9 February.2022 Lunch
Day 697 since MCO1.0 行動管制領 Covid-19
1 Ground Floor, Jalan SS 2/55, SS 2, 47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
黯然銷魂鴨之飯 Signature Hong Kong Duck Rice rm$12.90 👍👍😋😋 7/10
港式奶茶 Hong Kong milk Tea rm$4.90 👍👍😋😋 7/10
Total bill: rm$20.65
Budget: rm$25 - rm$30++
Payment: Cash or Credit Card
Cuisine: Hong Kong, Western, Malaysia, Local, Fusion
Budget: rm$25 - rm$30++
Payment: Cash or Credit Card
Cuisine: Hong Kong, Western, Malaysia, Local, Fusion
Pork free:
Alcohol free: No seen any Alcohol in Menu
Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: Yes
Internet Wifi speed: N/A
Digital Nomad Work-friendly Cafe: Possible on non-peak time
Electrical outlets for Digital Device: No idea
Free Drinking Water: No
Menu prices: 10% Service Charges + 6% SST
Order & Delivery: Table Service
On-line Delivery Service: FoodPanda, WhatsappSS2
Indoor Seating tables: 12 tables (3-4ppl/table)
Outdoor Seating: 3 tables (3-4ppl/table)
Drive Through: No
Take away : Yes
Dine-in: Yes
Happy Hour: N/A
Parking: MBPJPhotos taken using: Samsung Note 8
Thoughts: Another Café of 香港茶餐廳 Hong Kong "Char Chan Teng" style, offering not just some of the typical Hong Kong Char Chan Teng food but also Western food like 意大利面 Pasta, 湯 Soup, 西式扒 Steaks, 披薩 Pizza, 沙拉 Salad, 中式麵條和米飯 Chinese style Noodles and Rice dishes, and 全天早餐 All-day-Breakfast with 羊角麵包 Croissant and 菠蘿包 Polo Bun. And as of today, the Café can be found in Seremban 2, KL Cheras, Puchong, Kepong, Kuchai Entrepreneur Park, and PJ SS2.
Thoughts: Another Café of 香港茶餐廳 Hong Kong "Char Chan Teng" style, offering not just some of the typical Hong Kong Char Chan Teng food but also Western food like 意大利面 Pasta, 湯 Soup, 西式扒 Steaks, 披薩 Pizza, 沙拉 Salad, 中式麵條和米飯 Chinese style Noodles and Rice dishes, and 全天早餐 All-day-Breakfast with 羊角麵包 Croissant and 菠蘿包 Polo Bun. And as of today, the Café can be found in Seremban 2, KL Cheras, Puchong, Kepong, Kuchai Entrepreneur Park, and PJ SS2.
"講飲講食 Togather Café" in SS2 is a corner shop lot, behind Beer Factory Pub and walking distance from SS2 為食街 Wai Sek Kai. The meal choices comes in a giant menu along with colorful pictures for every choice, a separate menu of extensive beverages choices is available.
Today's lunch rm$12.90 "黯然銷魂鴨之飯 Signature Hong Kong Duck Rice" comes with very good 熏鴨肉 smoked Duck meat (4pcs), some 菜心 Choy Sum, and a 煎雞蛋 fried egg! a Rather sweet dish but likable. Ended well with the rm$4.90 港式奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea. BUT if the rm$12.90 Duck rice dish comes with "港式炒滑蛋 Hong Kong style smooth scrambled egg" rather than just a simple fried egg, it will be a perfect "黯然銷魂鴨滑蛋飯 Duck rice smooth scrambled egg dish"!
Eggs whether 炒蛋 Scrambled, 煎蛋 fried, 水煮蛋 boiled hard and 溏心蛋 soft, 波蛋 poached, 焗蛋 baked, or 煎蛋捲 Omelet are all wonderful and satisfying as a snack of meal, and there are probably many more ways eggs can be cooked as a main ingredients of a dish. But probably there are 4 or 5 ways of 煎蛋 fried eggs:
單面太陽蛋 Sunny-side-up: The egg is fried with the yolk up and is not flipped.
Today's fried egg is probably between "半生荷包蛋 Over easy" and "中等荷包蛋 Over medium", this kind of fried egg is very common in Hong Kong and usually topping up a plate with rice or fried rice. And sometimes even served as 雙荷包蛋 double or 三合一荷包蛋 triple fried egg. BUT many people may avoid the egg yolks especially when eating a double or triple fried egg as everyone is educated or often hear about the high cholesterol in egg yolks! But recent research suggests that the link between eating eggs and elevated heart disease risk may not be as strong as once thought and that egg consumption has a minimal impact on blood cholesterol levels.半生荷包蛋 Over easy: The egg is flipped and the yolk is still runny.中等荷包蛋 Over medium: The egg is flipped and the yolk is only slightly runny.全熟荷包蛋 Over well: The egg is flipped and the yolk is cooked hard.
The story of the origin of "荷包蛋 (Her Bao Daan)" was that a long time ago, a 禦廚 Royal Chef always make new dishes to impress the Emperor. And one of his fried egg dish very well impressed the Emperor because it not only looks good but taste smooth (because of the runny yolk), and the Emperor named it "荷包蛋 (Her Bao Daan)". When the 禦廚 Royal Chef return to his home town, he introduced to his yellow neighbors on the dish, and therefore this simple dish entered the houses of ordinary people and became a popular dish.
"黯然銷魂飯" is probably not a dish that came out of old China, but appeared as a dish invented by 史提芬周 Stephen Chow (played by 周星馳 Stephen Chow Sing Chi) in his 1996 movie "食神 The God of Cookery". In the movie, it was basically a simple dish with 荷包蛋 fried egg and 叉燒 char siew plus some 蔬菜 green vegetable; and 白飯 white rice that is cooked with 洋蔥 onions (The source of the Sadness because of the Onions hence 黯然)! But it is basically just "叉燒荷包蛋飯 BBQ Pork Fried Poached Egg on Rice" and the name "黯然銷魂飯 Depressed Ecstasy Rice meal" is just a cooked up fancy name for the movie. The name "黯然銷魂" likely come from 金庸武俠小說 Jin Yong's martial arts novel "神鵰俠侶 The Condor Heroes". In the novel, 楊過 Yang Guo was separated from his wife, 小龍女 Xiao Long Nue in the 絕情谷 Heartless Valley, and in order to relieve the pain of losing his wife, 楊過 Yang Guo developed the Martial arts technique of "黯然銷魂掌 Ecstasy Palm" through hard training."港式叉燒蛋飯 Hong Kong style Char Siew Egg rice" popularized by the name "黯然銷魂飯" in the "食神 The God of Cookery" is a very common dish in 香港 Hong Kong. And different Chefs come out with different variants of Char Siew, and also like single, double, or triple fried poached eggs, or even Hong Kong style scrambled eggs or even salted egg!
Food today: 7 / 10 👍👍😋😋
Price: 6 / 10 👍
Value for Money: 7 / 10 👍👍
Service: 8 / 10 👍👍👍
Ambiance: 7.5 / 10 👍👍
Parking: 6 / 10 👍
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport: 2 / 10 😐😐😐😐 (1.2km+ from nearest Taman Bahagia LRT station)
Value for Money: 7 / 10 👍👍
Service: 8 / 10 👍👍👍
Ambiance: 7.5 / 10 👍👍
Parking: 6 / 10 👍
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport: 2 / 10 😐😐😐😐 (1.2km+ from nearest Taman Bahagia LRT station)
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Telephone: +6016-303 0430, +6012-250 0886
Operation hours: 08:00am - 12:00am mid-night
Operation hours: 08:00am - 12:00am mid-night
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@ 講飲講食 Togather Cafe SS2
