Damansara Village Steamboat Restaurant, Kampung Sungai Kayu Ara, Petaling Jaya

The Damansara Village Steamboat Restaurant website boasts of this place to be "First of its kind steamboat restaurant featuring "live" Pulau Ketam seafood. Fish, crabs, prawns, scallops, clams. All 'live'. All fresh."

This restaurant is nestled in the residential area of Damansara Jaya. We had a small departmental gathering here the other day, which took up 2 tables.

We started off with some chicken satay for appetiser.

And a pile of delicious deep fried chicken wings, which went very well with the sweet chilli sauce.

Also tried the deep fried dumplings. Crunchy goodness.

I don't usually eat pak cham kai (steamed silky chicken), but this one was covered with a fragrant soya sauce gravy and deep fried onions/garlic, so I had a go. Very nicely done, if I may so.

And now, the steamboat ingredients. This was the secret to great tasting steamboat stock; Chinese wine and lots of herbs!


Ma yau fish, super fresh, shiny and sweet.

Taiwan pomfret, also super fresh and tasty.

Crab sticks.

Clams.

Pretty flower crabs.

My favourite, quail eggs.

Egg noodles and chicken eggs.

Mussles, scallops and abalone slices.

An assortment of fish-paste-based ingredients, dumplings and balls.

Boil all, and feast! Our two tables (around 15 persons) paid a total of RM525 (if memory serves me right). Quite pricey for steamboat, but considering the very fresh ingredients and the lovely herbal wine broth, it was worth the money.

Damansara Village Steamboat Restaurant

1067, Jalan Jenjarum, Kg. Sg. Kayu Ara,

Off Jalan SS23/10, 47400 Petaling Jaya.

Tel: 03-7803 1832
Website: http://www.damansaravillage.blogspot.com/
Open for Dinner 7 nights a week.

You can get a map to this restaurant here.

A solid 3-bam for its fresh food and cosy tropical ambiance.

Hong Kee Tim Sum Restaurant, Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya

Having read reviews of this place by WMW and Precious Pea, amongst others, we decided to give it a try. Since it was a weekday, we could not order the famous Sang Chow Loh Mai Fan (Glutinous Rice) which was available only on weekends.

We made do with the fried radish cake, which was pretty good.


The skin of the har kow was a bit thick, and fell off when I took it out of the serving bowl.

The Hong Kong chee cheong fun was ok.

We also had the radish slabs.

And prawns wrapped in lobak skin and deep fried.

The pai kwat here tasted normal.

The siew mai had a tad too much fatty bits for my liking.

My favourite has got to be the pau with salted egg yolk custard.

The meal for 3 persons came up to RM31.10.

Hong Kee Tim Sum

18 & 20, Jalan SS22/25,

Damansara Jaya,

47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Business hours: 7am till 3pm daily

Mobile : 012-6069787

As WMW described, this restaurant is located at the outer square of Atria, next to RHB Bank.

My vote is 3-bams.