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We were having a bbq and I head over to Piau Kee to grab some seafood. We went to the Puchong branch, they are also located in SS2 and Cheras.

They offer a varieties of live mud crabs… I am not sure about the crab sizing but I got the XL (looks like M to me) as they have ran out of XXL… it cost RM33.00 per kg, I applied for their membership card I got 10% discount on the spot, pretty neat ;). I took 8 of them which comes up to 3.17kg, total RM 94.09, I will say that is not bad for it size. We had to let it breathe and brought it up the office to keep it alive till bbq time, thanks to KC for taking care of them… hehehe…

The other seafood stuff here are all hard frozen but surprisingly they are still very good and fresh when it was unfrozen to cook. We got some white prawns here, they have various sizes. The bigger one have about 16-20 pcs at RM38.00 (on promo) and 40-50 pcs per pack at RM24.00.

They also have some nice mussels and scallops from New Zealand which goes for RM19.80 per pack for scallops and RM9.90 for mussels. The mussels is ok but the scallop is a bit small in size. They also sell various kind of sauces and other ingredients you need to cook seafood here.

I would say this is a decent, clean and easy way for city folks to do seafood shopping. Now that I got a membership card, guess I will be back for more

Piau Kee Seafood Retails
No.137 G Floor, Jalan Kenari 23A, Bandar Puchong Jaya, 47100 Puchong, Selangor
Tel: 03-8070 9688
GPS: N3 02.627 E101 37.378

Restoran Long Khee in SS15 in Subang Jaya is a well known place for many staying in Subang Jaya. I especially love 2 things here, their fried rice and their fish head curry (assam style). Long Khee is packed on peak dinner hours most of the time.

I was here for dinner again and this round, we ordered some of the yummy fried rice (cannot resist), their fish curry, homemade tofu, wuxi pork ribs, fried prawn paste and fried vege. The fried rice is good as always, full of flavour with some bbq pork (char siew), eggs, meat in it and the rice are all one by one on its own. I am serious, their fried rice is my favourite stuff here! Whenever I think fried rice, I think of this place :).

The fish curry is good too, instead of head we got the flesh which are fried first before cooking it in the curry with vegetables. Its not too sour or too rich nor too watery. Its pretty good and it really makes me took more rice than I should :(.

The other dishes are so so la… the wuxi pork ribs is quite nice, but a bit pricey. Tofu is very soft, first fried then cover with a gravvy with some vegetables, mushrooms and shrimps. The fried prawn paste (her kor) with dried chili is quite nice, the taste is set just right in my opinion. The vegetables are nice too, they add a hint of cooking wine to it.

The above set me back by RM125 on a dinner for 7 persons. The food is good here, but there is always a long wait, so if you can, go early ;).

Restoran Long Khee
47, Gr. Floor, Jalan SS15/4E
Subang Jaya, Selangor
Tel: 016-3808648/012-3571906
GPS: N3 04.644 E101 35.266

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

Nope… this post have nothing to do with bak kut teh… I was at Fook Hin BKT for dinner, but I noticed its more of a seafood kind of place just like unique selling fresh and live seafood rather than bak kut teh, maybe its sold there in the day time perhaps ;).

Its Joe’s and KC’s big day, so we got together to celebrate their birthday and as our silly tradition goes, the birthday boys buy, thanks Joe & KC!!!

Finding this place is firstly a little challenge, its basically one of the corner houses in the village here converted into a restaurant. There’s limited parking in front, so do expect to be called to reserve your car during dinner but we went on a weekday, so the crowd is not that bad.

John & Joe did the ordering, the first to come out is a plate of steamed chicken with vegetables, nice to dip with the garlic ginger paste. Chicken is pretty standard, nothing much to shout about. Next up are pork knucles braised with chicken feet (I still miss the pork knucles with goose web in Sitiawan!) which is not too bad.

The goodies for the night then comes, firstly steam snakehead fish (sang yue), the flesh are sliced steam with the fish itself, soft, tender and yummy. Next is the silver promfet, steamed teow chew style, I just wish it was a little more sour and a little spicy chili padi would be great, but the fish meat itself is good and tender. The other yummy is their steamed frog legs with ginger and garlic paste, very soft and tasty! Lastly, one of my favourite all time its the lotus root fried with celery, carrot and cashew nuts, a must have!

We also order a plate of greens to fill up our vitamins needs ;). All together with rice, the 7 dishes plus 5 bottles of beers adds up to about RM280-290 (can’t remember, this is what happen when you don’t have pay for it :P) for 10 persons. Oh ya, they don’t accept credit card, so make sure you bring cash!

GPS: N03 01.530 E101 41.953

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Down at Sunway Mas Commercial Center in PJ… I was brought by Elaine to eat at Restoran 88, according to her, the prices are very affordable here. So we decided to give it a try although usually when Elaine say its cheap we doubt it because her taste are very high!

But Elaine was right, its prices are alright for Chinese dishes in PJ… we ordered a steamed talapia fish “cheong ching” style which is basically covered with a thick sauce after steaming. The steam talapia cost RM12.00 which is quite ok. The fish is fresh and the sauce is not bad, appetizing and not too strong.

Next is RM8.00 for a plate of tofu, its fried tofu covered with minced pork on top. The minced pork are plenty the tofu, it’s superbly small in size and you get 8 of them! According to Elaine, the portion have shrunk a lot since the last she came, everyone trying to cut cost? Damn fuel prices…

Their salted fish pork cake looks pretty good on the menu, so I thought we gave it a try, RM8.00 as well for 8 pieces but the size is more acceptable for this one. You don’t really eat chunks and pieces of salted fish but the moment you take a bite, you get a nice hint of salted fish fragrant.

We stopped our orders here (we also want to cut cost!), because they offered free soup to their customers and that particular day its old cucumber soup. But the waitress, then told us they are having a promotion now, RM3.00 for the vegetables of the day! So how can we resist? ;).

Overall we are happy with our meals, taste is good and price is acceptable :).

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GPS: N3 07.194 E101 36.000