Thursday, January 21, 2016

Ee Chinese Cuisine Restaurant Eastin Hotel - A Scrumptious Feast For A Grand 2016 Year of Fire Monkey Chinese New Year


Treat your family and business associates with a grand and scrumptious Fire Monkey Chinese New Year meal at Ee Chinese Cuisine Restaurant, Eastin Hotel, Petaling Jaya Selangor. 


The specially crafted dishes for this review are selected from the set menu and prepared by Chef Alex to entice your tastebud for this 2016 Chinese New Year.


To kick start our Chinese New Year review of some of the special highlights dishes for Chinese New Year is the Lou Sang. 


The Yee Sang that are served to us is the Salmon with Rice Cracker 'Yee Sang'. Ee Chinese Cuisine Restaurant also offers other unique Yee Sang which are the Australian Lobster Yee Sang or the Abalone Yee Sang for customers to choose from.


We then proceeded to taste; the hearty Double Boiled Chinese Herb With Dried Scallop and Fish Maw. Every spoonful of this soup have the smooth taste of the herbs which was encased with the taste of the scallop and the soft springy fish maw; perfectly double boiled to extract all the full flavour of the ingredients into the soup. 


Next on is the Steamed Live Kerai Fish With Superior Soya Sauce. This fish is a freshwater fish which besides eating the flesh; its scales can also be eaten as well. The Chef did a light frying of the scales to give it a slight crunch feel. We love the fine and smooth texture of the steamed fish meat which blended well with the superior soya sauce.


It has been quite a while we had the opportunity to relish to taste the Roast Pei Pa Duck; as many restaurant in the Klang Valley does not served duck in this style. One of the key reasons is that the chef has got to get the timing perfect to get the duck to be roasted with a crisp skin while the meat still retaining the juicy flavour and succulent texture that can proves to be a daunting task to those that are less experience. Great to have tasted this delicious dish after such a long time.


This is then followed by the Braised Homemade Beancurd with Dried Oyster, Prawns and Vegetables.


Moving on we had the Wax Meat Rice with XO Sauce. Usually in most other Chinese Restaurant, the sausage will be pork based but here at Ee Chinese Cuisine, the sausage are from the duck. We like the texture of the sausage as there were very little fats and it was very fragrantful. With the special Chef XO Sauce, it was the right combination to the delicious Wax Meat Rice. Normally by this time, we would have been quite full, but the taste of the rice; called for a second bowl.


For dessert, we had the Coconut Pudding. As in most other restaurant; puddings will normally be served as a small cup or in agar-agar mould, but here the Chef is generously serving it in a coconut shell almost to the brim; to gives it a special twist with the coconut flesh still intact. The pudding has a strong flavour of coconut and topped with a lychee and mint leaves for the finishing touch. A refreshing end to our review.


One of the key thing about dining at Ee Chinese Cuisine Restaurant is the quality of ingredient used to dish out these dishes which makes eating it a joy; especially during festive season like the Chinese New Year.


Other special dishes offered in the set menu during this Chinese New Year from 4th January to 22nd February 2016 are the Mini Monk Jumps Over The Wall, Braised Abalone Dried Oyster, Goose Web with Sea Cucumber, Sizzling Baked Cod Fish with Teriyaki Sauce and much more from RM628.00 nett per table of 4 pax onwards. 


You can also try out the organic dish of the Steamed Capon Chicken or the Baked King River Prawns or the popular Sweetened Bird Nest and not forgetting the Conventional Style Steamed Century Grouper Fish to savour on. 


For those of you that loves oldies, on every Thursday night, Ee Chinese Cuisine has a special duo which will be belting out some lovely oldies while you enjoy the delicious offering from the restaurant.

On behalf of +BestRestaurant ToEat, we would like to wish our readers a Happy Fire Monkey Chinese New Year.

Saturday, January 16, 2016

2016 Year of Fire Monkey Chinese New Year Buffet and Reunion Dinner at Utara Coffee House Armada Hotel Petaling Jaya Selangor



Start off your 2016 Year of Fire Monkey with a Reunion Buffet at Utara Coffee House, Armada Hotel Petaling Jaya with a spread of Chinese dishes specially created to celebrate this coming Chinese New Year.


Utara Coffee House is known for its sumptuous buffet spread that boost some of the popular local dishes. From 4th of February to 20th Feb 2016 special dishes by Chef Chew will be featuring some of these special dishes to celebrate this Chinese New Year.


Among the specialty dishes are the Braised Seafood Soup and the Glutinous Rice with Smoke Chicken - a unique style as most of restaurant will served the glutinous rice with waxed meat.


Moving on, you can taste out the Deep Fried Whole Fish With Cheong Cheng Sauce and for the meat lover; the Wok Fried Lamb Steak with Honey Perrin Sauce will be a good choice.


Also to be served will be the Baked Salt Fried Prawns With Coconut Butter Flakes.


and Kam Heong Crabs



For fans of chicken meat; you can try out the Roast Chicken With Sesame Sauce.


and not forgetting the main highlight under the special set menu which is the sumptuous Treasures Hot Pot (Hakka Poon Choy).


To kick off the New Year, Utara Coffee House also has a few special Lou Sang (Yee Sang) specialty which are the Fruitti Veggie Yee Sang (vegetarian), Salmon, Hokkaido Scallops, Soft Shell Crab and the Butterfish Yee Sang which are priced at RM65++ per portion.

While for the Chinese Reunion Buffet dinner, it is priced at RM78+ per adult, RM55+ for senior citizen and RM39+ per child.


For those that prefer a banquet style dining you can taste out the 4 special Set menu which is the 

Blissful Longevity Set Menu (RM978+)
Everlasting Success Set Menu (RM1088+)
Bountiful Treasures Set Menu (RM1198+)
Golden Health & Prosperity Set Menu (RM1308+)

For reservations or enquiries on the Chinese New Year Special, please call +603-7954 6888 ext 4557 - Utara Coffee House Armada Hotel Petaling Jaya to make your booking early.


On behalf of +BestRestaurant ToEat, we would like to take this opportunity to wish all our readers Good Health, Wealth and Happiness in the Year of Fire Monkey 2016

"Gong Xi Fa Cai"

Friday, January 15, 2016

Twenty One Gram Cafe Restaurant - A New Place To Chill in Petaling Jaya New Town MBPJ



It has been quite sometime that we have reviewed a cafe; so it was to chill out with some lattes and espresso to start a nice morning. +BestRestaurant ToEat  was invited to taste out some of the special dishes at Twenty One Gram Cafe Restaurant located at 7, Jalan 52/16, Petaling Jaya New Town ; a walking distance from the popular Menara MBPJ.


Why name a restaurant Twenty One Gram, we ponder as we asked the manager about it. Turns out that this grammage is the weight to brew each cup of coffee. A nice thought to it.


As with most cafe, Twenty One Grams Cafe Restaurant does offers a quiet and relaxed atmosphere where you can chill with your buddies while sipping the specially blended coffee while enjoying a fusion dish of western food.


Our review started with the Big Breakfast which consist of Scrambled Eggs, Chicken Sausage, Turkey Ham, Roasted Potatoes, Baked Beans, Rocket with slices of Buttered Toast (RM23.95).


Next On, we had some small snack dish which is the Buffalo Wings (RM23.95) with homemade BBQ Sauce.


Followed by the main of the Fire Grill Chicken (RM27.95). The quarter chicken are grilled with a special spicy marinade that tasted a little like the tandoori chicken and served with garlic flvoured baked mashed potatoes.


For pasta we tried the Squid Ink Spaghetti (RM29.95). The spaghetti is cooked with the squid ink while the scallop and prawns are cooked in a special in-house made tomato based sauce with a slight hint of spicy taste.


and for dessert, we had the Belgian Waffles with Dark Chocolate and Banana (RM17.95).


The last dish is the Churros with Espresso Chocolate (RM17.95). We love the Churros as it has that nice crunch feel while the inside is still soft when bitten into it together with the dash of sugar coating. Dip in the special chocolate espresso dip, it was just great taste to end our review.

For youngster and those that love to sip their coffee, Twenty One Grams offers this ambience and a pretty nice place to meet up with friends and buddies to catch up.