Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Restoran Ah Soon Kor (Rawang)
42 Jalan SS 3/31,
Taman Universiti,
47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Business hours: 11am till 3pm and 5.30pm till 10.30pm everyday
Closed: alternate Mondays
Vietnamese food, Sabah food, Chinese food, Rawang tilapia fish, Sabah noodles
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Sabah noodles (and more) right here in Petaling Jaya
BY LYDIA KOH
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Springy homemade egg noodles are the star in Tuaran Mee. — PIctures by Choo Choy May
Springy homemade egg noodles are the star in Tuaran Mee. — PIctures by Choo Choy May
PETALING JAYA, Dec 2 — Sabahan foodies, rejoice! If you have been missing Tuaran Mee or Beaufort Mee from your hometown, you can now enjoy them right here in Petaling Jaya.
Tuaran native Chris Wong moved to Kuala Lumpur 15 years ago. Growing up, Wong always had a passion for cooking, starting at the young age of 18.
Through guidance from his mother and also experiments on his own, he learned how to cook Sabahan favourites as well as Hakka recipes from his Sino-Kadazan family. Wong perfected other recipes as well, including local favourites from Rawang and Vietnamese cuisine.
About two and a half years ago, Wong quit his job in the telecommunications industry and ventured into the restaurant business. Initially, he and his partner managed a restaurant in Rawang selling steamed fish and other dai chow dishes.
Wong had also helped out another partner running a Vietnamese restaurant. Combining both the cuisines as well as his passion for Sabahan food, Wong then started Ah Soon Kor, serving all three cuisines.
“I’ve always had an interest in home cooking. I wanted to start a restaurant that offers a variety of food. We get our fish from Rawang and twice weekly, we have fish flown in from Sabah as well,” said Wong.
From Rawang, he would get his supply of tilapia while fish like grouper and red snapper will be brought in from Sabah.
Wong chose to open Ah Soon Kor in SS3, Petaling Jaya because he lived nearby. He felt that there weren’t many restaurants in Kuala Lumpur serving Sabahan cuisine.
“As a Sabahan, I know how it feels like to miss food from my home. That’s why I want to bring the taste of home to my fellow Sabahans and let others try our cooking,” said Wong.
The name of Ah Soon Kor is a combination of names, Ah Soon being his partner from Rawang and Kor (meaning brother in Cantonese) referring to Wong.
Ah Soon Kor's Stewed Pork Ribs is tender and satisfying.
Ah Soon Kor's Stewed Pork Ribs is tender and satisfying.
One of the specialties of Ah Soon Kor is the Pork and Yam dish which is originally a Hakka dish. Other favourites at Ah Soon Kor are the Vietnamese Pho, Stewed Pork Ribs, Steamed Tilapia in Rawang style, Tuaran Mee and Beaufort Mee.
There are two types of Tuaran mee; the wetter version and the dry version. Personally, Wong likes the wetter version but due to customers’ request, he decided to serve the dry version.
“The Tuaran noodles are handmade and it is deep fried and then boiled. After that, it is fried again with egg and homemade char siew,” said Wong.
Tuaran Mee is very different from any type of noodle dish in Peninsular Malaysia. It can be egg-y, dry, wet or even slightly sweet or salty depending on the cook. Having tasted the dry version in Tuaran itself, I can say that Wong’s version is close to the original Tuaran Mee.
My favourite would be Beaufort Mee where the noodles are smoked and then the gravy is poured over it. It is served with a lot of vegetables and char siew. There is nothing like that as well in Peninsular Malaysia and it is really nice because the crispy noodles go well with the gravy.
“Some of my customers just come for the Sabahan noodles and some come to order the fish and local dishes,” said Wong.
The Steamed Tilapia has a special sauce garnished with ginger and garlic. The result is similar to cheong chingstyle.
Besides that, Ah Soon Kor also serves Vietnamese drip coffee and ice lemon tea (or lemon teh ping as the Sabahans call it).
Ah Soon Kor serves authentic Sabahan noodles and many other delicious dishes.
Ah Soon Kor serves authentic Sabahan noodles and many other delicious dishes.
Ah Soon Kor is open every day from 11am till 3pm and 5.30pm till 10.30pm but it closes on alternate Mondays.
Ah Soon Kor
42, Jalan SS 3/31, Taman Universiti, 47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
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Thursday, May 1, 2014
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Tel: 03-78730311
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The Children's Clinic University Garden
The Children's Clinic, University Garden
18 Jalan SS3/31
47300 Petaling Jaya
Tel: 03-78749776
Dr. Lam Khuan Leng, Consultant Paediatrician
18 Jalan SS3/31
47300 Petaling Jaya
Tel: 03-78749776
Dr. Lam Khuan Leng, Consultant Paediatrician
Friday, December 10, 2010
First SS3 PJ Town Hall Meeting
SS3 PJ First Town Hall Meeting
Date: Saturday 11 December 2010
Venue: MBPJ Basketball Court
Jalan SS3/14, Petaling Jaya
Time: 8pm.
YB Lau Weng San ADUN Kampung Tungku
Mr Darren Tiong Boon Keong, PJ City Councillor for Zone 20 (SS1, SS3, SS9A
Light refreshment will be served. Residents of SS3 are encouraged to attend and raise any state or national issues.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
SS3 Zone B security survey
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Gated community, or not?
Gated community, or not?
Sim Kwang Yang
Oct 29, 09
2:51pm
I moved into a brand new housing estate at the top of a hill in Cheras more than five years ago, and have seen how the area develops into a very pleasant neighbourhood, with shops, an Econsave, a pasar malam on Sunday, and even a wet market in the morning every day.
Then, the usual crimes crept in, the usual personal assaults, the snatch thieves, and the break-ins. My neighbours had their houses broken in a few times. Strange looking people used to walk up and down the back lane. Cars with tinted windows and idle motor-cycles drove up and down the lane in front of my house everyday.
NONEI was getting a little worried about security in the neighbourhood. A few private companies offered to provide security, but looking at the so-called security guards, I did not know whom to fear more, the guards or the criminals.
Over a year ago, the Resident Association (RA) was formed, and they hired their own guards to man two check-points. Over 90% of the residents joined in, paying RM50 each month, for the salary of the 11 guards. Every hour or so, the guards would patrol the lanes on their motor-cycles.
The guards are mostly Sabah natives; they wear smart uniforms, and are always courteous to residents and visitors alike.
Immediately, the crime rate dropped down to zero. It is a rare success story, as far as I know, of community effort in ensuring security in their own neighbourhood.
Even so, not all people are satisfied. A local business person is in the process of suing the RA for blocking the roads and checking her customers' cars.
I am aware that a raging debate is going on in the Klang valley about whether such gated communities should be allowed. There are the inevitable grouses that such RA that put up the gates are committing an illegal act, because the roads within every housing states belong to the State of Selangor and they are under the jurisdiction of the local council, the MPKJ in my case.
Amoeba-like growth invites woes
Even if the local council has given their blessings for these RAs to block up their neighbourhood, some residents still complain about the legality of such a move, because the job of public security belongs to the police.
Personally, in theory at least, I support the idea of the gated community.
Klang Valley is developing like a giant amoeba, and there are simply too many housing estates even in the Cheras area, for the few policemen to ensure their safety around the clock.
suaram upm memo protest 250907 policeWith the Rakan Cop scheme in place, the police have assured citizens that police personnel would respond to calls for assistance within 10 minutes of a phone call. The police station nearest to my home is at Cheras Batu 9, and indeed on the two occasions that I called them in the past, policemen arrived at the scene within minutes.
But the setting up of road barricades in the neighbourhood RA has eradicated my need to call the police station altogether.
The local residents who take the initiative to form RAs and hire their own guards are actually model citizens who have shown their sense of civic responsibility for their own safety.
The presence of ther guards alone is often an effective deterrent against petty thieves from invading into their area.
RAs add value to society
The RAs are also the civic organisation of citizens at the grass-root level that promote the spirit of public engagement for their mutual benefit. They are the very instrument that makes neighbourhoods out of mere collection of lonely houses. In sociological terms, they are the vibrant civic societies that accumulate social capital for a good cause.
Recently, the RA in my neighbourhood organised a Mid-Autumn festival on the park, and 1000 residents turned up to eat moon cakes and watch performances on the stage.
Of course, we know that a RA is as good as the spirit of co-operation, honesty, integrity, dedication, and diligence of its committee members. They must be registered with the ROS, have regular meetings and their AGMs, with properly audited accounts and meeting minutes passed at these meetings.
I know that sometimes, a RA can be paralysed by factional fights, personality conflicts, or people having their fingers in the till. Selfishness is often the cause of collapse of any local community. Sometimes, party politics also sour the neighbourhood spirit of any RA.
But properly run, the RA offers the best solution towards ensuring public and personal safety in the numerous housing estates throughout Klang Valley.
mpsj parking woes 290905 park housingThere is another strong basis for this sort of neighbourhood watch organisation. Many house-buyers have invested large sums of money in the purchase of their expensive houses. If their neighbourhood is crime-infested, it would affect negatively the re-sale price of their property and their rental earnings. The government has the moral authority to encourage the RAs in their effort in protecting their own investment.
As for the argument that the RAs have acted illegally in blocking up public roads, it is a matter of amending the relevant laws, either for the state government and the local councils to find the legal instrument to empower and entrust the RAs with some kind of authority over the roads in their jurisdiction, or simply to lease the roads out to the RAs.
Land is under the state's jurisdiction, and so the Selangor PR state government should look into this aspect of the problem, so as to settle this long-standing dispute about the legality of the gated communities. (Will someone send this article to the office of the Selangor MB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim please?)
If a law is good for the people, then it must be kept. If a law is bad for the people, then it must be repealed or amended. That is the principle of good jurisprudence according to the natural law theorists anyway.
SIM KWANG YANG can be reached at kenyalang578@hotmail.com.
Malaysiakini.com
Sim Kwang Yang
Oct 29, 09
2:51pm
I moved into a brand new housing estate at the top of a hill in Cheras more than five years ago, and have seen how the area develops into a very pleasant neighbourhood, with shops, an Econsave, a pasar malam on Sunday, and even a wet market in the morning every day.
Then, the usual crimes crept in, the usual personal assaults, the snatch thieves, and the break-ins. My neighbours had their houses broken in a few times. Strange looking people used to walk up and down the back lane. Cars with tinted windows and idle motor-cycles drove up and down the lane in front of my house everyday.
NONEI was getting a little worried about security in the neighbourhood. A few private companies offered to provide security, but looking at the so-called security guards, I did not know whom to fear more, the guards or the criminals.
Over a year ago, the Resident Association (RA) was formed, and they hired their own guards to man two check-points. Over 90% of the residents joined in, paying RM50 each month, for the salary of the 11 guards. Every hour or so, the guards would patrol the lanes on their motor-cycles.
The guards are mostly Sabah natives; they wear smart uniforms, and are always courteous to residents and visitors alike.
Immediately, the crime rate dropped down to zero. It is a rare success story, as far as I know, of community effort in ensuring security in their own neighbourhood.
Even so, not all people are satisfied. A local business person is in the process of suing the RA for blocking the roads and checking her customers' cars.
I am aware that a raging debate is going on in the Klang valley about whether such gated communities should be allowed. There are the inevitable grouses that such RA that put up the gates are committing an illegal act, because the roads within every housing states belong to the State of Selangor and they are under the jurisdiction of the local council, the MPKJ in my case.
Amoeba-like growth invites woes
Even if the local council has given their blessings for these RAs to block up their neighbourhood, some residents still complain about the legality of such a move, because the job of public security belongs to the police.
Personally, in theory at least, I support the idea of the gated community.
Klang Valley is developing like a giant amoeba, and there are simply too many housing estates even in the Cheras area, for the few policemen to ensure their safety around the clock.
suaram upm memo protest 250907 policeWith the Rakan Cop scheme in place, the police have assured citizens that police personnel would respond to calls for assistance within 10 minutes of a phone call. The police station nearest to my home is at Cheras Batu 9, and indeed on the two occasions that I called them in the past, policemen arrived at the scene within minutes.
But the setting up of road barricades in the neighbourhood RA has eradicated my need to call the police station altogether.
The local residents who take the initiative to form RAs and hire their own guards are actually model citizens who have shown their sense of civic responsibility for their own safety.
The presence of ther guards alone is often an effective deterrent against petty thieves from invading into their area.
RAs add value to society
The RAs are also the civic organisation of citizens at the grass-root level that promote the spirit of public engagement for their mutual benefit. They are the very instrument that makes neighbourhoods out of mere collection of lonely houses. In sociological terms, they are the vibrant civic societies that accumulate social capital for a good cause.
Recently, the RA in my neighbourhood organised a Mid-Autumn festival on the park, and 1000 residents turned up to eat moon cakes and watch performances on the stage.
Of course, we know that a RA is as good as the spirit of co-operation, honesty, integrity, dedication, and diligence of its committee members. They must be registered with the ROS, have regular meetings and their AGMs, with properly audited accounts and meeting minutes passed at these meetings.
I know that sometimes, a RA can be paralysed by factional fights, personality conflicts, or people having their fingers in the till. Selfishness is often the cause of collapse of any local community. Sometimes, party politics also sour the neighbourhood spirit of any RA.
But properly run, the RA offers the best solution towards ensuring public and personal safety in the numerous housing estates throughout Klang Valley.
mpsj parking woes 290905 park housingThere is another strong basis for this sort of neighbourhood watch organisation. Many house-buyers have invested large sums of money in the purchase of their expensive houses. If their neighbourhood is crime-infested, it would affect negatively the re-sale price of their property and their rental earnings. The government has the moral authority to encourage the RAs in their effort in protecting their own investment.
As for the argument that the RAs have acted illegally in blocking up public roads, it is a matter of amending the relevant laws, either for the state government and the local councils to find the legal instrument to empower and entrust the RAs with some kind of authority over the roads in their jurisdiction, or simply to lease the roads out to the RAs.
Land is under the state's jurisdiction, and so the Selangor PR state government should look into this aspect of the problem, so as to settle this long-standing dispute about the legality of the gated communities. (Will someone send this article to the office of the Selangor MB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim please?)
If a law is good for the people, then it must be kept. If a law is bad for the people, then it must be repealed or amended. That is the principle of good jurisprudence according to the natural law theorists anyway.
SIM KWANG YANG can be reached at kenyalang578@hotmail.com.
Malaysiakini.com
Monday, October 26, 2009
Residents suggest leasing roads from the state
Residents suggest leasing roads from the state
By TAN KARR WEI
SOME residents in Petaling Jaya are calling for the Selangor state government to consider leasing roads to the residents’ associations to gate up their communities.
The issue was brought up during a town hall meeting at the BU3 community hall in Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya, with Bukit Lanjan assemblyman Elizabeth Wong and Subang MP Sivarasa Rasiah.
Wong said that the meeting came about because there have been many requests, complaints and suggestions from residents regarding gated and guarded communities.
Keep out: More and more housing areas in the Klang Valley are taking up the gated and guarded security scheme but only about 50 residents (below) turned up for the meeting.
About 50 people attended the meeting.
Gated and guarded communities have been a widely debated issue as many residents’ associations have started to put up barriers and guard houses to secure their housing areas. Under the Street, Drainage and Building Act 133, it is illegal to put up barriers that obstruct access to public roads.
Several residents posed the question of leasing the roads from the state government and asked if they would be charged the market rate or a nominal rate.
Wong said that the matter would be discussed at the state level in a meeting on Nov 2.
Among the issues raised was the difficulty of getting residents to commit to the scheme.
Bandar Utama Residents Association (BURA) chairman Datuk Manpal Singh Sacdev said that the key objective of barricading roads was to make their homes safe and he suggested that the local councils grant allocations to RAs who could not get enough support from residents.
“It is hard to get more than 90% as some houses are rented out to tenants,” Manpal said.
He also suggested councils look at approving developments with less exit points to prevent quick getaways by criminals.
“Currently, the barriers are allowed from midnight to 6am and that is not solving the problem because many crimes happen during the day,” said Manpal.
Resident Dali Sardar from D’Villa Avenue in Kota Damansara said that the problem was that residents could not rely on the police to ensure safety and many residents were allowing foreigners to guard their houses.
He added that the local council should make it legal for gated communities to collect maintenance fees since RAs were having trouble collecting the fees from all residents.
Manpal suggested that RAs should set out a written contract with the obligations of the security company that they hire.
“Create a standard operating procedure for them. You should also list down when and how you can terminate their services so that they don’t continue to insist on payment,” Manpal said.
Taman Mayang Jaya residents association chairman Liew Wei Beng said that as many areas started to set up barriers, the criminals would move on to areas which have not been secured.
To overcome the legal issues, Liew suggested that RAs have mobile security patrolling the area instead of barricading the roads.
Liew, who is also All Petaling Jaya Residents Association (APAC) chairman, reminded residents that gates and barriers are a temporary measure that should be removed once crime rates are lowered, especially after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced a RM1b allocation to beef up the police force and reduce crime.
Several residents from housing areas sold as gated communities by the developers also raised the predicament as they have had to pay maintenance fees for services within their area while also having to pay assessment to the local councils.
Notably absent at the meeting were residents who were opposed to the guarded schemes.
theStar: Residents suggest leasing roads
By TAN KARR WEI
SOME residents in Petaling Jaya are calling for the Selangor state government to consider leasing roads to the residents’ associations to gate up their communities.
The issue was brought up during a town hall meeting at the BU3 community hall in Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya, with Bukit Lanjan assemblyman Elizabeth Wong and Subang MP Sivarasa Rasiah.
Wong said that the meeting came about because there have been many requests, complaints and suggestions from residents regarding gated and guarded communities.
Keep out: More and more housing areas in the Klang Valley are taking up the gated and guarded security scheme but only about 50 residents (below) turned up for the meeting.
About 50 people attended the meeting.
Gated and guarded communities have been a widely debated issue as many residents’ associations have started to put up barriers and guard houses to secure their housing areas. Under the Street, Drainage and Building Act 133, it is illegal to put up barriers that obstruct access to public roads.
Several residents posed the question of leasing the roads from the state government and asked if they would be charged the market rate or a nominal rate.
Wong said that the matter would be discussed at the state level in a meeting on Nov 2.
Among the issues raised was the difficulty of getting residents to commit to the scheme.
Bandar Utama Residents Association (BURA) chairman Datuk Manpal Singh Sacdev said that the key objective of barricading roads was to make their homes safe and he suggested that the local councils grant allocations to RAs who could not get enough support from residents.
“It is hard to get more than 90% as some houses are rented out to tenants,” Manpal said.
He also suggested councils look at approving developments with less exit points to prevent quick getaways by criminals.
“Currently, the barriers are allowed from midnight to 6am and that is not solving the problem because many crimes happen during the day,” said Manpal.
Resident Dali Sardar from D’Villa Avenue in Kota Damansara said that the problem was that residents could not rely on the police to ensure safety and many residents were allowing foreigners to guard their houses.
He added that the local council should make it legal for gated communities to collect maintenance fees since RAs were having trouble collecting the fees from all residents.
Manpal suggested that RAs should set out a written contract with the obligations of the security company that they hire.
“Create a standard operating procedure for them. You should also list down when and how you can terminate their services so that they don’t continue to insist on payment,” Manpal said.
Taman Mayang Jaya residents association chairman Liew Wei Beng said that as many areas started to set up barriers, the criminals would move on to areas which have not been secured.
To overcome the legal issues, Liew suggested that RAs have mobile security patrolling the area instead of barricading the roads.
Liew, who is also All Petaling Jaya Residents Association (APAC) chairman, reminded residents that gates and barriers are a temporary measure that should be removed once crime rates are lowered, especially after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced a RM1b allocation to beef up the police force and reduce crime.
Several residents from housing areas sold as gated communities by the developers also raised the predicament as they have had to pay maintenance fees for services within their area while also having to pay assessment to the local councils.
Notably absent at the meeting were residents who were opposed to the guarded schemes.
theStar: Residents suggest leasing roads
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