MOO-KATA Steamboat & BBQ House @ Kuchai Lama Food Court

Last week, we gang of people were here to celebrate our colleagues birthday! 

Moo Kata Steamboat & BBQ House is located inside Kuchai Lama Food Court, serves over 120 types of fresh seafood, skewers, meat, noodles, fried and cooked Chinese food, desserts, ice cream and fruits. Eat all you can without time limit for RM45 per person.

We choose open air seats to avoid hot and stuffy. With 3 different type of cooking ways between Charcoal BBQ, Sizzling Hot Plate and Steamboat, each person is entitled to choose one type according to your preference. For example, if 2 person, entitled for 2 type, extra charge RM5 if you want all 3 different type cooking way.  



Worth mentioning that they are using charcoal to BBQ, sizzling and even steamboat. Besides, according to their staff, their steamboat pork bone soup is made of 210 kg pork bone and 170 liters of water.

Charcoal BBQ

Sizzling Plate

Steamboat pot

Assorted sticks of marinated (Honey, Curry, Black Pepper & Teriyaki) skewers of the choice chicken, pork, lamb and beef.

Marinated chicken, lamb, beef and pork slices. Not to forget their pandan chicken! It tastes real good!

Assorted shells

Assorted seafood. Clams, mussels, lala, bamboo clams, prawns, crabs etc.

Assorted fresh fish slices. Stringray taste soso. 

Assorted fishballs, seafood tofu etc.

Fresh meat slices. Beside is butter and lard for BBQ and sizzling plate.

Curry fishball and herbal egg.

Fruits

Ice cream and durian desserts

Shaved ice!!! Favourite!

Iced ribena, lemon tea, teh tarik, coffee etc. Taste odds. Teh tarik was way too sweet.  =(

Sauces to choose from...

Pork bone soup & Clear Tomyum soup add on your own.

LET'S BEGIN THE FEAST!

BBQ skewer. Taste alright. Alike satay but it's not as juicy and perfect proportion as satay. SOSO.

BBQ prawns, seafoods and pandan chicken. I have to mention that I BBQ-ed their pandan chicken the most, it taste real good! Tender, juicy and fragrant with pandan flavour. Yum!

Sizzling prawn with butter. Fresh prawn!

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Sizzling mussels, scallops and squids! Brilliant idea of removed the shells and sizzling those flesh directly!

I love and gonna miss this!

We didn't take much cooked food since they only served fried rice & noodles, curry chicken and fried stuffs. I would ignore this area because it ain't taste good.

Our overall conclusion:

• Seafood. Wide varieties but freshness is not up to par. 

• Marinated skewers and meat slices. Prefer honey and black pepper flavour pork and lamb. Small slices, fresh but not juicy. Barely can see any fats on the meat, not OMPH.

• Desserts. Taste alright. I love their smooth shaved ice!

• Beverages. Definately a NONO. Most of the beverages taste odd, either too plain or sweet. We paid extra to get ourselves 100 PLUS, COLA and juices. =(

Service here was kinda helpful since we went on weekday and kinda empty. The ambiance here was normal and all of us were sweat and sticky although we opted open air seat. Much more prefer Happy City BBQ Steamboat Restaurant.

Will  come back for another visit? Maybe once in a blue moon.

  

Rating:

Food : 2/5

Price: 2.5/5

Service: Mainly self service.

Ambiance: 2.5/5

Address:

Lot 31208, Jalan Awam Makmur, Off Jalan Klang Lama, KL, Malaysia. ( Opposite police station)

Tel:

011- 3336 1105

Hours:

Daily. 5.30pm till 1am

Samet Thai @ Kuchai Lama

This Friday, me and Kenny was headed to Kuchai Lama, planned to go Torazou Ramen, but Kenny claimed that the ramen we tried before was better than this restaurant. So, we walked around and found a signboard written Thai Kopitiam, sounds interesting. We decided to give a try!

We were there around 9pm and didn't notice their opening hour was till 10pm until the staff who passed us the menu told us they were having last call order. Well, can I take this as non welcoming greeting?

We ordered Somtam as starter, Tomyum soup, Belacan Fried Rice, Pork Leg Rice and Tub Tim Krab as desserts.

Tub Tim Krab (RM 6). A small cup of colorful red rubies in coconut milk was the first dish served on our table. The most reddish red rubies I even seen before I have to say, the entire coconut milk turned into pink when we mixed red rubies and ice... 


The water chestnut was not nice at all as it's coated by mushy tapioca flour. While the sweeten coconut milk was too thick and sweet. The portion was too small with the price they charged.

Somtum (RM 6.90). Green papaya salad, refreshing and sour. The salad came with generous amount of shredded carrot, shredded green papaya, green beans, tomatoes and some peanuts.


The taste was okay but the proportion of ingredients was imbalance. I am not sure whether this is vegetarian somtum, as I didn't see any dried shrimp in the salad.

Tom Yum Soup w pork (RM 12.90). This Tom Yum soup was sour but non spicy. Generous portion of pork slices given in the soup. 


It's not taste alike authentic Tomyum soup. But I would say this soup suitable for people who have lower tolerance with spicy food.

Pork Leg Rice (RM 9.90). We were WAO when we looked at it, but disappointing when eaten. This dish was served in non-warm condition, it's cold. =.=


Pork meat was too lean, it's dry and not juicy. Although generous amount of gravy and pork meat given, but the taste was not okay. The hard boiled egg was cold and really hard. The only thing we satisfied was the generous amount of vege. 



Conclusion: Disappointing.

Belacan fried rice (RM 8.90). Kenny was disappointing with his fried rice. Non aromatic at all. The pork meat at side was cold and hard. 

 Chilli sauce. Sour and non spicy.

 Lemongrass water (RM 3.50). We ordered Pandan Leaf water but we dunno why we served by lemongrass water. It's sweeten and barely can taste lemongrass. Just forget about it.

The table infront of the shop which selling some snacks and BBQ meat.

The service here was sucks. Staffs here were from Myanmar, while the boss and chef were from Thailand. Training and briefing the minimum level of service standard and manners was urge needed. Even there were still some customers sitting and eating, we don't mind if the staff came and asked us to pay at 9.40pm, but at least leave us to finish our food asap rather than kept on collected our empty plates and standing or sitting in front of us. A couple who came at 9.30pm was rejected by the staff because she said they were closing. =.= 



Not to forget, once we stepped out of this restaurant around 10.10pm, the roller shutter door was immediately closed right behind of us.





Conclusion, I won't ever step into this restaurant again. Lousy food and very lousy service. To be frank, the food was totally a failure and barely can say that this is Thai food.

Rating:

Food - 0.5/5

Price - 2.5/5  (5% Service Charge & 6% GST)

Service - 0/5

Ambiance - 2.5/5

Location: 

28F, Jalan Kuchai Maju 9, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama, KL.

Hours:

Daily. 11am till 10pm.