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Duck King

I have been in Subang USJ for a few years now, I can say with a certain amount of confidence that there is nothing worth shouting about in Subang when it comes to food, with a few exceptions (mostly franchise based food outlets). So most people would have to travel to other places in search of good food. PJ, KL, Puchong and etc, why dont people open some decent restaurants here in USJ? I dont blame restaurateurs coz people dont seem to appreciate good food here, its the presentation that matters, from my own opinion.

But anyway, back to the topic. I was introduced to this place by Caiyin, who frequent the place quite often. So I decided to celebrate Mother’s Day there with my family. I was rather surprised to see the place, was expecting an air conditioned chicken/duck rice place coz of the name. Instead what I saw was a fairly classy place with a nice menu and uniformed waiter/waitresses to match. But because it was at night and I was placed outside of the shop, I couldnt take any decent pictures to post up here. The environment and service is fairly decent, altho sometimes when the traffic was heavy, we had to pour the tea ourselves. But no big deal.

The next thing that surprised me was the menu. They have sharks fin and abalone!! I mean heck, who would have expected a place named “Duck King” to have those. So for the dinner we ordered this spicy fried lala, tauhu with minced pork, duck (of course), and this vege… pardon me for not having any pictures and not remembering the name of the dishes. I wanted the sharks fin soup but got f*cked by my mom, waste of money she said. Man… it’s not like she’s paying for it.. I am. The duck arrived first and my, does it taste good! It has to, for obvious reason. The rest of the dishes was very good as well. And the dessert.. we had a few, just to try, the almond milk something, the kuai ling kou and a few others. The dessert was abit disappointing tho.. I had higher expectations for it after what the chefs has pulled off for dinner. It’s not bad but its not eye opening good as well. However there was this one dessert that is Faaantastic!! It was this Golden Sand pau or a.k.a Lau Sa Pau. Here’s a picture of the pau and the duck dish (got it online, hope the blogger doesnt mind)

The dinner costed my bout RM 150. Money well spent I would say.

Having tried dinner at the place, I was planning to try their dim sum as well. 2 weeks back, my family decided to visit the place again!! For dim sum this time, awesome.. we had the usual dim sum stuff; siu mai, har kau, lo mai kai and the lot, and of course the golden sand pau haha. And I have to say, I have not tried anything bad so far at this place. I would highly recommend this place.

Tonight, I brought my cousins family there to celebrate my nephew’s 8th birthday and my cousin being the food lover, ordered plenty of different stuff with no monetary constraints. We ordered Shun Hok fish, which was second only to the Golden Dragon Boat restaurant in Jalan Imbi, KL. And there was duck, siew yok, soups and the golden sand pau again haha. This stuff is so awesome I just have to have it everytime I visit the place. And so SORRY I didnt manage to get any pictures again! But I promise I will post up pictures next time.

All in all, I would recommend this place to anyone anytime. Decent pricing as well. But do book in advance for dinner and dim sum because the place would be swarmed.

Duck King

8-G Block M, Jaya One

No.72-A Jalan Universiti 46200

Petaling Jaya

Tel : 03-7957 9819

Lunch @ Sun Wong

So I was having my lunch break on a Sat evening. An hour to go before the next session starts, and me and my friends just had to grab some food for our already hungry stomachs. Well, if you’re stuck in Section 17, Petaling Jaya, there’s not many places you can choose to go, especially when you don’t have a car (or rather, being too troublesome to drive).

Running out of choices as usual, we headed to Sun Wong. I suppose its an “in-thing” now to open a HK-based restaurant but I guess unless someone suggests a new place to try, we might as well be regulars at one place and get a discount ha-ha.

Here’s the place :

Its located in Jaya One, and is facing the UTAR university, same road as the Kopitiam at the corner. I must say however that this place is non-halal…. so I apologise you those of you who can;t consume pork.

Well once we’re inside, the wasn’t a problem on what to order. Being students, I guess you have to order something reasonably cheap. The prices here are like other similar themed outlets, with the main courses ranging from RM8.00 upwards. I would say the service here is okay, especially when I’ve had rather bad service from Wong Kok in SS2 (waiter never sees you) and Prince Cafe SS2 (waiter always brings the wrong order). The middle-aged lady there is especially sweet, so say hi to her for me if any of you guys ever visit the place.

A big eater like me would have to eat some rice naturally, so I ordered the “tsunami”. Its really the black pepper prok chop rice I’m ordering, but this place tends to drown the meat in gravy it feels like there’s a flood going on my plate. MunKeen and I just had a recent discussion which involves MunKeen’s cooking, and anybody would know that if you drown the meat with too much sauce, chances are the meat isn’t fresh or worse, tasty. Imho, the pork tastes ok, but it was rather tough. I guess I should have gone with the Fried Pork Chop with Shanghai-Style Veg Rice, a friend commented that it was rather tasty and the prok was sweet. Too bad I didnt manage to take a picture, they wouldnt let me….

Other choices would include as the one above – Fried Flat Noodle with Sliced Pork. I’m not that a fan of fried noodles, but this one is especially tasty though abit oily. In fact all the fried noodles here are abit oily, although its either me being a “healthy” picky-eater or they just use excessive amounts of oil to cook.

The one that looks tasty was the Pork Chop Burger Macau Style. Its just some sort of a side-dish, so it wouldnt serve as a main course – unless you’re a light eater that is. It tastes quite good, especially if like me, you’re sick of the burgers most fast food outlets are churning out these days.

But one thing I can never understand is nissin noodle. Why on earth would anyone eat maggi noodles? Unless you stay out of Malaysia, Nissin noodles is now synonymous with Maggi Noodles, both in terms of taste and texture. “Nissin” Noodles. Can anyone tell me what the name actually means? I bet its just a fancy name, one they use in recipe books for extremely ordinary everyday meals. Bleh… But apparently the Fried Nissin Noodle with Hot & Spicy Pork Dices here are quite good. I mean, it still looks like Maggi, but its cooked quite nicely and is very flavourful. I would recommend this if you’ve never tried Maggi before.

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All in all, its a not-bad place to try. If compared to the likes of Wong Kok, Prince or even Kim Gary, I’d give this a thumbs up. Why not give it a try?