Hu Xu Shen Grilled Fish (Serdang)

If you are a fish lover, you shouldn't miss this!

This restaurant is not obvious from the main road of the Serdang town. However, we passed this restaurant by accident on our way to other restaurants. Each time we passed by, we noticed that there are a lot of patrons enjoying their dinner inside. Thus, one day, we decided to check it out and the first time we tried it, we fell in love with it.

Take a look at the picture of the specialty of this restaurant first : Salt-Grilled Fish. Overall, the fish is very fresh, we went there at least 3 times already and it never fail our expectations. Being salt-grilled, the fish has a light taste of salt and the texture of the fish is very smooth and fresh. The fish is not over-grilled and so the flesh is still juicy.



The dish is not complete without the special sauce prepared by the restaurant. Its ingredients consist of light soy sauce, finely-chopped garlic, finely-chopped chilli and maybe some other ingredients. The first time I tasted it, it was a little salty to my liking. However, fulfill your appetite by dipping the fish into the sauce before eating and it would be heaven! The specially-made sauce would stimulate your taste bud and introduce additional savour to the fish!


The fish has substantial amount of salt on its skin. Thus, before serving, it is served with the skin removed from its flesh. Another interesting fact dining in that restaurant is, when you have finished eating the upper side of the fish, the waiters and waitresses would turn it over for you. Similarly, the skin is removed, and the bones of the fish are actually removed as well. Cool service~ Normally, they would do that automatically when they notice that the patrons have finished one side of the fish. If they don't, which could be due to the heavy flow of customers, you could request them to do so.

And now, the price? We ordered the salted-grilled fish (big serving), Chinese omelette, vegetables, white rice and Chinese tea, the whole meal cost four of us RM 55.50 which is quite reasonable for what a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur could offer you, especially with a fish as part of the meal!

Address :
鬍鬚伸小食店
No. 249-B,
Jalan 2，Kawasan 6，
43300 Seri Kembangan，Selangor.

Contact Number :
016-2888089

Business Hours :
5.30pm～12.30pm；5.30pm～1.30am(Saturday)；Off on Mondays

Pricing :
Fish at RM 20 per kg. Bean curd at RM 6 per serving (small). Vegetables at RM 6 per serving (small). 四大天王 at RM8 per serving (small).

Spicy Soup (Serdang)

I didn't notice that there is the existence of this restaurant until I came across it from a newspaper. The restaurant is not really located in an isolated place, but it is somehow a little bit hidden from the main road. Anyway, today I would like to introduce the spicy soup from Serdang to all of you.

That place is quite famous with its spicy soup and stewed chicken in Chinese wine I think as the place has quite an amount of eaters the time we visited it. The spicy soup is actually heavily "pepper-ed" soup with various pork intestines and organs. The soup I wouldn't say is the spicy as in from the curry, but it seems overwhelmingly warming up my stomach. If it is a cold rainy day, it would have been a very right choice to have the warm spicy soup go through your throat and warming up your whole body.

As for the stewed chicken in Chinese wine, the smell of this dish is very nice, credit to the Chinese wine. The Chinese wine used is Huadiao Jiu (花雕酒). Taste-wise, it has rich flavour of Chinese wine and black soya sauce.

Huadiao jiu (花雕酒; pinyin: huādiāo jiǔ; lit. "flowery carving wine"), also known as nu'er hong (女儿红; pinyin: nǚ'ér hóng, lit. "daughter red"): a variety of huangjiu that originates from Shaoxing, in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang. It is made of glutinous rice and wheat.
(Extracted from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangjiu)

Another dish I want to introduce is the vegetables (油菜). This is so far the most crunchy vegetables that I have tasted. Even though it's cooked, but the crunchiness still remains. We all agreed that this vegetables is cooked perfectly. It's not very oily and it's crunchy! By the way, is crunchy a right word? :P



Spicy Soup


Spicy Soup


Vegetables


Stewed Chicken in Chinese Wine

Ye Ren Bak Kut Teh (Serdang)

Bak Kut Teh is a Chinese soup popularly served in Malaysia, Singapore and also cities of neighbouring countries like Batam of Indonesia and Hat Yai of Thailand. The name literally translates as "pork bone tea", and at its simplest consists of meaty pork ribs in a complex broth of herbs and spices (including star anise, cinnamon, cloves, dang gui and garlic), boiled together with pork bones for hours. However, additional ingredients may include offal, varieties of mushroom, lettuce, and pieces of dried tofu. Light and dark soy sauce are also added to the soup during cooking, with varying amounts depending on the variant.
(Extracted from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bak_kut_teh)

This is a pretty famous retaurant serving Bak Kut Teh in the town of Serdang. This place is always full of people especially weekend, no matter lunch time or dinner time. Thus, if you would like to have a taste of the Bak Kut Teh, better be early! Otherwise, you could have your dinner with some dishes instead.

The Bak Kut Teh soup, though is a little bit salty to me sometimes, is considered above average to me. It is worth a try indeed, at least to find out why the restaurant is a crowd-puller! Anyway, there are quite an amount customers who go there for their dishes, but it might be that they are too late for the fast-selling-out Bak Kut Teh, like us too? :P

Bak Kut Teh


Bak Kut Teh


Vegetables


Mapo Tofu
Mapo doufu (Mapo tofu) (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: Mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from the Szechuan (Sichuan) province. It is a combination of tofu (bean curd) and minced meat, usually beef, in a spicy bean-based sauce, sometimes with other ingredients such as water chestnuts, onions or wood ear fungus.
(Extracted from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_po_tofu)

Nam Heong Egg Tarts (Ipoh)

I haven't been specially into egg tarts, thus I am here just to offer my two cents of opinions. This is a restaurant we came across in search for original Old Town Coffee Shop. I still don't know if this restaurant - Nam Heong Restaurant is the original one or not, maybe those who know can tell me. :P

Personally, I think that the puff pastry's skin is pretty crispy. As for the custard filling, it tasted average to me (from my countable experiences of treats to egg tarts :P).

Egg Tarts are a kind of pastry that is popular in Hong Kong, Macau, surrounding areas in southern China and overseas Chinese communities. It consists of a flaky outer crust, with a middle filled with egg custard, which is then baked. It is related to the English-style custard tart, a pastry commonly enjoyed in the British Isles, Australia, and New Zealand. Egg tarts are typically marketed at Chinese, Hong Kong, and Macau bakeries, cha chaan tengs, and some dim sum restaurants.
(Extracted from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_tart)

Nam Heong Egg Tart



Nam Heong Egg Tarts 6-in-1 Packaging