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

www.steamkingrestaurant.com

Non Halal

Mon-Sun

11.00a.m.-3.00p.m. Noon

5.00p.m.-11.00p.m. Night

On one of the very hot afternoons over the weekend, we decided to try out Restoran Lan Je which has been made famous for their steamed black tilapia. This is one of the outlets; having two other ones in Rawang and Balakong. With the original branch located in Rawang and having been in operation for several years, they have opened this branch in Kota Damansara. So for those not looking to travel too far for steamed tilapia, then this might be an option for you.

Restoran Lan Je

The steamed black tilapia is topped with diced ginger, soy bean paste and soya sauce. The fish was cooked rather well and outshines a few of the other dishes that we tried that afternoon. The fish itself had a smooth texture and you also have the choice to have it with chilli. The fish here is of relatively good quality as you don’t get too much of that fishy after taste.

Steamed Tilapia

Here’s a look at some of the other dishes that we had that afternoon:

Kung Bo Chicken

Tofu with Chicken

Since the location currently does not show up on Google Maps, here is an extract of their map:

Restoran Lan Je

F-50G & 51G Jalan Teknologi 3/9,

Bestari DE Kota,

Kota Damansara,

PJU 5 47810 Petaling Jaya

Tel: 012-669 9919

Opening Hours: 1130am – 3pm, 6pm-9pm (Closed on Tuesdays)

Pork-free

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The Wok Cafe

Today we had scrumptuous Penang Nyonya feast at The Wok Cafe situated at the newly opened area called The Strand in Kota Damansara.Those in search of authentic Penang nyonya style cuisine, this is the place to come. In fact Penang-nites who are in KL visiting will also make their way over to this place.

Antique crockery for sale

Doesn't it feel like eating in someone's house?

Stepping into the shop, you feel as if you are stepping back into time. As you can see from the pictures, the whole shop is decorated with antique items, from the wooden wall fixtures to the grandfathers clock to the pictures hanging on the wall. Its a time capsule. The wooden fixtures, lights, tables..all that you see are real antique. The wooden fixtures were brought in from Penang. Amazing.

Uncle Robert, who owns the shop is from Penang ( no surprise there). He has a shop in Penang called ‘ The Hot Wok’  which is now being run by his son. Most of the food stuff is imported from Penang to maintain its originality of taste.Trust me, eating here is as good as eating in Penang just minus the 5 hour travel time.

Our orders as recommended that night were:-

Main Meals

Roast Pork Garlic Cincalok

Ju Hu Char

Lobak & Tau Kua

Perut Ikan

Kerabu Mango

Assam Big Prawns

Chilli Brinjal Tau Cheow Prawn

Curry Fish Head

Desserts

Nangka Sago

Sago Gula Malaka

Total amount : 229  (11 pax)

Lobak and Tau Kua

For starters, we had the lobak and tau kua  ( fried taufu) . I personally enjoyed the lobak, cause its crunchy and also, the filling was full of meat unlike those you get outside, where there’s hardly much meat and the whole thing is soggy cause its been sitting out for too long. This is well worth it.

Ju Hu Char

Ju Hu Char is a typical nyonya dish made with shredded turnips, carrots,cabbage, dried cuttlefish, white lettuce and a little bit of sambal thrown in. Light and refreshing and good for health too! Eaten wrapped in fresh lettuce leaves, it really kick starts your palate in preparation of more good food to come.

Perut Ikan

This dish, as its name sounds translates into ‘fish stomach’ which is true. Comprising of 95% vegetables, with the remaining 5% the fish stomach it does make for a very tasteful curry style dish. This is one of their specialties and is also another nyonya favourite. The mint leaves gave it that minty fresh flavour which blended well with the curry.

Roast Pork Garlic Cincalok

The roast pork cincalok was good as well. Siew yuk fried with preserved baby shrimp (cincalok)  with red onions and chillies, just imagining the combination makes me drool. The crunchy siew yuk with cincalok, you can’t ask for a better combination.

Kerabu Mango

This spicy sweet mango salad shows where the thai influence comes in since Penang is  near the Thai border. The added kick here was that the ‘heh kou’ (prawn paste) is brought in fresh from Penang. The difference is obvious, the paste was smoother and had more flavour and sweetness.

Assam Big Prawns

Prawwwnns..Assam BIG prawns. This dish was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The prawns were freshed and well done and the sourness of the assam complimented the dish as it seeped through into the prawn meat. Yummy.

Curry Fish Head

And the dish which stole the show that night was the Curry Fish Head. This is their speciality, and it is for a reason. You have to pre-order this 2 days in advance because uncle Robert personally goes to the market to get the freshest biggest fish head to serve. The fish u see is the head of a red snapper. The meat was juicy and fresh. The key here is fresh. It came with ladies fingers, chillies and squid ( upon request).  It was delicious!

Chilli Brinjal Tau Cheow Prawn

This dish is is fried brinjal with prawns and tau cheow ( bean paste). It was very tasty with the tau cheow giving it a  nyonya flavour to the whole mix. Very nice.

Nangka Sago

Lastly, you can’t go without dessert. To end the superb meal, we ordered the Nangka Sago. Nangka means jackfruit in Malay. This dessert had chunks of nangka coupled with coconut milk and ice shavings. Refreshing on a hot day.

Sago Gula Malacca

This is an old time favourite, sago and gula malacca. This was so good we ordered seconds. Its a very simplistic dessert with sago and gula malacca and also coconut milk. The gula malacca was smooth and oh so sweet (in a good way). I loved it!

Assam Laksa and Heh Kou

Famous Penang Char Kuey Teow

We also sampled some of their assam laksa and Penang Char Kuey Teow. It was very nice though we were overstuffed by then. It was good, and for the assam laksa you can even add your own hek kou to taste. Cool huh.

We all loved this place and will be back there for more. You can count on that

The map to 'The Wok'

The Wok Cafe

Mervyn Yeoh

26-G, Jln PJU 5/21,

The Strand Damansara,

Kota Damansara,

47810 Petaling Jaya.

012-263 5460

03-6142 7388

Open

Closed on Mondays

thewokcafe@gmail.com

www.thewokcafekl.blogspot.com

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Traditional Recipe Restaurant is known for their special hand made teared noodles (pan mee), so one afternoon we decided to give it a try. It is located in Kota Damansara, which can get quite busy especially during lunch hours. You would be quite lucky to get a parking spot just outside the restaurant, so usually we would park a little further walk.

Traditional Recipe Restaurant

The restaurant is decorated with many wooden ornaments as well as newspaper cuttings on reviews of this establishment.

Inside the Restaurant

An interesting drink that we thought we should try; sour plum coke. On a hot day, this was quite a thirst-quenching drink.

Sour plum Coke

The pan mee we ordered was of the soup form and was quite tasty. It had a simple soup base with some greens and ikan bilis. The colourful noodles were cooked well as they had good texture and held form.

Pan Mee

Teared Noodles

The Farang Teared Noodles had the same soup base and included crab sticks and minced meat as the ingredients. The noodles that they provided us with however were not hand made (as they did not have it available), nor were they anything too special. Instead, they used a pasta similar to fusilli.

Farang Teared Noodle

Besides the Teared Noodles, there were other dishes yet to be sampled, which includes Shanghai Dumplings, Lui Cha Tea Package and their Traditional Tofu.

The Decor

Traditional Recipe Restaurant

No. 12-1, Jalan PJU 5/7,

Dataran Sunway, Kota Damansara

Petaling Jaya

Non-Halal

Tel: 012 333 9781

Caliente Mexican Cosina

We have been looking for a place that served authentic Mexican food, and after asking around,one of our friends, Xiao recommended us to try this place, Caliente in Kota Damansara. (Caliente means ‘HOT’ in Spanish).

Interior of Caliente

The interior was nice and cozy, dimly litted and some nice cushy wall seats. We pretty much got the whole restaurant to ourselves cause its still very new and also we went there early as well.

Our orders that night were :-

Nachos Grande RM11.50

Grilled Beef/Chicken Buritos RM14.50

Chicken and Beef Fajitas   RM15.00

Beef Tacos Rm13.50

Chicken Enchiladas RM12.95

Checken Chimichangga RM13.95

Nachos and Salsa dip

First up was our nachos grande to kick start our mexican meal. We were very impressed. The serving was big and topped with generous serves of melted mozarella and cheddar cheese, jalepeno peppers, olives, shredded lettuces and minced meat. And when dipped into the pico de gallo sauce…Ooolala…delicious.

Beef Tacos

Next up, our order of beef tacos came arranged nicely on a plate together with a side of salsa sauce. When you are eating a taco, you must use your hand to fully enjoy the flavour. Topped with lots of lettuce, minced meat,tomatoes, onions and lots of cheeeesssee.

Grilled Chicken Buritos

The grilled chicken buritos came topped with a dollop of sour cream and cheese and also a side of mexican rice. The filling was thick juicy pieces of grilled chicken. Very tender and the flavour a perfect 10. Nice and piping hot. I was searching online about the difference between a burito and a enchilada but I couldn’t get a definite anwer. Some said that enchiladas are baked, and buritos are not, or enchiladas can be served stacked on each other or served flat?? I dunno, so if any of you have an idea, do let us know.

Combination Chicken n Beef Fajitas

The chicken fajitas came with a basket of freshly made flour tortilla wraps, a hot plate with slices of grilled chicken, beef and caramelised onions and also a plate of fresh lettuce, tomatoes and shreded cheese. Assembly of your very own combination fajitas is strictly DIY. I must add, the meat was done to the par. Very juicy and very tender, especially the beef.

The pricing is very reasonable for real mexican food. Unlike those you get in chillis/ TGIF where an order of a Fajita tower can come up to at least RM29.90. This is only half the price.

Will definitely be back here for more Mexican cuisine. We loved this place and whats more we found out the chef used to work in a Mexican restaurant in the USA for 26 years before he came back to Bolehland to start his own Mexican restaurant. A definite must for those looking for real mexican cuisine.

Caliente Mexican Cosina

Komeda Foods Sdn Bhd,

5-1, Jalan PJU 5/6,

Kota Damansara

47810 Petaling Jaya,

Selangor Malaysia

Halal

Tel/Fax : 03-61417614

Pak Li's Kopitiam

Recommended by our friend Val to check out this kopitiam. We were told the cendol here was good and cheap. So onwards we headed, to Pak Li’s Kopitiam situated in Kota Damansara.

Pak Li's interior deisgn

Very nice ambience. Like a typical kopitiam, old stools, marble tables and lots of people. Oh yes and free wifi. ( You will have to get the password from them). Looking at the menu, we realised one thing, the food and drinks here were really really reasonable. Almost half the price of what we would usually pay outside. No wonder it was packed.

Pak Li's Cendol + Gula Malacca

We ordered our cendols and it came in little glass bowls and the servings were just right for one person. Not too much and not too little. The packed shaved ice was packed in nicely into a tiny ice mountain on top of the usual cendol goodies (jagung,red beans,santan) topped with green cendol on the top. Another perk is that you get to control your own sugar intake cause they give you your own gula malacca to pour over it.

Controling our sugar intake, DIY cendol

The cendol was good and refreshing. We all loved it. If we weren’t so full we might have gone for seconds. Great place to come to unwind, have a drink and  a dessert. Plus the price is so reasonable. Our cendols only cost RM2.60 each.

So if you are in the area and feel like something cold and refreshing and cheap head on over to Pak Li’s kopitiam. We did..=)

Pak Li Kopitiam

47-1, Jalan PJU 5/11,

Dataran Sunway, Kota Damansara,

47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Halal

Tel: 03-61418608

Opening hours : Thurs – Sun 8am-1am

Fri, Sat and Public holiday 8am – 2am