By now, if you are still wondering where to have your reunion dinner with your family, why not try out this restaurant located at Pulau Tikus.

Young Heart Restaurant serves a variety of food that is pleasing for those who want a healthy yet tasty food. And for the coming Chinese New Year, the proprietor, Ann Kee has come up with various types of Chinese New Year dish that will be both unique and pleasing to your palate.

 

The exterior and interior

  

The logo of this restaurant. It is a real plant, not just for display.

 

Everything the restaurant has, from the menu, logo and even the cushions are of heart shape design.

 

Our table, specially arranged by Ann Kee

 

The menu for CNY dishes

 

The items on display inside the restaurant

 

We were served two kinds of drinks. One is the Honey Lemon with Aloe Vera – RM6.00/glass (Honey Lemon RM4 + Aloe Vera RM2). This drink is a thirst-quencher and taste very good when chilled.

The aloe vera is not the common ones you have on your home. Its leaf is very large, as seen in the photo above.

 

Another drink we had was the Chamomile & Chrysanthemum – RM4.50/glass. This is really a soothing and relaxing drink. As it is known, chamomile do give a calm and relaxing effect. The photo below shows the chamomile (top) and chrysanthemum (bottom).

 

Chamomile & Chrysanthemum – RM4.50/glass

 

Sauce

Lotus Root with Sugar & Vinegar – RM3.00

This dish is the appetizer. Taking this opens up your senses as it taste sweet and sour at the same time.

Vinegar is made from the oxidation by acetic acid bacteria of ethanol in wine, cider, beer, fermented fruit juice, or nearly any other liquid containing alcohol.

The word "vinegar" derives from the Old French vin aigre, meaning "sour wine". It is also known as acidity regulator E260.

 

Dipping sauce for the vege rolls. Chinese (far above), Japanese (middle) and Siam style sauce. The Chinese sauce taste a little hot due to the garlic and chopped chillies in it. The Japanese sauce is sweet while the Siam sauce is mildly hot.

 

Vege roll:

Egg Vege Roll – RM6.60
Prawn Vege Roll – RM7.60
Unagi Vege Roll – RM7.60

 

This dish is usually served in 4 pieces (right pic). There’s a choice of egg, unagi or prawns as the ingredient but not a combination though. I tasted the unagi roll and it turned out quite nice. The vege is fresh, felt like eating salad. The thin rice wrap is a healthy combination to this dish.

 

Hot & Sour Soup – RM5.00/bowl (serves two). This soup is really sour. If you think assam laksa or tom yam is the most sour soup you have ever tasted, then you should try this and taste it for yourself!! A lot of vineger is added to this soup.

Take a guess what this is before you sroll further. We had no idea what it was with the name written in the menu. So Ann Kee was kind enough to go to the kitchen and bring it out to show to us.

 

It’s called Snake Squash and this dish below is Snake Squash with Pork – RM11.80

Very interesting dish. First time trying this kind of vegetable and it taste very much like ‘tang kua’.

Golden Scallop Dumpling -  RM18.80

Lovely taste with minced pork, prawns and scallops.

 

Cheese & Chicken Gaotie – RM10.80.

Pan-fried dumplings with cheese and chicken filling. Surprisingly, the fusion of eastern style and western ingredient creates a flavourful taste to this dumpling.

 

Prawn & Leeks Goutie – RM9.60

Also another pan-fried version but has prawns and leeks as the filling.

 

Fried Bean Curd – RM4.80.

One of the simplest dish of the night but yet a show-stealer. The bean curd is homemade and this contributes to the soft-on-the-inside yet crispy-on-the-outside dish.

 

Stir Fried Mix Vege & Mushroom – RM16.80. A common dish but has various types of mushrooms!! Simple and healthy dish.

This dish is called Prosperous Year in Malaysia – RM6.80. Chicken wings and drummets marinated with spices and chopped kaffir leaves and then deep fried. A very finger licking good dish. Smells real good and very fragrant. The chef had to make extras of this as all were snapped up even before some of us managed to get one.

 

The "Ha-ha" dish. Fried Prawn & Garlic – RM18.80.

Also another fragrant dish. Garlic is added into the batter and the prawns are deep fried. The bursting flavour of garlic, combined with the sweetness of the prawn meat is very nice.

Another vegetable dish, Sponge Gourd with Pork -  RM13.80

I never had sponge gourd cooked this way, with carrots, mushrooms, dong guai and some other herbs. Very ‘cheng tnee’ kind of dish, and loved by one of our blogger friend that night.

 

How can there be cny dishes without fish? This dish is Steam Cod & Bean Curd – RM29.80.

Very soft and smooth cod fish steamed to perfection with bean curd as side dish. The sweetness of the fish flows out to the soy sauce gravy, making it very nice to be mixed and eaten with white rice.

Some other signature dishes includes their hand-made noodles.

Black Jelly Mushroom Fried Noodle – RM8.80 has a lot of black jelly mushrooms and other cut vegetables.

Shredded Pork Noodle – RM7.50. You can hardly see the noodles with all the shredded pork covering it.

This noodle is a little dry but taste nice with the well-marinated pork.

This Ground Pork in Spicy Bean Sauce Noodle – RM7.50 is only recommended for those who can really take hot stuff. It’s very spicy and might even bring you to tears. Right cariso?? :P

But of the three types of noodle, I liked this one. Maybe it’s because I enjoy spicy food.

So head over to this place if you want somewhere quiet and conducive to have a great reunion meal with your family or friends.

Note: portion of food might differ from pricing or normal serving size as there were a group of us dining together.

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For other reviews:

Criz Lai, Steven Goh, What2see , Jason & Gill, Allen Ooi, Penang Tua Pui , Allie, FoodParadise, cariso.