Tung Fong Seafood Restaurant @ Taipan, Inanam

When you're looking for a seafood restaurant that also specializes in serving generously-portioned fish/seafood noodle soup, look no further than Tung Fong Seafood Restaurant in the Taipan area of Inanam.

While Tung Fong isn't exactly easy to spot, you can always count on the Inanam Shell station as a reliable landmark. If you're coming from KK, make a U-turn around the roundabout and take the first junction on your left after the Shell station.

Tung Fong is surrounded by several auto shops/workshops, so when you spot a lot of car accessories shops as you turn in, rest assured you're in the right direction. From the junction, head straight and you'll see Tung Fong seafood restaurant located at a corner lot, right next to a home furnishing shop.

First look

The first thing we noticed about this seafood restaurant was its bustling lunch crowd and how good business was. We had decided to come over for late lunch (past 2pm) to beat the lunchtime traffic, and while we managed to dodge traffic on the road, the traffic at the restaurant was still pretty heavy.

Food & beverages

As the name would suggest, Tung Fong offers a variety of seafood dishes to be ordered a la carte or with rice/noodles. From what we've heard, some of their best offerings are the seafood kon lau mee (MYR7) and seafood noodle soup (MYR7).

Normal-size kon lau mee

Seafood kon lau mee

If you'd like to have a bigger portion, opt for the 'ka liao' version which is almost 1/4-size bigger.

Ka liao seafood noodle soup

Ka liao (large) seafood noodle soup (MYR12)

The next time we went to Tung Fong, we brought four friends with us so that we could order more a la cart dishes and sample them all together. Here are some of the signature a la cart dishes on the menu:

Egg tofu with minced meat and mushroom

Mixed vegetables with mushroom

Sabah veggie with eggs

Fish fillet in sweet sauce

Oyster omelette 

Crab cake wrapped in seaweed

Overall the pricing is pretty reasonable, we only paid MYR151 for 10 dishes plus drinks--averagely MYR25.17 per person for a decent seafood meal. 

Verdict

We give Tung Fong Seafood Restaurant two thumbs up for food quality, portion size and pricing. If it wasn't for the horrible traffic surrounding the Taipan area during lunch hour (it took us 45 minutes to reach the restaurant from Likas!), we would've come every day for the fish noodle soup! 

Also, we waited more than 30 minutes for our food to arrive. Probably not the place to have lunch at when you're moody and ravenous.

Food Buddy rating: 3.75/5

Ambience: 2/5

Service: 3/5

Price: 5/5

Food & Beverages: 5/5

Kedai Kopi Wang City @ Iramanis

The other day our friend, Elaine was talking about a coffee shop in Foh Sang that serves delicious ngiu chap. Both Oliver and I have never heard of a ngiu chap place in Foh Sang, so we decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, by the time we arrived, it was already past 1.30pm and the coffee shop was in the midst of closing.

One staff told me that usually the shop stays open until after 2pm, but today they've run out of meatballs earlier in the morning. Business must be really good. Anyway, with heavy heart, we drove off and decided to see what Iramanis has in store. Enter Kedai Kopi Wang City.

First look

Located next to Capstone Christian bookstore, Kedai Kopi Wang City looks no different from the rest of the kopitiams around it. The menu are almost all written in Chinese, with the exception of some dishes which are shown in pictures, so you'd have to ask the staff to recommend which dishes to try.

We liked that the kopitiam is clean and quite breezy--as opposed to some kopitiams that can be quite hot and stuffy. 

Food & beverages
Kedai Kopi Wang City specializes in fish and seafood dishes. Their signature dish would be the kon lau mee with fish slices / wonton / fish balls in a choice of bitter gourd or ham choy (pickled mustard cabbage) soup (MYR6).

Another notable dish is the Korean fried noodle (MYR6)--a dish resembling Hokkien noodle and served with chicken breast meat, diced cucumber, potato and topped with sprinklings of sesame seed.

Other dishes on the menu include the pan mian, rice with minced pork and assam curry fish head soup.

As for drinks, you can order the usual soft drinks as well as nutritious homemade barley drink and lemongrass drink (MYR3).

Lemongrass drink

Barley drink

Verdict
Oliver and I decided to try two of this kopitiam's best-sellers--I picked the kon lau mee with assorted seafood in ham choy soup while Oliver ordered the Korean fried noodle.

I was satisfied with the portion size of the kon lau mee. I'm usually very particular about portion sizes, but this one was just nice. It tasted delicious too! Best of all, the soup didn't have an oily film on top of it. Healthy and yummy!

Kon lau mee soup

The Korean fried noodle looked and tasted just like a plate of Hokkien fried noodle. The portion size was also decent. 

Korean fried noodle

Following the main course, Oliver also ordered the homemade fish tofu that is made of fresh dory fish. The fish tofu (MYR4) comes in four pieces per plate and was probably the priciest item on the menu. The fish tofu tastes good but its mushy texture might turn some people off.

Fish paste tofu

Food Buddy rating: 3.75/5
Ambiance: 3/5
Service: 3/5
Price: 5/5
Food & Beverages: 4/5