Seafood in Kuala Selangor not that nice anymore

Ok, so we left the house early because we were headed to Kuala Selangor for seafood.



We ate here. Restaurant Kuala Sungai, their telephone number as seen on the picture. Overall the meal was just so so. I have tasted much better seafood. Read on for more critiques.



The sotong (squid) and vegetable came first. The sotong was like the typical deep fried sotong in flour. Nice. It didn't came with thousand island or mayonnaise though. Rating: 8.5/10. The vegetable was ok... like all vegetables. Rating: 7.5/10



Lai lui har. This is a type of shrimp, de shelled and deep fried. Then stir fried with some chili and tomato sauce with some spices. Taste a little above average but I have tasted better ones. Rating: 7/10



Ok, I have the shell of this shellfish at home for ages (but the ones I have are more pretty :P) now but I have not eaten them before. I don't really like the taste of this one. The meat is tougher than snail, less slimy... actually kind of have no slime at all. The texture is not rubbery slimy at all, unlike the 'see ham'. What I hate most about this shellfish is that for everyone of them, I have to remove their 'cover' before I can eat their meat. The cover I am referring to is the 'door' of their home (the shell). Removing the black piece of large fish scale thing is not as annoying as what I have to do next. After removing the 'door', I have to individually clean out all the mud that is stuck between the door and the flesh. It's really annoying. Imagining cleaning every single piece of your shellfish with tissue paper before eating them. Potong steam. Even the chili sauce that came with it wasn't nice. Rating: 3\10



Rayfish. This is the normal pangang (BBQ) ray fish you can find in most of the restaurant in KL and PJ. Taste above average. Loved the green sauce that came with it. It's some kind of fresh leaves grinned with some sugar salt and vinegar. Rating: 7/10



The otak otak was so so. Came with the green vinegar sauce too. It tasted like a fresh version of those processed otak otak where we can easily get from the pasar malam. I still prefer the original nyonya otak otak with lengkalok leaves and chunky fresh fish wrapped in banana leaves. Rating 6/10



The above is crab with salted egg sauce. The usual crab with salted egg I have eaten is dry but today's crab with salted egg is a little different. The sauce is creamy like cabonara sauce. Taste good. The crab however wasn't that nice. The crab was fresh but the meat wasn't sweet at all. A disappointment for me. Rating: 6/10 (if the sauce sucked, this dish would have a 3/10)

Tip: You will know you have fresh crabs when their meat sticks to their shell when tou peel them off.



This is another crab dish using different crab. The crab used is called 'fa hai', if translated its flower crab. I think it's called flower crab because of it's white and orange pattern on the shell that looks flowery. Just a guess though. Normally the meat of fa hai will taste sweet and the best way to enjoy their sweet meat is to steam the crab with no sauce.

Another disappointment because the meat wasn't as sweet as I expected to me. *sign* My mom requested for plain steamed crabs but the chef added soya sauce with it too.. *double sign* Maybe the chef knew the meat wasn't sweet enough for plain steam. The crab would be better off steamed with soya sauce, sesame oil and some rice wine. Rating: 5/10

Maybe I have put too much hope of eating food seafood in Kuala Selangor since the place is famous for seafood. Then again, maybe it's famous because the price is cheep. The bill came up to the total of only RM119 (we have 5 coconuts too). I wonder if their standard have gone down, or mine just went up. Back when I was a kid, my parents would bring us around for seafood and I remembered I have eaten in Kuala Selangor a few times and seafood was good back then.

If anyone is willing to go futher for seafood, you can try Sekinchang. The best cheap and delicious place for seafood I have eaten so far lies there. And if seafood is not your thing, try out the beggar chicken restaurants along the way to Kuala Selangor on the trunk road.

Ok, enough about food talk. This should end up in Eat First Think Later actually, but I think I would be spending 1 hour talking about how bad their crabs was.

Now just to back track a little, I had a mini pre Christmas celebration in the office on Friday. We had a small gift exchanging session. We stuck numbers of the gifts and folded pieces of paper with numbers so we could randomly pick. I got a photo frame! Got to figure what picture to put in it now... any suggestion? Wanted a picture of my whole family but the frame is a little small for that.