish paste is pretty interesting and fresh to me, as it could soften the taste that the fish paste brought. :P

I strongly suggest those who are interested with the Fuzhou meesuah to dine-in as I once tried with huge eagerness to have a taste of it by asking my housemate to take-away and later re-heated at home. But, the soup become too salty to my liking. Anyway, this restaurant is still high recommended by me, and by fellow food bloggers too.

Other Reviews :
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2006/11/fuzhou-food-hup-yick-jalan-yew-pudu.html
http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/2007/10/spend-a-bit-of-.html
http://cumidanciki.blogspot.com/2007/06/in-search-of-red-wine-mee-suah-hup-yik.html
http://www.waisikkai.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=429&Itemid=47
http://awhiffoflemongrass.blogspot.com/2007/01/hup-yick-restaurant-taste-of-foochow.html


Address :
Taste of Foochow
14, Jalan Gajah (off Jalan Yew),
Pudu, Kuala Lumpur.

Contact Number :
Tel. 03-9281-8788

Business Hours :
8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Chop 'n Steak (Serdang)

Thanks to someone, we finally found a Western food restaurant in nearby area which offers best value for money over the food provided. The Chop 'n Steak restaurant is a Malay restaurant, but selling western food (majority of the items from the menu). It is located somewhere near UPM in Sri Serdang.

The restaurant is pretty nicely decorated and the lightings of the restaurant somehow provide a jolly mood for dinner (The restaurant only opens for dinner). We have been there during weekdays and during weekends, the place is full of people! There are Malays, Chinese, Indians and even Iranians. However, luckily, we always got our seats.



When you order, you could see from the order that it is actually divided into a couple of sections. The restaurant is pretty organized that there are different people specializing in cooking different cuisines. Thus, the order could actually be separated between these "departments" and each "department" would prepare the food separately.

The Menu


The Menu


The Menu


The menu seems a little bit limited comparing to the Western food chains such as Chilli's or TGIF. However, having considered the size of the restaurant, I still think that it is highly acceptable, especially the price stated on the menu! You see, it's really hard to find a nice Fish 'n Chips with generous serving of Mayonnaise at only RM 6, plus an incredibly ice-blended fruit drink at only RM 2 (Some of the ice-blended drinks are at RM 2.50), the whole meal doesn't even exceed RM 10 for a decent Western meal! And yes, there is no "++" charges, you know what I meant, don't you? OMG! That's why I love you so, Chop 'n Steak!

Fish 'n Chips


Chicken Goldon Blue (Chicken Cordon Bleu)


Fresh Orange Juice


Ice-blended Mango Juice


Overall, this place is totally valued for money! If you opt for some average taste of Western food but having limited budget and living somewhere near Serdang, this would be the only place I would recommend for cheap Western cuisines. If you ask me to choose between F1 and Chop 'n Steak, I would not think twice and would head on to the latter.

Here are some other reviews of the restaurant :
http://reiko0607.blogspot.com/2007/11/chop-n-steak.html
http://nazri.flavert.com/2007/10/29/chop-steak-and-first-step-towards-world-domination/
http://hungwei.blogspot.com/2007/11/chop-steak.html (Chinese)

Address :
Chop 'n Steak
No. 379, Jalan 18/1,
Taman Sri Serdang,
43400 Serdang,
Selangor.

WikiMapia Coordinates :
3°0'21"N 101°42'55"E

Contact Number :
012-447 1639 / 019-335 7373