Some time back, we went for dinner with one of our old family friends who are vegetarians. Hence we ended up eating at this restaurant, Kuan Yin Vegetarian Restaurant on one rainy evening. That day this place was packed, in fact I think every day its pretty much packed as I realised there’s not many proper chinese vegetarian restaurants here in KL, unless i’m not looking hard enough. The only other vegetarian place I know is this other place in Damansara Uptown ( can’t recall the name).

First dish out was this deep fried mushrooms in oatmeal. This is the usual style they do with prawns, the oatmeal nestum prawns, but since this is vegetarian they substituted the prawns with mushrooms. I absolutely loved this dish. At first I was abit skeptical, how can it ever taste the same. But I was wrong, it tasted even better so crunch and very very tasty.

Next we had  claypot curry fish. The fish was made from tau fu with the black lining supposedly the fish skin made from seaweed. I’m always so fascinated how they can come up with ways to make the meat look like the real thing. There was also alot of ladies fingers, long beans and potatoes in this dish. The curry was very thick, and I found it a bit too spicy for myself.

Another dish was a hearbal vegetable dish that also came in a claypot. It had mushrooms that were made to resemble pieces of chicken. Other things in the broth were black fungus, mushrooms, ginger , dates and tong qui ( a kind of chinese herb). Went pretty well when eaten with rice.

Stewed pork with long beans were next on the menu. The pork was made from fu chok (beancurd sheets) and tau fu, carefully layered together to look like 3 layered pork. Again, I was very fascinated. Looks like the real thing, though, taste, well..wasn’t the real thing, but still pretty tasty.

Lastly, we had spinach soup,that was topped with ‘luncheon meat’ and kei ji. Not sure what the luncheon meat was made of, I’m thinking it was made from starch. But it looked very real. The spinach soup was quite ordinary, tasted similar to what I usually  have a typical chinese restaurant.

All in all, a very interesting experience eating vegetarian chinese food. It just amazes me at how they can come out with different ‘meat’dishes that looks exactly like the real thing. And the taste was pretty much there as well, but of course, nothing beats eating the real thing.

Kuan Yin Vegetarian Restaurant

No. 1804, Jalan 17/29,

46400 Petaling Jaya,

Selangor Darul Ehsan

Tel: 03 7957 4528

Opening times : 11am  – 3pm ; 6pm – 10pm

Vegetarian

Branches

Great Nature Enterprise

194D &E, Jalan Sungai Putus,

Off Jalan Batu Belah,

41050 Klang,

Selangor

Tel: 03 33446107

Bak Kut Teh (literally translated to “meat bone tea”) originated from Klang and has since spread throughout the country as well as to other countries. A friend of mine made a trip back from overseas and we decided to make the trip all the way to Klang to have brunch. This is one of his favourite places to have Bak Kut Teh, which was served in a claypot.

Teluk Pulai Bak Kut Teh

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The mandarin words translates to the number of competitions he won

As always, every chinese new year my family will have a family reunion dinner at a designated chinese restaraurant. This time round, my uncle was the one who decided on the place and we found ourselves in the heart of Klang in Noble House Seafood restaurant.

The wall is covered in certificates, the medals were on another wall

One should not mess with the chef in this restaurant. Check out the amount of certificates and medals on the wall. It says so on the name card, the different competitions he has won, but my primary school level chinese doesn’t help much in translating what it means. Those chinese readers out there can see and interpret it for themselves.

They had 3 different Chinese new year set dinners that night. We went for set B and our orders are as below.

Prosperity Salmon Yee Sang

Noble House Five Combination Special

Braised Shark Fin Soup with Dried Scallop & Seafood

Steamed Fresh Cod Fish

Tong Poh & Crispy Chicken with Almond

Stewed ‘ Fatt Choy’, Oyster & Abalone Slice

Chef’s Speciality Baked Glutinuous Rice

Fried Ice Cream

Total cost Rm538

Prosperity Salmon Yee Sang

The salmon yee sang was ok, but I thought that the salmon slices used were not fresh cause it had a very fishy taste.

Nobel House Five Combination Special

I loved this dish. The ‘fish’ you see is not only for decoration but its made of yam. Inside the ‘fish’, is a medley of mixed vegetables and mushroom. Very interesting presentation. The rest of the combination specials were really tasty.

Braised Shark Fin Soup with Dried Scallop & Seafood

The shark fin soup was alright, alot of crab meat but abit too much on the starchy side.

Steamed Fresh Cod Fish

This was one of my favourite dishes. The fish was very fresh,  and tender (if you can actually use that word to describe a fish). It was superb.

Tong Poh & Crispy Chicken with Almond

This dish had a little twist to it. The tong poh yuk was good, tender, but you see the slice chicken skin around it. When you flip the skin over, you’ll see its been topped with almond slices and sesame seeds.It tasted like a savoury biscuit when eating it. Nice to have something different.

Stewed ' Fatt Choy', Oyster & Abalone Slice

Oooo..I love the abalone on this dish. I ate so much. I always look forward to this dish in chinese new year. Normally this dish comes with stewed chinese mushrooms, but the chef substituted the mushrooms for oysters. Yum.

Chef’s Speciality Baked Glutinuous Rice

At this point, I was going to explode with all the good food. But I managed to squeeze in a few mouthfuls of this goodness. There is a reason why its called the chef’s speciality. De-li-cious or what they say in cantonese ‘hou sek’!

Fried Ice Cream

Lastly, our desserts was fried ice cream. The were huge, as you can see from the pic above. The ice cream they used was the normal local ice cream, but it was ok. Nice end to a good meal.

All in all, this is a good place to visit for chinese new year reunion dinners. The price is fairly reasonable, or even considered cheap at RM53.80 per person. Overall the food was good, and also had some good presentations. Its worth considering a try.

Map to get there- Good Luck!

Noble House Seafood Restaurant

No.5, Jln Temoh,

41400 Klang,

Selangor

Cuisine: Chinese

Non-Halal

Tel: 03-33430927

Fax:03-33420927

www.nobleseafood.com