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Restaurant Kuang Fong (Klang)

10 Friday Jun 2011

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I rarely (almost never) venture into Klang area for food. Perhaps many Klang-ians would be shocked as most believe that good and tasty foods are found there. (i.e. Bak Kut Teh / Seafood)

Anyway, yesterday I had the opportunity to venture to Klang and a friend kindly show Chulet and her bro to a nice restaurant for lunch. The Restaurant frontage seems small and ordinary. Luckily the restaurant is air-conditioned as it was a really hot day. Once seated inside, our friend started ordering dishes in Hokkien (which I don’t understand at all). Patiently, I waited to be surprise as this friend loves good food and most of his recommendations are always thumbs up.

While waiting for our food, I look around and found that this restaurant won a lot of award. They went for Bak-Kut-Teh competition, Hainam Chicken Rice competition and received recognition from the Tourism Ministry ! Wow… ! wow !!

We start off with a bowl of mee-sua with ho-chien. (rice noodle with oyster). The soup looks a little starchy but once you scoop into individual bowl. Add in a dash of vinegar and some chilli sauce. It was really good. The oysters are fresh and the noodles are really smooth and not too soggy.

The next on the hit list is the fried sliced noodle. This is a specialty of the shop. The noodle consistency kind of resembles the rat’s tail (loh-see-fun) but with more stickiness to it. It was fried like the fried kueh teow style. I really like this as the taste is very fragrant.

Next is the chicken rice ball (which was HUGE – at least double the normal size you get in Melaka). The chicken ordered was fried salted kampong chicken. Really yummy as the skin was not only crispy, it was full of flavour from marinating the chicken.

Apart from these, we order stir-fry Brinjal with Long bean and Fried Lobak.

For dessert we had deep fried chocolate ice-cream !!

It was a satisfying and delicious lunch indeed… Thanks T for bringing us there and treating us too (What a generous soul !!!)

 

The Addy :

No.211, Batu 1  1 /2,

Jalan Meru,41050, Klang, Selangor.

H/P +6012 238 8779

ICE Room for the hot hot days.

13 Friday May 2011

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37 degree !!

That was what I read on the temperature displayed on my car dashboard when I drove out for lunch. Ouch… that is painful. Not to mention, it is those types of heat where you feel as if the ray are burning tiny holes into your body.

No wonder I have been having sleepless night lately. Even with the air-con set to the coldest and blasting away was useless. I felt like I am inside an oven bakes alive. I was half tempted to just soak myself in the bathtub and sleep there. (Sadly, it was just my imaginary hope, for I own no bathtub – sigh…)

So, for lunch 2 days ago, my brother decided that anywhere with air-con is no longer sufficient. He told me there’s only ONE place to go for lunch. Since I am usually the less fussy eater, I let him decide. After some quick direction, we reach our destination.

It is a tall green building opposite the Giant supermarket in Kota Damansara.

The name of the restaurant is ICE ROOM. (I like it already)

We walked into the restaurant which was relatively colder than some air-conditioned restaurant we been to but no where near ice temperature. This restaurant actually serves shaved ice.

They have wide selection of flavoured ice. Apart from the normal fruity ice, they also have some really interesting flavour like the black sesame ice, peanut ice, bubur chacha ice, Yam ice, red bean ice and etc. Most of them are priced at around RM 7.90 – 9.90 (which is a little steep for just ice) but, on a HOT day – I am not complaining.

After drooling over the selection, I finally settle on bubur chacha ice. It was not very authentic. I think it tasted a little like vanilla. It would have been better if they drench it with some coconut milk.

My brother and colleague ordered the passion fruit ice and mango pomelo ice.

Now these are really nice… yumm.

It was definitely refreshing especially on a hot day like that. I would definitely go back there again for another try… maybe the black sesame the next round. :p

and thankfully, it POUR yesterday. I finally had a GOOD night sleep yesterday… yay !

Address for the ICE ROOM

No. 27, Jalan PJU 5/20E, Pusat Perdagangan Kota Damansara,

The Strand, Kota Damansara PJU 5,

47810, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Tel : 03-6142 8727, 03-6142 8728

Fukuya Authentic Japanese Cuisine – Valentine’s Day

14 Monday Feb 2011

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To avoid the crazy crowd on Valentine’s Day.

My hub decided that he would celebrate it with me in advance.

Hub woke up early to ran out and buy nasi lemak from the little road side stall.

This stall has been around since I was a wee lass. Today, it is being run by the lady’s children. I have to say the rice is not as fragrant as before. Packet is smaller. Chicken is smaller. But, I still love it. Perhaps it is for fond memory’s sake. For a road side stall, it is very popular with the neighbours. So, if you are not there early to grab it, it will probably be gone by 9am on the weekends. On weekdays, it will be finish by 8:30am.

After our Nasi Lemak breakfast, hub surprise me with a couple’s massage in Bangsar. A nice little spa place along Jalan Bangkung…

We were ushered to our herbal foot bath. Halfway thru that, the whole place went into pitch black. The electricity tripped. The owner not knowing what to do ran up and down the building. Luckily, hub was around to help the boss locate the master fuse box. They manage to locate the faulty problem and viola, the whole place got electric again.  (No – we didn’t get discount) ;p

The massage for ok (not fantastic in my opinion – maybe just a bit strong for my liking… hehe)

After that, we head down to KL.

Hub brought me to this nice little quaint Jap place, Fukuya.

The Outside of the restaurant is deck with the RED cloth, interesting. ..

The place is so nicely decorated. Perhaps it was the time we reach there (around 2pm), the place was practically empty.

(I checked with hub – he didn’t book the whole place for us, hahhaha…)

Anyway, hub ordered their mini Kaiseki, which is basically small meals of a few variety.

The First course is some appetizer thingy. The best part of this dish is the Uni tofu. So.. good.

The tofu is smooth and cooling with a touch of Uni (Sea Urchin) taste to it.

Next, is the Chawan Mushi. Hub like it but i still prefer the ones from Hokano.

 

Shasimi is OOO- SO-FRESH. REally good !!

Cod fried in miso served with preserved papaya and ginger stalk. Overall ok dish. Not much surprises – except the ginger (redish thingy) is REALLY spicy !!

Some stew taro thingy in seaweed. Yuck. Don’t like it at all. so fishy…

Tempura Chilies & Crabstick wrapped in some leave (I don’t know the name but it is like a cross between betal and mint leaves)

Yummilicious Rock Melon !! So sweet..

The Meal also includes a bowl of rice with salmon flakes & Miso Soup. The service is THUMBS up !! They bought us 2 spoon for all the dishes. :p

And I topped the order with some other side dishes .. and these are all mine.. MINE !!! muahahaha

Deep Fried baby prawn.. done really well. LOVE the crispy-ness.

Kanpachi Carpaccio with fish roe (ok – but I think I like the Kanpachi shasimi style without any additional flavouring)

Don’t get me wrong. The flavour is quite good but takes away the sweetness of the Kanpachi. Kind of like destroy the real fish taste to me.


Tempura Wild Garlic…. very interesting.

Abit dissapointed with their agedashi tofu…

Yummilicious Pan seared scallop top withFoie Gras in sweet sauce. good combi. If I were to eat the foie gras by itself, the taste would be not as good. Together with the scallop.. Perfect. 🙂

Now, for the finale, the BEST dish (in my opinion) is their Cha Soba. I have tried many Cha Soba in Malaysia… This is definitely my favourite. Noddle is nice and cold without being placed on ice (hate that as it makes the noodle wet and dilutes the sauce). The sauce is really good (not to salty) with heaps of sesame and spring onions !!

Overall, I had a GREAT valentine day.

This is our FIRST valentine’s day as husband and wife… 🙂

Hub Hub !! I can’t wait for the many many more we will celebrate in future !!! Thanks dear.