Saturday, July 1, 2023

小碗菜 Mini Bowls @ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan

July 1.2023 Lunch
1, Jalan USJ 10/1C, Taipan Business Centre, 47620 Subang Jaya, Selangor
GPS Location: 3°02'54.5"N 101°35'07.8"E
過橋豆腐 Steamed minced meat with Tofu rm$5 👍😋 6/10
香脆炸魚 Crispy Fried Fish rm$10 😑😑 3/10
招牌酸茶魚 Sour Fish rm$10 👍👍👍😋😋😋 8/10
梅菜扣肉 Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetables rm$10 👍👍😋😋 7/10
Total bill: rm$43
Budget: rm$15 - rm$20++ per person
Payment: Cash  
Cuisine: Chinese dishes 
Pork free: Pork, Fish, Beef 
Alcohol free: No Alcoholic drinks in menu
Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: Yes
Internet Wifi speed: N/A  
Digital Nomad Work-friendly Cafe: No
Electrical outlets for Digital Device: No
Free Drinking Water: Soup and Chinese Tea (Self-Service)
Menu prices: Net 
Order & Delivery: Self-Service 
On-line Delivery Service: Not sure
Indoor Seating tables: 32+tables (2-4ppl tables) 
Outdoor Seating: No  
Drive Through: No
Take away : Yes
Dine-in: Yes
Happy Hour: N/A
Parking: MPSJ  
Photos taken using: Samsung Note 8
Thoughts: Recently, there have been a slowly mushrooming of a new kind of Chinese "fast food" restaurant with recently served dishes and not the typical "華人雜飯 Chinese Zhap Fan" which may not be too hygienic BUT dishes which comes in a sealed small bowl called "小碗菜 Xiao Wan Cai". And there are at least 4 such restaurants in Klang Valley:
百味小碗菜 Bai Wei (川菜 SiChuan and 湖南菜 Hunan dishes) with 5 shops in Klang Valley
大王小碗菜 Da Wang Xiao Wan Cai (川粤菜 XiChuan Cantonese dishes) in Puchong Bandar Puteri
百碗道小碗菜 Bai Wan Dao (川湘菜) with 3 shops
冰師傅小碗菜 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl (川湘粤菜 Sichuan Hunan Cantonese Cuisine) in USJ10
百味小碗菜 Bai Wei probably has the most presence in Klang Valley with 5 locations (Puchong, Bukit Tinggi, Bukit Jalil, Cheras Trade Square, and Sri Petaling).  
"小碗菜 Xiao Wan Cai" is a small dish, and somewhat popular in China where the Chinese offers it like a type of "小份的菜品 Chinese style Fast Food choice" for its fast speed as the dishes are self-service, in a variety which comes in small bowls and at affordable prices. This type of 中式快餐 Chinese fast food style restaurants has become an industry that has maintained a double-digit growth rate for ten consecutive years. The history of "小碗菜 Xiao Wan Cai or Mini Bowls" probably has some relations to the branch of 湘菜 Hunan cuisine called 瀏陽蒸菜 Liuyang Steamed Vegetables. Since its  establishment, it has been steamed in the form of 小碗或 small bowls or 小瓦缽 small earthen bowls placed in a 蒸飯的木甑裡 wooden steamer for steaming rice. In the beginning, 瀏陽人 people from Liuyang migrated to other parts of China to open their shops, so initially they used 蒸籠 steamers inherited the 家鄉蒸法 hometown steaming method. As 瀏陽蒸菜 Liuyang Steamed Vegetables has taken over most of the 快餐市場 fast food market, many people copied the 瀏陽蒸菜 Liuyang steamed dishes, but found that no 瀏陽人 Liuyang people steamed as deliciously. So they slowly changed the form, and they 先炒好再分到小碗 fried it first and divided it into small bowls and put it in a 白鐵皮保溫 white iron warming cabinet to keep warm, making the guests mistakenly think it was steamed. And today steamed, stir-fried, or even fried items are offered in such fast food Mini Bowls restaurants but usually just the dishes are mostly 先炒再分小碗保溫 fried first and then divided into small bowls to keep warm. In fact, it is 炒菜快餐以小碗形式出品 stir-fried fast food produced in small bowls.
USJ10's "冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl" opened recently, a corner shop lot just behind USJ10 Mc Donald's. The restaurant offers 川湘粤菜 Sichuan Hunan Cantonese Cuisines in small bowls ranging from rm$3 to rm$12 per bowl. For a 1 vegetable and 1 meat dishes plus a white rice will set you back maybe rm$18 to rm$20+ which is twice the budget of the typical Malaysian style "華人雜飯 Chinese Zhap Fan"!
Food today: 6.5 / 10 👍👍😋
Price: 5 / 10 😐
Value for Money: 6 / 10 👍
Service: 6 / 10 👍 
Ambiance: 6 / 10 👍
Parking: 3 / 10 😐😐😐
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport:  5 / 10 😐 (500m+ from Taipan LRT station)
Website: not found
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bingshifu/
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bing.shifu
Telephone: +6017-225 5640 
Operation hours: 11:00am - 10:00pm

@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan

過橋豆腐 Steamed minced meat with Tofu rm$5
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
過橋豆腐 Steamed minced meat with Tofu rm$5 @ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
過橋豆腐 Steamed minced meat with Tofu rm$5 @ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan

香脆炸魚 Crispy Fried Fish rm$10
香脆炸魚 Crispy Fried Fish rm$10 @ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
 
招牌酸茶魚 Sour Fish rm$10
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
招牌酸茶魚 Sour Fish rm$10 @ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
招牌酸茶魚 Sour Fish rm$10 @ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
 
梅菜扣肉 Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetables rm$10
梅菜扣肉 Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetables rm$10 @ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
  
The Menu
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@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan

@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
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The Self-Service Soup and Chinese Tea section
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The Restaurant
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@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
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@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan
@ 冰師傅 小碗菜 • 中式快餐 Bing Shifu Mini Bowl in USJ10 Taipan