Distance from office to all these eatery places are about the same. Jalan Ipoh is a very busy street, especially during lunch time. Traffic is havoc. This fish head noodle place is located at a certain corner of Jalan Ipoh, which I do not know how to describe. What’s most distinguish is that, a chinese temple is located opposite this stall. Behind this stall, there’s a classic chinese garden decorated with a pavillion.

Its like back to the very olden days, something like “Journey To the West” kind of scenery. I suppose what’s missing is the monkey, pig & monk. Haha. Ok, back to the food. Fish head noodles served here looks somehow like the one at Kuchai Lama. It uses the super thick mee hoon. They called it “lai fun” if I’m not wrong. The fish head noodle’s soup is not that fragrant, we only tasted milk. It doesn’t really come with a lot of fish head, that’s because they’ve added fishballs and fu zuk to fill up the pot.

Apart from fish head noodles, there’s other dishes such as fried starchy  noodle, fried “pak kor” and other fried stuffs such as fish cake, fu zuk and etc. We find that their side dishes tasted so much better if compared to the main dish. The other two plates of fried noodles that we’ve ordered tasted rather bland too.

Environment wise, this place is kind of hot during the afternoon. The stall is set up with zinc roof which provides a lot of heat. Crowd wise, all tables are almost filled up. It makes us wonder, why do they have so many patrons in this deserted stall where the food tastes only so-so? You might wanna head over here to try out the food, you might find it to your liking. But its definitely not to ours as we said to ourselves that this is only a once in a lifetime experience. :p

fish head noodle @ jalan ipoh
location: jalan mangga, off jalan ipoh (behind HSBC)
food: fish head noodle (pot) – RM20, stir fried “pak kor” – RM8, stir fried “xu fan” – RM8, deep fried fish cake and loh bak – RM14

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

This restaurant operates all day long, from breakfast to dinner time. There’s more food varieties here, if compared to Bao Bao’s shop. We have not tried their breakfast items yet. I saw in some blogs that they serve mee-siam and carrot/yam cake.

Back to our food, we’ve ordered ourselves a bowl of Cha Cha original pan mee and a bowl of dry pan mee to try out. The original pan mee comes in the soup type. I like their soup base, its strong in anchovies taste. Like all the other soup pan mee, this bowl has mince meat, mushroom, vegetable and anchovies. Bao Bao’s version had one more extra ingredient, which is the fried fish skin.

As for the dry pan mee, it is not to our liking. The sauce is just plain sweet dark soy sauce. Nothing special about this noodle. Its served with the usual minced meat, mushroom, vegetable and anchovies.

Overall, the best pan mee stall to our liking is still the Loh Pan Mee at Paramount Garden. That is the place where we’ll eat at least once in a month.

restoran Cha Cha pan mee original
location: K-G-1 & K-G-3, Jalan PJU 1/43, Aman Suria, 47301 Petaling Jaya
business hour: breakfast from 7.30 am till 4pm, dinner from 5.30 – 9pm daily & (closed on alternate Wednesdays)
food: cha cha original (Pinch) – RM5.50, dry pan mee (Thick) – RM5.50

Betty’s Midwest Kitchen is now our favorite porky place. This place was first introduced by my current boss, D. We’ve passed by this shop quite a few times before, never had a good impression on it. Sometimes look does not matter, the food matters the most! This is a good lesson to learn.

This place serves all sorts of pork dishes, ranging from ribs, sausages, bacon, ham, meatloaf and many more. Our few favorites were their hog wild, grill baby back ribs, sausage platter and their pull pork burger.

This is the only place where after finishing the meal, I won’t feel too greasy or meaty. Appetizer wise, our favorite here is their pig in a blanket. This is a basket of small sausages wrapped in bacon and layered with some honey.

Most of the dishes here came with side dishes such as coleslaw or mashed potatos. I always crave for these two side dishes. Their coleslaw somehow tastes unique, not too much of mayonnaise but rich in vegetables and tastes rather sweet. Mashed potatos on the other hand is so soft, creamy and its best served with its mash potato gravy.

Food wise, every dish that we tried tasted so good. There nothing to complain about, not a bit! What I would suggest is for you to come here and try it out because all dishes has their own unique taste and flavor. You’ll have to identify your favorites then.

betty’s midwest kitchen
location: A-G-40, Jalan PJU 1/43, Aman Suria Damansara
contact: +603 – 7880 0196
business hours: tues – sun (11:00 am – 3:00 pm) (5:30 pm – 10:00 pm) // closed on mondays
food: pig in a blanket – RM8.00, lemonade – RM2.50, root beer – RM5.50

We’ve ordered a plate of spaghetti bolognese and carbonara. This is the worst spaghetti that we’ve ever had!! Gosh, every plate served was bland and lack of ingredients. Its purely spaghetti noodles and sauce with some ham or minced meat. We even had to top it up with lots of cheese powder and tabasco sauce.

I think this shop is a no no! With that amount of price that you’re paying, you might as well as cook it yourself. You know where’s the best spaghetti that I’ve ever had? Its the one that PP made, and nobody tried that except for me. Yum, thanks gong.

the spaghetti farm @ mid valley
location: mid valley megamall, kl
food: spaghetti bolognese – RM 8.80, spaghetti carbonara – RM9.80