Umai Cafe | Putrajaya

Eating Place| Putrajaya | Local Malaysian Foods


20 FEB 2002 - Important Date for me!
 
20 Feb - This is important date of my life, it our anniversary date me and my wife. Year 2014 will be our 12th Anniversary together and hope it will bring more "berkat", "rahmat" to our family and more happiness and love between us. :)

Normally, for our anniversary we will go for vacation with the kids or without. Last year we went spend our time at Dungun Terengannu - Tanjung Jara Resort to celebrate our anniversary. And this year, we have decided not to go anywhere, but we took 2 days leave Thursday and Friday to spend our time doing healthy activities and eat some good foods that my wife wanted to eat! :)

Healthy activities = We did "RunWalk" for 15km around Putrajaya and had pit stop for breakfast at Umai Cafe, one of our favorite local cafe at Putrajaya. We've been here quite number of times since it so close to our house. And sometime we or my wife joined the cycling group in Putrajaya and we always had our breakfast here at Umai Cafe.

Umai Cafe serve local Malaysian foods, from breakfast, lunch or dinner. What the best about this restaurant? Of course the foods and most important is the location of the Cafe. It right beside the lake with the nice scenery!

Umai Cafe View - Outdoor Seating

The Cafe open start from 9AM morning until 11 PM

Location is at Putrajaya near Monument.

For more details of the location you can visit their blog

UMAI CAFE BLOG

So cut the long story short, after our "Anniversary Activity" - RunWalk, we stop by here for breakfast :D. We had mee curry, mee goreng basah, famous cucur udang (highly recommended) with drinks limau laychee. It was simple and tasty, it complete our morning activities after runwalk perfectly!

I like the curry mee there beside Berjaya Restaurant, because the gravy is thick and perfectly CURRY!!

 

  

Curry Mee - Zoom in Hope can see the thickness of the Curry Mee

Also, if you guys go there, don't forget to try their Cucur Udang. We always order their cucur udang whenever we pay a visit to eat there :)

 Forgot to take my drink picture, the Limau Laychee...very sedap!! you should try it.

To be continue, there are a lot other post that related to our Anniversary celebration that I will post into this blog especially on the eating place that we have been during our 12th Anniversary Celebration.

 

 

Restaurant Berjaya | Bangsar Kuala Lumpur

Eating Place | Chinese Muslim Halal Foods | Lunch | Bangsar | Chinese Muslim Restaurant


I think most of us Malaysian know Bangsar. This place is really happening day and night for a lot of reasons. But for me, only one reason, foods. You can find any kind of foods at Bangsar, from Eastern to Western.

Today, I'm going to bring you to one place called "Restaurant Berjaya". My kind of restaurant, hawker style restaurant. This is Chinese Muslim restaurant, they serve local foods more toward Chinese style and Nyonya style.

This is one of our (myself and family) fav place at Bangsar. Our favorite dishes as below.
- Curry Mee with "Kerang Lebih"
- Wantan Mee
- Mix Rice (with grilled slice meat, vege etc)

Those are only 3 my favorite all time. Regardless we eat there dine-in or take-away, that will be our favorite dishes.

I've been to this restaurant since 2003, and until now myself and family still visiting there to eat (but now most of the time we take-away). Problem now, we can't find the parking, quite hard to find parking at that area.

Their Curry Mee - is superb! Wantan Mee - is Yummy! Mix rice - Make you always want to come again!

Restoran Berjaya Bangsar

 Address : 44 Jalan Telawi, Bangsar Baru, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, 59100, Malaysia

Our last visit, as I mentioned above, since the parking is quite hard to get, we only "tapau" = Take Away = ToGo. We take away, curry me and mix rice.

 Above in the middle, is my fav, the "slice meat" that I talking about. Goes very well with White Rice, Kuah Masak Lemak, Bagedil, Paru and some vege. Delicous to the max!

I forgot to snap curry mee picture. Don't worry it taste better that it look. 

Aunty Aini's Garden Cafe | Nilai | Negeri Sembilan

Eating Places | Nilai Negeri Sembilan| Golf | Aunty Aini's | Masak Lemak | Best Foods


Nilai Springs Golf & Country Club, Yes that was my destination last Friday. To do what? Hmm what else, Golfing with my friends. Nilai Springs is one of my favorite place to play golf with friends, I even play golf with my wife here sometime. Why I said is my favorite place is because, Nilai Spring has quite good and relaxing course with the reasonable price, and good facilities as well. On the other hand why I like to play at Nilai is because, after you had good golf game, take a shower, bath, clean up and refreshing your body, once you done with that, what else time to have GOOD LUNCH!!

But wait, the catch here, the good lunch place I'm referring to was not located at Nilai Springs itself, it located nearby about 10 minutes driving from Nilai Spring Golf & Country Club.

The place that I was referring to was located at the "kampung" area, the restaurant called, "Aunty Aini's Garden Cafe". How to go there? Well, kinda hard to explain but I've save the GPS Coordinate on my last visit on Friday for your convenience.(See below on my last picture)

I've been to this place for so many times with families and friends. And now since I have my own blog for foods, definitely I will include this entry.

What is so great about this place? Firstly of course about the foods. Secondly the atmosphere and the restaurant setup - Garden Style!

What do they serve? They have local Malaysian and Western cuisines. My advice, go with local Malaysia cuisines. Their specialty is Local Malaysian Cuisine especially Negeri Sembilan Cuisine - "Masak Lemak Cili Padi or Masak Lemak Gulai Tempoyak".

Technically, I've tried all their local cuisine and I would highly recommend - ALL ARE GOOD TASTE! (provided if you like Negeri Sembilan Cook Style).

The Entrance

They Have Western, Menu List Below is my favorite

This what me and my friends order.

Daging Salai Masak Lemak Cili Padi

Udang Galah Masak Sambal Tumis Petai

Ayam Kampung Goreng (not in picture)

Sambal Belacan and Ulam

On my visit this time I didn't order Gulai Lemak Tempoyak and Asam Pedas, but, all in the menu in my picture above you can order from, no regrets.

Garden Style Environment Restaurant.

Another things, once you done ate all your foods, don't forget to their dessert, simple and nice to wash out your mouth. It called "Tapai with Vanilla Ice Cream". Super delicious we love it very much and will not end out meals without this! :)

Notice the lady in Red shirt - short hair. 

She is the owner of the Restaurant. Very friendly.

Found this video on YouTube about the restaurant and the interview with the owner.
CLICK HERE TO YOUTUBE LINK

And found this as well, If you know Gordon Ramsay (I bet you all know him :D ) from the MasterChef US, he himself been to this restaurant.
CLICK HERE TO YOUTUBE LINK - Gordon Ramsay@Aunty Aini's

Location : Aunty Aini's Garden Cafe - Nilai Negeri Sembilan

Address : Batu 16, Jalan Sepang (Kampung Chelet), 71800 Nilai, Negeri Sembilan

Phone : +606-799 1276

GPS Coordinate : N 2 47.84 , E 101 46.34
Google Map : CLICK HERE

Highly recommend for Negeri Sembilan Foods Lover!

Restaurant Murni Bukit Jalil | Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Eating Place | Kuala Lumpur | Bukit Jalil | Restoran Murni

Weekend sometime is always the time to eat outside with family or friends. Plus, weather today quite hot outside, few days Kuala Lumpur was without rain. So basically it was hot and humid + you will pretty much feel thirsty and want to a sip of cold drinks.

My BlackBerry rang, pick up, then heard a very husky voice at the end of the line. Oh it was my friend, asked me to have a drink..I said where? He told me lets meet up at Murni bukit Jalil and he will call the other friend of us who are staying at Bukit Jalil to join us.

So to cut the story short, I never been to Restaurant Murni Bukit Jalil before, so this is my first time. Heard about Restaurant Murni SS2 was quite good, big portion, creative menu, fusion etc. So this is the time for me to give it a try at Restaurant Murni Bukit Jalil.

Hell yeah!! The menu very much variety and the name of the dishes it was something cool? Not sure..hahah, I had "Nasi Goreang Meletop with Chicken Chop". It quite tasty but very HOT! That is why they call it MELETOP = HOT, and the Chicken Chop is quite regular taste nothing to WOW.

But what interesting was the combination of the menu and drinks. I really can't suggest which one to order, but I suggest you guy go there and try it yourself. A lot you can choose from, but I heard the "Mee Raja" is quite good, haven't try that, next round I will.

Below what I had, Nasi Goreng Meletop with Chicken Chop. The best part is you actually can customize your menu. Like mine, is only Nasi Goreng Meletop (Super Pedas), but I asked to add on Chicken Chop to come with it.

The Menu of Nasik Goreng

( I forgot to took picture, this I pick up from the internet menu picture)

Overall, I like this place because the portion is BIG and the price was reasonable. The taste was OK. And the other things, they have a lot of drinks you can choose from.

So this place I would recommend if you like to hang out with your friends or even you can bring your whole family to eat they food while have a good time there with a very reasonable price. 

Restaurant Murni Bukit Jalil Address (I didn't save the address or GPS, below I took from Internet for your convenience)

https://foursquare.com/v/restoran-murni-bukit-jalil/4f71b839e4b099f56e2554ed

Restoran Murni Bukit Jalil

Malaysian Restaurant, Chinese Restaurant, and Steakhouse

41, Jalan 16/155C, 57000 Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur

GPS : 3.059825442161671,101.66782071752863

 

Chawan Cafe | Bangsar Kuala Lumpur

Eating Place | Chawan Cafe | Local Coffee | Breakfast | Makan


Last week on Thursday, I had to go out early in the morning with my wife and kids heading to Pantai Hospital for my younger son appointment. However, due to Chinese New Year holiday we reached there quite early. So what else, while waiting for the doctor to open his clinic, we round at Bangsar to have some breakfast.

So we end up stop at Chawan Cafe at Bangsar, near by Bangsar Village. I've been here few time with family and friends. They do serve breakfast as early 8AM, as well as Lunch and Dinner.

The breakfast at Chawan Cafe to me seem normal, where you can get else where quite the same. But what I like about this Cafe is their selection of Coffee. They have several type of coffee representing some town in Malaysia.Like Coffee Kulim, Kopi Batu Pahat, Kopi Tenom and some others local Malaysian Coffee.

I think if you coffee lover, and would love to try variety of Local Malaysian Coffee. You can stop by this Cafe to try out the coffee. It located just opposite Bangsar Village.

 Location : Chawan Bangsar (Near Bangsar Village)

GPS : N 3 7.80 , E 101 40.27

This what I had that day for breakfast. Local Tenom Coffee, roti bakar and half boiled eggs. The Coffee was great. 

The food here was OK to me, and they serve most of it local Malaysian cuisine. So if you would like to try local Malaysian foods and Local Malaysian Coffee, this will be great place to go with family, friends.



 

Nasi Lemak Cyberjaya | Selangor

Eating Place | Cyberjaya | Selangor | Best Nasi Lemak | Local Malaysia Foods


Alright, actually I'm on diet now, controlling my eating habit. Sure or not, well..hell YES!! Putting on weight recently and my wife been teasing me that I'm getting round.
So I'm trying to limit my foods intake, and recently started eating healthy foods..for example, I've brought lunch box - mix salad.

But today!! I've decided to Breakfast like a KING, lunch like a PRINCES and dinner like a beggar. So technically, when I driving to office this morning, I've stop at my favorite place to eat "Nasik Lemak". And I promise you, no lunch for me today and will plan to have salad as my dinner.

So anyway, back to Nasi Lemak. Near my office in Cyberjaya, a lot of places sell Nasi Lemak in the morning, including Mamak Stall. But my favorite always Nasi Lemak at Bus Terminal Cyberjaya.

A lot of stall at Bus Terminal Cyberjaya open in morning and serve breakfast. You can find so many type of local Malaysia foods including Nasi Lemak.

Nasi Lemak is a fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk and "pandan" leaf commonly found in Malaysia, where it is considered the national dish. For locals we well aware about this "poisonous" dish (like it so much for most Malaysian), but for foreigner you must try this Nasi Lemak.  

Basic Nasi Lemak serve with Sambal  & Ikan Bilis, but sometime you can add other stuff and eat it together.

My Fav is : Nasik Lemak with Sambal Sotong, Kerang and Paru as you can see below. I just ate it this morning.

I love to eat Nasi Lemak at this place because, the rice is so nicely cook and they have a lot of variety for you to choose and eat with your Nasi Lemak. I recommend this stall, it located at Cyberjaya Bus Terminal - Stall No : "O". Beside Nasi Lemak they sell Roti Canai as well...very nice malay chap, I think the owner always smiling when talking to you and friendly.

So if you come to have breakfast at Cyberjaya and wanted to try local breakfast with local environment, try to go to this place at Bus Terminal Cyberjaya. You just can ask around if you are not sure where, because most people at Cyberjaya will know the place..just ask them, "Where is Cyberjaya Bus Terminal"

 

Plan B @ Bangsar Village | Kuala Lumpur

Eating Places | Bangsar | Kuala Lumpur | Western | Burger | Coffee Bar



I had dinner with my family at this place last year. The restaurant called - "Plan B" , interesting name huh? And yes they had interesting setup and interesting tasty foods too.
We haven't try it all, but what I had that time was Chicken burger with sweet potatoes chip! Nice! Should try this restaurant.

They serve western foods and some Italian cuisine as well. The desert look delicious but we just don't have much time to enjoy other stuff since our small son grumbling and cannot stay put! LOL..so we have to go back as soon as we finished the foods.

But I would recommend this restaurant, if you like to have light western meal like burger, sandwich, cakes, coffee..it a place to chill out have good meal while chit-chat with family and friends.

PLAN B @ Bangsar Village Shopping Center

This was what I had, Chicken Burger with Sweet Potato Fries.

And we had a started Nachos.

This place located inside Bangsar Shopping Center at Kuala Lumpur.

Below are the address if you require one, since I haven't save the GPS coordinate

 in my device.

Plan B Address: Bangsar Village 1, G5, Ground Floor, No 1, Jalan Telawi Satu, Bangsar Baru, 59100 Kuala Lumpur | Tel: 03-2287-2630 | Opening hours: Daily 8am – 11pm | GPS Coordinates: 3.129506, 101.670683 | Pork-free

Restaurant Oriental Maju Palace | Kuala Lumpur

Chinese Foods | Dim Sum | Breakfast Chinese | Eating Place Kuala Lumpur

My Welcome Note: Click Here



I love Chinese Foods especially seafood cooked Chinese Style, and now my wife has made me fall in love with Chinese Dim Sum too. My wife she know where to eat good Dim Sum in Kuala Lumpur and it Halal for Muslim.

Over the weekend morning, we've decided to visit this place in Kuala Lumpur for Chinese breakfast / brunch - Dim Sum. The restaurant located at Kuala Lumpur at Maju Junction Shopping Mall. The restaurant called - "Restaurant Oriental Maju Palace", they open in the morning starting from 10AM for breakfast / brunch.

Restaurant Oriental Maju Palace @ Maju Junction Mall

 Location: At Maju Junction Mall Kuala Lumpur, near Sogo and Pertama Complex. Just opposite Sime Darby building.

GPS: N 3 9.64 , E 101 41.75

Since I'm just began to be a big fan of Dim Sum, so I can't remember what we order, because my wife who love Dim Sum has taken care of all the dishes we had eaten. All was delicious which made myself fall into Dim Sum as one of my favorite food to have. Yes it in my FAV LIST now :)

I don't remember this menu, but it was delicious and crispy. Goes well with the sauce they provided. As the other dishes come along, we did enjoy our foods there. Taste good and according to my wife, this place is the best place for good dim sum in Kuala Lumpur.

The porridge was tasty even my son like it which quite rare, because he only like Mac'D porridge compare to other porridge that we ever had :P 

You can go and try it, for us it suited our taste and we found it very delicious and tasty.

Unkaizen Japanese Restaurant | Langkawi Kedah

  Eating Place | Langkawi Eating Place | Jalan Jalan Cari Makan | Kedah

 

DINNER AT UNKAIZEN JAPANESE RESTAURANT LANGKAWI

 

Location : Unkaizan Japanese Restaurant

GPS: Sorry forgot to save it, but it near by Holiday Villa, drive up a little bit to the mountain and you will see the signboard on your left. 

Just keep driving along the road.

Address : Lot 395, Jalan Telok Baru Pantai Tengah, 07000 Langkawi, Kedah Malaysia

I ordered Sake Shio Yaki, with rice, tempura and some sashimi. Look at the way they serve the rice, was traditionally prepared - Japanese old school way :)

Overall, the foods was very good but a bit pricy. It has the authentic taste of Japanese .

My wife love it and overall we very satisfied with the foods here as well as the service.

The restaurant was own by the Japanese, and seem the owner have hired Japanese Native to run the restaurant, which make the restaurant really Japanese environment restaurant, not like some other Japanese restaurant you can find in Kuala Lumpur where run by Chinese or Malay owner. During my visit to the restaurant, at least more than 2 waitress were Japanese and the cashier was Japanese native as well.  Definately will comeback here if we go to Langkawi again..

Cameron Highlands | Pahang Malaysia

Eating Place | Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan | Cameron Highlands | Foods

My Welcome Note : Click Here



Cameron Highlands is situated at northwestern tip of Pahang state in Malaysia. If Malaysian want to experience Spring weather without going anywhere, they can stay at Cameron Highlands, and a lot of hotel can be choose from, example Equatorial Hotel and others I can't remember, but there are a lot. The mean annual temperature of the resort is about 18 °C (64 °F). During the day, the temperature seldom rises above 25 °C (77 °F); at night, it can rarely drop to as low as 9 °C (48 °F) at the higher areas.

My last visit to Cameron Highlands, we stayed at Century Pines. Lovely hotel, if you would like to know more about this hotel, please visit my review on this hotel at TripAdvisor : Click Here

Take note, just to share some tips, if you plan to visit Cameron Highlands try to avoid school holidays, because the accommodation price will go up as well as will have a lot of people everywhere..its kinda crowded. My last visit was on non-School Holiday 3D2N from Friday to Sunday, because we don't want to miss the 'Night Market' must go if you plan to visit Cameron Highland. However, the night market only can be found on Friday and Saturday night at Brinchang town. More info on the night market -> Click Here

Let's talk what type of food you can find at Cameron Highlands, well since the temperature there quite low at night, so famous for dinner is always SteamBoat. We found this Halal Steamboat place near Hotel De La Ferns. Very easy to find it, it was between Tanah Rata and Brinchang. You find the "Hotel De La Ferns" you will find the steamboat place just beside the hotel and you wont missed it because it was just by the road side. We had steamboat here, quite ok, with the cold weather and having steamboat, nothing will go wrong :)

You can choose weather to have the soup base "Chicken" or "Tomyam"

Tomyam is the Thailand style hot soup. We had it both chicken and tomyam.

 Overall the taste was not so bad, but i guess because we had it at night, the weather is cold so the steamboat taste, the hot soup quite accommodating to get some heat for your body :)

On the other hand, my wife love scones very much (so it seem), so we had ventured few places to try the local scone at Cameron Highland. We've been to few places, "Vintage Cafe" at Tanah Rata, Cafe at SmokeHouse Cameron Highland and "T-Cafe" at Tanah Rata. My wife verdict was the one at Vintage Cafe and T-Cafe was the best for her. And yes, I do admit, it was nice :)

SCONES at Vintage Cafe, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands

SCONES at T-Cafe, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands

SCONES at SmokeHouse Cameron Highland

While you at Cameron, don't forget to pay a visit to BOH Plantation Center at Sungei Palas. Where this is the farm or i think more to plantation of the BOH Tea and where the produce the tea for BOH. They have nice cafe overlook the plantation and some other shop where you can buy souvenir or difference type of fresh tea leaves (processed or not processed).

BOH TEA CENTER - SUNGEI PALAS

Must go, this place ! Nice view ehh ?

We had stop here and drink some hot tea, mushroom soup and sandwich.

Strawberry ? Yes, Cameron Highland have a lot of Strawberry farm you can visit and eat their Strawberry, fresh from the farm. Locals recommended to us to go visit the farm near Equatorial Hotel. You can eat fresh strawberry there or you can plug the strawberry by yourself. Good place to bring your family and kids in the farm and plugging our own strawberry. You can select from the farm.

Our Pick!

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Kuantan | Pahang Malaysia

Eating Place | Lunch | Dining | Kuantan Pahang | Teluk Cempedak | Chempedak | Makan

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I've been to Kuantan last year, with family for short vacation 4D3N. We have stayed at one of the hotel at Teluk Cempedak. So what else, beside holidays with family, we have tried some local foods at Kuantan. First let begin with Teluk Cempedak it self.

WOW!! Teluk Cempedak has been changed compare to the last time I've visited. Now they have a lot of eating places there, basically you wont go hungry day or night, even Burger King, KFC now available at Teluk Cempedak!

We've found one burger joint at Teluk Cempedak, which was kinda interesting. Maybe they name of the stall as I recall, the taste of the burger not something I would remember :P, however, the stall name was something catchy that made me remember until now. If you happen to be at Teluk Cempedak, don't forget to try it out and let me know how it taste. For me, I would say "So..so..not that tasty" but worth to try since we are all at Teluk Cempedak.

BUGERMBIRA

Location: Burgermbira - Right at the turning into Hyatt Hotel at Teluk Cempedak.

If you are at Pahang or Kuantan, don't forget to try out the local fish dishes, IKAN PATIN.

There is a famous restaurant at Kuantan for Lunch, Akob Patin House. This restaurant sell ikan patin masak lemak and others "lauk-pauk"

Akob Patin House

Location: Akob Patin House
Address : Tapak PCCL Jalan Besar, 25000 Kuantan
Phone: +6019-9874463 / +6013-9312709 / +6019-9470989

The fish was so tender, no smell, soft, we had it with "Gulai Lemak Tempoyak"
Nice and recommend to have a lunch here.

After we had good lunch at Akob Patin House, on the way back to our Hotel at Teluk Cempedak, we drop by to have a bowl of Cendol. Famous cendol here, Mustapa Cendol.

MUST TRY!!! Don't missed it. If you from Kuantan on the way to Teluk Cempedak, you will see Mustapa Cendol on your right hand side nearby Shell Petrol Station. 

Should go there and try their cendol and rojak. Highly recommended by most people and including myself. I've tried it and I love it!

Mustafa Cendol Kuantan / Teluk Cempedak

Location: Mustafa Cendol<-- Click this link

Address: Jalan Teluk Sisik, 25000 Kuantan

Like mentioned, If you driving toward Teluk Cempedak, you will see Mustafa Cendol on your right just beside Shell Petrol Station.

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Langkawi | Kedah Malaysia

Eating Place | Makan Best | Langkawi Eating Place | Jalan Jalan Cari Makan | Kedah

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Langkawi is located at state of Kedah Malaysia and about 30km~40km of the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia. Langkawi is an island by itself and part of the state of Kedah. I've been here for few times, with my recent visit I've stayed a bit longer than usual to enjoy the holiday with my family.

We have stayed at 2 different hotel during our visit just to have  a difference flavor of location since we been staying for 1 week.First half of the week we stayed at a hotel at area of Pantai Tengah Langkawi and the other half of week we have stayed at Pantai Kok Langkawi. If you looking for the happening place, you can choose to stay at Pantai Cenang Langkawi.

I would recommend if you want to have a peaceful area, relaxing with family or couple, please try search hotel at the Pantai Kok area. You might find good peaceful hotel there away from the crowd.

We have stayed at Tanjung Santuary - Beachfront Villa , and it was awesome, truly relaxing and had a good time with my wife and kids. You will not regrets.

Ok now, lets talk about what I had or ate when we were staying at Langkawi. On the first night we have visited this local restaurant near by Holiday Villa Hotel, the restaurant called Maya Restaurant. It run by locals, and they serving local foods. I tell you, the cook is good! I taste was like you had your mum cooking at home. They used fresh ingredients,we ordered "Ikan Kerapu Sweet & Sour" (Fish Dish), Oxtail Sup, Duck Green Curry, "Telur Dadar" - Omelet Malaysian Style & White rice. Hmmm it was nice. The foods that we order are actually typical menu that you can find at any stall at Malaysia, but what difference in Maya Restaurant was, the taste and they way they cooked it is really like homemade style of cooking where you can have all the taste which needed were there in the foods. Maybe I would say, "Cook with Love" , obviously this restaurant they focus on the food quality rather than to make money from the customer.

Take note that, this restaurant is not the 5 stars restaurant, it just normal local Malaysian style restaurant. Don't expect air-condition, fancy plate with expensive fork and spoon.

Recommend for all to go and try regardless if you are Malaysian or Tourist. Should give a try if you looking to have a local Malaysian Taste.

MAYA RESTAURANT

LOCATION: MAYA RESTAURANT - Near / Infront of Holiday Villa Hotel

GPS: N 6 16.52 ,  E 99 44.05

Another local food that famous at Langkawi is Laksa Kedah. Again, I found this stall near by Langkawi Airport Runaway - where you can eat Laksa and Cendol while enjoying view of the sea and aircraft take off or landing :D

They call this stall (actually not a stall, just a van carry the foods). Hawker style. The name is "Laksa Power". You wont miss it if you going to Airport direction it will be on your left hand by the sea.

LAKSA POWER

 Location : Laksa Power - Near Langkawi Airport

GPS: N 6 19.50 , E 99 43.37

This what we had, Rojak, Laksa and Cendol

They have variety of Rojak that you can select from, and also Laksa and Cendol

Ok what else? We drove down from our hotel at Pantai Kok - Tanjung Santuary. Drove down to the near by Petronas (To Fuel up / Petrol Station). After that? Well hungry, we went nearby there, and saw on building and the restaurant signboard say "Maharaja Restaurant". The restaurant is located nearby Petronas Petrol station, you will need to drive along Pantai Kok Road, until you reach at Perdana Quay (where you can see a lot of boats, private boats docking). When you see Petronas, the restaurant is somewhere hidden behind Petronas.

This restaurant serve Arabic cuisine, but somehow I found butter curry chicken in the menu(does it more indian?), so I order "Butter Curry Chicken". Turn out it was nice, the curry is thick with mild taste of butter and some yogurt. Delicious! I think the restaurant have both Indian and Arabic cuisine.

They have nice cozy setup of the restaurant, if you prefer eating outside at their patio will be wonderful view facing the Perdana Quay. The restaurant is open from 11AM to 11PM if I'm not mistaken. So dinner here will be awesome too with the delicious foods they have.

BUTTER CURRY CHICKEN

Location: Maharaja Restaurant - Pantai Kok - Perdana Quay

GPS: Sorry forgot to save it

But as mentioned, drive down along Pantai Kok Road, until you reach Perdana Quay, when you see Petronas, the restaurant already nearby hidden behind Petronas.

View from the Maharaja Restaurant

Another spot that I would recommend, is "The Loaf" restaurant at Langkawi, it at Perdana Quay as well. They have both local and western or eastern cuisine. Below was what we choose to ate that day.

What myself, wife and kids ordered ;) Look delicious? It does taste delicious too!!

I can't remember the name, but the one with eggs, was their signature lunch set. with potatoes, vege, egg and patty beef. The brown sauce was super nice, does well with egg and the beef. As you see the big prawn stick out of the bread, that was soup. It actually a bread, they dig the hole at the middle, and pour the soup in, creative heh.. :)

Overall, the foods here are delicious, and tasty...not sure, maybe I'm bias, but it does taste very good compare to The Loaf @ Bangsar Village Kuala Lumpur :P

THE LOAF LANGKAWI KEDAH

Location: The Loaf Langkawi Kedah

GPS: Sorry forgot to save it - it was at Perdana Quay

Check here from their website.

After all western, local food, we had gone to Eastern food..oh Well it Japanese Foods.
Highly recommend Japanese Foods at Langkawi, please go to Unkaizen, it will not fail you. The restaurant nicely setup based on Japanese zen concept. You can choose to eat inside the restaurant of eat outside and have a great sunset view. (Take note if you decided to eat outside, please wear long pants to avoid mosquito)

DINNER AT UNKAIZEN JAPANESE RESTAURANT LANGKAWI

Location : Unkaizan Japanese Restaurant

GPS: Sorry forgot to save it, but it near by Holiday Villa, drive up a little bit to the mountain and you will see the signboard on your left. 

Just keep driving along the road.

Address : Lot 395, Jalan Telok Baru Pantai Tengah, 07000 Langkawi, Kedah Malaysia

I ordered Sake Shio Yaki, with rice, tempura and some sashimi. Look at the way they serve the rice, was traditionally prepared - Japanese old school way :)

Overall, the foods was very good but a bit pricy. It has the authentic taste of Japanese .

My wife love it and overall we very satisfied with the foods here as well as the service.

The restaurant was own by the Japanese, and seem the owner have hired Japanese Native to run the restaurant, which make the restaurant really Japanese environment restaurant, not like some other Japanese restaurant you can find in Kuala Lumpur where run by Chinese or Malay owner. During my visit to the restaurant, at least more than 2 waitress were Japanese and the cashier was Japanese native as well.  Definately will comeback here if we go to Langkawi again..


One day we went to Langkawi Fair Shopping Mall to find something for my wife. While we were there shopping, we saw this one shop where they sell wood carving, some nice fine arts and believe it or not, they have cafe inside. They all it "Tropical Living Restaurant". So we had short stop to have a drink and I've tried their Mushroom soup with garlic bread..and it was really not disappoint us. The taste of freshly made Mushroom soup was very delicious, and you can taste the fine cut of the mushroom itself when you sipping your soup! 

Mushroom Soup @ Tropical Living Restaurant Langkawi

 Location: Langkawi Fair Shopping Mall - it was inside the shopping mall, ground floor. This shopping mall is at Kuah and near Jetty.
Address : Langkawi Fair Shopping Mall, Jalan Persiaran Putera, 07000 Kuah Langkawi