Restoran Harbour Steamboat @ Seri Petaling

This was my first time having a meal at Harbour Steamboat. Reservation prior to meal is recommended, as they are most of the time packed with customers (that is what I heard).

The brightly litted signboard of 'Harbour'

Though the restaurant was all packed with people, like the atmosphere in here. Felt like I was in a restaurant in Hong Kong. The other attraction was of course its all filled up 'autographed' wall, with any kinda of message one could think of.

Customers could pen down just about any message on the wall

And the had some of the really interesting sauce - dried chili prawn, fermented beancurd and homemade chilli sauce.

Sauces available

For a start, we ordered the fried tau fu pok. This was one the crunchiest tau fu pok I've tried.

Fried Tau Fu Pok. Price-RM4

All ingredients for the steamboat is based on ala carte order. Thus ordered sotong ball, prawn ball, fish ball - 3 kinds of balls... ;-) All fairly big size and with all the meatball being pounded, it has a really smooth texture on the outside, and has the very 'bouncy' feeling on the inside.

8 meatball in each plate. Fish:Price-RM6, Prawn:RM10, Sotong: Price-RM10

We also ordered pork slices, vege, dumpling.

Everything just look so good

We ordered the papaya fungus soup which cost RM10 per bowl. With big chunks of pork being used, white fungus, wolfberries, and papaya, this broth of soup was thick and has the original sweetness that came from all this ingredients used.

The bowl of steamboat

We ordered another version of tau fu pok that came with fish paste. Was crunchy and smell so good.

Think its called 'Tie Won' Price-RM4

My bro, his son and wife

My parents and I

After trying, now I know why they have such a crowd at their restaurant. Good tasting food, with offering that is different from other steamboat places. ^-^

Restoran Harbour Steamboat
(same row as Ipoh Chicken rice shop Seri Petaling outlet)
19, GF, Jalan 13/149L,
Seri Petaling,
57000 KL
Tel : 03-9059 4353

Business Hours :
6pm-11pm daily

Port Village @ Tg.Harapan, Klang

Suan and her family made a trip to Klang last weekend. Our interrupted bowling session (due to problem with the pins) had us ended the session late. And our legs were all wobbly by the time we got to the lunch place.

Spotted a monitor lizard, having its walk during the hot afternoon

And sorry la, to get to this Port Village, need to still walk through this path to get there. Despite our wobbly legs, we had to push ourselves to walk few steps faster...

Wooden path to get to the restaurant

As soon as David spotted 'food', he immediately grabbed it. Crackers also can do la... But, too bad, after trying the crackers, felt it doesn't taste too good, as after frying, it still has the sides that were still 'hard'.

David - "My stomach is growling badly. No kidding!"

It was late by the time we got there, so there were lesser crowd. By the time we got there, the crabs were sold out.

The restaurant

A view from the restaurant

We ordered the fried mee hoon with lala. It was fragrant enough, and combined with the mini size lala, we just like the overall taste of this.

Fried meehoon with lala. Price-RM15

Then came the mantis shrimp. We initially wanted to order salted mantis shrimp that came with the shell, however it was sold out. Thus ordered this 'kam-heong' style. Though it was fragrant, the mantis shrimp was coated with quite a fair bit of batter, which made it crispy - HOWEVER, the overall texture was really hard and a little too chewy, and . Could hardly taste the mantis shrimp.

Mantis Shrimp Kung Po Style. Price-RM18

Ordered their specialty - taufoo. This was the favorite amongst us. Fried till golden brown, this combining taufoo and minced seafood + minced carrot, resulted in really good tasting taufoo. The texture was just nice - a little like fish cake.

Fried taufoo. Price-Rm12

As for the fried egg with oyster, thought the batter was a little too thick. And somehow, I didn't liked this.

Fried Egg with Oyster. Price-RM20

The 'hainan' noodle was the last to be served. It tasted a little sourish - using thick mee, fried with cucumber, onion, egg, chicken meat, and fish cake. This would have tasted much better, if it wasn't for this plate of noodle has gotten cold, by the time we ate it.

Hainan Noodle. Price-RM10

We overall had a satisfying lunch. As I drive to work from Klang to D'sara Heights, including some days during weekend to meet up with friends, so its nice that for a change, friends came over to Klang. ^-^

Me, Suan and David (he thought he wasn't in the picture.. hehe)

Here's my earlier blog on Port Village .

Restaurant Port Village Seafood
LMS A 12800, Tg.Harapan,
42000 Pelabuhan Klang
Tel : 03-3176 4530

Business hours :
11.30am-3pm, 5pm-11pm (Mon-Fri)
11.30am-11pm (Sat-Sun)

The Smokehouse @ Tanah Rata, Camerons

When come to eating scone, I have often been told that The Smokehouse at Camerons serve the best scone. Having tried its scone close to 10 years ago, I can hardly remember the taste. I had the chance to revive the feeling while I was there 2 weeks ago.

One will be able to spot The Smokehouse when driving through Tanah Rata. Once stepped down from the car, you are surrounded by this really lovely garden, and I love this 'board' placed on 1 of the wall. 'A distant rumour of a long forgotten garden..... Thank the almighty for all things beautiful! Be happy!'

A little about 'The Smokehouse'

Once we stepped in this English Tudor style hotel built in 1939, it is truly the ultimate colonial ambiance. Love it here... and us, wouldn't want to waste any time, headed straight to snap snap snap pictures of us, at as many corners possible, of this place.

Relaxing ambiance

Peaceful afternoon - window overlooking the garden

What could be a better weekend, that enjoying the traditional Devonshire Cream Tea set, in the lush gardens of The Smokehouse. (There is another branch that has opened at One Bangsar recently, and I have yet to try)

The garden at The Smokehouse

With such a lovely garden, we could almost ignore the rusty chair, table and swing. Keke..

Rusty chair

We opted for the Devonshire Cream Tea set - Devonshire cream tea refers to tea taken with combination of scones, clotted cream / whipped cream, and jam (according to Devon method, its jam over the cream). Right method of eating is by splitting the scone in 2, cover each 1/2 with cream, and then add strawberry jam on top.

The freshly baked scones .
Price-RM25 (2 scones, pot of tea, cream and jam - good for 1 person)

The homemade strawberry preserve and cream

I just love this scone that was oven baked till golden brown. It was almost a perfect scone that has a crisp exterior with an interior that was light and fluffy with a rich buttery flavor.

Yummy-licious

Have a cuppa tea, at the garden. My perfect afternoon!!

The Smokehouse
By The Golf Course
PO Box No 77 Tanah Rata,
39000 Cameron Highlands
Tel : 605-4911 215

The Shepherdoo @ Centro, Klang

After trying out Shepherdoo with Remus few months ago (earlier blog), brought Sis, Qi and Yao for lunch here. I just can't wait to try out what else is good here.

Seated inside

While waiting for the 2 good-looking chef to prepare our order, got the 2 angels - Qi and Yao to pose for the camera.

Qi, promoting The Shepherdoo. Doesn't she look adorable?

After posing inside the restaurant, we then adjourned outside for more shots. Qi and Yao are such grown up girls, and they are so good in posing nowadays (with some cheeky shots).

Some of the shots taken the other day

Yao, Me and Qi

Wen, the proud mummy

After the few shots, our meal were ready to be served. The spaghetti by the name of 'Songs of The Sea' has such a supreme flavour. Seafood cooked with chef made flavored red sauce has a real pleasing taste, with the thickness of tomato juice, slight sourish, and truly fragrant. It also has generous portion of seafood - mussels, prawns, squid... We just loved this.

Spaghetti - 'Songs of The Sea'. Price-RM23.90

The other order we had that got we 'ooh and ah' from the very first bite was the Pizza de Hawai. Not too big a size, which will made one appreciate every bite of these slices of pizza. It combined ingredients which included turkey ham, caramelized onions, pineapple slices, red sauce, mozzarella cheese and oregano. Love the cheesiness of the pizza, and the very thin slice of the base - crispy!!!

Pizza de Hawai. Price-RM14.80

Since we still had some space in our stomach for more food, can't resist but to order additional food - chose the Tapas Sharing Platter. It combined portions of chicken quesadillas, fried squid, fried fish and chicken wings.Maybe it was us that was feeling full later on, but we preferred the first 2 orders earlier.
This Tapas Sharing Platter is a good choice for one to have a taste of, a little of everything, from its appetizer list of menu (apart from this 4 items, they have more appetizer list in their menu).

Tapas Sharing Platter. Price-RM28.90

Glad to have discovered this restaurant. We don't need to travel out of Klang for good Western food anymore. Yippee!

This restaurant is run by a really young team, and again to mention, the chefs are young and good looking. They look even more charming as they have this real passionate look while preparing the food ^-^

The Shepherdoo
Entrance Forecount,
Ground Floor,
Centro Mall,
Klang

Business Hours :
11.30am till between 12mn-1am, daily

Fern Nyonya @ Tanah Rata, Camerons

With the cooling night weather, ideally we would like some hot soupy stuff to fill up our stomach. Going around looking for dinner place isn't too difficult in Camerons, especially if one is looking for steamboat. Reminds me of Klang and Kepong ^-^... Since the claimed famous steamboat restaurant near Brinchang was totally packed, we drove to Tanah Rata, for other options.

Decided to try Fern Nyonya restaurant - that serves steamboat, chinese, western, and nyonya food. Any food you want, seems to be available here.

The food here are halal, however, it doesn't carry Halal logo, due to restriction of not being able to sell alcohol.

The 2-floors restaurant from the outside

We had the choice of chicken soup base at RM13 per head, tom yam soup base at RM14 per head, and combination of both at RM15 per head.

With a list of 14 items within the set per head, the portion was in fact a lot. It combines sliced chicken, fish, prawn, cuttlefish, chikuwa, fishball, beancurd, beancurd strips, eggs, mee, vermicelli, fresh mushroom and up to 4 kinds of vege. How could we finish all this man!

Everything was just so fresh

Meat on top of vege

I must say that both the soup broth tasted really good, and good thing is, we didn't t feel thirsty after drinking the soup. Yummy.

Combining freshness of the ingredients, the tasty soup broth, nice weather, and nice companion the other night, I had a one good dinner. ^-^

Doesn't this pot of steamboat mouthwatering??

I would definitely return to have dinner here again, during my next visit to Camerons.

Restoran Fern Nyonya
(behind Agro Bank, same row as Maybank)
78A-D, Persiaran Camellia 4,
39000 Tanah Rata,
Cameron Highlands, Pahang
Tel : 05-491 5891, 491 4891

URL : www.rfn.cameronhighlands.com

Buah Todi @ Camerons

The loads of sea coconut at this stall caught our eyes when we drove pass, from Kea Farm towards Brinchang. Thus, decided to stop our car on the way back, to check it out.

Stalls along the road

The boss had quite a number of customers, some whom were as curious as us. Asking what is that... Upon clarifying with the boss, this is actually called Buah Todi, and the supply came from Ipoh.

First thing we asked 'how much', and the price actually range from RM5-RM18, depending on size.

The Buah Todi in different sizes

Upon choosing our Buah Todi, the boss slowly peeled open the Buah Todi. He was in fact real bubbly, and reminded us of Chef Ismail.

"Huh, potong macam ini.. (cut like this)"

The Buah Todi has 3 parts to it. Scoop over the flesh, and there will be some juice inside, which tasted very mild. Its texture is like sea coconut. Refreshing to drink this in the cool weather.

Its benefits include it having cooling effect, and works best for those having sore throat.

Damansara Village Steamboat @ Damansara

Kent recommended me this place upon having dinner here, saying it serve good food, and they ordered all the expensive stuff, but paid a rather reasonable price for it.

An MSN chat with YK, led me and some of my ex-college mate to dinner at Damansara Village. Before that, checked out their blog , and wow, they really have lots of varieties food served here. Seems like Patrick Teoh is the man behind this restaurant.

It was raining the other night- what an appropriate night for steamboat.

Airy restaurant

We ordered the steamboat set, priced at RM119, and opted for the herbal soup as the base, at a charge of RM12. The set came with lots of fishball, clams, mussels, abalone slice, fresh tiger prawns, crabs and slices of fresh fish. I would say the set is reasonably priced, in return to what came in the set. Overall, the herbal soup really tasted pure, with thick herbal aroma.

Part of steamboat set, and additional order of beef slice, fried wantan, wrapped chicken, and fish cake

The seafood below was extremely fresh - especially the prawn. We didn't know it was actually still alive when served on plate, and while waiting for the pot of steamboat to boil, few prawns 'jumped' out from the plate, and had us the girls screaming - freshness proven.

Extremely fresh seafood

The soup broth was sweet, and after few rounds of adding in the ingredients, the soup got even sweeter.

Overall, we were satisfied with the steamboat - and steamboat is only 1 of the specialty served here, and there are a lot of other dishes available for ordering. The side order - fish cake was only so so, as the fishcake skin became soggy when served.

The 5 of us - ex PJ Stamford students - and Chris, being the last to arrive the other night, after attending to problematic TM matters, generously picked up the bill. Arigato Chris..

Its so good to catch up, after so long... and somehow, felt we still look the same.. Well, A-L-M-O-S-T'..hehe.

Standing, from L-R : Yao Khoon, Chris
Seated, from L-R : Audrey, Me, Cath

Here's how to get there :

Damansara Village
1067, Jalan Jenjarum,
Kg. Sg. Kayu Araa,
off Jalan SS23/10,
47400 PJ
Tel : 03-7803 1832

Business days : 7 nights a week (dinner only)