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Sao Nam Fine Vietnamese Cuisine is the very first Vietnamese restaurant that I have been to. It is not that I don’t like their food, but there are not many Vietnamese restaurants around. Oh well, it’s an excuse. The truth is that it didn’t really cross my mind to go for Vietnamese food whenever we are out there searching for good food.

Not knowing what to order, we picked some of the good-looking and recommended items by the chef on the menu. We ordered the seasonal Mangosteen and Prawn Salad for RM32.00. According to it’s menu, this is an award winning dish and an extraordinary and truly unique combination of the fruit of the mangosteen, dried squid flown in from Vietnam, grated fresh coconut, chicken slices topped with fresh tiger prawns, peanuts and sesame seed. The dressing on this mangosteen and prawn salad is Chef Tien’s special kumquat dressing. The combination of the mangosteen and the prawns when mixed with the kumquat dressing really goes very well together. Yummy!

The next item that caught our attention is Sao Nam’s Deep Fried Chicken Spring Rolls @ RM18.00. It is basically fried minced chicken rolls with strips of carrot, yam, wood ear mushrooms delicately rolled in fine paper and deep fried to a golden crisp. The filings in these rolls are really compact, so it is not as crispy as the Chinese version of fried popiah. Given the options between the two versions, I’ll definitely go for the Vietnamese one.

For lunch, I ordered the Vietnamese Laksa @ RM18.00. The taste, the texture, everything, is very different from our Malaysian laksa. This Vietnamese laksa is a super-rich noodle laksa cooked with fragrant curry powder and dried shrimps. The sauce was sweet and very creamy. Lots of fresh prawns too. Very recommended.

Beef noodle soup (Beef Pho) is also a must order here because Vietnamese are very popular with their beef soup noodles. Priced at RM18.00, this bowl is jammed packed with lots of beef slices. Yeah, you can’t see much from my picture here because it was all placed at the bottom of the bowl. And by the way, they gave lots of soup too which was another reason why I like this dish.

As for drinks, without a second thought, we ordered their Premium Coffee – Bazan (a triple ‘A’ grade Vietnamese Arabica) and Dak Lak (also a Vietnamese Arabica minus the triple ‘A’ – French mocha) @ RM15.00 each. Nothing fancy though. It tasted okay. What are the difference between the triple ‘A’ grade and the normal grade? I think that the triple ‘A’ grade is much smoother, while the normal grade is slightly sourish.

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Food guide book is really useful when you do not want to spend too much time researching beforehand. So if you are travelling, especially overseas, it is recommended to get one before you go for your trip. Now, we don’t go oversea every month do we. So is there a good food guide book for those staying in the Klang Valley?

May I introduce to you, Worthy Book F&B Special Edition 2012-2013 (Klang Valley), a food guide book complete with reviews of a total of 275 food and beverage participating merchants all over the Klang Valley. Some of the participating merchants in the Worthy BookTM F&B Special Edition 2012-2013 include BreadTalk, Chilla Cup, Cupcake Chic, Delectable By Su, Gloria Jean’s, Mr Siew Bao, Toast Box, Bee Cheng Hiang, DucKing, Kim Gary, Gelatomio, Lecka Lecka, Meet Fresh, Mochi Sweets, Boost Juice Bars, Ochado, Share Tea, The Soya Shop, Ichiban Boshi, Pepper Lunch, Shogun, Saisaki, Sushi Tei, Ko Hyang, D’Rich, Brotzeit, The Beer Factory, Crazy Potato, Krispy Kreme, Oyster King, Planet Popcorn, Shihlin Taiwanese Snacks, Carl’s Jr, Ninja Joe, Subway, Wendy’s and many more!

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Details of this food guide + voucher book:

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SAMIRA RESTAURANT – If you are looking for a restaurant away from the busy streets of Kuala Lumpur, Samira is the place to be. Managed by Asian Terrace, Samira is located within the greeneries of Sentul Park surrounded with a koi fish populated lake. Although the Koi Garden is no longer operational, koi fishes are still visible around the lake.

To start off our lunch, we ordered Samira Thai’s Fish Cake @ RM16.00 for five pieces of fish cakes. It comes with a sweet and spicy sauce which goes really well with the fish cakes. The fish cakes were very flavourful but was a bit too dry. Samira’s chef is very skillful in decorating its’ dishes. I am amazed by the effort put by the chef to make each plate look beautiful. Look just how beautiful these carrot look.

Next up was Samira’s Thai Hor Mok. Hor Mok is nothing but Western-style fish mousse flavored with red curry paste, kaffir lime leaves, sugar and thickened with coconut cream. This dish goes really well with rice, and if you have not tried hor mok before, do order this. A plate of Samira Hor Mok is priced at RM23.00. This dish is loaded with squids, prawns and fish fleshes.

Samira’s Omellete Rolls is priced at RM16.00. It was loaded with seafood ingredients, green and red peppers and other unidentified ingredients. This is one of the most flavourful omelletes I have tried so far. The omellete was just yummy. I wish I can cook like this.

Then, came our Samira Yellow Curry Beef. The curry was cook just right. It wasn’t too think or too diluted. Even though the curry was not spicy but it was packed with flavours. This dish goes really well with the RM4.00 Jasmine rice that we’ve ordered. very recommended if you take beef.

As we wanted to try more items on the menu, we also ordered Samira’s Thai Chicken Tom Kha. Compared to the earlier Samira Yellow Curry Beef, this dish didn’t shine that day. The reason why it wasn’t our favourite because the chicken meat were a bit too tough. Samira’s Thai Chicken Tom Kha is priced at RM16.00.

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