Chinese Cuisines at Restoran City Star, Petaling Jaya
I was invited by Ken for dinner together with his friends from Tour2U at Restoran City Star in Taman Mayang, Petaling Jaya during my Kuala Lumpur trip. This double shop lot restaurant owned by Mr CM Wong has a nice and clean environment with one section of the restaurant air-conditioned.
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Penang has a number of stall selling porridge and one particular stall that is worth mentioning is the Tai Buan Porridge. It is housed in a shoplot on Muntri Street serving good rice porridge and side dishes. This Teochew style porridge is very popular and most of the customers are back for return visits.
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CK Lam featured in Guang Ming “We Eat”
I am happy to see myself featured in the “We Eat” section in the Guang Ming Daily published on 29th March 2009. It was indeed an honour to see the full page article of myself having breakfast in Aik Hoe, one of the oldest restaurants in Penang which is well known for its authentic dim [...]
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Penang Restaurant – Cai Xiang Seafood
As a newbie to an area, I would usually choose to patronize the restaurant that is recommended by word of mouth or through the blogs. This time around I chose the Cia Xiang Seafood Restaurant in Bukit Tambun for our family weekend makan outing. This restaurant is nearby the Bukit Tambun Interchange of the North [...]
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Penang Food – Seafood Beehoon and Pork Porridge @Lam Kei
Fancy having a bowl of piping hot seafood beehoon or pork porridge? I had my share over at Lam Kei located in Nam Thean coffee shop along the busy Jalan Jelutong. This stall has been around for thirty-five years with the second generation taking over now. They have another stall selling this similar food inside [...]
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Penang Food | Restoran Hock Chuan Heong Oyster Noodles
Long lunch break on Fridays is certainly a time that we look forward to since we can drive further from our usual place to go for makan. Of course, with the Jelutong Expressway built that connects all the way to Weld Quay, the driving time can be much shorter and we get to spend more time at the food outlet rather than inside the car.
We were heading towards Weld Quay, thinking to have the instant chu char at the when suddenly Tam Ciak suddenly thinks of having having oyster noodles. Immediately, we made a right swerve at the the first traffic light to make a turn into Lebuh McCallum (5th Road or Gor Tiau Lor).
Restoran Hock Chuan Heong is a name that does not need much introduction yet many people might still be wondering where this place is. However, the moment the specialty of this shop is mentioned; oyster noodles or “oh mee“, you will probably can associate this place with the expression, Ahhhhh….
This is one of the few places in Penang that almost everything you order has oysters in it. Yes, it sounds like this restaurant is an oyster house. Just like the , this place has only few specialty dishes and most patrons are here for their specialties.
Needless to say, this is a must when you are coming here to eat. What is the better way to introduce this restaurant if it is not for the fried oyster or the oh chien. The oyster fried in omelet is simply delicious with lots of oyster in it. And the plate of fried oyster itself has less sticky tapioca flour compared to the typical fried oyster elsewhere. You get to taste more of the oyster than the flour which sometimes tastes like glue. Huat Koay declares this is the best fried oyster that he has ever tasted. Well, the others quite agree as well.
This is one of the many specialties in Restoran Hock Chuan Heong, the oyster noodles or the oh mee. The oyster noodles has similar looks like “cheh mee” except this one comes with oysters and lots of it. But then the size of the oysters is not consistent as you can get mixture of small and medium ones on the same plate. Besides oysters, the plate of oh mee also included ingredients like prawns, pig liver, vegetables etc.
Tau Kua Chien or Fried Bean Curd is another simple yet delicious dish that one must order while eating here. Although the tau kua chien consist of three main ingredients of bean curd fried together with leeks (suan nah or sing kia) and prawns, the taste is exceptionally good. The tau kua or bean curd is slightly special as we tasted some 5 spices flavour on the bean curd that makes it slightly different from the regular bean curd.
The fried tang hoon (glass noodles) is slightly wet type and dark in colour. The slight wetness in this fried tang hoon makes it easier to chew and swallow down the throat. It is quite appetizing yet not too salty. With ingredients like prawns, oysters, pig liver and vegetables, this plate of tang hoon is just a nice substitutes to rice for our meal.
The Bak Kee soup is a unique soup so to speak as the bak kee is actually mixture of meat inside tapioca flour which has been fried before being cooked together with the soup. The bak kee or the meat dough can be quite smooth and slippery because of the tapioca flour used. Cabbage is also added to the soup. Tau Hua felt too much starch inside this soup that she prefers to help herself with other dishes instead.
Tam Ciak feels the oyster noodles are much better here but Fei Fei keeps arguing the one at F is much better. But we do agree the fried oyster and tau kua chien are two dishes ought to order when dining here. The tang hoon (glass noodles) deserve to mention as well as it does satisfy our tastebuds where bak kee would be an interesting soup to try on.
344-G-5, Pengkalan Weld,
10300 Penang
Phone: 04-2611004
Business Hours:
12.00pm till 6:30pm
Map to be updated later…
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Penang Food | Nibong Tebal Seafood Porridge
Fei Fei and Tam Ciak always have the impression that Nibong Tebal is like a sleepy town located at the southern part of Seberang Perai, probably because of the less activities on going unlike Georgetown, Bayan Lepas or Seberang Jaya.
Huat Koay has always been trying to prove us wrong or at least shed our believe that this “sleepy” town is not sleepy after all. There will always be lots of activities and when it comes to food, Nibong Tebal can equally offer as much as well. So, during one weekend when we had to discuss abour our events for , we decided to have a meeting at Huat Koay’s hometown to get him show us what Nibong Tebal can offer.
Being a proud local boy, Huat Koay immediately took us to this chu char place upon our arrival at Nibong Tebal. But this is not a chu char place, in fact, this shop serves seafood porridge, tom yam soup and boiled octopus as its hot selling dishes.
Starting from a business in year 2000 that served only 6 tables, this shop has expanded to two shops with table seatings put up extended to neighbouring shoplots. The fruitful results after running the business for 9 years definitely an achievement for this shop. The person handling the cooking, in blue shirt, is the boss himself.
Being a hot spot eating outlet at Nibong Tebal, this seafood porridge restaurant is always filled up with customers, not just locals but also outstation, judging by the different car plates that we observed then.
According to the lady boss, they learnt the skills after working with some chefs for a while before starting their own business here. The initial business model was serving seafood but eventually focussed more on seafood porridge, boiled octopus and tomyam noodle as their specialties.
The decision to focus on few specialty dishes finally pays off with this restaurant keeps attracting endless steam of customers even during weekdays. Both the husband and wife team employs quite a number of helpers as well to help them cope with the constantly high demand. Throughout our dining session there, we could see people keep going in and out, non stop. Amazing!
Boiled octopus is the cheapest we can get so far. At RM6.00 per plate, this is definitely a real bargain compared to or . Of course, fresh octopus is easily available here which makes it cheaper compared to the other two. By the way, on of the tourism activities at Nibong Tebal itself,is you can actually hire a boat and catch your own octopus if you like… Yes, we are not kidding 
The boiled octopus is served with the garlic sprinkled on top which makes the dish looks rather plain. The chilli is served plain as well but you can add peanuts on your own which is available at every table. Besides, chilli, sweet sauce is available as well.
The octopus taste quite chewy with boiling time just right. It is not that hard either.
The seafood porridge (RM30.00) is the dish we have been waiting for. After all, this is a specialty here and of course we do have certain expectations for it too.
For three persons, this bowl looks rather big but in fact the portion is just sufficiently enough for TuaPui. There are quite a lot of ingredients inside this bowl including crabs, prawns, squid, fish etc. It is also added with vegetables and lots of garlic oil which makes this seafood porridge quite fragrant.
If the shells are taken out from the bowl, you can actually see the porridge portion is not that plenty which is why the portion is just right for Huat Koay, Fei Fei and Tam Ciak.
This is the Teochew type porridge where you can see the rice cooked in soup but not too thick like the Cantonese style porridge. Yes, majority of the people in Nibong Tebal are Teochew people or Teochew speaking people, which could have partly influenced this cooking style.
Tam Ciak commented that this place looks pretty much traditional because the porcelain bowls used are quite like those used during younger days. Notice the rooster on the bowl itself, is that not something nostalgic?
With so much seafood ingredients inside the porridge, it feels like eating seafood with porridge rather than porridge with seafood. In hokkien, the literal translation sounds “ciak hai sien pui moi“. Instead of the porridge being the main ingredient, the seafood seems to be the main ingredients in this case.
The seafood ingredients are quite fresh while the porridge is towards salty taste, probably because the seafood being cooked together with the porridge until the taste blends well.
Despite the price tag of RM30.00 per bowl that serves 3 TuaPui(s), this is quite a worthy bowl of seafood porridge that we have at Nibong Tebal. The bowl looks big so that it can hold lots of the seafood ingrediens and if we remove all the ingredients, the porridge itself is not that much. Like what we said earlier, ciak hai sien pui moi….
This place is opened daily except Wednesdays and available from evening onwards. Even though the name card states the business hours starts from 6.30pm till 12.30 am, the lady boss clarifies that you can enjoy the seafood porridge as early as 6pm.
Nibong Tebal Seafood Porridge
967, Jalan Baru,
14300, Nibong Tebal, Seberang Perai Selatan,
Tel: 012-457 2973, 012-531 2265
Closed on Wednesdays
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