I met up with my X-colleagues last wednesday. We all decided to have dinner at the new Lala Chong restaurant in Ara Damansara.
We (Sharon, Dr Yew, Desmond, Lim, Michael, Lai Wan, ET Ong and myself) had our great time gathered around, chat and catch up with things. It was also a very good excuse to enjoy some good food, and a excellent way to let out some work stress !
This restaurant has actually moved from Subang (Terminal 3). Lala Chong signature dish is Lala (clams) in superior soup or in cantonese "seong tong lala". The fresh and juicy clams which cooked in soup stock with rice shredded ginger and chili padi tasted so good with the rice wine and it is worth taking sips of the soup.
The set dinner that we ordered came with 7 other dishes besides the clams. We had "kung po" mantis prawn (left picture) and deep fried baby octopus (right picture)
The salted egg fried mud crab is probably the second best dish that night. It was done just right, not too salty although coated fully with the egg yolks. The added small cubes of salted eggs are yummy, but just need some cholesterol-checked!
Other dishes we ordered to complement the main dishes include the "oh chien" (left) and the steamed kelaui fish (translated in cantonese as "kat lei yue"). These dishes are "so so" only.
We could not order their famous 'tuna paku pakis' as there's no supply of paku pakis due to the Raya holidays. Anyway, the subsitute four angled beans (kacang botol) is okay, but I can hardly taste the tuna!! The other green is the mango salad, which I find rather disappointing as I have tasted far better mango salad appetiser in smaller and ordinary neighbourhood restaurant.
Well, I look forward to another makan gathering like this. So, start putting on your thinking caps as to where we should be enjoying nice food when we meet up next !!
Thanks for the time and company,my dear friends....
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