Zi Zai Restaurant: Home Cook Style Chu Char

Zi Zai Restaurant was the result of a 3rd generation chef from a family of restaurant businesses. Hock Chai (the owner) was not only a chef but a famous foodie owning a blog (link) who happened to be an old school mate of hubby. The one thing that drew us to this restaurant was basically “Chung Ling Scrambled Egg”! Any Chung Ling Alumni should be familiar with this! =P

Frankly speaking, Zi Zai’s “Chung Ling Scrambled Egg” (钟灵碎蛋) did not really tasted like the one inside Chung Ling’s canteen. For some reason, it actually tasted better with fish sauce & chili added in during the frying process. Oh dear, I could polish off the whole pan by myself!

This is HEAVEN!!!

We’d also tried out the Grandma’s fried chicken, fish fillet claypot tofu, fish ball seaweed soup, steamed mince pork with salted fish & belacan Kang Kong. Out of the dishes, our favourites would be fish fillet claypot tofu as the fish, tofu & vegetables were all blended perfectly in a delectable gravy to pour on rice.

Fish Fillet Claypot Tofu

The same went for Belacan Kang Kong which was perfect to pair with rice. The seaweed soup was definitely a nice choice to round up the meal.

Belacan Kang Kong

Seaweed Soup

Grandma’s fried chicken could be a bit underwhelming as the taste was not as strange for people with heavy palate. As for steamed minced pork – it could be quite oily at some part and i'd prefered to have more salted fish in the mixture. =P

Grandma's Fried Chicken - or what's left of it! =P

Steamed Minced Pork with Salted Fish

Zi Zai Restaurant was definitely a good choice for home cook style Chu char with reasonable price tag. I think it would be a hit for Chung Ling Alumni to reminisce on the famous scrambled egg! Do take note that it was only opened for dinner though.

Let's Reminisce over a glass of 'Fighting Fish' aka Longan drink!!! LOL!!

Zi Zai Restaurant is located in Paya Terubong at a shoplot at the left side before Fire station if driving from Shell Paya Terubong in Penang, Malaysia.