Playful Mandy

Mandy was in a playful mood.......

Here she is....rolling over.......

Just louging around without a care in the world.....it's good to be a cat.

Mandy does her chipmunk impersonation.

Kheng Heong Hainan Cuisine Restaurant, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur

We recently stumbled upon a restaurant in Brickfields serving excellent Chinese food which also happened to have appeared on the weekly TV show Ho Chak, in an episode featuring their famous steamed fish head.

Their butter squid was exquisite, soft and fresh on the inside, light, fluffy and crispy on the outside, with loads of the crunchy, salty batter bits fried with curry leaves. We loved it! At RM12.00/plate it was a pretty big serving for 2. Succulent boxing chicken. The 4 pieces of chicken were nicely deep fried to perfection, leaving the insides tender and juicy. We tasted crispy salty skin, seasoned with soy sauce and 5-spice powder, we think. It was good to the bone, and the 4 big pieces cost just RM5.00 in total.


The claypot tofu (RM 10.00) had assorted ingredients - sliced meat, prawns, baby corn, carrots, snow peas.....the gravy was just rich with the flavours of all these ingredients. We loved this simple yet hearthy dish.

We were so utterly stuffed and satisfied by the end of our meal. We are SO coming back here to try out all their famous chiu pai dishes!



Kheng Heong Restaurant
Stall # 297-8, Jalan Tun Sambanthan,
Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-22741032
Mobile: 012-3051888


This restaurant is one of many restaurants in a single row, facing the Brickfield's police station.



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 Kheng Heong a 4-bam rating, we plan to be regulars here.

Cute marmalade

Kitty caught lounging in a restaurant, on a chair, under a table. Poor kitty had a chewed-off spot on its tail.

Kitty realised paparazzi was around.

Cooking at home

Over the past couple of weeks, our kitchen has been somewhat busy.........

Yesterday, we slaved into the night, cooking a huge pot of ayam masak merah (using 2 chickens and my mom's recipe!) for a potluck party that we're attending today.

With the same masak merah gravy, we slathered these hard boiled eggs.

Fried belanak fish, our childhood favourite. Fried long enough, the fish becomes uber crispy and can be eaten in its entirety, bones, head and all!

Tiger prawns cooked in black bean sauce.

Hubby-to-be's weird attempt at Pad Thai.

Fried french beans, carrots and oyster mushrooms medley.

A variety of fried fish.

Chilli prawns with an eggy gravy.

Hokkien Mee @ Restoran Ahwa, behind Jalan 222 Shell petrol station

Uncle M and family loves the hokkien mee here. We were in the vicinity the other day, and since it was dinner time, we dropped by for a quick meal. Photo quality's a bit dodgy as photos were taken using a handphone.

Hokkien mee.

Hokkien mihun.

The hokkien mee and hokkien mihun were both teeming with pork lard fritters, which made them very fragrant. I had my share with splashings of chilli sauce, and picked out all the pork lard fritters :D. Hubby-to-be, on the other hand, finished every last morsel of his.

Restoran Ahwa

# 66, Jalan 14/48 (directly behind the Shell station at Jalan 222),

Petaling Jaya.

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 the hokkien mee a 3-bam rating.

Heng Kee Bak Kut Teh, PJ Old Town, Selangor

This was an old favourite haunt of ours, when is search of bak kut teh (herbal pork ribs soup). Well, after this latest sojourn there, I am afraid, it would be our last (more on that to follow).

Heng Kee Bak Kut Teh is famous in PJ Old Town, it is always crowded, and admittedly, the taste of the soup is really good. The price is pretty reasonable too, and the portions hearthy.

A bowl of steaming bak kut teh for 2, lean meat only (cause that's the only type I'll eat!), RM14.00.

A bowl of yau char kwai (deep fried Chinese cruellers) to dip in the soup, RM1.00.
Lots of rice, garlic and chillies to complement the soupy bak kut teh.

We ordered a dish of green vegetables. The first time it came, it was sprinkled with lots of fried garlic and oil. And in the midst of all the garlic, we spotted a dead fly. Naturally, we sent it back. A replacement came, and as you can see in the above picture, no more fried garlic. I suppose they must have thrown away the garlic oil mix that they usually use for making this dish. We ever so cautiously ate the new plate of vegetables. Toward the end of our meal, we saw this...........

Arggggghhhhh!! Our replacement plate of vegetables also had a dead fly in it!!! Gag! Hubby-to-be was pissed off with the consecutive incidents and reported it to several waiters, none of whom did anything other than to smile and dismiss it ever so casually. When paying for the meal, we highlighted it to the head waiter (who looked like he could be one of the managers) who waived the price of the vegetable dish from our bill. He did, however, pretend not to recognise what the tiny dot on the plate was (refer to photo above) when we first showed it to him, and told him how we had a dead fly in our dish twice in a row. And this is why that was the last time we are ever going to eat at this shop.

Heng Kee Bak Kut Teh

# 16, Jalan 1/10 (Old Town),

46000 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Tel: 03-77851663

Mobile: 012-3331063

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 1-bam rating. Despite serving good bak kut teh, we wouldn't recommend this place to anyone due to the serious lapse in basic food safety and hygiene. Please avoid, unless flies are your idea of a good meal.

Weekend Cat Blogging (Week of 8th December 2007)

Spotted : Kitty grooming self in Pasar Borong Selangor (Selangor Wholesale Market).

Hey, keep that camera outta my face, will ya!

Paparazzi! A cat can't even have some privacy!


Tired from all the attention, kitty went to sleep.

Pasar Borong Selangor @ Sri Kembangan

It was Friday night, and instead of clubbing in some cool joint, we were happily driving to a new discovery......Pasar Borong Selangor which opens at night. Yeah, mucking around in a wholesale wet market on a Friday night was our idea of fun!

It has a spacious set-up, with 3 sections in the main hall; vegetables, seafood and chicken/meat. Besides this main hall, there are also other stalls on the perimeter grounds of this market which sells dried goods and fruits. No non-halal section, though.

Operating hours:

Mon-Fri: 6.00pm-Midnight, 4.00am-11.00am.

Sat-Sun, Public Holidays: 6.00pm-1.00am, 4.00am-Noon

The vegetable section. Being a Tesco faithful, I compared prices between vegetables in Tesco and in this market and found Tesco to be generally cheaper.

Every stall was selling chicken at RM6.00/kg the night we were there. Tesco is still cheaper for poultry.

The seafood section was teeming with fish, all the common ones and some not-so-common ones too!

Gorgeous parrot fish.

Ugly lion fish. In Chinese, it's known as the "chicken feather fish". The ugly fish has no scales. We bought a bunch, at RM5.00/kg. The meat was really tender, in fact, too tender for my liking. I prefer more texture on my fish. Taste-wise, it's somewhat like catfish. The seafood is reasonably priced, we bought tiger prawns at RM18.00/kg, huge (and I mean Huge) squids at RM8.00/kg, and belanak at RM4.50/kg. I would say, with regard to seafood, this place beats Tesco's prices.

Pasar Borong Selangor is deep inside Sri Kembangan, diagonally across the road from Taman Equine's Jaya Jusco Supermarket. Parking costs RM1.00/entry.

Restoran 6 to 10 Grill & Nasi Lemak, Section 17, Petaling Jaya, Selangor

This place was pretty crowded on a weekend evening, it appeared to be rather popular among the younger crowd. It boasts of "economical western food and homemade nasi lemak". Having eaten there a couple of times, we circled the area and decided to go where the crowd was most. I have a weakness for checquered table cloth......how quaint :o)

Hubby-to-be ordered nasi lemak (RM6.50) for which this place is famous. The beef rendang was very piquant - thick, rich and tender. The sambal was sweetish and came in a generous helping.

The only complaint he had was that there were too few ikan bilis in the fried nuts and ikan bilis mix.

I opted for western and ordered grilled chicken chop (RM10.50). A big slab of succulent boneless chicken leg grilled to perfection arrived. The edges were just slightly burnt for that smoky taste. The gravy was reminiscent of teriyaki sauce with a hint of worchestershire sauce. Really good!

We shared a large, thirst-quenching iced lemon tea (RM4.50).

6 to 10 Grill & Nasi Lemak

BG-1, Block B,

Happy Mansion, Jalan 17/13,

46400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Tel: 03-79554993

Mobile: 012-6019976 (Erik)

This restaurant is at the second block of flats near the Shell petrol station in Section 17. It is a corner shoplot on the ground floor of the flats.

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 3-bam rating.

Restoran H.L. Huat, Taman Danau Desa, Kuala Lumpur

We are back, after a week's hiatus. This time, with a review of a restaurant that we often visit. Restoran H.L. Huat serves pretty good food, though the portion can sometimes be a tad small. Nonetheless, they do provide a bucket of (unlimited) rice per table so we always go back with full stomachs.

We recently tried the deep fried salted egg-chicken (RM15.00). This dish tasted marvellous, for any of you who have eaten salted egg-coated-crabs, imagine the same, substituting crab with chicken. It's like butter chicken, but with the salty, rich, eggy taste of salted egg yolks coating the crispy chicken batter. Simply delightful!

We also had sweet and sour pork (RM10.00), which was pretty good as well, though slightly overshadowed by the chicken dish.

The vegetable dish was sweet potato leaves fried with sambal belacan (RM8.00). This dish was crunchy and fresh, though I would have preferred it spicier.

Another dish that is a firm favourite in this restaurant is the claypot local tofu (didn't order it this time around), we shall blog about it the next time we go dine there again.

Restoran H.L. Huat

5-0-12, Jalan 3/109F, Danau Business Centre,

Taman Danau Desa,

58100 Kuala Lumpur.

Mobile: 016-6918893

This restaurant is near the Shell petrol station in Taman Danau Desa (the residential estate where Desa Waterpark is, off Old Klang Road). It is a corner shoplot facing the Danau Idaman Condominium multi-level carpark.

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 3-bam rating.