Savage Tribe Steamboat and BBQ @ Kuchai Lama

The name Savage Tribe for a place that serve BBQ,  seemed pretty apt…imagine : deep dark jungle, savages in glass skirts and sinister masks, toting sharp spears, chanting and dancing around a big the campfire ah  ? can see the sharp spears ah ? nevermind…whatever..

At 6:05pm, we were the first customer at Savage Tribe. We were shown to our table and given our sets of shrink wrapped utensils.

The waitress started the ‘induction cooking pit thingy’ and started to place the skewers over the fire/electric whatyoucallit. When asked, the waitress said that the Management felt that when left to their own devices, the patrons usually end up with burnt meat and occasionally undercooked meat, so it was better that the duty was left in the hands of the waitresses.

The dips were served in bamboo plates, no, they were not chili powder and pepper, but some special spices…

We struck up a conversation with the waitress, we thought she was from China as the conversation was in Mandarin, but turned out that she was from Myanmar and studied Mandarin in school.

There was a conveyer-liked mechanism for the skewers, where they were automatically turned/rotated , which ensure even grilling…and the waitress was intermittently applying the seasoning to the skewers on the grill.

Some of  the prices for the BBQ skewers  :

Spicy lamb / cumin lamb/ yummy beef/ black pepper beef brisket/ red hot beef : RM5 for 2 skewers ;

Red hot wings/ spicy wings : RM5;

Spicy prawns : RM3; Grilled cuttlefish RM2,

Chicken gizzard / Orleans chicken RM3 for 2 skewers

Pork : RM4 for  2 skewers)

If you are a duckie person, you can try :  duck tongue, duck feet (RM5 for 4) and duck neck ( RM5/piece)

Apart from the BBQ, you could also try the steamboat set with a variety of soup, including a very interesting ‘Ice and fire steamboat’ , or green tea (wow..that would be interesting); pork bone with corn broth, mushroom, chew chou broth , tom yam, chicken marinate in yellow wine broth etc..And a large selection of seafood, meat, fish/meat-balls and vegetables

And not just BBQ and steamboat, one could also order ala carte dishes or standalone meal..

Ok..our meal was ready…. smelling  wonderful..

The meat were well marinated and taste very good. One great thing was that all the BBQ stuff were ‘real meat’, not fishballs or processed stuff…with the exception for the hotdog, that is.. What I liked best was the chicken wings, it was very fragrant and the meat was grilled to perfection. The lamb was slightly gamey and taste better after dipping with the special species,

Overall, an enjoyable meal..one funny thing was that there was a  charge for using the utensils…oh..i hope this will not be a trend at all the makan places..

 Location :

 No. 41, Jalan Kuchai Maju 11,

Kuchai Entrepreneur Park,

58100 Kuala Lumpur

Tel : 79718024; 018

Feng Mao BBQ @ off Jalan Yew

We drove down to Jalan Sungai Besi, took the wrong exit and had to make a U-turn and after a few twist and turn we ended up right in front of where we want to be : Feng Mao – for our BBQ set meal.

After taking our seats, our cooking pit was fired up and we were good to go.

This was what we had to cook for the night

The dip to go with the BBQ

While waiting for the food to cook, we were served the following:

Home made salad (RM8)  : vermicelli , cucumber and vegetable. Not bad.

Stir fried potato threads (RM8) if I hadn’t ate this before,I would not have guessed that these were potatoes, the texture, the taste didn’t say potatoes ! Not bad..

We didn’t like the egg fried rice (RM6), it was soggy and tasteless..

In between stuffing ourselves with the salad and the potatoes shreds,  we kept a watchful eye on the work-in-progress food and not forgetting to turn the skewers when necessary

The work-in –progress and the progressed food. Having a higher rack to ‘park’ the cooked stuff and to keep them warm is a good idea. We weren’t very sure whether we were eating lamb, pork or beef but the BBQ stuff were rather tasty, a large number of skewers were seafood paste/ balls.

We were a bit too slow / we were too immersed in eating and burnt the toast..i guessed the rest of the diners could smell the burning  as many heads were looking our way, lucky they didn’t throw the fire extinguisher at us..

Overall, an ok  meal lah

Location :

No. 62A, Jalan Metro Pudu, Fraser Business Park, Off Jalan Yew
Kuala Lumpur 55100

017-2244636, 03-92214636

http://www.facebook.com/RestaurantFengMaoBbq

Taman Desa Japanese BBQ @ Taman Desa

Chunny saw this Japanese BBQ makan place  featured on Ho Chiak- and that was how we ended at a open courtyard as the last few rays from the setting sun illuminated the metal table tops and the plastic chairs.

We asked the waiter what is good here, and his reply was “everything taste great here’,I think this guy deserve a raise. Three kind of meats were available : pork, beef and lamb. For pork the choices were : belly, shoulder loin, neck, ‘inside leg’ ( what is inside leg ah ?) and baby intestine, all for RM10/ plate ( ~ 100g) and also available are tongue, throat, liver, heart, stomach and small intestine from RM5-6. For beef, the choices are :brisket, ribeye, short ribs, steak, tongue which price ranging from RM10 to 25. For lamb there was only 1 selection : Gengiskhan RM20. There were three selection of vegetable, all priced at RM5 : mixed vegetable, miso cabbage and long cabbage salad.. For the non beer drinkers, the choice of drinks are rather limited: hot or cold green tea, 100plus and then the rest are beers. I don’t drink tea at night and worry about the 8 tablespoon of sugar in a can of softdrink  so…i guess we will have a Saporo (RM13) 

For our BBQ, We decided to go for pork shoulder loin , beef ribeye and mixed vegetable. The ribeye appeared to have been marinated whereas the pork is au naturale, I was a bit puzzled by the mixed vegetable of carrots, cabbage and onion, how do we bbq these ah, they were already so dry wor ?

We dropped the meat and the vegetable on the grill over the charcoal fire, mouth salivating, forehead sweaty, mascara running, nose smoking, fingers burning..We had this meal before the terrible Haze thingy, so we didn’t contribute to the pollution index.

The meat were cut rather thinly so they curled and cooked pretty fast, the marinate from the beef hid the beefy flavour and it was the pork in it’s natural juice and form that won the day. The owner  came by our table and rescued the cabbages which were getting carbonized over the fire and imparted a few wise words -  ‘ you grill lightly to soften the cabbage, there is no need to burnt it ’ BBQ cabbage wasn’t too bad but we burnt most of the carrots though.

Three  types of ramen  were available , pork, chicken and cold ramen, all three priced at RM10/bowl, the Pork ramen was highly recommended by the waiter who was non committal earlier. The ramen came with a few ( too few lah) thinly sliced  pork, half a boiled egg and bean sprouts. Taste wise, pretty good . And best was the pork, it was so porky, the fatty and lean layers gave it a tender and smooth texture. The texture of the ramen was springy. Nice.

After consuming all the above, there were still some space in our system and we decide to order the  Genghiskhan. Gengiskhan came in it’s own little ‘pot’ , there were some cabbages and gravy with the lamb bits, these were almost half ready when delivered to our table which was a good thing. The flavour was a garlicy, bean paste ( my guess, oh, maybe miso hor) and a tinge of chili. The lamb wasn’t gamey ( yayyy) , it was tender with a bit of a bite. And I must say the cabbage tasted better cooked in the pot with the gravy compared to the open fire. i think Mr Khan was delicious.

Overall, an enjoyable meal. Our visit was on a Friday and all the tables were more or less taken up. And as you would anticipated, after the meal you smell like a slab of meat cooked over the fire ( and probably look like one too )

Business hours : only starts in the evening to late.

Location ( the name on the bill was Sanuki Udon and the address printed on the bill was Jalan Bukit Desa, which must be for another branch (?)  :

Get yourself to Taman Desa, locate TM Point at Jalan Desa Utama or if you come from the other entrance into Taman Desa, locate Faber Tower, which is at the opposite end of TM Point. Geez…no wonder I always start with talking about food and end with the location. From TM Point, look for Public Bank, then go further right, you will come to a open courtyard.  And if you are at the Faber Tower end, find 7 Eleven then go further left until you some to an open courtyard.