Mongolian steamboat from Xiao Fei Yang (XFY) Steamboat restaurant @ Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya

Xiao Fei Yang is a chain restaurant serving spicy ma la style of steamboat. Their soup is delicious and flavourful. They have many ingredients to choose to put into the soup eg sliced mutton, special pork balls, fried fish skin and dumplings. I do enjoy the sauces area where you can mix different kind of sauces and ingredients to eat it with your food. Other than the hidden charges, this place has good food to savour.

Taste:8/10(Good. No doubt that their soup is the main attraction. Do go for combination soup of ma la and herbal soup. In the ma la soup you can eat much of the ingredients and spices there. Good to increase body heat. Make sure to order their fried fish skin and special pork balls).
Price:5/10(Near expensive. Even though their soup is great, they charge MYR24.00 for it. Make sure you drink the soup a lot and finish the ingredient inside there. Also, you may noticed that their bowls, spoons, chopsticks are sealed in a wrapper for hygiene purposes. They charge those wrapper for MYR1.00 each. For me, it's weird that they charge it that way. The tea they charge by the number of person even though we ordered 1 pot. Prices for all the ordered items as below: slices mutton at MYR21.00, sliced pork at MYR14.00, home made pork ball at MYR9.00, fish noodles at MYR8.00, dumplings at MYR8.00 and vegetables at MYR6.00 for each plate).


XFY restaurant.

Combination soup of ma la and herbal soup.


Ordered the following items for our dinner: mutton slices, pork slices, pork balls, vegetables, fish noodles, dumplings & home made pork balls.

This part is most interesting. Creating your own sauce by mixing the available ingredients. Among the ingredients: fermented bean curd, spring onion, garlic, chili, sesame, oil and soy sauce.

My own created sauce.

Fried fish skin.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.132555, 101.622178
Address: 40, Jalan SS 21/62, Damansara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Opening hours: 11.00am to 10.30pm daily.

Good Indian cuisine from GEM Restaurant @ Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur

GEM Restaurant located opposite of NU Sentral Mall is a semi fine dining restaurant specialises in both Northern and Southern Indian cuisine. There has been in the exact location for decades and that prove that the meal must be good in order to survive that long. They serve both meat and vegetarian food options. The environment in the restaurant is great and looks classy. As their location is near to KL Sentral public transportation hub, you will be some tourists dine here as well.

Taste:8/10(Good. Among the food ordered below, tawa prawns is the best. Its something unique compared to others. Overall food here is good with adequate level of spice in the cooking).
Price:5/10(Near expensive. The price here is slightly pricy compared to normal Indian restaurant. Mutton Roganjosh at MYR21.90, garlic naan at MYR5.00, tawa prawns at MYR24.90, spinach of your choice at MYR14.90 and paneer tikka at MYR19.90 ).


Appetizer. Paneer tikka. Cubes of cottage cheese marinated in masala and grilled.

Tawa prawns. Tasty dish made with prawns with fried onions, yogurt and coriander leaves.

Good dishes eat with garlic naan.

Mutton Roganjosh. Cooked with onions and ground spices.

Spinach of your choice. This green weird looking paste is actually quite tasty. Chopped spinach cooked with cottage cheese and spiced.

Cosy environment in the restaurant.

GPS/Coordinate:3.132412, 101.687420
Address: 124, Jalan Tun Sambanthan, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur.
Opening hours: Daily 11.30am to 11.30pm.

Good Arabic cuisine at Dima Restaurant @ Ara Damansara

Dima Restaurant previously located in Oasis Ara Damansara has now moved to a new location in Taipan 2 of Ara Damansara. What surprise me is they have Arabic rice dinner set at a reasonable price.

Taste:8/10(Good. Tender lamb and rice taste good. However the sauce which comes with this set was too spicy for me. It taste like salsa sauce but its too spicy. Overall I do recommend to have dinner here).
Price:7/10(Moderate. The lunch/dinner set of mutton rice at MYR13.99 exclude GST. It comes with huge mandi rice, lamb, Arabic gravy, spicy sauce and hot pull tea. Portion wise were big and can easily satisfy any big eater).


Internal deco of the restaurant.

Dima Restaurant - The real Arabian taste.

Mandi rice set. Tender and juicy lamb.

The dinner set comes with pull tea, Arabic gravy and spicy sauce like salsa. The sauce suits well with the rice.

Lamb

Spicy sauce. In their menu they called this as sahaweq.

Arabic sauce.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.119046, 101.578013
Address: Block G, Jalan PJU 1a/3, Taipan 2 Ara Damansara, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Delicious Northern Indian Food at Garam Masala @ Bukit Tinggi, Klang

This is my second visit to Garam Masala restaurant to try out their other food item.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. The garlic naan were hot with full of butter with strong fresh garlic taste. Fantastic naan. Their mutton were good as the meat were succulent. Chicken tikka dish and missi chapatti were great as well. Recommended to come here for breakfast, lunch or dinner).
Price:6/10(Moderate. Missi chapatti at MYR3.50, garlic naan at MYR4.50, mutton Roganjosh at MYR16.90, chicken tikka butter masala at MYR14.90, jeera rice with green peas at MYR6.50, Hyderabadi chicken biryani at MYR13.90, chicken shahi korma at MYR12.90 and gulab jamun at MYR4.90. Their mutton Roganjosh were delicious but its only 5 pieces inside the bowl. I think the price is a bit high).


Ordered a variety of meals.

Chicken shahi korma. This dish is made from minced chicken meat. The texture is creamy.

Hyderabadi chicken biryani.

Jeera rice with green peas. Jeera mutter pullao.

Chicken tikka butter masala and mutton Roganjosh.

Chicken tikka butter masala with rice.


Missi chapatti. This is a combination of more flours such as maize, chickpea and millet. Taste great to eat it with dal.

Fantastic garlic naan. The naan were delicious and can taste the goodness of real garlic and roasted until fragrant.

Gulab jamun. It is a kind of dessert which is very sweet but tasty.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.007718, 101.438847
Address: 28, Lorong Batu Nilam 4a, Bandar Bukit Tinggi 1, 41200 Klang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Phone: +60 3-3318 2265
Hours: 8.00am to 10.30pm daily.

Sichuan dinner at Ba Guo Bu Yi Restaurant @ Shanghai, China

Ba Guo Bu Yi is a famous restaurant chain in China serving good sichuan style (ma la) or spicy cooking. What's great about this restaurant is that they also have great face changing performances. The face changing show starts at 8pm every evening, the performance is short but entertaining. The energetic performer leaps and bounds in dramatic fashion, his face flashing through a range of colors and expressions in seconds. He even departs the stage and walk around the crowd and pose for pictures after the show. There are twenty Ba Guo Bu Yi outlets across China including Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Sanya and Nanjing. There are also three stores in Chengdu itself, including the flagship store where seats are particularly hard to come by, but booking at any and all is definitely recommended, especially if you want to catch the show.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. The meal is excellent with a type of spiciness that I never taste before. The pepper used is different compared to the pepper that I normally take. The sichuan fish in dried and pepper is a must try with melt in your mouth chili oil. Really good).



This slices of pork with cucumber taste great with the spicy sauce which comes with it. Finely sliced pork belly hanging over small wooden trestles, ready to be wrapped around slices of cucumber and spring onion.

Good presentation and taste great.

Very nice packaging of chopstick and tissue paper.

Dried chili and dried pepper fish. This dish is superb and tasty. However beware. Its super spicy.

Dried chili mutton with vegetables.


Beef stomach with braised spicy peanut.

Ma la spicy bean curd. Looks at the red paste surrounding the bean curd. Spicy!

Famous China Tsingtao beer. The beer taste good and have a trace of sweetness.

The Tsingtao beer is a bit light in colour.

Kailan with oyster sauce.

Impressive face changing show.

The face changing man came to our table. He smiled when I wanted to take picture :-)

Quite a big crowd in the restaurant.

This is the restaurant signboard.

GPS/Coordinate: 31.211339, 121.423489
Address: 1018 Dingxi Road, Changning, Shanghai, China.

Tetra House of Briyani @ Klang

Tetra House of Briyani has been in business for quite long in Klang and I get to know it from the listing in The Star newspaper. I have been to this restaurant for quite some time but don't have the chance to write about it. What's unique inside the shop is they have Chinese paintings hung on walls and Indian culture carvings.

Taste:8/10(Good. I ordered their rendang chicken briyani set and the taste is good. The meal is decent and the restaurant can get crowded during lunch time and dinner. All foods are served using metal bowl and plate. They also have good fruit lassi as well).
Price:6/10(Moderate. Each set of briyani cost around MYR15.00. Depends what you want for your briyani, they have mutton, chicken, fish, prawn masala, vegetarian and mutton masala).


Briyani set on banana leaf. Each briyani set comes with achar (salad), curry and crackers(papadams).

Rendang chicken briyani. This is dry version of curry.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.008156, 101.439451
Address: 10 Lorong Batu Nilam 4a, Bandar Bukit Tinggi, 41200 Klang, Selangor, Malaysia.

Fried chicken and spicy chee chong funn of Restoran Wong Soon Kee @ Subang Jaya, Selangor

Lim Fried Chicken (LFC) stall which is located in restaurant Wong Soon Kee is famous among the locals here. The fried chicken is crispy good and their curry chee cheong fun is great. The mixture of fried chicken and their curry chee cheong fun is lovely. This stall however only open at odd hours which is between 2.00pm onwards until 6.00pm. Usually people who come here to have late lunch or pack to eat later. Go around at 2.30pm and expect a long queue and hope for empty seats around. However long the queue is, customers will patiently queue up just to taste that juicy in the inside and crispy on the outside fried chicken.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. Their fried chicken is great which is crispy and not dry with moist meat. The chee cheong fun is smooth with spicy curry which taste good as well).
Price:8/10(Cheap. The chee cheong fun with some cabbage and fried whole leg cost MYR9.00).



Lim fried chicken, cabbage and curry chee cheong fun.

Come late at that time, fried chicken sold out. The curry chicken is not bad either.

Come early and you have these... Stir fry vegetables with chee chong fun. This dish priced at MYR7.00.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.068810, 101.586435
Address: Jalan SS 14/1, Ss 14, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia