生肉包 Sang Yok Bao, 荷葉飯 Lotus Leaf Glutinous Rice, 豆沙包 Red Bean Bao & 拉奶茶 TehC Tarik @ 怡保巴占新樂園馳名包點 Ipoh New Paradise Bao in 相有海鮮餐餐室 Restoran Wai Kwan USJ6 Goodyear Court 2

23 March.2022 Breakfast

Day 739 since MCO1.0 行動管制領 Covid-19  

@ 怡保巴占新樂園馳名包點 Ipoh New Paradise Bao in 相有海鮮餐餐室 Restoran Wai Kwan USJ6 Goodyear Court 2 (click here to Google Map)

1, Jalan USJ 6/1, USJ 6, 47610 Subang Jaya, Selangor

GPS Location: 3°03'13.6"N 101°35'28.6"E

生肉包 Sang Yok Bao rm$2.50 👍👍😋😋 7/10

荷葉飯 Lotus Leaf Glutinous Rice rm$6 👍👍👍😋😋😋 8/10

豆沙包 Red Bean Bao rm$2.20 👍👍😋 6.5/10

拉奶茶 TehC Tarik rm$2.20 👍👍😋😋 7/10

Total bill: rm$12.90
Budget: rm$10 - rm$15++
Payment: Cash  
Cuisine: Chinese Malaysian

Pork free: Pork, Chicken

Alcohol free: Bottled Beers

Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: No

Internet Wifi speed: N/A

Digital Nomad Work-friendly Cafe: No

Electrical outlets for Digital Device: No

Free Drinking Water: No

Menu prices: Net or  

Order & Delivery: Order@Stall

On-line Delivery Service: Not sure

Indoor Seating tables: No

Outdoor Seating: (Semi-outdoor with roof top 10 tables of 2-3 ppl/table)

Drive Through: No

Take away : Yes

Dine-in: Yes

Happy Hour: N/A

Parking: Free

Photos taken using: Samsung Note 8
Thoughts: Another satisficed breakfast before the long LRT ride to KL.

Food today: 7.5 / 10 👍👍👍😋😋

Price: 7/ 10 👍👍
Value for Money: 7 / 10 👍👍
Service: 7 / 10 👍👍
Ambiance: 3 / 10 😐😐😐
Parking: 7 / 10 👍👍 (8am today)
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport: 9 / 10 👍👍👍👍 (20-30m from USJ7 LRT/BRT station)
Website: not found
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Restoran-Wai-Kwan/
Telephone: +6016-566 0777, +6016-421 7826,  
Operation hours: 07:00am - 02:00pm (morning session) Hawker stalls 小販
Operation hours: 04:00pm - 10:00pm (evening session) Dai Chau 大炒

生肉包 Sang Yok Bao rm$2.50 & 拉奶茶 TehC Tarik rm$2.20

  

荷葉飯 Lotus Leaf Glutinous Rice rm$6

  

豆沙包 Red Bean Bao rm$2.20

The Menu

 

怡保巴占新樂園馳名包點 Ipoh New Paradise Bao in 相有海鮮餐餐室 Restoran Wai Kwan

@ 怡保巴占新樂園馳名包點 Ipoh New Paradise Bao in 相有海鮮餐餐室 Restoran Wai Kwan USJ6 Goodyear Court 2

 

馬來糕(黃糖) Malai Kuih (Gula Melaka) & 華人奶茶 TehC @ 怡保巴占新樂園馳名包點 Ipoh New Paradise Bao in 相有海鮮餐餐室 Restoran Wai Kwan USJ6 Goodyear Court 2

2 November.2021 Breakfast

Day 598 MCO 行動管制領 Covid-19 (MCO#3.0 Day 182) 

@ 怡保巴占新樂園馳名包點 Ipoh New Paradise Bao in 相有海鮮餐餐室 Restoran Wai Kwan USJ6 Goodyear Court 2 (click here to Google Map)

1, Jalan USJ 6/1, Usj 6, 47610 Subang Jaya, Selangor

GPS Location: 3°03'13.6"N 101°35'28.6"E

馬來糕(黃糖) Malai Kuih (Gula Melaka) rm$3 👍👍👍👍😋😋😋 8.5/10

華人奶茶 TehC em$1.60 😐 4/10
Total bill: rm$4.60
Budget: rm$10++
Payment: Cash  
Cuisine: Chinese

Pork free: Pork, Chicken

Alcohol free: Kopitiam offers bottled Beers

Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: No

Internet Wifi speed: No  

Digital Nomad Work-friendly Cafe: No

Electrical outlets for Digital Device: No

Free Drinking Water: No

Menu prices: Net  

Order & Delivery: Order@Stall

On-line Delivery Service: Not sure

Indoor Seating tables: inside kopitiam now only housing the Hawker stalls

Outdoor Seating: (Semi-outdoor with roof top 10 tables of 2-3 ppl/table)

Drive Through: No

Take away : Yes

Dine-in: Yes

Happy Hour: N/A

Parking: Free Parking

Photos taken using: Samsung Note 8
Thoughts: Last time having the 馬來糕(黃糖) Malai Kuih (Gula Melaka) was a take-away option, it is much better to have this at the kopitiam when it is steaming hot just out of the bamboo basket steamers. Unlike some 馬來糕 Malai Kuih are yellow color, this one here is brown color offered at Wai Kwan kopitiam by "怡保巴占新樂園馳名包點 Ipoh New Paradise Bao" as it is probably made using 黃糖 Gula Melaka (Dark Brown Sugar). Not that sweet, the brown fluffy dessert is topped with some 瓜子 Melon seeds. Probably also better having it just with a English Tea rather than a milk tea or coffee. "怡保巴占新樂園馳名包點 Ipoh New Paradise Bao", which is a branch of its Ipoh shop has been in USJ6's 相有海鮮餐餐室 Restoran Wai Kwan for many years. The 手工包 Hand-made Bao are manufactured daily at the stall itself. 

馬來糕 ("Ma Lai Go" or Malai Kuih or "Steamed Malay Cake or Malay Sponge Cake" is a popular dessert dish both in 廣東 Guang Dong and 香港 Hong Kong, and often found in 點心屋 Dim Sum houses. There were several stories about the Origin of this 馬來糕 (Malai Kuih), one that sounded probable was that the 馬來海綿蛋 Malay sponge cake has developed from a 英式甜點 British dessert in 馬來亞 Malaya during the 英國殖民 British Colonization. Before the independence, English colonists in Malaya still retained the habit of 喝下午茶配蛋糕 drinking afternoon tea with cake. However, because typical dessert ingredients like 牛奶 milk and 烤箱 ovens that Westerners used were not common in Malaya at that time, locals Malay cakes usually used 椰奶 coconut milk and 蒸籠 steamers instead to make the different types of the English cake, which is the 馬來海綿蛋 Malay sponge cake. During the 英屬馬來亞時代 British Malaya era, there were many 華僑 immigrants from Guangdong province who were frequently travelling between Malaya and the mainland China. It is therefore quite reasonable that this Malay sponge cake as popular in English afternoon tea snack was then brought back to China by Chinese immigration at that time. So, the 馬來糕 "Ma Lai Ko" isn't a Malay cuisine but rather an English Sponge Cake improvised in Malaya using coconut milk and steamers rather than milk and oven which became a popular tea snack item for the British in Malaya and later the invention was brought back to Southern China by Chinese immigrants at that time! And the word "馬來" Malai usually is short for the country Malaysia (or Malaya) and does not refer to the Malay People. That word "馬來糕" would likely meant "a cake style of Malaysia/Malaya". This particular cuisine is probably not familiar to the Malay people but rather just the Chinese people in the country. 

So, not just in Hong Kong and Guang Dong, the "馬來糕 Ma Lai Go" can be found in many Chinese Dim Sum restaurants in Malaysia today. And most of the them serves the "Yellow color" version and it is the Dark Brown Sugar that results in the "Brown color" variant of "馬來糕 Ma Lai Go". 

Food today: 8.5 / 10 👍👍👍👍😋😋😋 (the Malik Kuih) 

Price: 8 / 10 👍👍👍
Value for Money: 8 / 10 👍👍👍
Service: 7 / 10 👍👍
Ambiance: 5 / 10 😑
Parking: 7 / 10 👍👍
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport:  9 / 10 👍👍👍👍 (20-30m from USJ7 LRT/BRT station)
Website: not found
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Restoran-Wai-Kwan/
Telephone: +6016-566 0777, +6016-421 7826
Operation hours: 07:00am - 02:00pm (morning session) Hawker stalls 小販

Operation hours: 04:00pm - 10:00pm (evening session) Dai Chau 大炒

馬來糕(黃糖) Malai Kuih (Gula Melaka) rm$3 & 華人奶茶 TehC em$1.60

 

The Menu

怡保巴占新樂園馳名包點 Ipoh New Paradise Bao in 相有餐餐室 Wai Kwan Kopitiam

 

 @ 相有海鮮餐餐室 Restoran Wai Kwan USJ6 Goodyear Court 2

 

馬來糕 "Malai Gao" (Malay Cake) & 宮保雞包 "Kung Pao" Chicken Pao @ 怡保巴佔新樂園手工包 New Paradise in 相有海鲜茶餐室 Restoran Wai Kwan USJ6

17.May Breakfast

Day 428 MCO 行動管制領 Covid-19 (MCO#3.0 Day 12)   

@ 怡保巴佔新樂園手工包 New Paradise in 相有海鲜茶餐室  Restoran Wai Kwan USJ6 (click here to Google Map)
Corner shop, USJ 6/1 Subang Perdana Good Year Court, 47620 Subang Jaya, Selangor
GPS Location: 3°03'13.7"N 101°35'28.6"E
馬來糕 "Malai Gao" (Malay Cake) rm$3 👍👍😋😋 7/10

宮保雞包 "Kung Pao" Chicken Pao rm$2.60 👍👍😋😋 7/10

Total bill: rm$5.60
Budget: rm$10+
Payment: Cash  
Cuisine: Pao and limited Dim Sum

Pork free: Pork and Chicken

Alcohol free: Yes

Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: No

Internet Wifi speed: N/A

Digital Nomad Work-friendly Cafe: No

Electrical outlets for Digital Device: No

Free Drinking Water: No

Menu prices: Net  

Order & Delivery: Order@HawkerStall

On-line Delivery Service: No idea

Indoor Seating tables: MCO3.0 No Dine-in

Outdoor Seating: MCO3.0 No Dine-in 

Drive Through: No

Take away : Yes

Dine-in: MCO3.0 closed

Happy Hour: N/A

Parking: MPSJ 

Photos taken using: Samsung Note 8
Thoughts: A variety of Pao from rm$2 - rm$2.60 is available daily, also available are 糯米雞 Loh Mai Kai, 燒賣 Siew Mai, and 大魚丸 Big Fish Balls from rm$4 - rm$4.80; this place in USJ6, which makes its 手工包 steamed buns by hand, is a gem. The stall is an off shoot of Ipoh's famous hand-made Pao called "怡保巴佔新樂園手工包 New Taste Paradise" (since 1968) in 巴占 Bercham (13km from 怡保 Ipoh). The Bercham original location is famous for its 叉燒包 Char Siew Pao, 豆腐 Tofu, and 馬來糕 Malai Gao. 

This little Pao stall (together with the kitchen itself) in USJ6's 相有海鲜茶餐室 Restoran Wai Kwan (in Good Year Court 2 Flats) has been in operation for about 10 years now (from around 2012), run by the 創辦人的女兒 founder’s daughter, Yeow Cok Fong and their long-time 徒弟 apprentice, 黃勝富 Ng Seng Foo. Mr Wong can be seen making the fresh pao everyday in the kopitiam. 

Some variants of the hand-made Fresh Pao are already available as early as 7am (albeit not all variants); and to avoid the crowd, go there around 7am - 7:30am. Besides their signature 叉燒包 Char Siew Bao and 馬來糕 Malai Gao, the stall also offers unique 南乳包 Nam Yu pork Pao, 宫保鷄包 Kung Pao chicken Pao, 咖哩鷄包 Curry chicken Pao.

The rm$3 馬來糕 "Malai Gao" is best consumed at the kopitiam (with black hot coffee) while the cake is steaming hot 蒸爐裡取出 fresh from the steamer. The "Malai Gao" or "Malay Cake" is 蓬鬆 fluffy with 瓜子 melon seeds inside, not too 清甜 sweet; definitely worth sampling. While the "Malai Gao" can be found in some Dim Sum restaurants in USJ, but haven't seen any other shops offering 宮保雞包 "Kung Pao" Chicken Pao. The rm$2.60 interesting Pao comes with slightly spicy but generous amount of 宮保雞肉 Kung Pao chicken inside the fluffy white Pao, nice!

Interestingly, this "Steamed Dessert Cake" called 馬來糕 or 馬拉糕 (Malay Cake) is one of the standard Dessert in many 粵式茶樓 Cantonese Dim Sum House in 香港 Hong Kong or 廣東 Guang Dong! However, there is a saying that 馬來糕 was a originally a 斑蘭 Pandan style steamed cake created during the 英國人統治馬來半島 British Colony of Malaya. The story goes that the British people wanted some pastries for their typical 下午茶 afternoon tea; and since both 牛奶 milk as well as 烤箱 ovens are not that common in Malaya at that time, 椰奶 coconut milk was used and rather than baked in an oven, the green pandan cake is steamed instead; hence, a 斑蘭椰奶蒸糕 Pandan-coconut milk flavored steamed cake. Somehow, 廣東廚師 Guangdong Chefs referred to the method of making this kind of cake, but they left out 斑蘭葉 pandan leaves because it was difficult to find 斑蘭葉 pandan leaves in 廣東 Guangdong. The result is "蒸金黃色的馬拉糕 Steamed golden-yellow cakes with 以雞蛋的味道 emphasis on the taste of eggs" - the 馬來糕 "Malai Gao" or "Malay Cake". The new recipe became an instant hit to the local Chinese palates and since then, the 馬來糕 "Malay Cake" has been a favorite item in most Dim Sum shops in 廣東茶樓 Guangdong and 香港茶樓 Hong Kong Char Lou.

Price: 7 / 10 👍👍 
Value for Money: 7 / 10 👍👍
Service: 7 / 10 👍👍
Ambiance: 4 / 10 😐😐
Parking: 4 / 10 😐😐
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport:  8 / 10 👍👍👍 (next to USJ7 LRT station)
Website: not found
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Restoran-Wai-Kwan/
Telephone: +6016-421 4826 

WhatsApp: +6010-7106037

Operation hours: 07:00am - 02:00pm (closed alternative Mondays)  

馬來糕 "Malai Gao" (Malay Cake) rm$3

 

宮保雞包 "Kung Pao" Chicken Pao rm$2.60

The Kopitiam

  

@ 相有海鲜茶餐室 Restoran Wai Kwan USJ6