Minimalist interior breakfast & brunch restaurant that offers quite a variety of breakfast you could think of. Pretty insta-worthy for those who enjoys taking pictures.
Note: This is a self service restaurant so do remember to collect your orders and clean up your mess after you’ve finished your meal!
Fluffy Kid (RM 17)
Lightly seasoned, not too much wow factors about this but if you don’t feel like having carbs this is a pretty good option to go for.
Scrambled eggs were fluffy as promised however the diced luncheon meat was a little mushy. The side salad was crisp, fresh and delicious!
Like Burger Like Sandwich (RM 20)
One thing I love about this place is that that they don’t use regular white breads in their menu but hearty & healthy ones like this one right here, Purple Chia Seed Toast. The pork loin in the sandwich was pretty juicy.
Multigrain Toast (RM 14)
A simple yet filling choice for vegetarian diners. Generous spread of avocado with a sunny side up.
Didn’t tried any of their drinks because we wanted to go elsewhere for coffee.
Might probably visit this place again but not anytime soon.🤷🏻♀️
Khunthai was founded in 1999 by a local family from Butterworth, Penang who simply loves Thai cuisine. To enhance the dining experience, they’ve been keeping it real by creating a cozy Thai village ambiance while playing popular Thai music at the background. The dishes on their menu were mainly simple and comforting authentic Thai cuisine selling at a reasonable price.
Note: To keep their concept as authentic as possible, even their staffs are 100% Thai!
As there’s no way I could drive all the way up to Penang to dine at their first restaurant, I decided to try the nearest outlet which is at Petaling Jaya.
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Fish Cake (RM15 / 5 pieces, RM 28 / 10 pieces) – Very aromatic; I enjoyed the lemongrass and lime leaves in it which simply takes it to a delicious level.
Prawn Cake (RM15 / 5 pieces, RM 28 / 10 pieces) – Its pretty similar to crab cakes except there a little more crunch in it from the diced prawns. Really crispy on the outside and juicy inside!
Prawn Cake with Salted Egg Yolk (RM 14 / 2 nos) – Its the same as the regular Prawn Cake except this one was stuffed with salted egg yolk.
Pandan Chicken (RM15 / 5 pieces, RM 28 / 10 pieces) – The chicken was moist, tender, packed with refreshing pandan aroma encased in the leaf.
This otak – otak was really one of a kind although traditionally, it should be wrapped with banana leaf instead of aluminium foil. It was a lot more rich and creamier in flavors than our local otak – otak. I’d recommend this if you’re in a group of 2 to 3 person.
Chap Oong Omelette (RM 10)
Simple yet delicious. Thai-styled fried eggs are always fluffy and crispy. We ordered this to pair with the otak-otak.
Kapal Tofu with Basil Leaves (RM 10 / small , RM15 / big)
Pretty generous with the mixed vegetables, the tofu was fried then braised to perfection. You definitely got to get a few spoonful of the sauce for your rice as it was very flavorful with wonderful flavors of the holy basil leaves. Yes, its called Holy Basil Leaves.
Laab Gai – Northern Thai Style Sauteed Mince Chicken (RM 12 / small , RM 16 / big)
For anyone who’s looking for a healthier dish, this is to go for. Its pretty light and refreshing with just the right amount of heat and raw onions to give good crunch to it. Probably one of the healthiest warm chicken salad you’ll ever have.
Claypot Glass Noodles with Prawns (RM 18 / small , RM 25 / big)
We ordered small and was surprised how ‘small’ their portion was! I’d say its a portion for 2. I’ve also got to admit that these noodles were pretty addictive and beautifully braised. Look at the size of the prawns! There were more prawns beneath the noodles.
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We ended our meal with BIG bowl of Tab Tim Grop or also known as Red Rubies loaded with sliced jackfruits, jellies and the crunchy diced chestnuts. It was sweet, refreshing and delicious. Perfect to have on a sunny day or after a spicy meal!
Overall it was a remarkable lunch, if you’d like to check out there menu click here!
Khunthai Authentic Thai Restaurant Address: No.6, Jalan 5/44 & Off Jalan Gasing, Petaling Garden, 46000 Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Opening Hours: 10AM – 12AM daily Contact Number: +60 3-7781 7523
Healthy Eating, Healthy Living Roadshow was from 2nd to 7th October 2018 at IPC Shopping Centre for friends and family to participate in fun and exciting activities.
I wasn’t there just for the fun and games but to also learn about the wonders of cooking with PHILIPS Premium All-In-One Multi Cooker as we were told that Chef Sidney Kan will be preparing 6 dishes within an hour! That sounds almost too good to be true but he has proved the crowds wrong.
Here are the 6 dishes Chef Sidney has prepared along with the recipes and steps:
1. Beancurd Soup ‘Tou Foo Kang’
Ingredients
1 liter of Chicken/Vegetable Soup (can be freshly prepared with PPC in advance)
1 bowl of Fresh Bean Curd (freshly made with PPC)
5 pieces of Crab Sticks (cut into cubes)
20 gram Shimeji Mushrooms
100 gram Peeled Prawns (chopped into pieces)
100 gram Squid (cleaned and sliced)
1 pack of Gingko Nuts
10 pieces Goji Berries
1 can of Sweet Kernel Corn
1 tablespoon of Corn Flour
2 tablespoon of Water
Method
Heat up Chicken/Vegetable stock with Saute Mode.
Mix corn flour with water then set aside.
Add in all the ingredients into the stock and cook for 3 minutes. (Only put crab sticks into the cooker once its almost ready)
Before serving warm, pour corn flour mixture into the cooker to thicken the soup.
2. Steamed Tofu Egg with Century Egg and Salted Egg Yolk
Ingredients
2 nos Century Eggs (diced)
3 nos Salted Egg Yolk (diced)
1 bowl of semi-firm bean curd (freshly made with PPC)
4 nos Grade AA Eggs
1 1/2 tablespoons of Soy Sauce
1/2 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
1/2 teaspoon of Sesame Oil
White Ground Pepper, Sesame Seeds, Coriander and Spring Onions for garnishing.
1 sheet of Aluminium Foil
Method
Cracks and beats eggs in a bowl with a dash of Oyster Sauce.
Pour the bean-curd into steaming tray followed by the egg mixture.
Place diced century eggs and salted egg yolks on top of the mixture.
Cover the steaming tray with aluminium foil to prevent moisture slipping into the dish during steaming.
Pour 1/2 cup of water into the cooker and place the rack/stand followed by the steaming tray.
Close the lid, set to Steam Mode with Keep Pressure Time (KPT) of 10 minutes.
Once its cooked and ready, take the steaming tray out and garnish and top it with Soy Sauce, White Ground Pepper then garnish with Sesame Seeds, Chopped Coriander Leaves and Spring Onion.
Once the oil has heated up, add the onions, garlic, star anise and cinnamon stick. Fry until fragrant.
Add potatoes and Sakura Chicken into the cooker, fry them for a few minutes.
Lastly, add green peas, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, salt and chicken stock.
Reset the cooker, pre-set to Chicken at Keep Pressure Time (KPT) of 25 minutes.
4. Galangal Chicken
Ingredients
1/2 Chicken (chopped into 6 pieces)
1 piece of Dried Cuttlefish (grilled and washed)
4 Slices of Galangal
3 Small Onions (sliced)
5 cloves of Garlic
3 slices of Ginger
3 tablespoons of Dark Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
3 tablespoons of Thai Palm Sugar
Oil
Method
Heat up cooker with Saute Mode.
Add some oil followed by the garlic, small onions, galangal and ginger.
Once fragrant, add chicken and sauteed till exterior is cooked.
Add oyster sauce and dark sauce then stir till ingredients are coated.
Add palm sugar.
Close the lid, set Steam Mode with Keep Pressure Time (KPT) of 8 minutes.
5. Steamed Chicken with Preserved Vegetable ‘Cha Choi’
Ingredients
800 gram Boneless Whole Chicken Leg or Breast (washed and diced to your preference)
1 packet of Ready-to-Eat Preserved Vegetable ‘ Cha Choi’
1 inch sliced Ginger (peeled)
1 tablespoon of Sesame Oil
1 1/2 tablespoons of Oyster Sauce
1 teaspoon of Premium Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon of Corn Flour
Salt and White Ground Pepper for taste
Method
Marinate the chicken with a bit of salt, oyster sauce, soy sauce, ginger, white pepper and set aside for few hours.
Coat the mixture with corn flour then add preserved vegetable.
Pour mixture into steaming tray.
Add 1/2 cup of water into the cooker.
Place the rack/stand in the cooker followed by the steaming tray.
Close the lid and set to Steam Mode with Keep Pressure Time (KPT) of 12 Minutes.
6. Colourful Vegetable with Mushroom Stems
Ingredients
20 pieces of Dried Shiitake Mushroom Stems
5 strings of Long Beans (cut 1 cm long)
1 Carrot (peeled and diced)
8 Small Korean King Mushrooms (diced)
1 Quarter of Red Pepper (diced)
1 Quarter of Green Pepper (diced)
1 Quarter of Yellow Pepper (diced)
1/2 can of Sweet Kernel Corn
5 cloves of Garlic (cut to half)
2 tablespoons of Oyster/Vegetable Sauce
1 tablespoon of Soy Sauce
A pinch of Salt and Pepper for seasoning
2 teaspoons of Oil
Water
Method
Soak the shiitake mushroom stems in hot water for at least 3 hours.
Followed by Steam Mode with Keep Pressure Time (KPT) of 30 Minutes with a cup of water, 1 tablespoon oyster sauce and oil. Once cooked leave it to cool.
Dice the shiitake stems.
Heat the pot using Saute Mode then add oil.
Once heated, add garlic and shiitake stems into the cooker.
Sauteed till fragrant.
Add the rest of the ingredients and give it a light saute for 3 – 4 minutes.
Add oyster/vegetable sauce, salt and soy sauce.
For more recipes and upcoming cooking demos, you should join Chef Sidney’s group on Facebook by clicking here! To read more about the amazing PHILIPS Premium All-In-One Multi Cooker, click here!
Restoran Dragon Star has been around for over a decade in this big neighborhood and always been the family restaurant to go for. The restaurant also focuses more on authentic Cantonese cooking. Keepin’ it real!
Here are some of the highlighted dishes on what we had for dinner:
鹽煙沙薑雞 Smoked Kampung Chicken – RM30/half bird , RM60/whole bird
Free-ranged chicken beautifully marinated in Sand Ginger Powder, giving it a better texture to chomp on. Taste wise its almost like having Salt-baked Chicken except you get to enjoy the skin a lot more.😛
清蒸游水順殼魚 Live Steamed Marble Goby in Light Soy Sauce – Seasonal Price
I absolutely love Chinese-style steamed fish (fresh-from-the-tank) with soy sauce as it lends the fish sweet and salty flavors. The chef also taught us how to identify if the fish was frozen or from the tank based on its texture. Frozen fish brought to steamed would still look the same while fresh from the tank would look eh, distorted?🤷
檸香焗明蝦 Stir-fried Prawns in Homemade Lemon Mayo Sauce – Seasonal Price
The prawns were tender and springy in texture and beautifully coated in their finger-licking homemade mayo sauce with a hint of zest making it an absolute refreshing dish.
Highly recommended for prawn lovers!🍤❤
燒焗排骨支 Grilled Pork Ribs – RM23/small , RM46/large
Pork ribs were absolutely flavorful & well marinated served with crispy vegetable fritters. Its almost like having char siew except you get to indulge the juicy tender meat and fat so much more.
It was quite a crowd-pleasing dish to go for.
紅燒羊腩煲 Braised Lamb Belly –RM27/small RM54/large
The lamb was deliciously braised till tender and gravy was simply rich and flavorsome plus generously filled with dried bean curd and mixed vegetables making it so much better.
This simple hearty dish will have you feeling delightful and comforting.
Dishes after dishes of meat, its fair to have some braised tofu and seasonal vegetables to have a little balance in our body.😂 The sauce was really appetizing, it makes you just want to top it on some plain rice. Not to mention the generous amount of fresh vegetables in this pot!
Bring your family & friends over, its definitely worth dining for! My personal favorite dish from this restaurant has to be the fish. What’s yours?
Restoran Dragon Star 龙星海鲜酒家 Address: 54 A, B, Jalan SS 1/22, Desa Tunku, 47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Opening Hours: 11AM – 2:30PM, 5:30PM – 11PM daily Contact: +60 3-7877 6673
Having steamboat for Chinese New Year is the easiest and best way to feast when you have a group of family and relatives coming together. The simmering steamboat also represents the tradition to strengthen family bonding and sharing happiness. Who wouldn’t love having steamboat after all?
Dian Huo Xin Wo 点火心窝 is having a spectacular dinner package that your family, relatives and you may love! Their DHXW CNY 2018 Dinner Package price is RM 688 fit for 6-8 pax! Don’t worry about the pax, you could order add-ons.
Here’s what they’ll be serving in this package:
Yee Sang with DHXW Special Ingredients and Sauce
Instead of using regular plum sauce for the ‘yee sang’, they’re using Dragonfruit Juice!
A very delightful and fruity prosperity toss for another fruitful year ahead!
DHXW Fresh Crustaceans Roe Soup
Starts off with a lighter taste but once you get all the seafood in the soup it gets richer and richer you’d probably need to order some Rice Vermicelli ‘mee hoon’ to enjoy more of the soup.
If you’re dining in as 8 pax, you’d only get to have each of everything on the plate and split the crabs and Promfet unless one of them are willing to spare theirs to you but I’ve got to admit their seafood is ridiculously fresh! My personal favorite has to be the scallops and the tiger prawns.
Vegetables
Every time I go to any steamboat eateries, vegetables is a must! Especially corns. Plop them into the pot and they’d sweetened the soup!
To wrap it up, this is what they’re serving for their dinner package. If you feel that it isn’t going to fill up your belly or you’ve got family and relatives who aren’t too fond with seafood, order some meat then! Forget about the diet, you’ve got to love festive meals.
Lu Rou Fan (滷肉飯), an ultimate Taiwanese comfort food classic of braised pork belly over rice is definitely one of the must-eat in Taiwan. But what if I tell you there’s no need to travel all the way to Taiwan to feed your cravings?🤔
Here in Kota Damansara right across Sunway Nexis Mall where CookieNation is, marks Hup May Restaurant where the stall FOOK KEE is located at runs by the one and only, Sidney Kan.
Every bowl will be carefully crafted by Sidney where he’d prepared with love and topped with passion.💕
Taiwanese Braised Pork Japanese Rice (RM 7)
Melt in the mouth pork pieces and peanuts perfectly braised in a spiced, sweet, and savory sauce served with steaming hot fragrant rice, topped with hard boiled egg and garnished with some Chinese parsley. Everything on this bowl was so delectable!
Deep Fried Pork served with Udon in Black Sauce (RM 7.50)
If you’re not rice person, you could go for the noodle options! The udon has a really smooth chewy and soft texture to it and deep fried pork was still moist inside.
Sorry not sorry but this isn’t in the menu!😀 This was specially crafted by Sidney.
But one thing for sure, it was indeed a spectacular vegetarian dish I’ve had in a while.
If you wish to bring home a part of FOOK KEE, their braised peanuts are available to order. It comes in a box of 400gm at RM15.00 only! Their peanuts are guaranteed braised in premium ingredients to create the robust taste and aroma. A top class product and much healthier than the canned ones. Must be pre-ordered two (2) days in advance.
My Fook Kee’s Braised Peanut Congee drizzled with Sesame Oil and Ground White Pepper garnished with Chives. Simple and tasty isn’t it?😁
Hup May Restaurant Address: 27,, 15, Jalan PJU 5/4, Kota Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Hours: 7 AM – 2:30 PM daily (Fook Kee’s off days are vary)
Klang Valley has been blossoming with great vegetarian and vegan dining scenes!
Skyhaus Coffee is a new vegetarian cafe on the block recently opened 3 months ago serving only 100% Arabica premium ground coffee, sugar-free gelatos & sorbets, Nama chocolates and handmade breads!
Just so you know, these aren’t macaroons but sorbets and gelatos!
Nama Chocolate, melt-in-mouth smooth silky texture with lovely hints of nutty flavors and aftertaste that lingers.
Delicious unique handmade breads baked in limited quantities!
Service was excellent and staffs were very friendly and knowledgeable with their products.
Food and drinks were served in a timely manner and the right temperature too!
I’ve got to admit everything looks pretty amazing here.
As we were lucky to be there during their Tea Time hours where they’d only be serving (2:30 PM – 5:30 PM) daily, so here’s what we’ve ordered!
Lorraine Village (RM 10.90)
A warming pie with a golden crust and delicious filling served with fries with a really unique sauce. It’s cheesy-licious goodness but fillings are a little too salty. Fries had a nice crisp skin and light, fluffy interior.
Spicy G-ken Burger (RM 10.90)
This burger was fire!🔥🔥🔥 It’s actually pretty delicious! Personally I’m not a huge fan of meat analogue but this one didn’t had that odd artificial flavors which was bearable. Bear in mind this burger is really spicy! I wouldn’t recommend to kids or anyone who can’t tolerate spicy foods.
Egg Salad (RM 10.90)
Simple yet healthy and hearty.🥗 I’m obsessed with their dressing that complements this salad so well! It has that really nice sesame and peanut flavors. Everything in plate was so fresh and crispy it gets really addicting you’d catch yourself forking for more!
Portuguese Fried Rice (RM 9.50)
There’s really strong smoky flavor or wok hei you’d get from this dish. Sadly the rice is portioned into a sad small little cone for something so addicting. I’d totally recommend this dish though!
Romeo & Juliet Combo (RM 25)
Finally, dessert time! Those gelatos and sorbets on the display looked so tempting I had to give it a try!
We got ourselves Rasp-Mango gelato & Rose Lychee sorbet for the Romeo & Juliet Combo where you could pick any 2 scoops which were then topped with chopped pistachios and waffles then garnished with chocolate.
Both were absolutely refreshing and weren’t too sweet at all. Flavors were really distinctive.
Yuzu Sorbet (RM 12.50)
I 💖 anything yuzu!
Very refreshing and delightful yuzu sorbet that immediately refreshes your palate with irresistibly tasty and citrusy-floral flavor of the yuzu fruit.
It was the perfect way to end a healthy meal and absolutely guilt-free!
Overall I really did enjoy my dining experience here. Food was beyond satisfactory, coffee was amazing and ambiance was comfy. Absolutely worth the value.👍
However I do wish the cafe makes some changes on their menu as it was rather inconvenient to ask what’s the particular dish about especially when some of their dishes are given unique names and ingredients used were not listed.
Will definitely be back again for more!
xoxo,
Skyhaus Coffee . Gelato . Bakery Address: No.A-1-6,Blk A (Grd Flr),Mayang Ave, Jalan SS 25/35, Taman Mayang, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia Hours: 11 AM – 9 PM (Closed on Mondays)
Contact: +60 3-7886 0350
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