Kg Subang - Restoran Maxis

Quite an ordinary coffeeshop but there's one noodle here that's a bit different, Vietnam Noodles. Basically its still clear stock soup with thick meehoon like noodles, almost like laksa noodles. Topping for the noodles includes vegetables, normal fishball, fried fishball, pork, pork balls and prawns! There is not much wow factor in it but its quite nice and good when you don't feel like anything heavy but greedy for choices of toppings :)

The other thing that looks good here is the char koay teow... well, its just ok but with a bit of banana leaf on the plate, perception also different, that's how I got conned to order, hahaha... but it was ok!

GPS: N3 09.021 E101 32.561

Kapar - Fried Shark @ Restoran Soon Leong

There are 2 shops in Kapar known for its fried baby shark dish and 1 of it is Soon Leong which is located on the main road of Kapar town. Open as early as 9am, this place serve Chinese dishes to go with rice only.

Me and Soh Cicak wanted to try their famous fried baby shark and we ordered 1 for each of us. The shark simply deep fried covered with some chilies over it then having some light soya sauce poured on it. Its simple and nice.

Almost the whole shark can be eaten with only a long bone in the middle, very suitable for kids too. The chilies does not add any spicy taste to it but just fragrant it better. The meat are soft and tender covered with crispy skin and its great when taken hot!

Soon Leong is airconditioned and they have hot water boiling around the shop for Chinese tea lover, you can either bring your own tea (like we did, thanks for Cicak for his nice Tiak Kuan Ying) or you can choose from packets available.

Its cost Rm13 for 2 sharks and for hot water for our tea, not too bad I would say, should come back to try other dishes as well.

GPS: N3 08.291 E101 22.305

Kapar - Dim Sum Chee Cheong Fun

Hmm... what's better for breakfast? Dim sum or chee cheong fun? How about both in one? Well, this morning as I was walking to have a look around at the tiny wet market in Kapar town, I stumbled upon this motorbike hawker stall that sells pau, dim sum and chee cheong fun.

Its parked outside a coffeeshop, so you can either dine in the shop and order a drink or like me and soh cicak, we just sat at the stools next to her bike and eat. The aunt here is really friendly, taking time to explain what she have and asking detailed questions like if peanuts are ok with you, etc.

They basically have 2 steamers and 1 pot keeping the food hot. First steamer are all Pau and Loh Mai Kai (chicken mushroom gluttonous rice), second one are dim sum and chee cheong fun and the pot are yong tau food.

They don't have the usual huge variety of dim sum, but simply some simple home made fish balls, fish rolls (foo chok kuen) and siew mai. I took 1 each with a piece of chee cheong fun plus 1 piece of yong tau foo, she mixed them up with sweet and chili sauce together. For topping, you get sesame and finely crushed peanuts.

Everything is ok but the dim sum paste, which are made from fish are soft and fresh. As the aunt could see that we are not local with computer backpack on us (she actually thought we are fresh graduates, hahaha!), she spent some time to chit chat with us. The stall was operated by her in law and now she took over, with the childrens all married, she is not sure if anyone will take over. But the good thing is the dim sum fillings are made from fresh fishes, bought fresh everyday from Sekinchan at about RM20.00 per kilo! She uses only "beh kar" fish (in hokkien) for her dim sum (70 cents per piece), no wonder its soft and no fishy smell. The yong tau foo which is sold at 60 cents per piece is cheaper as it uses only "tofu" fish.

In the end, the aunt also offered us some of her yong tau foo soup since we did not take any drink from the stall, the soup is not very tasty but guess what, no MSG! Its really just simple and ordinary food that she sells, but I think that's what good about hawker food, nothing too fancy, simple, nice and a lot of sincere hardwork from them to make it nice!

GPS: N3 08.285 E101 22.449

Subang Jaya - Ho Kien Pan Mee @ Restoran Lian Heng

This place in SS19, Subang Jaya (same row as Hong Leong Bank) have been around for a very long time, I used to go there after school for lunch with friends during secondary school ;). Anyhow, the stall here serve excellent pan mee for those who likes soft pan mee.

Look for the pan mee stall, you have to go there, take a number and sit down. Later, when its your turn to order, they will come and get your orders. On weekends, the queue can get pretty long. We were lucky that day, waited less than 10 minutes to be served and our food came another 5 minutes later.

The pan mee here are teared by hand and they make it thick and soft, I mean really soft, probably best to eat with a spoon. I had the dried one, its quite different and yummy with lots of toppings plus again, good pan mee can't go without good chili sauce ;).

RM4.00 for a big bowl and RM3.50 for a small one. The other thing unique is that the coffeeshop also sells sugar cane and coconut juice :).

GPS: N3 03.911 E101 34.759

Sg Way, PJ - Big Tree Pan Mee

If you do go Sg Way during lunch time, check out this place, pretty decent food. If you come up from the federal highway to Sg Way main street, turn right after the wet market and its on your left after the bicycle shop and parking lot. Its just zinc roof with a big tree on top.

We tried the pan mee here, I had the dried one and we ordered some extra dumpling. The pan is quite decent but what makes it good is really the chili sauce itself! The toppings for the pan mee are plenty full as well. Dumpling is big and nice too at RM1 each. Pan mee is RM3.50 and herbal tea is about RM1.00. There is also a tai chow stall next door where you can have fried noodles, rice, etc.

GPS: N3 05.202 E101 37.344

Nilai - Restoran Feng Ling

It was a good hash with tonnes of fun and flip flop going downhill at Sg Pening-Pening on a fine Saturday afternoon, but what was better is the good lunch that was waiting for us at Restoran Feng Ling at Taman Semarak Nilai.

We got there for a late lunch at about 2pm (the kitchen break at 3pm) and there were 6 of us. We ordered a Chicken Ginseng soup (half a chicken), a Chat Sing Pan (literally means 7 stars seabass), a sea cucumber pot (hoi sum poh), fried pork lard with luncheon meat and prawn as filling, roast pork/duck and some vegetables. We later top it up with another 2 dishes (vege and a kuai fah kai which is chicken mix with fish paste but put back to the chicken skin) as Jack and the family joined in.

The chicken ginseng soup was quite good, just nice for 6 persons with nice big chinese mushrooms on top of the chicken. As for the highly priced fish (RM96 for the fish alone, about 500-600g), we have it steamed, we really couldn't appreciate it, I think its better folks like us stick to normal cheaper fishes, hehehe... waste money only. The sea cucumber pot is really good, sea cucumber are really soft and full of flavour, great to go with rice.

Now, what really special is this pork lard thing, I couldn't believe my ears at first when the waitress recommended that, I mean, taking pork lard, which can gimme heart attack almost instantly and wrap it with more meat and prawns (cholesterol shooting up like rocket)? Hehe... but turns out, its not that bad. The pork lard is a really thin piece, fried to crisped with luncheon meat and peeled prawns and some century eggs plus vegetables as filling. The texture mix is good with crunchy skins, yummy!

In total, the damage was about RM285.00 inclusive of tea and rice, not too bad for an aircond full service Chinese restaurant, most likely can't eat for the same price in KL, give it a try, but forget about the sing pan fish! Oh ya, this place also serve buddha jump over the wall, but you have to order in advance ;).

GPS: N2 49.258 E101 49.039