Ah Wang Bak Kut Teh亞旺肉骨茶@ Old Klang Road

As the name suggest, the specialty at Ah Wang is Bak Kut Teh, and the sign board in chinese also mentioned fish head . Our visit was on  a Saturday evening around 8-ish, and the place was packed ,  I never counted, but it was a large open area and guesstimate is, maybe can fit up to  50 tables

 

For BKT,  you have a choice of parts of porky that you would like in your pot, and when the question of ‘ do u all eat spare parts ?’ was asked,  there was one nod around the table and 2 ‘nos’.  They also serve the chicken version of BKT

For fish, there are 3 choices of steamed fish  :  assam, ginger or  soy sauce . We opted for ginger steamed fish.

And for vege , we ordered stir fried yau-mak.

Other dishes (which were  printed on the bill , I am not sure of their availability though)  : pork leg vinegar, pepper pork stripe soup, otak otak, Fu-churk. Needle mushroom, Taufu pork, taufu with oil, pig trotters as well as  chicken feet

The BKT that we ordered was the small portion  (RM8) and I think what went though all 3 heads when the ‘pot’ arrived was , ‘ oh..so small ah..dunno enough or not ‘  but anyway, they do re-fills for the soup, so it was quite ok. The soup was clear-ish and light , i.e. not those thick dark heavy soup, it was kinda sweet too, so, this might not sit too well with those that like the thick strong herb-y taste of BKT. The meat, with a bit of fat was nice and tender.

 

The fish..ahh.the fish, was very enjoyable – .the fish was covered from head to fin with finely pounded ginger plus some  gravy which was a perfect blend, the fish was fresh without any‘earth-y’ taste. Highly recommended. We ordered the small portion –RM21 The table next to ours ,  had steamed asam fish, which smelled and looked pretty good too…

 

The stir fried yau mark with garlic (RM5)   was nice, the dish retained the crispness and freshness of the vege

 

The total bill came to RM40.20 inclusive of rice, drinks plus yau char kwai.  Quality of food,  good.

 Opening hours : daily 6pm – 4 am

Location :

 Ah Wang Bak Kut Teh

Batu 4 ½ Jln Klang Lama

Tel : 013 2282288 /016 2341319

 If the Old Klang Road market is on your right, drive on after the market , you will see a flyover not too far from the post office, Ah Wang will be on your left,   just beside/ beneath  the flyover - watch out for the bright lights and the zinc roofs .

Restoran Thai Sabye-Sabye @ Old Klang Road

I passed this restaurant countless time when I shop for groceries at Plaza Central ( not the Sentral train station la..but the building next to Pearl International Hotel, Old Klang Road) , but never crossed my mind to have a meal here, it’s like that lo, things that you see all the time, it’s sorta become  part of the furniture liao ..err..a bit like family members

As we stepped into Sabye -Sabye ( which means – pleasant, good, well) , we were greeted by a friendly waitress clad in Thai Silk outfit, we were shown to our table. At the back portion  of the restaurant, there are 3 compartments ( opened, though)  serving as private rooms of some sort.

Even before placing our orders, another waitress came by our table and offered us the free dessert – which was steamed tapioca with coconut milk, it was not too bad, although i would like it better if the tapioca pieces were softer ( but no matter how, free things are always welcomed lor).

 The menu include ( there are more on the actual menu lah, I actually copied more than what I listed below, but err..i couldn’t decipher some of my writing)  :

Soup : tom yam seafood, fish fillet (both RM6/pax) or prawns (RM7) ; Sharkfin + crab meat ( RM28)

Salad: mango salad, lemongrass,  four angle bean, glass noodles, chicken feet, glass noodles prawn, petai prawns

Steamed fish: soya steamed, asam or  nyoya or a few variety of deep fried fish dish

Squid _ belacan, paprika, honey

Chicken: mango, red curry, green curry, lemon grass, cashew nut or pandan leave

Beef: sizzling,black pepper, ginger onion, oyster sauce

Beancurd:crab mean, claypot, sizzling

Crab: soft shell, salted egg, butter

Snacks : otak -otak (RM15/piece), Thai style fish cakes (RM12 / 6pcs)

Omellet

Vegetables : kangkong, kai lan, broccoli, mixed vege, petai

Noodles : TomYam koay teow; tom yam glass noodles, gravy koay teow, thai style fried koay teow

Rice : pineapple fried rice, Thai belacan FR, Petai FR, Beef FR, Butter chicken FR, Golden chicken FR, Sweet and sour chicken FR, Pattaya seafood FR

Drinks : coconut, fresh juices, tea, coffee

Dessert : Tap Tim krob , Thai style jelly, Thai ABC, sticky rice with mango

For salad, the waitress recommended the mango salad or the chicken feet, but we decided to go with lemongrass salad (RM10)  (we asked more details about the dish and  the waitress had to go to the kitchen and asked the cook about it, because not that many people order this) Well, I tell you haa….please order this dish if you do visit Sabye Sabye, it’s a wonderful dish…the fresh flavour of lemon grass, plus peanuts, crunchy dried shrimps, onions, chili padi, the sweet, sour, pedas HMMMMM…very good !

We weren’t feeling very generous that day, so opted for fried rice and noodles for that day. I like petai and had never tasted petai fried rice (RM8.80), when the dish arrive, it doesn’t look that impressive ( don’t see that much of ingredients) and only a few thinly cut petai, but taking my first mouthful-the distinct taste  of the smelly beans (petai)  blends in very well with the friend rice and as I dig deeper into the pile of rice, there were bigger pieces of petai waiting to be discovered..an interesting dish, no regrets in ordering this.

The Thai style Char koay teow (RM7.80) appeared all wrapped up in fried omelet  ( like the Pattaya friend rice version) and around this little bundle, are cucumber slices, raw taugeh, spring onions, chili powder and  chopped peanuts. It taste like regular koay teow, with  a lot of chicken slices in the noodles.  

Overall , a pretty enjoyable meal, still reminiscing about the lemongrass salad..Sabye Sabye

Opening Hours : 11:30am – 10.30pm ( Everyday)

Restoran Thai Sabye Sabye

G62 Lucky Plaza Bandar Park,

Jalan Awan Mendung Batu 5,

Off Jalan Klang Lama,

58200 Kuala Lumpur

Tel : 79812887

www.thaisabyesabye.com.my   ( this link doesn’t seem to be working )

Hai Peng Seafood Restaurant 海濱海鲜楼@ Old Klang Road

After a late meeting discussing about budgets and other morbid subjects we adjourned for dinner and the familiar question ‘where to go for dinner ah ?’ crop up. Welllll…talking about food and where to eat is absolutely more interesting that what we have been discussing !! When I suggested Hai Peng, Mr Boss asked ‘ Good food ah ? You eat there before ah ?’, My reply ‘ err..never eat before one, but this place been around very long liao ah..should be good la’ … with that.. we ended up at Hai Peng,

We were ushered to the back of the restaurant, which led to another connecting area where more tables were set up ( this looked somewhat like a beer garden environment :  more cozy and relaxed than at the front ). Both areas are not air-conned.

Word of advice, never go for dinner with a group that had another big meal the night before. When the waitress was recommending the  dishes, these guys went, ‘ oh, fish ah..we ate fish already yesterday, la-la ah..also ate already, sotong also’ I was getting ready to roll my eyes when disaster strikes, Hai Peng’s speciality is crabs and more crabs, there are 10 types of crabs, the most popular one being ‘ sweet and sour. Others include ; butter, salted egg, salt baked, Oat taste, pepper, steams and kum-heong’ and these people..these people ( all guys by the way) was murmuring ‘ crabs ah..so messy to eat la..hands get dirty, I don’t quite like eating crabs also’..And- with that-  we didn’t order any crabs….. I shed many silent tears….sniffffffffffffffffff..

First to arrive was the prawn fritters :- this was pretty ok, the outer crust was crunchy and the prawns were fresh.

Some of the appertizers include : century eggs and ginger ,roasted beancurd, we didn’t order any of these..snifff…but from reading some other blogs, comments are that both of these are good.

Mr Boss likes  chicken in Chinese wine ( yeah, the soup for ladies in confinement ) so, he ordered ‘Setiawan kampong chicken with red wine and vermicelli ( mee sua) ‘ hoping for something similar. Err…this is an interesting dish.. it doesn’t taste like the ‘normal’ Chinese wine..this is a hock chew speciality  i must say that ..this is an acquired taste lah…and I hadn’t acquired that taste..

Hai Peng is pork free , so we were limited in the ‘meat’ selection as SOME PEOPLE didn’t want to order crabs or fish , so we ended up ordering another chicken dish, Nam- Yu chicken, this is chicken marinated in nam-yu ( a type fermented bean which is normally reddish) and then fried. This was pretty ok, this finished in a matter of minutes.

 

Venison with spring onions and ginger came next, the venison was tender and tasted ok, I would like more ginger slices though.

 We also ordered a stir fried kai-lan, no pics sorry, as they ‘attacked’ the dish before I whipped out my camera. Anyway, scanning the tables around us, ALL of them , ALL of them, I tell you , had ordered crabs …you can hear them happily hammering away at the crabs ..

The total bill, ( plus drinks : Chinese tea and coconuts ; and white rice, came to ~RM105)

Please refer to Hai Peng’s webpage for more pretty pics :  http://haipengseafood.malaysianfood.com.my/

 Opening hours : 5pm – 12 pm

Hai Peng Seafood Restaurant
Lot KS-5 Taman Evergreen
4 1/2 Miles, Jalan Klang Lama
58200 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-7982 5072/79816982

Map to Hai Peng ( extracted from webpage above)