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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Food Hunt: Nong & Jimmy BBQ Seafood Restaurant (Part 1)

Hello folks,

Welcome back to a lovely Sunday evening here. After watching movie & shopping at Tropicana City, Me & Kimmy have decided to go have BBQ Seafood restaurant at Kuala Lumpur. Not only that, to try these BBQ Seafood, we need another companion so that we can try out more dishes. So, I have invited my brother Alan Leow to join us for this food hunt trip. After watching movie, I go and pick my brother up and we are ready to go to Taman Cahaya located near Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. While we are travelling, we are looking forward to the food over there as 3 of us are very excited to try out the food there. We knew that we could not try out all the food there on 1 day so we decided to go there for the 2nd time again later. So this topic would be named as Part 1. We reach the Nong & Jimmy BBQ Seafood Restaurant at about 6.45pm. Then it was so packed with people already and yet, the people are still coming in numbers. I would say very good business.

Once we are there, we straightly find a suitable and good place to sit and of course I would look for places with a fan because it would be very hot while we are dining the food. Why? This is because it's a wooden house typed restaurant and the food served there would be spicy and hot. So be prepared when you are going there to eat. The service there was good and once we sat down, the waiter will come and ask us of what food to eat. Unfortunately, they don't provide you with a menu and you need to do some research before you go OR ask them for recommendation of what food is nice there. For me, I've done some research before I go and I have ordered Tom Yum Gung in claypot (for 2 persons), spinach with sambal belacan, Grilled Stingray and Grilled Sotong (see pictures). Kimmy ordered hot herbal tea while Alan ordered cold herbal tea. I've ordered 100-Plus because I know I will be very thristy later due to the spicyness of the food and to quench the thrist, I've ordered 100-Plus.

The food came and 3 of us are very satisfied with the food served. Let's go straight to the comments of the food. The Tom Yum Gung was pretty impressive because of the taste. It was pretty spicy and sour and well balanced so if you loved this, then I would guarantee you will say nice to this tom yum gung. The spinach with the sambal belacan was very nice and a little spicy as well. Nothing special about it and the chef cooks this dish very delicious as well. For the grilled part, the grilled stingray was pretty impressive. It was covered with the curry powder at the top and the flesh of the stingray; while eating with the chilli sauce (sweet & sour as well) served will add the juiciness and tastiness of the fish as well. Finally the grilled sotong, was pretty plained in its decoration BUT don't look down into it. The grilled squid was very nice as the squid is very soft and easy to bite. You can smell the fragrance of BBQ flavour and when you chew at your mouth, it was an easy and pleasant dish to take as well. The 3 of us was very impressive by the food there and we vow to come back for the 2nd time again.

Last but not least is the price. It was in my surprise when the bill came to me. For the 4 dishes that we've ordered only costs about RM49.70. and the portion was average and suitable for 3 people to dine. Besides, it also includes drinks as well as 5 bowl of rice (2 added bowl of rice) and NO TAX being charged for this one. It was unexpectably cheap and I wonder the crab and fish over there would be cheap as well? Stay tuned for out Part 2 coming later when we visit the restaurant again later. If you guys opted for cheap and reasonable food as well as the food is nice, Nong & Jimmy is the place definately to be and remeber to come a bit earlier (between 6.00pm to 7.00pm on weekeends) because the parking there is very limited. Even those paid parking (RM2) also will be full and then you will have difficulties of finding a parking space. Before ending this posting, I would also recommend you to try other seafood that I've not tried today including grilled crabs, The Thai style steamed fish & Thai deep fried crullers with pandan kaya as I heard this both dishes are very delicious as well. You may ask the waiter for recommendation and assistance as well. Aights, enjoy yourself! :) MY RATING: 5/5; KIMMY RATING: 5/5; ALAN RATING: 4/5