Monday, September 25, 2006

grill fish : Petaling Street

my first time visit to this ever famous grill fish store i always hear about.
its situated right next to Hong Leong Bank and behind the famous mata kuching drink stall.

we arrived there approximately....7.45pm. the queue was already trememdously long and ppl were waiting. no more free tables around. but we still decided to take our orders since we specially went there for it.

we ordered grill fish and grilled lala (clams) for two. now this place is amazing. why? coz its my first time there and i am told to wait for 80minutes for the food. i insisted OK. bring it on! not only that, i have to pay a deposit of 10bucks to book my order so that they are 100% sure i'll be back. (previously i heard that they only take 1ringgit as deposit. now they take 10! wow!)

so after walking around, wasting some time, had some roasted chestnut and "kwai ling gou"....we wnet back to the stall and there was not as many ppl anymore after 80 minutes!!! (i went back slightly earlier to get a table)

heres the food....
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grilled stingray (the species that killed steve irwin!!! time for revenge!)
the sauce / gravy was very very spicy. other than spicy, i doubt there is anything else to describe.

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the clams were alright, but kinda tasteless really. its all about the sauce. same sauce as the fish.

overall, i dont understand why ppl are going there to eat. i'm there coz i heard so much about it. but the food is just mainly salty and spicy. the clams didnt have much meat to it. and as you can see from the pictures, they basically used foil to wrap the food and cook it in high fire. which is actually pretty bad for health.

i guess its my one and only time going there. its not superbly a hygienic place really....shud have taken more pictures...but the place was quite dark...

Address: HONG LEONG BANK @ PETALING STREET
food genre : chinese malaysian
location : KL
price range : RM20 (for 2pax)
ratings : 1.8-forks / 5-forks
recommended? Not really...
other notes : not clean, long wait, tasteless. smoking allowed. noisy and constantly being disturbed with beggars and salesman.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Korean : USJ Taipan

hmm...i forgot to get the name of this Korean Restaurant at USJ Taipan. will get it the next time i go there again. yes, will go there again as the food was hot! it was awesome! one of the few best korean restaurant i ate in malaysia.

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first off, strips of beef grilled on hotplate with garlic.

the place is not smokey due to all the BBQ-ing cause they had a device that goes very near to the hotplate and acts as a vacumm cleaner and sucks all these smoke out. kewlness. (shud have taken a picture)

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the do the cooking for u and cut them up. beef was yummy. very well marinated.

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this is one of the items i HAD to order as i love rice cakes. korean rice cakes stir fried with some chilli stuff with veges and egg. also yummy! its not as spicy as it look really.

we actually kinda over ordered hehe there were alot more other stuff that we ordered and the side dishes like kimchi, beansprouts, potato salad..etc kept on replenishing. (bottomless!)

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this is one of the mroe expensive dishes. its Monk Fish Head boiled in clear soup with golden mushrooms, beansprouts and some other veges like spring onion or leek.

in all, this is a great place to go for food. they serve a variety of korean alcohol as well and they gave us a free pancake. sorta something like omellete.
price wise.....its fair for the quality of food that they served. its not a cheap place....but its worth the money paid for.

cheeeeeers~