Restaurant Fong Lye @ The Gardens, Mid Valley

Today i would like to introduce a Taiwanese Cuisine to you. A Taiwanese restaurant in KL area called "Fong Lye". It is located at 3rd Floor of The Gardens, Mid Valley. Very easy to find it. But if you plan to go there on weekend, please prepare there will be a long long queue.

I started with a nice Wu Loong Tea (乌龙茶). Nice tea with a nice tea pot as below.

Wu Loong Tea

My appertizer is started with a Taiwan Sausage. A tasty sausage might be a good start for my dinner. But it is a bit salty.

Taiwan Sausage

My main dishes is a Taiwan famous chicken called 3 Cups chicken (三杯鸡). The chicken is well absorb the sticky sauce which make from chinese wine, ginger and basil leaves. But personally, i do not the smell of the basil leaves. Overall, it is still worth to try !!!!

(3 cups chicken) 三杯鸡

Close look for (3 cups chicken) 三杯鸡

Rice for 3 Cups Chicken

The chicken is coming with 3 others small dishes and soup.

Small dishes

My wife decided to try a noodle. She order another Taiwan famous noodle called Zha Jiang Noodle. It is look like a mince meat which make with special sauce and mixed with onions and cucumber. It tasted quite ok.

Zha Jiang Noodle

The noodle also serve with 3 small dishes and soup.

Price:
I do not remember the price already. If i found the resit, i will post it here. Just remember it is less than RM 100.

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Informations:

Address: Lot T208, 3rd Floor The Gardens, Mid Valley City Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 KL

Tel: 03-22828699

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Masa Japanese Restaurant

After the english meal in Pump Room restaurant at Bath, so i decided to try others country food in Bristol. Finally i choose this Masa Japanese Restaurant.

From outlook, it seems like a very high class restaurant, but the food is totally disappointed me.


I order an Una Ju where it is grilled eel with sweet sauce soy. It is one of my favorite meal in Japanese cuisine. And my wife order a Nebayaki where it is noodle with chicken soup serve with king prawn tempura. We can choose from Soba, Udon, and Ramen for the noodle soup.

Una Ju

Nebayaki

The Una Ju is quite nice but the noodle definitely is a failure.

Mixed Vegetable and Seafood Tempura

The tempura is too much of flour . This is another disappointment as well.

Gyoza

The worst is coming, this is Gyoza where it is fried pork dumpling with cabbage, Chinese leaf, Chinese chives and waterchesnut. I can feel the cabbage is very bitter and hard to swallow.

This is the first and worst Japanese restaurant i ever had in UK.

Price:
Una Ju GBP 8.50
Nebayaki GBP 8.50
Gyoza GBP 4.50
Yasai Tempura GBP 6.00

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Informations:

Address: 42-46, Baldwin Street, Bristol BS1 1PN
Telephone: +44 0117-9293888
Website: http://masajapaneserestaurant.com/

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Restaurant Ding Tai Fung

Restaurant Ding Tai Fung (鼎泰丰) @ Mid Valley

Ding Tai Fung is famous with its Xiao Long Bao (soup filled dumpling). It is voted as "Top 10 Restaurants in the world" by New York Times. Ding's Xiao Long Bao is special than other restaurant, it has at least 18 exquisite folds for each Xiao Long Bao. Besides, its Xiao Long Bao is translucent, fine skin, pump and juicy within. And it is fresh made when you orders it.... It is really a good experience to try it.

Marinated Japanese Cucumber (RM 2)

When you just sit down in Restaurant Ding Tai Fung, the waitress will serve you a marinated Japanese cucumber.

Original Xiao Long Bao (RM 8)

Crab Meat Xiao Long Bao (RM 12.80)

I order a combo set of Xiao Long Bao with price RM 20.80. The combo set include original Xiao Long Bao and Crab Meat Xiao Long Bao. Honestly, i don't feel any different with this two type of Xiao Long Bao........ But it is taste good.

Shrimp Pork Fried Rice (RM 14.50)

To fulfill my hunger, i order a "Shrimp Pork Fried Rice".... Yummy, well cook fried rice.....

Beef Noodle (RM 16.80)

Besides, I order a Beef Noodle as well....

Shrimp Pork Dumpling (RM 10.80)

Shrimp Pork Dumpling is taste the same like the Xiao Long Bao, just the outlook looks different....

I enjoy having meals in Restaurant Ding Tai Fung.

Price:
Xiao Long Bao RM 8.00
Crab Meat Xiao Long Bao RM 12.80
Beef Noodle RM 16.80
Shrimp Pork Dumpling RM 10.80
Shrimp Pork Fried Rice RM 14.50
Japanese cucumber RM 2.00
Chinese Tea RM 12.00

+ 10% service charge RM 7.69
+ 5% Government Tax RM 3.85

Total: 88.45

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Informations:

Address: Lower Ground floor of The Gardens (Mid Valley)

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China Town Noodle Bar

It is located at the china town of birmingham, which closed to Bull Ring shopping center. Now UK is extremely cold, it is a good time to have a nice and hot porridge.

Lean Pork and Thousand Years Egg Porridge

Deep fried Plain Pasty

I have order a Lean Pork and Thousand Years Egg Porridge and Fried YouTiao. Maybe a lot of people dont know what is Thousand Years Egg (皮蛋) . It is just a marinated duck eggs, but this marinated method, the eggs with change the color from white to black. Besides making porridge, it is good to eat with marinated ginger.

Let's back to the porridge, at first try..... I feel a lot of minced and small slices meat in the porridge, at first thought, i think it is scallops. As chinese culture, we like to use scallops to cook with porridge, it will make the porridge taste better. While eating, i feel very strong Roast duck taste in the porridge, but i do not see any roast duck meat. Finally, i found out that the so called "scallops" in the porridge is "Roast Duck Meat"..... What a surprise !!! i never see people cooking porridge with roast duck.... But the taste is quite nice..... The restaurant is selling others roast product as well like roast chicken, roast pork, and roast duck. I guess they uses the left over roast duck to make the porridge.

Price:
Porridge £5
YouTiao £1.20

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Informations:

Address: Unit 2 Bath Passage, Ladywell Walk, Chinatown Building,
Chinese Quarter, Birmingham B5 4SZ
Tel:01216224746
Opening Hours - 11 am to 11 pm (7 Days a week)

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