My Lil Sis and I ordered:
1. Steamed Siakap Cheng Ho Style
2. Crab Salted Eggs
3. Tofu in Sizzling Plate
4. Kailan Belacan
Let’s just say all the positively good things first aye? The verdict:
The best dish was Crab Salted Eggs! It is worth going back to Cheng Ho for, I must vote. With its rich sauce coating the fresh and sweet crabs, it was very different from what I have had. I am not sure if the original Chinese version would use karipulai the way many restaurants in this country would prepare Butter Prawns. But I am in the acceptance of Malaysianized Chinese dishes here. I’ll order this when I am in Beijing next.
The other three dishes were so-so. The Steamed Siakap was nothing more than a steamed fish with some poured-on asam pedas-like sauce. We didn’t enjoy bites of under-cooked chili sauce or gravy with the chili seeds still crunchy. There wasn’t any taste to begin with, let alone to finish with. Maybe we should’ve gone for fried Siakap instead of steamed. But it was supposed to be a matter of sauce, of course.
The Tofu in Sizzling Plate was nothing to brag about – a bit too runny for us, and we did not fancy the frozen vegetables (diced carrots, corns and green peas) in it! I usually associate those frozen bagged vegies with cheap fried rice at cheap restaurants. And oh, was the sizzling plate supposed to be sizzling when it got to our table? If it was, it uh… didn’t.
For the Kailan Belacan, I think the most polite way for me to put it is that it was not as memorable as the same plate you can get at Bangi Golf Resort, Bandar Baru Bangi. Perhaps it wasn’t Chinese enough for a comparison, but not many Kailan Belacans can go wrong. While this one at Cheng Ho did not go wrong, it didn’t go home with me for its taste either. I wouldn’t shout about how ordinary it was, nor was it something to shout about.
When we got the bill of RM122.22, Lil Sis and I were more excited about the nice number 12222 it amounted to than the big tapau bag Lil Sis was taking home. Uh, naaa… none for me thanks. I was by then very very excited about a phone call from my bestfriend, Chin, dinner with another bestfriend, Lish (at a restaurant in front of Mrs. X’s house) and breakfast at the Lawn with another bestfriend, Tuan Nor, the next morning. Told ya I was fully booked!
Questa è Enida 
Oh I remember the Black Pepper Beef kat Bangi Golf tu. Melt in the mouth kinda beef, kan?. Oh yummssss!
Yesss! That’s the one! I tried a similar dish at The Sanctuary, The Curve, last week before the Milo Party. It was not bad, but wayyy too greasy to my liking. Imagine what was supposed to the black pepper SAUCE was just drips of oil with soy-sauce/kicap/tokyu dots in it. But yes, the Black Pepper Beef at Bangi Golf Resort (BGR or what I register as Bagero in my head) is the world’s best so far. Chewah!
After reading your Cheng Ho entry, Tidak lah I terkinja2 nak makan disitu tetapi sebaliknya terlompat2 nak pergi test Kailan Belacan kat Bangi Golf resort. Thanks for the tips!
Wiz:
Untuk memeriahkan suasana, sila lah order Black Pepper Beef dish dengan BABY Kailan Belacan or Ikan Masin tu kat Bangi Golf Resort kay? You’d see fireworks like Ratatouille did when he ate strawberry dengan cheese ke apa tu. Hehe. Yes, Baby Kailan.
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