Venue: Kampung Baru Subang, area behind Subang airport
Occasion: Mum's birthday dinner
Overall comment: Fresh seafood that tastes pretty good. Prices are slightly steep, especially the fish. If you're willing to spend for good food, this is quite a good place for fresh seafood; if not, there are other better options.
Halal: Yes
This place is so near where I stay, but we've never really been here - all because we're creatures of habit who dine at the same few restaurants every other day & also because we usually have our meals "outside" before we head home.
Last Sunday was my mum's birthday. Thus, my dad decided that we should try this place out since mum has been mentioning of about trying this place out. This restaurant has gone through much re-branding since it begun. I could still remember it was just a quiet "shack-like" restaurant without much crowd around 10+ years ago, along with some gigantic prawn/crab right outside its entrance...well, the crowd wasn't like last Sunday's!
People waiting outside the restaurant during dinner time
Member's Privileges
I didn't know that such a place would even have membership cards! Wow...
Dad waiting patiently for a table
As we were there around 8+pm, the crowd was just crazee...SO MANY people! I wouldn't have imagined it. Thankfully, there were only 4 of us in a family, so we didn't need to wait that long for people to eat & leave :D
LOADS of fresh seafood
It's like a whole exhibit of sea creatures, waiting to be served on the meal table *sobs* As a consolation, all seafood served here would most probably be fresh...
We didn't need to wait that long for our food to arrive. In the mean time, we just enjoyed our coconut drink & caught up with each other ;)
Steamed Sea Grouper (RM106.00)
When the bill arrived after our meal, I saw the price & was actually shocked! The fish wasn't that large, okay? But it was fresh. I felt it was slightly over-steamed, but it's still acceptable. Taste & texture is still good...but the price...oh my, I really didn't expect it :S Lesson learned, ask for the prices per kg before ordering. The waitress recommended Sea Grouper, some other grouper (that sounded even more expensive), & "Soon Hock", which we assumed was even more costly...yikes...if it's on a normal dinner meal, I would have felt the pinch real bad...hahaha...
Tiger Prawns in Herbal Stock + Wine (RM40.00)
There were only 9 prawns & it's really lacking in wine. Perhaps it's because this place is a halal one, thus there's no wine (although the waitress said there is). I wish there was more soup, but I was actually quite pleased with this dish. The prawns were very fresh & the texture was just right - springy/crunchy :D
Dips for the prawns
I prefer to eat the prawns just as it is...but the "dark-coloured" dip, which has "mui choy" in it, tastes really unique & nice!
Stir-Fried "Yau Mak"/Romaine Lettuce (RM13.00)
Fresh & crisp! Just the way we liked it :) But yes, for the portion served, it is quite expensive...
Cheese-Baked Oysters (RM32.00 - RM8/oyster)
I thought the oysters that I saw in the tank weren't this expensive...hahaha...must be the additional cost for cooking :P Overall this was okay...I expected more to it...it was over-powering with garlic in the cheese though :S
Birthday Noodles/"Sau Meen" (RM28.00)
Taste was good, portion was quite generous for the 4 of us to finish up - overall, quite a good plate of birthday noodles :)
Birthday-girl :)
My home-baked peach cake with yoghurt
Moist vanilla cake with peaches & yoghurt, instead of cream ;)
Family photo taken by some waiter...came out blur =.="
Will I dine at South Sea again? I won't mind, providing I'm feeling rich! Hahaha...for this sort of quality & taste, if not for the price, I would actually frequent this restaurant. But because the price is quite steep, I've other restaurants on my list that I would consider first :)
South Sea Seafood Restaurant
229, Jalan 2A
Kampung Baru Subang
40000 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia.
Tel: (+603) 7846 1401/ 5813
Business hours: 11:00a.m. - 11:00p.m. daily
URL: http://www.southsea.com.my/
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