Restaurant Ah Chuan @ Pertama Complex, KL

Location: Inside Pertama Complex, Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahaman, Kuala Lumpur, next to SOGO KL

Pertama Complex is one of the earlier or known as the first shopping complex in Kuala Lumpur. It located at Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, in a high density traffic area, nearby the well known Sultan Abdul Samad Building at Merdeka Square and Sogo Shopping Mall. In Pertama Complex, there are many shops that are selling sportswear, photographic equipments, handphone, shoes, trophies, watches, some branded jeans and clothing at an affordable prices. You may drive and park at the Pertama Complex parking lot or get there by public transport: Star LRT (Rapid KL – Ampang Line), get down at Bandaraya station, Pertama Complex is just next to SOGO shopping mall.

 

Restaurant Ah Chuan is located at the top floor inside the Pertama Complex. Usually the restaurant will be crowded with people during lunch time 12pm to 2pm, as there are many offices, especially two large banks (UOB and CIMB headquarter) located nearby Pertama Complex. Previously I worked nearby the complex, thus this restaurant is one of my best choice for lunch, as it sell variety of foods: rice, porridge, and different kind of noodles.

Economy rice – have lots of choices.

Bitter Melon Fish Ball Glass Noodles

Bitter Melon Fish Meat Glass Noodles

Something special to me, bitter melon in soup with noodles. You may choose in meehun, mee or Teared Noodles (板面). Although there are lot of bitter melon, but the soup was not bitter at all. There are bitter melon, fish meat, pork ball, eggs inside this bowl of noodles. Bitter melon is quite good for health, for those who like bitter melon may try on this.

Tomyam Glass Noodles

Tomyam Glass Noodles

Every time I smell its tomyam, I will certainly salivate because it is my favourite. Compare with other restaurant, Ah Chuan’s Tomyam has more ingrediants: Pork ball, chicken meat, yuba, mushroom and tomatoes. Not every restaurant serve Tomyam with glass noodles, for my personal preference, glass noodles really suit well with tomyam soup. Its tomyam soup taste sour and spicy, feel good after having this bowl of tomyam noodles.

Why the tomyam noodles so spicy? See how many big chilies I found in the soup.

 

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Restoran Ah Chuan

Pertama Complex, Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur

 

FRATINI’S RESTAURANT @ Miri, Sarawak

Fratini’s Restaurant is located in Boulevard commercial centre, is an Italian Restaurant in Miri.



A nice and romantic atmosphere in the restaurant, just that the seat that we were sitting is a bit dirty on the day we visited.

They provide cheese powder on the table, which is my favourite. Too bad, I was not ordering pizza or spaghetti on that day.


Large cup of drinks, of course, with the higher price paid.

CREMA DI FUNGHI   RM 15
Cream of mushroom topped with cream and croutons. A good starter, tasty soup served with a slice of bread. I like this soup but is a bit too much for me, but is perfect for two to share.

FILETTO DI MANZO   RM 55
Grilled beef tenderloin served with anchovies and garlic jus, mashed potato and grilled vegetables.

RISOTTO AL NERO DI SEPPIA    RM 37
This is Italian rice braised in a black ink squid stew, topped with crispy tiger prawn. As there is no squid on that day, so they have changed it to mushrooms. Moderate rating, as I feel the taste is weird, I guess is because of the mushroom not suite with the tiger prawn and rice.
Overall, the foods are acceptable, and there is only few Italian restaurant in Miri, so Fratini’s Restaurant will be one of the good choice for those who like to have Italian foods.
 
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Fratini’s Restaurant
2512 & 2513, Ground Floor, Block 5,
MCLD Boulevard Commercial Center, Miri, Sarawak
Tel: +6085 431155 / +6085 431115
 

Nasi Lemak @ NagaLiar, Miri

NagaLiar located at Jalan Merpati, opposite Imperial Hotel, famous with its nasi lemak.

 

NagaLiar is using self service practice, where customers need to order and pay at the counter and it’s business hour is from 7:45 am to 3:30 pm

Bubur kacang hijau RM 1.80

Quite tasty, but I heard that its Bubur ChaCha is much better, too bad it was unavailable on the day I visited.

Nasi Rendang Kambing RM 5.30

What have we here, of course, rendang, fried egg, some sour vege, plus salted fish. What I disappointed was, I thought I will be given some “Papadam” biscuit as picture shown in the menu board, instead of fried egg.

Nasi Lemak Regular RM 3.80

A normal nasi lemak, plus a salted fish, fried egg and chicken wing. Same as Nasi Rendang Kambing, the rice has santan smell, but not strong.

Heard friend said NagaLiar nasi lemak is super yummy, but as far as I experience, it is just normal nasi lemak, maybe is because I had try nasi lemak that is much more yummy than NagaLiar in Kuala Lumpur.

 

Mee Suah @ New Lutong Cafe

New Lutong Cafe located in Lutong area, and every time I went there surely I will order Chicken soup Mee Suah. This restaurant’s mee suah is one of the best mee suah that I have ever ate.

 

The main ingredients, of course is chicken, mushroom, and wolfberries

I like the soup as it really taste good with wolfberries and some little red wine. There is usually 3 pieces of big chicken meat and the meat are soft, not as others which the meat dry after long hours cook. Just that the chicken mee suah may slightly bit of expensive compare other restaurant, RM 5.00, but is worth for my opinion.

Laksa @ 28 Food Centre, Miri

28 Food Centre Restaurant located at Jalan Ross, opposite Imperial Hotel, Miri. This time would like to introduce the Laksa from the Nancy Stall in the restaurant.

 

Laksa RM 5, a bit expensive than others restaurant. It looks nice, but the laksa taste not quite strong, just can considered as so-so.

See, the prawn was quite big, fresh and “elastic”.

Chillies sauce with lime

Overall, the taste of the laksa is moderate, but I do like the prawn and and the way they “decorate” it or in other word, the “appearance” of the bowl of Laksa.

 

Annie’s Little Kitchen @ Miri

Annie’s Little Kitchen, located behind the Miri City Food Court, to me is a sweet little restaurant, as you see its decorations inside the restaurant, you will know the owner has pay lots of efforts and times in decorating and creating comfortable environment for customers. The restaurant is assessed as grade “A” for its cleanliness by the Miri City Council, which mean excellent, so you should rest assured to have your meal here.

 

You can refer to the photos on the wall, to stimulate your appetite before you decide what to order.

Today’s Special Menu Board

The choices are varies, Chinese, Malay, Western, Thailand style, etc. But the price may little higher.

Fish and Lamp served with rice RM 18

This price is reasonable, as usually it cost more than RM10 in other restaurant, simply a slice of lamp chop.

Another view on Fish and Lamp with rice, closer look on the fried fish.

Lamp itself has a strong smell, some may feel uncomfortable to it. But the lamp meat is soft and ease to chew, not too dry in another word. The fried fish quite nice with the sauce.

Stew beef with pasta RM 13

Closer look on the stew beef. You may choose to served with rice or pasta, but is recommended to have pasta, as it really taste good with stew beef. The beef was soft and its sauce was yummy, you can have more bowl of rice simply with the sauce itself.

Overall, it’s foods are really nice and its has lots of choices, the restaurant itself is clean and nice with the decorations, just that the price may little bit high, so some people like me may not afford to go there frequently. Howsoever, there are still lots of choices I haven’t try and I am sure I will visit there again to try on others meals.