Soi 55

Menu:

• Thai Green Tea - (RM7)
• Tom Yum Seafood Mee Hoon - (RM22)

How to order:
For dine-in, just go to a table and wait for the staff to bring you a QR code. If they don't, you'll need to call them. You order first and pay after you've eaten. Payment can be made by card or QR at the cashier. Just tell the cashier your table number.

Short Review:

• Thai Green Tea - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4 out of 5)
• Tom Yum Seafood Mee Hoon - ⭐⭐⭐ (3.2 out of 5)
• Verdict: Will come again, maybe with my family, since many of the dishes seem meant to be shared.

Long Review:

The green tea tasted like ChaTraMue, so good it brought a smile to my face. You can even see from the picture that the drink had already gone down a bit because I couldn't resist taking a sip while waiting for the food.

For the Tom Yum Seafood, they offer a choice between mee hoon or glass noodles, I chose mee hoon. As I started digging in, the tom yum had strong flavor and leaned more toward the sour side. I could also taste some citrus, which I assume came from lime. But as I kept eating and stirred the broth more, the stronger the citrus flavor got, and it eventually overpowered the tom yum taste, slightly spoiling the overall taste for me.

As for the seafood, it included one scallop, two medium-sized prawns, three clams with miniscule meat, and a few pieces of squid tentacles. The scallop was so good, I really wished there was more. The prawn shells were pre-sliced to make peeling easier, but it was still difficult to peel them in the broth, so I ended up eating them with the shell. Fortunately, the shell was soft enough that if you're too lazy to peel, you could chew a few more times and just swallow it. There was also some oyster mushrooms but I don't like their taste. It tasted very 'earthy' than I normally eat.

In summary, it was a good dish, until the citrus flavor started to overpower the tom yum taste. They should put the lime on the side and just let customer squeeze it when then want, how much they want, instead of already putting it into the broth.

This day is 29th May, which is equivalent to 1 Zulhijjah until maghrib. It's sunnah to fast until the 9th day of Zulhijjah and so I fast today.

If you come to this restaurant during sunset, you can take some great pictures as the view of the sky is really beautiful from this place. The restaurant's architecture that looks like a dome also adds to the aesthetic. Unfortunately, I arrived a little too late to catch the sunset. The cloudy weather on this day probably also affect the sky view.

After I finished eating and was about to head home, the road I needed to take was blocked by a broken-down car. It looked like a rental, probably driven by a foreigner from desert and camel country. As someone who recently got their driver's license and was just in an accident, being in a narrow road and in this situation really scared me. I tried not to panic, took my time, and finally managed to pass through safely even though the car was blocking half the road.