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It was a night for a small celebration for an occasion that I almost forgot.. haha.. so… anyhow, we decided to brave the traffic after peak hour in Penang and get ourselves pass Georgetown to Sunshine Bay Seafood at Tanjung Bungah for dinner.

We are being told by Julian to specifically order 4 of their best dishes here and we pandai-pandai asked for 1 recommendation and guess what… all of them turned out to be very nice!

This place is located at the traffic light junction just after the police station opposite the famous goreng pisang place that I really missed, too bad no time to eat that this round, got to work one you know.

We ordered the famous crabs fried mee, “tekat” (something like that, kind of calms la) mee suah, guiness stout chicken, bittergound eggs and lai pak vege fried with scallops.

The crabs fried mee is basically mud crabs fried with thin yellow noodles (reminds of the crabs fried mee at Teluk Gong). The sauce with mee is good but you really have to eat this fast but with crabs, you just have to take your time.

The calms fried with mee suah is really good and I actually like this more. The mee suah and calms are covered with a starchy sauce and its superbly appetizing and the moment you took the first bite, you want to refill more on your plate. That’s how good it is.

Next up is their guinness stout chicken, now the usual way of cooking this is after marinating the chicken, you deep fried it then stir fry in a thin sticky sauce. But their stout chicken here is soft, no trace of deep frying and the flavour is very well maintain, portion is small but its again very delicious!

The bittergound eggs is really special. The eggs are almost like half boiled, added with soy sauce covering the bittergound. Just because of this dish, we ordered rice because its just too nice to take with rice. I think I can just eat this with rice and be very satisfied, yes, that’s how good it is!

The lai pak vegetable stir fried with scallops is recommended by the guy whom took our order since we already ordered their 4 best dishes. I thought this would just be an ordinary stir fried vegetable dish but turns out, the taste is good and the scallops are fresh too.

For the 3 of us, we paid RM77.00 for all the above. RM41 for the crabs fried mee (about 1kg of crabs I guess), RM 10 for the calms mee suah and scallops vege. RM8 for the eggs and chicken.

Overall, its all thumbs up here and we walked away with full and happy bellies. I hope they will keep up the quality and maintain the good pricing, I will surely be back on my trip to Penang, already missing the mee suah and bittergound eggs… slurp!

Sunshine Bay Seafood @ Tanjung Bungah, Penang
GPS: N5 27.972 E100 16.807

Mui Hiong is known for their salted fish dishes… this humble makan place is located right at busy Jalan Medan Imbi. They specialized in salted fish dishes and the most popular one here are their steamed pork cake with salted fish.

I visited this place during lunch time with Andrew after one of our meeting in town. Most of the folks that comes here seems to know the lady boss very well, I am assuming mostly their business are from regular customers around the Imbi area.

We ordered the famous steamed pork cake with salted fish, braised pork with yam and a very unique dish, taugeh fried with salted fish and bittergound. The steam pork is very good as usual, but the portion is small as usual too. I would recommend each person to have his/her own steam pork then add on one or two dishes, its about RM5 each.

The braised pork with yam is so so only, cost about RM15-18, not really worth it. The taugeh with salted fish and bittergound is good, bittergound give a slight bitter but cooling taste then balance up with the salted fish, very nice!

Overall, it cost RM42.60 for 2 persons with rice plus drinks. Not that cheap but next time I will just order each person a steam pork and then share 1 nice dish like the taugeh. They also serve steam soup here if you fancy. Food is delicious and living up to its salted fish name, will visit again, wanna see what other salted fish delicacy they have .

Mui Hiong Salt Fish Delicacy
4, Jalan Medan Imbi off Jalan Imbi
55100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 012-2993331
Business Hours: 12pm-3pm, 6pm-10pm.
GPS: N3 08.649 E101 42.910

Was out with John & Joe for lunch in Puchong on our way to buy some seafood for bbq… John kept telling me how nice and how long the queue is for Gao Ren Guan in Puchong (just opposite Leong Ar) on weekends. Just this morning, John SMS me that they have open up another branch in SS15/4E in Subang Jaya, must be doing well:D.

The restaurant is comfortable with aircond and nice decor too… from the menu it looks like very homestyle traditional chinese dishes to me… most dishes starts at RM8-12 each. They have quite a wide varieties like steamed salted chicken (RM20 for half bird), braised yam pork belly, pork intestine fried with pineapple, etc.

We ordered 2 of the recommended dishes, which is the stuffed tau pok with pork/vege inside and also the stuffed bittergound with pork/vege inside… small size at RM12 each. We added a fried nam yu pork belly and braised pig offal (meaning internal organs) at RM8 each.

First up is the braised stuffed tau pok, its a very light soupy dish with the tau pok absorbing all the juices, very nice. The bittergound is likewise, its the same stuffing and way of cooking. It quite nice and the soup is great with rice to me.

The braised pig offal is very soft and tender, certain parts have fats but you don’t really feel too oily. The namyu pork belly are deep fried to crisped with a very nice aroma.

Food quality and service here is quite good so far… price can be on the high side for its portion but its some sort of Chinese fine food place to me, its still cheaper than going to a proper restaurant to order dishes. At least here you can order small portion of everything and try .

Restaurant Gao Ren Guan
07-01 Jalan Kenari 18B, Bandar Puchong Jaya, 47100 Puchong, Selangor.
Tel: 03-8076 8766
GPS: N3 02.688 E101 37.348