Hawker food near FGA Church, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama, Kuala Lumpur

At night, near the FGA Church, there is a thriving row of hawker stalls doing brisk business with customers dining al fresco and on the five-foot-way of shophouses.


We decided to check out the strip, and hubby decided on the Cao Cao BBQ lamb (RM7.00). I tried it, and it was way too fatty and "smelly" for my taste.

I had the wantan mee (RM4.00), and it was ok, lardy-tasting sauce, springy noodles.

The wantan.

Hubby also had the prawn noodles (RM5.00) for which this place is famous. He rather enjoyed it.
We shared a leng chee kang (RM1.50) which was basically tinned longans mixed with boiled dried longan water (air mata kucing). Nothing to shout about here.

Street Hawker Food, near FGA Church

(Near the intersection of Jalan Kuchai Lama and Old Klang Road)

Jalan Sawi, 58200 Kuala Lumpur.

I would rate this place as a decent hawker area to have a quick bite. 3 bams.

Wantan Mee @ Taman Gembira, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama, Kuala Lumpur

Our eating adventures continue....

When hubby didn't get enough siew yoke down his gullet during our first visit to Mooi Mooi Kopitiam, we stopped by this stall which was on the opposite side of the same playground that faces Mooi Mooi Kopitiam.

Hubby ate the char siew wantan mee with minced pork, which looked pretty good. The char siew was sliced paper thin though, but the noodles were really lardy in taste (which, to hubby, is a good thing). Yum yum!

Hubby rated it a 3-bam.

Siew Yoke @ Kedai Kopi & Makanan Mooi Mooi (aka Kum Kee Chicken Rice), Taman Gembira, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama, Kuala Lumpur

Armed with our Flavours Good Food Guide book, we went in search of Kum Kee Chicken Rice shop, not to eat chicken rice, but to eat the famous crispy siew yoke which was featured in the book.



Visit #1

We found the place after a few wrong turns, but there was no billboard stating "Kum Kee Chicken Rice". Instead, there was this corner kopitiam called Mooi Mooi, in which there was a stall selling assorted roast meats. The stall itself had no name on it.

But we recognised the rather prosperous looking proprietor (Bernard Ngin) from the photo depicted in the book, so we concluded our search. Bernard did not allow us to take a photo of him preparing the slabs of siew yoke in his backyard (trade secret at stake, methinks), so we had to surreptitiously take a photo from a distant, where we were seated.

A customer ordered this for take away. 1kg of siew yoke costs RM60.00 here. What a lovely sight. This had us salivating even before our meal arrived.....the anticipation was torturous.

It got really crowded really quick, there was a queue of people piling up. Though we went at 11.15am, we had to wait a long while before our meal arrived. Ordering a portion of char siew and siew yoke combo (RM12.00) for 2 persons was not sufficient, we discovered. Not enough to satisfy 2 very hungry carnivores. The char siew was really melt-in-your-mouth tender as we got the not-so-lean cuts, and the siew yoke was heavenly. And so....

Visit #2

We revisited, this time with hubby's mom and brother, armed with a better understanding of portions. We ordered a quarter roast chicken, the thigh area.


And 2 strips of sweet, sticky char siew. Tip: order the char siew that is not so lean, it's more tender. This round, we ordered the lean cut, which was more dry and chewy than what we had in Visit #1. And the best of them all, 2 strips of siew yoke. This beats even Wong Kee's siew yoke. Mom says it's now the reigning king of siew yoke. The skin is super crispy yet melts in the mouth. The meat is juicy and tender, and not as fatty as that found elsewhere. No wonder Bernard so jealously guarded his secret of making the perfect siew yoke.

The soup is free and free-flowing. I like!

Visit #2 cost RM68.00 for the 4 of us. And we even had excess char siew to tapau.


For directions, do refer to WMW's blog.


Kedai Kopi & Makanan Mooi Mooi
#94, Jalan Rukun 2,
Taman Gembira (off Jalan Kuchai Lama),
Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-79824902
Operating hours: 10.30am-3.00pm, closed on alternate Mondays.


The siew yoke here is tops, 4-bams!

Restoran 88, Continental Park, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama, Kuala Lumpur

Restoran 88 is usually rather crowded on weekends. Located on top of a hill, it offers a good view of KL city on a clear night. It seems to be a popular haunt for the locals here. We've been here a couple of times, so we know that the food is good, though it can get a tad pricey.

We've had too much meat that week, so we ordered fish fillets in herbal gravy. This dish came heated on top of a mini stove. This was a pretty tasty dish, with the fish priced at RM60.00/kg, our portion of 300g came up to RM18.00. I can't remember the name of the fish, since mom-in-law ordered in Cantonese.


The house-specialty tofu, deep fried and crispy on the outside, soft and wobbly inside, and topped with minced pork (RM10.00).

For greens, we ordered the 4-heavenly king vegetables, fried with dried shrimps.


The meal was simple, but good. Restoran 88 has a lot of other more famous dishes; their mayonnaise pork ribs, crabs and hot plate seafood, for example, are worth trying.





Restoran 88
# 15, Jalan Batalong, Continental Park,
Off Jalan Kuchai Lama,
58200 Kuala Lumpur.
Mobile: 012-3151335 (Peh Ai Lee)
Operating hours: 11.00am-1.00am



A 3-bam!

Restaurant Drunk Cat, Kuchai Entrepreneurs' Park, Kuala Lumpur

The crab obsession continues......It looks like we are going to every eatery in town in search of the best spicy & sour chilli crabs. That's the only flavour I seem to order (much to hubby-to-be's chagrin) as I'm addicted to the sauce...other varieties do not come with much sauce to soak mantou in. So every week we are eating the same flavour with slight cooking variation in different restaurants.

This past weekend, it was a trip to Restaurant Drunk Cat (haha like the name!) where we found out the crabs were going cheap at RM18.00/kg. Drunk Cat has a pretty garish interior of bright orange walls and hot fuschia table cloths, like Garfield on a Mardi Gras parade.

So here was our platter of meat crabs at RM18.00/kg.......with an extra RM3.00 for the mantou bread.

The sauce was not so much spicy and sour as it was salty. It had a very strong oyster sauce taste, which made it more savoury than usual. I would have preferred it to be spicier and eggier, and more true to the "original" flavour.

We ordered a side dish of deep-fried butter squids. Loved the stringy bits...loaded with a salty, buttery, sweetish taste, with a hint of curry leaves. Rm12.00/plate.

The fried rice was pretty ho hum, we could have done this at home (and done it better too!). At RM10.00 for a serving for 2, it was pretty steep, considering that there were no prawns or meat (except for the lap cheong) in it.

Restaurant Drunk Cat
33 Jalan Kuchai Maju 7,

Off Jalan Kuchai Lama,

(Kuchai Entrepreneurs' Park),

58200 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 03-79802573
Mobile: 012-3817399/012-2967780 (Frank Ng)

Our rating system for overall satisfaction with what we eat and where we eat....

1-bam = don't even bother
2-bam = good enough to fill the tummy
3-bam = a very good restaurant in its category
4-bam = excellent cooking, worth a detour
5-bam = exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey

We would give this restaurant a 2-bam rating. We saw other tables having steamed fish, and spare ribs in a pineapple bowl, and both dishes looked real good. So maybe on our next trip, we'll order those and the rating will improve.