Malaysia Food Blog – Apple Foodees

Publika is my latest favourite place to go during the weekend. Lots of parking and less traffic are the two main reasons why I find myself coming here almost every weekends. If you have been to the London (where the Olympics 2012 is now), I am sure that you will come across Angus Steakhouse which are located around many of the famous landmarks in London. The Angus House Japanese Charcoal Steak is entirely different from Angus Steakhouse. So what are the differences between these two restaurants? Well, one is Japanese and the other one is English. Both serves really good steak.

Since we were at a steakhouse, it is only wise to order their steak. We ordered the Black Angus Tenderloin set menu. It comes with a main course – a 300gm medium rare black angus tenderlion steak, appetizer, soup and dessert for RM157.00. The black angus tenderloin steak by itself was very good by itself. It was very tender and it was cooked to perfection. The sauce which was served together however did not go very well with the steak.

I ordered their US Cod Fish from Angus House Japanese Charcoal Steak ala carte menu for RM109.00. It was perfectly grilled and very flaky. It was also very fresh and very enjoyable to eat. Read the rest of this entry »

There are many of choices of seafood restaurants around the Klang Valley but I have not came across any which operates in a hawker stall except for the one I am going to share with you here. There is one hawker stall just right behind the dessert place, Kei Tak Sek in Kepong which serves really good crab dishes. I heard a lot about this particular stall named B Lui but it was not until last week that I have a chance in trying them out. Looking through the many pictures pasted in front of their stall, we could see that B Lui was featured in 8TV’s food programme, Ho Chiak and was even visited by several Malaysia and Hong Kong celebrities.

After dining at several seafood restaurants around the Klang Valley, we came to the conclusion that the best way to enjoy crabs is to have it baked. So without deliberating further, we ordered the Crab baked with salt and cooking wine.

Even though we were dining in a hawker stall, the crab doesn’t comes cheap. Our crab weight 1.2kg for RM120. You may think that the price is ridiculuos, but the crab was actually imported from Australia. Just look at the size of the claw.

If clams are your favourite, you must try B Lui’s Chili and Shrimps Hot Plate Clams @ RM25. They are the best you can get. It was really flavouful, it was fresh, it was just delicious.

Squids cooked with salted eggs didn’t really shine that night but it was very good too. I just love the crunch, salted egg coat on the outside of the squids.

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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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