After driving past this place numerous times and seeing the long queue of people outside, we knew that there must be something special here. So being foodies as we were, we decided to dine there and see for ourselves.

We were lucky enough to get a seat that day as it was the weekend dinner rush. It was packed and some people even left after seeing the crowd.The restaurant is very clean and brightly lighted and surprisingly cooling. Maybe cause they had about 6 fans inside.

The menu of this restaurant is simple and straight forward. It was basically a laminated A4 paper.For fickled minded diners who just can’t decide on what to have,fret not as the only main meal on the menu is Claypot Chicken Rice. The only hard decision you have to make is whether you want it with salted fish, chinese sausage or more chicken. Not that hard of a decision to make. You can also order a side of vegetables and steamed soup.

After waiting for about 20 mins, yes, we did wait for some time, our food finally arrived. Generous amount of chicken and also ham yui ( salted fish ), the smell was great! We came here thinking that this will be just another normal claypot chicken rice dish, but after mixing it and eating it, we were quite surprised because it was really tasty. Like really really tasty. I think its the sauce and maybe the salted fish. The rice was also very soft not like some claypot rice where its abit hard and lumps together. We ordered 2 big claypots for the 4 of us, and we finished ALL.

We also ordered a side of vegetables. Remember to always have greens with your meal for that added fiber..:) The dish was quite average with the vegetables being quite fresh. We also ordered one lotus root steamed soup. But this was so –so . The soup wasn’t tasty enough, maybe because the rice was so tasty that it just stole the limelight from the rest of the dishes..haha.

All in all, good place to come. But, be prepared to wait. Another alternative is to call in advance and place your order as thats what we saw some tables doing, or even better, call and take away. Drive by 20 mins later pick up your rice and dine in the comforts of your own home.

Choong Kee (Kampar) Claypot Chicken Rice

Non Halal

No. 80, Jalan SS22/25,

Damansara Jaya,

47400 Petaling Jaya.

Business hours : Sun – Mon 12pm – 230pm ; 5pm –930pm

Closed on Wednesdays

Tel: 017-871 7739 (Irene)

View Feedmelah.com Blog Restaurants in a larger map

Busy Busy Busy Corner

Every time I crave claypot rice, I head to Restaurant Busy Corner situated at the shoplots near KDU college.This place can get quite packed during dinner and lunch time cause of the many students living  nearby.

Let's see, what shall we eat tonight?

We finally decided on the orders below for our dinner

Claypot Chicken Rice RM6.50

Claypot Prawn Rice RM13

Steamed Vegetables RM5

Steamed Soup RM4.50

Claypot Chicken Rice

Like all claypot chicken rice, it comes with its sidekick of ‘ham yu’ aka salted fish. Without it, it aint’ claypot chicken rice. I think the added kick in this nga poh fan is that they add fresh onions to the mix. It gives that the extra sweetness and because of the heat from the rice, it kinda slowly semi cooks the onions which works for me. I love it.

Prawn Claypot Rice

One of my favourite claypot rices of all, is this prawn claypot. I just love this because they are very VERY generous on the prawns. And i’m not talking tiny puny prawns but big succulent ones. To top it up they add tom yam paste to it, so when you mix it all up, you basically get tom yam prawn rice. Spicy and sweet (Onions)..MMMmmm

Steamed Soup , salted vegetable soup

To finish up, we ended our meal with some nice steamed soup. I’ve noticed the soup here has very little oil so its really healthy. I think its because its placed in a steamer after its made. Leaving it in the steamer really brings out the flavour of the soup  and the longer it is in the steamer the more flavor. They have different kinds of soup including watercress, lotus root, peanut..etc. You will have to ask the lady boss whats available when you get there.

Come to this place if you are looking for good claypot rice. I always do!

Restaurant Busy Corner

Halal

83 Jalan SS22/11,

Damansara Jaya,

47400 Petaling Jaya,

Selangor

Tel : 03-77253092

Business hour : 11am – 230pm

5pm – 930pm

Magic Wok Restaurant & Wine Bar

Recently, we brought our friend Anselm who’s just gotten back from Germany to have a good chinese style dinner at Magic Wok.

This restaurant is famed for many dishes and playing host, we wanted to impress our friend. Hence, we ordered some of their specialities which we have listed below. But since there were only 3 of us, we could only order so much.

Our orders that night was :-

Magic Wok Special Yuen Tai (Speciality)  RM25

Tau fu with abalone slices (Speciality) RM 12

Twin style Kai lan (Speciality) RM12

Magic Wok Yuen Tai (Chef's reccomendation)

As you can see for yourself, the Yuen Tain Special looks so good with all its shining glory. Yuen Tai as I’ve come to learn is actually the thigh area of the pig. It has a very thick fat layer over it, but the meat inside is very tender. This dish comes with a side of steamed buns, in which you can dip in the sauce. Delicious. They will actually help cut the pork for you into bite size pieces so its easier for you to savour the taste. The sauce was sweet, if I remembered correctly, there was a hint of cinnamon?? but i’m not sure. It was very yummy.

Tau fu with Abalone Slices (Chef's reccomendation)

Next up, our tau fu dish which came with slices of abalone. (Well, I don’t think this was real abalone cause of the price, but it sure tasted like the real thing). I personally really liked this dish cause the tau fu was very soft and the sauce was very tasty. Not to mention the abalone, which I probably ate the most out of the 3 people there that night.

Twin Style Kai Lan (Chef's recommendation)

For our source of fibre that night, we opted for kai lan. The reason why this dish was called twin style is because the same vegetable is done in two different cooking styles. The stalks are done the usual way which is ‘cheng chau’ lightly fried in oil. While the leaf was shredded into tiny shreds and deep fried so it gave it a very crunchy feel. Almost like eating vegetable chips. Yum.

One thing I must definitely mention about this restaurant is that the service they gave that day was impeccable. I was down with a slight cold that night, and the staff was so considerate, they actually asked whether I was cold and then turned down the fan. They also brought me a big mug of warm water to make me feel better. How good is that? And I did..with the food, warm hospitality how couldn’t I?

This is a great place for family dinners and also to show off to your visiting friends traditional chinese cooking. The food is consistent and gets a thumbs up.

Ongoing Promotions

(i) Weekday promotion of individual dishes

(ii) Value Quick Lunch (RM7) incl drinks.

Available : Monday- Sat (11:30am-2:30pm)

Sunday & Public holidays (10:00am – 3:00pm)

(iii) Herbal Roast duck (ONLY RM33) on every 28th of the month.

The Magic Wok Restaurant

32 Jalan SS22/25,

Damansara Jaya,

47400 Petaling Jaya.

Tel: 03-77292288

Fax: 03-77101836

customer.service@magicwok.com.my

www.magicwok.com.my

Does he mean he varies his pasta alot? Who knows.

Located in a quiet corner of the row of shoplots that surround Atria shopping centre lies an unknown Western food restaurant called Vary Pasta (no, it’s not a spelling mistake) and it claims to have the cheapest Western food in town. I’m not going to bet a million dollars on it, but I think he may have a good claim to that statement.

One page caught my attention really fast.

The owner’s story is a little different to that of a resteraunter as he used to run the Western food stall in a coffee shop near KDU before setting up his own place. Usually Western food stalls in coffee shops are quite basic, you wouldn’t hear them ask, ‘would you like a vinigerette sauce with your salad sir?’ and the only mushroom soup they serve either came out of a can or was made from some sort of powder.

FRESH mushroom soup

So it’s quite a suprise that when this guy opened up his own restaurant selling similar dishes to his original stall, he has things like fresh mushroom soup, vinegerette dressing and fresh herbs in his dishes. The mushroom soup was a refreshing change as it had a variety of fresh mushrooms blended to make the dish, no powdery after taste like some out-of-the-can soups you usually find in some Western places.

Garlic Herb Sphagetti

Crispy fried potato crepe with fresh mushrooms and a garlic filling

Another dish that we ordered was the garlic herb sphagetti. Although some may confuse it for aglio olio, it isn’t. It comes with certain main meals, so make sure you know what comes with your main before ordering this as a starter. It is made with garlic, olive oil, fresh herbs (corriander I think), mushrooms and cold salsa on the side.

Sphagetti Carbonara with bacon bits

Another pasta you should try is the sphagetti carbonara, which was made with a rich creamy carbonara sauce and bacon bits inside.

As for the mains, they’re all mostly meat dishes, with chicken paella being one of the few exceptions.

Beef steak

Mixed grill - Pork and chicken chop, lamb chop, pork sausages

Chicken Cordon Bleau - Was a little tough for my tastes. But the brown sauce helped soften it a bit.

Pork chop - Nice, tender and cheap (RM12)

Chicken with rum sauce

These photos were actually compiled over 2 trips to the restaurant, but for each it should only cost you just under rm20 per person including some small starters, but it depends on what you order for your main. Average cost of mains is between RM10 – RM 30++ but that’s for the pork knuckle, which I haven’t tried yet.

Vary Pasta

No.21 Jalan SS22/23,

Damansara Jaya,

47400 Petaling Jaya.

Opening hours: Lunch and Dinner

Cuisine: Western

Non Halal

Telephone: 03 – 77106100

Vegetarians be warned! The following post contains excessive consumption of meat, meat and more meat.

Carnaval Brazilian buffet restaurant, located in a corner of Damansara Jaya is a meat lovers haven. It would even make Homer Simpson proud.

A little part of brazil in Malaysia

This half of the salad bar has the savoury foods

The other half of the salad bar has all the greens

How it works is you pay a fixed price (RM48 for adults) and then it’s all you can eat. The salad bar has a range of salads and savoury dishes and the meat is brought around on long metal rods, which the waiters cut for you over your plate. From the salad bar, my favourite is definately the brazillian black bean and beef stew with the remaining vegetables basically used as roughage… haha.

Guys would definately prefer this place over girls, as it is very neanderthal in nature, “Men make fire, men bring meat, men cook meat!”

Did I mention that they bring the meat around on long metal rods and cut it on each and every one of your plates? That means there are waiters running around with hot sticks of meat and giant knives passing past your head every few minutes, which you quickly forget once you start eating.

Asking the uncle who runs the place, that day there was the following:

2 cuts of Australian rump steak

1 cut of New Zealand lamb shoulder

Chicken

Chicken Gizzard (Kidney)

Fish

Chicken Sausage

Chicken Ham

Garlic Beef

Roasted Pineapple

Garlic Bread

They keep bringing the meat around until you are too full to eat.

The absolutely tasty black bean brazillian beef stew. (Say that 10 times fast!)

The steak was nice, with choices of medium and medium rare available for people to choose from, but my favourite cut of meat was the lamb shoulder. It has a very nice charred outer skin, which was flavoured with a very savoury garlic marinade. The meat on the inside was very tender and juicy and you could ask for gigantic cuts of meat from the waiter.

Look at the size of that cut of meat!

A mint and parsely/coriander sauce for the meat

A salsa sauce for your meat as well.

The fish and chicken were nice as well, with the fish having a curry tasting marinade whereas the chicken had a garlic based seasoning on it.

Sir, would you like a side of meat with your meat?

The manager let us know that on different nights, some of the cuts of meat vary, with seafood available some nights, but the popular cuts of meat never change, these being the beef rump steak and the lamb shoulder.

I got a little carried away eating all that meat.

Love eating meat? Relatives and friends refer to you as DBKL? Do you eat a whole pizza for lunch by yourself? Then Carnaval is the place for you.

Carnaval

No. 77, Jalan SS22/19

Damansara Jaya

(Near Atria shoppping center)

Mondays – Sundays (Call and ask about their daily promotions, e.g. buy 5 free 1, free BYO etc.)

Dinner only

Cuisine: Brazillian buffet (Churrascaria)

Halal

Tel: +60(3) 7725 2252/7728 5411