Sabi Wasabi @ Bukit Tinggi

It was Friday and I'd decided to give babe a surprised and picked her up for lunch at Klang. She decided to have Japanese cuisine and recommended this place to me. She had tried it out with a friend few weeks back and highly recommended to me. Her wish is my command and we arrived within minutes from her house. It's located directly opposite Aeon Bukit Tinggi. It's called Sabi-Wasabi. It's the same row with Pappa Rich and all green outside, so you can't miss it.

Salmon Hana Maki - RM8.88

It's basically salmon with fish eggs. And plenty of it (fish eggs) too. I just wanna clarify that all of their sushi are prepared when ordered right in front of you. So the sushi are really fresh and the fish eggs are so attractive if you like eating it. 

Maguro - RM4.99 / 3 pcs

For those who doesn't know, Maguro is Japanese term for bluefin tuna. Other than salmon, tuna is the other commonly used dish for any sushi roll. The maguro is thick and fresh over here. You can see it from the color.

Inari Soft Shell - RM8.88/4pcs 

I had specifically ordered this when I saw it in their menu. Soft shell crab, who doesn't like them? It's so crunchy when I sink my teeth into the roll. The mayo added some taste to the soft shell too. Highly recommended from me.

Yaki Gyoza - RM10/ 5pcs

I am such a fool for pan fried dumplings. You can choose pan fried, deep fried or soup for the Gyoza. The outer skin is so soft and not thick at all. Since it's freshly prepared, the dumplings are still warm which is really important. Size are small but it's alright with me. No point having a large dumpling but don't taste that good.

Saba Shioyaki - RM18/plate 

They have a few type of fish to choose from in their menu and we landed ourselves with mackerel. It's just plain mackerel being bathed in salt and then grilled. Squeeze a bit lemon and it's all ready to go. Not too charred and the fish are soft and tender. Not bad.

Yaki Tori & Ton-Bara Enoki Maki - RM3.50 & RM4.00/stick

The one on the left would be chicken skewer and the right is straw mushroom roll in sliced pork. I preferred the pork skewer as it's so tender and the sauce that comes with it really compliment the whole roll. Nothing much special on the chicken skewer, just a normal chicken with sauce.

Ton-Tama - RM4.00/stick

This is recommended by the waitress, which is their pork wrapped with omelet. I am not sure what is so special bout this stick, but it's just normal pork sausage being wrapped with omelet to me.

Karaage Toji Don - RM16/bowl

Last but not least, I had ordered one of their rice set as I wasn't full from the whole course. This is deep fried marinated chicken with scrambled egg. This is not too recommended from me as it's a bit flat on the taste. Chicken isn't that much too. But since I was hungry, I had finished it off and that is the end of it. 

Overall, the place do serve some real fresh sushi but for the price you're paying, it's still alright with me. I know, some will compare to Sake or Sushi Tei but this place do have some other dishes in their menu which I haven't tried out yet. Will I return? Maybe, if babe requested it again. Will I recommend it? Well, if you are willing to pay RM9 for a plate of Salmon Maki or Soft Shell. (Rating: 3.5 out of 5.0)

Honkee Porridge @ Damansara Utama

First I have to apologized for my disappearing act this past week as I was away oversea. Now let's get back to the food. I am not into porridge that much but I am such a sucker for my grandma's home made porridge. I am only into Hokkien style which is thick and not those Cantonese style with a lot of water. Anyway, the place I am introducing is located at Uptown, Damansara. It's called Honkee Porridge. To be frank, if it's not my friend who recommended it at the first place, I won't be walking into this restaurant. The owner has a long history which takes back to 1949.

Fried Crullers - RM1/piece

We had ordered 3 pieces of crullers but it wasn't as warm or hot as I expect it to be. But still, I am a sucker for crullers. I like to crullers no matter it's hot or cold.

Fried Intestines - RM3

No, I didn't ordered this and I am not into any type of intestines or rather 'spare parts'. My mom once told me that I would eat anything which is fried and now I can tell her, she's wrong. I am not eating this. But one of my friend was so into this. I'd tried one and it's crunchy and not as bad as I thought. But anyhow, I won't order this on my own.

Century Egg - RM1.50

Who is not into century eggs right? Well, I wasn't into them until I had my box set from Shih Lin. And now I am so into them. This is freshly peeled and served to us. Nice~!

Raw Fish - RM6.50 (with porridge)

This is one of their house specialty, which is their raw fish with porridge. They will give you a plate of raw fish and one hot bowl of porridge. You will place the raw fish into the porridge and let it get cook. If you like fish, this is really one good porridge.

Porridge with Minced Pork & Century Egg - RM6.50

I had ordered this as I can't live without pork. Just kidding. But I really like eating my porridge with either sliced chicken or pork. The porridge is thick as I like it but the minced pork is a bit stingy.

Overall, we had a filling supper and all of us are satisfied with our bowl of porridge. They have this fresh Australia or NZ Salmon too that you can order. So if you are around the area and wanted something plain but still tasted good, you can drop by this place and give it a try. Let me know what you think of this place. 

Address: Honkee Porridge 

71, Jalan SS21/1A

Damansara Utama

Loong Kee (BKT) @ Bayu Tinggi, Klang

I am always in search of new Bak Kut Teh (BKT) in the city and tonight the search ended up at BKT central, which is Klang. Babe wanted to have BKT for dinner and she mentioned that there are a lot of new BKT and also other seafood restaurants being setup at Bayu Tinggi. So we drove over and roamed around the area and decided to try this particular restaurant as it offers string tied BKT. What's so good bout it? To be frank, I don't know. But just stick around and read on if you are a BKT enthusiast like me. 

First on the list would be their soup BKT which has the usual ingredients like Foo Chuk, Veges, Mushrooms and I had particularly ordered for half lean half fat for both the pot and that is what I got. As we go through the pot we discovered that there are a pair of chicken feet. Yup, you heard me right, chicken feet. This is the first time I saw any chicken parts in my BKT. Babe told me that chicken feet are sometimes served together at some old stalls as it's very old school style. If you like thick dark soy sauce soup, then this is your bowl of soup. Not much herbal taste but just original Klang style thick soy sauce soup. Well I can live with that. 

I had ordered the pork with the tied string on my dry BKT. But when it arrived, I don't see any pork with tie on them anywhere. I guess it's already untied before serving for convenience sake. So how is the dish? Damn this is one good dry BKT. Been a while since I had a good dry BKT. There's lots of lady finger, dried chilies, fried sliced squid and if you see carefully you noticed there's some peanut in the pot. Yes, peanut. Damn this place served some really interesting BKT. But it's good. The pork are a bit minced but it's really tender and don't stick to the teeth. Soy sauce is thick and smells really good. Portion was a bit small but it worth it. 

As usual, all meat and no green is not my policy. So I had ordered a plate of veges to go with the BKT. Veges is fresh and not too oily. Just nice. Nothing spectacular to say bout it but simple & nice. 

The whole meal only cost us RM27 inclusive of two glass of self-cooked Chrysanthemum tea. Will definitely bring some friends and family over to try it out again. Other than BKT, they also served steamed fish and also bean curd. Will try out the steamed fish but I don't really fancy steamed fish with my BKT together. (Rating: 4.3 out of 5.0)

Oriental Pavilion @ Jaya 33

I had always heard good reviews from this restaurant and when a friend asked me for lunch, I quickly agreed to it. The name of the restaurant is Oriental Pavilion which was formerly situated inside Jaya Supermarket previously. It's located inside Jaya 33 right now. The place was quite busy during lunch hour but luckily we managed to get a table. We went through the menu and decided to go with dim sum rather than fried rice or noodle. My friend said something which caught my attention that day. He said that, a person averaging consume 3 sets of dim sum and that would just be enough. Anything more than that would be too much. Interesting~!

Steamed Siew Mai - RM7.00

It took some time before the siew mai was served. From the looks of it, it's not as I imagine it would be. It's a bit dry and not that good. Taste wise, it's just normal and nothing special. You can have this outside anywhere. The best I had would still be Grand Imperial. Their price are RM1 more expensive too over here.

Steamed Shredded Mushroom Dumpling - RM7.00

Again there are nothing special about this dish. The skin isn't that thick but maybe it's just the lack of taste and texture of the dim sum itself. Nothing special really. 

Shredded Bean Curd Roll with Thai Sauce - RM6.00

I was really looking forward for this but sadly when it arrived, I lost my appetite. As you can see, the Thai sauce isn't wrapped around the bean curd but spilled all over the plate. I think it's the way they prepared the dish is the main problem. A good dish gone wrong. Wasted~!

Steamed Imperial Har Kau - RM7.00

The name is so good. But I am not a big fan of Har Kau anyway. The prawns are fresh but if I remembered correctly, the dish isn't that hot anyway.

Char Siew Bao

I had high hope on this. My friends said it was good but the flour is too thick for me and the sauce isn't that tasty. Again, the one I had over at Grand Imperial is one of the best I had till date.

Chicken Leg in Sweet & Sour Sauce 

We didn't really ordered this but when they brought it over, my friend decided to give it a try. Again I am not a big fan of the dish. We didn't finished the dish at the end as it wasn't that tasty. The sauce was just normal and nothing particularly interesting. 

Steamed Fish Ball - RM5.00

Sorry, no comment since I didn't even tasted one. My friend tried it and said it was just normal. 

Roasted Pork (Siew Yuk)

The portion was alright and quite tasty. The upper layer are crunchy and the layer of fat and lean meat are evenly distributed too. This could be the highlight of my luncheon.

Loh Mai Kai - RM6.00

Surprisingly this is good. There are a lot of ingredients too. Namely mushroom, slice abalone, boneless chicken and scallop. This is one good dish.

Hokkien Noodle with Extra Lard

This is definitely something that I wouldn't imagine that I would eat during dim sum session, Hokkien Noodle. The waitress mentioned that it's one of their recommended dish over there. We ordered with extra fried lard too and extra it is. The whole plate was covered by lard when it arrived. Not the best I had, but definitely worth my money.

So how was the lunch? Overall, it wasn't that spectacular or good as I heard. The highlight of the luncheon would be the roasted pork and loh mai kai. Will I be back? I don't think so. Might be going back if someone bought me lunch. Maybe the a la carte are better. (Rating: 3.8 out of 5.0)

Kissaten @ IOI Boulevard

There are so many new mix commercial buildings coming up in Puchong itself that I can't even follow with. I had passed by this new building called IOI Boulevard which is opposite IOI Mall for so many times but didn't have the chance to really go down and check it out. Well not until last weekend that is. You can see Umagi right in front of the place. There are other restaurants in the building but it's not fully occupied yet. I saw another German restaurant serving their local dishes but decided to give this restaurant a try which is opposite from each other. The name of the restaurant is called Kissaten, it means Cafe in Japanese.

If you saw the picture above, you noticed that the place is separated into two entrance being one for coffee and restaurant while the other for beer. Yes, the place served beer and German beer that is. They do have Sake but they are more focused on promoting Paulaner from the looks of it. They had plenty of Paulaner placed around the restaurant. They do served cakes and dessert too if you wanted something light. And they served Haagen Dazs ice cream in the house too. 

Their menu are big and very clear with plenty of beautiful pictures in them. They have this promo for 'buy 2 set free 1 set' for both dinner and lunch for weekdays. So if you are dining in for three, this is a good treat for you. I can say that the place served similar concept as Pasta Zanmai. They served fusion of Japanese and Western food together. But the variation of pasta in Zanmai are more varied whereas over here they have Steaks, Teppanyaki Burger, Pizzas and Udon. As mentioned earlier, they do served sets so do look at the end of the menu for them. Prices for lunch and dinner varies which I am not sure why. Maybe the size is different? 

Both of us had ordered Green Tea whereas mine comes with the set. Yes, it's refillable and they are very prompt with that too. Good point here. 

Katsu Curry Chicken - RM18.90

Babe decided to try their Katsu Curry Chicken Rice which was really large in portion. The chicken was plenty too. She couldn't even finished the chicken and rice at the end. Although the curry smells like any other Japanese restaurant but the texture over here are different. If you look carefully it's not that smooth. I think this is due to the pre-preparation of the gravy. I had better at Pasta Zanmai but this is not bad. 

Katsudon Set - RM24.80

As mentioned earlier the set comes with all the side dishes. The portion of the katsudon was really large. Even for me. There were really a lot of chicken on top of that bowl of rice. Egg was even distributed and it's still hot. It shows how fresh it is. As any other Katsudon, there's onions and egg being mixed together with the chicken and cooked before pouring it on top of the rice. Delicious, but anything more would be too much. 

Here's the side dishes which I mentioned earlier which comprises of Miso Soup, Cawanmushi, and Oshink. In the menu it shows a salad type of dessert sort of like coleslaw but they given me something else. Maybe they are out of salad. But anyhow, you will surely be full after finishing all of the above. 

The place is really new so all the seats and table are clean and brand new. There are plenty of seats even for large groups of people as both of the restaurants are linked to each another. The staffs are attentive and service is good. Will definitely return to try out their pizza and also the steak burgers. And before I forgot, they have another outlet which I think opened before this at Palm Square Jaya One. So for those who work in PJ, you can try it out over there too. (Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0)

Address: Kissaten @ IOI Boulevard

D-G-57 & 58, Block D,

Jalan Kenari 5, 

Bandar Puchong Jaya, 

47170 Puchong, Selangor D.E

Tel: +603-8070 6307