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

I have previously dined at Farmland’s Serdang Perdana branch; this was my first visit to this Puchong outlet.

Just like the rivalry Eastern Delight, Farmland serves simple ingredients as well, and nothing spectacular unless you are ready to splurge on some abalones etc.

What makes porridge based steamboat special is that it would not obscure the original taste of the ingredients. Besides, after some cooking, the flavour of the ingredients would spread into the porridge, thus giving the porridge some really nice taste.

The major different between Eastern Delight and Farmland is probably the ‘thickness’ of the porridge (the steamboat base). ED’s porridge was normally thicker than Farmland… it depends on personal preference on which is better, but both are acceptable to me.

Location map (Tel: 03-8068 1880 / 8068 2280)

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.

Porridge steamboat at Eastern Delight

The porridge steamboat is quite common in Guangzhou, China, but has only become popular in Kuala Lumpur in recent years. It’s still not commonly found in other cities like Ipoh or Penang.

Porridge steamboat is actually nothing much different than normal steamboat besides using porridge as the cooking base instead of variety of soups. The beauty of porridge based steamboat is that it would not obscure the original taste of the ingredients like most of the soup based steamboat.

Clay pot is commonly used for porridge steamboat because the porridge would easily stick to the bottom if metal steamboat pot is used.

Eastern Delight serves some pretty simple ingredients, and 9 out of 10 customers would probably agree that their food is overpriced… but their business seemed to be doing well regardless. In fact the restaurant was so pack that night that we had to sit at open space instead of enjoying the air-con inside the shop (hence the poor lighting for the above photo).

At the end of the dinner everyone went home with a happy stomach. Set aside the price, it’s not a bad meal… or else I wouldn’t have dined at the restaurant for numerous occasions.

Address: No 26, Jalan 14/149L, Sri Petaling, 57000 KL. Phone: 03-9059 3545. The restaurant is located at a shop somewhere between Sri Petaling and Happy Garden, a bit difficult to find if you are not familiar with this area.

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.