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Chinese, Family, Food, Non-Halal, Seremban

Dinner @ T C Keong Restaurant

April 12, 2011 thammelissa 12 Comments

A place where you can get hommie food with an affordable price! Its a ‘tai chow’ restaurant which strongly recommended by my boss. With a tagline of “peng, leng, cheng” (cheap, nice, superb).

Did tried their food few times, but this time I brought my family for dinner there.

Its always crowded especially during lunch & dinner hour. Well, I went on Saturday night. Arrived and managed to get a vacant table and it was about 8pm. However, we waited for about 40 minutes for our ordered dishes to be served. Looks like its either that you have to be early or you don’t mind waiting. Bear in mind, do not wait with an empty stomach. Because a hungry man can be an angry man! *Laughs*

an ordinary non air-conditioned restaurant

Steamed Bitter Gourd & Pork Ribs with Black Beans – RM12

Erm; nothing much to shout about this dish. However the bitter gourd is well-cooked in a sense that its not too hard & good thing its that it don’t taste bitter too.

Assam Prawns & Squids (Tamarind Prawns & Squids) – RM25

A recommended dish! Especially for assam lovers. Moreover the prawns & squids are fresh and big. I love the gravy very much. Adds extra appetite if to eat with plain white rice.

Hong Siu Fish Head (deep-fried and braised in sauce) – RM26

Another recommended dish! A deep fried fish focusing only the fish head area, crispy on the outer part, yet maintained the good texture of its flesh.

Seaweed Soup – RM7

Ordered a soup dish because baby Vernice likes to have soup. Whats in the soup? As you can see other than seaweed, there are sliced carrots, fish cakes, baby corns, sliced pork, few pieces of small prawns & spring onion.

Stir-fry Vege – RM7

All of us enjoyed the meal very much!

Food : 4/5

Price : Affordable

Ambiance : 2.5/5

T C Keong Restaurant

No. 7, Ground Floor,

Jalan Seri Rahang 1, Taman Seri Rahang,

70100 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.

(a 2-stry shops facing a field)

Tel: 012-6118286 / 012-6189960

Operating Hours : Monday to Saturday(Closed on Sunday)

11am to 2pm ; 6pm to 10pm

**NON-HALAL**

Fast Food, Food, Halal, Seremban

McD 2 Free Big Breakfast

March 27, 2011 thammelissa 2 Comments

McD has came up with the idea of 2 Free Big Breakfast with purchase of RM5. All you need is just download & print the coupon. The promo ends on 31 March. My brother came home with the printed coupon and suggested to have McD breakfast on Saturday. The breakfast is serve from 4am to 11am daily. There are only 2 McD in Seremban which serves breakfast. – Terminal 1 and Senawang. Therefore we chose Terminal 1 as it is nearer to my house.

We were there at 10am to make our purchase. However we waited about 20 minutes for our breakfast set to be served. That was because there were too many orders.

The printed coupon which enable us to save RM13.80 for 2 Free Big Breakfast (without drinks)

Look at the crowd. Usually there aren’t that many people during breakfast. But now with the coupon of free breakfast; so what do you expect.

Freshly brewed Premium Coffee with free refills

I like it to be with creamer

2 Hot Pancakes – RM5.50

Mummy likes the pancakes as it is fluffy & not too sweet

McD Big Breakfast

consists of Scramble Egg, English Muffins(crisp exterior with soft texture), Grilled Chicken Sausage and Hash Brown.

Food, Halal, Seremban, Steamboat

Dinner @ See U Village Steamboat

February 18, 2011 thammelissa 4 Comments

A halal steamboat restaurant is opened at Tesco Seremban 2.

Its no usual 1 big pot of soup on each table, instead each table comes with individual built in induction cooker. I prefer this method. Its more convenient and hygienic rather than mixing everything into 1 pot to be shared among everyone at your table. Who knows may be there are some people who can’t take seafood. At least now we can have our individual pot which allows us to cook the items that we ourselves like.

Unfortunately; it ain’t serving in buffet style. Its either you order in a set of 1, 2 or 4 pax or ala carte. Since its just myself, mom & bro; therefore we ordered a set for 2 (Dumpling Combo) and added some side orders.

Types of soup and the prices. There are 5 types of soup. Only ‘chicken soup’ & ‘tom yam soup’ are free of charge. 3 of us each ordered different type of soup. Chicken soup (kinda salty), tom yam soup (the best) & herbal soup (kinda bland).

Dipping Sauce

From bottom; blended red chili, fried shallot in oil, blended green chili.

Set for 2 (Dumpling Combo) – RM33.80

I was shocked when the waiter brought this plate over our table. Does this look like a set for 2 person?? Looked more like for 1 person. Or was it just me, the big eater? Adui…paiseh la if yes. ^^

A set of 2 includes 2 piece of noodles. There are 3 types of noodles for you to choose. We chose ‘yee mee’.

We ordered an extra plates of ‘chicken roll’, ‘chicken ball’ & ‘fried fish meat’. The dumpling is included in our set.

I dump everything into my pot of tom yam soup.

Food : 3/5

Price : 2/5

Ambiance : 3.5/5

See U Village Steamboat Sdn. Bhd.

G4 & G5 Tesco Seremban 2,

No. 1, Jalan Haruan 2,

70300 Seremban,

Negeri Sembilan.

Tel : ~~06- 631 3576~~ 06-6339954

Map : Locate Us

celebration, Chinese, Chinese New Year, Family, Food, Halal, Hotels, Seremban

CNY Family Dinner @ Han Pi Yuan, Royale Bintang Resort & Spa

February 17, 2011 thammelissa 3 Comments

As I return home on 2nd day of Chinese New Year, there were friends gathering, house visiting and not forgetting a family dinner which is the most important part.

To avoid the festive crowds in restaurants, we decided to dine at The Royale Bintang Resort & Spa. Mom gave the suggestion on Han Pi Yuan, a Chinese Restaurant after she read some good reviews from the newspaper. Apparently, Han Pi Yuan serves Halal Chinese food.

To my surprise; there were only 2 tables of guests having their meals there. Where are all the people in Seremban?? Is it because the service is bad? Too expensive? Or food is bad? Let me try it….

well lighted and looking pleasant

Well; we went for ‘Chinese New Year Menu’ package. Which consists of 9 dishes (including dessert) served for 10 pax. Moreover the price seems to be affordable too. Just RM438++ (imposed of 10% service charge & 6% government tax).

Prosperity Jellyfish & Pear Yee Sang

This dish will normally serves at the beginning of the meal. Yee Sang or Lo Hei or better known as Prosperity Toss symbolized abundance, prosperity and vigor.

“All diners at the table then stand up and on cue, proceed to toss the shredded ingredients into the air with chopsticks while saying various “auspicious wishes” out loud, or simply “撈起, 撈起”. It is believed that the height of the toss reflects the height of the diner’s growth in fortunes, thus diners are expected to toss enthusiastically.” (extract from wikipedia)

Braised Shark’s Fin Soup with Crabmeat

The usual shark’s fin soup. Good that this isn’t too starchy.

Roasted Chicken Shatin with Prawn Cracker

This dish is quite unique. The chick were deep fried. A credit to it because it ain’t too oily. No doubt its small, but its tasty.

Wok Fried Prawn with Spicy Sauce

The prawns size are quite big. Moreover the prawns are very fresh.

Steamed Sea Bass Fish with Quality Soya Sauce

Braised Two Varieties of Mushroom with Dried Oyster & Vegetable

Am so sorry. I was too busy eating till I forgotten to take a photo of the “Fragrant Fried Rice in Lotus Leaf”. It must be too nice till I’ve forgotten ^^

Deep Fried Nin Kou

Double Boiled Longan with White Fungus

Food : 4/5 (satisfying meal with big portion of food)

Price : 4/5 (worth eating)

Ambiance : 4/5

Service : 2.5/5 (waiters are kinda inexperience & inefficient)

The Royale Bintang Resort & Spa Seremban

Jalan Dato A.S. Dawood,

70100 Seremban,

Negeri Sembilan

Tel : +606 – 7666 666

Map : Locate Us

Buffet, Family, Food, Seremban, Steamboat

Christmas Eve Dinner @ Shabu Shabu, Seremban

December 28, 2010 thammelissa Leave a comment

It was Christmas eve. No turkeys, no western food. Instead we went for Shabu Shabu which newly opened in Seremban. It would be something new for Seremban’s residents. The 1st shabu shabu I had was at Puchong.

What is Shabu Shabu? Refer here:- Shabu Shabu

Since its Christmas Eve; we may as well play save. Made reservation in advanced. Mom gave hints to dine there when she first saw the advert printed on the advertising magazine.

What I like most above it; is that it has individual soup pot. Moreover the stove for each soup pot has an adjustable flame controller. They have a few types of soup. Herbal Soup, Malat Soup, Tom Yum, Tomato Soup, ABC Soup, Chicken Stock Soup. The Chicken soup will be free of charge. However the rest will have an additional surcharge of RM2. All the soup are refillable.

The ambiance

Herbal Eggs

Assorted Noodles & Vegetables

Fresh Mussels & Scallops

Ice Cream. (the normal ones)

Assorted dipping sauce

My pot of tom yam soup. We chose herbal soup, chicken soup, malat soup and tom yum. Eventually all the soup that we’ve picked are nice.

Cook everything in the pot

The fried chicken is very nice!

Price : RM24.60/ person (Free of charge for the birthday boy/girl). I felt that the price is rather abit high for Seremban standard.

Ambiance : Looks cosy & nice. But the ventilation is kinda poor. I went home with smelly hair =_=

Shabu Shabu Buffet

No. 11-1, Matrix Court,

Jalan Tan Sri Manickavasagam,

70200 Seremban. (opposite SRJK(C) Chan Wa)

Tel: 06-761 5359

Sunday-Thursday 5pm-12.30am

Friday, Saturday & Holiday 5pm-1.30am

OFF on Tuesdays

Christmas, Food, Friends, Seremban

An Early Christmas Celebration….@ Pho Co Seremban

December 21, 2010 thammelissa Leave a comment

Jingle Bells…Jingle Bells….

Christmas is just around the corner. We have planned an early Christmas celebration cum Christmas gifts exchange.

RED & WHITE!

Sin Wei suggested a theme. We shall all dress in either red or white color.

“I will come in RED lar”; I told Sin Wei.

The present ones were Sin Wei, Joanne, Tracy, Kristy, Siew Yen & myself.

Apparently; there’s a newly opened(few months ago) Vietnamese Restaurant in Oakland. They served Vietnamese cuisine and steamboat. Therefore Tracy suggested to try their steamboat.

looks clean & bright

sauces for dipping

Passion Fruit Drink – RM4.50

Vietnam Coffee

sorry…I’ve forgotten the name.Its the ingredients for ‘fresh spring roll’.

See Below

Given a sheet of rice paper. Place the ingredients(mee hoon, sliced meat, lettuce, carrot, bean sprout) in the middle. Add some sauce.

Roll it as above.

We ordered the steamboat meal for 3 person. RM18/ person.

The steamboat portion is big. Enough for 6 of us.

The steamboat consist of sliced chicken, pork balls, sliced fish meat, cuttlefish, enoki mushroom, prawns, crabstick, taufu, cabbage, taufupok.

and also mee hoon & eggs.

The soup base is very tasty. It has slices of starfruit.

Boil it in the soup base.

The shop owner was so kind to help us to take a group photo ^^

RED & WHITE!!!

After the meal; we are all set for the gifts exchange. Wrote our names on the paper. Then each of us draw our gift.

Presents from all of us!

Excited or Meeting???

Below are everyone’s photo with their respective gift. Macam IC photo….. :-p

Kristy got Mel’s gift

Joanne got Siew Yen’s gift

Sin Wei got Joanne’s gift

Tracy got Kristy’s gift

Siew Yen got Sin Wei’s gift

Mel got Tracy’s gift

Everyone seems to like this very much.

My favorite photo

My favorite shot

PHO CO

No. 68b, Lorong Haruan 5/3,

Oakland Commercial Square,

70300 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.

Ms. Chong : 017-6715995

**NON-HALAL**

Chinese, Food, Non-Halal, Seremban

Dinner@Empayar Seremban Siew Pow

December 15, 2010 thammelissa 1 Comment

Seremban is famous for its siew pow (bun with bbq pork/ chicken baked till golden brown). We are now at Empayar Seremban Siew Pow; the main branch of siew pao. Not only selling siew pow but also assorted local products. Their siew pow is well established for many years.

The siew pow and other bakeries (egg tarts, pineapple tarts, salted egg cookies, kaya kok & etc) are baked freshly everyday. Sold out fast too…especially during holidays. You may expect alot of tourists there too. Besides the siew pow, their egg tarts also is a must try item!

You may refer here for the list of products:- PRODUCTS

A huge signboard which is visible along the North South Highway.

Assorted local products

I bought 10 pieces of siew pow. Each priced at RM1.30

Too bad the content wasn’t as generous as before.

Apart from that; it does served as restaurant. Particularly on Seafood. The fishes, crabs & prawns are fresh too. What I meant fresh is that; its still alive before its cooked.

Kirin Ebi (A type of prawn reared in deep ocean and specially processed using advanced technology).

I couldn’t really differentiate the difference, but kirin ebi’s shell is much harder and the size is slim & long in shaped.

Alex and I couldn’t figure out what to order. Therefore we went ahead with their recommendation.

Sang Min with Kirin Ebi (Yee Mee in Cantonese Style) – RM15

Hakka Char Yoke (客家炸肉) (Fried pork in Nam Yue) – RM20

Crabs cooked with salted egg – RM45/kg

We enjoyed eating the crabs. Tasty and fresh. Overall the food that we ordered were good! But I felt the price is slightly expensive.

FOOD = 4/5

PRICE = 3/5

AMBIANCE = 3/5

Empayar Seremban Siew Pow
LG1-57, Tingkat Bawah Tanah,
Pasar Besar TBK 4, Taman Bukit Kepayang,
70200 Seremban,
Negeri Sembilan.
Tel: 06-601 6308/9.

**NON-HALAL**

Food, Friends, Halal, Pasta, Seremban, Western

Dinner @The Manhattan Fish Market

November 25, 2010 thammelissa 2 Comments

The last gathering we had was on September. 1st and 2nd gathering; we held it at Sin Wei’s house. Therefore this time we changed the venue. Sin Wei & I suggested the same location. JUSCO SEREMBAN!! Hahah..since that’s the place which is near to everyone of us.

Hence, we decided to go for The Manhattan Fish Market…..

I couldn’t remember when was the last time I tried the food. I think it was 1 year ago??

This round we had an additional guest. “Pei Chee”! The last time I met her was Form 5. It was 10 years ago ler!!! Now, she is a mother of 2 kids. Yet she still look so good. I think even better than school days. We chatted mainly about both leng leng mummy “Pei Ling & Pei Chee” sharing their experiences to “Sin Wei”, the soon to be mom! Good thing must share share…So I suppose its an educational chat. ^^

Crab Salad – New menu in conjunction of Christmas. This salad is nice. It has crab meat tossed in coleslaw with raisins top with crisp purple cabbage, corn & coriander. (RM13.90)

Shrimp My Olio – This dish look abit different from the menu. However it has strong cheese & chili flakes. The prawns are fresh too. Too bad its alil oily & salty I felt. – RM17.90

Wrap & Roll – generous amount of fish flakes with lettuce & tomatoes wrapped with tortilla. Served with fries. A good choice if you wanted something light. – RM14.90

Grilled Salmon – I like this very much too. The thick sliced of salmon is nicely grilled. Taste good too….Served with the fat fries and some broccoli – RM29.90

Brownie with Ice Cream – RM9.90

Mud Pie – RM7.90

It looks ugly to me…Really resemble the muddy look. However the taste was good!

As usual….before and after meal also kena take some photos…Proven that we were there. Wahahaha….

Price : 3.5 / 5

Food : 4/5

Ambiance : 3.5 / 5

The Manhattan Fish Market

Jusco Seremban 2 Shopping Centre,

G41, Ground Floor, Persiaran S2 B1 Seremban 2,

70300 Seremban, N.S.

Tel : 06-601 1707

birthday, Buffet, celebration, Chinese, Food, Halal, Hotels, Seremban

Mummy’s Birthday @XINJIANG COURT

November 11, 2010 thammelissa 6 Comments

Mom is celebrating her 51st birthday this year. We held the celebration a few days earlier from the actual date. It was on Sunday, where everyone will be at home.

Mom decided to try Klana Resort’s All-You-Can-Eat Dim Sum Buffet Lunch.(Mummy loves dim sum very much!)

*It was highly recommended by Baby Sumo.*

THANKS to her I would say.

They serves HALAL Dim Sum. So there wouldn’t be any porkie yea…

The price is RM30++/ person. (12-2.30pm). With the price you are paying; I felt that its very worthy. You can dine in a hotel, the dim sum are served upon your order (even though its buffet)- so its still warm.

pick your choice of dim sum from the list

A complimentary bowl of shark fin’s soup

Not much of shark fin & tasted abit fishy.

Porridge with Peanuts – very smooth & tasty

puffs & tarts

scallops

fruit konnyaku jelly

assorted mini cakes

Jelly & Pudding

fruits

Prawn Triangle with Salad Cream – Crispy Skin with big fresh prawns. (yummy)

Deep Fried Mango Seaweed Roll – Its yummy. But I hardly taste any Mango.

Steamed Scallop Dumpling – Huge scallop underneath

Steamed Prawn Dumpling – The prawns are big & fresh

Steamed Prawn Rolled with Rice Flour (Chee Cheong Fun) – The skin is very smooth & thin

Steamed Chicken Rolled with Rice Flour (Chee Cheong Fun)

Steamed Chicken Dumpling with Crab Roe

Steamed Chicken Feet with ‘Gui Lin’ Style – This one so so only

Stir Fried Raddish Cake – I like this very much. The raddish cake aren’t too hard. Not too oily & its tasty.

Sang Har Min(Yee Mee in Cantonese Style) – Cooked with huge fresh prawns. The noodles are well cooked and tasty.

Steamed Hong Kong sweet corn custard bun – the custard content too little & abit dry

Steamed BBQ Chicken Bun – skin too thick, content too little

Sis suggested to buy a cake from “The Bakers” (just 1 floor below). Too bad..there aren’t any whole cake that time (12.30pm). However they are so nice to tell my sis to please wait for 1+ hour, they will bake the cake immediately. Since we are dining just upstairs; no harm for us to wait for an hour plus. At about 1.30pm the waiter brought the cake & candles to our table. Mom got surprised!! I guess she’s feeling happy as well ^^

All of us likes the cake very much(Black & White Chocolate Mousse). Its freshly bake you know… hahahah…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MUMMY!!

FOOD : 3.5/5

PRICE : 4/5

Xinjiang Court

Klana Resort Seremban, PT4388, Jalan Penghulu Cantik, Taman Tasik Seremban, 70100 Seremban.

Tel: 06 – 766 7888

Chinese, Family, Food, Non-Halal, Seremban

Dinner @ Restoran Win Loy

October 29, 2010 thammelissa 5 Comments

We celebrated Michele’s birthday earlier.

Had a simple dinner at Restoran Win Loy which is located just a few minutes drive from home at Seremban 2.

This restaurant is usually crowded during weekends. At around 7pm, you can see that the restaurant is almost full with customers. The food served was quite fast. We ordered a few ordinary Chinese cuisine and some are their signature dish.

cili padi & chopped garlic served with the dishes.