Pak John Steamboat & Yong Tau Foo, e@Curve

Steamboat is one of the best choices for meals especially during this year end rainy season. However, the hot and humid climate here in Malaysia does not deter us from enjoying the comforting meal while chit chatting with friends or family harmoniously.

 

Pak John Steamboat &Yong Tau Foo was just opened its door to the public less than a month ago. While Pak John carries its pride of serving only quality and fresh ingredients, it is also in the process of obtaining a halal license. If you are looking for place to hold celebrations, gatherings, business functions or others, they do cater for your needs as their spacious and wide dining area plus two private rooms are available for your choice. Do feel free to make reservations with their friendly staffs.

A simple set up and ambience that promotes comfortable dining experience. Ventilation wise there was no issue for us during our dining session but I left the place with my clothes smelling like BBQ meat.

 Three types of soup available- Chicken Soup, Tom Yam Soup and Miso Soup (Miso Soup chargeable at additional RM10)

 

 

Noteworthy ingredients are cheese tofu, cheese balls, high quality processed crab sticks, Taiwan cuttlefish balls and beef balls.

 

 

 

Dory fish slices came in thick cuts

 

 

No complaints for the seafood such as prawns, bamboo clams and clams as they do not contain bothering fishy taste.

 

 

 

 

Also satisfying was the bunch of fresh sources of fibres such as pumpkin, yam cubes and broccolis. It is not easy to get such moreish quality yam and pleasantly sweet pumpkins. Indeed, Pak John lives up to its tagline “only quality and fresh ingredients”. 

 

 

 Various types of noodles, note that they do provide high quality Japanese Udon which response is well received by diners

 

 

Coffee, Tea and Orange juice are available to quench your thirst
 

You get best of both worlds- BBQ grill and boiling broth 

 

Tom Yam Soup- well balanced spicy and sour sensation that spicy food lovers will give a thumbs up for this.

Clear soup- naturally sweet with addition of chicken bones and cabbages, I love how homey this tastes as the large amount of cabbages really contributed sweet flavours to the broth.

Miso Soup- glad that it did not taste too salty at the beginning as I am worried the addition of miso paste is not monitored properly. The addition of soft seaweed definitely added textures and umami flavours to the overall taste. The taste did become salty towards the end after adding various kinds of seafood so you may want to add more soup to suit your taste buds.

 

 

The Australian lamb slices came absolutely fresh, good for both BBQ as well as meat swishing experience in broth. Add some butter provided on the pan and you are good to go with savouring the freshness of lamb slices. I easily had three plates of these. Minimal cooking time in broth is required so that your meat won’t get overcooked.

I was delighted to enjoy the juicy, succulent and flavourful smoked duck breast- easily one of the best around. Best for BBQ grill if you ask me, it tastes so good on its own.

Abalone slices were fresh as well, remember not to cook it too long or else the texture will turn rubbery.

Chicken wings were well marinated- be it Honey, Spicy or Black Pepper flavor, I love all of them even more when the skin is nicely browned on the grill pan. Marinated beef slices are also available but I can't take beef so no comment.

 

 

 

 

Left: Green Chilli Sauce, Right: Belacan Chilli Sauce

Signature sauces that goes well with ingredients

 

My 'haul' on that day =P

 

 

 

 

 

Various types of potong ice cream that rekindle childhood memories. Surely there will be a flavor that suits your sweet tooth.

 

We also had green tea and chocolate ice cream to end our contented meal. Just the right creamy texture, adequate flavours and sweetness level  explains one scoop is never enough. The fresh taste of green tea and rich chocolate taste easily win the heart of customers as I can see their happy faces when the ice cream is being churned out from the user friendly machine.

With the price tag of only RM28 excluding 10% service charge for lunch during weekends, this is definitely value for money considering the quality of ingredients.

Pak John Steamboat & Yong Tau Foo

 

Address

Lot LG-13A & LG-15,

Lower Ground Floor, Ecurve.

No 2A, Jalan PJU 7/3, Mutiara Damansara

47810 Petaling Jaya Selangor.

 

Contact Number

03-7733 3913/ 018-386 3139/ 018-389 3139

 

Operating hours

Mon - Thu: 10:00 - 22:00

Fri - Sun: 10:00 - 00:00

 

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pakjohn.ytf

 

Website: http://www.pakjohn.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plus One Shabu Shabu 卡卡加壹港式火锅 , One Utama Shopping Mall

With at least 18 choices of nourishing broths, fresh and premium ingredients with convenient location in a popular shopping mall not strange to most of us, Plus One Shabu Shabu has been in business for quite some time and upholds constant revisits from returning customers.

Before beginning with our meal, we were treated with this beverage called Watercress and Honey(RM10 per jug). I can't help but keep drinking and giving thumbs up. It is surprisingly addictive and pleasantly sweet thanks to nourishing ingredients added such as watercress vegetable, water chesnut and carrot. It does give constant refreshing watercress aftertaste, a must try drink!

 

Various types of broth for your selection needs

 

 

Fish broth - Naturally sweet without fishy taste that puts you off from choosing this uncommon broth

 

Prawn broth- very similar to the broth in our Penang Hokkien Mee/ Prawn Mee. It tends to get salty towards the end of cooking session hence I did not manage to finish it.

 

Macau Pork Bone with Corn broth- A popular choice among patrons. Naturally sweet and mildly flavoured, flavours yet to be enhanced by the ingredients introduced later in this post.

 

Thai Tom Yam Broth - Can't go wrong with this choice in a steamboat/shabu-shabu restaurant. Not too spicy with a sour kick to open up your appetite.

 

Dipping sauces for you to mix and match to create your own preferred sauce.

First row:Taiwanese Satay sauce, Fermented Beancurd, Minced beef
Second row: Tom Yam, Sweet Sauce, Thai chilli, ,
Last row: Hong Kong Chilli, Hawaii sauce, Soya/Sesame sauce

A highly recommended mixing sauce will be Hong Kong Chilli, Fermented Beancurd and a dash of sesame sauce.

 

 

While waiting for the soup to boil or ingredients to be cooked, the following dishes such as Golden Sand Sotong (RM25) and Deep Fried HK Fish Skin (RM10) serve as good snacks to indulge.

 

 Golden sand is essentially salted egg yolk, absolutely can't go wrong with deep fried crispy squids.



The skin is taken from Ma Yau fish, deep fried to its ultimate crispiness. It's just like eating prawn or fish crackers.

Black pearl (HK Century Egg)- If you like your century egg being gooey in the centre, this is for you. Best to go with pickled ginger served beside it.
 
Let's move on to the ingredients served to us that night. Starting with this Three Seasons Meat Ball, it offers freshly homemade pork (1st row), fish (2nd row) and prawn balls (3rd row). 

 

Each and every type has its own uniqueness but the pork balls stood out among the rest. You can actually taste finely diced mushroom mixed inside it, it definitely added that mushroom fragrance to the succulent textured meatball. The prawn and fish balls were soft, not as bouncy or firm to the bite as I expected. Nevertheless they are very fresh and goes well with every broth. 

Sliced Grouper (RM18)

 

Smooth, fresh and flaky fish not to be missed. One of my personal favourite ingredients and this easily made me feel contented. 

 

 Drunken Chicken (RM15)

 

I believe not many places are serving this dish. A rather unique chicken dish with chicken thigh part used to ensure that smooth and succulent texture compared to breast meat. Furthermore it is marinated with Hua Diao wine, a type of Chinese cooking wine. The chicken is beautifully infused with pleasant Hua Diao wine flavours, best to go with Macau Pork with Corn broth.

 

Japanese Black Pork Loin (RM23)- Thick cut of premium black pork loin which pleased us with its firm to the bite texture. Initially we thought that the thick cut might cause a why-so-hard-to-chew experience, but we were proved wrong.

 Sliced Lamb (RM22)

 

 Sliced Pork Loin (RM22)

 

As usual, the sliced meats are faultless even in any broth. Just swish them back and forth in the broth for 8 to 10 seconds, you are ready to enjoy their natural meat taste with thin texture.

 

Mixed Set (RM20)- Offers a variety of basic ingredients for steamboat needs such as prawns, fish slices, fishballs, cuttlefish, egg, dried beancurd slices, filament crabmeat sticks, noodles and vegetables. No complaints as they are generally fresh.

 

 Happy faces enjoying Shabu Shabu

 

 Once again, thank you OpenRice Malaysia for the invitation!

 

Plus One Shabu Shabu

 

Address

F337-338, First Floor, Rainforest,

One Utama Shopping Centre,

1, Lebuh Bandar Utama,

Bandar Utama,

47800 Selangor.

 

Contact Number

03-7725 3322

 

Website

http://www.plusoneshabushabu.com.my