For starters, we began with Chicken Nachos and BBQ Chicken Salad. The four nacho slices were served with diced tomatoes and fresh shredded cabbage, topped with a generous amount of mayonnaise. The dough was thin and crispy, and it was indeed a crunchy and cheesy affair priced at RM10.80.

Chicken Nachos

Meanwhile, the RM9.80 BBQ salad was average, with several BBQ chicken flesh (in long strips) served on a bed of cabbage, tomatoes, carrots and spring onions, and they were all mixed with BBQ sauce. If you are not accustomed to the smell and taste of BBQ sauce, I’d advised you not to try it since it was pretty strong.

BBQ Chicken Salad

As our main course, we ordered Chicken Cheese with Cheese Slice, Chicken Kiev, Mixed Seafood Platter and Seafood A’Laking. Well, you may notice that there were a lot of chicken foodstuffs that we ordered, but rest assured, we are not chicken maniacs! The restaurant does serve steaks but we do not like to savour on beef or lamb meats.The Chicken with Cheese Slice, priced at RM14.50, was just another average western dish that comes with chips and mixed vegetables. The chicken’s skin was rather thick (and oily) but it tasted just nice and salty with a slight hint of cheese (which is quite unsatisfactory coz’ I expect more cheesy flavour from the way they named their dish) and a slice of chicken ham was draped over the chicken meat, covered with brownish gravy.

Chicken with Cheese Slice

Next up, the Chicken Kiev was rather disappointing as the outer layer of the chicken meat was over-fried, hence, the dry taste. The side dishes that came with it were only salad and chips, and the meal costs RM13.80. When we sliced the centre of the chicken meat, the cheese inside it flowed out steadily, much to our delight (as if we never seen this before! LOL). However, be forewarned that the meat was slightly difficult to chew. It felt as if we were chewing on a rubber!

Chicken Kiev

Whhooo…melting cheesaaaaayy!

We were not really impressed with the RM18.80 Mixed Seafood Platter. It tasted normal (you can make this dish yourself) and comprised a mixture of chips, sliced lemon, a few calamari, fish meat, fried prawns in flour and salad. The flour that wrapped around the prawn was too thick and it was totally tasteless and dry. We dug the prawn out of the dry cocoon and ate it just like that.

Mixed Seafood Platter

The Seafood A’Laking was perhaps the nicest meal among the dishes that we had ordered. Priced at RM18.80, the spaghetti comes with crabstick, tomatoes, cucumbers, three big mussels, three medium prawns, salmons and squids. You have to mix really well with the mushroom sauce at the bottom and it tasted really good! The squids were easily chewed and the mussels were fresh. Yummy!

Seafood A’Laking

If you would like to dine in a car-like environment (the interior of the restaurant was cleverly designed to make you feel as if you are dining in an actual race track), do drop by at this eatery anytime soon.

Location: No. 1, Jalan Puteri 1/4, Bandar Puteri, Puchong, Selangor (somewhere near the new Citibank branch and Al-Rajhi Bank)
Shop name: F1 Restaurant
Opening Hours: Lunch (11am-3pm); Dinner (6pm-11pm)
Crowd: We noticed that the patrons that came in that weekend were mostly families, and the crowd were slowly increasing from 7.30pm onwards.

Donald and Lily’s is located at Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, which is within walking distance from The Stadhuys and Jonker Street (Jalan Hang Jebat). The eatery itself is not quite established, so you might want to pay extra attention when looking for it.

It’s a well decorated place too

Apparently, Donald and Lily’s Corner is reportedly famous for its nyonya laksa and cendol. Besides, they also serve other food such as nasi lemak and so on. On that day, we ordered their famous nyonya laksa, pongteh chicken rice, tau kua (rojak) and of course, cendol.

Nyonya laksa actually looks like curry mee and it doesn’t look like laksa which we normally eat. I was kinda surprised because I expected something sour and spicy. While the curry itself looks spicy, well I can assure you the spiciness is just appropriate. Of course you can add more curry paste to suit your taste. In my opinion especially when I’m from Northern states, to say nyonya laksa is good is a bit over-rated. Well, it is up to you.

Nyonya laksa

Pongteh chicken rice is another specialty served by Donald and Lily’s. The chicken meat is quite tender (which is good) and served together with gravy and potato. The gravy is thick but a bit oily to my liking.

Pongteh chicken rice

Tau kua or rojak served here is completely different from what we always have back in KL or Ipoh or even Penang. Here, they use bean curd (which is sliced into smaller pieces), cucumber and pineapple which is topped with rojak sauce. The sauce itself isn’t very thick and the crushed peanuts do the trick.

Tau kua

Last but not least, it’s always a must to have cendol when you’re in Malacca. At Donald and Lily’s Corner, you can have it too. I particularly like their cendol as compared to Jonker88 as they’re not too sweet. The amount of gula melaka is just perfect to taste. Serving wise, Jonker88 serves bigger bowl of cendol with large dose of gula melaka. So, it’s really up to us patrons to decide which to go.

Cendol

Donald and Lily’s Corner is not just a normal food establishment. Remember to pay it a visit when you’re in Malacca.

Tom Yam Fried Rice
I have always loved the taste of Tom Yam, whether it’s a Tom Yam soup, Tom Yam rice, Tom Yam chicken or Tom Yam anything! The taste of it is simply appetizing!

Tom Yummy Yam!

The Tom Yam Fried Rice is spicy (and very spicy to some), served with one medium-small prawn, several mini squids, shredded carrots and cucumbers, two crackers (well, if you are lucky, then you might just get three), scrambled egg, white broccoli, and a few corns and mini button mushroom.

The rice itself is tasty enough to finish off just like that without the presence of squids, broccoli, etc. However, the prawn is not fresh enough and uhm… I don’t know, taste old? The squids are easily chewed and swallowed, unlike other stalls that serve rubberish, tasteless ones. Anyway, I think the food is slightly expensive, but nevertheless, still an affordable and enjoyable meal at RM5.20.

Thai Style Fried Rice
This meal may be the most popular one ordered by the crowd. Similarly, the rice is tasty and slightly spicy (hey, it’s Thai food after all), served with shredded carrots, cucumbers and egg, two crackers (again, if you’re lucky, you might just get three), fried ikan bilis and chicken flesh covered in dark sauce.

Most Popular Meal

I don’t know what sauce that is, but it sure taste good! I remembered that the initial price was RM 4.50 per meal when the stall was first launched in the food court. Due to its popularity, the current price now stands at RM 4.90, an increase of RM0.40. Still, it’s a good value for you guys who work in the city and crave for a yummy but affordable Thai meal.

Thai Jawa Fried Rice
Likewise, this plate of spicy rice (spicier than the previous two) comes with two crackers (or three), chicken flesh, white cabbage, shredded carrots and cucumbers, topped off with spring onions. When I first ordered this dish last year, it came with a halved lime. It did taste better with the lime juice!

Spicy Jawa!

However, when I ordered this same meal last week, they don’t serve with lime anymore. Sigh. What a waste! Somehow, certain portion of the rice tastes salty. Hmm… now that’s funny, coz there’s no salty fish in sight. Anyway, if you are the kind of eater who likes spicy and salty food, well, this might just be the one for you at RM4.90.

For all the three meals above, the ikan bilis and crackers served may not be as crispy as it looks like. Oh, you might want to order a 100plus or have a bottle of water ready because you may feel thirsty after you have finished half of the rice! Well, at least that’s how I experienced it!

Location: Basement of Avenue K, Uncle Ho’s Foodcourt, 156 Jalan Ampang, 50560 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Stall name: Thai Beach
Crowd: The queue usually begins from 12.30pm onwards and you may have to wait for a considerable amount of time if you are the 6th or 7th person in the line.

Like any normal pan mee stall, you can either choose to have the dry version (stirred in black sauce) or the wet version (with soup). However, I prefer the dry one, which is served in a rather big bowl of pan mee that is lightly stirred in tasty black sauce with spinach, fried ikan bilis, shredded chicken flesh, spring onion and bats’ ears (that black veggie-like thingy). It also comes with another bowl of soup, sprinkled with spring and fried onions.

Dry Pan Mee With A Bowl Of Soup

But…the texture of the mee is slightly dry (even after you mix it with the sauce) and for a second, I thought, gee…am I eating an edible chewing gum? Not that it’s rubberish, but they both share similar ‘skin’! Ah, fret not, I’d recommend you to douse the mee with several spoonful of soup and mix it evenly with the black sauce (which stays mostly at the bottom of the bowl). That’ll do the trick.

Tasty Mee! ~BURPPPPPP!!!~

Priced at RM4.50, this bowl of pan mee is definitely worth your penny, especially if you work around the KLCC area. However, the queue at this stall tends to grow very long at peak hours and after much observation, I can safely say that this stall has the longest queue of all!

Location: Basement of Avenue K, Uncle Ho’s Foodcourt, 156 Jalan Ampang, 50560 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Stall name: Traditional Penang Food
Crowd: The queue usually begins from 12.30pm onwards and most of the time it stretches across the other chicken rice stall next to it. Poor chickie chick stall!