More Hoong Fatt!

I posted about this place a couple of weeks back. I returned there for brunch once again and this time I managed to get my hands on their grilled pork (char siew). OH YEAH!

Roast pork! Fresh out of the oven this time around!

Close up no. 1

Close up no. 2

Duck drumstick and grilled pork!

Close up no. 1

Close up no.2

The grilled pork has a crunchy texture (notice all the burnt bits in the pictures) with a nice balance of fat and meat. It's not overly sweet either. I did notice the stall owner slicing off some of the burnt bits though. Customers sure are getting more health conscious nowadays.

7/10 for the grilled pork. Not as good as the melt-in-your-mouth one at Jalan Alor, but pretty darn satisfying if you don't want to travel all the way down to KL to satisfy your cravings.

Eat at Kee Kee's!

I'm sure most of you peeps living in the Klang Valley have heard about the famous Kee Kee Chicken Rice place. Since I stay nearby, I've been eating there since the stall first opened way back in 1998. At that time, business wasn't too brisk due to the competition from the bak kut teh stall which was located in the same restaurant. The bak kut teh stall closed down during the J.E. scare and business for Kee Kee boomed ever since.

How's that for a bit of history in a food review? LOL! Without further ado, I present the pictures!

Inside here Kee Kee awaits (picture courtesy of rasarasa.net)

Fluffy but not too oily

Chicken! That's a 1/4 chicken drumstick portion btw

Mixed innards - intestines and gizzards

Tender, succulent but fatty

Only a small amount of bones remain

So how much was it? A 1/4 chicken drumstick portion, a plate of intestines and gizzards plus rice for one person came up to RM17. Before you scream "WTF EXPENSIVE!" let me explain how Mr. Lim Ee Choon (the owner) prices his chickens.

A normal packet of chicken rice costs RM3.50. If you were to order a portion for one person (yat kor wai in Cantonese) it would set you back around RM6 (this is different from ordering one packet of chicken rice, you get more). But if you wanted the drumstick portion, the minimum order is a 1/4 chicken portion which would set you back around RM12. This is the only way to get your hands on a drumstick because Mr. Lim will refuse to sell it to you any other way (unless of course you order 1/2 a chicken or a whole one).

Besides the usual deep fried and steamed chickens and the assorted innards, you can get the usual bean sprouts here too. No pork, no duck. Just chickens! You also get an unlimited free flow of soup, self service though.

IMHO the steamed chicken here is the best I've ever tasted. The Bentong style of cooking where the steamed chicken is dunked into ice water immediately after cooking ensures that there the fat under the skin forms into a nice juicy layer, while keeping the chicken meat firm and tender. 9/10 for the chicken! People who are adverse to fatty food need not apply though. LOL! Innards are good, but I guess it will not differ that much from other places. The rice is fluffy and not too oily, but there are off-days where the rice will be not be fully cooked.

If you look around while you are digging into your chicken rice, you'll notice that almost every customer chooses to have the steamed chicken. This is because his deep fried chicken...needs work (you can get better elsewhere). You have been warned!

Kee Kee is located inside Yat Yeh Hing Restaurant and it opens from 10.45 a.m. right until all the chickens are sold old (which is normally around 3 p.m.) To get here, head towards Sunway/Subang from 1-U using the LDP. Go straight all the way until you can see the Kelana Jaya LRT station on your left. Continue on, turn left at the first turning you see and Yat Yeh Hing will be right in front of you.

Enjoy your chicken!

Random food post!

I decided to drop by Ming Tien at Taman Megah after work on Friday for dinner. So I got myself...

Pork noodles,

Takoyaki

and chicken satay!

Well everything tasted average, but it was certainly filling! BURP!

Feeling crabby?

Crabby
informal. grouchy; ill natured; irritable; peevish. (source: Dictionary.com)

Oh wait, I thought feeling crabby means one has a craving for crabs. Me and my poor English! PAISEH!

So anyway having not eaten crabs for a long time, I decided to hop over to the (famous) Fatty Crab at Taman Megah. Yes, the one and only Fatty Crab at Taman Megah, although they do have other branches at Pandan Indah and The Mines.

Upon stepping into the restaurant (which is a corner lot, so it's pretty well-ventilated), you'll notice the pretty sparse menu. Unlike other seafood restaurants which offer various other dishes using pork, chicken, etc. Fatty Crab basically just has crabs, prawns and fish as it's main dishes. To fill you up in case the seafood doesn't cut it, they also serve fried rice, chicken wings (fried not grilled) and satay (chicken and beef). Pretty basic eh?

Less variety is not always a drawback though. On with the food pictures!

The iconic signboard


Crispy golden fried chicken wings. GREAT!

Surprisingly good fluffy fried rice

Crabs in sweet and sour sauce

After a long battle...

Mithril hammer of crab armour bashing +5!

Price wise, crabs go for RM26 per kati (which is around 600 g) with a minimum order of 900 g. That totals up to about RM39 per 900g, which is close to the average price around Klang Valley. As for the cooking styles, here's where their limited menu shows. They only serve either sweet and sour crab or steamed crab. No salted egg yoke crab, cream cheese crab or BBQ crab here, unlike those restaurants in Kepong or Aman Suria.

Chicken wings go for RM1.90 per piece, satay costs RM0.60 per stick while the fried rice goes from RM5. All the items in their menu are their specialities so you can't go wrong with any of them. On a sidenote, don't expect their satay to come in Hj. Samuri sizes. Although they do cost more per stick, you get the average size served anywhere else. But their (chicken) satay doesn't have a layer of fat in between the meat, which could be a plus (or minus) depending on the person.

All in all, I would award a rating of 8/10. The crabs that we had were fresh and juicy, no complaints there. The score would have been higher if they had provided more variety in cooking styles, but then again there are other places around the Klang Valley that provide those.

How do you get here? Easy. If you are heading towards 1-Utama from Sunway/Subang via the LDP, just head straight on until you come to the Taman Megah traffic light junction (this is just a bit further down from the bus stop opposite the Kelana Jaya LRT station). Turn left at the traffic light, keep to your right immediately and turn at the first right turn. Head straight down all the way and you'll spot Fatty Crab on your right.

Tip: Come early on weekends as the restaurant fills up real fast. They open at 5.30 p.m. and by 6.30 you probably have to stare at the people feasting while waiting for a table to be vacated.

Dim sum! Dim sum! Dim sum!

What do Malaysians enjoy beside nasi lemak for breakfast? Why, dim sum of course!

Dim Sum is a Cantonese phrase (點心), literally "touch the heart" (order to your heart's content) but meaning "morsel/snack". It may be derived from yat dim sum yi (一點心意), meaning "a little token". Though the English word "dim sum" refers to the Cantonese variety, the idea of a wide variety of small dishes for lunch also holds for other regions of China.

- source: Wikipedia

So seeing that it was a holiday for me today, I decided to haul ass over to Damansara Palace at Kota Damansara to have breakfast.

The fact is that I've passed by the place many many times in the past but I never bothered to venture inside. On the recommendation of Brother Hing I went there with him and Wei Siong a couple of weeks back and it was good enough to warrant a second visit.

As usual, the pictures must come first!

Welcome to Damansara (Palace)!

And it's...CLOSED?!!

There's a funny story about the closed sign...me and my mum arrived at 10.40 a.m. and we saw that it was 'closed'. Naturally this struck us as strange because the business hours plainly stated there was 10.30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

So I called up the restaurant and was told that they were already open for business. Guess some waiter forgot to flip the sign around. =P

Fried peanuts to start your appetite going!

Breakfast for two, yes that's everything!

Yam puffs on the right, prawn rolls on the left

Yam roll exposed!

And of course, every dim sum meal must have har gau (shrimp dumplings)

Thin skin + juicy prawn = superb har gau!

Siew mai (er...mini pork dumplings?)

Just the right amount of meat and fat

All in all, the entire breakfast consisted of 2 plates each of siew mai, har gau, fishball, siew loong pau and one plate each of yam puffs, deep fried prawn rolls and steamed prawn rolls costs me a total of RM45.xx.

And that's with Chinese tea for two, plus the appetizers. But no towels though. Tax is at the usual 5% and 10%. The dim sum actually costs RM2.98 per plate.

What more can I say? The dim sum is fresh, they are generous with the serving amounts and the service is top notch (it's a high class Chinese restaurant after all). The drawback is that they do not have as much variety compared to the old school dim sum places. So here's a rating of 8/10 for it!

Direction time! If you're headed towards Ikea from Subang via LDP you'll notice a tunnel (Surian Tunnel) once you've turned off from the LDP (with Ikea visible on your right). Just go into the tunnel and continue straight on until you come to the second set of traffic lights (Damansara Palace should be visible on your right). Turn right at the traffic lights and keep to your left until you come to an entrance. Turn in and go straight all the way (it's a one way street and it's one big loop around the whole complex) until you come to the front of Damansara Palace.

Eat, be merry and grow fat! - Courtesy of Lawrence