Dinner at Lala Chong Seafood Restaurant

Dinner at Lala Chong Seafood Restaurant (2nd review actually)

August 21st, 2009

Just before I headed back to Melaka after almost a week in KL, my auntie Cat and May took me to have dinner at the newly relocated Lala Chong Seafood place. I must say, am pretty impressed with the food and also the new place; so much bigger and airy. Ample parking spaces and tables and even an air-conditioned section for more comfortable dining. Our meals came pretty quickly and that was a good thing as I was starving and it was almost 9pm when we had our dinner. I saw the mantis prawn on my way in, swimming in the tank and I remembered that the last time I had those were probably 2 years ago!

Kung Po Mantis Prawn. This was really crunchy and tasty, perfect to go with a bowl of white jasmine rice. Very good kung po, I tend to get lousy kung po especially when dining overseas. Honestly, I make pretty lousy kung po's too, so time for some improvement when I stay in England I guess. Anyone got good recipe??

A must order dish every time I come here. Pat ku choy (I don't know what this is called in English) stir fried with red chillies and tuna. This was really delicious too!

Stir fried bee-hoon with lala. The lala used were those really small ones and look a little different from the other type that we usually order. Nevertheless, it was still pretty good and I would be back again to order this.
Overall, the meal came up to slightly around RM40, very reasonable for 3 of us dining in. Funny when you can't really find good cheap seafood place that does Chinese style in Melaka. :(

Thanks May!

Dinner at Lala Chong, Old Subang Airport

May 19th, 2009

Dad and Kevin joined me to KL as we had to settle some college stuff for my brother as he just gotten his offer letter to study in KDU in culinary arts. We decided to head to Lala Chong at the old Subang Terminal airport for our dinner.

Me auntie

Lala Chong? We just had to order the "shiong tong" lala. Pretty good. I had dinner here once, the same dish but many years ago with an old friend of mine, CCY. I thought the dish looked like butterflies especially when they served it with some candles underneath and it looked so pretty. Okay for those new, I have a thing for butterflies; which probably explains the butterflies motives on my Roman blinds in my room at home.

Thai style tofu. Pretty good also. Nice flavour to it and the tofu was really smooth.

"Pat ku choy" or paku pakis in Malay stir fried with some tuna and some chillies. Hey this is really unique and tasty. Definitely a must order, a nice change from the usual yaw-mak with beancurd or typical greens stir fried with garlic. Highly recommended.

Steamed "patin" fish with some shredded ginger, garlic and soya sauce. This is a river fish, so not many people would like this. My dad loves this fish and he goes around searching for patin every single time. It was really tasty and we got a smaller-medium sized one and it was steamed just right. Look at the fins! Note: this fish can be a bit more fatty than the other usual type of fish. If you are a patin fan, do order this.
Another close up of the fish.

Steamed mantou buns to go with the crab dish.
The other sinful alternative: deep fried mantou buns.

Butter sauce crab. The sauce was very tasty and crab was also pretty good. I was too lazy to crack open the shells for the meat so I just had a small taste. I had a cracked tooth so it was kinda hurting me pretty badly so I decided not to further damage the tooth. Had crowning done the same week also!

Took this one after dinner. These are tilapia fishes and they can be quite good and very reasonably priced. Some would not like this as it can taste a little muddy also, just like the patin.
Anyway, it was a good dinner and the bill was just under RM200 I think, inclusive of drinks and a large bottle of Carlsberg.

Dinner at Madam Kwan's and drinks at Vintry May 7,2009

It was a great night tonight, able to meet my two dearest friends from my Sunway College days and meeting up always turned out to be a rare opportunity as my gf, Mei Yee was always busy and always left me and CCY (the other guy in the picture that you will see later on) on our own. Haha, anyway it was always fun meeting them lot. For tonight's dinner we headed off to Mid Valley as CCY actually drove all the way for dinner from Bahau. We really appreciate his time , effort and of course plastic card! (thanks for paying the bills! :) )

I picked Madam Kwan's for something Malaysian as I was pretty sick with western food. Here we go, a photo of the ladies.

CCY and me.

3 of us together.

Claypot seafood beancurd to share.. It was quite nice.

I picked Nasi Bojari and they all ended up ordering the same! Delicious as usual! Yummy! Cost around RM24 if I am not mistaken. Huge portion just look at the whole chicken thigh.

We then headed off to Vintry, it's a wine bar nearby where I stayed and I kinda like it over there. CCY wanted to let me try their house cheesecakes as they did them in lychee and durians! He knows I would love to try anything with durian in it!

A bit of their deco and set up. Not too bad actually. Quite cosy.


Mei Yee, insisting to get me moving to the other side to take a photo, as it was her better (more hot) side. Haha, well you guys decide.
See how confident one is when they know its their best angle! :)

CCY and me again. What best angle? We looked great in any angles! Haha Mei Yee, don't get mad alright.
A glass of port for me and the lychee cheesecake and durian cheesecake for us to share. It was really good, we liked the lychee cheesecake as it was really unique and Mei Yee said it tasted like lychee. Haha she is really funny, we should probably label the cake next time and get her opinion again. Lychee cheesecake, of course taste like lychee LAH! :) The durian cheesecake was GOOD too. Thanks again CCY! Looking forward to the next outing!

Lychee on the left and durian on the right.

Dinner at Ming Chun Kee, Section 17 PJ

I headed out to dinner with my aunty and May to a nearby restaurant just at Section 17 and the food is pretty good here and best part, the decent pricing. All three dishes for just about RM40! We ordered Japanese hot plate tofu, claypot curry fish head and spinach with dried scallops and anchovies.

Family Dinner on April 21, 2009

Dad was in a jolly good mood and said he will take us all out to dinner and I suggested this home-styled cooking restaurant after seeing some photos of my friend taken having dinner here and coincidentaly, this was a long lost restaurant that my dad took us too before. Overall the food was good and the price was excellent! Very affordable and we are heading back here again soon!

The couple that cannot be separated and yes, you can hear their phone bleeping non-stop (or at each 2 minute intervals) if they are not together. I told this couple that they should just pick up the phone and finish off the conversation instead of texting back and forth! haha. Anyway this is Dylan and Laura (my 2nd sister)

Belle (youngest sister) and my Grandma.

My Mum, myself and Belle

Me and my Grandma
One with Laura

And of course, one with the Boss (Dad)

Mum and Belle.
See how Belle is photographed ALWAYS holding on to her brand new handphone?

This is my 3rd sister; Caroline. She was kind enough to take all the photographs during the dinner and of course I was even kinder to use our new Nikon D60.

First dish. House specialty tofu. Very tasty and I could taste some bean curd sauce.
Another house specialty- dong po yuk. Something like braised pork. Very good also.
Stir fried brinjals with long beans and minced meat. Tasty!
Stir fried ginger chicken with kei chi. Very good! It was so tender that Mum mistook it for frog! Ha ha
Stir fried bitter hourd with cucumber. This was for Dad. I think it was just OK. But I don't take bittergourd. So, no comment.
House specialty- steamed fish. Quite tasty and the fish was very fresh! Nice one.