Delicious Malay cuisine at De.Wan 1958 by Chef Wan @ The LINC, Kuala Lumpur

Restaurant De.Wan 1958 by Chef Wan is quite popular even though it just open its door about 3 weeks ago. Many would like to try the dishes of this popular celebrity chef which I watched his cooking programme on television during my secondary school days. The food served are authentic Malay cuisine with free flow of 3 types of rice. They have white, yellow and egg rice. I personally like their egg rice the most as its very tasty with lots of shallots and dried prawns.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. I like their peanut sauce chicken as the meat is tender and the rich and creamy peanut sauce flavour absorbed into the chicken, makes this dish quite good. The oxtail soup is tasty with strong aromatic of local spices flavour. The soup is thick and the broth is tasty with their rice. The daging rendang Selangor is good but its not that memorable. The meat still not tender enough and this type of rendang is a bit wet. Bubur som som dessert is very good if you like very sweet stuff. I personally like the dessert. But if you don't like sweet, I don't think you will like such super intense sweetness of gula Melaka).
Price:3/10(Expensive. Peanut sauce chicken at MYR32.00, oxtail soup at MYR33.00, daging rendang Selangor at MYR59.00, bubur som som dessert at MYR16.00 and rice at MYR7.00 per person).

I would recommend my fellow readers to try this restaurant if they would like to taste authentic Malay food and to enjoy the good ambiance of the restaurant plus probability of meetup with Chef Wan himself there.


Nice and elegant reception.

Oxtail soup. Aromatic and thick broth that goes very well with their rice.

Peanut sauce chicken and daging rendang Selangor.

This dish of peanut sauce chicken is outstanding.

I less enjoy this daging rendang Selangor as I expected something drier and more tender beef.

Yellow rice and egg rice with oxtail. Yummy.

Good Middle Eastern lunch at Al-Halabi Gourmet Restaurant @ JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur

Al-Halabi Gourmet Restaurant is part of Tarbush restaurant group. They serve quite extensive of middle eastern food in an awesome environment. The restaurant decoration is nice and they also selling a lot of middle east food items. Sitting inside is like you are in Turkish market. Service were good and if you are into shisha, they do have it as well. The seating were comfortable with sofas.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. Ordered the sayadiyah fish dish and taste quite good. Whole pompret with fish pieces and rice in one dish. The rice cooked with fish broth adds the flavour to the dish. The appetizer of fattah hummus that we ordered is unexpected large with lots of chickpea and tahini mixed with yogurt, garlic and fried bread. Taste quite unique but good).
Price:6/10(Moderate. The food pricing here is reasonable considering its located inside a 5 star hotel. We ordered Sayadiyah fish for MYR45.00 and fattah hummus at MYR25.00. Portion is quite decent for two persons consumption).


Sayadiyah fish with salsa sauce and lemon. Suitable to order if you don't like lamb or chicken.

Nice restaurant ambience.

Lots of middle eastern food condiments.

Best Paella in Kuala Lumpur @ Marta's Kitchen, Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur

Marta's Kitchen is one of the best Spanish restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. Finally found a place to have good paella in Kuala Lumpur. Their drinks are great as well. Service were good but need to wait for the food for a while.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. The paella here is the best that I tasted in Kuala Lumpur. The Valencian Paella is so rich with seafood flavour and packed generously with thick tender pieces of squid, chicken, prawn and mussels. The Pimientos padron pepper tapas were delicious as well. Smoked beef ham of Cecina were great as well. The octopus and the huevos rotos were just normal. Chocolate caramel churros were great but the catalana cream were just normal).
Price:3/10(Expensive. The food here is consider expensive as the portion is not that big. Their paella price at MYR37.00 is actually just good enough for one hungry person. Pimientos padron at MYR22.00, Cecina platter at MYR33.00 and huevos rotos at MYR27.00. House sangria at MYR26.00 a glass and gin at MYR30.00 a glass. The food is good but pricey).


Paella Valenciana.

Pimientos padron. Small green and sweet peppers. This dish is cooked with olive oil until soften and fried.

Cecina platter. Smoked beef ham served with splash of extra virgin olive oil and with tomato toast.

Huevos Rotos. Eggs on top of fried potatoes with marinated Iberico pork.

Japanese dinner set at Uroko Saujana @ Bandar Saujana, Shah Alam

Uroko located at Nova Saujana is a new Japanese restaurant in the area. Its quite crowded although it just open for around 2 weeks. They have quite a variety of dinner and lunch sets. Their lunch set are quite reasonable at less than MYR20.00. I took their sashimi and unagi rice set as it seems to be the best deals from the available dinner sets. They also have quite a number of ala carte menu and omasake.

Taste:7/10(Moderate. Food served were normal. Presentation wise on the sashimi were good and I like their sashimi cut. Although the sashimi cut is small but its thick).
Price:5/10(Near expensive. The sashimi and unagi set were priced quite reasonably at MYR58.00. Shitake mushroom grill at MYR3.00, asparagus wrapped with beef bacon at MYR7.00, chicken leek grill at MYR4.00 and refillable green tea at MYR1.00).


Unagi and sashimi set.

Sashimi consist of salmon belly, tuna, squid and amberjack.

Two pieces of unagi.

Banana leaf meal at Curries N Claws @ Citta Mall, Ara Damansara

**Note: This restaurant has closed down. The food getting worse before its closing**
Banana leaf restaurant is another new addition to Citta Mall list of interesting eating place. They have awesome fried bitter gourd and rasam. Do try out their varieties of curries such as crab, squid and cockles curries as those are their specialities. They use better briyani for rice unlike others which use normal rice. Good value meal and taste good.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. Their fried bitter gourd and rasam soup are better than other banana leaf restaurant. Their spicy level is a bit too hot for me but taste good).
Price:7/10(Moderate. Banana leaf meal at MYR10.90. Quite reasonable price considering you can eat as much as you wish and tasty meal).


Tasty banana leaf meal. Their fried bitter gourd taste awesome and crunchy.

Eat as much as you wish.

Environment in the restaurant.

They also provide outdoor seating.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.112034, 101.579182
Address: Ground floor, Citta Mall, Jalan PJU 1a/48, Pusat Perdagangan Dana 1, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Opening hours: 10.00am to 10.00pm.

Raj's Banana Leaf @ SS15, Subang Jaya

Raj's banana leaf restaurant located in SS15 Subang Jaya is my favourite choice if I am very hungry and would like to be vegetarian for a day. You can have as much rice and vegetables as you want for a banana leaf meal. If you are big eater, I would recommend to add on their meat dishes such as fried fish, squid and curry chicken. Their fried fish and squid are fried fresh when you order. Pleasantly surprised at the very decent quality and cleanliness of the restaurant. This restaurant is quite accessible via public transport as its just located beside the newly completed SS15 LRT station.

Taste:8/10(Good. I like their fried bitter gourd and curries. It goes very well with rice and taste great).
Price:7/10(Moderate. Banana leaf rice at MYR7.50. You will have 4 types of vegetables, rasam, assam, 2 pieces of papadum, dried chili and choice of curries).


Complete banana leaf rice. Request more rice or vegetables if you really hungry :-). My standard order will be the banana leaf rice with hot lime juice.

Good curries.

Their other meat dishes are good as well.

Spacious, clean and cosy environment.

Coordinate/GPS: 3.075924, 101.586416
Address: 2, Jalan SS15/4B, Subang Jaya 47500, Malaysia.
Public transport: SS15 LRT station.

Delicious wantan noodles @ Tek Kee Noodles house, Subang Jaya

Tek Kee noodles house located in SS18 in Subang Jaya is one of my favourite dinner place if I were hungry as their portion is slightly larger. Other than noodles they also have chicken rice, roasted duck and roasted pork rice. Their herbal noodles with roasted duck were good as well.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. Do order their wantan noodles dishes. They are good at noodles. Their noodles were springy with a slight peppery sauce. Thumb up on their roast pork as it's crispy and good).
Price:6/10(Moderate. The price is reasonable as their portion is slightly bigger and do come here if you are really hungry. Roasted pork and steam chicken noodles at MYR9.00, beef noodles at MYR9.50 and herbal noodles with roasted duck at MYR10.50).


Steam chicken and roasted pork noodles. Their grated ginger is awesome.

Springy wan tan noodles. Tasty and among the best noodles.

Combination of crispy roasted pork and steamed chicken.

Beef brisket noodles. Plenty of beef.

Beef noodles with clear soup.

Herbal noodles with roasted duck.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.072678, 101.585384
Address: 7, Jalan SS 18/1b, Ss 18, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Porky steamed rice at Sin Kee restaurant @ Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur

Sin Kee restaurant is a very crowded restaurant especially during lunch and dinner time. People come here to try their signature pork steamed rice also known as mun fan. Its a gravy laden rice with stewed pork. The serving amount is generous with big bowl of rice mixed with vegetables, stewed pork, chinese sausage, prawn and egg. Almost each tables ordered a portion of the signature steamed rice.

Taste:7/10(Moderate. The mun fan rice portion is huge with abundant of stewed pork slices. The rice however is slightly too salty for my liking and stewed pork slices lacked of aroma. Fried rice were good with plenty of ingredients plus lap cheong).
Price:8/10(Cheap. The portion here is huge. Each serving here is covered with big bowl. The mun fan and fried rice has adequate ingredients inside. Mun fan and fried rice priced at MYR9.50 each).


Famous signature pork steamed rice.

Fried rice.

Pork steamed rice. Look at the sauce coming out from the red bowl. Its a surprise inside.

Busy restaurant. Sometimes you need to share tables with others.

Sin Kee restaurant menu. They are famous for pork steamed rice. But they also got tai chau (hawker style food).

GPS/Coordinate: 3.131083, 101.685952
Address: No. 194, Jalan Tun Sambanthan, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Japanese food in Village Grocer @ Citta Mall, Ara Damansara

Village Grocer located in Citta Mall in Ara Damansara is among the best Village Grocer outlet with bakery, Japanese food section and wine shop attached. Quite like this place as they sell quality and fresh food at reasonable price. You can get fresh Japanese food which is prepared daily here. The choice are plenty such as rice bowl, unagi, scallop, sushi, sashimi, vegetarian based sushi and vinegared pressed sushi.

Taste:7/10(Moderate. The sushi and rice bowl were fresh. The thickness of sashimi on sushi still can't beat those prepared in the restaurant. I do like their pressed sushi which taste good and with grilled soba fish).
Price:6/10(Moderate. Each pack of sushi set price between MYR6.00 to MYR28.00. They also have value for money promotion set which range from MYR13.00 to MYR17.00).



Vinegared pressed sushi - soba fish.


Japanese food options.

Raw fish (sashimi) based sushi.

Plenty of sushi set to choose from.

Unagi rice bowl.

My style of eating sushi with some wasabi on each pieces.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.112171, 101.579145
Address: LG-01, Lower Ground Floor, No 1, Jalan PJU 1a/48, Ara Damansara, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.