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Yi Ding U Cuisine, Pudu
Yi Ding U Cuisine is a Cantonese roast specialist in Pudu, known first for its Hong Kong-style roast goose. Two private rooms seat 10 to 12 each, with a minimum spend — call ahead if you want one. A practical warning before you go: it sits on the main road with no parking out front. You park behind and walk in through the back, which means entering through the kitchen. If that is not for you, get dropped at the front instead. What to Order at Yi Ding U Cuisine The roast goose (RM198, whole) is the reason to come and it delivers. Char siew (RM40, medium) has a properly sticky-sweet glaze, but ask for half lean and half fat — order it blind and you may get a lean cut that eats dry, where the right cut melts as you chew. Skip the siew yuk (RM75, large). The meat runs dry and the five-spice is heavy enough to flatten everything else on the plate. For roast goose in Pudu or Cantonese roast meats in Kuala Lumpur, Yi Ding U is worth the awkward entrance.
SS Spicy Food, Kampung Attap
SS Spicy Food is a South Indian kitchen in Kampung Attap — a humble shopfront most people drive past without registering, which is the usual sign of somewhere worth stopping. It opens at 6.30am, and mornings bring the breakfast staples: poori, thosai, idli. What to Order at SS Spicy Food The chicken peratal (RM6, small) is the dish to judge it on: the gravy balances its spice against a deep caramelised-onion sweetness, the chicken comes in decent-sized pieces, and the whole thing tastes homestyle rather than restaurant-tuned. Pair it with chapati (RM5 for two pieces), even if it arrives at room temperature. Mutton varuval is the other order to know about. Takeaway portions run generous — a packet of rice with mutton varuval, chicken peratal and a vegetable will comfortably feed two. For South Indian food in Kampung Attap, or an early breakfast of thosai near KL city centre, this is the one locals send you to.