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

Portuguese Grilled Fish @ Petaling Street

It was the 2nd day through Hari Raya holidays, and Heart* proposed to cover a little distance for our dinner as traffic was at an ease (Part of our road trip adventure). So off we went into the heart of Kuala Lumpur city, specifically to Petaling Street.

After navigating around a little, and being unceremoniously thrown off course by idiotic police escorts and their equally idiotic 'VIP guests', we managed to park at place relatively close to our destination. Quite surprisingly the whole PS area was bustling with activity and congestion compared to the rest of KL.

The Portuguese charcoal grilled fish we had in mind is located at the PS intersection, just under Hong Leong bank actually. Place was crowded with eating patrons, and waiting ones. Kudos to Heart* for managing to snag a place not more than 10 minutes upon our arrival. He made the order and we waited for almost past 40 minutes for the first batch of our dishes to arrive.

Be warned though: All of the dishes are spicy, to the point of numbness.

White Pomfret. Garnished with long beans and ladies fingers. 

Stingray. Also garnished with the same batch of veges. I think this has got some dried shrimp thrown into the mix too. 

The stall operator forgotten about our lala (clamps) dish. This came in some time after we have finished our plates of steamed white rice.

Sugar cane drink. MYR 1.8. Kinda pricey in my opinion.

The total for all 3 dishes came up to about MYR 36, and the white pomfret alone cost MYR 18.

My opinion? I didn't like the dishes. All I gathered from the sambal paste is extreme spicyness, a tad salty and really oily. After a few mouthfuls your tongue literally gets numb and you will be sweating like crazy. I honestly don't get what the fuss is all about, that people would queue up for an hour for a mediocre dish. 

A word of advise is, know your limits when it comes to partaking of spicy food, I am fairly tolerant to spicy food, but this particularly one gave my tummy a terrible whirl few hours later. I was literally suffering through the motions for about 40 minutes when the pain set in, and I can tell you for certain, I wasn't the only one earlier this morning. 

2/5

Very tight walkways, full of foreigners, migrant workers, and imitation goods. Oh, there's even a brothel of sorts along the shoplots.

Would I make a 2nd trip? Maybe, if friends and family want to try the place out, as well as other food on offer (The popular ones are Hokkien noodles located opposite of the grilled fish place, lok-lok, claypot chicken rice, bah kua places, etc... that are all located outside of Petaling street, facing the roads) But no if on my own. Petaling Street is an interesting heritage place, but the impression it gave me yesterday was that it's full of weird people, and a lot of migrant workers. Almost seem like I am in a foreign country.

And a better place to have grilled fish is at Midvalley mall's Oasis food court (Old wing-centre court). I don't quite like it as the dish tends to be very oily, but taste wise definitely beats this in a heartbeat.

Dinner @ Fugu Japanese Fusion Restaurant (Damansara Jaya)- Pork-Free

The place was introduced by a friend last Thursday for our catching up session. The food was great so I thought to myself, why not bring *Heart there for a try? And so we did last night for dinner.

Fugu Restaurant is located just behind Public bank, in between a Chinese Seafood restaurant and a new Thai restaurant that seems to be drawing in large crowds during the weekend (Remind myself to try the place next time).

The atmosphere was alright: the lighting, to the funiture, right to the decorations give out an authentic Japanese feel to it, complimented by contemporary Japanese ballad and pop songs.

There's a wide variety of food on offer, from assorted Teppanyakis, to Bento set meals, sushis, sashmis, etc... and special monthly promotions.

Naturally being a hardcore bento fan, I went for one. So did Heart*

My Oyakodon rice set. (Chicken, egg, onion and terriyaki sauce over rice). Heart* ordered the Katsudon rice set (Fried chicken cutlets, egg, onion and terriyaki sauce over rice). Portion was quite large for the price we paid. Mine was MYR 15, Heart*'s MYR 18

My rice set came with a bowl of salad...

...As well as a small bowl of miso soup.

This was July's monthly promotion. Smoked duck wrapped in bun. It was so-so. The spicy thousand island sauce did not quite go well with the duck. Cost MYR 7 per piece. 3 pieces for MYR 18. 

Yeah I know, the picture is a little unsavoury. I have forgotten to snap pics when the dish came in fresh. This was Pan fried Gyoza. MYR 9. Comes in 5 pieces. So-so, the skin wasn't too thick so that's a plus.

Heart* was bugging me to take a snap of this interesting contraption hanging on the ceiling. I guess in the old times this was a lantern to light up rooms, but instead this idle prop is made up of gunny sack.

Overall, the total bill came to about MYR 50++ including tax. For the quality of the food, we were contended.

My only gripe is that we were seated next to a VERY SNOBBISH couple with a bi**h attitude (Whom I was told by Heart*, that the lady counterpart asked to be relocated to another area as soon as we have settled in next to them). Typical Malaysian selfish attitude I guess. I was glad that our bubbly conversations bugged them quite thoroughly throughout their meal. *Winks*

Still, plenty of other stuff to try out in the future. Check out other blogs to get a better insight on other stuff on offer.

4/5.

Fugu Neo Japanese Restaurant

No. 6 Jalan SS 22/25,

Damansara Jaya, 47400 PJ

Tel No: 03-77100076

Late Night Dessert Cravings @ Secret Recipe Centrepoint

My sweet tooth was bugging me at the late hour, so I decided to venture to a nearby establishment that serves something sweet. Of all the choices, it boiled down to Secret Recipe. My first was Pacific Coffee @ Paradigm mall but the place closes at 10pm.

Secret Recipe was actually a detour from McDonalds Centrepoint. Mc Ds was crowded hence I decided to venture to SR just next to it.

Ordered 2 slices of cakes that we have not tried before.

Durian Cheese cake MYR 7.5 4/5.

Green Tea cheese cake MYR7.5 3/5

Overall the Durian Cheesecake turned out to be the choice cake of the night. With a strong durian fragrance and a hint of cream cheese, the blend was just right.