The past few weeks at work have been crazily taxing. Having to head back to the office, even when the whole of Malaysia was rejoicing being stuck in the terrible balik-kampung jam amidst the Raya holidays... That's how sad my life was. Raya this year was indeed untimely; think about it from my Malay colleagues' perspective. That being said, they had their fair share of fun though. So it was just us slogging away at work. LOL
This weekend, we decided to feast! And as much as I mentioned "feast", it means non other than taking a drive to the end of LDP, headed to Kepong; or specifically, Bandar Manjalara.
Believe it or not, the eatery and ourselves, we grew up together. It was somewhat my childhood restaurant lol. Even the kids helping out at the eatery, we watched their mum getting preggers with them, and then now, them all grown up being able to help around the eatery, taking customers' order and serving us all the same.
We stopped going to the place for a while. But eventually, we found our way back there albeit the ridiculous distance.
They say, good things come to those who wait. And the distance, is definitely worth it. ;)
After such a lengthy introduction/ background, the restaurant that I'm talking about is none other than Shiang Hee Seafood Restaurant.
The name itself suggests for patrons to order a feast of seafood eh? But surprisingly, our visits have never focused solely on seafood. Instead, we prefer rather normal dishes, I'd say. The main reason being, I've always been a firm believer that seafood restaurants that serve the best seafood, should be the ones located nearby main water sources. :)
I better get going with the dishes we ordered during our last visit there... :D
First dish! Homemade tofu with minced meat sauce.
(Erm, I think its such coincidence that tofu always seems to be the first dish served LOL)
Verdict: The tofu was soft yet sweet in a natural way. However, comparatively to the tofu dish we had at Sing LeongHuat, this dish at Shiang Hee is on the loosing end.
BUT, this eatery's Homemade Signature tofu is the bomb! Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures on that. That tofu dish is served with crispy fried beancurd topped with mushroom sauce. Trust me, the beancurd has the crisp albeit being served wet style. Ahhhhh~
Next up, my all-time favourite Stir Fry "Choi Dam" (清炒菜膽).
This is quite a common dish to many. There isn't anything special worth noting but it definitely adds color to my meal!
We also had Thai Style Fried Fish.
This dish was fairly well done. There was sweetness to its meat, surprisingly the freshness was contained although it was deep fried. We felt that the sauce topping was a lil lacking, but taste wise, it was good enough to our liking.
Lastly, our FAVOURITEST dish of all time..
Trust me when I said that this eatery is the place who "introduced" Deer Meat to us.
It is a MUST-ORDER for us every single time we patron the eatery. The dish to be exact, is called Black Pepper Deer Meat.
The deer meat isn't at all tough, but rather, tender and juicy. A point to note also is that the black pepper sauce is rightly pepper-ish to perfection.
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All in all, we always leave the eatery with a happy belly.
The bill for the 4 of us came up to RM49. As a habit, we brought our own tea and the eatery charges RM1.20 for water.
If you were to patron this eatery, its advisable to be there for an early dinner, prolly about 6pm would be best. Being early guarantees you satisfactory service and also reasonably big portions.
There were occasions that we patroned the eatery at about 7pm, it was packed and the servings were rather small for some dishes. So, to avoid disappointment, there's no harm in having an early dinner ;)
I can't really describe the directions on how to get to the eatery because I grew up patroning the eatery w/o knowing the exact address of eatery, so you can prolly google up the directions with the address as follows:
46, Jalan 8/62A
Bandar Manjalara, Kepong
Or you can always call to reserve a table or two if you'll be heading there in big groups;
Tel: 019 326 8782 / 019 216 3684
p.s.: the eatery is not air-conditioned.
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