O'Viet Vietnamnese, Sunway Pyramid.

Vietnamese food is something that I seldom have. Not because I don't enjoy it but just that its not so readily available everywhere and it found mostly in the malls. Somehow I seem to like many of the servings as they seem to taste pretty healthy to me. I guess its what you order. O'Viet is loacted at one of the floors at the Pyramid skating ring. Was browing thru the menu and the only few things that look familiar to me. The Vietnamese style coffee and the Summer/paper rolls were among them. Also ordered the vegetable with seafood noodle and the combo platter.
The coffee was a dissapointment. I remember that at previous places the coffee done this way is comes very thick. I guess this place is not so generous on the coffee powder.
The combo platter comes with fried lamb, chicken and prawns sprinkled with fried peanuts. I especially enjoyed the taste of fired chicken with the peanuts. The summer rolls were ok. Nice and plain without any bad after taste.
The seafood noodles was definately the highlight. As there was only two of us, I didn't order many things and the food here also don't come in large portions. The combo which they is meant for 2-3 people is actually mean for 1 person (maybe only me).
Dinner at this place turned out to be average. Nothing really much to look forward for a next visit. I guess I may not be coming back.....

Bak kut teh, Bukit Raja Klang.

In Klang, there is two wonders of the world, the seafood and Bak Kut Teh (and necessarily in that order). If the BKT in Klang is not good they will not stay in business for long. One of the theory that they teach in management school is to enhance your core competencies so that you can deliver an excellent product to your customers. What better example is that the BKT in Klang. All BKT shops in Klang only sells BKT or the latest variation of it the dry BKT nothing else. They are so good in selling just one product that they had improvised and improved on it multifold over that not other place in the Klang Valley can duplicate their core competency. Whilst only selling one core product, the BKT business can control cost in storage and have economics of scale in buying raw products from their supplier. With less cost, profits margin increases if they can sell the same quantity as before. Its big business selling BKT and no wonder almost everyone is opening it everywhere else in the Klang Valley.
As for me to have the best BKT, I will always head towards the course if it.... Klang of course.

Ah Lim Seafood Restaurant, Kota Kemuning.

Kota Kemuning seem to be an isolated housing project between Klang and KL so I alway seem to think that its not a place to have good food. Was some how coaxed into going to have dinner there the other day. My friend recommended this place as it was the only chinese 'tai chow' still operating in the area. As entered this place, there this lady taking our order whom looked very familiar but I can't seem to put her face on where I seen her. Anyway proceeded in ordering dinner. Had the soya sauce prawns (big ones too), salted egg crab, claypot tauhu, patin steam fish and some vegetables. I must say the food was good which was not that surprising to me as the shop was almost full of customers. Initially I thought it was the only chinese place in Kota Kemuning but it was not. The food was good.
After half way thru dinner I remembered this where I had seen the lady, this lady use to operated at USJ16 from a corner coffee shop a "tai chow" stall. As I remembered it, there food was very good. I always wondered where they moved to because the last time I was in USJ16 to look to this place they had moved.
As we finished the meal, my other friends were still hungry. So we ordered the Hookien Meehoon and salted mantis prawns. I thought that the soya sauce large prawn and the salted mantis prawns were the highlight of the dinner. I definately recommend this two things to anyone going to this place.
Well I was lucky to bump into them again. Maybe this is a start of my many visits there.

Restoran EPL, Sunway.

Duringone of my meet ups with some friends, the discussion ws on where we would have lunch. I was told that there was this coffee shop in Sunway that served decent pork noodles. So made our way there. The place was named Restaran EPL. Don't know why but maybe the propriater is an ardent English football fan. We ordered two version of it, one with egg and the other without, with everything in it. Well what can I say, with pork the secret of any good tasting meal lies in its lard. They had enough fried lard in it too make it taste good. It tasted damn good with all that lard. I have to get my cholesterol checked soon.

Lan Je Talapia Fish, Rawang.

Made a trip back to the in-laws places over the weekend. There was this place that in Rawang that sells only steam Talapia fish as its main product and they only serve it steamed. This place so pack with customers over dinner that you think they must serve so fantastic food over there. The size of the talapia fish is just about the size of the adult palm. As I understand this fish is a very cheap fish. I use to buy 3 Talapia for about RM5 when I was running a eatery in Tanjong Malim. But this place is prcing it at RM13 per fish. I can imagine thier profit margin.
Back to the food, talapia is a fresh water fish. If not cooked properly you taste the "muddy" taste of the fish when eat it. This place steam this fish well with enough ginger and chilly that it there non of this taste in the fish. I must admit that the steamed talapia they serve is quite tasty (no wonder there lots of people!). The fish meat is not only fresh but the secret lies in the gravy the fish is served in. Not too salty and the ginger not too overpowering.
They have many other dishes you can order but they specialing in only the steam talapia and imagine with that alone it can attract so many customers everyday in a small town to this place.

New Paris SS2, PJ.

I have not been to this place for ages since I had moved away from Damansara. As I was invited for dinner at this place, I jumped at the opportunity. From my previous memory this placed served pretty decent foos at affordable prices. The speed of your order comes also seem to be very fast even when the place is packed. I don't know how they do it. This place seems to be alsways packed even during weekdays.
When I arrived there, the food was already ordered. They had some dishes that I can remember like champagne chicken. The rest well my first time having. I especially liked the deep fried pork trotters. It had very little oil in it, all drained out I guess after frying. Another one that I especially like was the yam "fut putt" with mantis prawns. This is new to me. All this while I normally have yam with assorted nuts, vegetable and chicken in it. It was nicely done with the mantis prawns.
This place is sure awesome and consistant with its food after so many years.