A friend introduced this tomyam place in Petaling Jaya old town to me. A “restaurant” that is set up by the compound of a corner house in the oldest area of PJ. We went there last weekend to give it a try.
gives you that homey feeling
Suan was supposed to join us, but after I spent about 10 minutes giving her directions, she said
“ah it’s too complicated for me, nevermind you guys go ahead”
So for 3 of us, we ordered a tomyam soup with fresh grouper meat, and a fried kangkong. The owner, who looked and sounds like a Thai, told me that she uses 10 ingredients for the soup and it’s all freshly cooked, per customer basis. No tomyam paste or any of those kinda instant stuff.
some serious hot and sour power
After waiting for about 20 minutes, the tomyam and the vege was ready. My god, the tomyam was seriously one of the best I’ve had. Better than Jimmy and Nong in Cheras, the flavour was really strong and the soup was thicker. If you can’t take it hot, you might want to order more drinks. We can’t stop ourselves from drinking the soup even after finishing our rice.
The grouper fish blends well with the tomyam soup, as you would expect from the not-so-cheap selection of seafood. If your wallet permits, they have some nice grouper head for tomyam fish head too (those can run more than RM 50 for the dish) . The kangkung was pretty good itself too.
so now you know how to go to PJ old town
The place serves tomyam only at night, I’ve heard they closes pretty early. There is a different operator in the afternoon that serves pretty decent food too, however.
Our meal costs about RM 50 for the three of us. A little pricey perhaps, but the fish was of very good quality and the tomyam was definately worth it. Will go there again.
For a satellite image of the place, click on this google map link
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By Pam on Jun 7, 2006 | Reply
Wahhhhhhh looks delishhhhh!!!! Will check it out…. It’s very near to the fish paste (yu watt) place that I love to go for breakfast/lunch….
By Arth on Jun 7, 2006 | Reply
i believe there are not many places in malaysia cook killer tom yam soup, my friend, but from the observation on the soup you made it’s probably worth to come back for another round again.heh..
Those kinda place does give you that kinda homey feeling…and you dont see many of those kinda places these days
By Slinky on Jun 8, 2006 | Reply
Ooooh I always eat there… Pricey but damn good the tom yam makes u sweat all over the place. It was even better before the lady’s husband passed away and ever since then, she took over the business and pretty much doing a good job to actually able to survive up till now.
By simmie on Jun 10, 2006 | Reply
I know this place!!! It’s located next to the pet store. I love their tom yum fish and omelette. Parking is a hassle!!!
By sissonne on Aug 20, 2007 | Reply
dont bother going there laa, over priced already. they were around there for quite some time but i’m not sure whether was it continued from the same cook since last time.
somehow, when i was there recently, everything looks so dis-organized….service was bad, ran out of rice had to wait long, had to was my own cups and bowls, had to wait for them to boil hot water, everything was slowww…nobody takes your order till u gotta walk up to them and talk to them…
it was so different from last time i tell u…it was really good, cheap and fast last time, unlike now, pricey. well at least the quality is still there but i rather go somewhere else for such thai food
By KY on Sep 5, 2007 | Reply
sissonne,
it’s true though the price is pretty high for that sort of set up, but gotta admit that the food is still pretty good.
By JM on Nov 10, 2007 | Reply
Just came back from a meal there. My advice: DON’T GO.
- only two tables occupied with two pax each when we arrived during peak dinner time. We should have taken that as a bad sign and left. Our mistake.
- non-existent service, had to go to the cook to order. To their credit the food came quickly but hey, there wasn’t any other customers
- for the two of us, the bill came to RM 60 for two vegetable dishes (petai and kailan), one tomyam having one measly chunk of fish and two rice. Too pricey!
To our surprise, when we asked for the bill, we were told we were ‘pah pai’. We will NEVER go back there again.