Nyonya Restaurant is one of the oldest Nyonya restaurant in the Klang Valley and since 1974, they have continually maintained the standard that has shown through their regular customer base that keeps returning for more.

This is the Udang Fried Assam Koh. Unfortunately, my allergies hindered me from trying what looked to be a delicious dish. Under the crisp fried outer skin of the prawns looked to be the sumptuous white meat of the prawns.

The Kangkong Belacan was also quite tasty. Fresh ingredients are the key to a delicious dish!

The Curry Kapitan is an adaptation of Indian chicken curry with a Nyonya twist. During the times of the straits settlement, Kapitan was a name given to appointed Chinese Chiefs, and with that, this dish would be fit for a general.

The Honey Softshell Crab was delightful with the lightly drizzled sauce over the top and soft but crisp batter. Some of the pieces were however more batter than crab, but still an enjoyable dish.

For desserts, we tried the Cendol and Bubur Cha Cha. I found the shaved ice in the cendol dessert to be too coarse, but it is always nice to finish off the meal with something sweet.

Nyonya Restaurant

52 Jalan SS2/24

SEA Park

47300 Petaling Jaya

Tel: +60 3 78759709

Halal

Opening Hours: Monday – Friday      1130am – 3pm, 6pm – 930pm

Saturday & Sunday 1130am – 3pm, 530pm – 10pm

What can RM2.30 buy? Well, for that small price, you can get a nice bowl of Ice Kacang! Here at the Wai Sik Kai, there’s a variety of choices of meals, from porridge to fish head to char kway teow like the one below:

The Ice Kacang is oh-so-sumptuous. Although it melted rather quickly in the heat, it was refreshing nonetheless. Under the heap of ice was an assortment of goodies such as red beans, corn and jelly cubes topped off with syrup, gula melaka and evaporated milk.

Ice Kacang @ Stall 41

Wai Sik Kai SS2 Petaling Jaya

Calling all pork lovers!! Yes, you heard right, Sanbanto cafe in SS2 caters to the pork lovers tastebuds, serving ONLY pork at this humble little place. Not jus any normal pork, but premium pork for that matter which is hormone free. How do we know this? Because we were lucky enough to be invited for a food tasting to this cafe one night, and we had a good chat with the owner Becky on matters strictly pork.

This family owned restaurant opened not long ago. This cafe not only serves food, but also doubles up as butchery. The front of their shop is a meat display area, where you can get different cuts of pork.

The pork is delicately cut in a cold room at the back which is maintained at  a temperature of 0-4C which keeps it fresh and prevents them from smell. Its so cold that you have to wear a jacket while inside as you can see from the picture. (more…)

‘SMELLS LIKE HELL TASTES LIKE HEAVEN’ Yes you read it right. Recently, the new trend in Durian sessions are all you can eat durians and where else to find it at none other in ss2. There are quite a few stalls selling durian there as we found out while paying a trip there recently.

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This is a decent Italian restaurant with rather affordable prices. Pizzeria Bella Italia makes some good pizzas in this suburb that is packed with all sorts of restaurants. It is a simple restaurant with friendly service which attracts quite a few of the local crowd.

Pizzeria Bella Italia

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Some friends of Feedmelah.com joined us out for dinner a while back and it was left up to me to decide where to go. I was limited to choosing Chinese local food, so without too much hesitation, I chose New Paris, SS2.

Not because I haven’t been there before, but I thought it would be good to blog about the place as we’ve not done that yet. And the food there is fast and nice.

For the 6 of us, I ordered 5 dishes.

A great simple dish with a little kick.

First off was my favourite, the 4 style fried vegetables (This is what it translates to in English) and it consists of long beans, eggplant, petai and 4 angled beans all of it fried with belacan and also with some dried mini shrimps too, I think.

The combination works out just right, with the crunchy long beans, petai and 4 angled beans mixing well with the slightly softer egg plant. The belacan gave it a nice salty and spicy kick too.

Potato leaves... really.

As a second plate of roughage vegetables, we ordered potato leaves, blanched and lightly fried in soya sauce and garlic. The combination of the garlic and the petai from the vegetables above make chewing gum an after-dinner must. Haha.

Pork knuckle, fat, meaty and fried to perfection.

Marmite pork ribs. Tender on the inside. Tangy on the outside.

Their house speciality tofu. Covered in minced meat, fried and served with garnishing.

As for the meat dishes, we ordered deep fried pork knuckle (that came with a side of pepper sauce), pork ribs in marmite (pai kwat wong) and their speciality tofu, which was covered in minced meat and a spoon.

Rice is nice.

Something like a Thai chili sauce.

Of course everything was accompanied with rice and the house chili sauce.

Some people may say that the place is too commercialized and that the meal is too hectic. Kinda like chinese fast food.

You don't hear me complaining. I love it.

New Paris

New Paris Restaurant (formerly Paris Restaurant)

62, 64, 66 Jalan SS2/72,

47300 Petaling Jaya

Non-halal

Tel: 03-79559180, 03-7955 0186

We paid a visit to the night market (pasar malam) in SS2 recently and I just went about taking shots of the different foods and sights there were to be seen in the area.This pasar malam is held rain or shine every Monday night.

The stalls are on top of the parking bays, so where do I park?

Although parking is always a problem when it comes to pasar malams (no matter what part of town you are in), it’s usually quite an experience. Not many other places would you be able to get the commotion of a market, but in the middle of the night. As many of us work during the day, the novelty of going to the morning market (although it’s probably been 10 years since I’ve been to one) like what our mum’s do, is lost to us. The closest we can get is probably a pasar malam.

Many other countries in our part of Asia do practice night markets, but I don’t think they do it quite like Malaysia does. You have to remember, our night markets can be found in different locations, depending on the day of the week, that way, more people experience it and on a more regular basis. They also sell everything under the moon, from utensils, to cakes, to fruits, meat and even exotic things (like frog legs).

Like I said, utensils.

I would like to share with you all the sights, sounds and smells of the market place, but I only brought my camera, so you’ll have to imagine the other two in your head. If it helps, it sounded like people and cars and it smelled like food, road, people and cars. Now look at the pictures and imagine the rest:

Jelly of all shapes and sizes.

Different types of herbal tea

Homemade honeys, or is it honies?

Trying to navigate through a maze of fake T-shirts

Sour plums? I can feel my cheeks sucking in just by looking at them.

What are you 'loking' at? (get it?) - Lok Lok-

Fried beehoon and dumpling, good for breakfast the next morning

Corn on the cob.

Apong Balik,a traditional Malay pancake which is a combination of flour with crushed peanuts,corn and butter fillings.Tastes great.

Night fish.

Fruits galore

Huge slabs of deep fried chicken… mmm…originated from Taiwan

More fruits galore.

Tong Sui and Mango Dessert

Would anybody really buy a cake from a pasar malam?

Chee Cheong Fun. This one is slightly different it has har gou (some prawn thingy) and chopped turnips.

‘10 sen pak’ thats what I call them. But now, i guess it’ll have to be ’50sen pak’ since the price has increased. This is a thinner version of the fluffy slice of goodness, ‘apong balik’ except that this one has no filling.

Fried Lobak. This is a popular shop as there is always a long line at this stall.

Pasar Malam, SS2

SS2 main square, on the roads around Wai Sik Kai Hawker Center

Monday Nights

Cuisine: Various

Halal and Non Halal

Parking: Random.

The other day I went for some wholesome bak kut teh for lunch with my parents in SS3. The place we usually go to is located right next to quite a large Indian temple in a small row of shop lots. Opposite the road is a block of blue colored low cost apartments.

That’s the best description of the location I can give, sorry… But if you can recognize the temple location based on the picture above, then you’ll know where I’m talking about.

The place is called ‘Ah Sang Bak Kut Teh’ and is usually quite full as we go there on Saturday lunch times. It’s so full that they usually run out of Yau Char Kuey (the fried dough thing) when we get there, so we actually bring our own (sounds cheap I know, but it’s a necessity). We even borrow some scissors from them and cut it for ourselves to eat. They don’t mind since they’re out of stock anyway.

I think the shop is run by a small family and most of the cooking goes on in front of the shop, where all the ba kut teh is cooked, the rice prepared and the soup is made. We ordered a pot of ‘just meat’ for 3, some tau hu pok (tofu puffs), a bowl of yau char kuey (we brought our own in case as well) and some vegetables.

This bak kut teh is the dark coloured soup base one that me and my family like, not the lighter based soups that other shops sell, and was extremely full of flavour. The best feeling has to be when you dip the little yau char kuey slices into the soup and eat it. It’s crunchy on the outside, but soft doughy goodness on the inside and it has soaked up all the flavor of the soup. Mmmmm…..

The pork was soft and tender and because they put so many bones into the soup base, the flavour was strong enough so that you could taste it all the way through the meat.

The board above our head said that it should cost RM10.50 per person including rice and Chinese tea, but we didn’t get any Chinese tea served to us. But it did end up costing RM45 for everything, including drinks, so I guess that was roughly correct.

Ask me again where it is if you want to go there and I could probably get you some better directions from my parents.

Ah Sang Bak Kut Teh

SS3 (Next to the Indian temple)

Cuisine: Chinese – Bak Kut Teh

Non Halal

Opening hours: Lunch only I think.