Chinese New Year (CNY) is just 2 weeks away. Many restaurants have already start promoting their CNY dishes which are specially created for this festival.

Young Heart Restaurant too had created some CNY special dishes and I have the opportunity to try them out thanks to CK who invited me to this dinner.

Steamed dumplings (jiao zhi) and pan fried dumplings (guo tie) are their speciality.

We were first served with 3 types vege rolls which are Egg Vege Roll, Unagi Vege Roll and Prawn Vege Roll. This vege rolls are pretty similar to the one I've tasted at Ms. Saigon. A thin layer of Vietnamese rice paper are used to wrapped the vege and ingredients used.

Being a die hard fan of unagi, I tasted the unagi vege roll. The vegetable is very fresh and somehow it overtake the unagi taste. The unagi does not have strong sweet sauce taste like what we get in Japanese restaurant.

There are 3 types of sauces to go with the vege rolls. There are Chinese Style Sauce, Siam Style Sauce and Japanese Style Sauce (clockwise from top).

Next up was Hot & Sour Soup. This soup is quite appetizing. The soup base is slightly thick, similar to shark fin soup base. Preserved vegetable, tofu and come black fungus (wood ear fungus) can be found in this soup.

Golden Scallop Dumpling is one of the dishes in the CNY menu. The dumpling skin is made of a mixture of flour and carrot. Therefore, it turned out more yellowish than usual. The dumpling filling which consists of scallop, prawn and pork taste good.

The sauce to go with the dumpling. There are shredded ginger in vinegar, fried shallots and chili.

Snake Squash with Pork - Don't get mislead by the dish name ya. There isn't any snake involve in this dish, else I'll be 10 feet away.

Snake squash is one kind of gourds. The snake squash taste sweet and it goes well with the pork. The pork is well marinated and smooth.

This is one of the dish that I like a lot during the night. Cheese & Chicken Guo Tie tasted very good. The amount of cheese is just adequate that it added fragrant to the guo tie but at the same time it won't left you feeling 'jelak' after eating it.

Fried Bean Curd - the tofu texture is soft. The tofu tasted fragrant as the tofu is blended with other ingredients such as anchovies, carrot and chinese celery.

Stir Fried Mix Vege & Mushroom. The dish is simple and plain but it's suitable for those who do not like strong taste. The sweetness of the vegetable and mushroom is the selling point of this dish. The mushroom is very fresh, juicy and sweet.

Prosperous Year in Malaysia is actually the name of the next dish which can be simplified as fried chicken. This is another dish which I like a lot too. The batter consist of lemongrass which added fragrant to the dish. This is my first time to eat fried chicken which have the lemongrass smell and it's quite special to me.

Fried Prawn & Garlic was served next. The batter is very crispy with a hint of garlicky smell which is still acceptable for me. If you were to eat the prawn on its own, it's a bit too salty. But the taste will be just right when you eat it together with a bowl of white rice.

Sponge Gourd with Pork - This dishes has a strong taste of dong gui (Angelica Sinensis or female ginseng). The pork goes well with the sponge gourd which had absorbed just the right amount of gravy. So no worry that the sponge gourd will taste plain.

This is another of my favourite dish too - Steam Cod & Bean Curd. The cod fish is very smooth and soft that it just melt right in my mouth. Simple method and simple ingredients were used to cook the fish to maintain the original taste of the cod fish.

We were served with 3 types of noodles that night. The noodles are handmade by the chef. One of it was vegetarian noodle; Black Jelly Mushroom Fried Noodle. Lots of black fungus, cabbage, carrots and mushroom in this noodle. This noodle tasted plain and sweet. Again, it's suitable for those who do not like heavy taste food.

Shredded Pork Noodle - There are lots of minced meat and spring onion to go with the noodle.

Ground Pork in Spicy Bean Sauce Noodle - The sauce tasted like 'ma po' tofu to me. This is strictly for those who can bear the spiciness as is tasted very spicy to me.

Chamomile and Chrysantenum tea was served to us. Chamomile is believe to have calming and soothing effect.

Young Heart Restaurant got its name from the plant which have a heart shape leaf. The plant is called the Sweetheart Hoya.

There are lots of bamboo & greens deco inside this restaurant. It gives me a very comfortable feeling.

A separated room which is very suitable for friends gathering.

Thanks to Ms. Ann Kee for providing a wonderful dinner to us.

Business hour: 12pm - 10pm (Closed on Monday)
Contact: 04 - 228 8084
Hp: 016 - 410 8089

Map for those who are not familiar:

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I always pass by this restaurant and whenever I do, the devil and angel side of me will appear and argue whether should I dine in there. My devil side will say, 'go in... go in... jap food waiting for you...yum yum..' & my angel side will protect my wallet , 'Don't ever go in, it's going to be very damaging judging by the outlook of the restaurant'.

Finally one day, my devil side won and without realizing I'm already sitting on the tatami.

We ordered one Seafood Bento Set to share among us as normally bento set is huge. The bento set come with a bowl of salad, chawanmushi (steam egg) and fruits.

The unagi tasted good but it'd be better if there are a little more sauce. The portion of the unagi is quite big too.

I just love this dish which come together in the bento set. It's stir fried scramble egg with vegetables. It's very tasty with a hint of spiciness. It's kinda like the egg which served in the first dish of a Chinese Wedding Dinner. The one that stir fried with some shark fins. But this one tasted more fragrant.

The seafood was stir fried with garlic sauce. There are some salmon, prawns and squids. The seafood are fresh.

The egg was steam to perfection, it's so soft and smooth.

Spider Roll - It's very tasty with a generous amount of soft shell crab wrapped with Japanese rice, seaweed and lettuce. The soft shell crab is quite crispy but not oily. I am a fan of soft shell crab. :)

Salmon Roll Maki - There are some green pepper and spring onions wrapped inside the rice. The sushi is topped with fried shredded shallots. I just can't stand the taste of the green pepper, sprion onions and shallots. Therefore, this sushi don't taste good to me.

But, my bf just like it. The salmon is fresh.

Yaki Tori which is grilled chicken. It tasted slightly sweet with tender meat. I guess the sweetness comes from the teriyaki sauce.

The environment is very cosy with some yellow lighting to light up the area. But the yellow lighting spoilt my photo shooting lol...

You can choose to be sitted in a 'private room' with tatami seating which are separated with some string-like curtain.

Else you can opt for the normal dining table type of seating.

The price is not that damaging after all. Phew...

This restaurant is located at I Avenue. Map for those who are not familiar:

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"What to eat tonight?" ... This is the question that we normally post to each other during dinner time. Normally for dinner, we would have hawker food cos it's just 2 of us. Eating out everyday for lunch and dinner could be very boring.

I went to this restaurant for lunch few days ago and their Pai Kut Ong Rice gave me a good impression. Although the price is slightly higher (RM5) but the portion is really big.

Since my bf likes to eat pai kut ong, off we go to Sin Hai Ben Seafood Restaurant which is located at Batu Maung.


The dishes we ordered arrived so quickly where the serving time is comparable to Ghee Seng TomYam Seafood.

Pai Kut Ong arrived first. The slices of meat are too thin, some are quite hard but some are tender. The meat are marinated, fried then served with sweet and sour sauce. Except the hard meat, others taste good.

I think the food quality is not very consistent as the pai kut ong that I had for lunch is very good with tender meat.

Stirred fried sweet potato leaves tasted too salty but the wok hei is there. We already feedback to the person in charge. He said we should have feedback to him earlier so that he can change a new one for us.

The last dish is tofu with mix vegetables. The gravy tasted pretty good but the tofu tasted a bit cold inside. Is it done purposely or...? But anyway, I prefer mine to be hot inside.

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