17 Jan 2007

Yummy Yummy @ Serdang Chee Cheong Fun

The restaurant where the stall is located.
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The stall in the restaurant.
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The stall from the inside.
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The normal serving of Hong Kong-Styled Chee Cheong Fun.
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The big serving of the Hong Kong-Styled Chee Cheong Fun.
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Food Name :
Hong Kong-Styled Chee Cheong Fun (LaiCheong 拉肠)

Food Type :
Chinese Cuisine (Singapore & Malaysia)

About the Food :
Chee cheong fun are square rice sheets which are used in Singaporean cuisine and Malaysian cuisine. The sheets are made from a viscous mixture of rice flour and water. This liquid is poured onto a specially-made flat pan in which it is steamed to produce the square rice sheets. These wide rice sheets that are steamed are then rolled. They are often filled with different types of meats or vegetables inside but can be served without any filling. Popular fillings include beef, dough fritter, shrimp, and barbequed pork. Often topped with soy sauce.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chee_cheong_fun & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sum)


The Chee Cheong Fun follows Hong Kong style. The stuffing choices are only available from shrimp and char siu (barbequed pork). The default one would be a mixture of both the shrimp and char siu. There are two choices of servings available, which are the small one and the big one. There is a half-spoon of sambal for those who fancy spiciness, it's not too spicy anyway.

Price :
A small plate of Chee Cheong Fun is RM 3.00, for a bigger serving, it would cost you a RM 3.80.

Location :
It's a stall in a restaurant and the restaurant is located along the main road of Serdang which leads to KL or Balakong. The market is at the back of the restaurant. So, it's pretty crowded with people in the morning especially on the weekends. The parking spaces are rather limited since it's near to the market.

Address :
强记香港猪肠粉
Restaurant Sin Choo Sang Kee
Jalan College, 43300 Seri Kembangan.

Specialty :
The rice sheets are thin and smooth. A generous offer of the sauce to eat with the cheong fun is highly appreaciated too. The shrimps though not big in size , but are rather fresh too. :P

Environment :
The environment is so so, just like the normal coffee shops. If you have a choice, don't sit on the inside as there's a stall selling stir fry food located on the side of the inner part of the restaurant.

Personal Comments :
It's delicious. I love it for the thinness and smoothness of the chee cheong fun and the generous serving of the sauce. Often, I found it hard to swallow the chee cheong fun without the sauce, but not with this one! :D As for the fillings, the seller uses small or midsized shrimps and average-tasted char siu only. A big serving of this Hong Kong-Styled Chee Cheong Fun is often more than enough for an average-eater like me.

My Personal Rating (of its kind):
8 / 10

12 Jan 2007

Yummy Yummy @ Wing Heong Chicken Rice

The Shop
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The Stall Front
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The Stall Front
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The Chicken Rice
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The Char Siew Rice
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The Chilli Sauce
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The Char Siew Sauce
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Food Name :
Chicken Rice

Food Type :
Chinese Cuisine - Rice

About the Food :
It's all about meat! lol ... You can have a choice of Roasted Duck Rice, Roasted Chicken Rice, Roasted Pork Rice, Char Siu (Chinese Barbequed Pork Rice), Assam Fish, Tofu, Vegetables and a variety of stewed soups as your meal.

Char siu (Simplified Chinese: 叉烧; Traditional Chinese: 叉燒; pinyin: Chāshāo), also known as Chinese Barbecued pork, BBQ pork, cha siu, and char siew, is Cantonese-style barbecued pork. It is usually made with long strips of boneless pork, typically pork shoulder. The distinctive feature of char siu is its coating of seasonings which turn the meat dark red, or occasionally burnt, during cooking. The seasoning mixture for char siu usually includes sugar or honey, five-spice powder, red food colouring, soy sauce, and sherry or rice wine.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_siu)

Price :
A plate of normal Chicken Rice is RM 2.80, same goes for a normal plate of Char Siew Rice. As for Chicken + Char Siew Rice, it would cost you a RM 3.30. Different pricing applies on different mixture of dishes, which also means you can order a plate of Char Siew + Chicken + Roasted Pork + Roasted Duck Rice. Yes, you can! Just don't expect it to cost you only RM 3.30. :P

Location :
It's located along the main road of Serdang which leads to KL or Balakong. It's between a Fatty Loh Chicken Rice Shop and Mei Sim Dim Sum Restaurant. Thus, parking spaces are rather limited. If you are lucky, you will find a parking space in front of the Public Bank. It's a very short distance away from the restaurant and it's a very good choice already. Though if you are luckier, you might be able to get a nice space just in front of the restaurant (which is often unavailable).

Address :
永香烧腊(補品)饭店
Wing Heong Chicken Rice Shop
260, Jalan College, 43300 Seri Kembangan.
016-272 2196
11 am To 4:30 pm(Rest on Tuesdays)

Specialty :
There's the Char Siu Sauce which is best served together with your rice as nice gravy. The sauce is defaultly available if your ordered Char Siu Rice, however, if you need more, you can always serve yourself from the stall front. It's sweet, however, the sweetness is just appropriate for my liking. There are also various stewed soups available. I always ordered the Herbal Chicken Soup there, though it's a little too ajinomoto-flavoured. But nevertheless, the herbal taste is slightly strong, which is good. :P

For the Assam Kampung Fish, I personally think that the fish tasted just average. However, the generous serving of the assam sauce might just be a good gravy for your rice. It's a little sour and not spicy. It's quite appetizing as well.

Environment :
The environment is ok, just like the normal coffee shops. But it might get a little stuffy on a big hot day. Anyway, and again, for the delicious food to be offered, who cares? Do you? :P

Personal Comments :
It's cheap and delicious, a rather good choice for lunch, especially on weekends when you do not wish to visit any shopping complexes and when you are on a tight budget. :P

My Personal Rating (of its kind):
7 / 10

11 Jan 2007

Yummy Yummy @ BM Tua Pek Kong Wan Tan Mee

There's a stall selling Wan Tan Mee besides a Tua Pek Kong Temple in Bukit Mertajam town.

The Location : The stall selling Wan Tan Mee.
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The Food : Wan Tan Mee Dry Version
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The Food : Wan Tan Mee in Soup
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I've included two images of the Sarawak's Kolo Mee for comparisons.
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Sarawak's Kolo Mee
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Summary
Food Name :
Wan Tan Mee

Little piece of fact :
Wanton mee or Wantan mee (Chinese: 云吞面) is a Cantonese noodle dish which is popular in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. The dish is usually served in hot soup or dry stir in black soya sauce or Oyster sauce, garnished with leafy vegetables, Char Siew (roasted barbecued pork meat slices), and together with wanton in a separate bowl. The types of leafy vegetables used are usually kailan also known as Chinese kale. There are various versions to the dish, with the Hong Kong version using prawns and no char siu inside the noodles. Another type of dumpling known as shui gao is sometimes served in place of wanton. It contains prawns, pork, spring onions with some chefs adding mushroom and black fungus.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonton_noodles)


Food Type :
Chinese Cuisine - Noodles

Location :
The stall is located in the market area, beside a chinese temple in the center of Bukit Mertajam town.

Specialty :
It's similar to the Sarawak's Kolo Mee which is using a different types of noodles rather than the ordinary wan tan noodles. Besides, it does not have the dark soya sauce either.

Environment :
It's located in the market area, so most of the time the floor should be wet and the environment is a little bit damp, however, it's still tolerable, especially in view of the nice food. :P

Personal Comments :
Though it's nice, but I was a little thirsty after finishing the noodles, which would most probably as a results of having too much of artificial seasonings. I still think the Sarawak version offered me better taste to my liking, anyway, this is just a perfect substitute for Kolo Mee which is available in peninsular Malaysia.

My Personal Rating (of its kind):
7 /10

9 Jan 2007

Yummy Yummy @ Telok Gong Seafood Restaurant

It was a nice morning and a nice afternoon as well. In the morning, we went to cycling in Putrajaya's Botanical Garden. The place is pretty nice for some morning and evening exercises with the well-kept surrounding of flora and fauna and a lake (an artificial one, I suppose) by the side of the garden. For a little piece of information, the rental for bicycle is RM 4 per hour.

After some rounds of cycling, we decided to pamper ourselves with a sumptuous lunch of seafood. Well, at first we planned to go to Port Klang, but it just happened that we ended up in another part of Port Klang - Telok Gong. It's some one and a half hours from Seri Kembangan, Serdang. Being a place famous for seafood, there is absolutely quite an amount of restaurants for you to choose from. Being a stranger to that place for seafood, we just decided to visit the Telok Gong Seafood Restaurant randomly.


On the way to Telok Gong...
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Our random choice of a seafood restaurant - Telok Gong Seafood Restaurant.
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Another view of the restaurant from its compound.
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Inner view of the restaurant.
This restaurant has a rather shady environment. The Nipah palm (attap) roof did help to cool the hot weather. And I thought I felt some warm breezes.
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Another view of the restaurant.
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The sweet and sour crab.
The taste is ok and quite appetizing.
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The "Kam Heong"-styled crab which is the signature dish of the restaurant.
However, I prefer the sweet and sour one rather than this. Anyway, it's not that bad, I would say it has average taste.
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Stir-fryed Fish Fillets
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Vegetables
Nothing special.
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Another signature dish of the restaurant - the Tomyam Prawns in Coconut.
My friend love this so much. The tomyam taste is not too sour and yet it's very appetizing. It's not too spicy either. It's definitely worth a try.
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The tomyam prawns served in bowl.
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And finally, the bill for a rather satisfying meal of 5 persons.
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吕芒芭海鲜园
Telok Gong Seafood Restaurant
No. 705, Jalan Udang Galah,
Telok Gong,
42000 Port Klang,
Selangor Daruh Ehsan.
03 - 3134 1918