Worthy and Yummy Food

I have given up with the quality and taste of many many hawker stalls especially around PJ. Not only the food was expensive but the taste was terrible!! Most are very salty and full with MSG! There are only 1-2 out of 100 that may be still worth trying but I swore unless I am starving to death I will ban many of the hawker stalls I've tried. For a bowl of RM4-5 noodles, I would say, just worthless. It's better I go for breads.

If you are getting exhaustive of what to eat around PJ area, try this restaurant at the Lower Ground Promenade, 1-Utama (same floor as the ATM machine floor in the old Wing, exiting the old wing car park) . I forgot the name of the restaurant but it's a very huge herbs red-coloured restaurant selling lots of bird nests and abalones. You wouldn't miss it if you're walking at the Lower Ground towards the Old Wing (or vice versa).

There is a small transparent kitchen on the inside of the restaurant's left hand corner and at first glance, you wouldn't notice there is even a small eatery area. When the restaurant was new 6 months ago, there wasn't any advertisement board telling people about it but now there's a menu board placed at the entrance and now there are new menu items!


I've tried the porridge and they are really SUPER DUPER DELICIOUS. The portion is also quite big and you will actually feel full. The ingredients are generous, depending on the type of porridge you select. Some consist of dried scallop, oyster and abalones (real abalones, not the sliced ones). The price ranges from min RM12 to RM28. The highest priced porridge comes with additional fish maw and sea cucumber. The taste is simply great because you need not add further white pepper or soya sauce into it. It just taste so aromatic from the mixture of the seafood ingredients.

Now there are new dried scallop fried rice, dried oyster fried rice and stewed rice. I've just tried the stewed rice (In cantonese it's called "Man Fan"). For me, I've never liked stewed rice because at first impression, they would be plain in taste and a little soupy maybe. But this one at the restaurant is totally delicious! It comes with generous servings of strips of scallops and sliced abalones (not the complete abalone as in the porridge) and inside the layer of Chinese cabbage, the rice is just yummy! It's stirred fried with egg and then stewed. You have to try it to know what I mean.

Looks real nice isn't it? Loads of sliced abalones and Chinese cabbage, drizzled with strips of scallops all over


Delicious stewed rice hidden inside. Lots of oysters inside too!


Delicious Snow Jelly with Gingko nuts in fresh milk for dessert!!! There are other versions in American Ginseng/white lotus seeds/red dates/dried longans/coconut milk.

For dessert, you can try the Snow Jelly with American Ginseng/dates/longans or those with fresh milk and gingko nuts, White Fungus with dates/longan/gingko nuts or the Almond soup and Cashewnut soup. All yummy to me! With one main course and one dessert, you'll feel full, real satisfied with the price you paid, with the tasty aroma still in your mouth when you walk out of the restaurant... and no thirst kicking in after 30 minutes later because of the ^@#$% MSG! The real "sweet and salty" taste of the food is due to the real ingredients being used which brings out the natural flavours... mmm.... you have to try to know what I mean again :)

And I don't think the price is expensive because of the generous servings. Furthermore, it's more worth it than you pay RM4-5 (or some even higher!) for a price of (yeah cheap...) noodles or rice that suck real bad! Don't get me started talking about Penang Prawn Mee at some restaurants in 1-Utama. To me those are really legal money extorters! They don't deserve to promote and sell Penang famous Prawn Mee if the noodles are cooked and served in those condition! Really spoil the Prawn Mee image altogether! I tried the Lam Mee Ya Prawn Mee and please, I beg myself and you not to return to the same bowl again! Suck 200% !!! There are many others that I've blacklisted, maybe I should start posting my BLACKlisted restaurants soon.

I should've taken the photos of the porridge, anyway I'll be back for more :)