Casa Venicia Restaurant, Selayang

My aunt and uncle came from Taiping to attend a wedding this Friday. So, we took them out for dinner together with my family and other cousins. So altogether, there were 12 adults and 2 children. Yes, we were pretty noisy bunch.

I went to Casa Venicia Restaurant earlier to pre-order the food. It was a weekday and yet it was packed. Anyway, it’s no surprise since this place offers really great tasting food. Most of my office colleagues especially bosses would come here for their lunches and even bring guests. The manager appeared a little snooty but, he is generally okay. He apologized for keeping us waiting for an hour as they were short handed and only one cook was doing all the cooking when we visited. They have another branch in Bangsar.

Please pardon me for the lack of quality in photos. My family members are bunch of piranhas. Any dish laid on table would be gobbled up within one minute! So, I was given only 5 seconds to take photos of each dish. I missed out taking 3 other dishes because they were all half eaten by the time the dish on the lazy susan was turned to where I was sitting!

So, without further ado, here are the goodies we had for dinner.

Salad Prawn. This is a must order! The cubed prawn is pan fried and still crunchy under generous dollop of fruity mayonnaise.

Black Pepper Venison. Its meat is tender and black pepper is not overpowering.

Marmite chicken. It’s quite a tasty dish but my aunt didn’t quite like it. She said too much marmite is used that it tasted somewhat bitter. Another favorite that usually goes on well with my colleagues is the claypot chicken with salted fish. Perhaps you may want to try that.

Kong Lam Har. This is the ultimatum dish! Not cheap though! It came at RM100 per kg that night. We had 5 prawns and they cost us RM110! It’s as big as the size of your palm!

Nyonya sotong. This is quite a delight to tuck in. You can also order fish to be cooked in this style.

I didn’t take pictures of the “sei dai tin wong”, stir fried vege and a bowl of mah por tau fu because I didn’t have the time! We asked for rojak taufu, which is one of its specialty but unfortunately, it’s already finished by then so, we had to switch to mah por tau fu. Perhaps, we could go  again another day.

Restoran Venicia
1st Floor, Casa Venicia Club House
Jalan Bukit Idaman 1/3
Bukit Idaman
Batu Caves

Tel: 03-6136 2010

Casa Venicia Restaurant is closed Tuesdays.

Check out also, the write up on this restaurant on masak-masak blog.