盆菜 Basin Meal (Poon Choi)

What is your reaction if somebody ask u for a dinner on
盆菜 Basin Meal (Cantonese: Poon Choi)??

My 1st reaction is: ' huh? i thought Poon Choi is only for CNY eh?? now is only July...'
my dear:'not necessary Poon Choi must be eaten only during CNY geh.. this restaurant is very famous for Poon Choi..'
Me: 'Oh.... then ok lo.. but I never heard about the restaurant??'
my dear:' eh..I also never heard about it, brian said 1....'

okay, this was a short conversation between me & dear about a dinner outing.
I really thought that Poon Choi is a special dishes only available during CNY (juz like mooncake during Lantern festival, dumpling during Dragon Boat Festival)
(okay, although mooncake & dumpling are available during normal season due to commercial reason, they are still the special dishes, isn't it?)

Out of my expectation, there was a great crowd in the restaurants!
('s' due to they hv expanded another lot of business unit)
There wasn't any special occasion or event or anything special, juz a normal Saturday.
Twisted my mind: Poon Choi really can be eaten not only CNY oh........


The normal package of Poon Choi, which is meant to served for 10 - 12 people (RM238.00)
As you can see, it consists of Fish, Chicken, Duck, Prawn, few kinds of Vegetables & Mushroom, Pork & some unidentifiable side dish.

If you are a meal lover (carnovior?), i think you would luv it.
but if you are a normal omnivor like me,

taking so much meat at once is really really too much of satiety..
Generally d meal is tasty, juz that after every1 stir & stir d dishes, & all sauces mixed together, it got kinda salty & looks bit disgusting (better not posting up the photo).

we were starving to wait for a friend, so photo-shooting is only to overtake d starve-ness..

We accidentally stayed until there's no single customer leave beside us..

If you are interested wif this restaurant, here's d contact..
李雄记酒家 Restaurant LYJ
PT 11, Jalan Perkhidmatan, Kampung Baru,
47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor D.E.
Tel: 03-6140 2678
Operating hours: 11.30am – 2.30pm, 6 – 10pm (Closed on Monday night)

Map from <http://blog.axian788.com/?p=959>

& this remind me of the 1st Poon Choi I taken during my 2nd year study in UKM, wif d jimui~

 

Korean BBQ~

Bon-Ga (Mont Kiara) Daorae (Kepong branch)

Juz had Korean BBQ as dinner for 2 continuous saturdays.

In some extent, I like Korean Food.
But it's not that I really *luv* it so much til wanna have it so frequently.

Juz tat so coincident that got frenz ajak, then juz go for it~

but then we can compare d 2 places I dined in..

(Photos at d left: Bon-Ga, Photos at d right: Daorae)

Atmosphere & Ventilation: Almost d same~ After dine in,everyone become so smelly..

Although there's smth looks like d odour absorber at Daorae, but seems not so effective too..

Free Flow sky Juice Free Flow Tea (taste = sky juice)

Re-fillable dishes~ generally have kimchi, fried pancakes, vatiery of vegetables etc

五花肉 pork meat (RM25+)

Another pork meat with different marination

(forgive me, I was too hungry to remember their names)

Both served by waiter / waitress to cooked d meat.

(maybe they worry we will overcooked d food as like those buffet style?)

but quite fast & good service in both restaurant

 

Free dessert

Ice kacang & watermelons Drink (taste mild sweet like barley) &

watermelons

 

the Ice kacang need to be stired well before consumed to have nice taste

(paiseh, we started without stiring :p)

 

There's some different dishes who ordered at dis 2 restaurants.

Bon-Ga: Pork, Pork, Kimchi Steamboat

Daorae: Pork, Chicken, Beef, Pork, Mee, Chicken, Pork

(which I forgot all those marination names at all, we juz simply order ^_^)

but those with marination & sauce tasted much better than those only pure meat

 

Other photos @ Bon-Ga:

Kimchi steamboat (RM35 for 4 persons)

taste bit spicy, I only able to finish d ingredients (i.e. vege, meat, 年糕 korean new year dish) but some soup leaved unfinished :p

 

Photos @ Daorae:

chicken of d day

Pork.. again

d 'cold' mee.. (not so used wif d coldnes..)

For me, the food served in both restaurant are yummy~

which could be recommended for next dine in~

 

Bon-Ga Korean BBQ Restaurant

Address: No. 2-2, 2-3, 3A-2, Block E, Jalan Solaris 3, Mont Kiara,

Kuala Lumpur, 50480.

Tel: 03-6204 0012

 

 

Daorae Korean BBQ Restaurant

(have many branches at KL i.e. Puchong, Damansara, Subang)

Address: 17-1-2, Jalan Metro Perdana 7, Taman Usahawan Kepong , KL.

Tel: 03-62578016

 

but there's 1 thing not satisfy me in the Daorae restaurant..

which they limit us to MUST order a number of dishes..

for e.g. if we hv 6 person dine in & wanna only order for BBQ dish (those meat) ,

we MUST order 5 dishes.

according to them, 1 BBQ dish is only for 1 person.

WTF, I was terribly annoyed.

If today 6 girls who eat very less dine in, for sure they can't finish d 5 BBQ dishes.

I think this rule is set up to prevent customer order few dishes

but consume a lot of d free side dishes.

But COME ON, those side dishes is juz low prize stuff like vege, ikan bilis etc,

how much a person could eaten???

 

I WONDER is that every korean restaurant hv rule like this?

(coz we didnt come to this issue in Bon-Ga

& Daorae didnt even wrote dis rule in their MENU!)