Tiang Seng Pulau Ketam Seafood Restaurant 奠成吉膽海鮮火鍋店@ Taman Desa

When I was young,  a steamboat meal was a very slow affair, the pot was ‘powered’ by coal, so,  it took ages for the soup to boil and as the steamboat pot was not that big, it will be a few rounds of ‘uploading and downloading’  until everybody get their fair share of the fishballs, quail eggs, vege etc…and mum will constantly have to re-load the coals.(.wow..i sound so ancient) …..fast forward to present day…ahh..so convenient one gehhh….now we have electric steamboat or use  portable gas stoves, and of course, one can eat steamboat  at a shop..

We were at Tiang Seng on a Saturday night ~ 7:30 , tables that were not taken up had that little plastic triangle ‘reserved’ signs, but lucky for us, one last table was available .

 

We ordered 2 set of  the set order, which was priced at RM14/set order and we held back on the  side orders . Pix below show what  you will  get for a  2 set order, which will include  : fishballs of various sizes and shapes , fish , prawns, tofu, quail eggs, cabbage and yau-mak, fried wantan, 1 block of yee mien, mee hoon and eggs.

 

The following side dishes are available ( pay extra lorr) :

 

We dropped the raw stuff into the pot, and waited….and waited…

 

After making sure that the soup had boiled..we fished the goodies out of the bubbling soup and ah..blisss…the soup was sweet, the fishballs were fresh, springy and fishball-ish ( alamak..fishball-ish..? fishballs mahh…sure fishball-ish lor..). yumyumm….

 

After the ‘first harvest’, we dropped the ‘2^nd round’ of stuff into the pot, including the yee mein, plus broke an egg  into the soup…ah…so nice one….There was still another egg left…dilemma …what to do with the ‘unused’  egg,  already paid for worr..leave it here meh..? err…I am not telling what I did..

When we were settling the bill, I asked the lady boss ‘wah..why the soup so sweet one ahh ?’, she replied that they use fish skin and bones to make the soup , no MSG. The soup is being prepared fresh everyday ( no leftovers), and as they are from Pulau Ketam,  they can ensure that they have the supply of fresh fish to make the fishballs. One can also tarpau the set orders , minimum is  for 2 set-orders, they will pack everything, including the soup and the chili paste.

 

Close on Mondays,

Operating hours : 6:00pm – 10:30pm

 Tiang Seng Pulau Ketam Seafood Restaurant

34A, Jalan Desa Bakti,

Taman Desa

Batu 3 ½ Jalan Klang Lama

58100 KL

Tel : 012 2106893

The tale of the two kedai mamak @ Danau Desa, Taman Desa

How about this, one posting and 2 reviews…:P .

 

1. Restoran Jalal Yusof

 Hmmmm….teh tarik

 

Roti kosong …. Average

 

Roti Tisu – ok ( I think roti tisu is a foolproof dish, hadn’t tried any roti tisu that I do not like ( yet)

 

 Mee goreng ….not something I would recommend, I find this somewhat bland

 

 

 Location :

Blk B, No.1, Grd Flr, Plaza Danau 2,

Jalan 4/109 F

Taman Danau Desa,

58100 KL

( opposite Danau Impian Condo ( the green ones))

 

2. Shauiya Curry House,

 Shauiya has its roots in Bangkok Lane, Penang where the family first started its business. To read more, please click here

On(almost) every table , there was  a coconut and a bunch of bananas.

 

Mee goreng + sotong – pretty good !! The mee is the soggier version ,  sotong pieces were pretty tough though

 

 Mee rebus … the ‘kuah’ ( gravy) was a bit too thick for my liking

 

 ….Nasi kandar

 

 

 Location :

Jalan 5/109 F,

Taman Danau Desa

( map is available here )

SING KEE KITCHEN 成記港式焼蝋 @ Taman Desa

I was first introduced to Sing Kee by AhWong, who took once took 3 meals a week at Sing Kee and attempted the 4th with us. It didn’t leave that great an impression on me at that time, sometime later, I brought some friends there and they were full of praises for the char-siu and the roast pork.

A few months back, I had to attend a pot-luck dinner, and not overly confident with my culinary skills, I ordered a roast duck from Sin Kee and it was a hit at the dinner.

Although it was suppose to be my vegetarian day, I am being pretty flexible about it ( read :greedy) , and as I was craving for roast duck (yeah, craving for roast duck on a vegetarian day) , my lunch with Theng was decided to be at Sing Kee.  Been sometime since my sit-down dinner at Sin Kee, and found that they had taken over / renovated the shop next door as well, it’s now a spanking-shiny modern eating outlet, complete with modern lighting and modern furniture-anyway.

 Both of us ordered Roast Duck- dried wan tan mee. There are plenty of side orders from the counter : one popular dish is the sour vegetable -Choy – mei ( you know the dish – the leftovers of  wedding’s dinner ( vege, meat etc) is mixed and re-cycled in a big pot- although I am sure Sin Kee source is not from recycled wedding dinners), and of course the Roasts ( pork, char siu, chicken, duck), fried fish , vegetable etc. But as we were in a hurry, we just had the noodles.

 

Whenever I passed Sin Kee during meal hours, the place is pretty crowded, I guess the large variety of choice help as it’s not just roast stuff that you can get here, and for the stand-alone meals, you get a choice of  rice or noodles, there were also signs promoting their soups.

 

The noodles was pretty good, springy and with the gravy at the correct flavour, and the duck was good, the skin was crispy (my vegetarian menu out the window), the meat was tender and marinated just right which  brought out the taste of  ‘duck’ very well. The soup was so-so, a bit too ‘flourly’ for me.

 NB: Sing Kee also sells yam-puffs and kaya-puffs, I hadn’t tried these , so I can’t comment, but the yam-puffs certainly looked very promising.

 

Operating hours

9:00 am – 0:30 pm

Location :

61A Jalan Desa Bakti,

Taman Desa, 58100 KL

Tel : 7981 6136