Wang Zi ~ Prince Mix Rice Restaurant @Subang Jaya USJ10 Taipan Business Centre

(Prince) Wang Zi Mix Rice Restaurant

Chap fan or nasi campur or mixed rice is a popular food for many seeking to have a quick and fast meal to fill a hungry stomach when eating out. Office workers, young couples, busy working mothers and college students looking for a fulfilling meal of rice will always patronise these chap fan shops. At times, even ‘worn out’ full time housewives may need a breather away from cooking@home will eat with their family at their regular mix rice shop.

I was invited to review a mix rice or economy rice place located at the bustling Subang Jaya Taipan. It’s quite easy to locate the place as it located a stone throw away from the Starbuck Cafe and you can never miss the eye catching and attractive large signboard at the top of the shop called 'Wang Zi Mix Rice Restaurant' (Wang Zi meant Prince in Chinese)

No Frills Shop - Clean & Practical

The concept of the shop is different from the usual coffee shop chap fan stall. They placed great importance on the cleanliness and an orderly manner on how it should be run. This no-frills shop’s interior offers a pleasant, clean and comfortable dining space for its customers to dine for a quick meal. Simple tables and stools are placed strategically on the right side of the shop while the food dishes are located the left. 

Spoilt for Choice -  Wide Spread of Tasty Dishes

Wang Zi Mix Rice shop boasts of more than 80 varieties of dishes on a daily basis, serving a wide selection of poultry, pork, fish, eggs, tau foo and vegetables of any sort to its patronizing customers. The selection of dishes here is quite decent as they cooked and served all types: fried, stewed, steamed, stir fry, braised and many others style of cooking to caters to the taste of its regular customers, young or old alike.

I was pretty amazed with the wide choices of dishes available that night. We had curry pork, sambal petai, braised chicken with eggs, sweet & sour pork, braised pork ears, sesame chicken, braised straw mushroom, eggs tau foo and 5 different types of egg dishes among others.

 Petai Lovers bound to salivate just by looking at this picture!

 Best Seller - Sambal Petai with Minced Pork

Sambal petai with minced pork was their best sellers here. I was told that they served an average of 4 trays of these tasty and appetising dish on a daily basis for lunch and dinner. I had my many servings of this favourite dish of mine, loved the petai. Something different as they are usually cooked with ikan bilis or prawns but here it’s substituted with minced pork. Anyhow, it was delicious and not too spicy just right for many and really goes well with rice again. 

 Healthy Greens of Po Choi ~ Chinese Spinach

 Sawi ~ Chinese Mustard 

Bayam ~Spinach 

As for me being a vegetable lovers, I had the pleasure of choosing for my favourite greens like sawi (chinese mustard green), po choi (chinese spinach), bayam (spinach), ladies finger, brinjal, cauliflower, taugeh (bean sprout) among others.

 

Savoury Dish - Sesame Chicken

I was spoiled for choice when it comes to meat dishes too. My favourite chicken dish was the special sesame chicken. Well marinated the meaty chicken pieces was drenched in special sauce and topped with toasted sesame seeds.

Sweet & Sour Pork

I enjoyed eating sweet & sour pork, it was tasty with flavourful sweet sour sauce, comes with lots of onions, tomatoes and cucumber too. Many chap fan shops that I tried before can’t get it right, either too watery or bland or at the worst was just tomato ketchup dish.

Something Different - Curry Meatballs

Another dish that caught my eye was the curry meatballs, the curry was full of flavour; not the type cooked with curry powder alone. I can taste that fresh herbs and spices are used and the curry gravy was good to go with a plate of steaming hot rice. I actually had many spoonful of the curry gravy on it own! The meatball used was of the better grade too as it was firm, tender and meaty too. I don't fancy the soft and mushy types.

Popular Braised Chicken with Eggs

The unusual dish that night was the braised chicken with eggs. Most shops serves the pork version of this dish but Wang Zi did the other wise. Well, chicken was okay and I like eating the egg as it was quite aromatic with the spices used.

 Scrambled Eggs with Chives & Carrots

 Steamed Eggs with Chives & Carrots

Egg Omelettes 

Eggs lovers can go crazy here as there are so many choices to choose from, from the usual ‘hor pau tan’ (fired egg) to steam eggs with minced pork, ‘fu yung tan’ omelettes slices to scrambled eggs and salted eggs too. I like the steam eggs the most.

Healthy Choice of Brown Rice  

Oh, another special feature here in Wang Zi is that they have a heart for the health freak or health conscious customers like me. Brown rice are served too along side with the usual white rice. Good choice for many especially for those watching their diet and on calories counting diet too. Brown rice is healthy and nutritious, high in vitamin and fibre. The only places I can find offering brown rice are in the vegetarian or the organic shops only. One only need to pay RM1.50 for brown rice as compared to RM1.00 for white rice.

 

Clean Filter Water For Everyone

FOC Chinese Tea/Water & Soup

All the meals come with Soup of the Day and free refillable Chinese tea (hot or cold) or plain water for its customers. I think this is a good practice and reflected on the boss generosity as he’s willing to offers free Chinese tea: forgoing the usual charge of 50 cents. Many food shop owners makes the most dollars & cents from the drinks business as it’s a known fact that the drinks are down right cheap makes the most in profit margins.

Besides that, for those yearning for a sweet drinks to go with the tasty meal, Wang Zi also served soya bean drink, chrysanthemum and winter melon tea for a special discounted price of RM1 for a cup only!

 Sinful but Tasty Braised Pork Ears

 Hot Pick Asam Tenggiri

Kids Choice - Mini Lion Head ~ Minced Meatballs

 Deep Fried Chicken DrumStick

 Vegetarian Offering of Abalone Mushrooms

Cost wise, it’s pretty reasonable as usual plate of mix rice with 2-3 dishes of meat and vegetable dishes will cost around RM5.00 to RM7.00 – it also depends on the portion that taken. Vegetables portion starts from RM1 - RM1.50 or RM 2.00, meanwhile the meat portion usually starts from RM2.00 – RM2.50 or RM3.00. The more portion and dishes you choose, the more it will cost. My advice to those on a tight budget is to stick to 1 meat dish with 1 vegetable dish for an economy meal.

Open for Lunch & Dinner

Well overall, Wang Zi is a decent and affordable place to eat for many. Food choices are aplenty and menu are changed daily so you would not be seeing the same dish every day. Tasty wise was alright, the cooks ‘fine tune’ it to suit everybody taste. Not too salty or neither too bland as some chap fan shops around does serves tasteless food.

According to the owner, David the shop is still quite new and been around for only 2 months or so. But looking at the score of customers patronising the shop that night was the proof of a good place offering tasty dishes at decent prices. My standard rule to choosing the right place to eat is  “Go Where The Crowd Is”, the more people the merrier!


Wang Zi Mix Rice Restaurant
36 Jalan USJ 10/1B
Taipan Business Centre
Subang Jaya USJ
47620 Selangor
Tel: 017-216 6462
Opening Hours: 10am to 9pm

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Tai Lei Loi Kei's Best of Macau @Subang Jaya Taipan USJ10 by FollowMeToEatLa

Tai Lei Loi Kei’s Pork Chop from Macau has arrived in Malaysia. With over 17 outlets around Klang valley and plans to expand to the Northern and Southern of Malaysia, this famous Macau bun has now reached our shores, and one of it can be found right here in Taipan USJ10.

Now, Malaysian no longer needs to travel all the way to Macau to enjoy this authentic and juicy Pork Chop Bun. Take a trip down to Taipan USJ for an escapade to Macau without having to fly.

Comfortable & casual outdoor dining place

Step into this restaurant and you’ll be met with indoor dining spaces touched with earthen tones of brown bricks for the all way. Chinese calligraphy adores the wall resembling typical Chinese outlet design. Simple and pleasant décor provides a casual place for the friendly and familiar food gathering.

This restaurant also comes with Value Meal for Breakfast & Teatime which only costs Rm8.90. You can choose your choice of buns with either Polo Bun or Signature Bun, the filling with either ham or luncheon meat to go with egg & cheese. I think this is really value for money as this set even comes with drink of your choice too. For small eaters, this set is good enough for an early lunch or dinner.

Tai Lei Loi Kei also serves a variety of dishes besides the Pork Chop Bun. They offer a wide selection of noodles – soup, dried version, curry, rice dishes with side orders of curry fish balls and chicken wings too. Customers can choose either chicken chop, pork chop or fish balls to go with the two types of noodles. I like the menu as it gives you the flexibility to mix and match the dishes with rice or noodles, instead of buns only.

Pork-licious Signature Pork Chop Bun

Macanese Tai Lei Loi Kei Pork Chop Bun originated from Macau. It first makes it mark in Hong Kong before landing in its third city in Malaysia. Pork lovers would be overwhelmed with many choices of savouring the pork chop with buns, noodles or rice too.

I was pretty amazed with the generous serving of the pork chop. It was huge and chunky measuring around 1 to 1.5cm thick. The ribs tasted even better than it looked. Wonderfully juicy, with the well marinated seasoning waking up our taste buds. The meat was superbly tender too. Very well executed. One thing I was not fond of is the texture of the bun. It was buttered and toasted before serving, and causes it to be thick with chewy crust and coarse interior.

Delicious looking : Polo Pork Chop Bun

The pineapple bun or more fondly known as Polo Bun is kind of sweet bun predominately popular in Hong Kong and Macau. I really enjoyed this prefect combination of the pork chop with sweet soft bun. The finest pork ribs are richly seasoned with selected spices, fried to mouth watering. It’s comes across as savoury and with a hint of sweetness to it. 

Polo Pork Chop Bun with Ham,Cheese and Egg  

This is my personal favourite combination of the Polo Pork Chop Bun. It was perfectly paired with fried egg, ham and cheese; went well with the savoury soft polo bun. I’m salivating just by looking at this picture while writing about this now! Somehow, the whole combination was really tasty and totally agreed with my taste buds.

Hot Pick : Signature Pork Chop Bun with Ham, Cheese and Egg 

This is another combination for those who fancy the crusty signature bun. For me. I still prefer my Polo Bun which is soft and moist with the right flavour within.

Pork Chop Bouncing Noodles

Okay, they must have named it ‘Bouncing Noodles’ for a good reason. The noodle does not bounce up and down but it was definitely springy and very fine in strands. Love the texture. I was told by the chef that it was in house made special noodles with duck eggs. Cost wise it was higher compared to chicken eggs as duck eggs does not come cheap nowadays. Duck eggs give it a right texture and do not turn soft or soggy if soaked in soup for long. Due to this, I realised that the bosses does not compromise in quality.

Noodles are well seasoned with special lard oil and soya sauce for the added flavours. This pork chop noodle set comes with adds on of fried egg, ham and luncheon. Can’t complain much as it was seriously loaded with many toppings

Hearty Pork Chop Soup Noodles

One of my favourite too as I loves noodle in any form specially the egg noodles or ‘sang meen’. The noodles tasted like wantan mee, fine texture, not soft and springy too. As it is especially made with duck eggs, the noodles in shape and does not go soggy even after being soaked in the broth for awhile. The flavourful broth is made from anchovies and really goes well with the noodles.

Supreme Chicken Chop Rice with Egg

For those wanting rice for a more filling meal, you can opt for this dish. It comes with chicken chop, rice and fried egg. The well marinated and debone chicken was tender and flavourful with the combination of light fragrance from the 5 spice powder and 10 more secret ingredients. Topped with the creamy butter sauce that made this another comfort food candidate indeed. On the other hand, the rice fail miserably. It was rather hard to eat as it has a hard texture, difficult to chew. I think it could be due to the preparation methods or the type of rice used. I love my rice to be soft and moist, so this is certainly not my choice. 

Simple Chicken Chop Bouncing Noodles

This is the same type of egg duck noodles used but comes with chicken chop instead. Excellent choice for chicken and noodle lovers. The springy ‘sang meen’ was evenly coated with plenty of pork lard oil, dark soya sauce and  light sauce. Good combination for those non porker eaters!

Macau Curry Fish Balls

Frankly speaking, I’m not a great fan of fish balls and the curry did not impress me either. The sauce tasted powdery, too strong or pungent with the use of too much curry powder. Fresh ingredients such as serai, galangal, lengkuas, turmeric, candle nuts were not used to cook this version of curry; thus this was not to my liking. Maybe, the Macau style curry has to be cooked in this way without the Malaysian touch.

Supreme Pork Chop Rice with Egg

Next on the menu is the Pork Chop version with rice. Rice and pork lover can opt for this variation. What I like about the pork chop served here is that every single piece comes with the rib bone. A real porky eater will appreciate this as he/she gets to enjoy chewing this juicy piece of bone at the end of the meal! 

Fish Balls Curry Noodles

This dish comes with the Duck egg noodles and generous serving of big bouncy fish balls with taufoo pok or tofu puffs. The different version of curry was used this time. Fragrant with fresh herbs and spices, I found this santan based curry to my liking. Tasted quite similar to the nyonya laksa: watery, not thick but spicy with hint of fresh ingredients. It does goes well with the fish balls and noodles.

Chilled Delights Saw Dust Cake 

To end our meal, we were presented with a delightful dessert called the Saw Dust Cake. Don’t be alarmed, there is no saw dust in this dessert as the name suggests otherwise but actually fine granules of biscuit crumbs grinded to resemble the saw dust. Hence, it got this cute name to it.

Saw dust Cake is a Portuguese dessert made up of sweetened vanilla cream and crushed biscuits. As layered chilled dessert with creamy layer which is a prefect match with the slightly rough biscuits. It had a lovely creamy, yet airy texture and the ‘saw dust’ is a wonderful interruption. It comes in chocolate or vanilla flavours – the latter being a memorable one is recommended. It is bound to leave any dessert lover wanting more!

Overall, the food they served is really good quality. Noodles are in house made with premium ingredients. Meats are freshly made, well marinated and fried to perfection on demand at approximately 2 minutes 40 seconds, nothing more and nothing less. I was told that macau Tai Lei Loi Kei would send its personnel to Malaysian branches to conduct regular quality assessment to ensure that all branches meet the brands’s food quality standards.

Price wise is average, be prepared to spend at least RM20 for a complete meal with adds on and drinks included. So if you want a new dining experience with Macau’s Best, Tai Lei Loi Kei makes a worthy choice! 

Tai Lei Loi Kei

4A jalan USJ 10/1J

Top Speed Business Centre

USJ Taipan

47670 Subang Jaya.

Opening hours : Daily from 10am to 11pm

Telephone       : 03 – 8011 6258

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