Fireman The Restaurant, Bandar Puteri, Puchong

I usually keep my entries of food that I've eaten for some time as I have a long list of pending posts that will be post up. I've made an exception this time as I've eaten good yet super reasonable food, and the said promotion is only for a limited time till tomorrow (Sunday, 21st November 2010). For only RM20, you are entitled to eat all you can for an unlimited time with worth mentioned ingredients like fresh good quality beef slices, fishes, prawns, different marinated chickens and good chicken wing. I heard from the waitress that after Sunday, the price will revert to RM29.90, but with additional seafood like crab and free flow of drinks.

Well, I didn't know the existence of this restaurant, me and the girlfriend actually bumped into this restaurant by chance while hunting for dinner spot. Was actually quite shocked when I saw the restaurant by the name of Fireman, as I recalled enjoying some good steamboat/BBQ sessions back at the same restaurant name located at Jaya One. A small check on the name card revealed that it's the same restaurant by the same management! Great, went in and found out there's the RM20 promotion, double great! We opt for the buffet straight away.

The outlet here remains the concept of half bbq, half steamboat ala BBQ Plaza. The main difference is that instead of electric stove or gas, the outlet here actually uses charcoal! I love any food that is slow cooked by charcoal; slower but really brings out the flavor. Chicken skin is placed on top of the stove as oil substitution for barbecuing. Be prepared though, to dine in sweat as the heat generated around is much more compared to conventional methods! Another main difference is the environment here is more to no frills dining, with less building exterior and food decorations.

Different sauces also are prepared for dipping. Clockwise from bottom left: Tamarind sauce, Pineapple sauce, Seafood sauce and BBQ sauce. We experimented a bit and found that the garlic + chili mixed with BBQ sauce was the best suited for us.

The Fried Chicken Wings was well marinated and crispy. We had like a dozen of this while waiting for our food to cook in between.

They also serve some barbequed items from the kitchen. Barbecued charcoal beef. This was so-so, as it was overcooked = not medium rare texture. The black pepper marinate was also too strong and I also firmly believe beef should not be marinated.

Barbecued Lamb. This was much better, the texture was good with 90% lean meat.

Barbecued Cockles. The dipping sauce was very good with just nice timing as the flesh wasn't dried up.

The star of the whole dining period would be the beef slices! With just nice thickness and fresh enough, most of the beef slices was juicy enough if cooked properly. The fat - lean proportion was also just nice. I have my own set of rules for barbecuing:

• Cook the slices only one piece per one
  
• Cook one side for around 7 second, flip till no redness is found; and reflip. Done.
• The slices must not stick to the stove, and should flip easily. Add oil - chicken skin in this case.

Perfectly medium rare barbecued, all simmered in it's own released sauce. I like the addition of the barbecue stove as you can opt to either dip to cook in soup or barbecue it. Dipping in soup maintains the really beefy flavor and sweeter; while barbecuing it brings out the flavor and made it really aromatic. I think I had like 6 -7 plates, lol.

The cutting machine to provide freshly sliced beef.

Beautiful sexy meat in cooking process. What a sight, just like art!

Us, with a very satisfied meal.

All in all, I felt that Fireman is really good for that kind of price and variety. Although there are much places with more varieties, but I felt the quality here is really worth the money. Not to mention, the staff's service here is really good and one of the best customer service that I had experienced. They even opt to help us barbecue our meat, but I personally declined as I prefer to do it myself for the experience. Would definitely return, even without the promotion just for the good quality food. Fireman is opened from 6pm to 3am; with buffets running from 6pm - 11pm, and ala cartes from 11pm onwards. I spotted beers too, Hoegaarden for RM17+, but I'm not sure of the size though.


Fireman The Restaurant
Address : 28, Jalan Puteri 1/4, Bandar Puteri, 47100, Puchong
(Located opposite of Maybank)
Phone : 03-80510889
Website:
Price: RM 29.90. Promotion Price till 21/11/2010 - RM20.