Last Sunday, we went to Pantai Seafood again.

This time, it was for my Sister’s birthday dinner. She’s been dying to go there, and we have postponed this dinner for as long as it took for us to get over our fever in the previous week. It’s always the case, we like to go to the same restaurant when we know the food is good.

Something silly happened during this dinner. We ordered roast pork leg. It was huge! And with the amount of dishes we ordered (just for 4 persons) we obviously cannot finish the pork leg. Planned to tapau (pack) home half of the pork leg… so we nicely rationed it and put aside. Then we ask the waiter (who is a foreigner from Myanmar) to pack it up for us to takeaway. Sis spoke to him in English. He nodded. Mom repeated in Malay. He nodded. I repeated in Cantonese. He nodded. Then he brought the plate to his colleugue and they spoke. We couldn’t hear what they were speaking. Naturally, we assume some discussion between them, perhaps how to pack the meat up? … Then he brought the plate to the kitchen. After 5 minutes… 10 minutes… 15 minutes… our pork leg is not back! So Sis enquired. He gave us an apologetic face and looks slightly shocked. That was when we found out, he threw the pork away!!!!! He actually thought we ask him to throw the pork instead of asking him to pack it up! OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!

I was completely speechless. Obviously there was a slight commotion at our table then. His colleugue came and explained to us that he didn’t understand what we requested, and was slightly shocked when he was asked to “throw the pork away”. Can you imagine that? The colleugue also stupid isn’t it? And is was a local Chinese lady who obviously did not have language issues. Dad was quite forgiving, because he did not want the restaurant to penalise the waiter and ask the waiter to compensate back (they do earn very little)… but I wasn’t that forgiving. I didn’t want to or expect the waiter to be penalised, but I just cannot comprehend the stupidity of a person. Mistakes yes, can be forgiven. But stupidity???!!!! Arrrggggggggg!!!!!

I mean, I understand that he is a foreign worker. I understand his command of our local language (Malay, or even Cantonese or English) is poor. Fyi, all foreign workers in restaurants and coffee shops in Malaysia learn and are very fluent in Malay or Cantonese. And as customers we are not obligated to speak to them in their local language Myanmar which is very foreign to us.

So anyway, what I cannot comprehend was that if he did not understand us, he should ask again and again until he is sure he knows what we want. He should ask his colleugue to help ask us. His colleugue (that Chinese lady) should have reconfirm with us. I mean why would anyone ask to throw good food away?! Wouldn’t that have sparked curiousity to enquire again? Pure stupidity!

So yada yada… his supervisor came and apologised, and they deducted RM15 from our bill (which was for the vegetables), and gave us a voucher for free Tilapia fish on our next visit. All those did not even equal to the cost of the pork which was thrown away. The pork leg cost RM48, of which we only ate 1/3 of.

OK. So now that I have vented… here’s some photos of the food we ordered. And NO, I did not have a photo of the pork leg. It was the only dish I did not take a photo of.

Shrimp in Chinese wine soup:

A very nice dish. By the way the shrimps in this restaurant is very very fresh!

One side braised, one side friend Kai Lan vegetable:

This was the dish they gave us for “free” to compensate the pork leg.

Fried taufu with otak-otak:

This is their signature taufu dish. Very nice.

Besides these dishes, we also had our favourite Salted Egg Crabs and Nestum Squid.

To be honest, all the dishes we ordered from this restaurant is delicious. Price wise, reasonable. I would go back there again, despite the silly encounter. Just be careful the next time you ask to takeaway leftovers!

Here is the link to the restaurant site.

I went to Kajang twice this month. Haven’t been there for so long, and yes it is an area not familiar to me. It takes 45 minutes drive (I consider that far from where I live) without traffic jam.

Kajang is a small town famous for it’s Satay. It is said that there are 2 original satay shop there, one by the Malays, the other Chinese. The Malay satay is something I am very familiar with because they have many branches; one of them happen to be very near my home – It’s called Sate Haji Samuri. As for the Chinese one, they only have one shop and that is this one located in Kajang. I remember as a kid, my parents brought me there ones… and that was it.

So naturally, when I was in Kajang, I just had to go makan (eat) in this shop.

It’s called Restoran Malaysia / Nyok Lan Kajang Satay.

They have quite a bit of choices of meat.

Usually the most satay stalls have only chicken and beef. Only one stall I came accross in SS2 hawker area, that has pork. This one don’t serve pork, but they have other meat like fish and duck, which to me is not common at all for satays. Anyway, we did not order the “uncommon” meat, because frankly I don’t think fish will taste good as a satay, and my family members don’t take duck (except me).

So, we ordered mutton.

And chicken.

And beef.

The meats are succulent and tender, especially the beef.

Ketupat (rice cake).
Side dishes onions and cucumber.

Overall, the peanut sauce is nice, but slightly diluted for my taste. I prefer it thicker. The sambal (chilli) is very very spicy; I had to ask for more peanut sauce!

I enjoyed the meal.

I googled, and got their address:
NYOK LAN KAJANG SATAY @ RESTORAN MALAYSIA (HALAL*)
No 31, Jalan Semenyih,
43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Phone # : 603-8733 1160
Opens from 11am until midnight.

I’m a sucker for seafood, especially crabs (and prawns, and oysters, and clams, and squids… )… you get my point, I LOVE SEAFOOD. The end.

Wait!

No end until I show you these beautiful dishes I had 2 weekends ago.

We went to Pantai Seafood.

Believe it or not it was the first time I went to this restaurant. And it is so bloody near my home, and I don’t even know about it!

Squid!!!!! Cooked with oatmeal.

Yes, I know it was Lent, still is… but since my cousin is here, he who purposely made a detour back to Malaysia during his business trip, just to satisfy his gastronomy cravings for seafood {Chinese Malaysian style of course}… how can I say NO right?

Salted Eggs Crabs:

Chilli Crabs:

Not too bad, the crabs was $48/kg. Price is average I would say.

Say “Hello” to Mrs Crabby’s innards hehehe…

Prawns!!!! In butter sauce… my most favourite dish!

Only $24 for 9 huge prawns. When I say huge, I meant my palm size (and I have huge palms!)… succulent! Juicy! Fresh! I WANT MORE !!!!

So, anyone interested to go makan (eat) with me? Let’s make a date.

Seafood. Love them.

“Well, hello there…”, says Mr Snow-crab.

All the way from Down Under.

And expensive too.

Ohh, and what’s this?

Will I ever eat an abalone again after seeing this? They look like aliens!

So what is on your platter today?