2017 Chinese New Year Set And Special Steamboat At Secret Garden

Chinese New Year is one of the most important festivals for Chinese all around the world. The celebrate this once a year Spring Festival, families usually serves up authentic Chinese Dishes, but due to the simplicity many chooses the steamboat/hot pot variations. Secret Garden, started to offer a special steamboat for the coming 2017 Chinese New Year promotion.

Secret Garden Chinese Restaurant Address

7 & 9, Jalan SS 23/15, 

Taman Sea, 

47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

CNY Steamboat Classic Package

We did a previous review of some of Secret Garden signature ala carte dishes when it was opened. But here we are again to taste out their new steamboat offering. For 2017 Chinese New Year, Secret Garden is offering 2 packages for the steamboats.

CNY Steamboat Premium Package

What is so special about the steamboat/hot pot offering from Secret Garden. For us, there are 3 things that make a perfect steamboat. The first is the broth, second will be the ingredients and the third is the sauce that goes with your cooked ingredients.

A little secret for you is that one of the core founders of Secret Garden is also the founder of Yezi; which offers premium steamboat to its' patron; needless to say, the offering at Secret Garden is comparable in quality.



We started our steamboat review with a Salmon Yee Sang

As above, there is 2 soup base on offer at Secret Garden. We opted for the Imperial Chicken Broth (RM78.00) which is boiled overnight using chicken, dried ham and dried scallop to ensure the full flavours extraction from all the ingredient that was used. The use of village chicken makes this broth extremely tasty. We took the first spoonful and all of us agreed on the rich broth was so good, we can have this with some white rice.

Seafood Dumplings 'Kao Zi'

The collagen-rich broth was ideal that every time we put some ingredient into the pot, we will taste out the soup, and it never fails us to want more of it.

Handmade Pork Balls with Mushroom

The way to truly appreciate this Taiwanese Hot Pot is to ensure that ingredients are simmered in according to a sequence in which the staff at Secret Garden will be on hand to assist you to get the best of the steamboat/ hot pot meal.

Handmade Fish Paste

The second criteria of a good steamboat are the ingredient, here at Secret Garden, all the seafood balls and paste are hand made, which means quality and original flavours are as expected.

 Handmade Tobiko Squid Balls

Some of the premium balls are like the Tobiko Squid Balls, Black Truffle Balls, Lobster Balls, Seafood dumpling, and more.

Slice Pork Neck Meat

Others premium delicacies will be the slice pork neck meat, Iberico slice meat to name but a few that we have tasted tonight.

Fu Chuk Skin

Of course, there are other side dishes, vegetables and noodles which can be added by ordering it ala-carte style.

3 Premium Seafood Spicy Soup

For those that loves a little spicy broth can try out the 3 Premium Seafood Spicy Soup which has the Prawns, Flower Crabs and a special roasted Marble Goby. You can also order the ala carte steamboat ingredient to be added to this delightful soup. 

At Secret Garden, they also offer Standard Chinese New Year Set menu for you to choose from.



or if you are a fan of Poon Choi can also try out their Poon Choi Package

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Secret Garden Restaurant Address and Location Map

2017 Chinese New Year Set Menu At Zuan Yuan Chinese Restaurant

To usher the 2017 Chinese New Year (Year of the Fire Rooster), Zuan Yuan Chinese Restaurant One World Hotel Petaling Jaya theme is the PETALS OF PROSPERITY. To mark this auspicious occasion, Chef Ben Kong who helms the kitchen of Zuan Yuan Chinese Restaurant serves to treat our taste buds with fine festive dishes, specially crafted for the spirit of the season.

Zuan Yuan Chinese Restaurant Address
One World Hotel, First Avenue,
Bandar Utama City Centre,
47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Three set of menus that conjure the wishes and hopes for the New Year are offered and it suffices to say the trio top notch dishes check all the right boxes and won’t disappoint. Chef Kong has prepared his special highlight dishes from this menu for us to taste.

The lunch review started off with the premium Salmon Yee Sang 三星下凡喜洋洋 which came with thick slices of Salmon.

Next is the speciality boiled soups which we had is the Braised Deluxe Sea Treasures Soup with "Song Rong" Mushroom 金玉满堂堆漫屋 is a class above the competition and mere teasers for the good stuff to follow. A perfect replacement for the Shark fins which we find many restaurants are taking out of their menu.

Secret Garden Chinese Restaurant Taman Sea Petaling Jaya (PJ)

When it comes to Taiwanese food, it is usually associated with the ever popular street food like the Beef Noodles, Oyster Mee Sua or the famous Fried Chicken of Shilin. We recently discovered a new Taiwanese Restaurant which is Secret Garden Chinese Restaurant in Taman Sea Petaling Jaya that serves Authentic Taiwanese Chinese Cuisine.

Secret Garden Chinese Restaurant Address 

7 & 9, Jalan SS 23/15, 

Taman Sea, 

47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Why Secret Garden; was the question posed to the owner? According to the founder Andrew Tan, everyone has a secret place that one can retreat to when the bustle of the world rides wearily on one’s soul; a secret garden serves to rejuvenate the tired spirit, accompanied by hearty comfort food and the good cheers of loved ones.

The modern decor with all its wall lined with murals drawing invoke a sense of serenity coupled with the sound of running water from the cascading walls makes dining at Secret Garden  Chinese Restaurant; a truly de-stressing affair.

Our 10-course dinner started off with an appetiser, which is the Crispy Deep Fried Prawn Cracker (RM38.00). Fried to a deep crunchy crisp, coupled with a strong fragrant of the prawn paste filling it is indeed a nice starter to begin our meal.

Next is the tummy warming, hot piping soup which is called the Home Style Taiwanese Chicken Soup With Pickled Pineapple and Bitter Melon (RM18.00). It has that slight bitterly sweet sourish taste which stimulates our taste-buds for the upcoming dishes.

This is followed by the Steamed Free Range Duckweed Fed Chicken With Homemade Sauce (RM105.00). Duckweed which is of late gaining acceptance as a supplementary feed to poultry due to its high protein content. As the chicken is farm-raised, it possesses a firm tender meat texture with a natural sweetness of the chicken enhanced by the special homemade sauce. 

The next dish is a real marvel i.e. Signature Taiwanese Style Braised "Dong Po" Pork Belly (RM66.00). The chef has done a remarkable job to braised the pork belly fats until it literally melts through the meat making it luscious and buttery; with a smooth mouth feel as the fats melt on the tongue.

Next is the Grouper Fish Head In Yellow Curry With Fresh Milk (RM92.00). The creaminess of the curry is contrasted with the tender, moist and flaky white-fleshed of the Grouper. Perfect with a bowl of steaming hot rice.

Our sixth dish is the Pan Fried Fresh King Prawn With Soya Sauce (RM156.00). The best part of the River King Prawns is its' head which is engulfed with the delicious flowing Roe. The bouncy and firm texture of the prawn meat is witness to the freshness of the prawns which was perfectly mated to the soya sauce. Needed a second helping with a bowl of white rice although we were told that we will be having a rice dish later.

After the heavy lifting of the earlier dishes, the next dish on the table is the Homemade Organic Black Soya Bean Tofu With Pumpkin Gravy (RM28.00) which is set to tone down our taste-bud. he Tofu is made in-house and topped with a generous topping of preserved vegetables and dried shrimp.

For our vegetable dish, we had the Stir Fried Garlic Chives With Mince Pork (RM38.00). This is not the normal chives but an imported chives which have a firmer texture and stronger taste.

As the waiter bring out the next dish which is the Pork Belly Fried Rice With XO Sauce (RM88.00), we could taste the aroma of the pork belly fats lards gelling up to every grain of rice. With the scallop infused XO sauce, it was a well-thought concoction for this tasty rice dish.

For dessert, we had the Herbal Jelly With Wild Honey (RM12.00).

Secret Garden Chinese Restaurant inspiration stem from the goal to provide a wholesome home-cooked Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine, focusing on the freshness and original taste of natural ingredients - food that reminds you of home, family comfort, and heartfelt simplicity; served in a peaceful garden-like oasis.

Our other review of Secret Garden
2017 Chinese New Year Set And Special Steamboat At Secret Garden

Secret Garden Chinese Restaurant Address and Location Map

Fei Fei Crab Restaurant @ Damansara Jaya Petaling Jaya

Mention of delicious and innovative cooking style for Crabs, you will not miss out at Fei Fei Crab Restaurant Kepong. For crabs aficionados in Petaling Jaya, you can enjoy these mouth-watering and other specialty crabs dishes at Fei Fei Crab Restaurant @Damansara Jaya, Petaling Jaya which was opened for more than 1 months.

Fei Fei Crab Restaurant Address

19, Jalan SS 22/11, 

Damansara Jaya, 

Petaling Jaya, 47400 Selangor

Starting our review with the new lineup is the Seafood Platter - Special Sweet Thai Steam. The sauce has a spicy sourish taste which went fantastically well with a bowl of steaming white rice. For seafood lovers, this platter consists of the Mussels, Squids, Japanese Clams, Scallop, Sea Prawn and Mud Crab.



Each ingredient is nicely presented on the dish and offer the diners the opportunity to feast our eyes with such beautiful parade of seafood. One of the key things about this platter is the freshness of each of the ingredients that were used for the dishes.

The next dish which is the Oreo Cheese Crabs is another example of the specially crafted crab dishes at Fei Fei Crab Restaurant that will challenge your taste buds. This creamy cheesy affair is both savory and sweet with the enclosed crumbs of the Oreo biscuits. With a firm plump texture of the crab meat (size XXXL), it was finger licking goodness.

The sauce can be dipped with the Fried Man Tou.

Another one of the specialties at Fei Fei Crab Restaurant is the French Crab. One of the peculiar things about French Crab is that it must be eaten fresh i.e not the frozen type as the meat texture will be very different.

For today, the Chef has cooked up the White Wine Steamed French Crab. I love this cooking style for crabs, as you can really taste the natural salty sweet taste and the firm texture of the fresh crab. Steamed with a bed of eggs and sprinkles of "Hua Tiew" white wine, it was the best way to enhance the all-natural flavors of the crab.



The prized French Crab Roe.

The next dish is the Japanese Snails. Cooked in 2 version which is Butter and Kam Heong. The Butter version has a strong buttery taste while the Kam Heong was cooked with a generous amount of shallots making a strong fragrant that comb with the nice bouncy texture of the snail's meat.

This is followed by the Italiano Mantis Prawns With Potatoes. Normally for Mantis Prawns, the best way to cooked it will be Kam Heong, but the Chef have decided to marry an Italian fusion into the dish giving it a subtle creamy carbonara taste and texture.

For anti-shark protester, you may want to protest this dish which is Shark Fin Tau Foo. But don't fret out yet; as there is NO shark fin used in this dish. The Shark Fin is actually "Tung Fun". We particularly like the soft and silky housemade Tau Foo. It has a rich smooth taste that was perfectly matched with the sauce which was cooked with Crab Meat.

For some non-seafood dishes, you can try out the BBQ Pork Ribs which taste like Char Siew sauce. The pork ribs are first steamed to a soft texture. It is then fried before being caramelized with the sauce.

Lastly for our greens, we had the French Beans With Salted Eggs. We just love salted eggs and the fine coating of the salted eggs into the crunchy french beans was superb with the right Wok Hei.

For Petaling Jaya folks, you don;t need to travel far to Kepong to try out this fresh seafood especially the crabs offering at Fei Fei Crab Restaurant @ Damansara Jaya Petaling Jaya.

You can check out our review of  Crab B  Restaurant Puchong Jaya

Fei Fei Crab Restaurant @ Damansara Jaya Petaling Jaya Address and Location Map

Bar-B-Q Plaza Berjaya Times Square Bukit Bintang

Mouth watering BBQ Meal @ Bar-B-Q Plaza

Bar-B-Q Plaza Berjaya Times Square Bukit Bintang Address

Lot 03-115, 3rd Floor

Berjaya Times Square

Jalan Imbi, Kuala Lumpur

Fans of BBQ would probably be very familiar with Bar B Q Plaza (started more than 11 years ago). We had the opportunity to taste out the BBQ family set at Bar-B-Q Plaza Berjaya Times Square Bukit Bintang recently and also some of their speciality side dishes.

Bar B Gon is the mascot and the symbol of the delicious taste of Bar-B-Q Plaza, he likes delicious food and can eat a lot of food at a time.

In Thailand, there are 96 branches of Bar-B-Q Plaza making it the biggest restaurant in barbeque category and is the 2nd biggest casual dining restaurant in Thailand. While in Malaysia, there are more than 16 branches to cater to the BBQ fans here.



To start off, you can have a choice of either ordering as a set package (family, supreme, economy), or the All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet or Ala-Carte where you can decide what you like to order individually.



We decided to go with the Deluxe Family Set (RM67.90) which has a little of everything like for example in this set, there are the meat slices, it comes with Pork and Lamb slices.



There is also the Beef slices which comes from Australia.



followed by the vegetables and seafood tray.



At Bar-B-Q Plaza, there is only 1 type of sauce; which is their signature sauce, you will add in the garlic, chopped chillies padi and lime juice as per your preferences. Mix them well and you are ready to go. You can tune up your spicy or sourish level based on the quantity that suits you. For some that loves the taste of this sauce, they will use this sauce to coat it on their ingredient before putting onto the grilling pan.



To start off the BBQ meal, first you have to pour in the chicken soup, you then use the pork lard which is given for each customer to oil the grilling pan, this will make the meat less sticky to the pan and also gives out that extra special porky flavour to your ingredient.



After that, you fill the grilling pan with the Cabbage which you can have an unlimited refill of it. The cabbage is also to enhance the flavour of the soup.



This is then followed by laying out all your ingredient on the special copper grilling pan accordingly; whether you want them as a BBQ or just to be simmered in the chicken soup. The juices from the ingredient will flow down the aisle of the pan to enhance the flavour of the soup. Simply delicious.



We also ordered the Marinated Chicken Set (RM29.90). The chicken is julienne cut and is marinated with a special in-house made miso sauce.



Besides BBQ food item, at Bar-B-Q Plaza, they do serve a number of side dishes from the Special Item Menu which you can be ordered to kick start your meals. We were told one of the signatures must order is the Bacon Garlic Rice (RM3.80). It was indeed flavourful and tasty to be eaten just by itself. You can also eat it with the other BBQ food as an add-on.



The next side dish that you can order is the Fried Bacon Roll (RM11.90). Crispy on the outside, while the soft texture of the enoki and the asparagus makes it a delight to be eaten with the enclosed sauce.



The next side dish, that we ordered is the Moo Ping (RM11.90). This is a very popular street food in Thailand. It is a meat paste much like our Malaysian Satay which is marinated with special condiments and grill to a nice charred.



and the last side dish that we had is the Deep Fried Soft Shell Crab with Oats (RM13.90). The soft Shell crab together with the oats and curry leaf are fried to a crunchy texture. As the chef uses the curry leaf it exudes out a nice fragrant aroma of the curry taste into the soft shell crabs. Just nice as a starter for our BBQ meal. Best if eaten with a cold beer.



For those that are heavy eaters, you might want to go for the All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet as per the menu above.

For more details of Bar-B-Q Plaza branch location in Malaysia, you can visit Bar-B-Q Plaza facebook page or Bar-B-Q Website.

Bar-B-Q Plaza Berjaya Times Square Bukit Bintang Address Location Map