Kuala Lumpur Restaurant Tips by l_joo Top 5 Page for this destination

Feast Village at Starhill Gallery: Feast Village at Starhill Gallery

Feast Village at Starhill or Starhill Feast Village. This is actually inside a big shopping mall name Starhill, is where enpensive brands LV, Dior, Fendi, Celine, etc gathered while at bottom floor, 15 modern and very designer-look restaurants competing in selling delicious foods, each restaurants represent a nation with its very own cultural feels of ambience, is good for luxury tourists to spend some money. As a tourist, this place is definitely worth a visit. Picture is some customers looking at the chef working in kitchen, is open.

Comparison: more expensive than average

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Price: US$11-20

Rating: 5

Theme: Eclectic/International

Esquire Kitchen: Esquire Kitchen

Favorite Dish: Tong-Poh-Row is one of my favourite dish in Esquire Kitchen. The dish is made of pork which is certainly, not an Islamic food. The way of eating is to use our fingers to pick up the white bun and then make a hole in it while pick up some Tong-Poh-Row to insert into the bun and then use the spoon to pour in some of the dark sweety soup from the bow and bite.

Address: Mid Valley Megamall, Lingkaran Syed Putra, KL

Comparison: least expensive

Directions: Sungai Wang Shopping Complex

Phone: 03 2938 3608

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Local

Esquire Kitchen: Esquire Kitchen

Favorite Dish: My favourite is Xiao Long Bau. XLB is as small as a ping pong ball where it was wrapped up by a semi transparent skin look-alike pastry. Inside was mixed pork with other condiments which I'm not sure but definitely more than just delicious. The way of eating is to put some black vinegar and sliced gingers and then open your mouth, eat.

Address: Mid Valley Megamall, Lingkaran Syed Putra, KL

Comparison: least expensive

Directions: Sungai Wang Shopping Complex

Phone: 03 2938 3608

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Local

Pelita Samudra Restaurant: Pelita Samudra Restaurant

For those who are sleepless at night, I suggest a good place to waste time and relax, probably the oldest restaurant in Malaysia started as a street vendor since year 18xx in Penang Pelita Samudera Restaurant is 24 hours open for public, really comfortable environment, Indian-Muslim foods, NO alcohol, midnight gals coming here were in super-sexy dress up probably on way home after some heavy drink elsewhere. The average meal is RM5.00 per person, especially good for watching LIVE football from the English Premiership every weekend and the European Champions League at 3am in the morning (Malaysian time), occasionally WWE wrestling but no cricket or baseball. Typical Malaysian foods, hot and spicy, I especially like the fried chicken, cuttlefish, rojak Singapore and Tandoori chicken. You can sit whole day and night if you want, toilet is big and clean, car park is free and location is most convenience at opposite Avenue-K, only some 150 meters walk from KLCC.

Seating Capacity 480 pax. Parking Private car park for 30 cars.

Business Hours 24 Hours. Menu 60 items

Comparison: least expensive

Directions: Located in a corner bungalow, opposite Hotel Corus (or Avenue-K), a short walking distance from KLCC.

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Indian

Malay Foods at Kampung Baharu: Malay Foods at Kampung Baharu

For tourists who want to eat some real delicious Malay foods, I strongly recommend a place called Kampung Baharu, located nearby Chow Kit, exact location at Jalan Raja Muda Tiga, Kampung Baru. If you are in Kuala Lumpur, just take a taxi, it will only cost you RM5-6 to get here. This is a street full of Malay food stalls, parking is a headache and better to go at night after 6pm to avoid the heat of hot sun. The food here is mostly eating rice with sambal (chilli shrimp paste), chicken, fish, vegetables, etc. For tourists looking for Malay foods, this is the place, believe me.

Picture is many bowls of sambal paste in one of a restaurant in Kampung Baharu. Tourists if wanted to taste real Malay foods should scoop a few spoons of these sambal to eat together, if you don't know the proper way of eating, don't worry, you are actually eating with hundreds of Malays, just observe how peoples eat.

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Local

Sour plum: Sour plum

Sour plum is available almost anywhere Kuala Lumpur. This type of snack is more suitbale for kids or girls to taste for fun. Heard it was medicine in Chinese tradition but nowadays just for tasting its extreme sour as snacks. The price is cheap, sell according to weight around RM3 per pack. Tourists should try some.

Comparison: least expensive

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Local

Chicken Rice Shop: Chicken Rice Shop

Chicken Rice Shop is Malaysia's own creation of franchise restaurant, very new, very local and delicious. The food here is mainly eating the roasted chicken with oily rice with soup and sour chili sauce. The recipe was said originated from Hainan China, local peoples called it Hainanese Chicken Rice. The owner probably got the idea and turned it into a franchise, quite successful and already accepted by most peoples, price about same as McDonald's.

Comparison: least expensive

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Local

Toe-say (Tosai): Toe-say (Tosai)

Toe-say is the actual accurate pronucaition of our local Indian food named Tosai. The name of this food is Tosai, is available in any Indian restaurant, the food cost less than RM1.50, very cheap, good to eat with Teh-Tarik (milk tea). The of Tosai is quite like plain bread, you have three types of curries come together to eat with.

Comparison: least expensive

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Indian

Local traditional snacks: Local traditional snacks

Roasted Cuttlefish in packs can be found in any supermarkets, 7-eleven, grocery shops, etc. This is one of the local traditional snacks very much favoured by local peoples. Small pack of Roasted Cuttlefish is selling at some RM2.00 to RM4.00 per pack, RM8 for big. The taste of Roasted Cuttlefish is really exciting for beginners, it tastes strong, spicy, salty and quite forceful in smell, I don't know whether you like it but you might want to try because its something local.

Comparison: least expensive

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Local

Kopi: Kopi

Kopi (pronounced Ko-pee) or Coffee is served in this kind of cup in any local Chinese-restaurants. A cup of Kopi cost RM0.90 only. You can ask for Kopi-O (Coffee sugar without condensed milk) or you can have Kopi-Kow (Coffe sugar with extra condensed milk).

The exact pronunciation of Kopi-O is Ko-pee-Or. Local peoples have the habit to request extra strong and dense of Kopi-O, to do that, you just yell at the waiter " ...boss, Ko-pee-Or-kau !!! ", no extra charge on this, same price.

Comparison: least expensive

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Local