Restoran Ping Wah @ Paramount Garden, Petaling Jaya

I remembered going to this Hainanese restaurant about 10 years ago, and suggested my colleagues to come here for lunch, since Paramount is one of the convenient location for us. . 

Simple, old restaurant yet keeps you coming back 

I barely remembered what I had previously, but I remembered it was good taste of home-cooked food. As one stepped in, one would realized there's nothing fancy about the restaurant but plain simplicity. The service was certainly one of the quickest that I've experienced in a restaurant.  

For choice of vegetables, we went with the option recommended which was the Kailan with Salted Fish. It was indeed one of the best I've tried. The Kailan was so fresh, and tasted crunchy, has strong wok-hei and good amount of salted fish within. 

Kailan with Salted Fish. Price-RM15

I'm pretty fascinated by how this fried egg was made. It was made with layers of egg white with choy pou ie. preserved radish. The egg were so soft and as we cut through, the raw egg yolk that tops it, melts through the egg. Yummy.. I can finish this all by myself. 

 Choy Pou Egg.  Price-RM15

The Threadfin Fish @ Ma Yau, was deep fried and texture of skin was so crispy. The simple soya sauce with oil was used as seasoning, and the freshness of the fish was apparent. The thinly fried sliced shredded ginger gave it extra ummph. 

 Mayau Fish.  Price-RM27

Potatoes is one of my favorite food.They sliced it thinly and braised it with sliced pork - the potatoes was just nice - soft enough, and the sauce was just perfect to go with our rice. The taste was tad sweet, but it is fine by me.  

Potato with Pork. Price-RM15

I absolutely loved all the 4 dishes, which I believe will be the same dishes that I will order for future visits - next round will come with more people so that we can try more dishes. 

Verdict : 
The place to go to, when you want a taste of home cooked food. 

Restoran Ping Wah 
31 Jalan 20/16, 
Paramount Garden, 
46300 Petaling Jaya 

Business Hours : 11.30am - 2.30pm, 5.30pm-9.30pm (Mon-Sat) 
Closed on : Sundays 

Tel : Joe Hoo 012-2848754 / 016-366 8866; Madam Suan 012-284 7540

More details, vist their website 

Go Noodle @ One Utama, Petaling Jaya

I have seen long queue at 'Go Noodle', One Utama, several times. Until I was asked by 2 friends, have you tried 'Go Noodle', I felt that perhaps I have missed out something, and feedback from them were that this place serve delicious noodles. 

Last Sunday, I attempted a visit to check out their noodle. Reached at 7pm, the queue was for approximately 20 mins, so we went to do a little shopping before returned to the restaurant. 

  

Wooden deco 

Extremely busy 

As we stepped in, we were greeted by lots of noise, ahh.. that makes it all the more Chinese feel. 

There were plenty of choices in their menu. One of their specialty are their Shaoxing wine, Mian Xian noodle, and varities of pan mee. 

My friend has highly recommended their mian xian and she was right. I ordered the Fuzhou Fishball mian xian, and add on fish paste. The mian xian has a silky smooth texture, and I like the clearness of the broth. The fishball has adequate meat within, and the fish paste has a springy texture. The parsley and spring onion gave the bowl of noodle slightly more fragrant. An almost perfect bowl of noodle, at a very reasonable price.

Fuzhou Mian Xian. Price-RM9.80. Add Fish Paste - RM2.80 

My friend ordered the same Mian Xian with Grouper Fish, similarly yummy with the freshness of the fish meat. 

Grouper Fish Slice. Price-RM15

Verdict :
Simple delicious with lots of varieties with absolutely reasonable price.

Go Noodle

LG 308, 1 Utama Shopping Centre, Bandar Utama, PJ

Tel: 019-316 8866

Opening Hours: 10am – 10pm

Restoran Boston Baru @ Kapar, Klang

The mention of Boston restaurant to any Klangnite, it should somehow ring the bell. For patrons that looks for good tasting food, not cost you a hole in your pocket, and doesn't mind the environment, this is The restaurant for you.

Important to note, its either you come before they open their restaurant, so that you can be in queue to be their first round of customers... else, be prepared for probably the longest wait for your food to be served. Waiting time exceeding 1 hour is common, and you are lucky if it doesn't exceed 2. 

Despite it all, I still feel the food is worth all the hassle. 

Queue starts 6pm+ 

A common sight 

When they open their door, all those in queue will go around to get their seat, either inside the restaurants, on the pavement across the road, or along the front door of the shoplots (as they close for business). Those who comes after all seats are taken has to be prepared for the longest wait for their food and queue numbers will be given out. All those seated inside will get priority to order. 

I had meal here, probably more than 10 times, and it should have been more if not for the waiting time that most people dread or skip. 

They have a few must orders and their fried noodle does taste above par. 

We ordered their Tapioca Noodles which is made from tapioca starch. The taste of the noodle surely carried the 'wok hei', and love to the see this translucent noodle.They also use pork lard which was so crunchy and tasty and the noodle was perfectly cooked, with the right chewiness. 

Tapioca Noodle. Price-RM6

We ordered the large steam la la.I like how their lala was of the right size, with flesh in every shell. The chinese wine, bird eye chilli and lots of ginger used to steam the lala definitely gave the kick to our tastebud. The fried garlic that topped it was so crunchy and lend a strong aroma to the delicious plate of steamed lala. 

Steam Lala. Price-RM24

I love this cereal mantis shrimp by Boston. The size of the mantis shrimp was just nice, despite that some that were missing solid flesh, however, for those that you can, it has ample flesh for biting. 

The cereal cooked together with egg has a distinctive smell of butter which was divine. It was fried so perfectly that each cereal was so crunchy, sweet, tasty and we almost finish all parts of the crumbs. 

Mantis Shrimp. Price-RM16

 As we end the dinner, all seats are fully occupied, and new line of queue was in place. 

Another common sight 

A day later, I was already craving for the same food, and the food experience indeed lingered in my mind. With proper time planning, cutting on waiting time is indeed achievable. 

Verdict : 
A meal that costed only RM50 was highly satisfactory to us. For the quality and price of food, I would willingly compromise with the long waiting time. 


Restoran Boston Baru 
1E, Jalan Kapar, 
41400 Klang, Selangor 
Tel : 016-268 3104

Opening Hours : 
7pm till late (advisable to come prior to opening time)
Closed on Wednesday

Non-Halal 

Restoran Bai Wei Xuan @ Kota Kemuning, Shah Alam

My family and I visited this Sichuan restaurant located at Kota Kemuning several times, of-late. We like the homey non pretencious set up of this restaurant. 

The Chinesey deco, used of red, paper lantern and chinese painting 

During our visits, we were all satisfied with quality of all dishes that we ordered. Well, majority. 

The sauteed diced chicken with chile pepper is really to die-for. Despite the fact that this tasted extremely spicy and pungent, the fragrant that derived from the spices were simply aromatic. The marination sipped in to each part of the bite sized chicken and the crunchiness of the diced chicken was absolutely pleasing to our palate. 

I digged through the dried chile to look for left over bones or mini size of the diced chicken, so that I can keep it in my mouth and let it be chewed slowly.

Sauteed Diced Chicken with Chile Pepper. Price-RM28 

Some dishes will immediately turn your stomach to aching, as the spiciness may look unbearable. The fresh fish fillets soaked in this hot oily oil was extremely delicious, and has such strong flavor from the spices and pepper used.  

Fish Fillets in Hot Chili Oil in Chongqing. Price-RM36 

We love the fresh fillet of fish that was cooked with the picked vegetables. Fish were sliced thick enough for us to savor the nice chunk of them, and this dish certainly opened up our appetite. The sourness from the picked vegetables were so yummy. There were also some vermicelli within this bowl. 

Boiled Fish with Sichuan Picked Vegetable. Price-RM36

It was our first time to see potatoes served this way. Shredded so thinly, and cooked with vinegar. Love the crunchiness of the potatoes, and tasted simply great. 

Sour & Spicy Shredded Potatoes. Price-RM12

The Sweet & Sour Pork was another absolute favorite of all. The pork was fried so well, whereby tenderness of the pork could still be felt, while it also came with slight crunchiness. The sauce that accompanied was excellent, a well balanced of sweet towards sour. 

Sweet & Sour Pork. 

The mushroom can be opted for non spicy. We love the generous portion of mushrooms, with extremely good balance of mushroom of all sorts, mixed with some vege. Tasted totally delicious, and what a good value for what we gotten in return. 

Mushroom. Price-RM24

The steamed egg was soft, and topped with lots of gravy made of good portion of minced pork. Its so tasty, and went so well with rice. 

Steamed Egg with Minced Pork. Price-RM16

The beancurd was soft, which came with a slight crispy layer. The sauce was yummy which was favorite of the kids. 

Beancurd. Price-RM12

This was the only one dish that we did not favor. The squids were too chewy that it felt slightly plasticy, and it has a weird peppery taste. 

Sizzled Squid Tentacles. Price-RM22

Verdict : So far only 1 dish that we felt did not delivered, while all others did 100%. A place that we will return over and over again. 

Food - 9/10, Price - 8/10, Service - 6/10, Ambiance - 7/10 

Restaurant Bai Wei Xuan 
No 8 Jalan Anggerik Vanilla 31/BE, 
Kota Kemuning 
40460 Shah Alam 

Tel : 017-366 4190

Business Hours : 11am-10pm (closed between 3-5pm)

Restoran Bai Wei Xuan @ Kota Kemuning, Shah Alam

My family and I visited this Sichuan restaurant located at Kota Kemuning several times, of-late. We like the homey non pretencious set up of this restaurant. 

The Chinesey deco, used of red, paper lantern and chinese painting 

During our visits, we were all satisfied with quality of all dishes that we ordered. Well, majority. 

The sauteed diced chicken with chile pepper is really to die-for. Despite the fact that this tasted extremely spicy and pungent, the fragrant that derived from the spices were simply aromatic. The marination sipped in to each part of the bite sized chicken and the crunchiness of the diced chicken was absolutely pleasing to our palate. 

I digged through the dried chile to look for left over bones or mini size of the diced chicken, so that I can keep it in my mouth and let it be chewed slowly.

Sauteed Diced Chicken with Chile Pepper. Price-RM28 

Some dishes will immediately turn your stomach to aching, as the spiciness may look unbearable. The fresh fish fillets soaked in this hot oily oil was extremely delicious, and has such strong flavor from the spices and pepper used.  

Fish Fillets in Hot Chili Oil in Chongqing. Price-RM36 

We love the fresh fillet of fish that was cooked with the picked vegetables. Fish were sliced thick enough for us to savor the nice chunk of them, and this dish certainly opened up our appetite. The sourness from the picked vegetables were so yummy. There were also some vermicelli within this bowl. 

Boiled Fish with Sichuan Picked Vegetable. Price-RM36

It was our first time to see potatoes served this way. Shredded so thinly, and cooked with vinegar. Love the crunchiness of the potatoes, and tasted simply great. 

Sour & Spicy Shredded Potatoes. Price-RM12

The Sweet & Sour Pork was another absolute favorite of all. The pork was fried so well, whereby tenderness of the pork could still be felt, while it also came with slight crunchiness. The sauce that accompanied was excellent, a well balanced of sweet towards sour. 

Sweet & Sour Pork. 

The mushroom can be opted for non spicy. We love the generous portion of mushrooms, with extremely good balance of mushroom of all sorts, mixed with some vege. Tasted totally delicious, and what a good value for what we gotten in return. 

Mushroom. Price-RM24

The steamed egg was soft, and topped with lots of gravy made of good portion of minced pork. Its so tasty, and went so well with rice. 

Steamed Egg with Minced Pork. Price-RM16

The beancurd was soft, which came with a slight crispy layer. The sauce was yummy which was favorite of the kids. 

Beancurd. Price-RM12

This was the only one dish that we did not favor. The squids were too chewy that it felt slightly plasticy, and it has a weird peppery taste. 

Sizzled Squid Tentacles. Price-RM22

Verdict : So far only 1 dish that we felt did not delivered, while all others did 100%. A place that we will return over and over again. 

Food - 9/10, Price - 8/10, Service - 6/10, Ambiance - 7/10 

Restaurant Bai Wei Xuan 
No 8 Jalan Anggerik Vanilla 31/BE, 
Kota Kemuning 
40460 Shah Alam 

Tel : 017-366 4190

Business Hours : 11am-10pm (closed between 3-5pm)

Frontera, Sol of Mexico @ Jaya One, PJ

For a special dinner with my BFF, I searched for some ideas of recommended eateries around PJ. Read some reviews on Trip Advisor, and Frontera at Jaya One seems to have gotten many positive reviews. 

In fact, I have passed by Frontera countless times in the past, thus these reviews that I read online did help in getting additional businesses for some F&B outlets. 

The feeling I got when I stepped in was it was very simple, with minimal decorative items that represent the feel of a Mexican restaurant. We chose the inside seating, with apparent bright orange color walls that exudes warmness and cosyness of Frontera. 

Entrance of Frontera

My BFF started with plate of Caesar Salad. This was a plate of fresh romaine lettuce served with their homemade Southwestern Caesar dressing, and topped with some tortilla strips to add in the crunchiness to the tastebud. Some shaved Parmesan cheese were also included in this salad. 

Overall all their food were presented in a absolutely neat manner. Nice. 

Southwestern Caesar Salad. Price-RM11.95

All main meals came with Mexican rice. Main ingredients to make consisted of white rice, tomatoes, garlic and onion. 

One of my dinner companion had the Tex-Mex Burrito, whereby it was homemade flour tortilla filled with shredded chicken (option available for beef too), refried beans and cheese. 
Very tasty with the cheesy wet cheese accompanying each bit of the tortilla filled with chicken. 

Tex-Mex Burrito. Price-RM19.95 

The Enchiladas Nortena is corn tortilla wrapped with fillings, and this particular one that we ordered was the roasted beef. The entire corn tortilla was oven baked, and then served with more slow roasted beef, topped with cheese. This style of cooking made the beef much softer, and the juiciness of the beef was truly satisfying to the stomach. Sides included the beans, cooked in a nice sauce, pico de gallo (tomato salsa), and Mexican rice. 

Enchiladas Nortena (Beef). Price-RM32.50

Me and my bff had seafood, and throughout eating, we were just nodding our head, with sense of satisfaction apparent on our faces. 

She had the maple glazed Salmon, whereby the salmon was flame grilled, cooked to just the right level, to bring out the pure taste of salmon. It was then glazed with maple chipotle, served with Mexican rice, and saute vege. 

Maple Glazed Salmon. Price-RM37.50

I was craving for prawns thus went for the Seafood Skewers. One of my best choice of food I ever made. It came with 3 skewers, with each consisted of 2 big prawns, 2 chunks of salmon, bell pepper and mushroom at one end of the skewer. I was highly satisfied with the portion, and the taste. It tasted divine, with just the right balance of aroma and natural sweetness of of the ingredients. 

The sides consisted of guacamole and pico de gallo. Healthy and tasty. The combination of the Mexican rice, the skewers and the sides were just right to deliver a satisfactory meal. 

Seafood Skewers. Price-RM39.50

It has been a long time since I had such an awesome dinner. We were all very pleased with our food, and am certain to be back to repeat the same order, and try out their other offerings. 

During my dinner, it was apparent that most of its air-conditioners weren't working well, and for the one working that was close to where we were sitting, it has some water leakage. Overall, it was rather warm. The interior and furniture seemed a little over-used, and some slight touch up wouldn't definitely give their patrons a much better experience.

Food - 10/10
Price - 9/10
Service - 8/10 
Ambiance - 5/10

Frontera, Sol of Mexico
18-G-2 Palm Square, Jaya One, 
72A Jalan Universiti, 
46200 Petaling Jaya 
Tel : 03-7958 8515

Business Hours : Tue-Sun 12noon - 12mn (Fri & Sat close at 1am)

FB link, here

Restoran Chang Rai Thai Food @ Taman Seraya, Cheras, KL

Original plan to eat elsewhere diverted to Restoran Chang Rai, as the other restaurant wasn't open. Blessing in disguise does happen when my buddy recalled this yummy Thai restaurant she once had near Cheras area. 

From the outside, the restaurant looked pretty ordinary, but my impression of this place immediately changed when our food was served.

Entrance of Chang Rai 

When asked for recommendation between the Red or Clear Tom Yum soup, the lady recommended the Red type. We went with the recommendation and we were pleased that we did. 

Although it does looked pretty oily, but one sip to the soup, we smiled... The overall taste of spiciness was well balanced by the mild sourness apparent from the broth. The richness  and fragrance of the soup that derived from the raw ingredients and herbs used in the making of the Tom Yam paste was highly satisfactory. Adequate seafood which includes prawn and squid were used, with lots of abalone mushroom. 

For a mere cost of RM18, this is a pot of soup that is very much worth it.

Tomyam Seafood. Price-RM18

The fish cake was tasty, with the right texture for my tastebud. Taste wise, thumbs up, and I just loved the fragrant of the spices used within.

Fish Cake. Price-RM12

The paku vege was real fresh and I love the slight crunchiness when biting this breed of vege. It is not too leafy yet just enough to fulfill our need for vege. Stir fried with sambal and  onion, this plate of paku was highly delicious.

Paku Vege. Price-RM12

The talapia fish was fantastic. It was absolutely fresh, and the lime juice used, together with cuts of chilli and garlic made this entire dish so appetizing and smells good. 

The fish shape platter used for this steam fish was the traditional type whereby it uses charcoal, and it kept our fish piping hot throughout our meal.

Talapia Fish, Lime Steam. Price-RM40

The pandan chicken came in a much bigger size that what I usually have in other Thai restaurant. Of all dishes, this was the only let down to us. It has a strong fragrance of the spices used, however, lack taste. It was bland, which somewhat suggest that perhaps they forgot to add the salt. Look wise, it surely gotten a pass. 

Pandan Chicken (min 4 pcs). Price-RM3 each

The 3 of us left with almost bursting stomach. Highly satisfied, with double LIKES for all dishes, except for the Pandan Chicken. Am also very satisfied with the whole dinner price that came to RM108 including 2 coconuts.

Definitely a recommended Thai restaurant serving authentic Thai dishes, for those coming or live near to this area. 

Restoran Chang Rai Thai Food 
27 & 27A, Jalan Bunga Tanjung 18, 
Taman Seraya, Cheras,
56100 Kuala Lumpur

Tel : 03-4288 5257, 012-694 7996

Business Hours : 11am-11pm 

FB link, here
Website link, here

Restoran Yap Hup Kee @ Jalan Pudu, KL

In search for food to eat when we were near Pudu, it striked my mind of this yong tau foo place that I frequented years ago. All my past experiences were pleasurable, thus headed to Restoran Yap Hup Kee.

Pick what you want

Their main products are Yong Tau Foo, Chee Cheong Fun, and Silver needle noodle or more popular known as "Lou Shu Fan" and also Steamboat which I presumed is served at night. 

One basically choose their pieces of Yong Tau Foo, and upon passed on to their staff, they will be either fried, or boiled fresh, and will be served with soup.I liked how they put aside  the fried items, from the soup, so that they are not too soggy when one is ready to eat. 

Just look at their mouthwatering spead of Yong Tau Foo, which although same may be same as what other outlets offer for example beancurd, chilli, bittergourd, brinjal etc, but their offerings has many that I don't usually see offered by others. 

I wish I could choose them all..

The paste they used to fill the Yong Tau Foo items has just the right texture, which suggest the freshness of meat used. How happy was my stomach to have all this delicious food that afternoon.

Don't they just look appetizing?

Can't wait to start eating..

We ordered the prawn wanton separately, with minimum order of 5 pcs. The beancurd skin thickness was just right, and were fried till really crispy. Each of them were filled with lots of paste within and even yummier when I get to chew on big size of prawns within.

Fried Prawn Dumpling (5pcs). Price-RM11.50

The Chee Cheong Fun has a smooth texture, and makes me want more. Topped with some fried dried shrimps which was so crispy, it lends much fragrance to the plate of chee cheong fun. The sauce also tasted good, and cooked till just nice, not too thick, nor watery.

Sweet Sauce Chee Cheung Fun with Dried Shrimp. Price-RM2.50

I took some of my buddy's Lou Shu Fan with curry to try. This will definitely be a favorite to the curry lovers, as the curry carries tasted so rich, and was aromatic. Yumms! If only I had double my stomach space to take this in... Hehe... 

Curry Minced Pork Lou Shu Fen. Price-RM4

Bills are lumped into one total amount for food, with no detailed itemization, but yup, gauging at how hungry we were and the fact that we did over ordered, we paid a total of RM52 including drink. 


Restoran Yap Hup Kee
45 Jalan Brunei Barat Off Jalan Pudu, 
55100 Kuala Lumpur 
Tel : 03-2148 9220 

Business Hours : 
9am-5pm, 5.30-11pm (closed on alternate Tuesday)

New branch at Kuchai Lama 
39 Jalan Kuchai Maju 7, 
Kuchai Enterpreneurs Park, 
58200 Kuala Lumpur 

Business Hours : 
11am-11.30pm