New Ocean Restaurant — Restaurant in Kuala Lumpur

Short review: it used to be good. Long review: what happened to you New Ocean??? Steamed Kampung Chicken ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tastes good with the sauce that was elevated with the shaoxing wine but the chicken meat was mostly dried out by the longest then necessary steaming process I assume.

Braised Claypot Lamb ⭐⭐⭐ Tastes good but there were hardly any lamb in there. Not enough to go around with some of us only managed to have one piece. The claypot was filled with beancurd skin giving me the impression that it should be called Braised Claypot Beancurd Skin with the lamb as garnishing.

Coconut Prawn Soup ⭐⭐⭐ The soup was quite sweet. Just imagine drinking coconut mixed with Thai chilli sauce. That was the taste of the soup. There prawns were fresh and easily shelled so that was its saving grace.

Stir Fried Chinese Chives ⭐⭐⭐ Passable but lots of it to go around. Everybody got their fair share of fiber.

And now, for the worst.

Steamed Jade Perch ⭐ This fish was heavy on mud taste. It was so heavy that the sauce was muddy in taste as well. It was like eating fish that was marinated with mud.

What has happened to New Ocean? It...

New Ocean Restaurant in Kuala Lumpur was our next stop after our sunset cocktails at the nearby rooftop bar – Heli Lounge Bar (aka Helipad). One of the reasons we dropped by New Ocean Restaurant was because the Imbi Road Fatt Kee Hokkien Mee was not opened this evening. Hence, we continued along Jalan Barat (Imbi) and visited New Ocean Restaurant instead…

We started with the order of KL Hokkien Mee – the reason why we were here at Restoran New Ocean in the first place. However, GST had a twist to this dish. He ordered KL Hokkien Mee with bee hoon in the mix, which turned out to be really really good! The idea is that yellow noodles, also known as Tai Lok Mee, is able to be coated with the fragrant dark soy sauce of the Hokkien Mee quite well. But this smart twist of adding bee hoon to tai look mee, allows the bee hoon to really soak in the gravy while tai lok mee offers the texture that is synonymous with Hokkien Mee. As for the dish itself, it was exactly what we had been looking for. Fragrant, shiny and lathered with the lardy goodness. An excellent rendition of this KL specialty.

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1. Overall - Authentic nostalgic Chinese Restaurant, friendly and fast service, plenty of seating but limited parking, offers varieties of fresh seafood and stir-fried dishes such as buttermilk crab and prawn, curry chicken in bread, steamed fish, mantis prawn and many more from New Ocean Restaurant
2. chicken soup - so flavouful, boiled enough hours till chicken meat slips off the bone, loved the taste
3. minced pork with eggplant - flavouful, salty, cooked eggplant mingled with minced pork altogether, great pair with white rice
4. stir fry vegetable - tasted good, got wok hei
5. tofu mushroom broccoli stir fry - tasted good, decent portion, pretty decoration, healthy
6. mango salad fried chicken - tasted okay, do eat the chicken before it turns soggy
7. soy braised pork - love love love, pork was marinated and cooked so well, sauces and pork were all combined, flavouful and aromatic, childhood memory
8. steamed fish - tasted good, fresh fish, nothing beats...