Restoran Woo Ng Kee the Old School of Chinese Cuisine in Kuala Lumpur

It's Lai Yoong & Wei Xiang's birthday and thank you to Lai Yoong for inviting us for a sumptuous makan at this old restaurant at Taman Eshan, Kepong.

This is one of the oldest restaurants in Kuala Lumpur, they still serve traditional dishes like cold dish of jellied chicken with other ingredients. Restoran Woo Ng Kee has been in the business for more than 60 years they started from a road side stall in Pudu. Today they are hidden in an old development in Taman Eshan, Kepong.

Stir fried Kai Lan with minced meat and preserved veggie a.k.a Mei Lan, Mei Lan, Wo Ai Ni" (梅蘭梅蘭，我爱你). Simple yet delicious.

Claypot of Kangkong veggie.

Garoupa Fish Head Soup (沙窝鱼头) - The broth is so tasty with natural sweetness from the concoctions of ingredients, together with a lovely feel of rice wine (Shao Hsing Hua Tiao Chiew 绍兴花雕酒). My best bet for the evening, I like the lovely flavour of herbs.

A dish of exciting sea maw, mushrooms and green veggie.

Braised pork knuckle - popularly known as Pig & Dog Friends" (猪朋狗友) which was sinful but yummy. Many years ago dog meat might be popular among some of the customers but not in this present day.

Pei Pa Aromatic Duck (枇杷烧鸭) was tender and delicious.

Restaurant Woo Ng Kee 

(胡伍纪冷气海鲜酒家)

545, 546, 547, Jalan Ehsan 3/7, 

Taman Ehsan, 

52100 Kepong, 

Kuala Lumpur.

Contact: 603-6274 2305

GPS Coordinates: 3.221117, 101.623911

Restoran Apa Khabar 老北村家煲仔堂, Kepong Baru

Apa Khabar a new kid in town? Well, this restaurant is relatively new nearly 4 months old. It was nice to meet up golfing friends for a lunch with Jan, Seiw Wah & Jimmy. Kepong Baru is pretty small and finding the place was easy.

Stir fried lotus root, french bean and petai with sambal belacan served in claypot. By the way all dishes here are served with claypot or plates.

Another veggie, kangkung stir fried with small dried shrimp, crunchy and tasty.

Steamed egg with three pieces of black organic tofu on top of the smooth and soft egg. 

Steamed Tilapia with lots of crushed garlic& Chinese wine served in claypot, I simply love the gravy or rather the soup. Next round I would love to try a patin fish instead of tilapia. I am rating this as the best dish on this table. 

Braised pork knuckle sinfully presented for our savoury. Though it was heavy for a lunch but the taste was right and delicious.

Steamed mantou buns to go the the braised knuckle.

Jan must be a regular customer, she got a complimentary steamed minced meat just like what we have it at home.

The owner/chef is a man full of tattoos and a man who takes part in Chinese food competition.

Restoran Apa Khabar 

老北村家煲仔堂

No.22,Jalan Kepong Baru,Jalan Ambong Kiri 1

52100 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 014-9727-439 / 013-3656-872

GPS : 3.210131, 101.646775

Off on Monday.

A Dinner at Restoran Ba Xian Vegetarian Court 八仙报喜素食阁

I have been to this building many times for Ah Mui's lunches but never have I tried Ba Xian's food. It is located at Persiaran Mergatua, Kepong Baru.

I like this curry fish, spicy, yummy and I could see the fish meat in the curry..... now I am drooling.

This is what I call an authentic green dish... my favourite sambal petai so is Larry's.

Kangkung belacan among the many great dishes on the table for us to savour.

As a soup lover, I can say this seaweed soup was excellent ....more please.

Curry mutton with potato which turned out to be so delicious and I like its closeness to meat texture. So nice to chew and no fear of cholesterol. Happy eating.

Fried Beehon was so good that another plate was requested. Some had brown rice with all these lovely non meat dishes.

Crispy yam basket with kung pao veggie ingredients was not only nice in the presentation but it was equally nice in its taste.

A plate of gorgeous deep fried mushroom, how nice if I could have a glass of beer to go with it. And how come they do not serve beer in such restaurant.

This is one of the best vegetarian "Char Siew" I have ever tasted ... it smelled good and what a delicious fake Char Siew.

A group of cycling buddies taking care of a truly vegetarian friend from Penang and he loves the food at Ba Xian.

Another good place for a good vegetarian meal.

Restoran Ba Xian Vegetarian Court

八仙报喜素食阁

12, 14, 14-1, Persiaran Mergatua

Kepong Baru,

Kuala Lumpur

Tel : 03-6277 8052

GPS :  3.208064,101.640073

Beef Noodle @ Lee Fong Yuen Coffee Shop, Desa Jaya

It was very early in the morning we were the first customers to patronised the shop. We took the opportunity to chat with the proprietors and found out that they have been doing the same beef noodle for the last 30 over years. Their business has been very good and obviously it's popular as far as beef noodle is concerned in Klang Valley.

I chose the noodle with soup instead of Kon Loh (dry version) and I enjoyed the noodle and the generous amount of ingredients in the serving. Surely this breakfast was good enough for our morning ride and work shop at FRIM.

Just look at the amount of beef stew here...the aroma from the pot was so tempting and it really makes you hungry.

Another big pot of braised mix beef with radish .... drooling leh...

Our noodles were all set out and ready to be served. What a way to start a Sunday morning before our exercise.

Lee Fong Yuen Restaurant

Jalan E3/6 Jalan Ehsan Utama

Desa Jaya

GPS : 3.221897, 101.624007

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Workshop on Off Road by Sam Cheong & Siang Tiek

Michael messaged me the night before for a breakfast, we were the first customers at Lee Fong Yuen Beef Noodle at Taman Desa Jaya and we had a good chat with the proprietors while waiting for our food. I have blogged this eating shop way back in 2007... see here.

What a beautiful Sunday with a group of friends attending a workshop conducted by Sam Cheong and Siang Tiek on the basic offroad cycling using folding bicycles.

The four of us who came with the same mind wearing the same tee shirts....long live Malaysian Foldies.

Session no.1 Talk on folding bikes in relation to offroad cycling by Sam and Siang Tiek. It was absolutely a good workshop which I have learnt a lot from it.

Cycling on offroad is interesting and I will to do more often with my folding bikes.

Wong had a broken chain while riding in the woods.

Fortunately Wong is well versed with such repair and well equipped to repair it. Well done Mr. Wong.

We encountered an interesting obstacle and had to carry our bicycles over the fallen tree.

All cleared and ready to proceed with the ride in such a beautiful and cool forest.

The workshop was also kind of on the road ride and learn, the things we learnt were very valuable and useful.

One of the places of interest we stopped for a rest.

A directional sign in the forest.

Siang Tiek gave a second session on D.I.Y. cooking stove made from recycle aluminium cans and other basic camping survival kits. Again I find it very interesting and would love to indulge myself in camping soon.

Thank you to Sam Cheong for his unselfishness to in part his knowledge to cyclists and hopefully he will conduct more workshops in the near future.

We completed the day outing with a lunch in Kepong at Pak Thong Restaurant.