Kou Shui Porridge (口水粥) @ Kota Damansara

Koh Shui (口水)... a literal translation to the word Saliva in Chinese, is meant to insinuate how delicious the food in this establishment is.

The restaurants mainly serves Kung Poh dishes in Claypot, and white porridge, to be taken with assorted other dishes on offer.

I am no fan of porridge, but I make an exception to a few kind of preparations, this included. The Kung Poh dishes are filled with flavour (A tad spicy) and goes well with the bland porridge or steam rice.

Our bowl of white porridge, put in some sesame oil for slight flavor.

No porridge should be consumed without these salted duck eggs. 

Kung Poh fish slices. This is the bomb. The Kung Poh is very flavorful. Mixes well with our bowls of white porridge.

Same Kung Poh sauce, but with squid. Not too worthed it according to *Heart* as they were very stingy on the amount of squid in our claypot.

The price of Kung Poh dishes ranges from MYR 10 - 15. The most expensive being the eel. White porridge goes to about MYR 3+, and the Salted eggs MYR 2.5.

Overall, it was not bad. 3/5. I wouldn't mind coming in once in a while to savor the Kung Poh dishes again.

10-23 Jalan PJU 5/13 Kota Damansara

Teluk Intan Chee Cheong Fan @ Damansara Uptown 17 Hawker Centre

Dinner was at the DU Uptown 17 open air Hawker Centre. And the stall we patronized was this Pork-Free CCF place located at the right most corner of the food court, just in front of the Steven's Corner Western Food stall.

The place is managed and operated by a chinese family, with assorted CCF dishes on offer, and 2 types of CCF (Plain and stuffed). The food served here is supposedly halal, with no pork served. And I noticed Malay patrons ordering too.

Family operated stall. Funny thought that we see the young daughter smiling away oh so sweet and natural. She looked almost constipated when handling my order. =P

My plate of CCF. 6 dishes and 2 plain CCF came to about MYR 7.4. CCF comes with curry too. But the highlight of this sweet sauced version is the chili sauce. A MUST try.

Heart*'s 3 dishes and 2 stuffed CCF came to about MYR 5.

At the side, we ordered 5 pieces of otak-otak that came to about MYR 4.

Overall simple dinner, yet satisfying. 4/5. Plenty of other stalls to try out in the future.

Damansara Uptown Jalan SS21/39

Hong Kong Lat Tong 辣汤 (Pepper Broth) @ Kajang

And yet again we went on another adventurous food trip within the city limits. An impromptu decision really, just to distant ourselves from mundane weekend routines (And food), so it was off to Kajang for Heart*'s favorite Lat Tong place for brunch/lunch. I have never been to Kajang my entire life, so why not?

Took us closed to 35-40 minutes to reach the place from PJ and right on the clock it was 12pm. Given the fact that we both skipped breakfast, a heavy lunch was definitely on the cards.

Parked at the Parkson shopping complex, and hoofed it for about 5 minutes to reach the place @ Lorong Mendaling. A word of caution though, the place is tugged in a remote corner of a row of very old shop lots, so could get tricky pin pointing the exact location. The only landmark to take note of is Hotel Kajang Area and Sports Toto. The restaurant is tugged behind Toto (Corner shop lot) and facing the budget hotel.

Here's what we ordered:

The famous Lat Tong. Ours was strictly pork meat (Optionally, you can include intestines). We ordered the portion for 1 pax.

The pork meat goes well with chilli in soy sauce. This is how I eat bak kut teh too. Courtesy of my aunt for convincing me to do so.

The pepper broth goes well with steamed rice.

Yet another of their signature dish, the 'Fah Tiew' Chicken. Ordered for 2 pax. Almost like Dark soy sauce chicken with a hint of Chinese rice wine? 

Blanched Chinese Lettuce with Oyster sauce. Portion for 2 pax.

The place is relatively small, with limited seating. The crowd started pouring in after our arrival. I hear from Heart* that the place operates till 3pm for lunch crowd, then re-opens at 6pm for dinner.

The landmark to identify that will help you locate the restaurant. Walk into the alley, the restaurant is just behind Sports Toto. Weird location I know.

Overall the bill came up to about MYR 38 in total, inclusive of 2 glasses of iced-coffee. It was not bad. 3.5/5. To be honest, I am not a big fan of the spicy pepper broth, but this one taste quite ok. I particularly like the chicken dish.

Making our way back to Parkson mall, we stopped by this biscuit sundry shop and purchased half kg of assorted biscuits. It's rare to see biscuits sold in large jars these days, and patrons would order their share in weights.

Good experience today. Had fun through and through. Thanks Heart* for driving us there.

43000 No 177, Jalan Mendaling Kajang Selangor

Pork Noodles @ Kean Fatt Restaurant

Had our breakfast at Kean Fatt Restaurant located just behind the Taman Bahagia LRT station at the corner of a row of shops

In my opinion, the best pork noodles in the PJ vicinity (Some like the PJ Old Town one which is run in a residence, but they are known for getting your orders wrong and on top of that, giving you a horrible/who cares attitude about it). Tasty broth, that goes well with the serving of assorted pork meat and intestines (Request to exclude if they are not your cup of tea).

The only drawback to this is the waiting period. The operator has to cook each bowl one by one to maintain the flavour, and in a way it's a good thing as you know you are in for a treat. Go early, because towards lunch time, and if the weather is hot, you will have to endure the heat, the crowd, and the longer waiting period.

For me, just yellow noodles go well with the dish, and minced pork only. Ordered the big portion and it cost MYR 7.5

Oh yeah, among other things, the coffee shop serves pretty good roasted chicken rice/char siew rice too, and the newly opened Wan Tan Mee/Curry Me stall is good too.

Kean Fatt Restaurant

Lorong SS3/59E 

Petaling Jaya 47300 Selangor 

GPS: 3.109577, 101.611776

Singapore Curry Laksa @ EAT Cafe (Paradigm Mall) on a Friday Night (12th July 2013)

UPDATE 3rd November 2013- EATZ cafe has closed down due to poor business sales.

Being TGIF, and a rainy evening, we decided to head to a nearby mall for dinner.

The last time we visited EAT cafe @ Paradigm mall for some Singaporean noodle dishes, the Singapore Curry Laksa certainly caught our attention, and we vowed another visit, and that day happened.

Singapore Curry Laksa @ MYR 8.9. The soup was thick and it's got a lot of dried shrimp in the broth. With a generous serving of noodles and condiments (Bean sprout, fish cakes, oysters, and other assorted yong tau foo), it was a filler.

Our side dish, pork cocktail sausages from Bee Cheng Hiang, few doors away. Didn't quite like them. The original bak kua is the best. MYR 15 for a pack of 7.

Overall the Singapore Curry Laksa was good. A tad salty and oily, but not bad. 3/5.

EAT

Lot LG12, Level LG

Tel:  03-7886 9863

Dry Minced Meat U-Noodles @ EAT Cafe (Paradigm Mall)- Non-Halal

It was after gym, and we were running against time to catch a movie (Monsters University), so our options were thin.

Our initial thought was to grab some buns to appease the growing hunger within, as we walked pass the LG floor, Heart* proposed that we try out this place.

Interestingly, we have been to Paradigm mall so often but EAT cafe seems to never have crossed our thoughts, and since we we still had a little time to kill before the movie, we decided to give it a go.

Both Heart* and I ordered the Dry minced meat U-noodles (Very peculiar name I know), but the dish turned out quite... nice. An interesting hint of sourness (From the vinegar) to it. MYR 8.9.

The place serves a lot of fishball based noodles, as well as Singapore Laksa, and the next thing that came to my mind was that the whole franchise could have originated from Singapore itself. That assessment is yet to be confirmed. ;-P

Overall, ok stuff. 3/5.

In my opinion they seem quite calculative with the condiments (Measuring the amount of minced meat per bowl in... get this... pastry paper cups -.-"), but the taste is just so different from what I am accustomed too, it's totally unique and fresh, and warrants a second visit.

EAT

Lot LG12, Level LG

Tel:  03-7886 9863

Soup Mee Suah @ Tang Shi Fu @ Paradigm Mall (29th June 2013)

I only had Tang Shi Fu once in my life, and that was a few years back. The dishes I had back then was but a distant memory, and given the fact that Heart* has not tried it, we decided to give it a go at Paradigm mall's branch.

The variety of Mee suah seems to be signature dishes in the restaurant, so we each ordered different ones.

My rice wine Mee Suah with Black Fungus and a Chicken Drumstick. The taste of the broth was acceptable on its own, but the noodles seemed to have absorbed the strong alcohol flavor that went straight into my nose and it felt really terrible in each bite. 2/5. MYR 13.9

Hearts* dried scallop and Chicken Drumstick Mee Suah. The broth had a faint herbal taste to it. I was half expecting it to be herbish, but rather it was bland. 2/5. MYR 16.9

Heart* ordered a jug of Sour plum juice to wash it all down, which cost MYR 9.9 and extremely pricey in my opinion.

Coupled with the starter (Which consisted of some pickled/salted fruit slicea), and 2 packs of wet napkins (Which we have forgotten to use!), the total damage came to about MYR 54++... which was totally NOT WORTHED IT.

It was Hearts* first and last trip to Tang Shi Fu there and then, and I shared the exact same sentiment.

Heng Kee Bak Kut Teh @ PJ Old Town

Yumz! A stark contrast to yesterday's dinner in terms of pricing, and yummeh-ness. Literally half the cost of yesterday's, while doubled the satisfaction!

As usual we were in our 'where to eat' dilemma, and one thing led to another, we ended up in PJ Old Town.

All mine, and all lean Bak Kut Teh. Portion is REALLY huge and at MYR 9 per pax.

The ever embarrassing V-sign pose.  =P Heart* is happy with his Half Fat Half Lean Bak Kut Teh.

Siu Pak Choi in Oyster Sauce

Tak Foo Pok and Yau Zha Guai at the side

Mushrooms!

Where the meal is prepared.

The bill came up to about MYR 43 (Including 2 cans of 100 plus). Well worthed our time, and appetites! 4/5.

Heng Kee Bak Kut Teh

No. 1, Jalan 1/10, 46000, Petaling Jaya,

Selangor, 46000