Uncle Jang Korean Restaurant @ Bandar Puteri Puchong

This restaurant was opened for quite some time in Bandar Puteri Puchong, I've always passed by but never thought of going in as I thought it's just some other Korean BBQ restaurant and the sign board was really not attractive enough for me to go in haha (plus there's other Korean restaurants in Bdr Puteri so I usually ignored Uncle Jang). UNTIL two of my friends, ChenChin and Shirley went there (without me, how sad) and told me that the food there is good, and it's not like the usual Korean BBQ. They just left me with a super vague explaination so I was totally blur until I step into the restaurant - obviously it's not going to be like the usual Korean BBQ as they are selling Dak-Galbi DUH!

 

Here, let me save your wiki/google time. Dak-Galbi: "A popular South Korean dish generally made by stir-frying marinated diced chicken in a chilli pepper paste based sauce, sliced cabbage, sweet potato, scallions, onions and rice cake, together on a hot plate".

 

We were very skeptical when we went in, as we could not understand the 1 page menu AT ALL (the menu was displayed outside the restaurant); but thankfully we were still brave enough to go in. If bad nevermind la, one meal only.

 

So here's the menu:

 

This "menu" has only one single dish, and the entire page was explaining about the "order to eat" of Dak-Galbi. The "menu" is really confusing and we had a hard time figuring out what is happening, I'll copy down the "order to eat" list exactly as written from the menu, there's problem with their English so please bear with that:

 

1. Choose and Order hot spicy or normal spicy as your taste. (Tip: you can order mixed-flavour)

2. Choice and Order your additional dishes (Sari), Just wait for around 10 minutes

3. At first, enjoy the rice cake and then chicken with vegetables.

4. After finishing 2/3 or 70% of your meal, order fried rice.

 

Imagine it's our first time there and reading all these, how confusing. So we had to ask for help from the waiter, he was quite shocked that it's our first time (got so famous or not haha). Anyway, it's just very easy, just order the toppings you would like in the dish, and that's it. People will be cooking in front of you, cooking done, eat, finish! No need to think what to order, how easy.

 

We don't even have to think of what drinks to order, unless you prefer beer. Ice water is served!~

 

Refillable ice water. With metal cups haha.

This is the...erm...side dish i guess? There's Kimchi and garlics...and a really nice sauce to eat with your Dak-Galbi. AND there's this raw leaf vegetable; I always wondered what am I supposed to do with it, since it's always there in whatever Korean restaurant I go.

So cooking starts!

This is our chef of the day.

Look how fast he cooks haha. Seems easy though, just mixing around.

And....DONE! We ordered ramen for our first round (because apparently after finishing 70% of the meal we are supposed to order rice to mixed in). It looks super delicious, smells really really good too. I'm getting hungry while typing this, haha.

 

We were very obediant to call the waited when we are done with 70% of our meal:

 

And now fried rice time!!

 

You can choose not to order rice, but we did so since it was suggested in the "menu". Can add cheese too! although we didn't add cheese this time.

 

It's definitely a great experience going to Uncle Jang and I won't mind going over and over again! But you need at least 2 people to order la, loner cannot haha. Do go and have a try!

 

Uncle Jang Korean Restaurant (Puchong)
No,1-1, Jalan Puteri 1/7,
Bandar Puteri, 47100 Puchong,
Selangor, Malaysia.
Tel No.: +603-8051 2208
Business Hours: 12pm – 3pm, 6pm – 11pm (except Tuesday: 6pm – 11pm only)
Price: RM19+ per person, minimum order 2 person

JRockの集い- JRock 1st Gathering

Just like the title says, this is JRock no Tamashii first gathering~ It was on Oct 7, 2012 2PM-5PM at Pavilion KL Tokyo Street (yeah I know my update is like a month late). I have been wanting to go look see the gathering to show some support in Malaysia's JRock community and of course, eat ramen + walk around Pavilion KL.

 

I was there for just a very short 30 minutes or so, chatting around and made some new JRock friends~ Met some people I know, Jourdan (who went there alone, and i hope he is not too bored), Adam Genesis (his FB name, since I don't know his real name), Dante, just to name a few.

 

Am glad to know that bands and solo singers could send their resume to JRock Tamashii to get informed of stage related events and opportunities. This is really a great help for performers who wished for a place to perform! Thanks a lot to JRock Tamashii crews~ Love you guys ^^

 

Come back to the gathering, there's a chance to win the "best dressed" award so I sorta participated, although I did not dress up JRock/punkish haha. Was feeling a little lazy to be punk rock and so I whipped up a JPop-ish/oshare/black gyaru cordinate for the day: 

 

Color cordi: Black x Wine red. Black lace dress from H&M Singapore, with wine red accessories, beret and over-knee socks.

 

Me with Gloomy, head only haha. There's nothing much to take photo with so I randomly grab this cute furry Gloomy. Thanks to Jourdan for the above two photos~ Kinda regretted not taking more photos coz I wonder when will be the next time I'll do this cordi again.

 

To enter the "best dressed" contest, I'm supposed to spend RM5 on a chekki (instant photo) and then fill in my contact details. I knew I won't win anything but I just had to join because the chekki is in Rilakkuma design!! Ohmygosh, it's hard to come by so photo taking is a must!

 

 

My cute rillakkuma chekki!~ It's small and lovely, can put in purse but i'll never do it coz I'm sure I'll lost it within days. I kept it well with my other beloved purikuras~ I miss Purikura now, who's gonna take with me? (I wanna try going alone too >_<)

 

The "I LOVE JROCK" fusha pink badge is something I bought from the counter; figured that if i wanna support Jrock Malaysia Community might as well buy some prove! and it's cute so of course I'll grab it with no hesitation haha.

 

I never throught that my day will be a more Rilakkuma day rather than a JRock day. Some how the gathering has some Rilakkuma merchandise, my chekki is Rilakkuma, and that there's a shop in Tokyo Street FULL of Rilakkumas!!! Ohmygosh, but I only buy 1 HP earplug la, i'm controlling not to buy any other stuff, perhaps I will get more stuff when I visit there again.

 

We did Gachapon. And. Rilakkuma. AGAIN. Me and mum picked the Rilakkuma one to try, while sis played some Panda in a soup/dessert whatever.

 

What I got from gachapon: Rilakkuma mini mirror! It's very small and useful, can hang anywhere ^^. Mum turned and got the exact same one as mine, so no need to exchange.

 

 





This is my Rilakkuma hp earplug from that Rilakkuma shop! Super cute! Rilakkuma eating chocolate on his own head =_= (my hp cover is a Rilakkuma head, can see the ears). Mum even thought I would buy two for myself but I only took one.

 

Anyway I had a great Rilakkuma invasion + JRock + Ramen day~ Would like to go for the second gathering (and have to be Gazette theme summore) as well but I will be quite busy until Mid-December so I'll hold off the urge.

Hokkaido Ramen Santouka @ Tokyo Street, Pavillion KL

I had been wanting to try this since I've gotten the news that the famous ramen chain from Hokkaido has finally set its foot in Pavillion KL. Friends and friends who have been there gave great comments and urged me to try out this rave. And so here I am, blogging about finally trying out my long craving ramen restaurant.

 

Santouka, written as 山頭火 in Japanese (i read them reversely until my sis told me that I'm wrong). There was already a line there when we reach; the waitress gave us the menu while we were queing for seats so that we could order our food first and have our food served when seated. In the end we didn't wait long because we are sharing a big table with 2 other groups (2 Japanese guys and a family of 3).

 



 

The usual drink : Green Tea; but this time all of us had cold green tea as we were pretty exhausted after walking through that KLCC-Pavillion bridge (especially me when I wore my usual super high heels). Mum accidentally spilled some green tea on one of the Japanese guys, but she was fast enough to stop the tea from flowing (some skills). Sad that the tea here is non-refillable since we wasted a little of our tea.

We ordered 1 set of Tokusen Toroniku Ramen Shio based (Small for RM33.50) since it's the signature dish there, one Shio Ramen (Small - RM22.50) and one Miso Ramen (Small - RM22.50). Apparently their pork based soups are made by simmering the pork bones for 20 hours before adding the other ingrediants so the colour of the soups are milky bla bla bla. Personally I think the Shio based soups are a so-so, since i prefer broth with stronger flavor, Santouka's 20 hours simmering soup is not enough thick and strong enough for me! (or maybe they didn't boil it for 20 hours, who knows? haha.

 

Mum's Miso Ramen tasted better than my Shio one, since it's a little more flavorful. I only had one bite so i'm unsure whether it's something I would say I really love. BUT!! I have to say I'm so in love with the pork cheek meat!!It's really soft and tender, and not dry! (it's like melting in my mouth~ yum) Since it's rare (from Santouka website: only 200-300g can be taken from each pig) so there's only limited amount to be sold daily. The flavor is something I would wanna try again one day soon!

 

Okay so pictures now:

My FAVOURITE Toroniku!! We shared this among the 3 of us, really lovely and unforgettable.

 

Tokusen Toroniku + my Shio Ramen

Sis's Shio Ramen, with thick slice of Japanese char-shu, sliced bamboo shoots, seaweed, a slice of cute pink x white fish cake, shredded spring onions and a small pickled plum.

 

Mum's Miso Ramen, same ingrediants with Shio ramen, just without the pickled plum and with additional miso flavor. Both mum and sis love the ramen (especially toroniku), phew, if not it'll be waste of our travel time!

 

And one last picture! Me and my sis (being thoughtful that mum doesn't like her pictures to be in public).