Malaysia Food Blog – Apple Foodees

Ampang is famous for its Yong Tau Foo (YTF). There are so many YTF restaurants around and some of them are Foong Foong Yong Tau Foo, Restaurant Orchard View Yong Tau Foo and Ampang Homeland Yong Tau Foo. According to a friend of my sister, YY who is a local here, the best YTF restaurant is Foong Foong’s. Relying on this, we drove ourself to Ampang to try out the YTF there.

The restaurant is not visible from the main road, so if you are not a local here, you may have a bit of trouble finding this place. Fortunately, I have a GPS to guide myself here. I have no trouble looking for this place. “PS: GPS is a good investment, do get one if you are adventurest person”.

My favourite would be the stuffed brinjals despite it being oily and white tau foo. The size of the white tau foo is considerably small compared to usual ones I had in Kepong.

As there were only four of us, we ordered 20 random pieces of YTF. Here, each piece are priced at RM0.90. After doing some diggings around, I found out that each piece were priced at RM0.60, 5 years back. The price are more expensive now. It was so much cheaper back then.

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I didn’t know about Klasik Satay until recently, a reader suggested me to try out their satays. He claims that Klasik Satay is so good that many influential people actually travels all the way here to have their satays. Curious to know more about this satay stall, we went there one weekend to try them out. And to my surprise, my reader was actually right. I find that Klasik Satay could be only one which serves best satays in the Klang Valley. Much better than the famous Kajang satay, Hj. Samuri.

The first obvious reason why I say they are one of the best is because of the smell of the satay when it was served. We were told by the cook himself that their satays are made in the original way. He claims that most satay stalls actually skips this one crucial ingredient in preparing satay. The secret ingredient in preparing really good satays is the oily baste. I don’t know what is this oily baste, but I can tell you, it really makes a lot of difference.

I have always prefered chicken satays compared to beef satays. But this time, the beef satays got my attention. It was so tender and flavourful. Chicken satays on the other hand was slightly tough.

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CRABS can be prepared in several different ways. Out of the many styles in preparing crabs, the most commonly recommended ones are the “salted-egg and butter” style, “kam hiong” style or “chili” style. After trying out so many different cooking styles, I now know that the best way to enjoy crabs is to order the baked-style ones. Our dining experience this time is at Long’s Seafood Restaurant. Long’s Seafood Restaurant which is well-known among the locals here for it’s baked crabs. Fortunately, we didn’t need to travel very far as Long Seafood Restaurant is located in Jinjang, Kuala Lumpur.

Like everyone else, that night, we ordered Long’s famous baked-styled crab. Although the oiliness seems to be the problem, the crab was nevertheless finger-liking delicious. The crab was really fresh, not to mention, beautifully presented on the plate. How often do you see crabs served in it’s original form?

Grilled Pari Fish was one of the other things we ordered that night. Owing to the fact that Long is a seafood grilled fish restaurant, we had had high expectation on this dish. However, we were not too impressed by this dish as the fish was slightly rubbery.

Next, we had Fried Squid with Butter Sauce. I must point out to you that the main star for this dish is not the fried squid, but the sauce that comes with it. It was sweet and creamy. It is just the perfect combination with those fried squids. Love it!

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I have been going around for steamboat recently and Lin Yuan Steamboat Kitchen is one of them. One this special about Lin Yuan is that, not only they serve steamboat meals they also serves chinese cuisines such as crabs and etc.. Lin Yuan also claims that they do not add any MSGs in their soup base.

We ordered a Set Steamboat Meal for two, priced at RM14.90 per person.

Lin Yuan specialty is their ‘Golden Pumpkin Porridge” soup base. As pumpkins are rich in vitamins, this is a very healthy choice for many. I really recommend this. We were charged Rm4.50 for the pumpkin porridge soup.

There are many choices of ingredients if the ones in the sets are not enough. We ordered their Imported Beef Slices, priced at RM15.00. The thinly slices of beef was quite expensive considering the amount that was given, but nevertheless, it was really good.

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Tai Tao is another steamboat restaurant in Kepong and I dare to say that this is a favourite to many especially the locals. When we arrived at the restaurant at about 8pm all the tables were taken up. This is the only steamboat restaurant which I have seen to have customers waiting even though there were no free tables at all. Lucky us, we just had a wait short wait thanks to some considerate customers.

At Tai Tao Steamboat Restaurant, each person is charged at RM16.00 per person. Its default customised set comes with a decent portion of steamboat ingredients which consists of prawns, vegetables, fish, pigeon eggs, tauhu, and some processed foodstuffs, i.e. fishballs, meatballs and etc…

And just like any other steamboat restaurant, each set comes with mihun, noodles and eggs to complete your meal.

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Traveling to Kota Damansara is a nightmare. But knowing that Snowflake Taiwan Dessert had opened at Kota Damansara just recently, we decided to make our way there. When we arrived at about 9pm, the place was packed with people. All the tables were taken and the queues were long. Noticing this, we told ourselves that this could be a good find afterall.

So we ordered their Snowflake Bestseller at RM6.90. It is made up of three layers; grass jelly ice, grass jelly and taroballs as the topping. It was alright compared to what I’ve ordered, Sea Amber Jelly.

The Sea Amber Jelly at RM6.90 was quite disappointing. Although it was quite refreshing, but they added too much ice – a “sea” of ices. I ended up drinking sugar water at the end.

Tohua here (price range from RM5 to RM6.50) was quite ordinary, not really smooth as I expected it to be.

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