This is a franchise from Pontian. Even though we’ve not tried the original shop in Pontian, the franchise’s food quality is good enough. Apart from Subang Jaya, they have other franchises throughout Malaysia and Singapore. The restaurant is almost full during the weekends. Its usually crowded with family and students living around the SS15 area.

PP’s favorite wantan noodle is the one with black sauce and chilli. It brings out the dark soy sauce noodles taste, but accompanied with a special fragrance from the chilli. The bowl of noodles is served with slices of char siew, vegetable and fried wantan. Their wantan tastes different too. Its accompanied with slight fragrance of salted fish.

My favorite wantan noodle is the one with chilli and tomato sauce. Among those living in PJ and KL, there are still a lot of people that cannot accept the tomato taste. In my opinion, the tomato taste however is very refreshing when taken during breakfast.

Apart from the wantan noodles, this restaurant also serve their famous curry laksa. The curry laksa carries the southern curry taste. Soup is not too thick, curry flavor not too strong but just nice to take with. Apart from these main food, the restaurant also serves a variety of desserts. Our favorite from here is their peanut soup, sweet yam paste and red bean soup.

famous pontian wanton noodle @ ss15 subang jaya
location: no45, jalan ss15/4, subang jaya
food: wantan noodle (small) – RM4.00, wantan noodle (medium) – RM5.00, wantan soup (10 pcs) – RM4.00
contact: +603 – 5631 1044

Today, we went to try the Pontian Noodles which located in Kota Kemuning. This is the first branch of Pontian Noodles in Klang Valley. Their original shop in Pontian established since 1948, over 50 years now.

This place only took us 15 mins from Kelana Jaya to Kota Kemuning. Thanks to the new fly over that link Subang Airport road to USJ. Then turn right into Kesas Highway before Submit Shopping mall. Once you exit Kesas and enter to Kota Kemuning, go straight and enter into 3rd turning from the rotary. Turn right at the 1st right junction, then you will see a McDonalds on your right. Turn left at the 1st junction and Pappa Rich is on your right then go straight and Pontian Noodles is just on your left.

We ordered 3 types of wan tan mee, tomato sauce, chilli sauce and chillis + black sauce. Personally, I preferred the tomato sauce pontian noodles because the taste is the closest to the Singapore and Pontian style red sauce wan tan mee.

In term of noodles, it taste quite nice because the noodle is not too soft or too hard, it just nice to us. Then the sauce are rich in favor. The tomato sauce one is a bit sweet and sour which we like the most compare to chilli sauce and black sauce one. On the other hand, the wan tan is not too big, we really don’t like the wan tan with too much of filling and big like ping pong. Their wan tan is just nice in small size with lean pork inside. Yummy!

However, 2 things i think they should improve further:

1. 1. The BBQ pork is missing and i think this is quite important for wan tan mee.
2. 2. They can put some vegetables and serve with noodles to make the meal more balance.

Overall, they are serving tasty and yummy red sauce wan tan mee and sure we will go back again.

Update on 31 May 2010:

I went back yesterday and their Wan Tan Mee got Char Siew now. In fact, their Char Siew quality is quite good!

Also they will be serving deep fried wan tan soon.

restoran pontian noodles (since 1948) @ kota kemuning
location: 36, Jalan Anggerik Vanilla M 31/M, Kota Kemuning, 40460 Shah Alam, Selangor.
gps: +3° 0′ 13.25″, +101° 32′ 21.12″
business hours: Daily from 9am to 3pm
food: Tomato Sauce – RM5, Chilli Sauce – RM5, Chilli + Black Sauce – RM5

Sausage McMuffin with Egg – RM4.50
Egg McMuffin with Chicken Roll – RM4.50
Sausage McMuffin – RM4.00
2 pcs Hotcakes – RM4.00

What you’ll be needing is a glass with filter, which you may also get it from IKEA. To make this coffee, you’ll need to have a glass of hot water poured into the filter glass together with a tablespoon of the coffee powder. Wait for about 10 – 15 mins, filter out the coffee powder and your drink is ready. Add in sugar to your liking.

Ikea at Mutiara Damansara
location: No.2, Jalan PJU 7/2, Mutlara Damansara, 47800 Petaling Jaya
contact: +6 03 7726 7777
operating hours: Mon – Thurs 9.30am – 10pm / Fri, Sat, Sun, eve of & on public holidays 9.30am - 11pm
food: Bryggkaffee Morkrost – RM9.90

This beef noodle stall just located in front of the Proton Wira in above picture, behind the chicken rice stall. Very easy to find.

The soup of this beef noodle is clear type, not too salty but rich in favor and beef taste. A bowl of beef noodle got a lot of ingridients such as beef, stomach, beef ball and salty vegetable. The beef is very tender and soft, I really like it because the meat will not stuck in my teeth. Next worth to mentioned ingridient is beef ball, it so tender and fresh. We would like to remind you that must order soup one, not the dry one because the dry noodle sauce is not that good, just the normal dark soy sauce and onion oil, nothing special.

In term of the price, is quite pricy in this kind of food court. Big one is RM7 and small size is RM6. However I will say is worth for the price because they really give a lot of meat until my last mouthful of kuey teow still got a lot of beef left over.

Hock Seng Two Restaurant

Address :
66, Jalan SS2/66, Seksyen SS2, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Direction : Opposite the Old Taste Kopitiam and Prince Cafe, Behind Sun Hing Loong Restaurant.
Food : Beef Noodle – RM6.00 (S) RM7.00 (B)

Hehe.. Being 11 years together with PP, I think this is our first real late supper! One midnite, while we we’re brewing our HK dramas at home, PP said he suddenly felt very hungry. So, I was jokingly saying, eh, supper? Surprisingly, he say yeah… I wanna eat KL’s beef noodle. Wow, I said. U sure? That’s very far, coz we normally don’t travel for food. He say yeah… but come to think of it… Kepong’s prawn noodle sounds as delicious too.

We’ve finally settled for prawn noodle at Kepong. I think the time that we’re about to go out was 1am. Hehe.. you guys know wat, we’re really not those supper kind of people. We actually yawned all the way from Ara Damansara to Kepong. The prawn noodle shop is called “Hoo Yee Kee”, and it has been in that area for quite some time. Its located by the road side, at the area of other food stalls at Kepong Baru. This shop is very visible as it has a huge prawn as the shop’s landmark.

PP and I both ordered a bowl of prawn noodle for each of us. We’ve also topped up with some other ala-carte dishes such as lala and pork intestines. These 2 dishes are cooked in the same prawn noodle soup, and it tastes sweet. As for the prawn noodle, it comes with vegetable, prawns, bean sprouts slices of pork meat and egg. The soup is quite clear and its not as thick as the one at Chow Yang.

Their noddle noodle and the ala-carte dishes tastes good. Come on over to try it out if you haven’t! This place is real famous for those working night shift at KL and Kepong area.

Hoo Yee Kee Prawn Noodle at Kepong
Location: Stall 7A, Jalan Kepong Baru
Contact: +6019 318 1533
Business Hour: opens everyday
Food: Normal Prawn Noodle (Mee York) – RM4.00, Lala – RM3.00 (S) RM6.00 (B), Intestine – RM3.00 (S) RM6.00 (B)
Website: http://hykprawnmee.com/

Talking about NZX at Ara Damansara the other day, we would also like to take the chance to recommend some good food over there. We’ve picked Station 1 Cafe because its packed of people at that day. We felt that the food there won’t go wrong if the restaurant is full of people. Oh and, it has FREE WIFI!

Station 1 Cafe’s style is just like any other Wong Kok or Prince Cafe. I think the only difference here is that they serve beer over here. Hence, this is a good place for people to meet up, chit chat and while they enjoy their beers. No wonder its so packed. This cafe have a number of outlets here at Klang Valley area. They have cafes at Subang Jaya, Puchong, Kuchai Lama and etc etc.

OK, back to the food. The food served here ranges from local malay rice meals, to western to chinese and more. Well, for the first time being here, I’ve decided to try something safe, and ordered a nasi lemak with curry chicken. PP, ordered a spicy fried sauce noodle. We’ve waited for quite some time before being served with the food. I guess they could not cope with the number of orders. Hmm.. should improve on that!

My nasi lemak was served first. The nasi lemak’s fragrant sure makes me more hungry. The curry chicken that’s served with it is just nice, rich in flavor and tender. It also comes with a fried egg, some sambal, ikan bilis and peanuts. This plate of dish also comes with a stick of ota-ota. Hmm.. something new in a plate of nasi lemak.

PP’s noodle tastes good too. Its a little sweet and spicy. The noodle is topped with a dark gravy with minced meats. It also comes with a lot of sliced vegetable and carrot; it certainly looks healthy. The noodle is cooked just right, not too soft and its still has the chewy feel.

Oh, also, Station 1 offers memberships to their patrons. Join their membership and you’ll get to enjoy the benefits such as item redemption, birthday’s special, member’s day special promotion and more. Log on to their website to find out more!

station1 at nzx, ara damansara
location: NZX commercial centre, jalan pju 1A/41B ara jaya,ara damansara, pj
business hour: 3pm – 12am
food: nasi lemak with curry chicken – RM9.90, four colour roll – RM6.00, spicy fried sauce noodle – RM6.90
contact: +603 7804 6366
email: info@nzx.com.my
website: www.station1.com.my

Yes, I know its a little bit late for me to blog about this shop. Who is not familiar about Big Apple Donuts in Malaysia? People often compare it with the JCo Donuts which has lesser chain stores here. Till now, PP and I have not tried any of the JCo Donuts yet. But our house mates and colleagues did have a try at it, and they have the same verdict which is JCo is slightly sweeter than Big Apple. They also said that the dough taste is not as good on the JCo. What do you think?

Well, Big Apple stores are now everywhere, almost all of the big shopping malls. They even have it near my housing area at NZX, Kelana Jaya. Wow. You can check their website for the list of stores, but now I think the site is still under construction.

What I like about this shop is its donuts and PP loves their coffee. Big Apple served ILLY coffee. PP’s all time favorite is the Americano. Their coffee is at an absolutely affordable price and it comes with a free glazed donut. Our favorite donuts are the Alien, Kimochi and also the Glazed one. Their donuts dough are soft and spongy when you bite on it. The flavors are not too strong, and you certainly do get the dough taste out of it. Its not overly sweet, just nice for those who don’t like sweet foods.

For those who have not tried it out, we strongly recommend that you must at try it.

big apple donuts
location: almost everywhere in Klang Valley area
website: www.bigappledonuts.com
food: donuts – RM2.00 (per piece), please note that if you buy in half a dozen or a dozen, the price per piece will be cheaper, coffee / tea – from RM4.50

What we like so much about this shop is the corner location. The place is windy and its very comfortable for you to sit there while surfing on the internet. This place offers FREE WIFI service. The internet connection here is pretty good and reliable. This restaurant is constantly full of patrons.

PP’s favourite drink at this shop is their coffee, no doubt! If we’re here for long, he’ll normally order two drinks, the Nanyang Memorably and also the original and best OldTown White Coffee. As for me, my favourite is still their ice lemon tea. I cannot find any other that is rich in flavour as theirs. Can even order two glasses of it when I’m there.

As for their food, they serve varieties of rice and noodle dishes. We like the mee rebus very much. Its comes with loads of ingredients and has a little taste of sweetness. PP’s favourite snack is their glutinous rice with kaya. With their delicious food and great service, its worth coming over for a try.

OldTown White Coffee at Kelana Mall
Location: No 31M-1&31N-1, Kelana Mall,
Jalan SS6/12, Kelana Jaya, 47301, Petaling Jaya
Food: nanyang memorably – RM2.80, oldtown white coffee – RM2.50, ice lemon tea – RM3.20, mee rebus – RM5.30, glutinous rice with kaya – RM3.00
Website: www.oldtown.com.my

So, last Saturday morning, I finally asked PP to go there and try it out. To get to that restaurant, you will have to drive through Glenmarie until you reach the Shell petrol station. At there, you will have to take the first left turn and go straight after that. Take a right at Jalan Pekedai and drive all the way down. The shop is located on your right side.

We went there quite early so its still breakfast time. They only serve wan tan noodles for breakfast. You’ll need to wait for lunch hour if you would like to eat rice instead. We’ve ordered two plates of wan tan noodle, char siew for 2 pax and roasted chicken for 2 pax. Roasted chicken was served first. PP found that the sauce for the chicken is salty. The wan tan noodle is good. The noodle is not too soft, and the sauce is just right, not too salty.

The best part is its char siew. Char siew is not overly sweet and its not too charred either. The meat is tender and the outer layer is sticky. Wow. One thing that I think would make it more perfect is if only they can slice the char siew thinner. We also do order two glasses of longan, winter melon drink. Its nice, very rich in taste and sweetness. Some other food that they serve are the steam chicken and vegetable. Do come and try if you’re at this area.

Meng Kee Char Siew
Location: 20 (Ground), Jalan Pekedai U1/36,  Shah Alam
Contact: +6019 – 379 3629
Business Hours: closed on mondays
Food: Wan Tan Noodles – (S) RM1.50 (M) RM2.00, Char Siew (2 pax) – RM9.00, Roast Chicken (2 pax) – RM6.00