18.12.07

KFC Breakfast

KFC has finally offered breakfasts in its outlets. Tempted by the nice flyer's pictures, I decided to try it out as there are some discount vouchers included in the flyer. Thus, on a Sunday morning, we went to the Taman Equine KFC Outlet. We ordered the KFC Egg Wrap because we missed KFC's Bandito so much. As part of the breakfast, we also had the KFC Chicken Platter because there is the discount voucher for it.

What we see
The KFC Chicken Platter and The KFC Egg Wrap (Looks nice? :P)
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What we get
The KFC Egg Wrap wrapped in a flat way (I thought it would be something like a roll since the picture indicates a nice roll)
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What we get
The KFC Egg Wrap (I understand why it is called egg wrap instead of egg roll now)
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What we get
The KFC Chicken Platter (Oh, I don't know that is called scrambled egg!)
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The Menu and Price Listing (I didn't get paid for this, :P)
(Extracted from http://www.kfc.com.my/menu_breakfast.html)
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KFC Sausage Combo
RM 7.70
(Ala Carte RM 6.70)

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KFC Chicken Platter
RM 7.10
(Ala Carte RM 6.10)

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Chicken Porridge
RM 5.00
(Ala Carte RM 4.00)

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Noodles o' Chicken
RM 5.00
(Ala Carte RM 4.00)

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Nasi Lemak Enak
RM 4.60
(Ala Carte RM 3.60)

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KFC Egg Wrap
RM 6.20
(Ala Carte RM 5.20)

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Cheezy Chicken Muffin
RM 5.30
(Ala Carte RM 4.30)

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Juniof Breakfast
RM 6.95
5 % discount for Chicky Club Members.
(Valid with Chicky Club Membership Card)

17.12.07

Sun Seng Fatt, Ipoh

Curry Mee is a dish that is unique to Malaysia, usually made up of thin yellow egg noodles or/and string thin mee-hoon (rice vermicelli) with spicy curry soup, coconut milk, and a choice of dried tofu, prawns, cuttlefish, chicken, egg and mint leaves.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_Mee)


Long long time ago, I read about this restaurant from The Star newspaper mentioning that this restaurant exported its curry paste to Hong Kong. Pretty curious to know how it managed to do so, I have long wanted to try it. And finally, on a special occasion, we stopped by this restaurant for a lunch treat, after getting the directions from my Ipoh friend.

There are some newspaper cuttings about the restaurant hanging on the wall of the restaurant.
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The main dish - Curry Noodles with Mee and Mee Hoon (Rice Vermicelli)
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You can also opt for Hor Fun (Keow Teow).
Shahe fen, he fen or Hor Fun is a type of wide Chinese noodle made from rice.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hor_fun)

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We also ordered some dumplings.
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How can you miss out the white coffee while you are in Ipoh?
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The menu and price listings.
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The curry mee that is offered here is of a more lemak (coconut milk) variant. It's with light spicy with some pieces char siew served together. I still prefer Penang style of curry mee where it's not that lemak and with nice and fragrant chilli paste (sambal). Though Ipoh hor fun is nice, but I still think yellow noodles and rice vermicelli together are the best combination for curry mee. As for the dumplings, they tasted quite nice, crunchy and fresh.

Coconut milk is a sweet, milky white cooking base derived from the meat of a mature coconut. Coconut milk is a common ingredient in many tropical cuisines, most notably that of Southeast Asia, West African, Caribbean, and Polynesian cuisines.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_milk)

Char siu (also spelled chashao, cha siu and char siew), otherwise known as barbecued pork, is a popular way to prepare pork in Cantonese cuisine.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_siew)


Overall, I still like Penang's curry mee the best which has delicate fragrance of sambal and spicier taste of curry soup due to the nice sambal. Besides, instead pieces of char siew, chicken are used and there are long beans and dry tofu. Anyhow, being able to export its curry paste to Hong Kong, of cause there is a certain quality that is offered. :D


Other Reviews :
http://shoppingmumsparadise.blogspot.com/2007/11/sun-seng-fatt-curry-mee.html
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2006/04/ipoh-curry-noodles-sun-seng-fatt.html
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/velisian&article_id=1895224 (Chinese)

Some information about Sun Seng Fatt's export:
http://www.franchise.com.hk/franchise_silver/ssf

Address
:
Sun Seng Fatt Curry House
No. 28, Jalan SS2/10
Petaling Jaya. (Petaling Jaya branch)

I still couldn't find the address for the Ipoh's main branch, if anyone has it, please share, thanks.

Contact Number :
03 - 7875 0670

11.12.07

Curry Puff, Ikea

Curry puff from Ikea
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Every time I go there (which is very on occasion), I never miss to treat myself to this light pastry. Oh, I would really love to have it again...

It's crispy. It has a mild, nice smell of pastry. It has soft curry potatoes fillings, and I saw from other reviews, there are pieces of chicken meat, but I don't remember there's some meat in it when I gulped down the puff. Besides, it also has a small piece of hard-boiled egg in it, which the egg seems a little over-cooked. Having the piece of egg in curry puff is usually not so normal in the ordinary "road-side stalls". However, I vaguely remember that when I was still small (yeah, lots of years back then), the curry puffs used to have pieces of egg with generous serving of chicken and potatoes fillings. But with the cost of living getting higher and higher (but not the salary), the size of curry puffs seems to shrink quite a lot. Errm, sorry, enough of the "long long time ago"... Lets get back to the tasty curry puffs from Ikea...

It costs RM 1 per curry puff or RM 5.50 for a half dozen of curry puffs. Mind you, this curry puff is best eaten when it's still hot/warm. If it is left to cool, it's not crispy anymore.

Other Reviews :
http://babeinthecitykl.blogspot.com/2007/02/review-curry-puffs-at-ikeas.html
http://foodie.parisbeaverbanks.com/2007/05/20/curry-puffs-from-ikea/
http://www.reviewstream.com/reviews/?p=9107

Address :
IKEA Malaysia
No. 2, Jalan PJU 7/2,
Mutlara Damansara,
47800 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor Darul Ehsan.

Business Hours :
10 am to 10 pm for Sun - Thurs
10 am to 11 pm for Fri, Sat and eve of public holidays

9.12.07

Restaurant O & S

As penangnites, we have been searching around for a long time for a nice bowl of prawn mee and laksa in Klang Valley. Finally, thanks to Eric again, we found one stall that offers prawn mee that best resembles and tastes like an authentic Penang prawn mee. It is located in O & S Restaurant, Paramount Garden.

The O & S Restaurant
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The Prawn Mee Stall
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The Yummy Prawn Mee
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This prawn mee is certainly one of the best that could be found in Selangor. The soup is lightly spiced and with generous fried shallots complementing it. The soup doesn't give any scent of the prawn stink as distinct from the rest of the prawn mee that I have tasted in Selangor. Besides, the noodles and mee hoon (rice vermicelli ) are cooked to perfect that they are not over-cooked.

The Famous Assam Laksa
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This restaurant is famous for its laksa as well and some other food. This variation of Assam laksa offers generous serving of fish chunks, which I don't exactly like. The soup is a little yellowish and sour, not too thick nor too watery. The noodles in the soup is quite smooth, but it's just the average noodles like what most of the stalls offered. Overall, this laksa could be quite a good deal for what could be found in Selangor. However, I still prefer the northern Assam laksa where the fish chunks are perfectly blended into the soup and making the soup taste a little sweeter. Besides, there are also crispy prawn crackers served together with the laksa. In addition, the self-made laksa noodles give more texture which complement the soup well.

I have noticed a lot of people ordering the Yong Tau Foo in the restaurant, perhaps the restaurant is also famous for that. There are a lot of other food stalls in the restaurant. I have tried the banana fritters there and it's quite good actually, though I still prefer Tun Sambanthan's one. It's crispy and the batter is not too thick. It is also made of the whole banana, not like the one could be found from the Malay stalls along the roadside, where only half side of the banana is used. But, of course, using the whole banana would mean the price is more expensive, much more.

Other reviews :
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2005/12/o-s-restaurant-petaling-jaya.html
http://kyspeaks.com/2006/09/21/ky-eats-petai-prawn-rice-at-o-s-restaurant-taman-paramount-pj/
http://www.flsam.blogspot.com/2007/06/fish-head-mee-hoon-o-s-restaurant.html
http://limmeiyen.blogspot.com/2006/12/dinner-o-s-restaurant-paramount-garden.html

Address :
O & S Restaurant
Jalan 20/14,
Paramount Garden,
Petaling Jaya.

7.12.07

Yut Kee Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur

Warning : This is a highly non-halal post!

Yut Kee Restaurant is a restaurant with nostalgic settings. It has the decorations like an old coffee shop but with modernized services (and the government tax). It's after the normal tea-break time and far to early from dinner time. However, there area still quite a lot of patrons there. Some ordered the "chops", some ordered the bread toast while some went all the way for the Swiss rolls.

As for us, we ordered the Pork Chop and Belacan Fried Rice. The pork chop is served fast, which I think is ready-made and just pour in the brown sauce and reheated a little upon order. However, the meat is quite tender while the brown sauce's thickness is just appropriate. It has a mild sweetness as well. There is a satisfying serving of the sauce which is a good thing for people like me who favours lots of gravy served together with the food. In ordinary chicken chops, etc, the western salads are served. But here, the potatoes, onions, green peas, corns and carrots are served instead. I do think that this combination is not bad, as the sauce can complement these side dishes well. As for the Belacan Fried Rice, the taste is average in my opinion. But the egg mixture in it is still soft and in small chunks which provides some additional textures to the dish. I would definitely order it again, if I would like to have rice the day I would be there again.

Actually, besides the pork chop and belacan fried rice, the recommended food are Roti Babi (I know the name is a little bit... But that's really the name of the dish!) and Kaya Swiss Roll. When we were there, it was 4 pm already and the Roti Babi had sold out. And then, after the pork chop and belacan fried rice, we were too full for the Kaya Swiss Roll. Thus, we would just leave them for next visits. For reviews of the famous Roti Babi, do check out the reviews below.

This restaurant has been a little bit commercialized and there is government tax included in the bill. However, the service there is quite good. When one of the waiter saw that I were to share the fried rice between the two of us, he offered to bring us the bowls and an additional pair of spoon and fork. That's so nice of him, having to be able to try to serve our needs automatically! I think he is a foreigner, and he speaks English, a Filipino perhaps?

Overall, this restaurant is worth at least one visit, for the pork chop (or any other chops, which I suppose would taste similar... :P), the Roti Babi and the Swiss Roll, although I don't have any comments on these two items yet.

The Menu
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The Menu
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The Restaurant
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The Restaurant
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The Pork Chop
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The Belacan Fried Rice
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Other Reviews :
http://wp.peachjon.com/edition_2004_06/2006/09/old-style-kopitiam-yut-kee.html
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2006/12/nostalgic-dining-yut-kee-jalan-dang.html
http://www.friedchillies.com/fc/more.php?id=1501_0_1_0
http://vsdgrain.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/food-post-yut-kee/
http://makankings.blogspot.com/2006/09/roti-babi-yut-kee.html

Address :
Yut Kee Restaurant (Est. 1928)
35, Jalan Dang Wangi,
50100 Kuala Lumpur.

Wikimapia Coordinates :
3°9'22"N 101°42'0"E

Contact Number :
03-2698 8108

Jack Lee
012-307 1208

Business Hours :
8 am - 5 pm (Mondays off)

4.12.07

Taste of Foo Chow, Kuala Lumpur

Thanks to Eric, we discovered this place that serves nice Fuzhou cuisines. This restaurant is famous of its Fuzhou delicacies such as Fuzhou fish balls, Fuzhou meesuah in red rice wine, etc.


Fuzhou cuisine: taste is light compared to other styles, often with a mixed sweet and sour taste. Emphasis is also on utilizing soup, and there is a saying in Fuzhou style: One soup can be changed in ten forms.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian_cuisine)

Red rice vinegar is darker than white rice vinegar, and paler than black rice vinegar, with a distinctive red colour from Red yeast rice (红曲米), which is cultivated with the mold Monascus purpureus. This vinegar has a distinctive flavour of its own due to the red mold.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_vinegar)

Misua, mee sua or miswa, is a very thin variety of salted Chinese noodles made from wheat flour. They differ from mifen and cellophane noodles in that the latter two are made from rice and mung beans, respectively and typically a lot thinner than the two.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misua)


The storefront of the restaurant
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The Restaurant - Hup Yick Liquor Shop (?)
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Newspaper cuttings promoting the restaurant
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A closer view to one of them
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The Fuzhou Meesuah in red rice wine
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The Fuzhou Meesuah in red rice wine
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The menu of the side dishes
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The Fuzhou fishball
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The dumpling
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The fried tofu
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If you have tried the meesuah in ginger wine soup before and love it, you should like this. However, this Fuzhou meesuah doesn't have the strong ginger taste. In exchange, it has a nice Chinese wine smell and when you take a sip of the soup down your throat, you would immediately feel the warmth that the Chinese wine brought. The soup is red in colour due to the red rice wine. The meesuah' texture is pretty smooth and still in good form when served. For those who cook meesuah before, they would know that cooking meesuah is no easy task as if the time taken is too long, the meesuah would deform and sticking each other. I think the meesuah used is not the normal type that we could get from supermarket, as it is slightly thicker. As for the soup, the thickness of the soup is just nice, it is not too thick nor too watery. However, it does have pretty strong taste of liquor. The restaurant also offers generous serving of meat (I am not heavy meat-eater, :P) together with the meesuah.

Another specialty of the restaurant would be the Fuzhou fish balls. Fuzhou fish balls ain't ordinary fish balls as there are some meat fillings inside the fish balls. You could say that they are fish paste-coated meat balls too, if you like to. :P Personally, I am not too into fish balls and fish pastes. Thus, I don't have special comments about this. But the combination of meat and fish paste is pretty interesting and fresh to me, as it could soften the taste that the fish paste brought. :P

I strongly suggest those who are interested with the Fuzhou meesuah to dine-in as I once tried with huge eagerness to have a taste of it by asking my housemate to take-away and later re-heated at home. But, the soup become too salty to my liking. Anyway, this restaurant is still high recommended by me, and by fellow food bloggers too.

Other Reviews :
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2006/11/fuzhou-food-hup-yick-jalan-yew-pudu.html
http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/2007/10/spend-a-bit-of-.html
http://cumidanciki.blogspot.com/2007/06/in-search-of-red-wine-mee-suah-hup-yik.html
http://www.waisikkai.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=429&Itemid=47
http://awhiffoflemongrass.blogspot.com/2007/01/hup-yick-restaurant-taste-of-foochow.html



Address :
Taste of Foochow
14, Jalan Gajah (off Jalan Yew),
Pudu, Kuala Lumpur.

Contact Number :
Tel. 03-9281-8788

Business Hours :
8:30 am - 5:00 pm