Family Private Dinner at 119

3 weeks ago, daddy brought us for a ‘Private-dinner’…

What is it bout the private dinner?
Uh hmmm… we eat in the owner’s house…
You won’t allow to place order, you will not know what are you going to eat…

A full course dinner with 7 – 8 or 10 dishes..
it depends, as I said, we eat what the chef cooked…
Price Range between Rm420 or Rm 520 for 10 pax…
They use the beautiful antique cutleries when serving...

The owner was supposed to have a shop selling Canto Cuisine situated around Chulia Street…
we used to dine in there very often.. the foods are so nice !!
very sad indeed, they stopped doing business since 3 yrs ago…
reason being they wanted to r-e-t-i-r-e…. what can we say then? *sniff… :’(

We known they’re doing this ‘private-dinner’ thingy for long time, but never make ourselves to there…
And finally, daddy took the initiative to ring them up !

All of us were so looking forward… wondering what we will get to eat…
We were brought to a room with air-cond, huge TV, antiques houseware… There was another table of diners next to us on that nite…
teng teng... 1st dish served...
Owner told us it’s OTAK… based on it’s look, there’s no way to convince me or us that it’s by any chance look like an "OTAK"…

Nonetheless… It tasted Amazing… even the Kerabu Salad below the Satay Prawn is so so Tasty !!

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2nd dish is Bird Nest Chicken… we thought it’s a soup dish.. in fact, it’s not… just a Chicken & Bacon （金华火腿）dish with some soup…

the Chinese Mushroom cooked till really soft and absorb the flavour of the soup...

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here the ‘Real-Soup' comes...

"Shark-Fin"
we will not know it's sharkfin if the boss didn't tell... the way they cooked is totally different from any place...

notwithstanding, it's nice !there're chinese mushroom, sharkfin, egg white, coriander and etc...

it goes well with vinegar...

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and my Fav-of-the-nite came..... *weEEee

斋菜
Mixed Veggie of, white cabbage, carrot, beancurd, black fungus, mushroom and etc...

we love their 罗汉斋 very much.. it's a must-order-dish whenever we visit their old shop...

this is the superb of that dish.. added more ingredients and transformed abit...
Home Fried Rice...

simple fried rice with egg and 'Chinese Smoked Sausage'...

we supposed they're using some special 腊肠... as it tasted really yummie... even a small piece of it... brings fastastic taste...

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Spare Ribs with special sauce...

no idea how to describe this dish... as dunno what kinda style is this? just know the tastiness is oh hoo ~~~~

the meat is so so so so so tender...

like the softness can get it 'melt' in your mouth... he he

it's so well-flavoured, I guess the chef must have cooked this for really long hours !!!

Very very Delicious !!

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Steamed Fish in Miso Recipe
does the name sounds unusual?

the soup-based is very special...

tasted bit sour... but unlike the Teoh Chew Style type..

all of us kept guessing what recipe it is? some rare taste but very Tasty...

until we finished the fish but still failed to guess what type of flavour is it, we decided to ask the boss... and he gave us an unexpected answer which is " MISO "

but it tasted totally different with the miso soup that we can easily get in any Japs Rest....

it's really nice !!

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Dessert of the day - Barley, with Wintermelon, waterchestnut & Ginko...

choices of cold or hot...

all of us given them a double-thumbs-up when walking out from their house/shop/restaurant ~ ^^

we will be backed !

Gong Chi Cook-Fried, Cantonese Style

It's been quite a while since the last time I had dinner at this place...
remember my old-tym, working in SegaFredo... few of us always came here for dinner after worked... mornign shift la of course...
this mini-restaurant is located at the flat behind Dai Tong Dim Sum...
has some histories though...
I always felt that I've got back to the time of KUNG-FU while sitting there surrounding by the buildings of flats..

















it was getting rain before the foods served.. thus, we moved in... tho I still prefer sitting out-door and imagine myself is situated at the flat-lotz in KungFu....

lil mOnster is always so excited... -faint-

they don't offer much varieties, not something really special.. just a normal Cook-Fried Stall... I like it b'cuz of the hOmey feel, hOmey style... -Cantonese Cuisine- ^^

Sweet & Sour Pork...

Stir-Fry Beef with Ginger and Spring Onion... something really special is... they fried it with EGG !!! it makes the beef become so so smooth... so Delicious !!

we're impressed with their idea of cooking it with egg... as daddy likes to order this dish... been tried it at numbers of places and it was the first time we had it with egg !!

*highly recommend!!

Stir-fry Kai Lan

Seaweed Soup...

Max Gourmet, Qbay

30th Dec' 08
Eve suggested to lunch at Max Gourmet ( the shop-lots opposite Qbay ) today… I was quite happy while hearing that… :P I visited the shop next to it couple of times but not here, just because this shop is always full-housed whenever I passed by..
It is owned by the same owner of the famous Pekaka Dim Sum… doubtless the foods here should be yummie too…
Every table has been occupied again… we were lucky to get a table for 3 after waited for less than 3 mins… he he… the foods served really fast even though the customers are a lot!
We spent some times to read through the menu and decided what to eat, as there are plenty of choices from the menu…
I ended up ordering the porridge, 皮蛋瘦肉粥… costs only RM2.40… the portion looks small, but the ingredients are crazily a lot !!

I doubt they have put in an egg… plenty of them… big pieces… simply more than the bigger portion that selling from other places… despite this, the chicken slices a lot too… the porridge is rich, and well-flavoured… super-duper satisfied !! ^^

I ordered it was because I wanted to order the Yam Pastry… I was sure I couldn’t finish them if I was ordering any main course… The Yam Pastry is huge… the portion of 2 is like the portion of 3 or 4 from other shops… the pastries are crispy… the BBQ pork stuffed in the middle are a lot and tasty… the yam at the outer slice are compact and smooth… the 2 of them are well enough to satisfy my hunger… costs only RM2.60 for 2…


















Eve ordered the Mongolia Fish Baked Rice… which costs only RM7.90.. this is so cheap, isn’t it…?

















We prepared to wait long for this order… out of expectation, it served quick though… it’s delicious… even the bottom part of the rice has absorbed the sauce of the fish… and surprisingly the rice is soft… normally certain part of the baked dish would become kinda dry and hard after baked.. but this will not !

Raye ordered the Curry Chicken Wan Tan Mee and a side dish of Golden Bun with Curry Chicken…
Ha ha.. as expected, she wasn’t able to finish her orders, we helped out but still left some… :P

The curry is nice… and the texture of the noodle is tender too… I would want to try out the Shrimp Shui Kao Wan Tan Noodle at my 2nd visit… ^^



















Raye insisted us to try out the Golden Bun with Curry as she feels that it is very delicious.. she has eaten it before… no doubt, it is really nice… the Golden Bun tasted something like the ‘Mi Ku’… the skin is slightly crispy… goes really well with the curry… RM4.80

Raye and I knew we were be over-fulled thus we ordered a pot of Chinese Tea… it charged us RM 1 per head… with unlimited re-filling…

They planned to take-away some egg tarts for tea-time… the pastries from here, such as egg tart, BBQ pork pastry, pineapply bun are famous… but we were too full for anything… thus, we will leave it for next time...

02Jan' 09, second visit... (cuz I missed the Yam Pastries... :P)

Stewpig ordered the BitterGourd stuffed fish cake...

sauce tasted not bad...

I persuaded Stewpig to order the Wan Tan Mee, so that I could try it and at the same time ordered my porridge and Yam Kok.... *weEe~

Have a look at the Menu and the pic of the real thing... the 'outlook' of the Wan Tan is so much different... the size, the shape, the portion...

kinda disappointed as have had too high expectation on it, since they written 特制 （special-made) in the menu, of cause we would expect it to be a lot more better... but no doubt, the noodles are nice... the texture is nice & chewy... just the wan tan skin is bit too thick...

TW had the Shrimp Shui Kao Wan Tan Mee...