Koay Teow Soup

Restaurant Soon Lee is located at Jalan Petaling 1/19, Petaling Jaya, Selangor
GPS: 3.085591, 101.646495

They sells the usual stuff as any other coffee shop but it is the Koay Teow Soup stall that draws me to the coffee shop.

The Koay Teow soup is served with sliced pork, chicken strips, springy fishball, spring onions and lots of lard (chee yau char). These days, not many stall add "chee yau char" to their Koay Teow Soup anymore but this stall still does it the authentic way. Each bowl cost only RM4.50. Yum Yum but not so yum for the cholesterol level.

Kedai Makanan Jin Man

Kedai Makanan Jin Man is located at 71, Jalan Datok Haji Harun, Taman Taynton View, Cheras, 56000 Kuala Lumpur
TEL: 603 91327269
Opening times: 5.00am to 4.00pm. Closed on Mondays.

They have branches in:

• No. 17, Jalan M 31/M, Kota Kemuning, Seksyen 31, 40460 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. TEL: 603 5122 7269
• No. 22, Jalan Equine 9C, Taman Equine 9C, Taman Equine Bandar Putra Permai, 43000 Seri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia. TEL: 603 8934 7269
• No. 23, Jalan Temenggung 3/9. Sek. 9, Bandar Mahkota Cheras, 43200 Cheras Selangor. TEL: 603 90105269

I've passed by the branch inTaynton View a few times but this is the first time I actually eat in this shop. I was told that the owner has been making fishball since 1985 and uses pure 'Ikan Parang' which are filtered 9 times to make the ultra-smooth texture.


Fried Fishcake

One of their speciality is the fried fishcake which is cooked to order. The fresh and springy fishcakes are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Served with chilli sauce and some cucumber slices. Taste so good that we had to order two plates for our party of 4.

Fish Ball and Fish Maw Soup

The fishball  soup is served with a variety of noodles and you have the option of adding fish maw.



I ordered wantan noodles to go with the fishball and fish maw soup. The fishballs are ultra smooth, crunchy and fresh.  Highly recommended that you add fish maw to the fishball soup as it makes the soup taste better.

A very simple but satisfying lunch. The total bill for our party of 4 came up to RM69.00 including drinks (iced milk tea - tong teh si).

Sentosa Corner Bukit Mertajam - Yam Rice with Salted Vegetable Pork Soup

It's been a long time since I last had yam rice with salted vegetable soup. The stall that I usually go to is in Bukilt Mertajam, Kedai Makanan & Minuman Sentosa Corner.

Their yam rice is cooked with black soya sauce and lots of yam (they usually use yam which are "sang") to give the rice a nice fragrance. The yam rice can be eaten with salted vegetable soup or stew pig trotter and intestines. My preference is with salted vegetable soup.

The salted vegetable soup is a clear saltish and sourish soup. This stall makes it with the right level of saltiness and sourness.

The main ingredient for the soup is salted vegetable (kiam chye) and is usually cooked with thinly sliced pork (sam cham bak). The other optional ingredients are pork meatballs, pig's maw, liver, kidney, blood, heart, tongue and intestine. My uncle like the dish with lots of Chinese parsley. This dish is best eaten with the special chilly paste mixed with dark soya sauce.

The stew pig trotter is cooked with dark soya sauce. They also cooked pig's intestines in the same sauce. I like the stew "hoon cheong" which is chewy and powdery, minus the smell as they cleaned it very well. Ho chiak but bad for the cholesterol!

Sentosa Corner's yam rice and salted vegetable soup is highly recommended if you are in Bukit Mertajam area.

Chea Hu

Sentosa Corner is located opposite Bukit Mertajam Medan Selera. You can also get very good pasembur (chea hu) and healthier roti canai (they use less oil to cook the roti canai) in Sentosa Corner. I heard the chicken rice is also good but I've not tried it yet.

Basil Leaf - Thai Indochinese Indulgence

Basil Leaf located at 35, Jalan Damai, Off Jalan Tun Razak, 55000 Kuala Lumpur is the venue where we adjourned for lunch after the October leadership team meeting.

Basil leaf offers several dinning spaces and the ones where we were seated was just too dark for picture taking.

We started with Mieng Kam as the appertizer. To go with rice, we had:

• banana flower with chicken salad which was unique and tasty
• grilled lamb (did not quite like the smell of the lamb)
• deep fried garoupa
• fried kailan 
• mixed seafood tom yam soup (mild but tasty) 

Overall, the food was okay but I find the taste too mild as it's catered more for Westerners.

Kiku-Zakura Japanese Restaurant

Kiku-Zakura Japanese Restaurant
Lot 1-53, Ground Floor, Tropicana City Mall,
No. 3, Jln SS 20/27, 47400 Petaling Jaya. Selangor.
Tel: 603 7728 6598
 
The Kiku-Zakura outlet in TCM is very cosy. We were seated at the Japanese style dining area.
 

Beef Katsu

My hubby ordered Beef Katsu set which came with rice, miso soup, salad and fruits. Shared some of the beef katsu but didn't like it because it's too dry and not much taste on it's own.


Sukiyaki

 I ordered Sukiyaki Set which came with rice, salad, miso soup and fruits. The sukiyaki came with lots of thinly sliced beef, white cabbage, tofu, tong ooh, onions, spring onions, carrot, mushroom and an egg. Tasty but still on the sweet side even though I've asked for less sweet.

Squid with Cucumber

Our appertizer was pickled squid and cucumber. A little soury but great as an appertizer.

Green Tea

Total bill for the evening came up to RM74.75 including cold green tea.

Sisters Dessert - Taman Megah

Sisters Dessert, a one stop stall with a wide selection of desserts that tantilizes the taste bud, is located in:
RESTAURANT MEGAH GOOD LUCK, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia,
No 1, SS24/11, Taman Megah
TEL: 012-6455807 / 016-3571036
Mon - Sun 2.00pm to 6.30pm

Sisters Dessert is a family run business. They sells a variety of tong sui...red bean soup, green bean soup, bubur pulut hitam, bubur cha cha, gandum, barley ginko and "kuay ee". They also sell economy fried bee hoon, fried kuay teow and a range of deep fried kueh...fried banana, fried nien kou, fried popiah, fried yam cake, fried fish ball, chin tui with red bean filling as well as peanut filling and yam cake.


Red Bean Soup



Yam Cake

My hubby loves their Yam Cake and Red Bean Soup.

Fried Popiah & Nien Kou



Bubur Cha Cha





I like Bubur Cha Cha, Popiah and Fried Nien Kou.

myElephant - Happy Mansion PJ

myElephant is at C-G-4 Happy Mansion, Jalan 17/13, Section 17, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

TEL: 6010 2201283

http://www.myelephant.com.my/

myElephant is located in the opposite block from 6 to 10. The place is very cozy and they serve healthy authentic Thai food.

Pandan Cooler

We ordered Pandan Cooler (RM3/glass). Very refreshing...pandan leaves (pine screw) boiled in water and served with some black seeds (don't know what it's called).

Seafood Tom Ka

The seafood tom ka is great. The soup is chock full with mushrooms, galangal, lemongrass, tomatoes and coriander. Semi sweet, cooked with a touch of coconut milk, one sip and we were hooked..."star" dish of the night.

Mixed Greens

Cannot say the same about the mix greens though.

Hom Malee + Brown Rice

Dinner is served with Jasmine Rice (Hom Malee) + Brown Rice (RM3/pax). Very healthy.
 
Total bill for the night came up to RM50.00. We will definitely come back and maybe with a bigger group so that we can try our more dishes.