Lala Chong Seafood Restaurant, Terminal 3 Subang, Selangor

From the sun

MR YIM, the owner of Lala Chong Seafood Restaurant, prefers to use the nickname given by his customers -- Mr Lala. He started cooking in 1985, when he was only 13, at Yee Kee Restaurant, Old Klang Road (near the Guinness brewery). In 1999, he opened his own seafood restaurant called La La Pond in an oil palm estate surrounded by many ponds in Subang. It was moved to Terminal 3, Subang Airport in 2001 and renamed Lala Chong Seafood Restaurant.

Specialties

· Siong thong lala (fresh lala cooked in a soup with garlic and cili padi)

· Crabs fried with salted egg

· Butter prawns fried with black beans

· Tau foo kang with sea cucumber (a thick soup with tau foo and sea cucumber cooked in the style of shark's fin soup)

· Special salted grilled tilapia (snow mountain grilled fish)

· Steamed kampung chicken with ginger and garlic sauce

· Special Lala Chong claypot chicken with garlic and ginger (Taiwan-style)

Address: Lot PT 6824, Terminal 3, Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, 47200 Subang, Selangor

Tel: 03 7859 1906

Business hours: 12 noon to 3pm (lunch) and 5pm to 11pm (dinner); open for dinner only on Sundays

Close: Open every day (dinner only on Sunday)

Payment: Cash and credit cards (Visa, Mastercard and Amex)

Type of food: Chinese seafood

Category: Pork-free

Budget: $$ (RM10 to RM20 per person)

Baby chair: Yes

Business friendly: Yes

Parking: Ample

Noise level: 3 (moderate)

Related links: (1) Lala Chong outlet at Ara Damansara (2) Clams (3) Tilapia

Related places on rasarasa.net: (1) Tau foo kang at Happy Village (2) Salted grilled tilapia at Wou Sou Sang