Recently, a few food bloggers and I were given a warm welcome into Yishensu Restaurant located in 1 Utama, Petaling Jaya. This restaurant with an inviting and pleasant ambiance serves many choices of wholesome and hearty vegetarian dishes, noodles and sweets. It is very popular with shoppers and also the residence living around the area.

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Just mention Goh Huat Seng Restaurant and usually one word come to mind… Steamboat! Having been around for more than 50 years, it is one of the oldest Teochew restaurants in Penang. Situated in the folds of Kimberley Street, many things have changed since the old days but one thing’s for sure… the traditional steamboat still comes lighted up with charcoal.

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Head over to a ‘food court’ located directly opposite the Penang Floating Mosque in Tanjung Bunga which serves delicious typical Malay dishes. The two food stalls here are attracting customers far and near with their many varieties of dishes.

The place is usually crowded with people during lunch hour but Lidiana seems to be the more popular stall. Food are replenished once they are sold off…so it is always fresh and warm.

Stingray cooked in the very appetizing sourish and spicy sauce.

The spicy sambal with belacan goes well with fried chicken and fresh ulam.

Our favourite – fried cincaru fish stuffed with onions and chillis. Each of us had one of it on our plate of rice.

Location of this food court can be easily seen at – http://wikimapia.org/105485/. Do take a drive up here for lunch and at the same time, visit the magnificent Floating Mosque ….. here’s a night image of the mosque and its surrounding taken by hubby from Ratu Mutiara apartment.

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This is the delicious and tasty hot bowl of fish soup.

We had the hotpot together with two other dishes…..Steamed Chicken with oyster sauce and the very appetising dish of Brinjal with ’sambal hei bee’ (chilli dried prawns).

Overall a nice and satisfying lunch….

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The place is usually crowded during weekdays and weekends with locals and foreigners. Customers have a choice to pick and choose their seafood from the rows of aquarium.

We ordered the fried fish (cui jiam), flower crabs, claypot fish with preserved vegetable and yam, fried vegetable with sambal and noodles. The steamed flower crabs with pounded ginger and stripes of black fungus. They do add in some chinese wine to enhance the flavour. The crab meat is so firm and fresh. End up using our hands to enjoy eating this seafood.

We then had the claypot with pieces of fish head cooked with preserved salted vegetable and slices of yam. Cooked with dried chili and plenty of leeks – very unique taste and very appetising too…

After that we were served another two dishes. The vegetable dish is a combination of long beans, star beans and lotus root fried with sambal. The lotus root is thinly sliced and taste good. The fish (cui jiam) is fried until crispy.

Rounded up the dinner with fried seafood mee-tiau. Fried dried and not oily and goes well with the sambal.

This place has a cosy ambiance which is suitable for entertaining friends or a dinner with the family. You get to savour delicious and FRESH seafood and at the same time enjoy the beautiful seaview too but the price might be a bit expensive (but then it depends on the type of seafood that you order).

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