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Its been a while since I visited Seng Weng Yong Tau Foo for lunch in Kg Cempaka, PJ. Things have changed a lot here, they have now reduced the size of their yong tau foo kitchen and have incorporated stalls to sell mix rice, char koay teow, chicken rice, etc. They have also extended to the next door unit to provide more seating place.

The chicken rice stall here provides really value lunch meal, a plate of standard chicken rice goes for RM3.00 here. Yup, RM3.00 in the midst of all the increased fuel prices and the whole economy going into recession. So, if want to save money, this is the place to eat!

The chicken rice of standard portion, rice plus roast chicken and a bowl of soup. Joe asked for extra sauce as its a bit dry and the lady offered us the chicken sauce gathered during roasting. The sauce is thick and you just need to dip a little with your chicken and it makes a lot of difference. Plus, its only RM3.00, what you want la???

GPS: N3 07.035 E101 35.944

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I saw this place weeks ago when I was scouting for a place for dinner in Paramount (its just few doors away from famous charcoal hokkien mee, Mei Yen)with Sky and saw that it was quite packed. So last weekend, a few of us decided to get together for dinner and I suggested that we have steamboat since its a cold night and most of the gang were tired having to work overtime.

They are having a promotion, their usual buffet is RM21.80 but its now RM18.80 per pax (exclude drinks and tax) and you get to choose 3 different choices for your soup. We got peanuts soup, chicken soup and tomyam. The peanut is nice, very flavourful but got a bit salty after putting too much good stuff in it while cooking our food. The chicken is normal la and tomyam is not too sour but not enough kick. Overall, I like the peanut the most!

The food here is quite fresh and there are various choices from seafood to pork, chicken, all sort of meat and fish balls, vegetables, noodles, mushrooms, etc. The important thing is that they are fresh and clean, but the size is a bit small but good also, means can eat more different types ;).

There are also cooked food at the sides like fried rice, meehoon, fried chicken, etc. There are also ice creams and cakes as desserts, eat all you want!

At the end of the meal for 6 of us cost RM154 inclusive of buffet, beers, drinks and tax. The friendly boss also gave us a discount card, if you bring 3 persons, you get 20% yourself, bring 6 and get 50% yourself and if you bring 9 persons, you eat free!

UFO Steamboat Restaurant
No.31 Jalan 20/7 Taman Paramount, 46300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Tel: 012-2219938
GPS: N3 06.581 E101 37.571 (estimated)

It was a rough and tiring week for me… feeling my ultraman’s light beeping low batt warning after lunch, Joe suggested we go for lunch at Sentul since its on the way back from our meeting. So we head on to Restoran Makanan Laut Zhen Liew Siang in Sentul Raya in KL.

At first I thought Joe was referring to Restoran Makanan Laut Lau Heong (Lau Heong is Cantones for Liew Siang) in Sentul Perdana. So I was a bit confused when Joe brought me there. According to Joe, he used to dined there since the Jalan Ipoh time, and after moving to Sentul, there’s sort of a break off and therefore you have 2 of them.

But this one in Chinese, Zhen Liew Siang means the original Liew Siang ;). Anyhow, since there are just 3 of us, we ordered the ever famous stringray with szechuan style chili on top, steamed. Then the must have sotong and prawns sizzling on banana leaf! We add a fried sweet potato leaf just to balance up our diet :).

To me, the taste in both place is yummy and very good! You just gotta have rice and you will, add rice for the sotong and prawns dish! Each of us got a huge prawns and a bunch of sotong, only complain not enough of the yummy sauce to take with rice!

The stringray is excellent too, soft and the chili sauce on top makes it perfect, again with rice! So, be prepare to add more rice eating here, you can’t resist, trust me.

Total meal comes to RM45.00 for 3 person :). Joe also recommended other dishes here like their curry fish head and deep fried pork knuckle, I will save those next time when we have more people joining.

Open: 11am to 3pm, 5.30pm to 11pm.

Restoran Makanan Laut Zhen Liew Siang.
No.30, Jalan 14/48A, Sentul Raya, Off Jalan Sentul, 51000 KL.
Tel: 03-40413781
GPS: N3 11.053 E101 41.525

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Lunch time and it was drizzling in Bangsar… I picked up Ah Soh for lunch and we were rounding the old Bangsar trying to find parking but its just impossible… then we decided to just go to Bangsar Village 2 (new wing) as parking would be easier plus the rain is getting heavier.

So we ended up here and I took Ah Soh to Delicious to try the Duck Confit Spaghetti which me and my sister really like. Its not cheap, RM24.90 exclude tax, but heck, the place is packed and people are in line for a table, global recession? hehehe… not yet maybe.

Anyway the Duck Confit Spaghetti are basically duck leg, cooked with it owns fat, its a complicated process, very hard to make, you can read about it here. It is served with spaghetti. The duck are crispy but meat are still ok inside, pretty neat.

I got a absolutely delicious cheeseburger, that’s how they called it anyway… which also goes for RM24.90. You get a quite thick beef burger covered with melted cheese and some what looks like sourkaurt on top. The buns are toasted with butter and some greens to go with it. The sides of the burger are more greens, I think they added baslamic vinegar, really crispy frieds and tomato sauce they made themselves.

Overall I enjoyed my cheeseburger a lot, its really nice, especially taking it with the greens and I really like the frieds with their own made tomato sauce ;)… yummy!

Its a bit costly, but food here looks really good, especially cakes and desserts, but for lunch, I am already filled up. Thank you Ah Soh for buying lunch me a wonderful lunch ;). Oh ya, the other good thing, WIFI is free here!

Delicious @ Bangsar Village 2
GPS: N3 07.834 E101 40.288

Con’t from part 7…

It was about 6pm when we finally left JB with Elaine & Patrick leading us to Tebrau to hit the NSE for our journey back to Melaka. Elaine & Patrick head back to JB to continue their hometown visit while the Chung family went straight back to KL. The remaining 7 of us went back to Melaka to spend a night since we don’t have to work the next day and it was a good choice too as the traffic was quite heavy approaching Melaka.

We got back to Melaka and immediate head to Miharu & Sky’s house for a quick shower and rest before heading to Jalan Ong Kim Wee for satay celup as supper. Ah Fei strongly recommended Ban Lee Siang and we obliged. This is Sor J first time trying satay celup… sad KL boy :P.

It was very pack but at least no queue like Capitol… so we got a table at the back and wasting no time, some of us are already picking our celup food. Its the usual satay celup fare, I would not elaborate about it, I am sure enough blogs have information on it but my favourite are the “tau kei” or known as “foo chuk” in KL and also the kangkung veggie. Overall comments are the food at Capitol is fresher but I prefer here, less crowded, at least I don’t have some guy waiting for table standing next to me while I eat! Per stick starts at 50 cents each and we ate more than 100 sticks costing RM69 in total plus drinks.

Ban Lee Siang (Satay Celup)
No.45E, Jalan Ong Kim Wee, 75300 Melaka.
Tel: 06-2841935
GPS: N02 12.121 E102 14.603

Sky, Miharu and the very “kek tung” Ah Fei then had a long arguement on where to go for a drink after our supper and we ended up in Kota Laksamana. Unfortunately the place is so packed that we can’t find a table to sit. Since we are there for drinks only, we just went to 1 of the chinese restaurant for tea and softdrinks.

That night, I think I slept the best the whole trip and we decided to get a little later the next day for breakfast. Before breakfast, we dropped by Sky’s house for a short “Raya” visit as he has all these tit bits to serve us. Right before leaving, Sor J keep asking to go and see Sky new house, so we made a short detour as well. Renovation have yet to start but its really big house with nice plot of land too! Jealous-nya… cheaper than my house somemore bigger!

We went to Jalan Tun Sri Lanang, at the makeshift food court where it sells Hee Kiaw Mee, Chicken Rice Balls and Wantan Mee. We are out of luck that morning, the chicken rice balls stall is out of chicken and we could only get the rice balls. But to me, the rice balls are the highlight, not the chicken, so its ok at RM1.50 per plate of 6. We also ordered hee kiaw mee and some of us had wantan mee. Poor Sor J, again never seen orange color fish paste before and I obviously took the chance to conned him that they put orange in the fish paste… hahahaha

Foodcourt at Jalan Tun Sri Lanang
GPS: N2 12.387 E102 15.178

After our yummy breakfast, we then depart back home… 2 hours drive but after a good breakfast, seems damn long and sleepy. We made it back by 12 plus and I actually skipped lunch for the day, ate too much for the last few days. It was a good trip again, really fun and thanks to all the MPs who joined us; Sky, Lee Chen, Jess, Miharu, Ah Fei, Sor J, Ed, Johnson, Elaine, Pat, Chung family ;). See you again in 2009 :P.

The End.

Links:

Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 1 - Day 1
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 2 - Day 1
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 3 - Day 2
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 4 - Day 2
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 5 - Day 2
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 6 - Day 3
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 7 - Day 3
Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip 2.5 - Part 8- Day 3 & 4