Pandamaran Klang - Klang Seafood

Pandamaran was one of the earliest seafood attraction that caught the crowd from PJ and KL rushing to it during the early 90's as far as I can remember. Back then it was just a few seafood restaurant converted from houses. Later when Teluk Gong came up, we see the shift of the city crowds there.

Visited this place over the weekend again, this time I went to Klang Seafood (Kedai Makanan Laut Klang) which is recommended by Soh Cicak. Its one of the many rows of seafood restaurants located on Jalan Nipah. On the way there, I passed by a BKT shop in Pandamaran which I tried once, the BKT there is very unique, no soup, just gravy and very oily, will go there one day and share it here.

Anyway, back to seafood, the place is busy like many seafood establishment in Klang on the weekend. Looks like Pandamaran is still quite happening and popular place to go for seafood. We were there at about 7pm plus and most of the tables are filled.

The waiter came and we started to order, first on are their fried tang hoon which the waiter recommended, steam fish (red carp) with mee hoon, kangkung belacan, pandan chicken, fried egg oyster and kum hiong crabs. The waiter actually told us all the different variety they can serve the crabs with, we decided to go with salted egg crabs but the waiter then whisper and say salted egg is not good, hahaha... we were shocked... he told us what they have and when we wanted it, he said its not good and better don't order! hahahahaha... so we burst out laughing and he defend that he is just being honest but had to do his job and told us what they can offer, funny guy, so we settled for kum hiong as per his recommendation.

First to come are the pandan chicken, basically bits of chicken wrapped in pandan leaf deep fried. To me it taste just like otak-otak, quite unique actually. But its really small piece that you can just pop the whole thing into your mouth :D

Fried oyster with eggs are normal, kangkung belacan are quite tasty too but can't beat the thai style one in Oldtown :P. The fish is not bad, steamed in teow chew style, but I think it would be great if they add more salted vege and make it a little more sour. Tang hoon also normal la.

Last to served are crabs, the kum hiong is a bit different, with a lot of curry leaves, so the kum hiong have a strong hint of curry in them. But the crab size are the small one, I usually prefer the big one.

After the meal, we decided to end it with some fried ice cream. Basically its ice cream wrapped in flour and deep fried. There are different flavors you can choose from but we just took 1 each of the 6 flavors available. We had to eat these fast before it all melts, crispy skins and yummy cold ice cream in them. You can also get these at the SS2 Chow Yang pasar malam or the Cameron Highlands pasar malam.

Bill came to about RM150 for 6 person, prices are ok except for the crabs which are quite costly at this place and I wouldn't rate the crabs as fantastic. Anyhow I had a good time meeting up with friends, sharing about my last hash and later having them over to actually test ride my bike... hehehe. :P

GPS: N3 00.919 E101 25.368

Port Klang - Restoran Tian Lee

Had a late lunch after hashing and everyone was too tired to go to Jack's countryside estate for bbq, so when I finally got hungry later at night, I look up my buddy Cicak in Klang for some food hunting.

He took to port klang town, behind the rows of shops after KFC, next to the houses is where Restoran Tian Lee is located. It looks like a make shift restaurant extended from a house like most makan place in Malaysia. Its almost 10.30pm then and the place is still packed. We one of the only two tables left and sat. This place is famous for their balitong and mee mamak (yes I know, chinese place selling mamak noodles).

I noticed that almost every table will have the balitong, mee mamak as well as their crabs. Balitong are cooked in a spicy sauce while crabs are kum heong. Unfortunately when its our turn to order, they have just finished selling the balitong and we do not feel like crabs that night. So we settled for the mee mamak, top with their restaurant own tofu (chiew pai) and some fried bamboo clams (chuk tan).

After that is pure wait, as I looked around and I noticed that tables that have there before we arrived have not been served yet! So, its then down to beer and chit chat. They have 2 chiefs, an Indonesian looking lady with a Chinese Aunt and a Chinese Lady will be the one preparing the ingredients and managing the kitchen. Even though there aren't too many tables, should be 15 or so, the wait is long. After about 40 mins or more later, our food finally came!

The mee mamak is spicy and I was told the balitong is even spicier! Just like how the mamak did it, its fried with eggs, onions put they added curry and some basil leaves into it. Smells good, taste is ok but super spicy. I was feeling cooling with beer and the nice weather at night, but the moment I down the noodles, I started sweating like mad, that's just how spicy it is!

Next comes their chiew pai tofu, its basically tofu stuffed with pork then fried. After that its top with some sweet and sourish sauce. Sliced cucumbers and crushed peanuts are added to. This is not bad and quite unique, I just wish I haven't taken the mee mamak first, its kills off some of my taste bud, hehehe.

Last are the bamboo clams and they are fried with a thick and nice sauce. Its a little spicy but very tasty. These are the small bamboo clams and this are the type I like, not the big one which have too much juice in them!

The meal came to about RM40 for the 3 dishes plus a big bottle of beer. That's quite ok and reasonable I would say. Nothing is cheap anymore nowadays :P. Will come back to try their balitong and cicak informed me that there are also good fried fish dishes nearby, the next time perhaps :D

Batu Dam Hashing - Appetite Building! PJ - Home Recipe Seafood

Finally it's Wild Geek's 2nd hashing and we are off to Batu Dam to trash our MTBs and drain ourselves! I would say that its a demanding track running through roads, trails by the dam, stream crossings, orchards, estates and secondary jungle. Halfway in there, you ask yourself why are you doing this to torture yourself and you wish that you can immediately zap out of there back home. But at the end of the hash, filled with mud, wounds from leeches and not to mention the heat, it was all worth it. The scenery is amazing in this place, still very much not polluted, the down hill adrenalin was great (even when I fell and "tar kuan tau" at the end, hehe) and everyone had great fun. Will definately be back again! Pix tells it all, here are some of them:

















































































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After the tortures hash, our appetite are all built up, the journey back was bad as we were stuck in a long queue of traffics because motorists are slowing to look at the accident on the other side of the road, arghh... dumb malaysians attitude! Anyhow, we wanted to go to the Segambut Seafood Noodles but took a long turn and after coming out of the traffic jam, we decided to eat in PJ on the way back. Its a simple place near Sect 17 PJ, Restoran Home Recipe Seafood. We ordered 4 dishes, pork belly with salted fish, fried vege, steam salted chicken & bittergound fried with salted egg.

The chicken is good, a bit salty but that's the idea right? Steamed with some herbs like kei chi (small red dates herbs), it's nice to go with rice. The bittergound is not bad either and the rest are so-so, normal. Everything plus drinks comes to RM58, quite standard PJ/KL price.