Menglembu East Ocean Restaurant

Running out of place for celebration? Especially in the season of Parents' Day, you name it Mother's Day, Father's Day and all these lame and commercialized influences from the Western countries. Well, being a traditional family, a Chinese restaurant like Overseas and Public Pusing are definitely clear favourites for the feastive seasons. We decided to take on the ones less taken, East Ocean for example. There are three branches scattered surrounding Ipoh, namely in Chemor (the first outlet), Ipoh Garden South dan lastly Menglembu.

1). The Menglembu branch is located off the main road of Jalan Lahat.

2). The restaurant is perceived to be fairly small, but actually it occupied three double-storey shop lots, consisting casual dinning halls, private rooms & banquet halls upstairs.

3). Well, this is the mainstay of the dinner, the whole portion of a Roasted Suckling Piglet (RM130). It is served with buns surrounding the piglet and best tasted when dipping its special dark sauce. This is the effort of an early reservation, in order to get a taste of it! You know which is the best part I loved? You bet, of course the juiciest part of all, the cheek!

4).The piglet is not too large of its size luckily, doesn't smell of lard and isn't too fatty either. The skin is so crunchy and crispy, it just cracks in your mouth like crackers. Do you think a small family of five could finish it? Well, there isn't a single piece of flesh nor bone left on the plate though!

5). After consuming the whole piglet, the Buttery Prawn (RM24.50) comes next. The Meng prawns are stir-fried into perfection with butter flakes and dried curry leaves. The size of the prawns are reasonably big and the shells are easy to peel. The prawns are best tasted together with the buttery flakes.

6). One of the preferred dish of the restaurant, Qing Long (RM8.00). This assorted vegetables are made out of various ingredients, such as salted fish, beansprouts, Qing Long vegetables, red chillies, carrots and mushrooms stir-fried into this magnificent dish. The aroma of salted fish snored into our noses before it arrived to our table, it makes us sought one bite after another.  

7). Due to our dishes unable to compliment with rice perfectly, the captain recommended us to take on their signatured noodles, Fried Hakka Mee (RM8.00). You know what? He was right! The noodles are stir-fried  with simple ingredients such as Hakka Mee (of course), cabbages, beansprouts and minced pork. The combination tasted very good on its own, not too oily but unfortunately the cabbages were too hard to chew on, therefore plenty are left on the plate, oops...

8). After all the dishes, our stomachs are fulled to the fullest. However, there is always a room for dessert. Unfortunately we are ran out of luck, the famous pudding of the restaurant was ran out of stock, and we decided to try the Chinese Pancake (RM8.00). This time, it did not let us down, unlike other restaurants we tried before. The pancake is served hot from the oven, hot enough to burn our anticipated fingers. The crusts are baked until it's crispy and crunchy; and the filling is pandan flavour, not too sweet nor lost its texture. This is on-par with Public Pusing's one and a perfect end for our dinner.

9). East Ocean is a popular eat-out place among the locals of Menglembu, it's impossible to acquire a table without a reservation, even on a weekday! One of the downside of it, its carparks are pretty hard to come by, especially on wedding banquets and celebration seasons. For customers with wheel chairs, there are a sliding pathway located at the back of the restaurant, and another at the end of the street row.

Menglembu East Ocean Restaurant (东海鱼翅酒家)

Address : No. 1-7, Hala Perusahaan Menglembu 17,

                31450 Menglembu, Perak.

Tel. : 05-2829457 / 05-2829435 

Fax : 05-2829718

Business hours : Lunch and dinner hours daily

GPS Coordinates : E101 2' 56.4"; N4 34'6.3"



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