Best Friend Dimsum Restaurant 老友记中港点心茶楼@ Seri Kembangan, Serdang

Whenever I drive passed Best Friend Dimsum Restaurant, I find it to be enjoying brisk business, so, I guess it was about time we check it out and see what all the fuss is about.

This fried roti thingy filled with bits of prawns and meat had a fluffy texture and the filing was pretty tasty which went very well with the mayo that was provided

 

Pork ribs – the meat had an interesting Chinese herbs flavour but it was a bit tough though.

The minced pork wrapped fu-pei ( soya skin) came in a reddish sauce which I will describe as tasting like spicy tomato sauce, I didn’t quite like it- it was kinda overpowering and didn’t ‘jive’ with the dimsum

Fishball wrapped in fu-pei  -  had the same sauce as the  beforementioned which spoil the fun lah.. the texture of the fishball was ok – I washed away the sauce with some Chinese tea and found it much improved

 

We ordered century egg +lean pork porridge but the waitress must have forgotten and served us chicken shreds +chicken floss porridge , if you like smooth and fine porridge you would probably not like this as the rice grains are still intact and kinda lumpy, the meat floss was a bit sweet which didn’t went well with the porridge

 

Fishball wrapped in seaweed – this had  a nice texture and taste good too

Thingy wrapped in wantan skin – this was the best amongst the lot. Yummy

                   

Char siu pao – the dough was kinda flat, lacking in  fluffiness and puffiness . The filing was reddish ( boo hoo..i want this in black gooey sauce ) and had a strong taste of something resembling  Chinese red wine.

 

Wu kok ( yam puff) – had the same filing as char siu pau above ( deduct some points) and the outer yam layer was kinda thin for my liking

 

The unit price of each plate of dimsum range from RM2.50 to a max of RM 5.50, for our meal above including a pot of tea, costs us RM31.80 which is about typical for a dimsum meal.

Overall, I find the dimsum average. The service was good –friendly and efficient

 

They are closed on the second Tuesday of each month.

 Location :

At Jalan Besar, pass Esso, Caltex, BP ( on your left) , go straight, pass market ( right) . go straight, when you come to Public Bank, turn right at the traffic light, go straight, when u see double storey shoplots on your left , at the junction – you will see – Best Friend –which occupies the corner lot – on your right . for a more descriptive map, check out    previous posting Serdang Home Cook Restaurant , Best Friend is further up the road -less than 500m away

 Best Friend Dimsum Restaurant

No 1717 Jalan 6/1, Seri Kembangan

43300 Selangor

Tel : 012 3744 406

Causeway Seafood Restaurant – Quezon City, Philippines

A short post…

I think our host was trying to make us feel at home or something like that hor.., Guess what we had for lunch in Philippines…Dimsum.! After touching down at Clarke Fields , it took us  ~ 1:30 hr drive to Manila after a ~ 4 hours flight from KL LCCT, I am game for anything as my stomach was growling  !

Causeway Seafood Restaurant serves steamboat as well as regular ala carte meals, dim sum and crocodile meat..wahhlahh…the menu looks pretty interesting hor ? Premium Crocodile meat with broccoli flower..wonder how will that taste  ?

 

We had dimsum..not too bad really, about Malaysian standard, I would say, actually they said  this should be more authentic that what we get in KL, as the chefs and kitchen help here are from mainland china.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the end of the meal, my colleague told our host, next time when you visit KL, we will take you for a Philippino meal  - he didn’t said that in a kindly way but rather with a sinister smile 

 Causeway Seafood Restaurant

883 Banawe cor. Del Monte Ave. Quezon City

Tel: 410-8690, 740-8787

Din Tai Fung Restaurant 鼎泰豐 @ Midvalley

Before Din Tai Fung hit the shores of M’sia, before the mini craze of siu lorng paus 小籠包 ( SLP) I would just nod and say a few polite words of something similar to  ‘really ah…so nice ahh..ohh..they  weigh each dumpling to make sure every one weighs the same ah..oh..like that ahh…so many people queue up one ah..’ when people started to talk about having a meal at DTF.

When DTF newly opened at the Gardens , Midvalley Megamall, I heard that there were long queues and large crowds..and finally, the Malaysian mass  can check out Din Tai Fung  SLP without having to go through immigrations.

We arrived at DTF around 8-ish pm on a weekday, not too big a crowd, we didn’t have to wait to get a table which was good as everyone was hungry. There were 5 of us and as the portions can be pretty big for small eaters ( yours truly excluded in this category), we decided to order 3 bowls of noodles and 2 sets of SLP.

The appetizers were pretty appetizing – strips of crunchy salted veges, fungi, seaweed etc. This gets the stomach juice flowing.

 

We ordered the combo-dumpling set : pork and crabmeat+pork. The SLP’s looked very dainty and simple seated on a white cloth in the steamer. Going through the motions : Lifting up the SLP from it’s nest with the chopsticks, the weight of the broth against the thin skin of the dumpling, dipping the SLP into vinegar and positioning in onto the ceramic soup spoon and adding a few strips of ginger..and the bite..hhmm..feel the taste of the sweet broth on your tongue and you sip the broth greedily ..ahh..so ends the fate of the dainty and simple SLP..and it was pretty good SLP. 

Each set consist of 6 SLP ( unless you opt for the bigger set which comes in 12 units), and there were 5 of us, so how do we do the math of who gets how many ? we did it the democratic way –  the person who makes the most noise get the extras…that’s fair huh ? ( and it was not me..)

We ordered prawn wanton noodles – the noodles arrived with the 5 wantons in a row..so pretty one..the prawns were fresh , the broth was sweet and the noodles were smooth and springy. No faults here.

 

The crowd were getting hungrier by the moment, so even before I manage to get my camera ready, they had started to attack the noodle soup with fried pork chop .So, sorry la..no photos, and it was one big block of pork – actually, the comment was ..too much meat..the broth taste the same as the broth  prawn wanton noodles.

The same fate befall the braised beef noodle soup – so, I only managed to get a picture of the ‘apportioned/ shared ‘ small bowl allocated to me, again- plenty of beef, big chunks of it. The broth is a dark clear soup and taste of spice, I am wondering why DTF do not serve vegetables  with these noodles ( e.g spinach or others) the noodles just had  some sprinkle of spring onions. It’s almost like meat meat meat and you won’t have any distractions from the vegetables

 Interested to find out more about the history of  Bingyi Yang from Shanxi who started all this and the official websites  ? The  English version is here , and the Chinese version is here 

Din Tai Fung Restaurant

Lot LG-207, Lower Ground Floor,

The Gardens, Midvalley City,

59200 Kuala Lumpur

Tel : 03 2283 2292