Welcome Seafood Restaurant 大茄來海鲜餐廳 @Asia City, Kota Kinabalu

Address: Ground Floor, G-15 - G-18 , Asia City , Jalan Coastal , Kota Kinabalu , 88000 Kota Kinabalu , Sabah, 88000, Malaysia.
Business Hours: Monday - Sunday 12:00pm - 12:00am 
Tel: +60 88-447 866 


If you are seafood lover, the best choice to settle dinner in KK is Welcome Seafood Restaurant. The seafood is fresh and the price is reasonable. My first visit was in May last year, blogged it here.

Steamed white prawns (RM21) is my favourite, I have it only to go with rice.




Sweet corn crab meat soup (RM15). The soup was really thick, generous ingredients. However, the taste wasn't up to my liking.




Ceylon spinach stir-fried with fermented bean curd paste (RM12). I like this dish too, it tastes good as the strong aroma of fermented bean curd blends well with ceylon spinach.




Steamed sea snails (RM18). Always taking longer time for this dish to be served. Anyway, worth the wait. Tastes heavenly good when dip it with the fermented bean curd paste.




4 dishes, 2 bowls of rice and 2 glasses of drinks, the bill costs around RM78. Quite delighted as I was estimating about RM120.


The map to Welcome Seafood Restaurant:

Kedai Kopi Houng Kee 鴻記茶餐室, Kota Kinabalu

Address: 1, Lorong Pokok Kayu Manis 2, Luyang Commercial Centre, 88300 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Business hours: Monday - Sunday (7:00am - 2:30pm)


After we attended Sunday service, we took a Grab car to Houng Kee Restaurant for its mixed fish soup. I have been to Sin Houng Kee 新鴻記 (now called Kedai Kopi Jiang Yu Zai) last year, this time I brought my mum to its original root. Many years ago, this place was very famous and always packed. The first time I visited here, it was full house. Their fish soup was really impressed me.




They not only have fish slice, fish cake and fish ball, which are pretty common in the market. They have the exotic ingredients such as fish skin, fish belly, fish lips, and fish bladder.




They have 3 types of soup base: salted vege, Tom Yam and bitter gourd. I asked for the sour soup base, salted vege.  The ingredients of this bowl of mixed fish beehoon contained fish rolls, fish cake, fish ball and fried fish. The soup was sourish and didn't have the fishy taste at all. Despite we were still full after the pork innards noodle from Kedai Kopi Wah Juan, we still managed to finish this bowl of mixed fish soup.




The map to Houng Kee Restaurant:

Pork Innards Noodles 猪杂面 @Wah Juan Coffee Shop 華園茶室, Kota Kinabalu

Address: Jalan Lee Thau Sang, Pekan Tanjung Aru, 88100 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Business hours: 8:00am - 10:30am (could be finished earlier if on high demand)


On April fool, I spent a night in KK together with my mum before flying off to Taiwan the next day. We stayed at Pekan Tanjung Aru, passed by this Wah Juan Coffee Shop that I recalled it's the shop I ever visited with my colleagues on company trip in 2010. The pork innards noodles did give me a big impression.

We went there around 8:45am. The shop was packed. Quite a few customers standing waiting to get a seat, and we were one of them. Have to aim and wait patiently for the customers to end their chat and finish their drinks. I don't usually like to visit this sort of shop which requires you to wait for a table. Since I have been wanting to have it again, I insisted to wait.

Finally we got the table. I placed my order with the taukenio instead of the lady staff. The table next to ours placed their order with the staff. They came later than us but the food served earlier than us. Though I was quite unpleased with it but nothing I can do. At least the taukenio still remembered my order.







Roughly waited 20 minutes. Finally we can savour our pork innards noodle. They always serve a bowl of soup along with the noodles. The soup was flavourful. And the chilli sauce also specially formulated, a good match to dip with the pork innards.




The noodle is mushy, similar to our Foochow kampua, it's not chewy type. Guess the elderly will appreciate this kind of noodle. The noodle is not to my liking but I did really enjoy eating the pork innards. It was braised until tenderly soft, easy to chew. The flavour of spices penetrated thoroughly in every piece of the organs.

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I thought the long wait would take more than an hour, but 20-30 minutes of waiting time is still acceptable for me (as long as I don't have to wait under the hot sun).


The map to Wah Juan Coffee Shop:

Review: IRVINS's Salted Egg Vs The Golden Duck's Salted Egg

This salted egg thingy has created a hype since last year. When I visited Singapore in January, the salted egg fish skin was all the time "out of stock" at every outlet I passed by. So I only managed to get a pack of IRVIN's salted egg potato chips. My friend bought another competitive brand, "The Golden Duck" for me to do comparison.

A small pack of IRVINS's salted egg potato chips below costs S$8, about RM23.66. It's pricey for me. The packaging itself is nearly a quarter of the cost, I guess. The big pack costs S$16.




Nevertheless the potato chips taste good. The taste is sort of expected. It's potato chips coated with salted egg. The chip has strong aroma of salted egg and curry leaves. It's crispy and every chip is evenly coated with salted egg yolk.




Another brand is The Golden Duck. Slightly cheaper than IRVINS S$7, it's about RM20.70. The packaging designs between the two, IRVINS's more attractive.The Golden Duck's packaging design is more conservative.




Compared to IRVINS's potato chips, The Golden Duck's chips are thinner. But the crunchiness wasn't as great as IRVINS. More over the salted egg yolk is quite lumpy and powdery, not evenly coated on chips.




The Golden Duck's salted egg fish skin. My first attempt of fish skin was at Black Society restaurant. It's addictive even without the flavour of salted egg yolk.




The texture of salted egg fish skin was good on average. Like its potato chips, the salted egg yolk is not evenly coated on fish skin as well. The taste was predictable, didn't give me much surprise.




Between IRVINS and The Golden Duck's salted egg potato chips, I vote a credit to IRVINS. In terms of price, The Golden Duck is cheaper. However, this snack is categorised as high price. Not everyone can afford to buy it for party nor self-consumption. Will just give it a try or buy as a gift for family members.