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Restoran Highway Cafe

2010-03-15T00:33:00.000-07:00

I had heard of the name Highway Cafe for so many years, but I had no intention to visit the restaurant because of the name, Highway Cafe.

The name sounds so cacat to me, it sounds as if it is running by a few youngsters who haven't had their pubic fully grown. You know, those young people who just left their school and have nothing better to do, so their parents will lend (give) them a few thousands each to start off their so-called joint f&B business. But I was wrong.

One fine afternoon, one of my buddy, Edwin called me for lunch, he was suggesting potong steak at Highway Cafe. That's how we ended up in that restaurant that day, together with us was Ah Yi.

To my surprise, Highway Cafe doesn't look something like running by young people, but by some retired old men instead. When I stepped in it, I felt as if I had entered a time machine which had brought me back to 1970s or maybe earlier than that. Their signboard is such an old fashion, the decoration is something like a cowboy pub, the furniture are outdated, the ambience is something like my dad and mum's secret dating place, they play oldies and classical love songs; but everything turned out to be something nice and good for a fine dining. Not forgetting their staff is not young too, they are probably slightly younger than the staff in Coliseum Cafe in KL.

Edwin had a rib-eye steak, Yi ordered a sizzling lamb chop and I went for a sirloin steak. How does it taste? It is nice, so much better than expected. I visit to TGI Friday for their Jack Daniel's steak regularly as I love it so much, but I find the Highway's steak is much better than the one in Friday.

Two weeks later, which was yesterday, I took my wife to try out their steak. She ordered a medium well-done sirloin and a tomyam soup. Surprisingly her tongue loves highway too, she agreed that Highway's steak is much better than any steak house in the class that we have visited before. But if you would like to have something best of the best, perhaps you can go for wagyu beef at Jake's Charbroil Steaks in Bangsar.

I looked from other blogs or website about Highway Cafe, almost everyone says their nasi bonjari and escargot are nice. Besides that, they have curry laksa noodle, nasi lemak, shark's fin soup, burgers, curry fish-head, cantonese style noodle, supreme salmon, and many more. Hmm.... I am gonna try others next time. I feel damn hungry now,"Captain, can I have a sirloin steak, medium rare please?".

Company's Name
Restoran Highway Cafe

Contact Person
John Lim (03 8943 1479)

Business Hour
11:30am - 12:00am (Sunday-Thursday); 11:30am-12:30am (Friday & Saturday)

Address
No 6-8, Jalan SR 8/3, Tmn Putra Indah Serdang Raya , 43300 Seri Kembangan, Selangor

Website
http://highwaycafe.com.my

Lobster set.

Escargot.

Ribeye steak.

Lamb chop.

Nasi bonjari.

Sizzling lamb.

Chicken marryland.

Chop 'n Steak @ Sri Serdang

2009-11-05T19:22:00.000-08:00

Ewyong said:-

"Just to share a place that is quite near to Bayan Villa that we can have affordable Chicken Chop and Steak. The name of the shop is "Chop n Steak". Didn't manage to take photo when I went to this shop last week but tried to search online and found quite a number of postings about this place. It is situated just beside the round-about near the the UPM road and Fire Department."

JoyOFood - Chop 'n Steak (Serdang)

Thanks to someone, we finally found a Western food restaurant in nearby area which offers best value for money over the food provided. The Chop 'n Steak restaurant is a Malay restaurant, but selling western food (majority of the items from the menu). It is located somewhere near UPM in Sri Serdang.

The restaurant is pretty nicely decorated and the lightings of the restaurant somehow provide a jolly mood for dinner (The restaurant only opens for dinner). We have been there during weekdays and during weekends, the place is full of people! There are Malays, Chinese, Indians and even Iranians. However, luckily, we always got our seats.

When you order, you could see from the order that it is actually divided into a couple of sections. The restaurant is pretty organized that there are different people specializing in cooking different cuisines. Thus, the order could actually be separated between these "departments" and each "department" would prepare the food separately.

The Menu

The menu seems a little bit limited comparing to the Western food chains such as Chilli's or TGIF. However, having considered the size of the restaurant, I still think that it is highly acceptable, especially the price stated on the menu! You see, it's really hard to find a nice Fish 'n Chips with generous serving of Mayonnaise at only RM 6, plus an incredibly ice-blended fruit drink at only RM 2 (Some of the ice-blended drinks are at RM 2.50), the whole meal doesn't even exceed RM 10 for a decent Western meal! And yes, there is no "++" charges, you know what I meant, don't you? OMG! That's why I love you so, Chop 'n Steak!

Fish 'n Chips

Chicken Goldon Blue (Chicken Cordon Bleu)

Overall, this place is totally valued for money! If you opt for some average taste of Western food but having limited budget and living somewhere near Serdang, this would be the only place I would recommend for cheap Western cuisines. If you ask me to choose between F1 and Chop 'n Steak, I would not think twice and would head on to the latter.

Here are some other reviews of the restaurant :
http://reiko0607.blogspot.com/2007/11/chop-n-steak.html
http://nazri.flavert.com/2007/10/29/chop-steak-and-first-step-towards-world-domination/
http://hungwei.blogspot.com/2007/11/chop-steak.html (Chinese)

- Taken from JoyOFood

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Kopitiam Soon Lee

2009-10-31T18:08:00.001-07:00

As one of the Bayan Villa member, i wish to contribute one of the restaurant that i have went before in Seri Kembangan ~ Kopitiam Soon Lee.

My rating for this restaurant is: 7 out of 10.
For those who have never try this before should try.

Below are the summary details that i think you should know about Kopitiam Soon Lee:-

Food Type: Grilled Seafood
- There are so many good food to choose from their menu..I personally like their grilled stingray most.

Price: Reasonable & not expensive
- Sorry i could not remember the price on every single dish that we have ordered.:p

Location:
It is located at Serdang Perdana Plaza Cheong Hin. (A shop lot that is next to Plaza South City)
Please click here for the Map.

Business Hour: 10am-1am, close on Tuesday

Photo sharing:
- Sorry for not able to snap all the dishes i have ordered as all the food are so delicious & we can't wait to eat them ^^ ~lol~

PS* Sorry if you find the content of this post is not interesting as i am not the expert in food reviewing & i am no good in describe the food with words.

Thanks for reading ^^

Cheers

No name mamak store

2009-10-25T03:02:00.001-07:00

There's a no name mamak store that sell one of the most spicy nasi lemak at night and probably the only kaki ayam curry. Friends says the teh tarik is good also... great tea aroma...and not too sweet. I'm not a fan of Teh Tarik so can't judge myself.

Other interesting food on the menu is roti "jingling" - choice of daging or chicken. Without meat it's Roti salad.

Don't order fried maggi there unless you like black charcoal ed maggi.

It only opens only at night the curry doesn't arrive until 10pm and chicken feet curry would probably finish by 12am.

oh.. if you go after 1030pm... it takes forever for the drinks to arrive (because of crowds)... so be warned that you might want to patiently wait for your drinks to arrive before you dig into that tempting nasi lemak bungkus which is the only thing that available until the curry arrives. Unless of course if you love spicyness torture go ahead and have it without drinks on standby.

It used to be stationed at the Continental tyre shop. Now it's at the same corner shop that sell chicken rice during the day time.

The daytime Chicken rice is recommended as well.

Cheers!!

List of F&B outlets in Seri Kembangan

2009-10-20T18:59:00.000-07:00

With my GPS installed with the latest Malfreemaps, I got a list of most F&B outlets in Seri Kembangan within a certain range of radius. Let's go through the list, perhaps we can visit to a few of it for gathering or just tea-tarik.

I will visit to some of the outlets selectively, and probably my next food review will be Restoran Rio Brazilian BBQ. Here it goes:-

Yap Beng Bkt
Restoran Chan Yew Kee
Kopitiam Soon Lee
Restoran Syed Bistro@South City Plaza
Restoran Farmland Porridge Steamboat
Woo Pin Fish Head Noodle
Restoran Rashiqah Maju
Restoran Weng Seng Food Corner
Han's Cafe
Restoran Ming Chu
Restora Beng Chu
Restoran Al Wira
Niello Cafe
Restoran May Keng Cafe
Restoran Keluarga Ahmed
Kim Heong Bkt
Restoran Riaz Food Centre
Restoran SK Seafood
Aheko Hot Shop
Restoran Janbo
Yi Liu Pan Mee
Restoran Hooi Kee
Restoran Yap Yoon San
Restoran Rio Brazilian BBQ
Leong Ya Restoran (Paper-wrapped chicken, yong tau fu)
Restoran Kien Kee
Yap Yin Bak Kut Teh
Azhaar Maju
Restoran Joon Huat
Hakka Yong Tau Foo
Wing Heong Chicken Rice
Serdang Home Cook
San Yen Vegeterian
Japanese Pan Mee
Restoran Jamek
Restoran Med
Restoran Maulana Curry House
Restoran Yang Ki
Restoran Al Rahim Maju
Restaurant Hy Thian
Fatty Crab, Mines
Restoran Dirham
Happy Ok Restaurant
Restoran Serdang Duck Wang
Sister Lam Yong Tao Fu
Restoran Kakah
Restoran The One
Restoran Mustwin Star
Kafe My Pitstop
Mei Mei Cafe
Restoran Deli Taste
Restoran Lek Lek
Yoke Heng Seafood
Restoran Nasi Kandar Bistro
Restoran Maulawi
Rose Cafe
Dillinea Restaurant
L'apprenti Deli Cafe
Station 1 Equine Park
Tim Kee Chicken Rice, Bandar Putra Permai
Restoran Al Azwath
Restoren Santai Equine

Restoran Chan Yew Kee

2009-10-11T21:14:00.000-07:00

Purchaser Au and I had dinner in last Friday. Together with us were my wife and Au's girlfriend.

I suggested Restoran Chan Yew Kee, a restaurant I visit to usually. Coincidentally we bumped into Mr. David and the salespersons from Bukit Ikhlas Development at the restaurant.

We ordered a pissing-prawn fried with salted-egg (咸蛋赖尿虾) - one of my favourite, a vegetable (I have problem to remember all the veges' name), and a tomatoed-pork (ku-lou-yuk or 古佬肉）. I do not have the address with me now, but you can search for its GPS location at 3.0150 ,101.7006.

I got some photos from other blogs, enjoy viewing:-

Sources:-
1. hAppY HapPy
2. Simple things...
3. Simple Kiddy Tofu

Yap Beng Bak Kut Teh

2009-10-10T17:30:00.000-07:00

There are so many Bak Kut Teh in Seri Kembangan. Yap Beng is one of the many Bak Kut Teh I recommend the most. If you want to know why, why don't you visit once to find out the answer on your own? The address of the Yap Beng is:-

Yap Beng Bak Kut Teh
(shoplots opposite Jusco),
Taman Equine,
43300 Seri Kembangan.

Sources:-
1. Malaysia Food Blog, Malaysia Travel Blog
2. kampungboycitygal

Let's share and care...

2009-10-08T08:55:00.001-07:00

For those who are interested in sharing the good food in Seri Kembangan, please send an email to me at "sam AT bayan-villa DOT com" to become a King of Food (contributor of this blog).