Merchant's Lane @ Jalan Petaling, KL

The name of the cafe is quite interesting and I always thought is a name when i heard someone mention. ''mei zheng lin'' chinese of of Merchant's Lane. 

The cafe restaurant is situated at the second level, along the way up the stairs we see dark bright sunlight as the ceiling is transparent. 

The buildings here are long and depth inside have several different corner for customers to pick on. Outdoors, indoors, sofa tables etc.

My Minion Boy has his seat too!

I like the natural eroded walls but went there during noon, the sun is just right shinning on top of our head. Can't sit there for long.

5oz white @ RM11.00 each

There are 2 sizes in white coffee. 3oz or 5oz and you request coffee of your choice, be it latte or cappuccino. Or you may pick the iced white coffee.

Hongkie Beef Stew @ RM19.00

The beef was slow cooked for 12-hours with their cantonese style until it was so tender and just melted in mouth. The gravy is so thick and comes with strong beef aroma. Mix so well with the mash potato.

Italian Chow Mein @ RM23.00

Italian chow mein is the spaghetti agile olio fried with asian style chilli flake topped with traditional malaysian chicken rending. The chicken is generously huge and meaty. I felt the dish is too spicy for me. I can't differentiate is the rendang or chilli flake that is spicy.

Merchant's Waffle @ RM16.00

Lastly the dessert i was waiting for long, their signature waffle drizzle with the homemade caramel sauce. You get a choice of the ice cream flavour: earl grey, vanilla, kaya toast or panda coconut passionfruit & gulf melaka bits. The waffle is quite unique like eating roti jala kinds of feel, springy and soft. I like the waffle served hot and eating with the ice cream is like both cold and hot in the mouth. yummilicious.

Is usually full house especially lunch and dinner time. More to white collars during weekdays.

Merchant's Lane 美真林

150, Jalan Petaling,
50000 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 03-2022 1736

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Restoran Soon Hock 順福家鄉飯店 @ Sungai Buloh

Came across Restoran Soon Hock through a friend. The restaurant is located at Desa Aman which take the 3rd turning at the round about of Sierramas Sg Buloh. Go further in at the left side will see this 2 story building. Beware the roads are quite bumpy.

Restoran Soon Hock

The Restaurant owner ran out of the restaurant when seeing us puzzling where to park our car. He lead us to a proper space and mention that any where can be park even in front of the 2 houses next to the restaurant and opposite has a covered car park too.

Coconut @ RM4.00

I order a coconut first due to the hot weather recently. It's not sweet but very cooling with a mild coconut taste.

Steamed Tilapia - RM23

This is one of their signature dish - Ka Heong Steam Fish (家鄉蒸魚). The fish is almost 1/3 soaking in the soy soup broth with lots of sliced mushroom, to fu, tofu pok, black seaweed, spring onions, ginger, garlic and etc. The soup is sweet and taste bit like there are chinese wine added. Its quite spicy too with the chili padi in it. 

Salted Egg Bittergourd @ RM10.00

The bittergrourd is sliced super thin and deep fried with salted egg. It is perfectly crispy and aromatic taste of salted egg tasted like snacks. I can hardly feel the bitterness of the bitter gourd. It taste something like fried potato.

Fried Tofu with Pumpkin sauce @ RM12

The whole metal bowl is full of pumpkin sauce. It's like a golden treasure box. Many ''treasure'' inside besides the fried tofu, there are also generous of green peas, prawns, button mushroom, and bottom is a layer of steamed egg. I enjoy my rice with the pumpkin gravy. 

Fried paku vege with sambal belacan @ RM10.00

The paku vege match well with the sambal belacan. It is quite crunchy and smooth. 

The food portion served here is actually quite big although we order all smallest portion. Price is reasonable too despite just behind the high-end area. Total bill comes to RM55 for 3 person excluding the drinks.

Restoran Soon Hock 
順福家鄉飯店

No. 170, Batu 11, Desa Aman, Jalan Sungai Buloh,
47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor.

Tel: 03-6148 8973

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Pontian Wanton Noodles @ SS15, Subang Jaya

Pontian Wanton Noodles shop has been opening several outlets in the Klang Valley. I always feel the chinese name 笨珍 funny. I totally din't aware that they are a restaurant selling wanton noodles and laksa until one day my friend took me there for makan.

Pontian Wanton Noodle (w char siew) @ RM4.50

The noodle is top with 2 deep fried wanton, few pieces char siew and some veges. I love the deep fried wanton because it's very crispy and taste pretty well. Noodle is springy too. There are 3 types of sauces to be picked on for the noodles: original soy sauce, chili sauce and tomato sauce.

Besides, they have this pickled green chili is so sourish delicious. Recently is hard to find in normal restaurants because most of the restaurant are lazy to prepare it.

Pontian Wanton Soup

Dry noodle comes with a bowl of soup and 2 wanton in it. The soup broth is quite good and taste strong. Although the soup wanton is quite tiny but can really feel some meat in it.

Pontian Char Siew Noodle @ RM10.90

Pontian Wanton Noodle (only wanton) @ RM10.90

The wanton only noodles without char siew comes with 4 deep fried wan tan (2 extra for replacing the char siew). The wan tan meat is actually little too small piece, can't even feel it if i'm not concentrating.

Pontian Noodle (w Chicken Feet)

The chicken feet are braised perfectly with the black sauce taste. The skin is so soft and easily tear. This time i order the noodle with tomato sauce. It taste funny like just mixing with kimball tomato sauce but its quite unique and the more I eat the more I accepted the taste.

Pontian Curry Laksa @ RM10.90

Their curry laksa is rich with coconut milk and very thick broth. The taste is bit mild therefore mixing with the chili paste enhance the taste better. Inside comes with fu chuk, hard boil egg, cockles, bean sprout, and some mint sauce on top.

Red Bean @ RM10.90

Red bean is quite diluted and it comes with sago in it too. Very sweet piece of dessert.

Lime Jelly Ice @ RM10.90

This is really very refreshing. Comes with jelly and sourish lime, flavourful and cooling.

Not too bad overall. Price is cheap and reasonable. Instead of having it at those hawker stall which is so hot, may as well enjoy my meal in an air conditional shop.

Pontian Wanton Noodles

No. 15, Jalan SS2/64,

47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Tel: 03-7873 1024

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Restoran Kong Sai (广西仔) @ SS15, Subang Jaya

My ex-boss has been bring us for lunch at Kong Sai Zai quite frequently. It's located at the busiest area of SS15, hardly get a car park space there but if turn in from the back lane, Restoran Kong Sai has actually a open space car park in between 2 corner shop lots of theirs (one with zircon one without).

Quarter Chicken (lower part) @ RM16.00

Restoran Kong Sai is famous of their steamed chicken. A must to order when dine in here. They serve Village Chicken (菜园鸡), those which are more tender than the Kampung Chicken. The chicken meat is so smooth and no hard or springy at all. 

Special Sauce

One of their specialties is also on this unique sauce. Combination of spring onion, fried onions, fried oil, oyster sauce etc. It has the fragrance taste that is quite similar to ppl using ''minced ginger'' sauce.

Trotters in Vinegar (猪脚醋) @ RM12.00 (small)/ RM15.00 (medium)/ RM18.00 (large)

This is also one of the dish we will always order at Restoran Kong Sai. Their portion is big too, the picture above is just small pot. The trotters are marinated and braised till the meat is juicy with the vinegar soup. Especially the soft bone pork is so nice. I personally love the vinegar soup so much because it's not extremely sour or thick.

Fu Yu Yau Mak @ RM8.00 (small)/ RM10.00 (medium)/ RM12.00 (large)

Stir fried with spicy bean curd and garlics. It looks whitish in color and taste salty. 

Fried omelet @ RM8.00 (large)/ RM6.00 (small)

The omelet was nicely fried. It's quite thick too with the generous of prawns, red chill, onions, spring onions, dry radish. Its simply nice with the crunchy dry radish and crispy outer layer. I think i can finish up the whole plate by myself.

Double Boiled Soup @ RM5.00 each

They are quite famous and particular with their boiled soup 炖汤. This time we order the watercress and old cucumber soup. Both soup tasted so rich and thick. It comes with a big bowl, huge portion for a pax. Each bowl can actually divided into small 5 bowls. Worth for sharing.

Restoran Kong Sai

No. 48, SS 15/4C,
47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor.

Tel: 019-384 2922

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Uncle Seng Fresh Own Made Noodles @ SS15, Subang

Almost everyone in Subang Jaya knows about Uncle Seng noodle. The noodle was fresh own-made by the owner named Uncle Seng. Introduced by a Friend to have a try here. The shop is non-air conditional but will still be crowded with customers especially during lunch hours. You will need to share tables with others. Almost 80% are the colleague students nearby.

Uncle Seng, Fresh Own Made Noodle

Green Chili and Special Chili Sauce

One of the specialities here that Uncle Seng makes their home-made red chill sauce too. I saw ppl pour almost the whole noodle turns real red. A little spicy and tasted like sambal.

Original Home-Made Noodle @ RM4.50

It looks fair and not attractive, but once you taste it, will feel totally different. The noodle is springy texture like ''ramen''. It can be eaten like this or add on with the vinegar green chili and red chili sauce.

Wanton Soup

The wanton noodle comes with a bowl of generous wanton from Uncle Seng, there are almost 7 wantons in it. I can really taste and bite the pork meat too, especially the wanton skin is smooth.

Curry Chicken Noodle @ RM5.50

The curry sauce is thick and rich of taste. The chicken is quite tender too. Uncle Seng noodle mixed well with the curry sauce. 

Chicken Feet & Mushroom Noodle @ RM5.50

The chicken feet and mushrooms are well marinated with the soy sauce, very flavourful.

The food here is quite cheap at only RM4.50 for a normal noodle and RM5.50 for special ingredient such as curry chicken, mushroom chicken leg, mix of char siew and wanton etc. Further, the food portion here is huge too!!

Uncle Seng (Fresh Own Made Noodles)

No. 68, Jalan SS 15/4B,
47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor.

Closed on Monday

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Restoran LYJ 李雄記冷氣酒家 @ Kg Baru, Sungai Buloh

A famous restaurant at Sg Buloh new village. Many functions like Wedding, Annual dinner held here, as they have an extra outlet next door to cater the larger group of ppl.

Tea Pot Soup @ RM26.00

I find this very special. Especially this is a herbal soup with pork. Is kind of a clear soup but contains strong herbal taste.

Standing Roast Chicken @ RM44.00

This is one of their signature dish - Stand roasted chicken. Yes is a whole chicken serve on the table. This chicken is to be tear off ourselves to eat. There are scissors and plastic gloves provided. But if you are lazy, they can chopped into pieces for you like the above pic. The chicken roasted just nice and juicy. I love the crispy skin with roasted aroma. Its a kampung chicken but still not very hard to bite.

Sour plum and Chilli Sauce for the chicken

Stir fry Kangkung with garlic @ RM13.00

Lala with Ginger @ RM25.00

The lala is quite huge and sweet. I love the ginger sauce too, good to serve with rice.

Claypot beancurd @ RM14.00

Brown Rice @ RM1.50

Overall food here is nice with reasonable price for family and friends gathering.

Restoran LYJ 

李雄記冷氣酒家

PT 11, Jalan Perkhidmatan, Kampung Baru,

47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor.

Tel: 03-6140 2678

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Restaurant Hing Kee 興福美食之家 @ Bayu Tinggi, Klang

Restaurant Hing Kee located at one of a shoplot in Batu Unjur Klang. Something special here is that their Main Chef sits while cooking. This is because the chef is a handicapped sitting on a wheel chair. I really salute and appreciate his attitude and cooking. Furthermore, the food are delicious.

Minced Meat Noodle @ RM9.00

This is one of the signature dish in the restaurant. The sang mee is rinsed and stir up with the dark black sauce. Topped with a blanket of minced meat sauce and fresh spring onions. The noodle is quite springy chewy but is mild to eat alone. Best to serve it with the minced meat.

Hin Hwa Birthday Noodle @ RM12.00

Hin Hwa is actually the name of a place. The birthday noodle is nice fried with mushroom, marinated minced meat, onions, egg, carrots and vegetables. Personally feel the marinated minced meat is very special. It is soft and tender like has been quoted with cooking flour makes it very smooth. The fragrance of the ''wok hey'' is super strong that makes the dish so lively. Very addictive !

House Special Chilli Sauce

The house special chilli sauce. It was so fresh greenish in colour, which is grind til very thick and sticky. The taste is bit sourish and spicy that enrich the taste of good.

Claypot Pork Ribs with Yam @ RM15.00

The claypot came sizzling and boiling with the sauce. There are quite a number of pork ribs and cutlets of yam in it. The gravy is getting thicker while we eat as the yam is slowly melting. I can finish my white rice with this gravy. Like eating the yam cubes that taste fresh and crunchy. The pork ribs is tender and bit chewy, but somehow taste like chicken meat to me.

Restaurant Hing Kee 興福美食之家

No.4, Lorong Bayu Tinggi, 1C/K5,

Batu Unjur, 41200 Klang.

Tel: 019-204 8988

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Bali Hai Seafood Village @ Sunsuria Avenue, Kota Damansara

Bali Hai Seafood Village is just open at Sunsuria, Kota Damansara. It is just next to the Tune Hotel. A big spacious building with car park available. I like their slogan on the big sign board. 'If It Swims, We Have". 

There are a huge space of all the aquariums of fresh seafood, from fishes, lobster, scallops, abalone, crabs etc. All are priced by weight.

 Fresh Soon Hock @ RM82.00

We get a fresh lively soon hock for steam. I wonder why always soon hock fish looks ugly after steamed, the skin will crack and it looks like being eaten. Despite the look, the fish is really tasty. The meat is so fresh that taste so smooth like crab meat. 

Four Season Vegetables @ RM18.00

It's a mix fried of petai, lotus, long beans, and four angled bean with sambal belacan. Quite spicy with the sambal. I left out petai because i don't like the taste, its smelly to me. Only dad loves it. The lotus and four angled bean are crunchy, fresh to munch. Overall a very green and healthy dish.

Tofu with Abalone sauce @ RM15.00

The waiter claimed that the tofu is their in-house made tofu and best goes with the abalone sauce. The taste is really as simple too. Disappointed with the abalone sauce that only taste salty till the max. At last we pour away the abalone sauce aside and eat the tofu itself. 

Steamed flower crab with egg @ RM38.00

The flower crab is lively pick from the tank too. Steamed with chinese wine and egg. The fragrance smells great when served. The meat is smooth and fresh but quite tasteless. Lack of natural seafood 'sweet' at all. Too bad, they don't have the female crab that night, no crab egg yolk. If not it might be more tastier. Luckily the steamed egg along is smooth with some seafood taste. I actually finish most of the egg.

The food quite pricey but something special that you can pick your own seafood. Total bill that night was RM178.00 for 3 pax. 

Bali Hai Seafood Village

Sunsuria Avenue, Persiaran Mohagani,

PJU 5, Kota Damansara,

47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Website: http://www.balihaiseafood.com/

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