THE RECOGNISED “TASTE OF JIAREN” FAMILY KITCHEN RECIPE RUNNING ON THE MIDDLE SOUTHERN NATION @ NEGERI SEMBILAN
March 25, 2024 Negeri Sembilan
“Family Kitchen” is all the while a kind of the dining house or eating restaurant which carrying their respective home-cooked/home recipe selections under a roof that being widely practised on our nations since decades on the ground. Here on the middle southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Family Kitchen “Taste of Jiaren Cafe” running at Seremban, Negeri Sembilan having great positive response from the market recently.
The Kuala Lumpur local originated Mr. Jasen Lai Kam Wah (born 1977), together with his Seremban’s local originated wife both were the initial founders and also the recent immediate couple-owners of this best recognised Family Kitchen “Taste of Jiaren Cafe” right in the Seremban township presenting all their very home recipes on signature menus to the locals & visitors in manner on the middle southern ground at Negeri Sembilan with their patience.
The first founder cum owner Jasen Lai Kam Wah, also the restaurant’s main chef, who at his age of 47 years old currently, been initially touched the f&b industry at his only 13th of age in the year 1990 helping in his father’s chinese dim sum eating house at Pudu, Kuala Lumpur where Jasen Lai practically experienced the field on the kitchen floor. Later-on fully stepped into the career at his 19th of age in the year 1996 worked as a dim sum chef de partie in the chinese cuisine restaurant spent few years experienced the field (all the while along Kuala Lumpur & Selangor), then reached United States at his 21st of age also all the while in the chinese dim sum field stayed few years there along his journey in the career before returned to home country positioned as a Dim Sum Chef at his mid-twenties at Kuala Lumpur respectively.
With experiences & recipes on-hand, added with vision to have his very own home-cooked eating house locally and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry wishing to further his exposure in the field enabled Jasen Lai decided then successfully established his very first couple-owned (with wife) Family Kitchen officially named the “Taste of Jiaren Cafe” at the Lobak Commercial Centre, Seremban in the end of year 2022 serving all their signatures to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2024 on the middle southern nation at Negeri Sembilan.
In this Taste of Jiaren Cafe, the owner’s very first top recommended in menus will be their signature “Garlic Pork Ribs Steamed Rice” which most wanted by their regulars. Overnight soaked white rice in mixture with glutinous rice home-steamed for about 10 minutes, followed by another 12 minutes steamed toppings of their marinated local fresh pork ribs with garlics & black beans, and finally topped onto their exotic fried garlics will always bring the best pork ribs’ freshness texturing bites itself into mouth kind of their Garlic Pork Ribs Steamed Rice eatery that you must have a try when reached Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.
Secondly will be their “Chicken Mushroom & Sausage Steamed Rice”, which also among the restaurant’s daily selection in the main course selections wanted by the locals here. Local fresh chicken drumstick commonly selected, prepared in boneless cube/dice pieces then marinated in home seasonings mixture, followed by also 12 minutes steam-cooked with their (home-steamed) rice, stewed mushroom slices & chinese sausage, finally served with slight chinese wine & ginger paste sauce poured into and complete topped of fried shallots will always the excellent matching in taking their juicy chicken meat’s freshness bites with chinese wine’s & tasty ginger’s fragrance swallowed kind of their Chicken Mushroom & Sausage Steamed Rice eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Another will be their special “Pork Trotter Braised Vermicelli”, also always their visitor’s favourite in menus recently. Local fresh pork trotter selected, cleaned then boiled and followed by at least 3 hours home-braised with herbs into their home seasonings mixture, and finally prepared in fine slices (boneless) taken complete sides with options of white rice, vermicelli with special sauce or their braised rice noodle (mee hoon) on customer’s preference will brings the wonderful combination of pork trotter noodle eatery that you will never regret after tasted here. Especially the pork trotter’s soft texturing bites itself with fair nice herbs tasty freshness swallowed that you cannot aside here.
While in the light food/snack or side dim sum pastry corner, their daily fresh homemade “Egg Tart” is always the owner’s favourite recommended which like by most of their customers from the beginning. Hand-rubbed flour dough fillings with their special home-mixed chicken egg paste into milk & sugar, and finally served tasty hot after about 16 minutes home-baked will brings the unbelievable soft layering crunchy bites with smooth eggy fair sweetie kind of their Egg Tart eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Family Kitchen “Taste of Jiaren Cafe” at Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.
TASTE OF JIAREN CAFE
Address: No. 23,
Jalan PKL 2,
Pusat Komersial Lobak,
70200 Seremban,
Negeri Sembilan.
Business Hours: 11:00am to 10:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Wednesday)