Golden Coast Shrimp at Oasis Ara Damansara: Restaurant Review

This Taiwanese seafood chain invaded Malaysia this month, landing in Oasis Ara Damansara, PJ’s current hot spot for hearty eating and heavy drinking.

Golden Coast Shrimp works for casual, communal meals. Service is amiable, space is abundant.

Shrimp Steals the Spotlight

Not surprisingly, shrimp steals the spotlight here, hefty ones prepared in styles including buttered (our pick) or with pepper, garlic, sesame oil or lemon. Each plate costs RM60-RM65, comprising what seems like more than a dozen juicy crustaceans.

Marvelous Mantou

Marvelous ‘mantou’ bread to mop up the sauce. Hot and fluffy-fresh, with a golden-crisp exterior.

Limited Menu

The menu’s limited for now, but black pepper crab and spiral-shell sea snails also feature on it.

Bonus Stop: Hokkaido Summer Food Fair

Bonus shrimp and seafood stop: The Hokkaido summer food fair that started its run this week at Isetan KLCC’s FoodMarket (operating July 12-22).

Everything here’s expensive, but the RM50 for rice topped with a bounty of sea urchin, prawn, salmon roe and flying fish roe supplies a whole lot of satisfaction.

Hokkaido ramen with scallops, prawns and corn clocks in at over RM40; two can share this.

Chestnut-flavored Hokkaido milk ice cream (RM12), washed down with a little sake.

Numerous other attractions at the Hokkaido food fair, from cherry blossom rice cakes to ‘sekihan’ sticky red bean rice to fluffy cream puffs.

Location Details:

Golden Coast Shrimp,

Block D, Oasis Ara Damansara, Petaling Jaya.

Find Golden Coast Shrimp’s directory listing here.