Thursday 24 November 2011

Thai Garden Village (TGV) - Kepong




Intro

picture courtesy of gavincty.blogspot

Thai Garden Village or known as TGV is located in between Kepong Baru and Jinjang Utara. The entrance is located near at the Shell Petrol Station, somewhere in the industrial area behind the World Motor Trade. 


The location was used to be a food court that is closed years ago and the owner of TGV spent a lot in renovation in order to provide the best Thai environment to their customers.


Besides authentic Thai food, TGV also provides BBQ seafood if the customers wish to have a different taste during their visit. The environment is cool enough and the service is good. A very nice experience to enjoy your meal at TGV. Do check out the reviews and websites for more info and picture.

picture courtesy of gavincty.blogspot


Info

Address:
Thai Garden Village
Lot 32713, 6 1/2 Mile, 
Jalan Kepong, 
52000 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 
+60162100351
+60362505519

Business Hours:
Daily   12:00pm to Midnight 

GPS cood:
N3 20.978 E101 65.


Online Reviews

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Wednesday 23 November 2011

Chan Chan YTF - Menjalara

Intro

picture courtesy of vkeong.com

Chan Chan Yong Tau Fu (真真酿豆腐) is one of the many Yong Tau Fu restaurants available around Kepong. It has been receiving a lot of good reviews in the internet via food blogs. Even with the gaining popularity, the food quality still maintained at a very high standard.

Located within the commercial area nearby Tesco Kepong in Menjalara, Chan Chan YTF is often populated with customers in their restaurant that consists of two shop lots. Besides the standard Yong Tau Fu, they also serve side dishes like asam fish, braised yam pork belly etc.

picture courtesy of vkeong.com


Info

Address:
Chan Chan Yong Tau Foo
No. 69, Jalan11/62A,
Bandar Manjalara, Kepong,
52200 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 
+603 62759113

Business Hours:
Mon ~ Sat    11am – 3:30pm; 6 – 9:30pm
Sun               10am – 9:30pm


GPS cood:
N3 11.580 E101 37.830


Online Reviews


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Steakhouses

Steakhouses are always the favourite restaurant to visit with your partner for a candle light dinner or with your families to have a chill out session of all the local chinese food you can find in Kepong area. However, the number of steakhouses in Kepong is very limited and I have seen shops opened and closed business over the years.

List of Steakhouses available around Kepong Area

  • Block House - Menjalara
  • Bull Run Corner (牛魔王)- Menjalara
  • D' fortune - Menjalara
  • Milwaukee - Metro Prima (closed)

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Noodle House

Noodle houses include shops and road side stalls that sell noodles particularly. There are a variety of noodle houses that serve different types of noodles ranging from cheap eatery to premium priced noodles. Such noodles include all time favourite Hokkien style noodle 福建面(大炒), specialty noodle shops that sell specific noodles such as prawn mee, ban mee, wan tan mee etc.

List of Noodle Houses available around Kepong Area

  • Andy Noodle House - Menjalara
  • Emperor Noodle (皇帝面)- Menjalara
  • Face to face Noodle House (面对面) - Metro Prima
  • Hometown Ban Mian (家乡板面)- Menjalara New!
  • Hou Yee Kee Prawn Noodles (好易记虾面)- Jalan Kepong Baru
  • One Noodle (全一拉面茶餐厅) - Desa Park City
  • One Noodle (全一拉面茶餐厅) - Jalan Ambong, Kepong


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Saturday 1 October 2011

Bak Kut Teh

What is the most famous food in Malaysia if it's not other than Bak Kut Teh? Orginated from Klang, this non-halal dish is gaining global popularity among Chinese community around the world of its unique taste and medical properties of various Chinese herbs used.

Original quote from Wikipedia:





Bak kut teh (Chinese肉骨茶Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bah-kut-tê) is a Chinese soup popularly served in MalaysiaSingaporeMainland ChinaTaiwan and the Indonesian island of Riau (where there is a predominant Hoklo and Teochew community) and also, cities of neighbouring countries like Batam of Indonesia and Hat Yai of Thailand.
The name literally translates as "meat bone tea", and, at its simplest, consists of meaty pork ribs simmered in a complex broth of herbs and spices (including star anisecinnamonclovesdang guifennel seeds and garlic) for hours.[1] However, additional ingredients may include offal, varieties of mushroom, choy sum, and pieces of dried tofu or fried tofu puffs. Additional Chinese herbs may include yu zhu (rhizome of Solomon's Seal) and ju zhi (buckthorn fruit), which give the soup a sweeter, slightly stronger flavor. Light and dark soy sauce are also added to the soup during cooking, with varying amounts depending on the variant. Garnishings include chopped coriander or green onions and a sprinkling of fried shallots.
Bak kut teh is usually eaten with rice or noodles (sometimes as a noodle soup), and often served with youtiao / cha kueh [yau char kwai] (strips of fried dough) for dipping into the soup. Soy sauce (usually light soy sauce, but dark soy sauce is also offered sometimes) is preferred as a condiment, with which chopped chilli padi and minced garlic is taken together. Chinese tea of various kinds (the Tieguanyin variety is especially popular in the Klang Valley area of Malaysia) is also usually served in the belief that it dilutes or dissolves the copious amount of fat consumed in this pork-laden dish. Bak kut teh is typically a famous morning meal. The Hokkien and Teochew are traditionally tea-drinking cultures and this aspect runs deep in their cuisines.
Source: Wikipedia


Travelling around Kepong area, it is not hard for you not to spot any Bak Kut Teh stalls along the road. Jalan Kepong itself has at least 4 BKT stalls with different style and taste to be choose from.

List of Bak Kut Teh stalls available around Kepong Area
  • Heng BKT - Taman Kepong
  • Heng Kee Hock Kien Klang BKT - Menjalara
  • Hing Kee (Dry) BKT - Jalan Kepong
  • Ka Ka BKT (家家) - Jalan Kepong
  • Kim Tek BKT - Taman Kepong Indah
  • Liong Kee BKT - Taman Kepong
  • Mo Sang Kor BKT (毛山稿)- Metro Prima
  • Seng Lee Claypot BKT - Taman Bukit Maluri
  • Pao Xiang BKT - Metro Prima
  • Yap Tong Klang BKT - Aman Puri
  • 顺香 Shun Heong BKY - Jinjang Selatan
  • More adding soon!


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Yong Tau Fu

Yong Tau Fu is a famous Hakka dish favourited by Chinese people as well as other ethnics in Malaysia. It is so famous until I need a special post for it instead of grouping it together in the restaurant post. While Kepong area has famous Jalan Ipoh Hakka Yong Tau Fu, there are also many other good YTF restaurants that are recommended for all Kepong folks to try. The price for each piece may vary from RM0.80/piece till RM2/piece, while the portion is very subjective.

As quoted in Wikipedia:

Yong tau foo ( also spelled yong tao foo, yong tau fu, or yong tau hu yong tofu) is a Chinese soup dish with Hakka origins commonly found in ChinaSingaporeThailand and Malaysia. There are also Teochew and Hokkien variations.
In Malaysia, the Ampang region of Kuala Lumpur is particularly famous for this dish. It is ubiquitous in Singapore food courts, too. Essentially the dish originated in the early 1960s in a restaurant called "Chew Kuan" as tofu stuffed with a meat paste of fish and pork, thereby earning the dish its name "Yong Tau Foo," which means "stuffed bean curd." Since then all variety of vegetables and even fried fritters have been similarly stuffed, and the name Yong Tau Foo has thus been used liberally to apply to foods prepared in this manner.
Yong tau foo is essentially a clear consomme soup containing a varied selection of food items including fish ballscrab sticksbittergourdscuttlefishlettuceladies fingers, as well as chilis, and various forms of fresh produce, seafood and meats common in Chinese cuisine. Some of these items, such as bittergourd and chili, are usually filled with fish paste (surimi). The foods are then sliced into bite-size pieces, cooked briefly in boiling broth and then served either in the broth as soup or with the broth in a separate bowl. The dish is eaten with chopsticks and a soup spoon and can be eaten by itself (served with a bowl of steamed rice) or with any choice of egg or rice noodles, or bee hoon (rice vermicelli). Another variation of this dish is to serve it with laksa gravy or curry sauce. Essential accompaniments are spicy, vinegary chili sauce, similar to Indonesian sambal oelek, and a distinctive brown sweet bean sauce or hoisin sauce for dipping.
In Malaysia, the Malay Muslims have taken to yong tau foo in a big way. As pork consumption is prohibited for Muslims, halal yong tau foo is generally soy based or stuffed vegetable fritters or steamed bean curd with fish paste stuffing. To prepare the dish, these, a steamed rice-flour roll (similar to that used for chee cheong fun) and a vegetable called kangkong are boiled to heat and soften them. The food items are drained and eaten with sprinkled toasted sesame seeds, chili sauce and a hoisin based sauce. Another version commonly found in Perak state is the soup type where the food items are served in a broth and provided with chili sauce and hoisin based sauce dipping. Halal yong tau foo is normally sold by Malay vendors at night markets (pasar malam) and at halal food courts by non-Muslim vendors.


Source: Wikipedia

List of Yong Tau Fu restaurants available around Kepong Area
  • Chan Chan YTF - Menjalara
  • E Sou YTF - Menjalara
  • Kepong Baru Hakka YTF - Kepong Baru
  • Jalan Ipoh YTF - Jalan Ipoh
  • Jalan Ipoh YTF - Jinjang
  • Jalan Ipoh YTF - Metro Prima
  • More adding soon!




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Steamboat

Steamboat restaurants has become a hit recently especially in Kepong with many restaurants starting their business by introducing many different kinds of steamboat, be it buffet or non-buffet style. Majority of the steamboat restaurants located at Menjalara and Metro Prima. Good and bad reviews are all available through various food blogs and can be your reference in choosing the best steamboat restaurant that suits your need. The list of steamboat will be break down into buffet style or non-buffet style for easy navigation.

List of Steamboat restaurants available around Kepong Area

Buffet Style
  • Happy BBQ Steamboat - Metro Prima
  • Momo Paradise - Menjalara
  • QQ BBQ Steamboat - Metro Prima
  • More adding soon!

Non-Buffet Style
  • BBQ Plaza - Jusco Kepong
  • Happy City Steamboat - Metro Prima
  • Ho Ho Steamboat (Pulau Ketam) - Menjalara
  • Hometown Steamboat - Menjalara (New!)
  • Jonny's Steamboat - Jusco Kepong
  • Ketam Steamboat - Menjalara
  • Ketam Village - Desa Park City
  • Tai Tao Steamboat - Menjalara
  • The Wharf Steamboat - Menjalara
  • Yen Shabu-shabu - Menjalara
  • More adding soon!



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Restaurant

Restaurants will never be less in a heavily populated residential area like Kepong. I will break down the list of restaurants according to type of food and hopefully the list can be as complete as possible and easy to navigate.

List of Restaurants available around Kepong Area (According to Food Type)

Chinese Cuisine
  • Big Big Bowl (Hakka) - Metro Prima
  • China Man Restaurant - Metro Prima
  • De Foodland Seafood Restaurant
  • Fat Boon Restaurant (肥仔文)- Jalan Kepong Baru
  • Fatt Kee Restaurant (发记甲洞饭店)- Menjalara
  • Hee Loi Den Restaurant (喜来登酒楼)- Jinjang Utara
  • Hoi Kee Restaurant (海记)- Jinjang Utara
  • Huan Kee Restaurant (焕记)- Jalan Kepong Baru
  • Lui Cha King Restaurant (客家擂茶)- Kepong Baru
  • Must Love Restaurant (人人爱)- Menjalara
  • Nice Soup Gang Restaurant (炖汤)- Taman Daya
  • Sai Kong Restaurant (西公)- Kepong Baru
  • Siong Ben Soup House (上品炖汤饭店) - Menjalara
  • Sin Choi Wah Restaurant (新翠华)- Menjalara
  • Tai Dee (大弟海鲜饮食店) - Bukit Sri Bintang
  • Tai Hau Fook Restaurant (大口福)- Metro Prima
  • Tai Thong Odeon Restaurant (大同酒家)- Kepong Baru
  • Thong Lung sang Seafood Restaurant (隆记海鲜饭店) - Metro Prima
  • Yuan Kee Seafood Restaurant (源记)- Jalan Kepong Baru
Indian Cuisine

Indonesian Cuisine

Japanese Cuisine
  • Niji Sushi Restaurant - Menjalara
Korean Cuisine
  • Daorae Korean BBQ Restaurant - Metro Prima
  • Or-ju Korean Restaurant - Metro Prima (shifted to Rawang)
Malay Cuisine

Nyonya Cuisine
  • Red Door Cafe & Restaurant - Jusco Kepong
Thai Cuisine
Vegetarian
  • Ba Xian Vegetarian Restaurant - Jalan Kepong Baru
  • Shui Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant - Kepong Baru
Vietnamese
  • Kah Hing Restaurant - Taman Sri Sinar
Western Cuisine
  • Bel Pestro Pizza Itallian Restaurant - Metro Prima
  • Block House - Menjalara
  • Bull Run Corner(牛魔王) - Menjalara
  • D'Fortune - Menjalara
  • Silver Spoon Trattoria - Menjalara

Others/Speciality
  • Brilliant Nasi Lemak House - Metro Prima


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