Last night a group of us decided to have dinner at this seafood place which was chosen because a friend of ours was working around the area. My first time eating here and the food is not too bad. Even though it was a non weekend night, the place was quite packed with diners. To start off, we had their signature Siong Tong Lala (Lala in Superior Stock) which was pretty good especially the soupy bits that came flavoured with ginger shreds, chillies and rice wine.
We were recommended their Tau Foo Kang i.e a thick soup which has tau foo cubes, sea cucumber, crab meat and prawns in it to resemble the shark fins soup. Although there was not much seafood in it, it was pretty good and we all finished the soup.
When I heard they served paku leaves (fern tops in Malay), I chose them for our vegetable dish to be fried with sambal belachan. This was very dissapointing - they didn't pick out the hard woody bits from the vegetables and you can't really taste the sambal belachan in the vegetables at all.
We had the fried sotong (calamari) which was pretty good as they were no rubbery bits which I warned them not to serve us any. It's still not up to Muhibbah standards but I thought it was not too bad.
Finally came the dishes we were all waiting for - the salted egg yolk crabs. This was fried with lots of salted egg yolks that coated the outside of the crabs. There were also small cubes of the salted egg yolks with lots of chilli padis. We were really enjoyed our crabs that we decided to order another dish of crabs.
On my friend's recommendation, we had their Marmite crabs which came in a lovely sticky sauce coating the crabs. This was yummy and we all polished them off leaving only one crab piece for my friend to bring back to her dog for his present for the day (It was the dog's birthday yesterday). Pricewise, I didn't take the bill back as my friends had spent me dinner (thanks so much!) but my friend did remark that the crabs were a tad bit expensive as they had charged us RM40 per kilogram. It was lots of fun and we stayed for a long time slowly eating the crab (the best way to savour them) while catching up with each other as the last time we met was quite some time ago.
La-La Chong Seafood Restaurant
Lot PT 6824, Terminal 3,
Abdul Aziz Shah Airport
Tel No: 03 - 7859 1906
(For the location map, check out the Sun's write up. The place is pork free)
*Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here is entirely based on my personal tastebuds and may vary for others. The reviewer also declares that she has not received any monetary or non-monetary compensation from the restaurant for writing this review.