New Boston Restaurant

It has been a while I did not post anything on food. I like food the way I like to breath. I have been accused, blamed, and convicted in many occasions that the main reason why Mona is fighting hard with her weight problem (and without any success thus far loh...) is because I have been over-nourishing (in other word, fattening) her with food. Food after food and after food and after food...

While I give no hoot about the accusation, I continued to fatten her on last week's Sunday while we were in Klang. We arrived at our favourite place late - New Boston Restaurant - and we paid the price of having to wait for like more that an hour or so for our food. Funny thing about this place is that it is a traditional Chinese restaurant but with a very unconventional name. It is located at the Klang City area, next to Wisma Lembaga Tabung Haji, opposite Eon Bank and Kamdar, and near to Shaw Parade.

With the major upgrading road works going on at the Klang City area now, we lost our direction and took a while to find ourselves in New Boston. Boy oh boy, look at the crowd.

The tables were all over the place - at the walkways, at the whatever open space available - which is quite a common sight at New Boston. I would suggest if you want to give this place a try. Reach there before 6pm. Just nice for you and your friends who don't like to wait.

As we arrived late, we were standing outside the restaurant joining the 'late crowd'. I took these photos just to show you how crowded the place was. It was Sunday but I understand that the crowd is huge too on weekdays.

We got our table after about half and hour later. I was thinking that the food would come reasonably fast but I was wrong. Me and Mona were staring at the empty table and each other for like an hour.

I am glad that it did not rain otherwise our eating mood would definitely be ruined sitting out in the open space.

I am just going to say that the best tasting la la (clams) that I have tried so far has to be here in New Boston. It is a die-die-also-must-order dish every time we eat here.

The steamed clams in supreme soup, I hope I call it right, has sliced chilies, ginger strips, and fried garlic cover all over it and cook to perfection.

The clams are average in size but very fresh. The soup is just superb! I wanted more (so did Mona) and ordered second round after finish the first one. The price is about RM18.00 (small) which is good for two persons. You will find that each table has this dish.

We also ordered the cabbage with dried shrimps. Stir-fried and less oil. Like the vegetable as it was still crunchy after cooking.

Grilled prawn in don't-know-what-d0-you-call-it sauce. A bit sweet to my liking but the prawn is big, fresh and juicy. I ate 80% of it. Yummy!

One of the dishes that you should not miss is tapioca noodle. The tapioca noodle isn't taste very much like the average noodle. I heard from a friend that it doesn't have any taste at all but if you cook it right. It is tasty. It has a very boucy texture when you bite it. It is cooked in HokKein style with, you know, blackish sauce. You are going to like it, seriously!

This is nestum mantis prawn. Mona's favourite dish. She ate 80%
of it.

Overall, we were charged RM89.00 for two persons. A bit expensive but the prawn is really big that could be easily charged at RM40 to RM50 per dish in other restaurant.

Despite the long wait, I am coming back for more as I am being treated like a customer here. I don't mind the wait if the restaurant operators treat me reasonably like a customer and the food tastes superb.

The only complaint is that the toilet should be cleaned frequently and the patron should have the courtesy to flush after use!

Kannichikan Yakiniku Restaurant

You know, this is a great place with great food. I never know I could like Japanese / Korean food so much I overspent.

When I was told that we were having Japanese BBQ, I was like well okay, maybe RM40 to RM60 for this meal for my portion. Heck, I ended up paying RM90.00 and all the time I was there, It was like can I order another round and it is usually a big no-no when you dine with 2 ladies. Surprisingly, they could not get enough like me so we have order after order which was the reason why the bill added up to RM270.00 for three of us.

The restaurant is near Souled-Out, another well-known fine dining place, in Sri Hartamas. The address is:
No. 42, Jalan 28/70A
Desa Sri Hartamas
50480 Kuala Lumpur
Telephone / Fax: 03-2300 8829

We tried out the traditional Korean alcoholic drink which I find it to my liking. It is white colour like milk and I was thinking to myself why would a BBQ restaurant serves milk to customer. Ha! If only I can read Korean. The packaging fools you because it does not look like average alcohol packaging. Look at the photo, do you think it looks like a bottle of beer to you?

It tastes right for me if you know that I am a person who hardly consume alcohol and I don't like the taste of beer. Well, it tastes a bit like red wine but it has a fruity tinge to it and mild wine taste. It made of broiled rice and water so it can't be harmful right?

This place is not big. The moment we entered, it was full house and I could see Japanese or / and Korean people taken up most of the space. The place makes you feel not so Malaysia at all. There are Japanese comics and magazines for your reading. The deco is simple and the place is equipped with exhaust hoods - one for each table. I would say that this is ideal to get together after work for unwind and good food.

The place serves Japanese (or Korean) style barbecue and soon as we done with our order. A pot of hot burning charcoals was delivered to our table and placed directly beneath exhaust hood. Soon after that, the Korean pancake arrived.

Basically, it is a vegetable pancake fried and made fresh. Not long after that, our orders came and take a look at the photos below. Our orders were Value Set C that came with chicken thigh, lamb rack, squid, king prawn, and lettuce and Seafood Set that came with king prawn, scallop, and squid. Why so many seafood? Well, three of us just love seafood so much and at that time, we didn't know YET barbecue beef can be so tasty.

We get busy with the barbeue and honestly, the portion isn't up to our expectation and those meats were sliced too thin to my opinion. Anyway, the meats were well-marinated and you could just eat without any sauce and the taste is superb.

Speaking of the sauce, it goes very well with the meat I must say. It tastes like light soy sauce but not so salty like the usual Chinese one. It has sweet taste to it.

Maybe it was just me but the sizzling sound made me very thirsty and I drank more and more Korean traditional wine.

The barbecue part is easy and you don't need to be a barbecue expert. Everybody can do it. Just chuck the meat onto the gridiron. flip over a few times and that's it.

Here's what you do: Lettuce spread open in your palm. One or two slices of barbecued meat in the middle with a slide of garlic. Wrap it. Dip a bit of sauce (up to you) and then pop it into your mouth. I must say that the garlic actually enhance the taste.

We really enjoy Japanese barbecue so much and we order a few more rounds.

Beef shortrib set. Shortrib is one of the popular parts of the beef that is meatier and tender, according to Wikipedia.

I did not know beef could be so tastier. No, I have never tasted beef like that and I could not get enough. The shortrib is fresh and well-marinated and it doesn't have raw beef smell. It did not take long to finish it. Wanting to try more, we flipped through the menu again to check out more about beef.

We ordered a Special Set from the menu and it came with ribeye, shortrib, skirt flank, kimchi and bean sprouts. The set is good for 1 person and the price for this set is RM50.00!

I was looking at the dish and thinking to myself what's the taste like eating it raw. No, I did not try.

Despite the good taste of barbecue, I would like to say that all the set that we ordered did not manage to fill our stomach satisfactorily and at this point, our stomach were half full and we could still eat more. But we reckoned that the charges was too high for us and we might have to eat instant noodles for the rest of the month so we stopped there. Had one last order: Spciy miso soup with seafood and rice.

The soup is really nice this one. Mixed it with the rice and gobbled it down. Ah! Happy me.

Free fruit from the restaurant. I definitely will come back to dine here in the future.

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co

Bubba Gump. Well, the concept of the restaurant comes from the ever so famous Forrest Gump which I doubt you need introduction. The thing is I have watched this movie in numerous occasions and it has to be one of the personal favourite movies. It relates you to the histories and past happenings and no, this one don't get you fall asleep at all.

In case you don't know, Bubba is Forrest Gump's best friend while he was serving the army in Vietnam. In his dying breath, Forrest promised to take care of his family and to pursuit the dream of having a shrimp boat together with him and all that. This part of memory actually escaped me until one day I walked in The Curve and come across Bubba Gump. I have to tell you that it feels weird (very weird) having knowing that part of the story in a movie actually becomes real and right before your eyes and yes, the curiosity get the better of me. I walked in with Ah Chuin to have it a try and thinking that maybe Forrest Gump is sitting at the cash counter? Ha ha.

I will spare you the long story because I want this to be the quick posting. The food, ambiance, decorations and services are very good but the charges is on the high side, my opinion.










Nice place to chill out with friends and for your gathering. It has bar counter and I always like the deco very very much.

While the deco is nice, it is nothing but crappy restaurant if the food isn't up to expectation. Well, so far I haven't disappointed at all.

I am a shrimp person. I mean I really like shrimps. It has to do with the fact that I grow up in Sandakan and spend a long long time over there. Being a town that is close to the sea and all that, Sandakan gives you the best seafood and I was eating shrimps almost every other day when I was living there. And you get shrimp quite cheap.

And here I am, at the place that specializes in shrimp cousine in town. I would not give this place a miss.

First dish is Shrimper's Net Catch. It comes in garlic spice and cajun spice. This is an order I would not miss every time I eat here. You can order mixed flavours. Well I like the spicy one. Squeeze the lemon, it enhance the taste!

The thing about shrimp is that (ahem... clear my throat) as long as it is fresh and not over cooking it. It is just great to be eaten. You can just grill / stir fried / steam it and do it in any style of cooking. It is like taste from heaven.

Second dish is Cajun Shrimp. Well, I really like this because I don't need to peel and it tastes heavenly. Damn, what it is with me that I keep using the heaven word in describing taste! According to the menu, it is prepared in hot and spicy cajun butter sauce. I really love this one.





















Bubba's Baked Seafood Rice. It is way too cheesy to my liking and you know that kind of feeling that when you are having something too much it becomes harder to swallen down your throat. Half way eating the rice I feel like shovel the whole plate down Khir Toyo's throat over the exposed luxurious bungalow. Anyway, I think cheese lover would love / appreciate this dish much better than I do.

Shrimpin 'Dippin' Broth. As indicates by its name, it is shrimp in spicy broth and it comes with french bread for dipping. Well, the broth not so spice after all but this is a nice dish anyway.

Tossed Chicken Cobb and it comes with big portion good for 2 persons. It has chopped tomatoes, gorgonzola cheese, hard boiled egg, bacon, raspberry vinaigrette, grilled chicken and avocado.

If you like pop corn, would you want to try Best Ever Popcorn Shrimp? I would say save your money for better things. For me, I hope this item never existed in the menu because it is basically, fried shrimps in popcorn box and the popcorn box is half empty... Let me just say that I had better fried shrimps.

Alabama Mud Pie would be nice if it comes in smaller portion because me and Ah Chuin did not get to finish it despite the fact that we both love dessert.

Oh yeah, don't you think that me and Ah Chuin had all these foods shown here in one visit. These photos are combined from several visits.

Pattaya Thai Seafood

I said before in one of the posts - Chang Rai Style Restaurant that there is one Thai restaurant that worth recommending. Here you go.

Don't ask me how to get there because I don't know. The direction... well, let me say it is just too complicated for me to explain here. Use your GPS. Here is the address: Pattaya Thai Seafood, No. 21, Jalan 3/101C, Cheras Business Centre, Cheras, 56100 Kuala Lumpur. Mobile phone: 012-679 4461.

The restaurant has all the tables and chairs arranged nicely in the central compound. It has an indoor shop but you don't find tables and chairs for customers in the shop. What the heck, I say sit outside better.

If I was the owner of the shop, should I be thanking the developer for planting a tall palm three right in front of the shop? Look at the photo. Alright not really close from this angle but trust me, it is ridiculously close to the shop and tall as well.















First dish - the Mango Kerabu. It comes with fried dried shrimp and sugar sprinkled on top. Ah! crunchy, sweet, sour, and we ordered another round on that night.











Cockles. They are grilled and just my type of food.

The pineapple fried rice. The taste... I give it 8.5 out of 10!











Stir-fried vegetable.











This is called fried salted egg chicken strips. Just simply yummy. We ordered another round.

The famous steamed fish in sour and lime soup and I am hungry already by looking at the photo.











This dish is not to my liking. It has strong smell of parsley and it is seafood wrapped in aluminium foil. It is so forgettable I don't remember its name.











Overall, it is a happy meal and thumps up!