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We reached Jakarta just at after work peak hours rushing in traffic with everyone else to get to our hotel to get ready for our meeting next early morning.

After checking in, we decided to catch a quick but good dinner. Pak Sky suggested Bakmi GM which he had tried before and so we headed to the nearest one for dinner.

Bakmi is like sarawak kolomee but using maggi like noodles. Its topped with small pieces of chicken and mushroom plus vege. You will be given a small bowl of tasty soup to take with the noodles too and mixing some to the noodles makes it easier to eat.

There’s a set promotion, just Rp.20,000.00 for a set of bakmi special with 2 pieces of pangsit goreng and tiny little mineral water bottle. But being greedy as usual, we ordered more pangsit goreng, chicken siew mai and also tofu stuffed with meat (like yong tau foo la).

The pangsit goreng is technically fried wanton but with little filling and lots of crispy skins. They provide a reddish sweet sauce to take with it.

Overall, its a pretty good dinner and service is good as well, all of us walked away with bloated stomach

Sam You is a very well known place by PJ folks for good food plus good price. So don’t be surprise if you can’t get a table if you don’t do your booking but there are some tables outside the restaurant you can sit too if you don’t want to wait.

The service here is fast, efficient and helpful too. I reserved a table for 8 of us to celebrate my mum’s birthday last weekend.

We were offered a promotion of seafood pot at RM25 only and “chak sing pan” (seven stars grouper) fish at only RM7 per 100g.. that’s quite ok for an aircond restaurant. We went for the seafood pot but took stir fried fish fillet instead of the whole fish.

The other goodies we ordered are their self made tofu (with soy milk) with are braised with fishballs, stir fried asparagus and pork ribs.

Overall the food is good but I find the ribs a little too sweet and the fish fillet a little too salty. Most of the stuff are valued for money but the ribs cost a bit more. The bill came to Rm130++ for 8 of us, not too bad at least service is fast and good here and that’s a reason why there’s always such a large crowd here.

So if you plan to visit Sam You, make sure you reserve a table .

Sam You Restaurant
56-58, Corner shop at Jalan 52/4 (next to Maybank/Watson PJ State)
GPS: N3 05.957 E101 38.794
Tel: 03-7955 1197 (for reservation)

Just opposite the old Giant in SS5D, Kelana Jaya lies a row of stalls that sells various Malay and Indian goodies!

Occasionally I would stopped here to take away some tea time snacks back to the office when I am out for appointments.

The varieties here is good, from keropok lekor to rojak, cendol, burger ramli down to all sort of malay kueh can be found.

My favourite here is the Indian van selling Pakoda. Its a kind of fried kueh made from potato flour (if I remembered correctly)  with chopped onions, chili padi and coriander leaves in them, very very good, crispy outside and soft inside! For RM1.00 you get a handful of them.

I also like to buy the pulut panggang here, 5 pcs for RM2.00 and the apong balik is good too at RM2.00 for a big piece but sometimes they pre-made, just wish they make it hot on each order, will be so much nicer!

Jalan SS5D/6, Kelana Jaya, Petaling Jaya, Selangor
GPS: N3 06.330 E101 36.019