PUCHONG, Dec 13 — In case you love steamed fish — ready merely and properly — the place freshness is paramount, hit up the newly-opened Restoran Shan City Seafood.
It is run by former restaurant chef Choy Thian Che. Beforehand he labored at Ipoh’s Abroad Restaurant and one other Chinese language restaurant in Klang.
This new enterprise has him partnering with Alice who as soon as labored at Abroad Restaurant Jalan Imbi department as one of many restaurant managers.
Because it’s solely about two weeks outdated, the restaurant is at present counting on phrase of mouth suggestions,
Housed in a meals courtroom, this place gives affordable costs for its fish which are stored in tanks. There is a selection with completely different worth ranges to fit your finances together with tilapia, bamboo fish or quickly hock, in addition to white moustached catfish or pak sou kong.
The spotlight is the a lot wanted sultan fish or ikan jelawat. The river fish is fascinating for its delicate and barely sweet-tasting flesh with a fatty layer.
Often this fish can put a hefty dent in your pocket because it’s bought for greater than RM30 per kilogram. At this place, they’re providing RM11 per kilogram. Because the fish will not be out there on a regular basis, you will want to pre-book the fish not less than a day earlier than.
It is value pre-ordering because the fish is great. We had ordered a hefty two kilogram fish for the 5 of us. This was steamed with preserved radish, a signature type of the chef. Right here the radish is deep fried until crispy, which added a pleasant, refined contact to the fish with its soy sauce. The fish was relished from head to tail.
Not solely is the feel of fish uncommon however you can too eat the fish scales. By itself, the scales have a barely arduous chew. The chef will take away all of the fish scales and batter them to be deep fried until they resemble potato chips! These crunchy bites are addictive as they’re tossed in a salt and pepper combination.
We additionally ordered different dishes. Because the spotlight was the fish, the opposite dishes have been smaller parts.
Their Peking type pork ribs (RM28) was good. The ribs are served on this sticky deep purple colored sauce. Harking back to a candy and bitter sauce however this one is just a little sweeter reasonably than tangy.
The ribs are certainly one of their particular dishes which incorporates fish head curry. There are additionally claypot dishes reminiscent of cuttlefish pork slices served in a claypot, and braised peanut pigtail. There’s additionally their signature black pepper cheese crabs. This may be a pre-order merchandise as I did not spot any crabs there.
One other really helpful merchandise is their salted egg mantis prawns for RM35. These softer textured prawns are encased in a crunchy batter and doused with salted egg yolk. Simply watch out as there are hidden “spice bombs” within the type of chopped chilli padi within the dish. Chunk into one and your mouth is about on hearth.
For greens, you get to pick from what they’ve to supply. We selected child lengthy beans stir fried with garlic (RM18) which got here with sliced carrots and onions.
On the menu, additionally they provide a wide range of one-dish gadgets for RM10 or RM13. The RM10 gadgets are a collection of varied fried noodles and their fried rice served with ikan bilis. You will have fried mee sua and moonlight kuey teow. There’s two kinds of loh shu fan dishes, one with sambal and one other with black pepper.
In case you decide the RM13 choice, there are prawn dishes reminiscent of wat tan hor, fried rice, Cantonese sang meen or double prawns fried tang hoon. In case you favor yee mee, additionally they do a model of wat tan hor with that kind of noodles. They’ll additionally cook dinner up a claypot lou shu fan.
As they simply began enterprise, the fishes are restricted in inventory so it is best to name forward to ask to your gadgets. Presently the 2 of them handle the place along with one helper as they’re nonetheless on the lookout for employees.
There isn’t any signboard too for this place however simply stroll by way of the doorway and switch proper. You possibly can spot the eatery by its rows of tanks with varied fishes on one aspect of the meals courtroom which is close to the yau char kwai stall.
Restoran Shan City Seafood, Medan Selera On a regular basis Foodcourt, Jalan Bandar 1, Pusat Bandar Puchong, Puchong. Open each day: 5.30pm to 12am. Final order is 11.30am. Tel:+6010-8897698 (Alice).
