Hence, since both of us haven’t have our dinner yet, we head straight to it!

The menu is full of dishes, and I totally don’t know what to order. Everything is ordered based by instinct. And luckily, no waiter stand besides us, using his mind force to push us to order ASAP. I slowly read around the menu, but still I am being overwhelmed on what to order.

The only thing I know to order is beer……

Claypot seafood, which taste not bad. 6.5/10

I forget the exact name of this dish, but it’s mantis prawns with salt or something, and it taste awesome! Although the mantis prawns are being deep fried, but the meat is still juicy and taste great! 8.2/10

The deep fried chicken wing taste solid too. 7.0/10

Oh ya, this is certainly one of the few place where it’s pack, and yet we are not rushed by the waiter. I and LY can slowly chat and drink, and enjoying our food at the same time.

When we found that we had sat for too long, and decided to take away some of the unfinished food, the waiter even tell us to slowly eat and don’t rush. It was like a culture shock for me as in almost every places I dine in, I always felt that I am being rushed in everything.

Total Damage: Should be around 250HKD

Operating Hours: 6pm to 12am

Location: Tang Lung street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Again, here I present, the single food that I loved the most in the central region, the most mouth watering, and consider my top of the list food to be eated every time I go down to Kuala Lumpur, Lan Je Steamed Tilapia!!!!

This time, I visited their Kota Damansara branch instead of their main one in Rawang, simply because Rawang is just too far. Like in the past, I always visited a popular restaurant early, as in way early until I am the 1st few customers. This ensure that I don’t need to stand and wait for a table, or getting bad service due to business too good, or being need to dine uncomfortably due to someone standing beside and staring at me and waiting me to leave ASAP so that he can have my table, etc etc…..

Again, it doesn’t disappoint me. The taste is still the same, I still absolutely love it, and finish up the whole fish myself, and even LY’s one. Both plate, the gravy are dried up, with only the bones there….it’s just too yummylicious!!!!!

Only thing that I would complaint is my fish portion is a bit too big, and hence the meat is not as nice. 9.9/10

Oh ya, before I forget, I opt for their extra spicy version, while LY’s one is the normal spicy version, hence you can see that at the 1st picture, my fish got more chillies than LY’s one.

A HQ with 3 branches up till now.

I really miss those days where I am staying in Rawang, and I can eat my favourite food any time I want. Haizz…..

Total Damage: RM40++ for 2 person

Location: F-50G & 51G, Jalan Teknologi 3/9 Bistari “DE” Kota, Kota Damansara PJU 5, Selangor

Contact: 012 – 380 9391 / 012 – 932 9391

Although the restaurant was just newly repainted, but it still gives me an old old feeling when I am here.

Since we are in a chicken rice restaurant, ordering chicken is a must right? So here are the chickens, both the roasted and the steamed one.

However, the chicken is sorta disappointment. When you dine in a restaurant named as XXX chicken rice restaurant, you will definitely expect the chicken will be good, as it is definitely their signature dish. However, this does not apply to Tho Yuen here. No, I am not complaining that their chicken is bad, just that it’s too normal and average, nothing special to shout about. Maybe the chicken RICE is good, but we didn’t try it though. 7.0/10

Forget the chicken, this is what I came here for.

Yes, steam fish head with hor fun. This is extremely good, with the wonderful soy sauce used, and the natural sweetness that came from the fresh fish, oh god, this is good. No, this is AWESOME! I absolutely love it! However, this dish must be eaten when it’s just being served and still hot, or else the hor fun will become too sticky and won’t taste nice anymore. 9.0/10

Next up – braised duck and ginger with sang mee. This one was good too as the gravy is very flavorful and tasty. The duck meat itself is very tender too. 7.5/10

The signboard clearly stated “Tho Yuen Chicken Rice”.

Anyway, the food here is good, which explain the crowd too. I will most probably be back soon for their Dim Sum.

Total Damage: RM40 for 2 person

Operating Hours: 6 AM to 3 PM

Location: Campbell Street, Penang

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One of the most famous restaurant is Rung Reang, a restaurant even known by few of my friends from Kuala Lumpur.

The crowd here is amazing. We reach there around at 9 PM, and almost all table were full. We were also told that we need to wait quite long for our food.

While waiting patiently, we had some satay @ RM6 from the nearby stall, which is quite a good snack to munch around since the waiting time is really long. 6.8/10

After 1 hour of waiting, finally, our food arrive!

Kerabu mango with chicken feet, however, I feel that the kick in this is not as strong as how it should be, most likely because it ain’t sour enough. 6.8/10

Otak otak with assorted seafood. Like in many cases, although they are generous in the amount of the seafood given, I will much much prefer if the otak otak itself was more. 7.3/10

The thai style prawns is amazingly good though. Although the prawns given is quite small, but I absolutely love the gravy of it! 8.5/10

Thai style steam fish, 1 of my most order fish whenever I visit a restaurant serving Thai food, just because I am a fish lover! The steam fish here is not bad, but I will prefer it to be spicier and sourer (again!), and if only fresher fish were used too. 7.2/10

Overall, the food here is ok la, just that I won’t travel 1 hour ++ just to dine here again in the future, nor it’s worth waiting 1 hour for them.

Total Damage: RM72.70

Operating Hours: 6 PM to 11 PM

Location: Jitra, Kedah

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1 of my favorite restaurant here in Bukit Tambun will be Restaurant Floating.

Like all other seafood restaurant here, you can choose which seafood you want before you are seated. Don’t expect to find something like geoduck or snow crab here though.

The restaurant is not named as Restaurant Floating for nothing, it’s actually floating on the huge man made pond with loads of fish swimming underneath it.

The “personal fun club”.

Ba li dong, my mum favorite dish. It’s a type of shell fish which you need to put in your mouth and suck the meat out from the shell. I had absolutely no idea what it’s called in English, anyone can enlightened me? I am not a huge fan of this basically because I will be frustrated if I can suck nothing out from the shell even when I suck until my face gone red, while I see others can enjoy eating it. Well, guess I am not a good sucker eh? Anyway, luckily for me that day, the ba li dong is very fresh, and I can suck all of them out easily! 7.0/10

Although we are here for seafood, it won’t hurt to have some vegetables eh? The kangkung belacan here is quite normal though. 6.5/10

Next dish up was the salted egg crab, and although it taste okay, I am a bit disappointed by it. It’s not fragrant enough and I can’t really taste the salted egg. 6.7/10

Finally my favorite dish here was on the table, Lemon Steamed Fish. It taste a bit like thai style steamed fish, but it’s way more sour hence way more appetizing. While the fish is definitely fresh, the amazing gravy can easily made someone eat more rice than he wanted. 8.5/10

We also order some mantis, which turn out to be great! Although the size of the mantis is not that big, but due to it’s freshness and the natural sweetness of the mantis itself, it is just awesome!

However, there is 1 thing I hate to dine here, the flies! We always need to use our hand to scare the flies away while dining or else they will just share our food with us! Grrrr….look at how many flies are there when we finish our meal and just let them stay there. GOSH!

Total Damage: RM130.30 for 3 person

Operating Hours: 5.00 PM to 10 PM

Contact: 04- 588 3063

Location: Lot 2400, Jalan Bukit Tambun (The restaurant is on your right when you are driving towards the end of Bukit Tambun. Turn right when you saw a huge factory look like building on your right)

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The owner of this stall actually shifted few place when they just started business, and finally they had settle down here at Restaurant 398 at Taman Intan for some time. I still love their Thai style steamed fish here. They use charcoal to make sure the soup of the fish is always hot. You can also always ask for extra soup if you wish, as that’s what I do all the time, as I absolutely love it. Thanks to the chef choosing not to skip the ingredients, the soup is wonderful, hot spicy and sour enough, although there’s sometime I wish it was even more spicy. Besides, they do have white cabbage under the fish, which is really nice. 8.0/10

Besides the fish, the otak-otak here is something I love too. Again, thai style otak-otak is totally different from Malaysia version one, as they use more seafood to cook it instead of fish only. Thai style otak-otak usually have prawns, squid, fried fish and sometimes even crab meat inside. Marvelous! I actually love the otak-otak itself more rather than all the seafood in it. 8.3/10

Stir Fried vegetables with salted fish is quite good too. 7.5/10

Thai style fried clams with basil leaf is good, as I always love this type of cooking style. Yummy, how i wish the clams are bigger with more meat! 8.1/10

Restaurant 398, located at Taman Intan, Sungai Petani. It may look old and small, but goodie Thai food is available here!

Operating Hours: 6pm to 11pm

Location: Lebuh Intan, Sungai Petani, Kedah

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However, in terms of customers, Sai Gao always had the upper hand. I had also notice most of the time Sai Gao is the first choice of most customers, and only if they can’t find a place there then they will only opt for Restaurant Bi Ah Dong. Besides, whenever Sai Gao is off, the business here will be tremendously good.

However, I still love both restaurant, and I find that both of them got their specialties that make me always come back to them.

They had a few ready cooked dishes, such as those you found in economy rice stall, and the beancurd below is 1 of them. Although it’s cold already (duh obviously) but it still taste nice. Even though the skin is not crispy, but the gravy is good. I take it as an appetizer before my meal. 7.5/10

The eggplant is another ready made dish. However, I find that it’s so-so only as it’s a bit tasteless. But still, ok la. 6.2/10

Although Char Siew and Roasted Pork are their specialty, but it’s not good. Well, it’s not that bad, but when you claim it’s you specialty and always promote to your customer, your customer will except something really good, which is not the case here. The roasted pork is just plain normal, but the Char Siew is lacking of taste, not sweet enough. 5.5/10

Ahh, my favorite dish, also 1 of their specialty, steamed fish with dao cheong. It’s a lovely dish, and the gravy goes really well with rice. The fish is fresh too, besides, you can also opt for extra beancurd on it. If you are a spicy food lover, you can ask them to put extra chili to make it even more appetizing! 8.4/10

The interior of here is definitely better than Sai Gao, with same great food (well, to be honest, Sai Gao better la) and a cheaper price. Besides, they do have a room with air-corn, and although its a small room which can only accommodate 5 tables or so, but most people tend to sit outside so finding a place inside ain’t really that hard.

Sigh at the name….really tak faham why la some restaurant, the Chinese name and English name totally different one. Sigh…..

Total Damage: RM30 for 2 person

Operating Hours: 11 AM to 3 PM

Location: Jalan Petri, Sungai Petani, Kedah

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The restaurant is small and old, but this never stopped people from coming to them. However, since it’s always packed, I really had to complained that it’s not really fun to have dinner there especially these days when the weather is god damned hot! All of us were sweating badly and we swear on them inside our heart on why they don’t want to invest a bit more on fan to make their customer feel more comfortable. It might be better if we came later, but since we arrive there around 6pm, the sun is still godly bright and awesomely hot…..grrr!

However, they do serve some nice Teochew food, luckily.

We start our hot dinner with a good bowl of hot pork and peanut soup. It taste good, and only if pork tail was used instead of pork ribs and lean meat. 6.5/10

The stir fried tofu here is highly recommended. The tofu was deep fried until the skin is very crispy while the inside maintain soft. A simple dish but was cook to perfection! 7.5/10

The pai kuat ong (sweet sour pork ribs) here is goodie stuff too. The pork is deep fried outside, and the meat is tender and soft. The sweetness is just good enough for you to increase your carbs (rice) intake. 7.3/10

Last but not least, the most recommended dish here is the Teowchew style steamed stingray. I saw many table order this type of steamed fish too, however, I must say I am sorta disappointed with it. Reason is the soup given is way way way too little. I am thinking did they spilled out most of the soup when they bring it out from the kitchen or what that is it that lead to such little soup. The soup do taste good, but it’s not that awesome yet. Maybe the cook is having a bad day? Besides, the fish was a bit overcooked too. I might give them another chance in the future though. 6.5/10

Overall, the food here is not bad. They seems to have many loyal eaters, and almost every time I pass by the restaurant, it’s full house. So if you are out of luck, you might have to stand and wait for a place since tables are limited.

Total Damage: RM40

Operating Hours: 11am – 3pm and 6pm – 10pm

Location: Jalan Pasar, Bukit Mertajam, Penang

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However, upon reaching there, it makes me feel awesome. Although the beach here ain’t the best in Penang, neither is the sand is white and soft, nor the sea is crystal clear, but it do gives a very nice feeling. Firstly it’s a fish village, and the owner of Good Friend Seafood are fisherman for the past few generations. You can see loads of fishing boat line up along the beach. Secondly, the restaurant is located at the beach itself, and being able to dine at a beach is really wonderful!

I was told that besides the extremely fresh seafood, the satay here is good stuff too.

And yes, it doesn’t disappoints me. The satay came at rm0.70 per stick, but the size is bigger than those outside. Besides, it doesn’t come with any sauce since the gravy was already on top of the satay itself. 7.2/10

Stir fried crunchy vegetables, nothing special, but just nice to open our stomach for the incoming seafood. 6.1/10

Chi Lei might not be everyone’s meat, but its good for me as long it’s fresh. Poke out the meat by a small toothpick, go it with some Thai sweet and sour chili sauce, awesome! 7.0/10

To be honest, I always hate clams soup, no matter how it was cooked, as long as it was soup based, I hate it. The reasons is it’s damned hard to find really really fresh clams and even if 99% fresh clams are used to cook, it will still have some bad smell and spoil the whole dish! However, I decided to give myself another chance to have clam soup here. Reasons is I trusted that fisherman will only choose the freshest seafood to cook, and I am lucky that I made the correct decisions.

The clams used is really really really fresh. The whole bowl of soup doesn’t gives even a minor mud taste or anything, it’s just taste fresh and sweet! 4 of us basically bottom up the whole bowl of soup. 7.8/10

The sweet and sour crab here is not bad too, goes really well with rice. 7.0/10

1 of the must order dish here is the Siam style steamed Stingray. It’s certainly 1 of the best steamed fish I had ate before, really “mou dak deng”. The dish is cooked with salted vegetables, cabbage, chilies, ginger, onion, and it gives a really superb taste. My only complaint is there ain’t any fire under the plate to keep the soup hot all the time. Besides, if only better fish were used…..hmmmmmmmmm. 8.5/10

If you come early here, you can have a walk around the beach after your dinner, and enjoy watching sunset with your spouse/fiance/girlfriend/mum/daughter. If you don’t mind, you can bring a carpet here, and have a mini picnic eating satay.

Although Good Friend Seafood is quite far from the town, but it still attracts loads of customers, so do make a reservation especially on weekends or public holiday.

Overall, the food here is not bad, but all of them is extremely superbly fresh. Price wise it’s quite cheap too, and with such a great view here, it’s definitely a good place for dinner with your family or friends.

Total Damage: RM65.60 (Thai style steam stingray @ RM16, Clam Soup @ RM8, Sweet and sour crab @ RM24, Chi Lei @ RM8, Vegetables @ RM8)

Operating Hours: 6pm to 10pm (Closed on Tuesday)

Contact: 04-6491403

Location: 84, MK9, Teluk Kumbar, 11920 Pulau Pinang. (It’s located behind the closed down yellow bus station, opposite of Yong Zhen School)

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I absolutely love this place as it was far away from town, and gives 1 some very good feel, the kampung (village) feel.

Happily swimming fish waiting to be catch and cooked and eated.

The small atap house there is where the place where you going to dine in. The place is quite small with only 10 tables available, and even the land is not cement!

Clear peaceful river, not deep enough to swim though.

Lake full with fish inside, either to be used and cook by the restaurant owner, or sold it to others.

Another lake, I really love the scenery here.

1 must be warned that there are many dogs straying around here. It seems that all of them was owned by the owner as all the dogs had a tag on them. However, all of them was not chained up, but fortunately, I was never chased or barked by them.

The crowd here usually starts after 12.30pm, so come earlier to avoid them!

The choices of fish here is not much however, as only fresh water fish was served. You can choose from Tilapia, Patin, Bak Suk Kung or Sutan only. Method of cooking is usually fried, steamed or thai style only too. However, since the fish here are absolutely fresh, they should be cooked that way so that you can taste the freshness and sweetness of the fish to it max.

Deed fried Sutan Fish. The fish was fried deeply until the outside of it was very crunchy, but was not over fried until the meat hardened. Besides, the fish scale of this fish can be consumed too,  and it taste nice! 8.8/10

Steamed bak suk kung, taste nice as this dish is all up to the freshness of the fish. 8.2/10

While the method of cooking this steamed patin is normal, but I hate this fish. I just don’t like the texture of the meat, and the fish is too fat to my liking. I will never ever order patin again in the future. 4.0/10

Besides fish, you don’t have any choice of other meat already. So 1 can opt for steamed mushroom if they wish. Although the mushroom is fresh and sweet, but I find that the taste of the fish had overpower it, leading to this steamed mushroom become normal only. 6.1/10

Stir fried Yau Mak, normal lo. 6.5/10

Since it’s quite far to come here especially if you are from Penang, it’s good to give them a call before you start your journey.

You must also prepare a very bumpy ride to the restaurant. Driver car with high clearance, and avoid driving car with lowered springs and low bodykit, or you will have a hard time to drive in there, and your car will definitely be scratched. The entrance is pretty small, so do notice their small green sign board at the entrance. It takes around 5 to 10 minutes to reach the restaurant itself from the entrance. If you never come here before, you might think you had gone the wrong way, but don’t u-turn back, just head straight and at every junction, there will be a small sign board tell you where to turn. Be WARNED again, the road is very bumpy and narrow.

Total Damage: Deep Fried Sutan Fish – RM32, Steamed  Bak Suk Gung – RM36, Steamed Patin – RM28, Stir Fried Yau Mak – RM6, Steamed Mushroom – RM6

Operating Hours: 11.30am to 6pm (Closed on Monday)

Location: No.168 Seberang Sungai, Kampung Baru, Sungai Kob, Kulim, Kedah.  You will pass by Kulim High Tech Industrial Park on your way to there. Look for Petronas/Caltex Sungai Kob. (GPS coordinate: N05, 25.654 , E100, 38.511).

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