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This place is located at Sg. Pinang Besar in Pangkor Island and its a good place to have your dinner in the island. Good food at reasonable price. We ordered wild boar meat cooked with salted vege, a shark curry, a crab curry, veges, seaweed soup, deep fried mantis prawn paste, 1 fried noodles and 2 fried rice.

The wild boar is ok, something different cooked with salted vege, quite nice in fact but have to be taken with rice. The shark curry is no doubt excellent, served in their thick curry style, its just like a very soft sting ray meat. Next up are the curry crabs which are flower crabs but quite meaty and nice thick curry again, yummy! The seaweed soup is simply fresh and the stock are nice and tasty with generous amount of local fishballs. Deep fried mantis prawn paste are crispy and top with a good nice sauce. I guess seafood is cheaper here than meat, the fried noodles are filled with seafood like fishball and fish cake. The fried rice was so surprisingly good that we ordered another plate after the first one, the bbq pork flavour was all over the rice even at first bite.

The bill plus tea came out to RM137 for 7 persons and for so many dishes, definitely value for money unlike certain places in the island that is slaughtering tourists!

GPS: N4 13.258 E100 34.449

Makan first, think later

What else better to eat in Sitiawan but seafood and so we did. On the way to Pangkor, 8 of us stopped by Restoran Ferng Wei in Sitiawan town (just next to Nissan service) which my uncle brought me the last time I was in town.

We ordered a claypot of curry prawns, steam red snapper, deep fried squid, fried oysters in omelette, hot plate tofu and the 4 heavenly king veges. The curry is definately local style, which are a bit thick and dry with big prawns in it enough for everyone and goes great with rice. The fish is simply good because of how fresh it is, you can taste the sweetness of the flesh. The rest are ok except for the veges which is different from those in KL. They basically use brinjal, petai, 4 sides beans and lady fingers fried in a belacan chili sauce then top it with lots of fried dry anchovies. The crispy anchovies goes really good with the veges.

All the above plus rice and tea works out to about RM97.60, now that is really value for money, plus all the seafood are fresh!

GPS: N4 12.199 E100 41.927

Makan first, think later

It was the Raya holidays and I join wildgeeks J&J for a bike ride to Kuala Lumpur downtown from Sri Petaling. We started in Sri Petaling and cycled about 12-13km to Jalan Pasar where we stopped at Taste of Fookchow ( Coordinates: 3.13222, 101.71694) for some famous fookchow fishballs.

We arrived at about 7.45am at the Taste of Fookchow which is located at Jalan Badak in the Jalan Pasar area. It use to be situated at the main Jalan Pasar road next to the wet market and same row as the famous May King. The place only open at 8.00am but the owner was kind enough to open early for us.

Me and Joe got the fookchow fishball noodles in soup while Jack, a fookchow fella ordered the red rice wine chicken noodles. The fookchow fishball is basically fish paste filled with minced pork inside and its absolutely yummy. We actually top up another 10 fishballs because its that good. The chili sauce given with the fishball is a must have, it looks like blended green bird chilies and they are spicy!

The red rice wine noodles are fantastic too, the rice wine flavour is not too heavy and blends in very nicely with the chicken.

You can also buy the fishballs in frozen packets for take-aways to just keep and cook at home. I was actually looking forward to the fookchow pancake which they sell at this shop. Its a very crispy pancake filled with meat/vege inside, the original one have oysters inside but its hard to keep. Unfortunately, its too early and they have not start making it. So, the next time I am in the area, I am going back for some fookchow pancake, and maybe another bowl of fishballs
After the noodles, we cycled to Brickfields for some good teh tarik and vadai at Sapporo Curry House. Of course they had a lot more varieties of Indian food here but we can hardly fill more after all the fishballs we got greedy with.

After that, we head back to Sri Petaling through Old Klang Road. More information and photos (with gps locations) on the cycling trip is available at wildgeek’s website

Makan first, think later