An update on Suju at Mandarin Gallery

This was our first time back at Suju ( 一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 十一, 十二, 十三, 十四, 十五, 十六, 十七, 十八, 十九, 二十, 二十一, 二十二) at Mandarin Gallery since we've started going to the one at Takashimaya. It appears that Mandarin Gallery runs their own menu which includes a few stuff that the one at Taka doesn't have and the reverse is also true.

Dashi tamagoyaki.

The main reason why we came back to this Mandarin Gallery's was their miso red wine beef cheek. Not available at Taka. First time we've had it was back in 2019. The last might have been the end of 2020. It was taken off the menu for some time until I noticed it back again. Presentation's changed, portions have shrunk a bit, prices have gone up and there was less miso red wine sauce compared to the past. 😔 Still delicious though.

Suju's gohan set remains respectable. Moist and freshly cooked rice, delicious crisp house made pickled daikon and a solid miso soup.

And the nama tamago is back.

For my anticipated tamago kake gohan.

This doesn't seem to be available at Taka too.

Revisiting Wild Coco

Back at Wild Coco.

Chrysanthemum tasted like it was made from granules and not brewed from the flower. Not nice.

Tried their chao ta chee cheong fun. Most of the rice rolls were unrolled so it felt like eating fried kuey teow. Sadly, they're mostly not chao ta as well. The saving grace of this plate were the prawns which were meaty and had a bit of char flavour coming through. 

What bothered me most was that it was way too oily.

More food from Du Du Dumplings (嘟嘟饺子)

Trying a few more stuff at Du Du Dumplings. That above was their stem lettuce salad or in Chinese, 凉拌莴笋 - what I found online to be either lettuce stem or celtuce. Flavour was a hint of saltiness, pretty refreshing and the texture crisp with vegetal crunch. 

Lu rou fan. Haven't much to measure this against but it's not a bad tasting bowl. Different spice profile in the 卤 compared to the neighbouring Lee Lai Jiak. This one seems to have more star anise...I taste a pattern here.

Green been soup for dessert. Light sweetness, larger than usual variety of green beans used and I thought I tasted something herbal which I couldn't identify. Pleasant.

Indomie goreng with ayam geprek from Dapur Penyet

Hmmm...pretty nice fried smashed chicken which was both tender and crispy. I like this as much as the sate version.

Wen Kang Ji (文康記), Food Junction @ Lot One

Wen Kang Ji has a stall at the Food Junction in Lot One (#04-16 Lot One, 21 Choa Chu Kang Avenue 4). This was the char siew rice with scrambled eggs which I don't think they had on menu previously. Pretty decent tasting. Scrambled eggs were creamy and savoury and the rice was moist. The chilli sauce rocked. Char siew was okay-ish. Seemed to be better back in the past. Because we've had Char Siew Yoong recently, the mind reaches back in comparison which seemed almost unfair. 😅 Anyways, this had nothing on Char Siew Yoong. Not even close.

Tea Garden, Subang Skypark Terminal

We've seen Tea Garden around in this trip to KL but ended up eating at the branch at Subang Airport (G15, Lpg Trbg Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah, Lapangan Terbang Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah, 47200 Subang, Selangor, Malaysia) while waiting for our flight back.

Hot Michael Jackson. There was a lot of flavour from the grass jelly in the drink. Not bad.

Unexpectedly and pleasantly surprised by their Tea Garden Special Fried Rice. This was pretty much their rendition of yang zhou fried rice with chicken char siew instead of the pork variety. There were a few whole prawns in the plate instead of chopped up or puny ones. Nice smokiness from the scorched grains and impressively no excessive grease.

Nasi lemak also pretty good tasting. There's achar in this plate which I liked. 

Not bad chicken char siew bao. Tasted like regular char siew bao without pork fat flavour.

Tau huey with gula melaka. We got this thinking it would be a rich and thick drizzle of the palm sugar but it was kinda diluted.