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Shucked Oyster and Seafood bar – Publika, KL Malaysia

20 Thursday Jun 2013

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Few days back, I had a sudden craving for Oysters. Must be from all the browsing I did at some of the oyster pictures during my recent trip to Melbourne. LOL…

Normally, if I want to get my hand on some nice fresh oysters in Malaysia, the only choice I have is to head to a western restaurant (like Ship / Monte and etc) Or Japanese restaurant. Unfortunately, I don’t feel like having either of the mains in these restaurant. I just want oyster (full stop).

Shucked

Hence, I was super grateful for Oyster bar such as Shucked in Publika. Here… I get to satisfy my oyster cravings without the stress of ordering mains. I could just walk off after having my oysters. Awesome !

Hub and I decided to go for 3 pcs of Irish Premium (recommended by the ‘oyster-bartender’) and 3 pcs Tasmanian Prime. The Irish premium are the fatter ones on the right side in the picture.

Oysters

The taste of these both are so different. These Tassie-ones are quite similar to the Coffin-bay (south Australia) variety in terms of the after taste. It carries the same salty-iron-like after taste except that it has less bite compare to the coffin-bay. I was actually quite surprise that these Tassie ones are kind of small in size. I remember the last time when we were in Tasmanian, the oysters (Barilla Bay) we had there was freakingly huge…

The Irish Premium was a delightful surprise. At first bite, it was a bit salty. But after that, you get a burst of creaminess flooding your whole mouth ending on a sweet note. Very interesting.

Yum… yum. Craving satisfied.

Seow Man Hot Soups – Semenyih, Malaysia

19 Sunday May 2013

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We were around semenyih area around lunch time after the Cheng beng festival. After driving along the main road searching for food, we finally settle on this little quaint restaurant. The name of the restaurant caught hub’s eye and I was quite curious. Seow Man Hot Soups

After settling down, we ordered from the short list of items from their menu. I think it’s a good tactic especially when you are a small restaurant. Better to focus on what you are really good at and also keep the inventory of perishable down.

Claypot white pepper soup with pork and chicken

I am a big fan of white pepper soup. So, I was delighted when they place it down in front of me. yumm… love it. Really tasty without it being too spicy from the pepper. Personally, I prefer the chicken over the pork for this style.

Claypot pork in chinese wine

We also had the claypot pork in chinese wine. This was really yummy and goes really well with rice. hehehe… hub’s favourite (of course ;p)

Sizzling tofu Omelette

The sizzling tofu was pretty good too. I love the omelette underneath the sizzling plate. Be careful to scrap it up as soon as the egg cook and not let it sit too long (or it will charcoaled).

It’s not bad… Price is pretty reasonable. If I am ever around Semenyih, I’ll probably drop by again.

Kuala Sungai Seafood Restaurant – Kuala Selangor, Malaysia

08 Monday Apr 2013

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A lot of people find it a hassle to eat crab. Hub is one of those who rather not eat them because he feels that the time took to pry these open is not worth it. I on the other hand is at the other end of the spectrum. I love to eat crabs and if you leave me alone, I can easily polish off one kg (about 3 crabs) of crabs by myself. Ho ho ho…

When my cousin came back from Melbourne for holiday, we decided to head down to Kuala Selangor for some really fresh seafood. Even tough the restaurant didn’t had a lot of selection (due to the rainy weather – no much fisherman went to sea), whatever they had was really fresh. The cool view from where we sit while enjoying the fresh seafood.   The River viewWe had Steam Pari (Ray-fish) in sweet and sour soup. The fish was really fresh and the soup was very appetizing. I could easily finish the whole plate by myself with one plate of rice. hehehe…Steam Rayfish in sweet and sour soupNext, the steam clams in clear soup. This was so-so only. The clams are a little on the skinny side, but, still fresh. The clear soup was quite bland in my opinion.

Steam clams with clear soupNow for the main stars of the day…We had 3 steam blue swimmer crabs and 4 local mud crabs in duck yolk. I love blue swimmer crabs. it’s so hard to find them nowadays. Was so excited when I saw some swimming in their tank. yay !!!

The steam blue swimmer crabs were amazing!!! The meat was chunky and has a fresh bounce when you sink your teeth into it. The simple steam was just prefect as it let you taste the subtle natural sweetness of the crabs. It was prefect.

Steam Flower CrabThe mud crab was also super fresh. I love the duck yolk taste. It was done just right, slightly salty with touch of sweetness. Nom nom nom… Crab coated with Duck yolk

It was a great lunch and had a superb time catching up with my beloved couz. Hugz… I miss you so much already.

 
Kuala Sungai Seafood Restaurant
439 A, Jalan Sungai Yu Pasir Penambang,
45000 Kuala Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel : +603 32895357