Porridge steamboat at Swiss Garden?
So, this is not where Lee is working. Definitely not although this restaurant is also named Swiss Garden. But why “swiss garden”? Is it because the words rhymes? Why don’t they name it Shangri-La Steamboat and Fish Head Restaurant? Who cares. Its located at Aman Suria, Petaling Jaya (PJ tai kong ??). Its very near to the eye-catching Baywatch Cafe/Pub. There’s a few rows of new shops around that area which can be seen from the NKVE.
Ok. Well, the food here I’m reviewing are the porridge steamboat (chuk tai fo wo) and some other dishes. First things first, the porridge was very carefully blended with, of course, fragranced rice (beras wangi) and skins of soya bean milk (fu chuk). The aroma is just mouth-watering. Then, there are the normal seafood stuffs like the fishballs, meatballs, prawns, crabmeat roll, “white vege” (direct translation from Chinese), “life vege” (direct translation from Chinese), fish fillets, fish noodles, porkballs, beancurds, golden needle mushrooms, dumplings, wan tan’s bla bla bla etc. Just like the normal steamboat, you just dump everything into the pot of porridge and let it cook. Be ready in minutes. Oh, by the way, they still have a list of steamboat stuffs which you can add for your meal.
Besides the steamboat, this restaurant have their own recipes for chickens and fishheads. As they are famous in fishheads (or so they claimed), they have fishhead curry and many other types of fishead dishes. As I went yesterday with my family, we had this mak chap kai (I dont know what its called in English, its a chicken dish though). It came with some chopped gingers sprinkled on it. Man, sometime its very hard to translate the cooking jargons to English if you’re not so keen in cooking.
Overall the place is not bad. Worth a try. At least there’s a lot of parking space, the area is still not so crowded and its still clean. The restaurant’s toilet is clean. In terms of porridge steamboat, they are still not to the level in terms of varieties of steamboat stuffs with the one in Pudu, Farmland Porridge Steamboat. But, at Pudu you have to look for parking space which is scarce and wait for your turn to be seated. Hell damn a lot of people. Maybe because they are the famous pioneer. Ok, enjoy your food. We live to eat. “man yi sek wai thin”.
