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Restaurant name: Kedai Ayam Panggang Wong Ah Wah
Address: No. 1, Jalan Alor (Off Jalan Bukit Bintang), 50200, Kuala Lumpur.
Telephone: 603-2144 2463/2148 3413
Business Hour: 5.00pm - 3.45am (Closed on Monday of alternate week)
Dining Date: 05 Jan 2006 8pm

Ratings:
Food: Wilfy [5/5] Marianne [4/5] Chloe [4/5]
Service: Wilfy [4/5] Marianne [3/5] Chloe [3/5]
Cleanliness: Wilfy [3/5] Marianne [2/5] Chloe [2/5]
Value for money: Wilfy [2/5] Marianne [3/5] Chloe [2/5]

Although Wong Ah Wah has been well-known in KL for their grilled chicken wing, this visit we made was to savour their tai chow recommended by Samson. We were spoilt with choices of roughly 90 plus dishes presented in the all pictures menu, not forgetting other dishes not listed in the menu. I guess those dishes are kinda prepared upon requests. Geez, look at the thickness of the menu! But mind you, there are no price listing for the dishes.

Disappointing moment: the waitress did not know how to recommend the house specialty. When I asked "What’s your house specialty?" She goes "Huh? Errr…. Umm…." It was disappointing to me because I considered it to be very important for the waitress to be able to give appropriate recommendations to the customers. We could very well missed out on their house specialty and order only the very common dishes. This is especially important when there are dishes not presented in the menu. Sorry to get so worked up but I seriously have rather low tolerance for this matter.

On the brighter side, take note, if you are:
a. in KL city
b. looking for delicious and flavorful chinese dishes
c. starving to near death
then Wong Ah Wah will be your food saviour.

Well, it may sound exaggerating but it was truthfully based on our personal experience. The service was freaking fast! Food was served in like 10 minutes upon ordering. No, it wasn’t prepared in advance. And no, it wasn’t somebody else’s rejected order. Gosh, I have no idea how they did that. It was unbelievable but true.

"Fan shu yip chow fu yu" (potato leaves stirred fried with fermented beancurd) The yellowish white creamy sauce is made from the fermented beancurd. [Search for picture of fermented beancurd and the descriptions.] It does look similar to some cheesy and creamy pasta sauce, doesn’t it? But I can guarantee it taste no where similar to those pasta sauce. For those who have not tried this before, it’s worth giving it a shot because the flavour is unique and definitely different from the usual chinese stir fry vegetable.

When this dish was served, we discovered something shocking, Marianne, a KLite has never seen potato leaves in her entire life let alone tasted it. It’s like so weird, so eccentric. This is one of my all time favourite veggie. And I have not known anyone who doesn’t know how potato leaves looks/taste like. Are you one of them? If you are, please leave a comment here. I’m sure Marianne would love to meet you.

Thai style beancurd, voted by Wilfred, Samson and Chloe as the dish of the night. This is one of the dishes not listed in the picture menu. Don’t ask me how do I get to order dishes not in the menu because it was recommended by Samson. Hehe… this is one of the advantage of knowing someone who loves to eat and have dine in many places. Good recommendation! It tasted really SUPERB! Are you now salivating and fantasizing the softness of beancurd? Hold on a sec! Rewind! This beancurd is not soft! It is spongy/springy and incredibly flavourful. I mean the beancurd itself is savoury…

Assam Tilapia, the fish is fried till very crispy and crunchy on the outside but the flesh inside is still very succulent and juicy. With the combination of sour and spicy sauce, it was altogether a perfect dish. Yummy!

The la-la was fresh but it didn’t have much of the sauce’s taste which was concocted with chinese cooking wine and loads of chili padi. As the sauce was very tasty thus it was voted by Marianne as her favourite dish of the night.

The Before and After picture of the food we ordered. Nothing left at the end! Man, did we enjoyed the food!!

Price for 4 pax:
Taufu  - RM 15.00
Fish   - RM 25.00
Veg    - RM 10.00
La-la  - RM 12.00
Drinks - RM  7.80
Total  - RM 69.80
5% tax - RM  3.49
Rice   - RM  3.00

The price is a bit above average price (as compared with other tai chow places). Note: It might be slightly (as in few ringgit) cheaper during normal period since we dined during CNY season.

Overall, we had a thumbs up dining experience!

Tapas, The Oyster Bar, in Hotel Micasa
Micasa All Suite Hotel,
368B, Jalan Tun Razak, 50400, KL.
Opening: 6.45am - 1.00am

Ratings:
Food: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Cleanliness:4/5
Value for money: 3/5

Are you craving for some burgers or sandwiches? Then drool at these!!

Double cheese burger (left) - RM26++ & Tapas Club House (right ) - RM20++

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Dragon-i
Lot S313A, New Wing
1 Utama Shopping Centre
03-7725 8822

Ratings:
Food: 3/5
Service: 3/5
Cleanliness:4/5
Value for money: 3/5

Entrance to Dragon-i

This is what you would see before you enter Dragon-i. The bigger four chinese characters written on the left side of the sign board reads "Long de chuan ren". If I may translate it to English, it would means the descendent of dragon. On the right hand side, the smaller chinese characters read "La mien xiao long pao" (i.e., literally means "pull noodle small dragon bun"??).

Here’s a serviette in nice red packet which has the same writting as those you see at the entrance.

Interiors of the restaurant. Nice deco, very oriental with black and red theme and writings of chinese characters on the wall.

Ping ma yong (i.e., terra cotta)

Stewed Beef La Mien in Soup. The big chunks of lean beef was not tender so the meat texture was kinda hard when you chew on it. I was hoping for the meat to be very tender, like it could simply melt in your mouth instead of the teeth-abusing, rough and dry texture. Usually, stewed beef that are very tender would consist of beef that has some layer of fats to achieve that tenderness. So on the positive side, lean beef is less fattenning and would be more appealing to those who are health-conscious. The broth was tasty, very much to my liking.

The Shanghai Pork Rib La Mien comes with a generous serving of pork chop which was crispy yet juicy and well marinated. The noodle was a  bit soggy though and the soup was those plain soup "ching tong". No complains on the pork chop but I was hoping for the noodle to have a richer texture, like very QQ (springy) since it’s hand-made.

The La Mien with fried chicken taste pretty much the same as the pork chop noodle cause it was served with the same type of noodles. But personally I would prefer the pork chop over the chicken chop simply because I prefer to eat pork.

Cool black uniform with golden dragon embroidery, a bit like "hak sie wui" (chinese gangster).

The open kitchen concept next to the entrance displays how the chefs prepare the xiao long pao, steam dumpling with soup/gravy in it.

Overall, I would say that you can pop by if you are shopping around in 1U and suddenly feel like having some decent chinese food to fill your tummy. Other than that, I personally will not purposely make a trip to 1U just to savour their food cause I can definitely get much tastier and cheaper chinese food outside. However, the xiao long pao is definitely worth a try since it’s something you don’t get like everywhere and anywhere.

Apparently this beef ball noodle in O.U.G. (Overseas Union Garden, located along Old Klang Road) is very famous or well known, i’ve been eating this for over 5 years on and off for lunch and i don’t know… So today i decided to do it justice by taking a few pics and telling you about the beef ball noodles in this place.

Continue reading ‘O.U.G. Beef Ball Noodle’

While digging though our old photos, we came across some Souled Out pics from 2002 and 2004. Since we’ve visited this place at least once a year, I can confidantly say that we enjoyed the experience there. So here are some of the photos + comments from Chloe…

Now this is challenging ‘coz first of all, this wasn’t my food, it was another friend, Ferdinand’s dinner. Secondly, it was taken a few years back in Souled Out during a uni-mates gathering. Thirdly, the picture isn’t self-explanatory enough for me to recall anything. And fourthy, … err… actually there’s not fourthly. ;p
Continue reading ‘Souled Out Collection’

We would like to inform our loyal readers that C&P is currently in the midst of improving our site. Hence, the lack of postings as of late. Yes, we know it has been two whole weeks since our last entry and we know that you all misses us very much *muaks*, but no worries, we will be back soon enough and better than before *wink*. Thanks for all your recommendations (Klippy, guest_4343, Keith) and suggestions (guest_8546, guest_4343, Samson). To whet your appetite, here are some upcoming reviews from C&P:

• The Pea’s Birthday Celebration at New Ocean, Jln Imbi
• A Steamy Korean Affair at Daorea Garden, Sri Hartamas
• HK Style Fare at Wong Kok Char Chan Teng, SS2
• Crabbing at Coconut Flower Hut, Telok Gong
• A Shanghainese Experience at Dragon-I, 1 Utama

Additionally, we will be adding more fun stuff to our site such as tried & tested recipes (courtesy of the Chicks, the Pea only know how to eat … bleh) and reviews of individual dishes like cakes. So stay tuned and wait with bated breath for the all new C&P site …

( Wilfred, The Pea : I’ve added a page with a list of upcoming articles, so you all can keep track of how lazy / how active we have been… have fun! )

Traditional Coffee shop in the heart of Low Yat

The Kopi Club
Lower Ground Plaza Low Yat
10am - 10pm daily
Asian cuisine

Was gonna go get some replacement parts for my house computer stuff (caused by stupid lightning the other day) at Plaza Low Yat (where all computer people / geeks / nerds like me call their second home).

Lunch time! I’m hungry…

Arrived at Low Yat at about 1pm with my brother and cousin in tow cause they were bored at home and wanted to get out of the house. Decided to have lunch first, we were initially planning on going for our usual at the vegetarian shop on the Lower Ground floor of Plaza Low Yat, but when we reached the place, the lot was covered with boards with a big "Under Renovation" sign. Lazy as I am, I just went to the nearest food source, next door. The Kopi Club
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Granted that this is not a special restaurant or even one that serves special food to write a review on, but I figured there must be some lost souls out there who have never ever step foot into this place and wondering what the big fuss is about or why the heck are all those people queuing up outside this place. So if you are one of them (the lost souls that is), then this is for you *smiles*.

Imagine this: you are doing some shopping (or window shopping as most of us do before the pay cheque comes in at the end of month ) and suddenly you felt this intense craving for some fast and cheap Japanese food. What do you do? And who do you call? G.H.O.S.T.B.U.S.T.E.R.S. of course, yeaahh … Love that show, I still remember how Slimey (the shapeless green ghost with the long red tongue) used to leave all that green goo everywhere he (or was it a ‘she’?) goes *eww …* and had a crush on that cute ghostbuster Peter (it’s a she then). Anyway, anyway, sorry for the little digression … back to the review. So WHAT DO YOU DO? Answer: you can either head over to Sushi King (SK) or Genki Sushi (GS).

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T’was a cold and rainy Friday night when the fab four (me, Chloe, Wilfred and our M.I.A. chick, Lina) venture out to the furthest corner of Kuala Lumpur for some grub. Longing for something hot and spicy to fill our bellies and warm our souls, we decided what could be better than steamboat to do the job, right?

Our quest led us to Kepong, the so-called “steamboat haven”. It’s a haven indeed for steamboat lovers as we find ourselves facing rows and rows of restaurants all serving the same thing. We finally settled for this place called Pulau Ketam Steamboat Restaurant *phew*. Not sure why it is named Pulau Ketam when the restaurant is not in Pulau Ketam also *scratch head*. Anyway, when we reached the restaurant, a man was standing in the middle of the road ushering us to park in this empty space directly opposite the restaurant (woohoo … free parking!! But the place a bit muddy, not good for girls wearing 3 inches heels :S). Since there was a slight drizzle, the man even offered umbrella-ring services to us when we got out of the car. So nice yea?

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