It KL it is not easy to find nice and cheap food, especially those neighbourhood cafe which is now quite a trend but one cafe is quite well known in the neighbourhood is Ting’s Cafe which is located in SS2 that I find the food is nice and cheap or I would say worth recommending, a cafe that serve a mixture of Hainanese, Western and some Penang Hakwer Food Selection.
For smokers zone
and of course we prefer some where cold and let the smokers walk out to smoke.
I used to stay in Taman Paramount when I first came down to KL which is at my aunts place, I constantly dine at those 2 coffee shop for its cheap food and economy rice and I totally never knew there is one hidden Char Siew stall right behind at it which never mention by my aunt also. Ah Khai famous Char Siew Chicken Rice was not until one of my colleague went to ‘ta pau’ char siew for boss and client to eat for lunch, then she let us try out the char siew and its heavenly good. From there, we were talking about it how good it was and must go to the stall to eat.
**UPDATE: Ah Khai Char Siew NO LONGER OPERATE at SIMONS Delight as now had move a few shops up to RESTAURANT MEI YAN. . . .starting May 2011
It was not until last week, we decided to hunt it down for this marvelous ‘Char Siew’ that located in Section 17 hidden inside Restaurant Simon’s Delights. We manage to reach there early as the time of operating business is from 11am-1pm. . . I just cannot imagine people doing business for just 3 hours a day. It must have been brisk business.
Seeing those ‘Char Siew’ hanging there is like waving at us to order it desperately making us place our order we a portion of char siew for 3 pax a plate for 3 plates.
One of the funny thing that I ask the owner, ‘Are you Local’ cuz while I was eating there and I kept figuring, is he local or not to do such a great char siew. . and his answer Yes… I am local just that I am not as white ask you guys that work in the office, since young I got burn infront of the stove by helping parents out that’s how I turn dark or ah bu neh neh. . . I can say, a very friendly guy that talk a lot of nonsense.
‘Roast Chicken’ is quite normal, nothing much to brag about. . .
The first place of ‘Char Siew is mix with Roast Pork’ that actually we wanted to try it out too, suprisingly it turn out to be good too, with the skin roasted well till it is crispy yet do not broke our teeth, with perfect thin layer of fats in between the lean meat and dip with the chili sauce is just perfect.
After I took picture of it, this plate of combo was gone in seconds . . till all 3 plates that got serve just gone. . We order another round of purely char siew only.
Pure ‘Char Siew’ was one of the best char siew I have ever come accross, with it well roast char siew till it was well quoted by caramelised with the burn end layer. . You can either chose 70% fats and 30% meat as we go ahead with equal fats and meat that spread out very well, till the bite in our mouth it melts as the meat is so soft and tender till it break into slices and the fats melts along with it. . . Every piece of it, is burst with flavor and that is how we ended up ordering another two more plates purely on char siew. If you love fats like my friend, go for the heavy weight more fats less meat..you will definately enjoy it!
At the end of the meal, the coffee shop were sardin pack with people ordering char siew and tapau, we even order a few take away back to office for tea time. Surely I am going back for more, we consider it quite cheap, with so many order and it is not more than RM10. Worth Recommending this place if you are a char siew lover~
Do go early to avoid dissapointment . . .
A recommended Char Siew place~
-= Ka Ching =-
Food Rating 9/10, Very Good ah~ Recommended~ -Stamped-
–Warning– This is based on my individual taste. Try it at your own risk-
Location:
Ah Khai Famous Char Siew Chicken Rice
Restoran Mei Yan
Jalan 20/7,
Paramount Garden.
Open 11am to 1.30pm.
Closed every second Tuesday of the month.
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One of the hope for local F&B industry that one day a publisher will come out with a book for food guide that I did own one when I was in Melbourne, that every time me and my housemate have no idea of what to eat, the food surely comes handy as the recommended food in the book never fail to impress. My version was Cheap Food Guide by The Age year 2005 and they have a few versions of it, one which is Good Food Guide.
I am very happy that recently I get to know that actually we have a local author with a passion to eat and that she was actually involve in hotel management, that is where she began to fall in love with food and since then have been a food hunter and become a blogger since year 2005 ( jommakan.blogspot.com ) and with her compilation throughout the year, she is the author of a new book that recommending all the nice food around KL area, Not Only a Good Food Guide.
Her new book are available now in most of the bookstores in town that cost around RM42 per book, that will comes in handy to hunt for food.
And not until yesterday night, we manage to catch up with the author herself which is very warm and passionate to food, of course as a foodie, her signature is a must in the new book that I just got.
Me and Alice Yong (the author)
Besides this mention above, there are other famous stall too, like the ‘Loh Mee’ and a few other stalls. . . With no complain that this kopitiam serve quite a good range of food, worth recommending.
-= Ka Ching =-
Food Rating 8/10, Quite good~ Recommended~ -Stamped-
–Warning– This is based on my individual taste. Try it at your own risk-
Location:
Bee Hooi Restaurant
Lorong Pulau Tikus
Pulau Tikus, 10350, Penang
(Next to EON Bank, OPPOSITE Belissa Row)
*Non-Halal
Operatiing Hours: 6pm-12am
Public Transport :
Rapid Penang buses to reach Pulau Tikus:
U101, U103, U104, T304
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