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.