Sunday, October 11, 2009

'POON CHOI'


Literally translated means basin dish.  No joke!  The word 'poon' means basin and 'choi' is dish/vegetable.  Enough to feed a table of 14, we had this dish on Thursday, 08/10/09 to celebrate Noel's birthday.  Well, there wasn't 14 of us, only 11.  The dish consists of half a chicken, half a duck, a fish, loads of vegetables, pork knuckles, 12 big prawns, fish maw, mushrooms etc.  All layered up in one big basin and served as seen in the image attached.


The restaurant goes by the name of LYJ, very popular judging from the photos of famous celebraties posted on the walls at the main entrance. Besides this 'poon choi', the restaurant serves many other interesting and I suspect delicious dishes.  Although it was a Thursday, being a weekday it was packed with patrons but by 9.45 pm, it was almost deserted.  The restaurant is situated in Sungai Buluh new village and is well known amongst Rahman Putra golfers.

For the price of not more than RM250, the 11 of us had a scrumptious and very filling dinner.  Dinner was accompanied by our Mr Lee's XO Supreme brandy but alas, he was not able to join due to a sore tongue or so he claims.  Just as Mike commented, where did he put his tongue into?? :P