Heading East from Klang Valley via the Karak Highway towards the direction of the East Coast, there exists quite a number of restaurants that offers “proper” food just a few kilometers away from the exit that brings you up to the mountain top wonderland that is Genting highland or Berjaya Bukit Tinggi (if visiting a Japanese garden is your thing.)
Late last year, we did just that with a couple Singaporean friends of Haze’s.
Garden View restaurant at Bukit Tinggi, there’s actually a vegetable garden
Our stop-over for late lunch was at Garden View restaurant, a pretty big zinc-roofed restaurant over viewing a vegetable garden. Looking at the size of the little farm though, I can’t be sure if it is sufficient for the crowd that this restaurant gets. Doesn’t bother me anyway.
The menu is quite extensive. They offer a variety of river fish, kampung chicken, pork, seafood, and a selection of “wild” meat such as wild boar, frog, ostrich, soft-shell turtle, and deer.
river patin, this is the expensive bit
We ordered a river patin (RM 90, 1.2kg of RM 7.50 per 100 gram) prepared in its purest form – steam with soya sauce. The portion was perhaps a little too big for just the four of us but it was delightfully prepared and certainly very fresh, smooth, and absolutely packed with seafood fatty texture which I really like.
You can also have the fish prepared by steam with ginger, with assam sauce, teo chew style, with chili sauce, in clay pot, or even deep fried. There’s also quite a variety of fish to choose from, with tilapia (RM 3.50/100gram) being cheapest, all the way to kelah  (RM 40/100 gram)
steamed kampung chicken, wild boar curry, four kingdom vege dish
In addition to the fish, we also ordered steamed kampung chicken with ginger (RM 15), wild boar curry (RM 15), and “4 kingdom vegetable” (RM 15). These are very reasonably priced and tasted more than decent.
The chicken is my favorite and a speciality of sort of Bukit Tinggi. You can get pretty good ginger steamed chicken just about at any restaurants around the area, the key being the Bentong ginger they use, which is really spicy and extra fragrant.
Singaporeans, same as Malaysians, are trigger happy
Over all it was a very satisfying late lunch for us. The river fish is pricey but expectedly so, if you stay away from having river fish, the prices at Garden View restaurant is very competitive. So if you’re around the area looking for a good meal especially with a group, this place won’t be a bad choice.
Address:
Garden View Restaurant
Lot 19326 Pesona Heights,
Kg Bukit Tinggi, 28750 Bentong, Pahang
GPS: 3.353010, 101.826982
Tel: 09-233 0282
Ky I love steam chicken with ginger. Have more rice with it. Okra or ladyfingers great also in states deep fried buttermilk batter. Never try boar yet but buffalo stew in San Fran.
Vickie: I guess wild boar is not as popular that part of the world.
I’ve only seen wild boar a few times in KL. Nice to know you can find it here.
The Yum List: yeah, they’re very popular in Bukit Tinggi, Pahang.
Not a fan of patin, easily available here.
suituapui: Borneo has vastly superior selection of seafood & riverfish isn’t it?
uncle, that singaporean sitting down, boy or girl ah?
immature: you’ll have to ask immigration.
Sex. Unknown. Tick.
Nationality. Singaporean. Tick.
Gender. Unknown. Tick.
Purpose of Trip. Food Pleasure. Tick.
o.O
Level of Kiasooness. Medium. Tick.
Agree not to exert any kiasooness while in Malaysia. I Agree. Tick.
immature: all good kan?
o.O
am still O.o
*still scratches head*
**scratch head some more**
*scratches head*
immature: did you just reply to yourself?
no, just still wondering if boy or girl… ROFL
OK. After consultation with my supervisors, 3 of them say boy, the other 2 say girl. I say, 60% boy and 40% girl. Normally, during Unknown Gender Moment(tm) like this, one will have to look at chest to see if got nen nen or not. But, in this case, the elbow and arm is blocking the view of chest, so hard to determine gender. Further investigation will be needed.
immature: apa laaaa
“Further investigation is ongoing….. “
HeEheEHHEhehEHEHheHEHEHhehehheheheheh
I tried the Kong Nam Sang Har the previous time and it was really good albeit being a tad expensive! Anyhow, I still prefer 126!
Mark: sang har.. yumsss.
Not really a big fan of fish but other dishes looks yum especially the steamed chicken.
Choi Yen: yah, you can’t go wrong with those steamed chicken!