Suitable with its name, the nose stink odour fruit, the king of fruit or durian is my favorite fruit. The smell can make you dizzy and even make smelly fart or urine after you eat it. That is why it is not allowed to bring durians to public place or transportation such as in hotel, train and etc. I never seen my foreign friends like or eat this fruit. The only place that I know so far where offer best bargain with good quality of durian is in SS2, PJ. In fact it is the famous place for KL and Selangor folks to have durian in the city. If I am not mistaken there are 4 main durian stall operators at this place, durianss2, Donald’s Durian and 2 more which I forgot the name.
My feeling is so nostalgic whenever I eat here, still remember my dad brought me here for lunch, sometimes especially after fetched me from school. Well that was about almost 30 years ago and this restaurant have been around since 80’s. Today I can still see the owner seating at the cashier counter opposite the food preparation section, just like the old days.
Even though De Pauh Garden restaurant started its business in early this year, it really get great patrons response. I believe this is because of its variety of food, dishes and menu with great of choices. From hot wok dishes, tomyum up to western food, pasta and etc. Furthermore the environment of the restaurant is comfortable and convenient for family or a small function. It has different section of seating and tables where the main section is under the shade like big verandah with nice interior decorated with aquarium. Opposite the main seating there is small square where open seating and tables with the big projector screen at the edge and surrounded by a row of small stalls of food counters for western and others. The surrounding shaded by sort of small garden besides it has its own surau, quite spacious parking place and other facilities. De Pauh Garden located in strategic place in the middle of residential area and higher learning institutions.
The specialty of this restaurant, it is variety of mee tarik (kneaded, pull noodle) menu. All of the noodle that I have tasted here are my favorite, so far. Besides, they also have rice menu which my kid’s favorite – fried rice. The specialty in preparing smooth noodle started from flour, kneaded dough then pulling technique until it is served with own soup or garnish, all being done with bare hands. Hassan inherit this techniques from his family, from his great great grandfather down to him now.
It is thrill to dine here if you love cooking and grill your own food. Madam RizzQ restaurant is basically buffet steamboat and grill restaurant where you choose your food and cook or grill on the steamboat/grill set at your table. The buffet cost is RM20 for adult and RM10 for kid age 5 years above and you guys can eat all if you can but you will be charged RM10 for every 10gram left over food that you take. The buffet including drinks such syrup, orange or hot coffee or tea, dessert such ice-cream, ais-kacang, etc., plain rice, fried rice, fruits and the seafood, chicken or beef meat, varieties of vegetable and noodles. You can choose between tomyum or plain soup for the steamboat.
You spoilt your morning exercise if you come to this restaurant for breakfast, I bet! Restoran d’Cengkih serves so variety of food and dishes, from traditional kuih-muih till heavy dishes such as pulut kuning, seafood spaghetti aglio, fried rice, nasi lemak, laksa Johor and etc. Even though their specialty is Johorian dishes, they also have other nice and delicious dishes as well. The interior of the restaurant is very convenience to dine in, we can see some part of the wall hang with the Johor historical building and figures fame and beautiful wood structure.
Looking at the food at Warong Paksu & Maksu (Paksu &
Maksu Stall) feels like I in my home town. The stall got every favourite dishes of my east coast appetite, from nasi dagang, laksam, sata, otak-otak, pulut lepe, khepok leko, seafood fritters such as sotong celup tepung (squid fritters), prawn and many more, I wish I can list all of them here but that keep me drooling. Besides offer usual hot and cold drinks, the all around favourite drink - coconut drink, cendol, corn drink. They all very nice and delicious food and snacks make the stall so happening!
As most of us love grill seafood, especially grill fish (ikan bakar) so do I! I am not particular to the taste of pencicah ikan bakar (sauce that you use to dip/eat with the grill fish) because I don’t really eat the fish with it. I love it, grill with the best spices and that will be enough for a tastier, delicious grill fish for me. I believe this seafood restaurant got me love the best, delicious grill fish and other seafood, in fact it put petai on top of its grill spice, really nice!
You will get yourselves uncertain if it a restaurant or unoccupied shop lot because it is little hidden by bushes of small tree in front of the restaurant. Inside of Groupbase Kopitiam just similar to typical Chinese kopitiam but when you see and taste the variety of the menus, it really serves different from others.
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I bet your guy’s jaw open wide drooling when seeing the row of variety dishes here. Even made myself few laps strolling the dishes and food counter before taking what I would eat. It is basically mix rice with variety of dishes from seafood, beef, mutton, chicken and you can even taste a duck in gravy.
It is really easy to find this restaurant, just located at Lorong Yap Kwan Seng of Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, nearby the KLCC. It is just beside Restoran Kampung Pandan, at the renovated bungalow became restaurant. The place was not crowded at all because it was Sunday lunch hour, I believe. I managed to park inside the restaurant compound but I think it would be difficult to get a parking during weekdays because I saw the parking space quite limited furthermore the roadside is prohibited parking spot.
I reckon this restaurant serves the best tomyum nearby my area, so far. Unfortunately I could not try their Thai named dishes which look so nice and delicious, got to repeat to this restaurant next time. The Alissara fried rice is tasty but beware for those who cannot take extreme flaming hot stuff!, it is really hot fried rice. It is some kind of nasi goreng kampung (old folk fried rice) but with ingredients of lemon grass cut, anchovies, cut of torch ginger bud/ginger flower (bunga kantan) and etc. It is strange that I could not find any pieces of chilli in the fried rice but it is really hot. Crab fried rice is quite nice as well but I love the side dishes, called Kai Jor in Thai. It is sort of chicken meat ball but blended with corn and not sure what else mixed in it but it is really tasty.
This restaurant really got its crowd during Saturday breakfast hour but not sure how it is during week days. It has to put up a temporary tent in front of the restaurant due to insufficient table inside of the shop. The restaurant located at the shops row at Jalan SS21/37, within Damansara Uptown and the parking space is quite terrible, you need to park further or at the nearby multilevel parking building. It has quite number of workers, most of them are foreigners and I reckon that they are not really customer’s friendly because they rush here and there for orders, cleaning tables. I do not really enjoy the food with such hectic shop.
This restaurant owned by two partners, the celebrity chef Dato’ Chef Ismail and our first Malaysian astronaut, Datuk Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al Masrie Sheikh Mustapha. Located in Bangsar, Lorong Maarof, behind the Dataran Maybank, at the renovated house-restraurant. Its interior pretty well decorated with cupboard of antiques, art frames on the wall and it also has private dinning area that fit about ten people. It also has small stage for small event out side of the restaurant where the buffet spread counters located as well.
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It is well known to the city patronage, besides this Taman Tun (TTDI) main branch, it has 3 other branches in Dataran Sunway - Kota Damansara, Section 13 – Shah Alam and Prima Saujana – Kajang. Homst was established in 2002 in TTDI by Chef Yusoff Lau Abdullah aspired to serve an authentic Chinese Cuisine especially to Muslim. You can read details of the restaurant from the link above. This place always has its diners especially during lunch hour.
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The cuisine here is great taste as it claims, I have dined its Shah Alam restaurant few times and it served great dishes as well. So my order that day were oyster sauce broccoli (RM9), Homst taufu (RM10), fried noodle (RM6), salted egg yolk soft shell crab (RM20), lemon chicken (RM12) and Kong Po beef (RM13). The freshly broccoli not really salty but brittle and nice with the sauce. I love the taufu, great taste with mix of taufu and fish, I could even eat itself just like that, dipped in the home sauce. The lemon chicken was tasty as well as the soft shell crab, it was so crunchy and delicious. The fried noodle looked plain but do not make first thought without taste it first, well it is really tasty!
Do not be surprised if you can find Middle East cuisine when in Bertam, Kepala Batas. This restaurant located in Bertam Perdana town, at the stretched of shops lot. According to the staff, it has been operating two years now, serving the tasty authenticated cuisine in Kepala Batas. It is not difficult to find the Asiatica, just take the Bertam / Kepala Batas exit of North South Highway then when reach the “t-junction” traffic light, take left to the Bertam Perdana town.
