If you’re a frequent visitor to our foodblog, you will notice that we’re very fond of fish head noodles. Not long ago, a new fish head noodle shop opens at Damansara Utama. PP and I decided to try it one day after work. This shop is a branch from Jalan Alor’s choy kee gou lou famous fish head noodle & tom yam seafood.

Like to know more about this shop? Read here, its the intro which PP managed to get from  the menu — With more than 20 years of cooking experience under his belt, the owner purchases fresh bonito fish everyday from the market at 4am. His famous Fish Head Noodles are prepared with fish maw, bonito fish, bean curd, tomatoes, salted vegetables, ikan bills, and boiled for long hours. A moderate amount of evaporated milk is added to the soup to enhance its taste before thick bee hoon is put in and cooked briefly. The resulting dish is fragrant and delicious when eaten with homemade chili cause. Foodies should also check out the excellent Tom Yam Seafood Noodles and Curry Seafood Noodles. –

Its fish head noodle and tom yam noodle looks very promising. PP ordered a bowl of fried fish head noodle while I ordered a bowl of homemade fish paste tom yam noodle. PP’s bowl of fish head noodle comes with tomato, salted vegie, fried fish head and tofu. Tofu is something extra which is not included by most of the fish head noodle stalls. This bowl of fish head noodle is not to PP’s liking. Soup’s taste is rather too bland, fish meat is too tough and noodle was not cooked well enough.

I don’t quite like my bowl of tom yam noodles either. Soup’s taste is super fake, just like its prepared from those ready make tom yam cubes. I can make better tom yam soups with the ingredients that Helen taught me. Noodle wise is just as PP have described, not well cooked. The ingredients are about the same as PP’s bowl of noodles, except for the fish head is replaced with fish paste. The only ingredient that I ate the most is their fish paste. Fish paste is tender and soft, and it’s rich in flavor. This is not as tough as those served in other stalls.

main branch – choy kee gou lou famous fish head noodle & tom yam seafood
location: 37, jalan alor, kuala lumpur
business hour: 7am – 4pm (opens daily)

damansara utama’s branch – restoran gou lou
location: 73, jalan ss21/60, damansara utama, petaling jaya
business hour: 8am – 10pm (closed on wednesday)

food: fried fish head noodle – RM7.50, homemade fish paste – tom yam noodle – RM8.50

Hubby is not feeling very well lately. Lots of phlegm, irritated throat and lost of appetite. Now its a good time to get some light porridge. As the weather is very hot lately, its not that advisable to eat at outside hawker stall. We’ve decided to head to Tropicana City Mall for some air conditioned restaurants.

WL told us that there’s a shop that sells quite good quality porridge. Food’s price is rather affordable too. This porridge stall is located at a corner of the mall, near Carrefour hypermart or Ninja Joe’s burger shop. This shop only serves porridge and dessert. PP and I had ordered a bowl of peanut porridge with salted egg and a bowl of porridge with frog legs.

Our bowls of porridge are served in a medium bowl. Judging on the amount, it is indeed quite affordable. Porridge is smooth but tastes rather bland. Good for hubby’s condition. PP’s porridge came with quite a few of frog legs. I’ve tried one, tastes just like chicken meat, nothing gross about it.

As for my porridge, its pure peanut and salted egg. Its salted egg don’t even taste salty. Wow. I couldn’t help it but dashes with lots of pepper and soy sauce. Well this is all depending on a person’s liking. Rather it bland and add saltiness than being too salty and you can’t do anything about it.

Come and try if you would like to have a decent porridge but in an air conditioned shop. There is also a branch at  Asian Avenue, Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall. However, our favorite is still the pork porridge at Seapark.

porridge time @ tropicana city mall, ss2 PJ
location: tropicana city mall (LG), near Carrefour and Ninja Joe
food: farm frog porridge – RM8.50, peanut porridge with salted egg – RM5.50, sweet potato soup – RM3.80, you tiao – RM1.40

Chicken rice is one of PP’s favorite food. We’ve tried most of the chicken rice shops located near our home and office. Our favorite chicken rice stall is located near our office at Jalan Batai. This one that we’ll be introducing is located at Section 17 PJ instead.

Section 17 is located quite near to Damansara Heights. This is one of the lunch places whereby you can eat your lunch leisurely and be able to make it back to the office in an hour’s time. If you would like to dine at this place or rather eat this stall’s chicken rice, be sure to come at 12pm sharp.

Once you’re late, you’ll be stuck in a long queue at the stall. Its either that or some of their dishes have sold out. We would usually go in a group of 5 or 10 pax. We would also order ourselves one or sometimes when we’re too hungry, two huge platters of mix roasted meat to share with. One dish that can’t be missed is their spicy and sour vegetable. This dish really increases the appetite.

I must really introduce the char siew that’s sold here. Even Aman Suria’s Famous Seremban Favorites can’t even be compared to this. This stall’s char siew will simply melt in your mouth. No kidding. Their roast pork is PP’s favorite. The skin is crunchy and the rest of its meat is tender and juicy. I guess these info will be good enough. I won’t be doing too much of advertising here, else the next time we won’t be able to find seats over there during lunch. :p

chicken rice in kedai kopi & makanan hong seng
location: section 17, pj
food: chicken rice – RM4.00, roasted pork rice – RM4.20, bbq pork rice – RM4.20