Michael Yip | 叶志坚

Batavia, an Indonesian Food Restaurant located in Sunway. When I first heard of the place, I thought that it sounded very Balinese not knowing the type of food they serve. Well, reaching the place only confirms my suspicion that it’s in fact an Indonesian restaurant.

After finding a nice place to seat, I manage to talk to the owner of the place and was told that this restaurant had in fact been in operational for the past year and most of the patrons are Indonesian students that stay around the area. Somehow, Malaysians staying around the area doesn’t know how to appreciate everyday Indonesian dishes still. Hopefully, that would change soon and with this little introduction to the food would help with the appreciation.

One of the first dish that was served was the Pecel Ayam. An Indonesian styled fried chicken, one of the recurring theme that you’d find here would be the sweetness of all the dishes. Starting with this dish, apart from the usual fried chicken taste, it also tasted sweet. Definitely a dish that I’d order again when I return to that restaurant.

The next dish that was served was the Ikan Balado, when it was placed in front of me, my first reaction was, GOSH! Chilies And I said that cause I can’t eat spicy food, a shame but true. But taking a bite into it changed my mind about it being spicy cause it isn’t! What it is though is sweet but the fish had that fishy smell which would turn off some people.

Pecel Lele, fried catfish that tasted amazingly good. I’m not a big fan of catfish as I find the taste odd but this catfish disappeared faster than the chicken that arrived before it. That’s how tasty it was.

A meal is never complete without some dessert right? And here, we had the Es Campur which unlike the local ice kacang, is filled with fruits and syrups. One of the main fruits that you can easily spot in this bowl of Es Campur is the Avocado. Which leads us to…

The Avocado Juice which is the signature drink in Batavia, unlike any avocado juice, this glass of juice is served with a good serving of chocolate syrup which gives it a very unique and sweet taste. Try it for yourself!

One last bit, before we end this post is that, there’s two other desserts that you should give it a try. They are the Pisang Bakar and the Roti Bakar. What’s so special about these two dish? Look at it, both covered with a good amount of butter, cheese flakes as well as rice chocolates. Weird combinations some might say but heck, it sure taste good!

The address of the place is 9, Jalan PJS 8/10, Sunway. Check it out and give it a try! 

After the completion of the Press Conference and some meetings with suppliers in Penang Island, the organizers decide to head out to Teluk Bahang on the Monday to grab some dinner before heading back to KL. So off we went, on a 20min ride from Tanjung Bungah to Teluk Bahang and finally stopping at this restaurant called Restaurant End of The World.

Not sure if it’s the end of the world we were at but definitely, the end of the road that we want to continue on for the driver would have been skinned alive if he doesn’t stop for food soon. 

As we were there to just fill our stomach before heading back to KL, these was what we ate.

Seafood Fried Rice – Simple fried rice, abit salty to my taste though.

Braised Tofu with Seafood – Nicely prepared, what I like most of this dish is the sauce.

Oyster Omelet – I’m no oyster eating person, so I only dig around for the eggs which wasn’t completely cook, or was that the oysters I ate?

Grilled Red Snapper – One of the crowd favorite on our table, snapped up within minutes upon landing on the table. Perfectly grilled.

Wanted to order their Cheesed Tiger Prawns but the price they quoted us was madness (I suspect they have 2 separate menus for the locals and tourists seeing that there’s only 1 chinese and 2 Venezuelans and an indian lady on the table. LOL) 

Tuesday, I had a nice guest that came all the way from Penang to meet up with me and so the question that popped up was, where can we go for dinner?

The usual back and forth of suggesting a place to go went on for a good 5min before we decide to go somewhere near where there’s alot of choices. So… off I drove us to the nearest place to the hotel. Asia Cafe in SS15 Subang.

What I ordered for us was the following…

Ikan Pari Pari bakar – I told the cook to cut down on the sauce as it’ll kill the overall taste, can say that I made the right decision. The fish was cooked just the way I like it.

This was followed by Fried Mushroom, I’m not sure what type of mushrooms these are called but it was nice to chew on.

The last thing that came was the Sotong Ball. I think its called Taco balls. I don’t usually like the sotong ones as the sotongs are quite .. rubbery to me. But here is a mixture as there’s also the prawn and crab meat ones.

All in all, Asia Cafe is a nice place to go to hang out, there’s less and less choice of food to choose from though as my favorite Lobak stall is no longer there along with a few other stalls’ standards dropping. I guess this is due to the fact that the locals are not preparing the food anymore and tasks had been handed down to the foreign helpers. When was the last time you went? 

Pan Mee, most of the time, we just go to the restaurant to buy it. But sometimes, it’s just nice to make the pan mee ourselves. Home made style Pan Mee doesn’t have all those fancy fancy stuff you get from those sold in the Restaurant.

BUT… the big BUT here is that we can put in as much of our favorite add-ons as we like. In my case, minced pork and loads of it! I must admit that the dough for the pan mee was not prepared by me but my mom! But cooking it and all that… done by me.

So, what do you think? Looks good?

The last time we went to Delicious was about a year ago at 1Utama’s new wing. So while doing some shopping in Bangsar on the Friday night, we decide to head over to the one in Bangsar Village 2. Maybe the time to go was at their peak period but heck, we had to wait about 30minutes (felt like centuries) before we were given a place to sit.

Looking through the menu, I was given the task to choose the food we were to consume and these was what we ordered.

Smoked Salmon Angelhair – Very nice, not too creamy and the Salmon was very fresh!

Grilled Chicken Spinach Salad – Another excellent Salad dish from Delicious. Very filling too.

Wedges – The side dish that accompanied the Salad and the Angelhair. When we order this dish, we didn’t know there was so much! Heck, we couldn’t finish this plate of wedges no matter how we try.

We also ordered the mashed potato but sadly, they ran out of it. Definitely worth another visit, this time, will definitely make a reservation before heading there. Another matter I’d like to point out. Remember my previous post about Shanghai 10? Somehow they couldn’t sustain themselves in Bangsar and had since shifted/closed down. If anyone know where they have moved to, will be great if you could let me know. Thanks!