Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Home Cooked Japanese Foods

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Last Sunday I was blessed with a lovely feast of Japanese home cooked foods. I was surprised by the number of dishes cooked by my friend alone. Read more HERE.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Dim Sum @ Restoran Keyway, Paramount (Dec 08)

* NON - HALAL

I was looking thru a Food Directory book (yes, such book existed and it can be very handy for food "expeditions") few days ago and I spotted Keyway. I remember I ate there before! So I went to search in my picture folders and I found it! It happened on 8th of Dec 2008. It was a lovely Sunday and I met up with Rachel and her family there.

I was told this place has been there for a while. Located across Giant in Paramount Garden, I guess this place is not so hard to find.

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It was a rainy Sunday, a good time to sleep but my passion on "dim sum" made me drove all the way from Cheras to Paramount. I love "dim sum".

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I was pampered with their famous home made fish ball. I took a bite of it, and I loved it. It was pretty good!

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We ordered "the usual" dim sums. Siew Mai, Prawn Dumplings and Pork Ribs. All was not too bad, decent.

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The thing with me and dim sum or sushi is, I tend to "over" order.

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Char Siew "Sou" was not bad either. At this point, as usual, I was full.

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Lastly, someone ordered a "tao sar pao" (red bean bun) for me. When I opened it to 2, I knew it must be good. Look at the fillings! It was good!

The place was very family oriented place with lovely Chinese tea poured by the gentlemen there. Service was okay and price was reasonable. Food... well, decent. Worth for a trip to try if you stay nearby.

Address:
28, Jln 20/16A,
Paramount Garden

Lou Yee Sang @ Tai Thong Imperial City, Cheras (Jan 09)

* NON - HALAL

Tradition is still tradition, CNY-eve dinner is a very important dinner for the family members to get together. The scenario was everyone used to help out in the kitchen to try to cook out an amazing CNY-eve dinner. However, nowadays more people preferred to eat out to lessen the hassle. My family is one of the "more people". We booked our table at Tai Thong Imperial City @ Cheras Plaza. The place was so packed, we were moved to 8.30 pm (2nd session).

Yee Sang was particularly huge. It was pretty good as well.

Suckling pig or Roast Baby Pig. Well, the package came with half of it. Who cares, it was good. Skin was crispy, meat was not too fat and tender. We basically finished the whole thing, from head to tail.

Shark fin was next. Another good one. The soup was thick and filled with crab meats, mushroom and shark fin.

The steamed fish was next. It was okay. It was a bit better than expected. Everyone was rushing to take the dishes out. It was a really busy night at the restaurant.

Next, the prawn cooked with Special Wine Sauce. Prawns were fresh. The thick sauce blends well with the prawns. Lovely dish.

By the time, the "Lap Mei" Rice came, we were all full. I took a bit of it and it was good.

Vege cooked with ham was next. We were overloaded, and I managed to eat a bit. It was okay.

Lastly, the "tong yuen" was the dessert. Interesting enough, they used black sesame as fillings. This were good. I think the usage of "tong yuen" for dessert was really good for festive season like Chinese New Year.

The whole feast was RM 448. The restaurant really worked very hard to deliver the foods. Even though at the busy time like that, they managed to deliver quality foods.

Address:
Ground Floor, Cheras Plaza
Jalan Manis 1, Taman Segar
56100 Cheras
Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-9132 0118, 03-9132 4115