Durian SS2 – 15 August 2017

The supply of durians has dropped compared to last year. There were rumours that the best durians in Malaysia were being exported to China as the Chinese from China are willing to pay a high price for them. As to whether it’s true, only the suppliers will know.

It was my little girl’s 5^th birthday and all she wanted to do on her birthday was to eat durians. So we decided to bring her to the durian store at SS2.

Check out the type of durians and choices here:

The price has gone up so much for Musang King compared to last year. Last year, it was between RM33-45 per kilo. Now, it’s RM68 per kilo and I was told some durian places are selling the Musang King for RM85 per kilo. That’s CRAZY MONEY if you ask me just to eat DURIANS.

The sweet Harlor durian

That night we ordered one Harlor @ RM38 per kg and one XO @RM38 per kg. Our Harlor was 2.2 kg and XO was 0.8kg. We also ordered one coconut at RM5.

Coconut RM5.00

You will see each table, customers will order coconuts. The supply of coconuts.....

After having our durians, we had Musang King ice cream potong. It was RM5 for each ice cream.

Musang King Ice cream Potong RM5.00

This durian place is quite huge. It started off very small and business was good so it expanded. 

So now, they have the following facilities for all its customers feasting on durians:-

(a)        wash basins and toilets for customers;

(b)        transparent plastic gloves so that you don’t need to dirty your hands;

(c)        complimentary water (help yourself at the nearby machine);

(d)        fruit juice (other than coconut); and

(e)        a small shop selling dried durians, biscuits and durian “kuih”.

The small shop and the juicy bar

There is ample parking surrounding this place. The details are:

Durian SS2

193, Jalan SS 2/24

47300 Petaling Jaya

Selangor Darul Ehsan

Mobile : 012- 234 5619

Website : https://www.durianss2.com/

Open daily from 12pm – 12am

Seeri Authentic Thai Restaurant – 9 August 2017

This restaurant has been open for the past 9 years at Chow Yang. We have been here several times as the food is nice and the price is reasonable. Best thing of all NO GST and service charge. All you need to do is pay for what you order and eat. This restaurant is non-halal.

Menus pasted on the restaurant's front glass door.

The simple interior of the restaurants. Nothing fancy.

They do have a wide selection of Thai food. We ordered: -

Tom Yum Gung (medium size) RM30.00. This sweet and sour soup has prawns, squids, fish and oyster mushroom in it. For some reason, that night the tom yum wasn’t as good as other times when we were there. We felt it was watered down.

Pandan kai (8 pieces) RM3.50 each @ RM28.00. Chicken wrapped in pandan leaves and I felt it was just ok.

Som Tam RM14.00. This is a spicy, sweet and sour mango mixed with long beans, carrots, cherry tomatoes topped with nuts and sweet and sour lemon juice.

Egg Prawn (big size) RM18.00. A simple friend egg with prawns inside.

Mu Yang RM20.00. This dish is just fried pork belly.

Petai Prawn RM24.00. A reasonable amount of petai and prawn cooked together with sambal. This dish is yummy. It's not that spicy although it looked spicy.

Pucuk Paku RM14.00. A simple dish where pucuk paku is fried in oyster sauce with a bit of chilies.

Mushroom RM20.00. We were given a variety of mushrooms, i.e. oyster mushroom, chinese mushroom and button mushroom. 

Fish Cake (12 pieces) RM2.50 each @ RM30.00. Fried fish cake that kids will love it. 

Fried Kai (1 portion) @ RM15.00. Basically just fried chicken and this chicken was tasty. 

Mango Rice (2 servings) RM15.00 each @RM30.00. This is very nice and is a must to have. The brown sticky rice was warm with lots of mangoes and condensed milk to go with it. You can choose not to add the condensed milk if you don’t want to as the mangoes are sweet.

Thapthim Krop RM6.00. The small reddish/pinkish jewels are water chestnut covered with tapioca flour, served with sweeten coconut milk, sliced jackfruit and shaved ice.

The service in this restaurant was fast. Although there is ample parking, it’s always full as there are many restaurants at the same shoplots and many people will try to find parking. The ambiance is simple and clean.  

The details of the restaurant:

Seeri Authentic Thai Restaurant

(same row as Chow Yang Kayu restaurant)

No.26, Jalan SS2/10

47300 Petaling Jaya

Selangor Darul Ehsan

Tel: 011-2627 6042

Opens – best to call to check

* We have been there several times and we always managed to get a table without booking. The restaurant is small. If you are going in a big group, it’s better to make a reservation.  

O&S Coffee Shop

If you are craving for Penang hawker food, head to O&S coffee shop at Paramount Garden. For those of you who live in Klang Valley, you will be very familiar with this coffee shop. It has been open for a very long time (under different names and owners) but has managed to survive until today.

My parents love this place so much, and have been buying from the same hawkers since the 80s.  The hawkers know my parents very well and now I’m buying from them too.

This coffee shop is at a corner of the Paramount shops. You won’t miss it. They serve all types of hawker food; chicken rice, wan tan mee, char kuey teow, assam laksa, prawn noodles, chee cheong fun, etc.  Basically anything and everything you want except for Mee Jawa (that was recently closed as the uncle decided to retire for good). 

So what is good? Everything is good here. Here are some of my favourites:-

Siew Yoke Fun (Roast Pork Rice) – RM10.00 for roast pork and RM1.50 for rice. The roast pork is super crunchy and tasty. I always take away and surprisingly when eating much later at 3.30pm, it’s still very crunchy. It comes with dark soya sauce for the roast pork and chili sauce.  A must to have.

Seafood noodles – RM6.00. I know the lady who cooks this, so well that she always gives me more soup, more lalas, sotong (squids), fish and 3 prawns. The soup is definitely a bit salty with MSG but the mixture of seafood in the soup goes well with the noodles. This is my favourite food here.

Assam Laksa – RM6.90. The most important thing about Assam Laksa is the soup. Once you take away this, your whole car smells of Assam Laksa. The soup is so rich and full of fish for you. Normally other hawker stores are pretty stingy with the fish, but not this store as it gives you as much fish as you could ask for.

Goreng Pisang (Banana Fritters), Fried Potatoes, Fried “Nee Ko” – RM1.00 each. The price is on the high side but still lots of people love these fried items.  This hawker uses good bananas and makes sure that they're sweet. He fries it to perfection and it's super crunchy. Be there early to get his fried food as it will run out pretty early; especially the fried bananas.

Chee Cheong Fun (Penang style) – RM2.40 @ 1 Chee Cheong Fun costs RM1.20. This is Penang style Chee Cheong Fun with only the “Ha Ko”, i.e. prawn paste, mixed with chili sauce and topped with sesame and fried onions. The paste is very creamy and salty. Not sure why my dad loves this so much and he will "clean his plate".   

Nyonya kuih – RM6.90 for 3 packets. The nyonya kuih came to the hawker store quite recently. This man said he starts selling at 6.30am and most of the time, the ang ku will run out before lunch. I managed to buy some ang ku this time round, together with white flour peanut ball (so difficult to get these days) and onde onde (gula Melaka, i.e. brown liquid sugar inside the little flour ball covered with desiccated coconut).

Other hawkers' stores below:-

I wouldn't say this is Penang hawker food. A variety for the customers to choose.

 Inside and outside of the coffee shop, only ceiling fan. Guaranteed to sweat............Be prepared!!

The price for the hawkers' food is reasonable. You can't compare with the price in Penang, which is much cheaper than PJ and KL. Of course, the downside is the portion that they serve you in Penang is smaller. If you are going to O & S for lunch, make sure you go there early, about 11.30am as it gets extremely crowded by 12.30pm and you will have to share a table with strangers. Some hawkers will run out of food by 1.30pm. Also, be there early to get a parking space. Parking is horrible and you may have to go a few rounds.  

  

The details of the coffee shop:

O&S Restaurant   

39, Jalan 20/14

Taman Paramount

46300 Petaling Jaya

Selangor Darul Ehsan

Opens daily but closed twice a month (either Tuesday or Wednesday)

Unable to tell you when they close as it’s been set by the boss with other bosses around the coffee shops in Paramount.   

Just right opposite the coffee shop, there are an elderly couple selling "mua chi", flour cakes dipped into crushed peanuts and desserts. The dessert van will be there on every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. 

A mixed "mua chi" will only costs you RM5.00. There are original, black sesame, lycee and pandan flavours.

 

The red bean dessert

The dessert van

Menu of the desserts and the prices. My favourite green beans always not available as there is no demand for it. The sales person claimed that they only cooked the green bean on Saturday, but not always Saturday.