While I have been eating in many places, travelling beyond the city is typically outside the boundary of my comfort zone. Nevertheless, a little travelling can sometimes payoff quite well. A couple of km’s out of city lies a quality restaurant which serves homestyle Malaysian food. It list of impressive menu has common Malaysian food like herbal chicken, curry fish head, and other things which revolves about the delicious sambal. For this dinner of mine, my ambitious crew of three decided to bite more than we can chew.
Some of the food we ordered includes:
Claypot Eggplant with minced pork and chilli! This dish was probably the least favourite of the night. While its sauce was thick and tasty, it seemed to lack the typical Malaysian touch which for me is a more well fried brinjal cooked in a sauce which uses a little bit more “tau cheong” or preserved bean sauce. Nevertheless, its good dish to have with rice!
Next was the fried king prawn in two sauce.
This dish despite its simplicity sticks to a faultless formula which some might critic it for being to simple or unenthusiastic. But seriously, a teenage eater can’t complain when its mayonnaise with fried prawns! Hometown Kitchen adds its own touch with some cut fruits to mix with their prawn salad. On the other end of the plate is the prawns with Thai chilli sauce which was pretty good as well!
Fish head curry.
Despite serving strong dishes like the king prawn and other dishes which I have tried before like the homemade bean curd, nothing quite satisfies my taste buds like Hometown Kitchen’s Curry Fish served in Claypot. With a delectable sauce with heaps of spices, this was one dish that had me eating many bowls of rice. Not to mention, some of the deep fried fish pieces were actually still crispy making it extremely pleasurable to bite into! More importantly, the fish used does not have the fishy stench which usually keeps me away from such dishes! For this dish, I would definitely score it a 8/10! This is strongly recommended by my friends as well!
Overall, Hometown Kitchen serves quality food at decent prices. What its eggplant dish lacked off was made up the prawns and the curry fish dish. Service here was fair. It was not attentive like fine dining but neither was it bitchy. Judging from the satisfaction I had, a next visit is not too far away!
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With a subtle taste of rice wine, it had a very pleasant fragrant. Its chicken was cooked to near perfection and was really easy to eat. I would not normally eat dishes which have lots of alcohol but this was really quite nice!
Juicy pork dumplings were all the hype in Din Tai Fung. Was it deserving or did the hype kill it? Unfortunately, the later has prevailed as perfect skin and pork mince were marred by mediocre soup. Could have done with a little more salt definitely! For me what is the point of biting into a soup dumpling if the soup tastes bland @@!? 
While presentation counts, its not edible. With me having near perfect prawn dumplings from HK, Din Tai Fung definitely needed to up its game if it were to make me sway. Unfortunately, back to my previous complains, prefect ingredients but too little seasoning. What a waste of juicy prawns to be honest. With that being said, Din Tai Fung is NOT HORRIBLE or BAD. It just did not deserve the hype/craze that has been surrounding it. Seriously, talk about hype :(!
Additionally, we called the chicken version of the Xiao Long Bao which was almost impossible to differentiate between it and the pork one. The only thing that gave it away was probably how one mince was darker than the other! Also, we ordered a bowl of beef stew and herbal chicken soup which to me was another blend failure. 
Dazzling Cafe’s Mont Blanc Honey Toast! With an outer crust filled with carefully sliced toast with a butter and honey glazing this was yummy! Mont Blanc or chestnut flavoured cream tasted sweet and refreshing. With some ice cream and fruits. It was lovely! A really good dessert if you do not mind the calories!
Similar to the Mont Blanc toast, it was similar with the exception of the chestnut cream. Nevertheless, it has all the essentials that makes it special. I guess this is all that counts? :)!