MUST TASTE THE RECOGNISED “TAMAN SAGA” CHINESE CUISINE RESTAURANT’s RECIPES ON THE NORTHERN @ KEDAH
“Chinese Cuisine Restaurant” is all the while among the local chinese’s favourite place of dining and family’s gathering eating restaurant that carrying all the local chinese’s eateries combination, being famously & widely practised everywhere on our nation since decades with respective home recipes. Here in the upper northern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Chinese Cuisine Restaurant “Taman Saga” running by the Wong family into their 2-generations in Alor Setar, Kedah having great positive response from the market all the while.
The Alor Setar, Kedah local originated Mr. Wong Siew Fong (born 1963), was the initial founder, together with his wife Madam Lim Wai Lan (Johor, born 1968) both are the recent immediate couple owners of this best recognised Chinese Cuisine Restaurant “Restoran Taman Saga” in Alor Setar, Kedah fully assisted by their children daughter Ivy Wong Shin Huey (born 1992) and youngest son Wong Swee Jing (born 1999) as their 2nd generation running in a families team on the ground presenting all their home recipe selections to the locals & visitors under a roof in manner.
The founder cum first owner, Wong Siew Fong (commonly known Ah Liang) also the restaurant’s main chef, who at his age of 60 years old currently been touched the field since kids helping his father whose running a food stall at Alor Setar township later-on fully stepped into the f&b industry at his 17th of age in the year 1980 began as a kitchen trainee worked in a food stall at hometown. Then being positioned as a chinese cuisine chef at his 24th running his first owned chinese cuisine seafood eating house (with wife Wai Lan) at Muar, Johor in the year 1987 stayed nearly 20 years there reached 2005 introducing his home recipes in the southern ground.
With experiences & recipes on-hand, added with vision to have his very owned eating house locally and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b career also wishing to based in hometown enabled Ah Liang (and wife) decided then moved & successfully established their Chinese Cuisine Restaurant officially named the “Restoran Taman Saga” at Taman Saga, Alor Setar in the year 2007 where their next generation joined & assisted continue their exposure in the field serving their northern local chinese thai combination of recipes to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year 2023 on the upper northern nation in Kedah.
In this Restoran Taman Saga, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus will be their signature “Braised Pork Trotter with Licorice Herbs” which most wanted by their regulars from the beginning. Local fresh pork trotter commonly selected, cleaned then marinated in home recipes and deep fried, followed by at least 5 hours long home-braised with herbs & their seasonings mixture, finally served hot on table sided with broccoli veges will brings wonderful pork trotter’s smoothness bites into mouth with nice salty sweet taste & natural pork’s collagen itself from the long braised swallowed that you must have a try when reached Alor Setar, Kedah.
Secondly will be their special “Butter Milk Sea Prawns”, which also among the restaurant’s signature wanted by their customers. Local fresh Sea Ming Prawns on weight of about 30grams each selected, seconds over boiling hot cooking oil then wok-stir with mixture of butter, fresh milk & salted egg yolk into chopped chilli padi & curry leaves, served sided/taken with deep fried chinese buns will brings exotic creamy butter milk’s salty sweet taste with fair spicy swallowed and the prawn’s freshness texturing bites into mouth that you cannot aside here. Taken dipping onto with their deep fried chinese bun (mantou) will be the best matching here.
Another will be their fully homemade special “Yam Ring”, which always among the local’s favourite selection in the chinese cuisine option here. Homemade yam ring from selected local fresh yam/taro prepared into yam paste, then deep fried on their handmade round-shaped, and finally served with their sweet sour fair spicy cuttlefish with tomatoes, pineapple, cucumber & onions surrounding by crispy deep fried rice noodles will be the perfect combination in taking their crispy bites with smooth yam’s tasty eatery that you neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Moreover, the owners also introduced their northern nation’s local delicacy “Steamed Squids with Limes” on their home recipes also among the visitors’ favourite selection all the while. Local fresh sea squids prepared in few minutes home-steamed with garlic, chilli padi, celery roots into limes, and toppings of celery leaves will brings excellent appetising sour sweet with spicy taste of their local northern chinese-thai Steamed Squids eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised 2-generations Chinese Cuisine Restaurant “Restoran Taman Saga” at Alor Setar, Kedah.
RESTORAN TAMAN SAGA
Address: No. B-11,
Jalan Saga Ria 3,
Taman Saga,
05400 Alor Setar,
Kedah.
Business Hours: 5:30pm to 11:00pm (Daily)