Steam King Seafood Restaurant, Kota Damansara
My parents found this place by fluke and quite enjoyed the food there. Hence second time round, they brought us there to try for ourselves. Steam king is situated in Kota Damansara, among the many restaurants there. Parking shouldn’t be much of a problem here, cause the lady boss books the parking lots in front of her shop, so just signal to her that you will be eating there and she’ll let you park right in front.
Inside at the back of the restaurant, we are greeted with a 4 step tier of aquariums, teeming with live fish together with the price on each type of fish. For a small shop, they had quite a variety of different fishes to choose from.
Their specialty here as you can tell from its name is steamed fish so that to be the must have on the menu that night. The lady boss is quite friendly and she will recommend the different fishes/ dishes to you. ( Though be careful cause they tend to recommend the most expensive fish, which is the ‘Soon Hock’ which comes up to RM16.80 per 100g, that will come up to about Rm180 for a fish).
Our orders: -
Steamed black snapper ( rm5.80/100g)
Ham Dan Pork ribs
Curry Tofu
Sai Tai Tin Wong ( The four great emperors)
Total rm103 (4 pax)
The norm would probably be the red snapper but today we ordered the black snapper as recommended by the lady boss. I like eating snappers cause they have very big bones so its easier to eat. This black snapper was no exception. The meat tasted very fresh as the fish came straight out of the tank, it was very juicy as if the meat had soaked up the fish sauce around it. The texture of this fish is very firm and abit chewy. Highly recommend to try their steam fish, we all loved it.
As the lady boss was reciting the menu to us, I caught the word ham dan followed by pai quat ( pork ribs). Instantly I told her, ‘ I plate please’. One of my favourite styles of cooking is ham dan *anything*. Most of the time is ham dan crab or ham dan squid , but I’ve never heard of ham dan pork ribs. So to our delight, our plate arrived and it was delicious. A combination of our 2 different ingredients, ham dan and pork, it couldn’t get any better than this. It was very crunchy cause it was deep fried. A very unique dish.
The curry tofu was also a house speciality and according to the lady boss it was one of its kind. It had egg tofu, seafood ( prawns , squid and cuttlefish) and at the bottom was steamed egg. It is quite unique I must say especially with the steamed egg at the bottom. The different textures came together nicely and the curry was nice and santany.
Lastly, for some fibre, we went with the sai tai tin wong because the aunty also recommended us to take this. As much as I like this dish, I felt that it lacked the extra kick because it was missing petai. I love mine with petai. This dish had lady’s fingers, four angled beans, long beans and egg plant all stir fried with belacan. For those non petai lovers, I think you would like this.
So for a nice good steamed fish meal, this is the place to come. It gets pretty packed during dinner time as we were there around 7pm. And when we were there that day it was raining, but it was still crowded. They will also give you complimentary soup which is a plus. Our soup that day was bittergourd soup, which wasn’t too bitter cause I was able to drink it 
Steam King Seafood Restaurant
No. 7, Jalan PJU 5/10,
Dataran Sunway, Kota Damansara,
47810 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor.
Tel : 03 – 6140 7460
Non Halal
Mon-Sun
11.00a.m.-3.00p.m. Noon
5.00p.m.-11.00p.m. Night
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Tags: black snapper, ham dan pai quat, ham dan pork ribs, Kota Damansara, seafood curry tofu, seafood restaurant, soong hock, Steam fish
