Dim Sum @ Blossom Restaurant, Swiss Garden Spa&Resort Kuantan

Last Sunday, me and my family had our breakfast at The Blossom in Swiss Garden Spa & Resort, Kuantan. This restaurant served dim sum during the weekends, to avoid disappointment with vast human traffic, it's better to be there early says before 10am.

In Kuantan, there are not many nice dim sum places for breakfast and people usually go to MS Garden Hotel or Zenith Hotel that open just recently, avoid Zenith dim sum but that's another story.

This was my second time in Swiss Garden and wow they did good in surprising me with more than an ordinary dim sum menu. Why? They are serving "xiao loong bao" now! and it's really something hard to come by in Kuantan. Taste wise they are still some margin to left par with... say Ding Tai Fung or Dragon-i. 

Nevertheless, Blossom do serve the ordinary prawn dumpling and siew mai as well..

Oh ya they have this spring roll in squid shape, just another gimmick on presentation but they will need to add more flavor to give it a kick.

Besides, they also have smoked duck dumpling but I'm disappointed with it because I can't taste the smoked duck.

Last but not least, thank god there is this Charcoal Egg Tart was there to save the day. I just can't get enough of it and I had all three tarts by myself! And I'm craving for it now! Uurggghh

Taste:6/10
Value for Money: 7/10

Location:
2656 & 2657 Mukim Sg Karang,
26100 Beserah, Kuantan

Contact: 09-544 7333

Pun Choy @ Restaurant LYJ, Sg Buloh

 Always wanted to try "Pun Choy". It's a pot of everything. Yes EVERYTHING! Noticed that there is a lot people blog about LYJ in Kg Baru, Sg Buloh for how good their signature Pun Choy tasted and value for money. Pun Choy served in a portion of minimum 5pax and maximum up to 12pax. Everything is arranged and layers in 1 pot so it's seems easy to prepare.

 Upon approaching the entrance, you'll see tons of photo of the local celebrities and also artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan who dine in LYJ previously.

Well... of course LYJ do have other specialities like their roasted honey pork (char siew), fried paku-pakis veg, roast duck and etc. But it's because wecame mainly for their Pun Choy,we did not want to other more dish because the portion of Pun Choy came in really huge and we can't really finish it in the end of our meal.

To enjoy a Pun Choy, you needs to place order at least 2 days before and we had ordered a Pun Choy with abalone and scallop for 12pax at RM588 and the normal Pun Choy is around RM288. 

Different types of sauces will be served as well.

As you can see the ingredients in Pun Choy are overflowing and there are even more items each layer such as braised pig trotter, braised chicken feet, fish and more. Did we finish this pot of food? we did not! we pack up the remaining and turned it into another home-made Choy Giok (mixed stew kind of dish in sour gravy) =)

Last but not least, this Standing Roast Chicken (Dung Dok Gai) is also another highlight of LYJ, The gimmick of this roast chicken is just so tempting you to have one, but well at least the chicken skin is roasted to crispand that's a plus point for it.

Note: remember too call 2 days before to order the Pun Choy

Summary: after trying out Pun Choy, it's not really that special anyway, the gimmick is just a pot of everything. No harm trying for first timer =)

Address:
Restoran LYJ Sdn Bhd
PT11, Jalan Perkhidmatan, Kampung Baru
47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor

GPS Coordinate: N3 11.696 E101 34.188

Tel/Fax: 03 61402678

Business hours: 11.30am – 3pm / 6pm – 11pm

Cendol Bakar @ Tg Karang

Yesterday, we decided to go to Sekinchan. During our journey heading to Kuala Selangor, I saw lotsa cars stop by the roadside and at that moment, what is in my mind was..... what are they selling? it must be good stuff.

It's a sign written CENDOL BAKAR, REFILL PERCUMA and the first thing that caught my mind was..... what is cendol bakar? sounds special. There was a drive-thru lane too but we missed that because the traffic is pretty bad and we need to reach Sekinchan before sunset. The drive-thru branch is only available at Assam Jawa

They named it Cendol Bakar, it's not that they burn the cendol but they roast the gula melaka to get a better aroma and taste.

 Photo courtesy by boyzonne

As soon as we got further towards Sekinchan, I spotted another branch of CENDOL BAKAR at Jalan Tg Karang. You can easily spot this because all their location is just by the roadside during the way to Kuala Selangor.

They only have 6 types of cendol range from RM2.00 to RM3.50

And their 'free refill' means free water refill and sirap hahahaha

It's a self service order by filling up a small tiny order sheet at the collect and payment counter, and yea they are giving free cendol bakar to those less fortunate people and for verification show your JKM card (Jab. Kebajikan Masyarakat)

We ordered a Cendol VIP @ RM2.00 and Cendol VVIP @ RM2.50

Cendol VIP consist of nata de coco, selasih, corn and red beans. Love the blend of cendol with refreshing nata de coco.

Cendol VVIP consist of glutinous rice, nata de coco, selasih, corn and red beans. The glutinous rice is soft and it's sweet. The combination of eating icy cendol with glutinous rice is appetizing.

We are lucky enough to taste this Cendol Bakar. It was around 5.30pm, when we finish eating it, the  cendol bakar was sold off too. the staff quickly cover with TUTUP(closed) sign to avoid flowing-in-crowd.

Summary: it's good to explore food by the roadside. More over, it's something unique.

Taste : 7/10
Value of Money :9/10

Business Hour : 11am-7pm

Locations :
1) Jalan Sg Buloh Jeram
2) Assam Jawa
3) Bt 7 Sg Ijok
4) Simpang Kg Chengkau Ulu, Rembau
5) KTMB Kluang Station
6) Jalan Tg Karang