Restaraunt Woo Lan,Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur
Woo Lan Chinese Restaurant
Recently, we had lunch at brickfields at this chinese restaurant called ‘ Woo Lan’ . This place used to be in an old zinc shed nearby but have moved to a shop lot nearby.
We were the first customer there that day since we went there at 1130am and because we skipped breakfast, we decided to go all out for our ‘brunch’. So our orders that day were
Steamed Fish Head 22
Fried Rice cakes 20
Mee Suah 25
Yuen Tai 35
O- Chien 20
Seafood Curry 60
Four Emperor Vegetable 15
Total 197
Honestly, because we have not been to this place before, we ordered what we saw on a old newspaper article hung on the restaurant wall. It was all their house specialities.
You can't really see clearly,but it is a giant fish head
I guess the waitress could sense how hungry we were because the size of the dishes were HUGE. The fish head was huge and came on a huge plate. This is done hokkien style. The fish head, fresh. The meat was delicious and sweet.
Fried rice cakes- hokkien style
The fried rice cakes are also a hokkien dish. As you can see, it looks exactly like hokkien mee except you trade the noodles for rice cakes. This has a starchier taste to it than the normal noodle version. Fills you up pretty fast.
Fried Mee Suah
I liked this dish, cause it has that extra twist to it. Its normal fried mee suah,but for that added kick, they topped it up with fried seaweed. Not healthy I know, but it tasted really good.
Yuen tai..Mmm
And as usual, William needed to have his share of pork and since it was on the newspaper article we saw we went ahead to order it. It tastes as good as it look, though a bit too much on the fatty side for me.
Fried O-chien omellete
The fried O-chien was so so. Sadly they weren’t very generous with the O-chien, giving us only tiny puny ones. But I guess for good fried O-chien, one should go to the stalls near a beach rather than in a restaurant. Its closer to the source.
Seafood curry- Fantastic!~
This is my FAVOURITE!! The waitress told us this curry was made without santan. How they do that, I don’t know, but it tasted soooo GOooooD!! And, unlike the O-chien dish, this one was filled with seafood, from succulent prawns, to squids and baby octopus. It can’t get any better than that. You MUST order this dish when you are here. Its abit pricey, but for the amount of seafood they give you, I think its worth it.
Four emperor vegetable
Roughly translated, the four emperor vegetable consists of ladies fingers, brinjal , long beans and another vegetable which I’m not too sure of the name. It is similar to ladies fingers..LoL. Basically you get more variety of vegetables when ordering this dish.
We were stuffed after eating all these food. We even had to pack some back cause it was just too much. But it was a well worth brunch. I really enjoyed it. Its worth coming here. Will be back.
How to get to Woo Lan
Restoran Woo Lan
Non Halal
No 19 Jalan Scott
Off Jalan Sambanthan
Brickfields
Kuala Lumpur
Opening hours : 1130am – 3pm 530pm – 10pm
Tel: 03-22748368
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Tags: Brickfields, chinese food, O-chien, Seafood curry
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February 27th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
a bit expensive wor for meal in brickfield, but i love the hing hwa style mee sua, there is another restaurant serving this in brickfield – Hoi Kee (across from brickfield police station), their food should be cheaper too.
February 27th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Hi vivien, yea..i love the mee sua too.It was the first time for me eating it. Good to know there’s a cheaper place we can get it at. I hope its just as good!
February 28th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Hey Sue Ann! It’s called four-angle bean. winks*
February 28th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Seafood curry looks good. Thanks for the food review. Looking forward for me.
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February 28th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Oh ya…thanks for that. It just slipped my mind. =)
March 1st, 2009 at 1:38 pm
I might be bias as I entertained at Woo Lan when working in Brickfields. Tried all Chinese retaurants there. It is the best you can get in Brickfields for Chinese food. Also, the aren’t many Hokkien or Heng Hua, ( the latter more accurate )food eatery in KL. There was another one in Jalan Raja Laut which has since closed down.
March 8th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
I was just lamenting to my friend that Woo Lan seems to be losing its customer of late. I’m not sure why, coz the food’s still pretty good. Maybe it’s the location? Maybe it’s because there are more options out there?
March 8th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Uncle SG was telling us that where we ate was actually their new location… they used to be under some metal roofed shack nearby..
You know how sometimes, the most popular places are like a shack under a tree? Or by the side of the road?
Maybe when they moved, it lost some appeal to their old customers?
Or maybe it’s just the recession? haha…
March 8th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Hey, thanks for the review. Dishes look nice but prices on the high side, wor. How I miss Muar O-chien. A lot cheaper too.
Came here from The Star. Bet you’ll be getting an influx of traffic. Congrats!
March 8th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Thanks, glad you like our review. Oh yes,the Muar O-chien is definitely good. Hehe.
We’re so glad we made it onto The Star today..=) Happy day!
March 9th, 2009 at 3:35 am
hi…may i know where is it located? i have been to brickfield many times but never pass by woo lan b4….its near which shop? is it near the 7 eleven?
March 9th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I’m not sure if it’s behind the 7-11… but I know that it’s a few shoplots away from a banana leaf stall… from the shop if you’re looking out of it, right in front of you is the Jalan Mahemeru overpass.
Have a look at the map above, use YMCA as a starting point and follow the roads till you get to the last row of shop lots before the highway. Good luck!
March 10th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Nice sharing! The seafood curry…laden with seafood, really looks great:)
The rice cakes also seemed enticing, it’s a Hokkien dish you say? You mean like Koay Kak? =)
March 10th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Hi Christy, yea, the seafood curry is a definite must try, high on cholestrol but once in awhile its ok..LoL.
The rice cakes are not really the same as koay kak. Koay Kak is fried carrot cake right? This one is just rice cakes made out of rice flour. It is much starchier and firmer in texture compared to koay kak. But the style in which this dish was prepared was similar to how hokkien mee is prepared. =)
March 10th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
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July 20th, 2009 at 10:40 am
The fried rice cake is called “pek kueh” in hokkien. It means white kuih. My grandma used to cook this as we’re of Heng Hwa descent.
Nice reading the post.
July 20th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Hi spunkz, thanks for the info, my hokkien is well… non existant but it was actually pretty tasty. Chewy and savoury, nice combo.