Malaysia Food Blog – Apple Foodees

Any steamboat “makan” session will not be good if the ingredients are not fresh. What differentiate from one steamboat restaurant to another is it’s ingredients. For a long time, I have been to many steamboat restaurants around Kepong and so far the best for me is Happy City Steamboat Restaurant. Today, I have found another close competitor to Happy City, that is Hao Jie Steamboat Restaurant, which is located further down the street from the former.

Without wasting much time, I’ll just dive into the best part of our seafood ingredient first. Hao Jie Steamboat Restaurant serves really Fresh Crabs (with crab roe). Hao Jie’s crab roe are much cheaper compared to Ho Ho Steamboat at Segambut. Look at the beautiful bright orange coloured roes.

White Pomphret Fish was also fresh that day and we decided to order one. Our fish was priced at RM18, a 100gram for RM6. Even though the fish was very fresh, I didn’t enjoyed it as much as the crabs. I guess, steamboat is not the correct way to enjoy this fish. It should instead be steamed lightly with soya sauce and ginger.

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It’s Valentine’s Day and how was your evening? I didn’t go anywhere as the timing is not right. Traffic jams, queuing to buy movie tickets and bad dinner service could ruined any date on this day. So I chose to celebrate Valentine’s Day last weekend on Sunday. We had a wonderful steamboat which I will share in my next post, so back to the main food I want to talk about here.

Last week, I had a short trip to Malacca again. Malacca is one of the Malaysia‘s best place to be as the people are not only friendly, it is located only a couple of hours away from the busy and bustling streets of Kuala Lumpur.

Fried Oyster Omellete@ RM8, although you can get it anywhere in Malaysia, is considerably quite popular among the locals here. So if you are visiting Malacca, oyster omelette is something you must have. One that I would recommend you to try is the Fried Oyster Omelette stall located in Sin Yin How Restaurant.

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I have been receiving smses from Nagomi Shabu-Shabu Japanese Restaurant recently regarding their buffet promotion. For only RM32.80++ an adult and RM18.80 for children age between 5 – 12 years old), each customers are given a pot of their very own soup (no sharing) and over 80 choices of shabu-shabu ingredients, sushis, sashimis and desserts.

The main highlight for Nagomi’s buffet is their unlimited salmon sashimis which are only available from 8.00pm to 9.00pm everyday. Since we are a big fan of salmon sashimis and trusting that Nagomi serves good salmon sashimi, we are overjoyed with the offer. Even though the salmon wasn’t as good as we though it would be, but we didn’t mind it as the the shabu-shabu itself was very good.

In order to make your soup tasty, just place all the seafood ingredients you can find along with some chinese cabbage, carrots and leeks just like I did. After a few minutes, your soup will turn from bland and tasteless soup to one of the most delicious soup you ever tasted. Nagomi does give really good base soup.

Nagomi serves really fresh seafood ingredients and this is evident just by looking at the pictures of these fresh prawns. Some of the other seafood they have here are red snappers, bamboo clams, clams and slipper lobsters.

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Verona Trattoria has just open recently in Section 17, Petaling Jaya. And I am so thrilled to have been invited by Silvia to do a food review for them. As both the owners are not locals, currently, Verona Trattoria is having a different “special of the day” menus every week to imrprove and better themselves to suit the Malaysian taste buds. If you have been to Italy, you should know that Italian food are bland. After testing out their menus before opening their doors to the public, I find that their food had been cooked to suit our local taste buds. I think it would be safe to say that they serves localised Italian food.

I had this Medium Rare Grilled Salmon with Lemon Butter priced at RM32. If you do not like salmon, you can also order seabass priced at RM30. I must say, that the salmon was cooked very well. Before this, I didn’t know that salmon can be cooked partially and rare at the same time. So I was quite surprised when Silvia asked me whether I wanted my salmon medium-cooked or well-done. According to her, in order to better enjoy salmon, we can also order it medium-rare. Now this is one thing that I am interested to try one day.

We also ordered the Bascaiola Pizza @ RM24. Beef sausages, mushrooms and mozzarella cheese are the main ingredients in this crispy pizza. If you are adventurous enough, you can try their specialty here, the Napoletana Pizza where tomatoes, anchovies, olives and mozzarella cheese are the main ingredients in this pizza.

Another special that week was the Risotto with Safron and Three Types of Mushrooms @ RM34. This dish may look very ordinary to you but it was very tasty. Arborio rice was used here. It was creamy and at the same time slightly firm to bite. Delicious!

As for dessert, we had Vanilla Panna Cotta @ RM10, a traditional Italian Vanilla Pudding served with chocolate cream anglaise.

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