Over the past year or so there had been many steamboat restaurants setting up in and around the Klang Valley. Due to the stiff competition, many try to come up with innovative or unique styles of steamboat, offering ingredients that are different from the norm. Well, Charcoal Steamboat in Setapak has certainly sparked a lot of interest since they opened late last year. Using Japanese bamboo charcoal as the fuel and heat source to boil their soups, the restaurant’s signature pork bone … [Read more...]
Ocean Shabu Shabu @ Seri Petaling
Almost every other evening now is wet and chilly. The rain just won’t let up and on evenings when the sky opens up and pour torrents down, that’s the perfect time to have a steamboat dinner. I enjoy steamboat for the simple method of cooking food at the table where meats, seafood and vegetables are cooked in the healthiest way and eaten immediately. How do you eat your steamboat? Do you dunk everything in once the soup starts boiling? Then you cover up the pot and let everything inside … [Read more...]
Xiao Lao Wang Hotpot, Sg Buloh New Village
I love steamboats. Or rather, now the fashionable new term is “hotpot” – that sounds more appropriate? Anyway, whether it’s good old-fashioned “steamboat” or funky “hotpot”, I always enjoy it because it’s simple and nutritious and I love soups. So, when I was invited to check out Xiao Lao Wang Hotpot, even though it’s all the way in Sungei Buloh New Village, the journey there was worth it. Xiao Lao Wang Hotpot is opened by the same people who opened Kissaten in Jaya One and the … [Read more...]
Chee Cheong Fun @ Yap Hup Kee, Pudu
Growing up in Ipoh, one of my all-time favourite food is the humble Chee Cheong Fun. Literally translated from Cantonese, it means “pig’s intestine noodles”. I have often wondered why it’s named as such? Maybe because they do come in rolls and I guess in some way they resemble “pig’s intestines”? Anyway, my favourite has always been the plain flatsheet-type of chee cheong fun. Ipoh is famous for 2 types of noodles: their sar hor fun (or “kwayteow") and their chee cheong fun. Actually both … [Read more...]
Steamboat, HK-style @ Elegant Inn
Steamboat, to many, may be a tedious kind of meal. The main grouse would probably be that you have to cook the meal yourself, at the dining table. And you may have to put up with some hot waves of air from the boiling pot of broth and the cooker too... on top of having to cook your food! Some people avoid steamboat because well, the food gets kinda monotonous here because most of the stuff we have are made from fishpaste - a variety of shapes and sizes, but basically, fishpaste is the core … [Read more...]
South Sea Seafood
South Sea Seafood Restaurant 229 Jalan Dua A Kg Baru Subang Tel: 03-7846-5813/1401I'm sure many of you have passed by this place. It's just after Terminal 3 of the old Subang Airport - you can't miss it. It's been around for quite some time.As you walk up the wooden steps into the restaurant, you'll be struck by the tanks and tanks of live seafood all lined up on one side...Look at those triangles of dried sharksfin all hung up high on the wall! These are expensive stuff (that's why they are … [Read more...]
Hai Peng Seafood
Hai Peng Seafood RestaurantLot KS-5 Taman Evergreen4 1/2 Miles, Jalan Klang Lama58200 Kuala LumpurTel: 03-7982 5072/798106982I was introduced to this restaurant by one of my ex-bosses, many many years ago (this is an "old timer" restaurant!) and they have not changed one bit since that first time I tried their food. It's located on busy busy Old Klang Road but parking is not very troublesome actually. Even on a Saturday evening (and the restaurant was running fullhouse!), we could get parking … [Read more...]
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