Malaysia Food Blog – Apple Foodees

It’s a week before Christmas. Have you made any Christmas dinner plans yet? If not, may I introduce you to Maria’s Cafe, a restaurant which serves one of the best steak in town. They are popular for it’s quality premium beef steaks, namely, the Japanese Kobe, Australian Wagyu and Australian Black Angus.

If you have never tried Kobe before, you should at least try it once. I know, the price for Kobe doesn’t quite fit most of our budgets. But if you are feeling posh or just simply need to satisfy your desire to try the best steak in the world (Kobe), do try Maria’s Cafe. Alternatively, there are many other cheaper options. We tried Maria’s Cafe Australian Black Angus recently.

We ordered our Australian Black Angus medium rare with a tag price of Rm42/100gm. The difference between a Kobe with Black Angus is the marbling. Kobe has more ‘fats’ as compared to Black Angus. Therefore, Black Augus is slightly more chewy.

If you do not like beef, pastas are available here too. To be very honest, we prefer not to order pastas at all as we had had bad experiences with pastas. Most restaurants tend to give more noodles and skimp on the ingredients. However after persuaded by the lady boss herself, we ordered the Seafood Pasta. Maria’s Cafe Seafood Pastas are fully loaded with fresh seafood ingredients. That was my first impression. Fresh prawns, mussels and pieces of salmon. What a surprise. Priced at Rm24, Maria’s Seafood Pasta is just perfect. Very yummy.

Spicy New Zealand Mussels was our appetizer for the night. It was sweet and spicy at the same time. A plate of Spicy New Zealand Mussels is priced at RM16, comes with 6 fresh mussels paired up with some garlic bread.

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This is my second time dining at HoHo Steamboat Restaurant. Previously, we had tried HoHo’s steamboat in Menjalara, Kepong. So this time, we decided to venture further and went to their other Segambut branch. Just like their Kepong branch, they serve the same thing. You can’t go very far in terms of ingredient for a steamboat place like this. Prawns, slices of fish meat, tauhu, some processed meatballs and cabbage are some of the usual ingredients. The Segambut branch serves also fresh crab with roe. This is quite unique as we don’t see this available at any other steamboat restaurants.

If you have never tried the crab with roe before, I strongly suggest you to get it. Thanks to the crab, it made our soup tastes absolutely fantastic. Our soup was so good that we actually finished our soup. This is something that we rarely do considering the fact that most of the time our soup turn salty at the very end of our steamboat meal.

I am glad to know that there are two great steamboat restaurants just around the corner of my place, Happy City Steamboat Restaurant and HoHO Steamboat Restaurant. If I were to compare between the both of them, I will still go for Happy City Steamboat, mainly because of it’s fresh steamboat ingredients.

For your information, HoHo Steamboat Restaurant Segambut is housed together with Ipoh Road Yong Tau Foo. Although both restaurants are in the same premise, both restaurant operation hours are different. In the afternoon, Ipoh Road Yong Tau Foo is open, while at night, HoHo Steamboat Restaurant will take over. So don’t get confused.

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Wagyu beef is known worldwide for it’s high market value, thanks to its marbling characteristics which enhanced its flavour, tenderness and juiciness of the meat. In my opinion, no matter how good the quality of an ingredient, the main thing is whether the chef knows the correct way to cook it or not. That is one of the main thing that makes the difference in every dish that comes out of a kitchen.

I have recently purchased a Groupon coupon on ,Groupon website. The thing that caught my attention was that S’Mores was offering this RM39.90 Wagyu set meals. I thought this could be a good deal, considering the quality of the meat served.

S’Mores is located in Bangsar South, and no it is not even close to Bangsar at all. Lucky us, we had our Garmin GPS device which directed us directly to S’Mores. When we arrive at S’Mores, there is a crowd of customers sitting outside, enjoying S’mores barbecue night. The restaurant looks fine considering that it was just opened recently. I showed them my coupon and we took our seats.

Then, our mushroom soup came. It was a little disappointing as the mushroom soup was cold. Taste wise, it was okay – it was too diluted.

Our wagyu beef came next. It came on this horrendous-looking plate. It just looks cheap. Just like the earlier mushroom soup, it was served cold. I know I am paying a low price for this expensive piece of meat. But, isn’t the whole purpose of advertising and giving discounted meals to customers from coupon website is to introduce the restaurant to them rather than chasing them away?

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I have been going around trying Wanton Mee recently. I’ve tried the ones in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, and even Bentong, Pahang just recently. And I can say that none of them are better than the one I had in Rawang.

When I was younger, I used to have my wanton mee fix at this particular stall in Rawang which I fancy really much. My only regret is that there are no longer there as that area is now replaced with some new housing projects and I don’t know Where the stall had shifted to . Anyway, we wanted to try Hooi Kee’s Wanton Mee at Yuen Kee kopitiam, but unfortunately, the had already sold out. We reached Bentong around 10.30am and even by then, they had nothing left. Not knowing where else to go, we went to a nearby shop selling wanton mee.

The wanton noodle here comes in either the dry version or the soup version.

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What do you do when you have an extra one day public holiday extending your normal weekends break? I’m sure many of you choose to go shopping or spend more time at home to catch-up on those lost sleep. Wanting to do something different, we took a one-day trip to Seremban.

Seremban has the best Siu Bao without doubt. Not only that, Seremban is also famous for their seafood. Before heading to Seremban, we made some research and through that research, we landed up at Seremban Seafood Village.

Seremban Seafood Village is very well-knowned for their crabs. Just look at the crab pinches, don’t they look huge and appetizing?

As there are the two of us only, we ordered the Grilled Crabs. Unlike the ones we had in Jinjang which has a strong buttery taste, Seremban Seafood Village ones are more oily and salty. The crabs were very fresh and meaty. A bowl of “orange” coloured sauce was provided to compliment the Grilled Crabs. In my honest opinion, this sauce doesn’t go very well with the crabs, as the crabs were good enough on its own. Other common favourites here are their Salted Egg Crabs and Chili Crabs.

Next, I strongly recommend you their Dried Chili Mantis Prawn (Kung Pou) as it is not only delicious, it is very affordable. This portion is only RM10.00. So much difference in pricing compared to the Grilled Crab earlier which costs us RM70.00.

The Clams fried with dried chili and shrimp rice or we normally called Kam Heong Lala is also RM10.00. The lalas were very fragrant, a trully nice dish. It has enough kick of spicyness and “wok hei”.

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Previously, almost everyday I find myself asking “What am I going to have for lunch today?”. As there are not many choices around my office area, I have now opted to have cereals for my lunch. Yes, very pathetic right. That’s the reason why I will not hesitate to travel further during the weekends for good food.

This time around, we went to Hai Lam Chicken Rice Shop at Jalan Nyonya, Pudu, Kuala Lumpur to find the famous roast pork that many locals had bragged and talked about. Some even claimed that they serves the best roast pork and that their roast pork is so good that they runs out fast.

Hai Lam’s Roast Pork is delicious but not as good as I expected it to be. If the skin is much crunchier, I would have enjoyed it better. Compared to Onn Kee at Jalan Kepong, I find the latter fares better than the former in terms of it’s taste and the texture of the meat.

Hai Lam’s Roasted Chicken on the other hand is much better than their roasted pork. It was so yummy that we polished it off within minutes. I suppose, there is a reason why they named themselves Hai Lam Chicken Rice and not Hai Lam Roasted Pork.

So, if you are unsure which is better, order them both and judge them for yourself. Note that, the roast pork doesn’t comes cheap. A strip of pork costs about RM14.00 and they only start selling the roast pork from 12.30pm until finish.

My advice, if you didn’t manage to try thei roast pork, don’t worry. Their roast chicken is very good as well.

Hai Lam Chicken Rice
Address: 30,Jalan Nyonya, Off Jalan Pudu, 55100 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel No. : 03-2145 2512
GPS Coordinate: N 3.140,E 101.711