This is one of the best steamboats that I have ever had.
Zi Wei Yuan charcoal steamboat (紫薇园鱼头火炭炉)
My sister brought us to this steamboat restaurant at Jalan Raja Uda while we paid her a visit in Butterworth last weekend (Mar 22, 2008). This is one of her favourite dining places… and it turned out to be an excellent recommendation.
The steamboat was heated with charcoal instead of using the common gas stove, and the soup was special as well… (we ordered a set) with fried fish and taro cubes as the base. It tasted a bit sour along with the sweetness of the ingredients, which gave a very well mixed taste and flavour.
The restaurant offered decent options for their menu, mostly seafood, from cheap fishball dishes to expensive sea cucumbers and abalones etc… reasonably priced.
Address: 6525, Jalan Raja Uda, 12300 Butterworth (location map); Tel: 04-331 2736 or 012-452 4741 (closed on Wednesday).
Dined at Farmland Steamboat Restaurant （田园）at Bandar Puchong Puteri on Mar 15 (2008) with some relatives from Ipoh.
Farmland is famous for its porridge based steamboat. It’s becoming a habit to bring relatives from other places to dine at these porridge steamboat restaurants, as these dining style is not really common outside of Klang Valley.
Farmland Steamboat Restaurant at Bandar Puchong Puteri, Selangor
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Sunday breakfast (March 2, 2008) at Pan Ki (潘记), one of the better dim sum restaurants in Sri Petaling. The restaurant is located at the same role with KFC and Public Bank.
Some Dim sum at Pan Ki
One of the major reasons why I like this restaurant is because it’s relatively easier to find a seat even in Sunday morning. Their dim sum is pretty old school, nothing fancy but with decent taste and varieties… and when it comes to dim sum, old school is a good word.
I like their har gao, siu mai, and also their chicken feet. Their pork based dim sum are normally better than fish based dim sum, somehow.
Reasonably priced, quite cheap by KL standard.
Dined at Eastern Delight (东丰) at Sri Petaling on Saturday night (Mar 1, 2008), sort of a farewell dinner for my aunt who was going back to Australia on Sunday.
Eastern Delight is famous for its porridge based steamboat. This Sri Petaling branch should be their first outlet; they also have branches at Kota Damansara and Sunway if not mistaken. Chose to dine here because my aunt had never tried porridge steamboat prior to this visit.
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Lai Foong beef noodle is quite famous in the Petaling Street area. It’s said that the stall has been operating for more than 50 years… can’t verify that, but their beef noodle is good, no doubt about this.
Beef noodle with beef, tripe and meat balls
Their beef and tripe were tender, meat balls just so so… the great thing about their noodle was actually the soup, which was thick and strongly flavoured with Chinese herbs and spices… I couldn’t stop myself finishing every drop in the bowl.
The beef noodle stall is located in Lai Foong Restaurant, located at the intersection of Jalan Tan Cheng Lock and Jalan Tun HS Lee.
Dined at Maxim’s Chinese Restaurant at Hong Kong International Airport, just before leaving Hong Kong during our October trip.
It was a nice dim sum meal… good presentation, excellent variety, great taste and prompt services. The only downside was probably the price… HK$400+ (US$50+) for 3 adults, probably the most expensive dim sums I have ever had.
Not complaining though… it was our last meal in Hong Kong, and it’s a pretty good feast to end our Hong Kong journey.
Fried spring roll
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Really Good Restaurant is not a really good restaurant… it’s just a literal translation of its Chinese name which should be pronounced as Geek Ji Ho (極之好粥麵茶餐廳) instead.
Actually we went into the restaurant because I was desperately in need of a washroom when walking around in Mongkok. At first glance they had an interesting variety of food (lots of Hong Kong specials) and from their billboard it seems like they were highly rated by local papers.
Cart noodle, egg tart and pineapple bun
We ordered a cart noodle (車仔麵), an egg tart and a pineapple bun (菠蘿包). The food quality was quite a disappointment honestly… it was not too bad, but it’s the kind of quality that I would not be interested to visit the restaurant again.
Well, at least I managed to try the cart noodle and pineapple bun before I left Hong Kong… so I shouldn’t be complaining too much.
Cart noodle was one of the food icons in Hong Kong; it got its name from street vendors who used to operate their business on roadsides using carts (I think they no longer exist these days). This restaurant was supposed to be famous for selling this noodle.
There is nothing special about the noodles; the essence of cart noodle is actually the variety of toppings the customers could choose from… the common toppings are radishes, pig blood cubes, fish balls, pig skins, Chinese sausages and beef balls etc. The customers could choose according to their likings or simply include everything (like what we did).
Nam Long Congee Restaurant (南龍粥店) is located at Fa Yuen Street (花園街) in Mongkok, Hong Kong. We were on a food hunt in Mongkok area (looking for stinky tofu in particular) and stumbled on this congee specialised restaurant.
Congee cooked with pork and pig organs
It was odd hours (~11am) on a weekday, but the restaurant was still packed with customers… it got to be good.
We ordered a pork innards congee (猪杂粥) - rice porridge cooked with pork and pig organs like intestines, liver and stomach… and it was great. The ingredients were fresh, and they didn’t add too many additives (pepper, sesame oil etc.) in the congee, so you can really taste the core flavour of the pork and organs.
We also ordered two dessert soups, which was quite tasteless and forgettable… we should have just stick with their congee.
