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Hu Xu Lao Curry Mee, PJ Section 14

2009-01-31T19:15:00.003+08:00

I have been longing for a bowl of decent Penang Curry Mee (Or known as curry laksa in some places) since I moved to Selangor.

However, I still haven't managed to get a nice one. Nevertheless, I still able to find some nice ones, in their own way.

For example, there is this FuShouLou curry mee stall in one of the restaurant in PJ Section 14.

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Being Nyonya-styled, the curry soup is rich of coconut milk, which is totally different from Penang-styled. It is nice, not too spicy, not too watery. It is really worth a try.

Location :
Section 14, along the road where Digital Mall situated, opposite Dae Jang Gum Korean Restaurant.

Wikimapia Coordinate :
3°6'37"N 101°38'6"E

Other Reviews :
http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2008/12/11/central/2542399&sec=central
http://havefoodwilltravel.blogspot.com/2007/08/fusou-lou-nyonya-seafood-curry-mee-at.html
http://ls-lushia.blogspot.com/2008/10/nyonya-laksa-fu-shou-lou-usj-2.html

Dragon-I

2009-01-30T16:57:00.004+08:00

The Table Settings

The Appetizer - stewed peanuts

The Shanghainese Steam Meat Dumpling a.k.a. Xiao Long Bao
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A traditional Shanghainese delicacy that originated from Nanxing Province, the soup-filled steamed meat dumpling or xiao long bao is shaped like a translucent pagoda-shaped jewel. Encased within the smooth, thin skin with exactly 18 plaits, is a delicately seasoned filling of minced Chinese ham, lean pork and ginger. Puncture the skin to allow the steaming hot soup to seep out before savouring the dumpling with a dack of black vinegar with a few slivers of fresh ginger.
(Extracted from http://www.dragon-i.com.my/)

I finally found a way of eating it properly after trying the xiao long bao for many times. I found it easier to hold the xiao long bao at its plaits using chopsticks and put it on a ceramic spoon. Then, give it a small bite and have a sip of the soup first. Next, have a taste of the meat filling together with the leftover soup. Yum yum~

The Custard Bun

The custard filling was very creamy. We love it very much. Mind you, the custard filling is hot when it's first served. However, it is best eaten hot, or at least warm. If you do not plan to eat it as soon as it is served, you could actually ask the waiter/waitress to serve it later.

The Seafood La Mien

The noodles and the soup tasted so so to me, but my mom said it was nice.

The Steamed Rice with Pork Chop

This was ok too. However, IMHO, it's better to stir the rice before eating, so that the gravy mix well with the rice.

The Spring Onion Pancake

The thickness of the pancake was ok and the spread of the spring onions was appropriate. What's make it more attractive was that it wasn't oily at all. One piece wouldn't be enough.

The Mixed Fruit Shaved Ice Dessert

This was really refreshing, nothing special though.

Official Website : http://www.dragon-i.com.my/

Outlets :
MidValley Megamall Hotel Main Lobby
Cititel Lobby
03-2282 0155

1 Utama Shopping Mall
Lot S313A, New Wing
03-7725 8822

Centrepoint Bandar Utama
G115, Ground Floor
03-7728 6866

Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall
G1.43, Ground Floor
03-7492 3688

The Curve
Lot 136 & 137, 1st Floor
03-7728 6888

Cheras Leisure Mall
G22 & G22A, Ground Floor
03-9130 0688

Penang Queensbay Mall
Lot 77, 78, 79 & 81, 2nd Floor
04-646 6888

Pavilion Kuala Lumpur
Lot 1.13, Level 1
03-2143 7688

Aeon Bukit Tinggi
Lot G53, Ground Floor
03-3324 0888

Other Reviews :
http://www.vkeong.com/2008/03/17/dragon-i-restaurant-queensbay/
http://yummy-station.com/2008/09/22/dragon-i-restaurant/
http://kyspeaks.com/2008/08/31/ky-eats-mid-autumn-set-menu-at-dragon-i-kl-pavilion/
http://xjion89.blogspot.com/2008/09/dragon-i-inn.html

ShihLin Taiwanese Snacks

2008-07-16T12:00:00.000+08:00

This outlet, the ShihLin Taiwan Street Snacks has mushroomed in a few major shopping malls in recent years. Although the size of the outlet is not big and the menu selection is rather limited, but I believe it is making good money to be able to withstand the operational costs.

The Story of Shihlin
Thousands of Taiwanese crowd the local night markets in search of their favourite and delicious snacks, and Taipei's Shihlin Night Market is the most famous due to its very wide range of local delicacies in its small streets and alleys. If a snack is nice, you can surely find it in Shihlin! The locals say, "If Taiwan has it, Shihlin has it". With Shihlin Taiwan Street Snacks®, the Taiwanese and us alike can now do the same and enjoy the wonderful street snacks of Taiwan!!
(Extracted from http://www.shihlinsnacks.com.tw/MY/story-my.htm)

Being recommended by my house mate to this outlet, I finally went to pay it a visit when I saw this outlet in the directory listing of Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall.

As my ultimate aim is to try out the oyster vermicelli that my house mate recommended, I only tried out that exact snack. I admitted that the way it was presented to me was not what I have thought to be. I blamed it to the stereotype of a typical vermicelli soup. :P

It turned out that, this oyster vermicelli has a thick soup base, tasted a bit like slightly thickened shark-fin's soup with a tad of vinegar (maybe more than a tad, :P). It is ready-made, the 'chef' would just pour a big scoop (don't worry, it is really just a snack) of the vermicelli into a white plastic bowl, add some Chinese parsley, exactly two medium-sized oysters and some chicken-meat strips upon order. The taste was weird to me at the first nibble, but strangely it get better the next few. However, the texture of the vermicelli is quite smooth, maybe due to the fact that it is being kept warm in the pot over a long duration of time. Next visit? On this oyster vermicelli, perhaps once in a long while, but the XXL Crispy Chicken that I haven't tasted before, YES! :D

Oyster vermicelli is a kind of noodle soup that is popular in Taiwan and Xiamen. Its main ingredients are oysters and Taiwanese vermicelli, made to be tasty and full of aroma.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_vermicelli)

The Menu
小吃 Street Snacks

超大鸡排
XXL Crispy Chicken

肉松蛋饼
Crispy Floss Egg Crepe

蚵仔面线
Handmade Oyster Mee Sua

甜不辣
Seafood Tempura

开心便当
Happy! Ricebox Set

饮料Drinks

美味豆奶
Chilled Soya Milk

矿泉水
Mineral Water

The Locations
Penang
Queensbay Mall *NEW!*
Gurney Plaza *OPENING SOON!*

Kuala Lumpur
Pavilion Kuala Lumpur
Plaza Low Yat
The Gardens

Selangor
1 Utama Shopping Center
Ikano Power Center
Bukit Tinggi Shopping Center
Sunway Pyramid
Mines Shopping Fair

Malacca
Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall

Johor
City Square Johor Bahru

The Official Website of ShihLin Taiwanese Snacks
http://www.shihlinsnacks.com.tw

Other Reviews
http://www.weatethis.com/2008/03/12/shihlin-taiwan-street-snacks-oyster-mee-sua-xxl-chicken-1-utama-old-wing/
http://riceballz.lilnut.net/2007/11/29/shih-lin-taiwan-street-snacks/
http://kampungboycitygal.blogspot.com/2006/04/shihlin-snacks-one-utama-old-wing.html
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2005/11/shihlin-taiwan-street-snacks-1-utama.html
http://wp.peachjon.com/edition_2004_06/2006/03/shihlin-taiwan-street-snack-one-utama.html

Bentong Ice Kacang

2008-07-13T20:30:00.001+08:00

It was a hot afternoon.

The restaurant

The Ice Kacang
Ais kacang or ice kacang (Chinese: 红豆冰; pinyin: hóngdòu bing; literally "red bean ice"), is a dessert served in Malaysia and Singapore. It is also popularly known as air batu campur in Malay or ABC for short. The word "air batu", literally meaning "stone water" means ice and "campur" means mixed. It is sweet-tasting and is primarily ice served with sweet flavoured syrup and jelly. The word Kacang is a Malay word for bean, and the word "ais" is a transliteration of the English term "ice".
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_kacang)

The cendol which is quite similar to the Ice Kacang.

The menu and price listing (this was taken before fuel price hike)

The menu (before fuel price hike)

Famous places do have lots of these stuffs, don't them? :P

Newspaper cuttings again...

There are a lot of patrons here though it's already late afternoon and that there are no main dishes offered here (if Yong Tau Foo is more of a side-dish).

If you have been to Jonker Walk of Malacca and think that the ice kacang there suits your appetite, then I bet this absolutely will too!

Sufficient amount of dark-brownish syrup on the shaved ice, generous servings of condiments hidden in the snow, not enough to lure your appetite? What about a home-made ice-cream topping it? And having it on a hot stuffy day??!!!

Hop on to Bentong to this famous dessert restaurant, the Kow Po Restaurant.

Fear not the sin of high sugar intake because the sweetness is just enough (of its taste). To me, the syrup tasted like Gula Melaka (maybe it really is), the caramel taste-alike sugar.

Palm sugar or Gula Melaka was originally made from the sugary sap of the Palmyra palm or the date palm. Now it is also made from the sap of the sago and coconut palms and may be sold as "coconut sugar."
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gula_melaka)

This ice kacang is best eaten when it has melted a little, when the shaved ice dissolved in the syrup. I don't really craze for ice kacang usually, but for this one, one ice kacang is just not enough. :P This is absolutely a perfect treat for a hot day.

At last, thank you HM for recommended and brought us to this restaurant. When's the next trip ar? :D

Extra Information and Reviews:
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/TravelTimes/article/FeatureStory/20070402124604/Article/print_html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentong#Local_Food
http://forum.fooxion.com/index.php?showtopic=532

Location:
Opposite Bentong Bus Terminal

Carl's Jr.

2008-05-03T17:24:00.008+08:00

Let the pictures do the talking...

This is so far the best burger I have enjoyed from a burger chain.
Quality : McD < Wendy's < Carl's Jr.
Price : McD < Wendy's OR Burger King < Carl's Jr.
Conclusion : Price = Quality!

(As the last time I went to Burger King should be some time ago, thus, no direct comparison of quality here.)

I tried the Jalapeno Chicken. The chicken patty is juicy, tender and fresh. Served generously with lettuces, olives slices (I think), it was ok as I don't really enjoy olives that much. Personally, I preferred Charbroiled Chicken Club burger and Charbroiled Santa Fe Chicken burger. Charbroiled Chicken Club burger has chicken bacons in it while the Santa Fe Chicken don't. Comparably, these two burgers tasted nicer than the Jalapeno. The breads are different, they are like the wholemeal bread rather than the normal white ones. The chicken patties wise, they are both juicy and tender. But, I noticed that if the size of a chicken burger is smaller, the bread used would be the wholemeal type. Ya, most likely the bread type earns my vote.

As part of the combo, there is a drink and Fries included. The fries are also very yummy. They are not the typical off-the-shelf thin version fries or the crinkle-cut fries. If you are observant enough (or perhaps you don't need to be observant to notice this), some of the fries still have the skin attached. However, they are soft, crunchy (not too crunchy as that would mean over-fried) and they are served hot!

And the beef burger comes in really hugeeeee size, but not so for some of the chicken burgers. Since I never tasted any beef burgers before, no comment on this.

Another credit to Carl's Jr. is the free flow of drinks and pickles. The drinks are not limited to soft drinks only. There are iced lemon tea and coffee as well. I would certainly want to visit Carl's Jr. again, despite the pricing which costs around RM 20 something for a combo set.

Other Reviews :
http://kyspeaks.com/2008/01/11/ky-eats-carls-jr-burger-screw-the-diet/
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2007/07/carls-jr-1-utama-shopping-centre-old.html
http://ipohwav3.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/carls-jr-1-utama-pj/

Branches (the ones I know) :
Sunway Pyramid
One Utama

Hainanese Chicken Rice, Serdang

2008-03-31T10:13:00.000+08:00

There are two chicken rice restaurants/stalls in Serdang area which has attracted a lot of patrons frequenting them. I had blogged about one of them some time ago, now I would like to introduce the other one to you all. This is the Hainanese version instead.

Just like the roasted version, this chicken rice restaurant is also full of customers during lunch time, especially weekends. If you want to enjoy your meal, you are advised to go there earlier or later (with risk that the chicken might be sold out already).

Back to the chicken rice, the chicken meat is tender and fresh. It doesn't has the taste of 'chicky' smell in it, which is something I not so like about the roasted chicken. The rice itself I suspect is cooked with chicken stock which make it smell nice and taste nice too, not like the normal garlic rice which normally does not taste like what it smells like. Unlike the normal chicken rice restaurant, this restaurant actually serves you the ginger-garlic version of chilli. It is not really spicy, however, if you love ginger and garlic, you would love this. The specially-made sauce is the blend of chilli, garlic, ginger and some other ingredients that I don't remember or have failed to identify. Anyway, go try out yourself and let me know your opinions!

Address :
Jalan Kolej,
43300 Seri Kembangan, Selangor.
(From Jusco Equine Park, you will pass Public Bank, Wing Heong Restaurant, Mexim Dim Sum Restaurant, and a few shoplots. It is corner shoplot and is behind a bus stop.)

Location :
Wikimapia coordinate : 3°1'10"N 101°42'13"E

Operation Hours :
If not mistaken, it is closed on Tuesdays.
(Whoever knows the exact day, please share it with me, thanks!)

Other Reviews :
http://www.ubisoft.biz/dc/2006/05/hainanese-chicken-rice-at-seri.html

Pun Chun Duck Noodles (Bidor)

2008-03-25T13:22:00.001+08:00

Thanks to Eric, we were brought to this restaurant when we were on our way back to our hometown. This restaurant, Pun Chun is famous of various Chinese Biscuits too, besides the duck noodles.

The herbal taste of the duck soup is quite strong, which we liked it very much. As for the noodles, it was the normal egg noodles, which I think tasted normal too. :P You can have your noodles dried or in the duck soup. I found the soup for the dried version is slightly stronger than the soup version. In addition to the herbal soup, you will also be served with either duck drumstick or meat together in the soup. There was some herbal taste in the meat, though the meat was not really juicy anymore due to long period of boiling, but it was still nice.

Other Reviews :
http://www.nst.com.my/Misc/goodbites/Article/20070305111218/pp_index_html
http://kyspeaks.com/2007/02/14/ky-eats-pun-chun-%E5%93%81%E7%8F%8D-restaurant-at-bidor/
http://kampungboycitygal.blogspot.com/2007/08/small-town-story-bidor.html
http://www.ourlilspace.com/?p=4

Address :
38 - 40, Jalan Besar, Bidor, 35500 Perak

Location :
Wikimapia Coordinates : 4°6'42"N 101°17'15"E

Operation Hours :
Opens from 5 am to 10 pm daily

Contact Number :
05-434 1554 /1562

Penang Chee Cheong Fun, Restaurant O & S

2008-03-19T10:17:00.002+08:00

I have always preferred the Penang-styled chee cheong fun, compared to the curry chee cheong fun. However, it is pretty hard to find a chee cheong fun that is in Penang style in Selangor. Therefore, when I see this Penang chee cheong fun, I ordered it without hesitation.

It quite resembled the Penang's one with lots of shrimp paste, fried shallots and sesame seeds. However, there is a minor difference between the Penang's one and this one. The rice sheets for Penang's chee cheong fun are actually in rolls and you can ask to have them spreaded out. However, for the one from this stall, the rice sheets are actually in flat form already. Anyway, that is not important. The important thing is I get to eat Penang-styled chee cheong fun again, in Selangor.

Price :
RM 1.70 for small serving
RM 2.XX for big serving (Forgot the price already, :P)

Location :
Wikimapia Coordinates : 3°6'27"N 101°37'29"E

Other Reviews :
http://www.awhiffoflemongrass.com/?p=53
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2005/12/o-s-restaurant-petaling-jaya.html
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/food/Chee%20Cheong%20Fun

Nasi Lemak Ayam, Sea Park

2008-03-14T18:40:00.012+08:00

The Indomie Mamak Stall

The yummy Nasi Lemak Ayam

It was purely coincidence that I noticed this stall. One day, judging by the number of persons there and majority of them were having nasi lemak ayam, I decided to pay it a visit.

There's a saying that whenever you go to some new places, look around, the restaurants or stalls with lots of customers, that would be nice choices. I take heed of this valuable piece of advice and it got me right! It was a brilliant choice that I have made. :P

The Ayam - the fried chicken
It was coated with some spices which I have no idea of, but the spices gave nice aroma and taste. The chicken meat is tender, juicy and yet it's not oily, surprisingly to me.

The Nasi - the rice
The rice is soft, though not very lemak (or is it the plain white rice ar? :P), but it is good enough.

The Sambal - the chilli paste
Sambal is a condiment used in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines and Sri Lanka, as well as the Netherlands and in Suriname , made from a variety of peppers, although chili peppers are the most common. Sambal is used as a condiment or as a side dish, and is sometimes substituted for fresh chilis; it can be very hot for the uninitiated. It is available at exotic food markets or gourmet departments in supermarkets in numerous countries.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambal)

The sambal is not very spicy and it has mild sweetness. However, the overall taste of the sambal, complements the rice very much.

The Fried Egg
The sunny-sided up egg is half-done. Thus, the egg yolk texture is still there. Normally, I would prefer well-done fried egg. However, this one just fits in my appetite where the combination of the egg yolk and the sambal is wonderful. And the fried egg brighten my day, a sunny day! By the way, it is only available for dinner. :P Maybe a "sunny" night instead.

With the perfect rice + the perfect sambal + the perfect egg + the perfect fried chicken, they make the prefect Nasi Lemak Ayam!

Price :
RM 2.50 for Nasi Lemak Biasa
RM 4.50 for Nasi Lemak Ayam
RM 0.00 for Additional Sambal

Food Options:
Besides the signature Nasi Lemak Ayam, there are also other food available, such as Roti John, Maggi Goreng, etc. You can ask for the "menu" which would be spoken to you in a fast way. :P

Operation Hours:
At night only.

Location:
Wikimapia Coordinates: 3°6'35"N 101°37'20"E

Other Reviews :
http://kyspeaks.com/category/eat/hawkers/
http://forum.fooxion.com/index.php?showtopic=1445

* For first-time visitors, you should really really try the fried chicken, it's superb!

New Cathay Restaurant, Penang

2008-01-11T20:08:00.000+08:00

This is a place I used to take breakfast once a blue moon as I am not from the island. However, I make it a point to order the banana pancake with raisin there. First of all, this food is not easily available (except from some homes' kitchens). Second, it simply make a good breakfast for me.

I am not sure whether the chef put in any sugar or not, but the sweetness is just appropriate, maybe it's just the natural sweetness of banana. The pancake is added with banana slices and some raisins. The pancakes are cut into pieces and served with some sesames sprinkled on top.

There are many other food available in the restaurant. Though not bad, but most of them are somehow averagely tasted. Anyway, I do really hope they open up branches in somewhere nearby (in KL) so that I won't be too home-sicked with Penang food!

Chee Cheong Fun - the thick but not stinky gravy earns my vote.

A rice noodle roll (also translated as steamed rice roll) is a Cantonese dish from southern China and Hong Kong, commonly served as a variety of dim sum. It is a thin roll made from a wide strip of Shahe fen (rice noodles), filled with shrimp, pork, vegetables, or other ingredients. Sweet soy sauce is poured over the dish upon serving. A very similar dish is the Vietnamese bánh cuốn.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_noodle_roll)

Hokkien Mee - The soup doesn't have stinky smell but tasted average, as in no surprises to me.
(mind you, the "average" is in terms of what you can get in Penang and absolutely does not mean the "average" elsewhere.)

Hokkien hae mee (Hokkien/Fujian prawn noodles; 福建虾麺) is served in Penang (with a variant served in Singapore known as Hae mee). It is a dish of egg noodles and rice noodles in a fragrant stock, which is made from both fresh shrimp and dried prawns, as well as pork or chicken. Traditionally, small cubes of fried pork fat are added to the soup, but this is now less common due to health concerns. It is garnished with prawns, fish cake, leafy greens, pork ribs, squid, vegetables, crisp deep-fried shallots, spring onions and fresh lime. The dish is served with sliced red chili, light soy sauce and sambal.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkien_mee)

Jawa Mee - Just normal.

Jawa Mee is similar to the Mee rebus. Mee rebus (literally boiled noodles in English) is a Malay inspired noodle dish. It is most popular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The dish is made of yellow egg noodles, which are also used in Hokkien mee, with a spicy slightly sweet curry-like gravy.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mee_rebus)

Char Keow Teow - Normal either.

Char kway teow, literally "fried flat noodles", is a popular noodle dish in Malaysia and Singapore. It is made from flat rice noodles (Shāhé fěn or hé fěn in Mandarin), approximately 1 cm or slightly narrower in width, fried over very high heat with light and dark soy sauce, chilli, prawns, cockles, egg, bean sprouts and Chinese chives. Sometimes slices of Chinese sausage and fish cake are added. It is fried in pork fat, with crisp croutons of pork lard, which give it its characteristic taste.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_kway_teow)

Other Reviews :
http://everythingasian.blogspot.com/2007/12/kedai-kopi-new-cathay-pulau-tikus.html

Chai Leng Park Food Court

2008-01-03T18:04:00.000+08:00

To my shame, I don't really know the real name for this food court. We always refer that place to Wellesley Cinema Food Court as that place was previously the only cinema at the area, an old-fashioned one. Anyway, this place is besides Wellesley Restaurant, around one block before the Chai Leng Park morning market and a street before the Chai Leng Park's WaiSikKai (the whole street in Chai Leng Park which has lots of food stalls).

There is a good variety of choices there to fill your appetite with yummy food. There are Satay, Char Keow Teow, Keow Teow T'ng (Keow Teow Soup), Belacan Fried Rice, Grilled Fish, Tomyam Noodles, Western food, Curry Mee and many more.

This is a place I would recommend if there are a bunch of you longing for delicious and cheap Penang's hawker food. This is a place where you can have a huge variety of quality food under one roof. However, this place is only opened for dinner.

The food I wouldn't want to miss if I am there :

Grilled Fish

This is so far the best grilled fish that I have ever eaten. The fish is fresh and the meat is tender. The dipping sauce complements the dish perfectly, it is a little bit sour and a bit spicy, adding additional tastes to the already yummy grilled fish and of cause it's very appetizing.

Belacan Fried Rice

The fried rice above and the fried rice below are from the same stall. I don't really remember the name of the dish, but one of them would be the Belacan Fried Rice. The fried rice has mild saltness. However, the sambal is nice, it's not too spicy if you don't really favour spiciness.

Named "Belacan" in Malay, shrimp paste or shrimp sauce, is a common ingredient used in Southeast Asian and Southern Chinese cuisine.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp_paste)

Popiah

This popiah has generous servings of mengkuang, bean sprouts, chili sauce and other ingredients. To make it not so dry, this variation of popiah has a sweet, fresh soup poured over it before served. I think it is the soup from cooking the bangkuang, which also is the reason why it has mild sweetness.

Popiah (simplified Chinese: 薄饼; pinyin: bóbǐng or Chinese: 薄皮卷; pinyin: bópíjuǎn) is a Hokkien/Chaozhou-style fresh spring roll common in Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. The filling is mainly finely grated and steamed jicama (known locally as bangkuang), which has been cooked with a combination of other ingredients such as bean sprouts and lettuce leaves, depending on the individual vendor, along with grated carrots and chopped peanuts or peanut powder.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popiah)

Kway Chap

I rarely see this dish elsewhere (or perhaps there are but a variation of it, especially in Selangor). Thus, I make it a point to order this every time I am there. The kuew chap is soft and smooth. The kuew chap itself don't have much taste. However, eating together with the soup and perhaps chilli, the taste is marvelous. The soup is not salty, is not too watery but has very mild herbal taste (perhaps is the dark soya taste instead :P).

Kway chap (Chinese : 粿汁), Teochew dish of rice sheets in dark soya soup, served with pig offal, tofu derivatives and boiled eggs.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Malaysia#Chinese_food)

Oyster Omelette

As I don't really fancy oysters, thus I have no comments on the oyster. But the omelette itself has quite smooth texture and not too dry.

Oyster Omelette ("Oar Jien" in Hokkien) is a Chinese dish which originated in Chaozhou and Fujian. The dish consists of an omelette with a filling primarily composed of small oysters. Starch is mixed into the egg batter, giving the resulting egg wrap a thicker consistency.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_omelette)

Satay

The meat is tender and it is nicely marinated. Unlike some satay from some stalls, there ain't much fat included in the meat, which is something I like. Thus, I think at RM 0.50 per stick, this satay is pretty a good deal compared to some that I have tasted back in KL.

Satay (spelled as sate in both Indonesian and Malay and the Netherlands) is a dish consisting of chunks or slices of dice-sized meat (chicken, goat, mutton, beef, pork, fish, etc.) on bamboo skewers. These are grilled over a wood or charcoal fire, then served with various spicy seasonings (depends on satay recipe variants).
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satay)

Prawn Dumplings

The dumplings use fresh prawn, thus giving a fresh sweetness to the dumplings. However, the soup is just the typical a-little-bit-salty and flavour-engineered soup. :P

Address :
Lebuh Kurau 3, Taman Chai Leng, 13700 Perai, Penang, Malaysia.
(It's at the corner of this road. You will see it immediately when you turn into this road and you can't miss it because it is a one-way road.)

Wikimapia Coordinate :
5°23'5"N 100°23'33"E

Business Hours :
From dinner time until supper time only

Pan Mee and Ramen (Serdang)

2008-01-01T00:56:00.000+08:00

There are quite a lot of restaurants and stalls selling pan mee and ramen in Serdang area. Out of these choices, there are these two stalls that have quite a lot of customers frequenting them. They are located opposite the 7-Eleven in Bukit Serdang area.

Pan Mee or Ban Min (Chinese : 板麺) is a Hokkien-style egg noodle soup, some forms of Ban mian, comprises hand-kneaded pieces of dough, while others use regular strips of noodles.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Malaysia)

Ramen (ラーメン or 拉麺, rāmen?, IPA: ['ɺaːmeɴ], listen (help·info)) is a Japanese dish of noodles served in broth that originated in China.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen)

The restaurants selling pan mee and ramen

The cheap Spinach Ramen at RM 3

There are dry seaweed, corns, fish balls, pork slices, fried shallots and lots of spinach served together with the greenish mee made with spinach. The soup has a very slight salty taste, nothing extraordinary though. However, the generous servings of the ingredients, the mee and the huge bowl of soup would certainly fill up the whole stomach of an average-eater like me. What's more? It's cheap at RM 3 per huge bowl of mee. There are also other types of noodles served there, but, every time I go there, I always has a good taste of the spinach pan mee as I think it is the best deal of all! Price over quality provided is certainly worth it!

Business Hours :
Night time only.

Wikimapia Coordinate :
3°1'18"N 101°41'58"E

KFC Breakfast

2007-12-18T11:04:00.000+08:00

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)

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)

What we get
The KFC Egg Wrap (I understand why it is called egg wrap instead of egg roll now)

What we get
The KFC Chicken Platter (Oh, I don't know that is called scrambled egg!)

The Menu and Price Listing (I didn't get paid for this, :P)
(Extracted from http://www.kfc.com.my/menu_breakfast.html)

KFC Sausage Combo
RM 7.70
(Ala Carte RM 6.70)

KFC Chicken Platter
RM 7.10
(Ala Carte RM 6.10)

Chicken Porridge
RM 5.00
(Ala Carte RM 4.00)

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

Nasi Lemak Enak
RM 4.60
(Ala Carte RM 3.60)

KFC Egg Wrap
RM 6.20
(Ala Carte RM 5.20)

Cheezy Chicken Muffin
RM 5.30
(Ala Carte RM 4.30)

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

Sun Seng Fatt, Ipoh

2007-12-17T11:41:00.000+08:00

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.

The main dish - Curry Noodles with Mee and Mee Hoon (Rice Vermicelli)

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)

We also ordered some dumplings.

How can you miss out the white coffee while you are in Ipoh?

The menu and price listings.

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

Curry Puff, Ikea

2007-12-11T15:58:00.000+08:00

Curry puff from Ikea

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

Restaurant O & S

2007-12-09T15:19:00.000+08:00

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

The Prawn Mee Stall

The Yummy Prawn Mee

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

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.htm l

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

Yut Kee Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur

2007-12-07T12:07:00.000+08:00

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

The Menu

The Restaurant

The Restaurant

The Pork Chop

The Belacan Fried Rice

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)

Taste of Foo Chow, Kuala Lumpur

2007-12-04T12:47:00.000+08:00

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

The Restaurant - Hup Yick Liquor Shop (?)

Newspaper cuttings promoting the restaurant

A closer view to one of them

The Fuzhou Meesuah in red rice wine

The Fuzhou Meesuah in red rice wine

The menu of the side dishes

The Fuzhou fishball

The dumpling

The fried tofu

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

Chop 'n Steak (Serdang)

2007-11-30T15:52:00.000+08:00

Thanks to someone, we finally found a Western food restaurant in nearby area which offers best value for money over the food provided. The Chop 'n Steak restaurant is a Malay restaurant, but selling western food (majority of the items from the menu). It is located somewhere near UPM in Sri Serdang.

The restaurant is pretty nicely decorated and the lightings of the restaurant somehow provide a jolly mood for dinner (The restaurant only opens for dinner). We have been there during weekdays and during weekends, the place is full of people! There are Malays, Chinese, Indians and even Iranians. However, luckily, we always got our seats.

When you order, you could see from the order that it is actually divided into a couple of sections. The restaurant is pretty organized that there are different people specializing in cooking different cuisines. Thus, the order could actually be separated between these "departments" and each "department" would prepare the food separately.

The Menu

The Menu

The Menu

The menu seems a little bit limited comparing to the Western food chains such as Chilli's or TGIF. However, having considered the size of the restaurant, I still think that it is highly acceptable, especially the price stated on the menu! You see, it's really hard to find a nice Fish 'n Chips with generous serving of Mayonnaise at only RM 6, plus an incredibly ice-blended fruit drink at only RM 2 (Some of the ice-blended drinks are at RM 2.50), the whole meal doesn't even exceed RM 10 for a decent Western meal! And yes, there is no "++" charges, you know what I meant, don't you? OMG! That's why I love you so, Chop 'n Steak!

Fish 'n Chips

Chicken Goldon Blue (Chicken Cordon Bleu)

Fresh Orange Juice

Ice-blended Mango Juice

Overall, this place is totally valued for money! If you opt for some average taste of Western food but having limited budget and living somewhere near Serdang, this would be the only place I would recommend for cheap Western cuisines. If you ask me to choose between F1 and Chop 'n Steak, I would not think twice and would head on to the latter.

Here are some other reviews of the restaurant :
http://reiko0607.blogspot.com/2007/11/chop-n-steak.html
http://nazri.flavert.com/2007/10/29/chop-steak-and-first-step-towards-world-domination/
http://hungwei.blogspot.com/2007/11/chop-steak.html (Chinese)

Address :
Chop 'n Steak
No. 379, Jalan 18/1,
Taman Sri Serdang,
43400 Serdang,
Selangor.

WikiMapia Coordinates :
3°0'21"N 101°42'55"E

Contact Number :
012-447 1639 / 019-335 7373

Jogoya, Starhill Gallery

2007-11-28T12:09:00.000+08:00

Jogoya, Starhill Gallery is having a second anniversary promotion. Ladies are entitled to 50% discount on the buffet price while Gents are entitled to a prawn cuisine each.

19 Nov - 18 Dec 2007
Only from Mon - Wed
Ladies get 50% off price
Gents get a complimentary Prawn Cuisine

Red & White Wine Cocktail FREE Flow (no extra charge)
Daily 10pm - 12am

+603 2142 1268 for reservations & more info

At first, I was overwhelmed to be able to finally have my first buffet ever in Jogoya, Starhill Gallery... But lets look at some pictures of what are offered in the restaurant first...

The paper clips for ordering dishes which are cooked upon order. They are in the shape of the sign of Jogoya Restaurant.

Some soups...

Every table has this kind of heater to keep the soup warm.

Some sashimis...

Oysters

Prawn cuisine that guys are entitled to under the promotion.

Some other food...

Otak-otak

Dessert time... the Tiramisu

Black Sesame Mochi

Cream Roll Cake

Häagen-Dazs® Ice-cream!!!

Alcoholic Beverages...

Please take my opinions at your own risk... :P

The buffet spread is quite grand with various type of cuisines served to fulfill your appetite. However, to me, the arrangement of the setting seems a little bit unorganized. There have been mixed opinions regarding the buffet. In my humble opinion, the variety of food is huge and there are many special food served, such as the Alaskan crab, king prawn, etc. Some hits among the patrons are the Häagen-Dazs® Ice-cream and coconut (Yup, really, they were all grabbed in a few minutes). Oh ya, oysters need to be ordered too, as in the cook only pass a pair of oysters to you upon ordering at the counter (you would get it immediately though).

But, the tastes of these food are somehow average or below average. With the price at near RM 90 for the supper buffet, I was expecting more. To my dismay, my views stand with those who have negative opinions about Jogoya buffet. Though my reviews might sound discouraging, I still think that if you haven't been to this restaurant before, it is good to try it out, at least for the variety of food that you could enjoy there, especially when there is promotion now.

Some tips for the buffet:
* Please make sure you do your booking before you go especially when there are promotions as the crowd can be very overwhelming.
* Booking are easier to make in the morning than other time of the day (based on my experience :P, but it could be due to the fact that there is ongoing promotion now).
* I suggest that you drop your clips on those items which need pre-ordering first as it would take some time for the items to be ready and served in front of you. Then you can go for some ready-to-take food. :P

Some other food reviews:
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2006/02/jogoya-starhill-gallery-kl.html
http://kampungboycitygal.blogspot.com/2006/03/jogoya-starhill-gallery_10.html
http://pasankia.blogspot.com/2006/03/jogoya-kuala-lumpur-flagship-store.html

Address :
Jogoya
T3, Relish Floor
Starhill Gallery
181, Jalan Bukit Bintang
55100 Kuala Lumpur

Contact Number :
03 - 2142 1268

The prices for the buffet are:

Buffet Lunch - RM78++
11:30am - 1.40pm (weekdays) 11.00am - 2.00pm (weekends)
Buffet Late Lunch - RM68++
1:40pm - 4.20pm (weekdays)2.00pm - 4.20pm
Buffet Dinner - RM88++
5:00pm - 9.30pm (weekdays)5.00pm - 9.30pm
Buffet Supper - RM78++
9:30pm - 1.00am (weekdays)9.40pm - 1.00am (weekends)

Hu Xu Shen Grilled Fish (Serdang)

2007-11-26T16:06:00.000+08:00

If you are a fish lover, you shouldn't miss this!

This restaurant is not obvious from the main road of the Serdang town. However, we passed this restaurant by accident on our way to other restaurants. Each time we passed by, we noticed that there are a lot of patrons enjoying their dinner inside. Thus, one day, we decided to check it out and the first time we tried it, we fell in love with it.

Take a look at the picture of the specialty of this restaurant first : Salt-Grilled Fish. Overall, the fish is very fresh, we went there at least 3 times already and it never fail our expectations. Being salt-grilled, the fish has a light taste of salt and the texture of the fish is very smooth and fresh. The fish is not over-grilled and so the flesh is still juicy.

The dish is not complete without the special sauce prepared by the restaurant. Its ingredients consist of light soy sauce, finely-chopped garlic, finely-chopped chilli and maybe some other ingredients. The first time I tasted it, it was a little salty to my liking. However, fulfill your appetite by dipping the fish into the sauce before eating and it would be heaven! The specially-made sauce would stimulate your taste bud and introduce additional savour to the fish!

The fish has substantial amount of salt on its skin. Thus, before serving, it is served with the skin removed from its flesh. Another interesting fact dining in that restaurant is, when you have finished eating the upper side of the fish, the waiters and waitresses would turn it over for you. Similarly, the skin is removed, and the bones of the fish are actually removed as well. Cool service~ Normally, they would do that automatically when they notice that the patrons have finished one side of the fish. If they don't, which could be due to the heavy flow of customers, you could request them to do so.

And now, the price? We ordered the salted-grilled fish (big serving), Chinese omelette, vegetables, white rice and Chinese tea, the whole meal cost four of us RM 55.50 which is quite reasonable for what a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur could offer you, especially with a fish as part of the meal!

Address :
鬍鬚伸小食店
No. 249-B,
Jalan 2，Kawasan 6，
43300 Seri Kembangan，Selangor.

Contact Number :
016-2888089

Business Hours :
5.30pm～12.30pm；5.30pm～1.30am(Saturday)；Off on Mondays

Pricing :
Fish at RM 20 per kg. Bean curd at RM 6 per serving (small). Vegetables at RM 6 per serving (small). 四大天王 at RM8 per serving (small).

Spicy Soup (Serdang)

2007-11-02T02:57:00.000+08:00

I didn't notice that there is the existence of this restaurant until I came across it from a newspaper. The restaurant is not really located in an isolated place, but it is somehow a little bit hidden from the main road. Anyway, today I would like to introduce the spicy soup from Serdang to all of you.

That place is quite famous with its spicy soup and stewed chicken in Chinese wine I think as the place has quite an amount of eaters the time we visited it. The spicy soup is actually heavily "pepper-ed" soup with various pork intestines and organs. The soup I wouldn't say is the spicy as in from the curry, but it seems overwhelmingly warming up my stomach. If it is a cold rainy day, it would have been a very right choice to have the warm spicy soup go through your throat and warming up your whole body.

As for the stewed chicken in Chinese wine, the smell of this dish is very nice, credit to the Chinese wine. The Chinese wine used is Huadiao Jiu (花雕酒). Taste-wise, it has rich flavour of Chinese wine and black soya sauce.

Huadiao jiu (花雕酒; pinyin: huādiāo jiǔ; lit. "flowery carving wine"), also known as nu'er hong (女儿红; pinyin: nǚ'ér hóng, lit. "daughter red"): a variety of huangjiu that originates from Shaoxing, in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang. It is made of glutinous rice and wheat.
(Extracted from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangjiu)

Another dish I want to introduce is the vegetables (油菜). This is so far the most crunchy vegetables that I have tasted. Even though it's cooked, but the crunchiness still remains. We all agreed that this vegetables is cooked perfectly. It's not very oily and it's crunchy! By the way, is crunchy a right word? :P

Spicy Soup

Spicy Soup

Vegetables

Stewed Chicken in Chinese Wine

Ye Ren Bak Kut Teh (Serdang)

2007-10-30T02:07:00.000+08:00

Bak Kut Teh is a Chinese soup popularly served in Malaysia, Singapore and also cities of neighbouring countries like Batam of Indonesia and Hat Yai of Thailand. The name literally translates as "pork bone tea", and at its simplest consists of meaty pork ribs in a complex broth of herbs and spices (including star anise, cinnamon, cloves, dang gui and garlic), boiled together with pork bones for hours. However, additional ingredients may include offal, varieties of mushroom, lettuce, and pieces of dried tofu. Light and dark soy sauce are also added to the soup during cooking, with varying amounts depending on the variant.
(Extracted from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bak_kut_teh)

This is a pretty famous retaurant serving Bak Kut Teh in the town of Serdang. This place is always full of people especially weekend, no matter lunch time or dinner time. Thus, if you would like to have a taste of the Bak Kut Teh, better be early! Otherwise, you could have your dinner with some dishes instead.

The Bak Kut Teh soup, though is a little bit salty to me sometimes, is considered above average to me. It is worth a try indeed, at least to find out why the restaurant is a crowd-puller! Anyway, there are quite an amount customers who go there for their dishes, but it might be that they are too late for the fast-selling-out Bak Kut Teh, like us too? :P

Bak Kut Teh

Bak Kut Teh

Vegetables

Mapo Tofu
Mapo doufu (Mapo tofu) (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: Mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from the Szechuan (Sichuan) province. It is a combination of tofu (bean curd) and minced meat, usually beef, in a spicy bean-based sauce, sometimes with other ingredients such as water chestnuts, onions or wood ear fungus.
(Extracted from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_po_tofu)

Nam Heong Egg Tarts (Ipoh)

2007-10-28T01:33:00.000+08:00

I haven't been specially into egg tarts, thus I am here just to offer my two cents of opinions. This is a restaurant we came across in search for original Old Town Coffee Shop. I still don't know if this restaurant - Nam Heong Restaurant is the original one or not, maybe those who know can tell me. :P

Personally, I think that the puff pastry's skin is pretty crispy. As for the custard filling, it tasted average to me (from my countable experiences of treats to egg tarts :P).

Egg Tarts are a kind of pastry that is popular in Hong Kong, Macau, surrounding areas in southern China and overseas Chinese communities. It consists of a flaky outer crust, with a middle filled with egg custard, which is then baked. It is related to the English-style custard tart, a pastry commonly enjoyed in the British Isles, Australia, and New Zealand. Egg tarts are typically marketed at Chinese, Hong Kong, and Macau bakeries, cha chaan tengs, and some dim sum restaurants.
(Extracted from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_tart)

Nam Heong Egg Tart

Nam Heong Egg Tarts 6-in-1 Packaging

Best Tastes of Malaysia

2007-10-27T13:28:00.007+08:00

Best Tastes of Malaysia
Franchise

Penang

Penang Island
Penang Mainland

Perai
Butterworth

Perak

Ipoh

Kuala Lumpur

Selangor

Pahang

Joyofood 2-Joy-List

2007-10-01T14:15:00.000+08:00

Joyofood 2-Joy List (Unordered)

1)
Location : TTDI
Food : Prawn Mee
Reference : http://kyspeaks.com/2007/03/28/ky-eats-prawn-mee-%E7%91%95%E9%9D%A2-at-restaurant-yon-lee-ttdi/

2)
Location : Chowrasta Market, Penang
Food : Ais Tingkap
Reference : http://weblog.xanga.com/blackknight86/604742910/ais-tingkap-penang.html

Ipoh Food Savouring Trip

2007-09-23T12:03:00.000+08:00

At my recent trip to Ipoh, my family and I spent some time trying out some famous food at some recommended eateries.

Day 1

During the day, we had our lunch at the Ipoh Parade. We ordered Chee Cheong Fun which I thought was not nice at all. We also tried the Yee Mee. Its taste is still ok, not bad, I would say. At night, since it was my brother's birthday, we decided to buy him a nice dinner. So, we went to the well known Overseas Restaurant. We ordered 4 dishes which costed us around 130 over bucks.

Dish 1 : Cooked Asparagus

Dish 2 : Sea Cucumber in Dark Sauce

Dish 3 : Steamed Fish

Dish 4 : Roasted Duck

Day 2

We had our breakfast at the Foh San Restaurant which is famous for its Dim Sum. We ordered quite some number of dishes and they totaled up to around RM 55++. Quite a variety of dim sums are available there and they are worth trying. There were also some special Dim Sum which I never seen before in Penang and they tasted not bad either. Recommended.

After a few hours wandering around Ipoh, it was time again for our lunch. Though we are not hungry yet, but to accomodate my schedule (I was going back to KL at around 2:30pm), we had our lunch at around 12:40pm, some 3 hours after our breakfast. We had it at the Ong Kee Restaurant, famously known for its "Nga-Choi-Kai" (Steamed Chicken with bean sprouts).

We also stopped by at the Aun Kheng Lim Restaurant to buy a salted chicken. For your information, those chickens are only valid for takeaway and one whole chicken is the minimum purchase at RM15++. Looking at some newspaper cuttings and some reportings pasted on the wall outside the restaurant, we found out that it first started off as a small business and now, as the wholesaler of salted chicken. Salute~

Yummy Yummy @ Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant, Ipoh

2006-12-26T15:28:00.000+08:00

I had this for breakfast after some 40 minutes of being lost in our way to this restaurant - Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant. Below are some pictures of what we had. It was a public holiday, it was a Sunday, it was already late to have dim sum comfortably on such a day. And so, it was a not-so-nice experience of having to wait for a vacant table for at least 20 minutes (because I had the luck of "waiting at the right table", thank god, I was not waiting for the next table, it took them more than 30 minutes, at least! ), having to squeeze into the crowd for some dim sum, having to queue for at least 15 minutes to get in the toilet. Oh god!

Overall, the taste is ok-ok, but the variety is a lot with some special dim sum which might not be available elsewhere (I think :P)! Worth a try anyway~ And I would certainly visit there again if I have got the chance.

Yummy Yummy @ Wan Li Laksa Restaurant

2006-12-04T15:27:00.000+08:00

This post is going to be about my Penang trip again~

Well, this time, I want to introduce to the world, Wan Li Laksa, better known as Jawi Laksa.

Assam laksa is a sour fish-based soup. The main ingredients for assam laksa include shredded fish, normally kembung fish or mackerel, and finely sliced vegetables including cucumber, onions, red chillis, pineapple, lettuce, common mint, "daun kesom" (Vietnamese mint or laksa mint) and pink bunga kantan (ginger buds). Assam laksa is normally served with either thick rice noodles or thin rice noodles (vermicelli). And topped off with "petis udang" or "hae ko", a thick sweet prawn paste.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laksa)

This laksa originally is selling beside a Tua Pek Kong temple at a small stall in . Well, the stall is still available. But, for better environment and hygiene, the restaurant would be a wiser choice. Yes, both the stall and the restaurant sell exactly the same tasty laksa, don't worry. :D

Jawi Laksa is famous with its biscuit served together with the laksa. Some customer even order only the biscuit together with the laksa soup. Talking about the biscuit, the thickness is just so appropriate and crunchy. For the laksa, the soup is not too sour nor too sweet, and the laksa noodles are just perfect (smooth and silky), sounds like a shampoo ad? :p errm...take off the "silky", please...:P And don't forget to add a spoonful or two of the prawn paste. It will make the soup taste sweeter and nicer. Don't expect to have fish chunks served in your bowl of laksa, as it's not the trend of the jawi laksa to do so. Instead, the fish slices are already crushed, mixed well and cooked together with the laksa soup. Thus, this is why the soup has its sweetness.

Till present, it's one of the best laksa I have ever tried. Do have a taste of it yourself if you happen to be around there. Oh ya, there's a branch in Taman Mutiara (I hope it's still there). Enjoy~

Outer view of the restaurant

Inner view of the restaurant

Laksa!!!

Laksa topped with prawn paste

Cendol
Chendol or cendol is a popular type of dessert and drink that is normally associated with Indian immigrants in Southeast Asia, in countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand. Its ingredients usually consist of white coconut milk, thin worm-like, pandan-flavoured, green-coloured pea flour noodles and palm sugar (gula melaka). Red beans, pieces of glutinous rice, grass jelly and shaved ice are optional additions.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cendol)

The cendol here is not using the shaved ice of what you found out there. However, in this restaurant, the cendol is available using normal ice. Besides, you can try the Barley kidney beans drink which is the barley served with cooked kidney beans in the drink. It's quite refreshing.

Newspaper articles about the restaurant

Newspaper articles about the restaurant

Yummy Yummy @ Beng Huat Chicken Rice Restaurant

2006-11-11T15:27:00.000+08:00

Here is a post for another famous chicken rice shop in Chai Leng Park, Perai, Penang - Beng Huat Chicken Rice Shop. Again, this shop also offers a variety of side dishes and the asam soup!

The Beng Huat Chicken Rice Shop

The Beng Huat Chicken Rice Shop

This shop actually wants you to order and pay at the counter. It's been a long time since I last went there, so I was pretty shocked with its advancement in the usage of technology!!! However, I believe this must be a way to cater for the efficiency of service when there's a huge crowd (This shop is always full of people during lunch time).

The roasted chicken

The vegetables in oil

Side dishes such as fried Taiwan sausage, lobak, fried tofu, etc.
There are a variety of ingredients which are used to make lobak. Typically, finely minced and spiced meat is a must. The spiced minced meat is mixed together with some chopped spring onions, some carrot bits, and anything that is up to personal flavour. Then the mixture is put on a small piece of beancurd sheet and is rolled up. Then the meat roll is fried and cut into small pieces and are ready to be served.

The asam soup

This shop opens from lunch time till late afternoon. It's located at Jalan Gan Chai Leng, Chai Leng Park, Perai, Penang.

Yummy Yummy with Curry Mee

2006-11-11T15:26:00.000+08:00

I have been to this curry mee stall since I was young, I don't remember since when this stall was there, I just knew that it had been there for many many years. This curry mee stall offers very special curry taste that I don't experience elsewhere. Thus, it's always one of the best that I have ever tasted. There's the special chilli paste that is specially made for those who opt for spicier taste. I used to put around two tablespoon of it, though I no longer do this anymore. :P To add to its credit, the prawns it offers are fresh and the size pretty satisfies me everytime I am there. The size I mentioned was not of course super huge, however, for normal stall such as that, the medium-sized prawns are quite a good offer. Oh ya, do expect to wait for at least 20 minutes before the food is served, especially when the place gets crowded. For an additional bit of information, this stall is only opened from morning till around 12 noon, if I am not mistaken. If you were there late, it's always high possibility that, they will have their ingredients run out of stock. This curry mee stall is located along Chain Ferry Road, immediately after the crossroad (there're traffic lights at the crossroad) after a Proton (Again, if I am not mistaken) Cars Showroom. It's located at the corner of the junction. And there's a small garage beside.

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. However, what makes Curry Mee is a special chilli/sambal and pig's blood. The pig's blood is usually coagulated, and in cubes, but can be omitted by choice.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_Mee)

The Curry Mee Stall

The Curry Mee Stall

Curry Mee

Curry Mee

Curry Mee

Yummy Yummy @ Ban Chuan Chicken Rice Restaurant, Perai

2006-11-11T15:25:00.000+08:00

During the long DeepaRaya break, I had the chance to enjoy more meals together with my family and friends. The first lunch in Penang for the break - we went to this Chicken Rice Restaurant - The Ban Chuan Chicken Rice Restaurant. Since the popularize of "Assam Soup" served together with the chicken rice by a famous chicken rice shop (Beng Huat Chicken Rice Restaurant), many of the chicken rice shops or stalls also offered the choice of tasting the soup, and this Ban Chuan shop is not excluded as well.

This shop also offered a wide variety of side dishes which are not common in area such as Kuala Lumpur. Here, you can have vegetables in oil, fish in asam (tamarind) soup, lady fingers, assorted deep-fried food and tofu (bean curd).

The Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) is the only species of the genus Tamarindus in the family Fabaceae. It is a tropical tree. In Malaysia it is called asam in Malay and swee boey in Hokkien. The fruit pulp is edible and popular. It is used as a spice in both Asian and Latin American cuisines, and is also an important ingredient in Worcestershire sauce and HP sauce. The pulp of a young fruit is very sour and acidic and is most often used as a component of savory dishes. The ripened fruit is sweeter and can be used in desserts and drinks, or as a snack.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asam)

Tofu, also called doufu (often in Chinese recipes) or bean curd (literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_curd)

Ban Chuan Chicken Rice Shop

Have a look at what the shop offers:

A different view of the shop:

Assorted Deep-Fried Food

Fish in Asam Soup

Ladyfingers with Sambal
Sambal is a condiment used in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Sri Lanka, made from a variety of peppers, although chilli peppers are the most common. Sambal is used as a condiment or as a side dish, and is sometimes substituted for fresh chilis; it can be very hot for the uninitiated. It is available at exotic food markets or gourmet departments in supermarkets in numerous countries.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambal)

Fried Tofu

Asam Soup

And finally the main dish - Chicken

In typical chicken shops or stalls, they offer chilli sauce with different taste, due to the different ingredients they included. So, if you haven't been off spicy, please make sure you have a taste on the specially made chilli sauce.

For your information, Ban Chuan Chicken Rice Shop is located along Chai Leng Park's Wai Sik Kai at Perai area.

Sarawak Trip (Day 3)

2006-10-17T15:25:00.000+08:00

Day 3 - The Final Adventure.

We had our breakfast in the hotel again.

This time, I tried the scrambled egg.

Fish Ball, Cocktail, Four Season Rolls, Fried Rice, Fried Noodles, Baked Beans...

In the Kuching International Airport, surprisingly the whole airport has only one eatery (However, a KFC outlet is to be opened soon, but not when we were there!). Having no other choice, we went to the only eatery - Only Mee Restaurant.

Despite its name, there are rice served in the restaurant as well. My brother ordered this. It's the Pot Rice with Green Curry Chicken.

It came with a side dish and a soup - Fishball Soup and Acar.
Acar is a Malaysian salad. It is made from different kinds of hard vegetables such yardlong beans, carrots and cabbage which are pickled in vinegar and dried chillies. The vegetables are then tossed in ground peanuts.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acar)

This meal officially ended our food search quest in Kuching, the Cat City.

Sarawak Trip (Day 2)

2006-10-17T15:24:00.000+08:00

Day 2.

My brother and I woke up early in the morning for a purpose - to enjoy the Buffet Breakfast which was included in the package when we paid for our hotel room.

To our dismay, the buffet spread was not grand, with only some limited choice. However, they were certainly more than enough as breakfast for us, because we planned to...

The breakfast enjoyed by my brother and I was as follows...

Bread and Pastry

I made myself the toasted bread spread with some margerine and made them as sandwich together with a piece of smoked turkey ham. The combination was yummy~

Hotdogs, Roti Plata, Chicken Fingers...

Fried Rice, Fried Bee Hoon (Rice vermicelli), Omelette

And finally... fruits

Yes, because we planned to visit Min Joo Restaurant AGAIN! To satisfy our appetite of trying the local food there, we decided to go to the same noodle stall we went yesterday, but still, our aim was to try the real kolo mee. So, we went there earlier.

The "real" version of Kolo Mee.

The Vegetable and Pork Soup.

The Mee Kosong (Only the noodles without any toppings).

Iced Tea with Milk.

After some further touring around the city, our "tour guide" brought us to this restaurant - The Hong Kong Noodle House.

Tofu with Seafood.

Pork Ribs in Sweet and Sour Sauce.

Fried Fish Fillets with Butter.

Stir-fried Midin with Sambal Belacan.
Forest ferns have a special place in the diet of the people, with the two most popular ferns used as vegetables being midin and the fiddlehead fern (pucuk paku). Midin grows wild in the secondary forests and is peculiar to the state. It has curly fronds and is very crunchy even after it has been cooked. Rural dwellers have always considered the fern a tasty, nutritious vegetable and the jungle fern’s rise from rural staple to urban gourmet green occurred in the 1980s with the increased urban migration of the Iban, Orang Ulu and other groups.

Today, the fern is widely available in markets. It is enjoyed by all and many eateries have the fern on their menu, often stir-fried with sambal belacan. Unfortunately, the fern does not travel well as it only stays fresh up to two days after harvesting so Sarawak is largely the only place to try midin dishes.
(Extracted from http://kuali.com/flavours/review.asp?file=recfeature/2005/7/47savou&sec=recfeature)

During the night, we paid the Sunday Market at Jalan Satok a visit.
The Sunday Market, which actually starts on Saturday afternoon, is held at
Jln Satok. It is renowned for the Bidayuh ladies who set up shop here selling fruit
and vegetables, but there are also many good Chinese and Malay stalls. Goods on
offer include handicrafts, forest produce (including deliacious wild honey), pets of
all descriptions, orchid plants, live fish, and a whole range of local snacks and
delicacies. The market is a must for weekend visitors, as it is very colourful and
teeming with shoppers. The best time to go is Saturday night or early Sunday
morning. (Extracted from Official Kuching Guide 2006)

There we finally had the chance to try the Sarawak Laksa. However, to me, it was like no difference with the Curry Mee I used to eat in Peninsular Malaysia, except that the Curry Mee has noodle as well instead of just the rice vermicelli as in Sarawak Laksa. And I still prefer the Curry Mee version as the soup base has richer aroma and flavour, but maybe because I never have the chance to try the best Sarawak Laksa in the city!

We also ordered some satay. The satay was cheap compared to what I used to have in Kuala Lumpur and Penang, at only RM 0.40 per stick.

Satay
Although recipes and ingredients vary from country to country, satay generally consists of chunks or slices of meat on bamboo or coconut leaf spine skewers, which are grilled over a wood or charcoal fire. Turmeric is often used to marinate satay and gives it a characteristic yellow color. Meats used include beef, pork, venison, fish, shrimp and chicken. It may be served with a spicy peanut sauce dip, or peanut gravy, slivers of onions and cucumbers, and ketupat. Pork satay can be served in a pineapple based satay sauce. An Indonesian version uses a soy-based dip.
(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satay)

In the Sunday Market, I finally had a view of the Midin in its uncooked form.

And I bought something peculiar, at least to me. I bought a banana at RM 1!

Couldn't imagine what's so special about this? Check out the next photo.

Do you know why now?

These all ended our Day 2 trip as we went back to our hotel directly after the Sunday Market visit.

Sarawak Trip (Day 1)

2006-10-17T15:23:00.000+08:00

In the early October, I finally had the chance to fly, the very first time in my life, though it's just a short one hour and forty five minutes fly to Kuching, the Cat City!

After settled down in the Harbour View Hotel, we were on our way to find good food. A man in the Kuching International Airport had recommended us a mee stall somewhere nearby the hotel we staying in. So, we were on our way to the famous mee stall!

Finally, the view of the shop was in our sight. It's not really that difficult to find, even though it was our first time in the Cat City.

The Front View of the Min Joo Restaurant
Min Joo, corner of Carpenter & Bishopsgate Street. Small but very popular coffee shop selling Chinese noodle dishes. At breakfast time the place is packed. (Extracted from Kuching Official Guide 2006)

This restaurant sells Kolo Mee (also in Keow Teow), Vegetables and Pork Soup. Due to our late schedule, the mee had sold out when we were there. To avoid disappointment, we ordered the Keow Teow version instead.
Keow Teow or Kuey Teow are a kind of rice noodles. Rice noodles are noodles that are made from rice. Their principal ingredients are rice flour and water, though sometimes other ingredients such as tapioca or corn starch are also added.　Rice noodles are most commonly used in the cuisines of East and Southeast Asia, and are available fresh, frozen, or dried, in various shapes and thicknesses.　(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_noodles)

Kuching 'kolo mee', 'kolok mee' or 'koh-loh mein' is a dish of egg noodles which are flash-boiled and then served with sliced barbeque pork also known as "char siew", minced pork, pork slices, prawns, fish balls and fish paste slices. (Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuching#Cuisine)

Customer can have the dry version.

Or the soup version.

We also ordered a cup of Hot Kopi O' (Coffee with only sugar). I was not sure whether the coffee was made of the Sarawak Coffee bean. However, it was pretty condensed and I was contented with it. :P

The Min Joo Restaurant is so famous that a well known host from a TV Food Show, Ah Hong （阿鸿） in Taiwan actually dropped by and tasted the food there.

On my way to the restaurant, I noticed this... Don't it look familiar? :P

After our late lunch, we went to walk around the Cat City and stopped by at this stall to buy some apam balik which is the Malaysian style of Pancake with nuts, margerine, sugar and sometimes with sweet corn kernels.

During the night, we was informed that there was a cultural event along the Carpenter street (the street where the Min Joo Restaurant located in). So, we decided to attend the event and of course, to search for nice food from the available food stalls!

The first that we tried was the Prawn Stick.

Then, some fried dumplings.

Next, the　chestnuts.

The Oyster Omelette.

Some pancakes.

And this - the special and cheaper version of Ice Kacang, the "Ice Stick" or known as the "GanDongBing" （甘冻冰） by the locals. It's actually the shaved ice squeezed around a stick and is pour some sugar dressings to add some colouring and flavouring to the tasteless ice. A kind of the dressings that is used tasted like Sarsi (Pepsi-like).

Since all the food stalls did not offer any tables and chairs for us to take our meal properly, we went to a food court nearby. I heard this food court was pretty famous with its fish soup and fish balls.
Chinese Food Centre, Jalan Carpenter (opposite temple). A wide range of Chinese food stalls. One sells excellent fish balls (afternoons only), while another sells superb fish and prawn soup from late afternoon until late at night. (Extracted from Official Kuching Guide 2006)

The Chinese Food Centre.

This is the stall selling the fish soup. There are also fish porridge, prawn porridge and kuey chap served.

The Kway Chap or Kueh Chap.
Kway chap (粿汁), a Teochew dish of flat, broad rice sheets in a soup made with dark soy sauce, served with pig offal, tofu derivatives and boiled eggs. (Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Malaysia#Chinese_food)

The Fish Porridge

The Plain Porridge and Fish Soup

Closer View of the Plain Porridge

Closer View of the Fish Soup

Yummy Yummy @ Tang Palace, Dynasty Hotel

2006-09-30T15:22:00.000+08:00

During early August, together with my friends and housemates, we had a dinner in Tang Palace in Dynasty Hotel. That dinner besides being a gathering for all of us, it was also meant as a farewell dinner for my long-time friend (knew his existence since in primary school :P), Wen Fong.

During that time, the restaurant was having an All-You-Can-Eat promotion. We ate around 20 dishes i think. However, we didn't manage to try all the food in the menu as we were too full to even try to challenge the menu. There are around six dishes which could be only ordered one time only. And for the fried rice, fried mee, and desserts, they were served as buffet line. Anyway, there are some pictures of the food we enjoyed that night.

Front View of the Restaurant

Food Served

Rice and Desserts

Below is how it's advertisement sounded:

All You Can Eat
RM 38.00++
per person
1 - 31 August, 2006 (Sorry for the late posting, :P)

With 36 sumptuous dishes including desserts on the menu, feast on sure winners such as Salmon Sashimi, Braised Shark's Fin with Crab Roe, Fried Tiger Prawns with Assam Sauce, Steamed Cod Fish, Braised Sea Cucumber, BBQ Roast Duck and many others!

- Minimum 2 persons.
- Available for Dinner only from 6:30 pm until 9:30 pm and not available during
Private Functions.

Price quoted above is subject to 10% Service Charge and 5% Goverment Tax.

For reservations, please call (03) 4043 7777 ext 3340.

The restaurant might be having such promotions again in future, so, stay tuned!

Yummy Yummy @ Inderawasih Restaurant

2006-09-23T12:23:00.000+08:00

When I was home for a short Merdeka holidays, I went for brunch with my family at this restaurant which is very near my house. The food there are quite nice.

Char Keow Teow.
The taste of this dish is average, it's not the best that I have eaten before.

Sui Keow Soup.
This is nice. The filllings of the Sui Keow are some mixture of prawn meat and vegetables.

Herbal Mee Suah with Duck Drumstick.
Perhaps with some stronger herbal taste, it would be better. Overall, it's ok (in terms that I would like to taste it again the next time I come here).

Keow Teow Soup.
Well, the "rule" that it's only prepared when you ordered (including the soup) rules. The soup is nice, but maybe that's the effect of Arjinomoto!!! Haha... Recommended!

Yummy Yummy @ Sai Toh Lim Restaurant

2006-09-22T12:22:00.000+08:00

The last day of my Merdeka holiday, I went to this restaurant in Butterworth with my family for lunch. I actually thought that the food served is not that nice in terms of taste. However, there are still many people who frequent this restaurant, so just take my opinions at your own risk!

The front view of the restaurant.

Roasted Pork.
It's served "cold" (Well, I thought they should have reheated it or something!!!) and it took years to reach our table!

"Stewed Chicken Legs" (Poor Translation, haha!)
The ordinary dish in ordinary taste. However, I don't really know how to "taste" it properly actually.

Vegetables in Oil
Nah...this is not the way this type of dish should be served! Sigh...

Keow Teow in Sauce
Average taste...

Keow Teow in Soup
Average taste again...

Fishball Soup
I don't really like fishballs...So, no comment on this.

Chicken Slices
The texture of the chicken is not smooth enough, however, the gravy is still ok.

Yummy Yummy @ Hakka Village

2006-08-30T12:24:00.000+08:00

In Serdang, one of the quite famous restaurant would be the 客家村 a.k.a. Hakka Village. I have been to Hakka Village which located at Serdang for many times, but I never cover its food here. This time, I am going to write the very first article for the restaurant itself.

The restaurant offered a variety of dishes at an affordable price. Normally, a meal consist of tofu, chicken, vegetables and pork would cost diners of four around the range of RM 40 to RM 55. If you want a place which offers good value for money, I would definitely recommend you this restaurant!

The signature dish of the shop for vegetables.

Pork Ribs in Stout

The signature dish of the shop for Tofu.

Yummy Yummy @ Pantai Bersih, Butterworth

2006-07-14T12:24:00.000+08:00

My family and I went to a seafood restaurant by the seaside. It's quite famous, I heard. The food is quite ok, at an affordable price. However, personally, I think that this place will suit anyone with not-so-strong taste. The dishes are neither salty nor excessive-MSG-added. Thus, it offers homely yet tasty food. To add to its credit, the serving size of the food is adequate, neither too big or too small.

323 Seafood Restaurant

The view of the 323 Restaurant from the back.

The view of the restaurant from the front.

The restaurant is located by the sea. So, while enjoying the meals, the customers actually have a chance to enjoy the beautiful sea view too.

Vegetables

Fried Squid

Fried Tofu
This is the "Jiu Pai ToFu". For this dish, different restaurants might serve it differently. Some would prepare it in terms of fried tofu in which the tofu is a mixture of some vegetables and tofu itself, while the others might have them lightly fried with some minced meat on top. This restaurant served the first type of tofu and the texture of the tofu is quite smooth with some carrot slices in it.

Curry Fish Head
This dish is very appetizing with its little sour and spicy taste.

Steamed Prawn with Egg
The prawns are fresh. When being steamed, its freshness is totally brought out. However, like I mentioned before, this dish also comes with light flavour. So, don't expect you will be served something very rich and strong in taste, which to me, I would use the word "salty".

Yummy Yummy @ Bumbu Bali, Puchong

2006-03-22T12:25:00.000+08:00

This time, we went to a Balinese Restaurant located in Puchong named Bumbu Bali. The place was pretty nicely decorated and gave me a real good feel of dining there. The food offered was nicely arranged and the propotion served was quite big, at least for me. :P

This is the outlook of the restaurant which located at Puchong.

The staircase inside Bumbu Bali

A decoration of Bumbu Bali

Grilled Salmon

Some food served

Some food served

The Balinese Specialities ~~
Nasi Campur Special - a Combination of Balinese Lemongrass
marinated BBQ prawn, squid, fish, chicken, and sate lilit.

Iced Lemon Tea and Barli with Lime

Menu of Bumbu Bali (Part 1)

Menu of Bumbu Bali (Part 2)

Menu of Bumbu Bali (Part 3)

Yummy @ Eden Hotel

2005-12-30T12:27:00.000+08:00

I had my first Hi-Tea buffet on Dec 11, 2005 at Eden Hotel, Johore Bahru which is located in the area of Duty-Free Zone in Johore. I wasn't sure how much the buffet was priced at, but the food still tasted and looked OK to me. I also didn't remember the name of the Cafe. I apologized for the lack of information I was having. Regarding the food there, I particularly like the cakes being served there. Though i still think Secret Recipe has more tasty cakes, but those in Eden Hotel were still nice to swallow. :P

Eden Hotel located at Johor Bahru

The Cafe's Entrance

Mee Goreng which tasted not bad

Porridge with condiments

Cendol made by Fox!!!

Ice Kacang

Rice with Chicken Curry (I heard that it tasted not bad. :P)

Some snacks - Siew Mai, Keropok, etc

Some food

Rojak (Mixed Fruits,etc with Sauce)

Salad with Thousand Island

Pancake

Cakes

Some cakes which tasted quite nice. Yummy~

Yummy Yummy @ Just Thai

2005-12-30T12:26:00.000+08:00

Just Thai, One Utama

My best friend, May Fang in front of Just Thai

The Christmas Decors at Just Thai

The interior of Just Thai

Menu, Part 1

Menu, Part 2

Menu, Part 3

The Appetizer ~
This was the appetizer we ordered that day. It consisted of 3 pieces of spring rolls, 3 pieces of money bags, 3 pieces of prawn wantons and 3 pieces of fish cakes. I love them all, especially the prawn wantons. Yummy~

The Main Course ~
My friends ordered the pineapple fried rice.

The tomyam seafood tasted quite nice.

The fried glass noodle, tasted so-so, but the noodles are quite special, flatter than the one we used to see and eat normally.

The green curry I ordered! It tasted not bad I would say.

Yummy Yummy @ Kim Gary

2005-12-09T12:28:00.000+08:00

Kim Gary, MidValley

The inner view of Kim Gary, MidValley.

Borsch Soup(Top) and Cream Soup(Bottom)

I love the borsch soup, it's appetizing, with its sweet-and-sour taste.

Fruit Milk(Left) and Honey Lemonade Juice(Right)

The honey lemonade juice tasted better to me than the fruity milk. It has a sweet and sour mixture of tastes which clearly moisture your throat. :D

Condensed Milk and Butter Thick Toast

A must-have if you ever visit Kim Gary. The condensed milk tasted no very sweet when it's together with the layers of butter. Nice and tasty~~

Cheese-baked Rice with Chicken Fillet

I love this one~ My top-rated dish of Kim Gary, besides the spaghetti below... :P

Hong-Kong-style Fried Spaghetti with Chicken Fillet

Nice nice~~ I love this one.

Shredded Chicken Curry Baked with Swiss Cheese

I still prefer the cheese-baked rice, but my sister said this tasted better.

Hot and spicy nooldes with minced pork and vegetable wanton, prepared in "typhoon shelter"-style

Well, honestly saying, I don't think this dish tasted good. It was like tasteless to me. Sorry, dude~

Fried Vegetable Wanton

Fried Vegetable wanton coming together with the hot and spicy noodle, tasted good, to me at least. I guess maybe because I have a preference over fried crispy dishes...LOL

Yummy Yummy @ Petaling Street

2005-11-09T12:27:00.000+08:00

My family and I had a dinner at Petaling Street after coming back from Singapore. That particular store is pretty famous with grilled food. It has a continuous stream of customers but limited spaces (chairs and tables) available. Thus, customers will have to wait for some 40 minutes to one hour after ordering and they are suggested (and have to do so since places are limited) to take a stroll along Petaling Street before coming back to the store to enjoy their dinner.

Longan and Winter Melon Juice at RM 1.00

Yin Yong

Thick-sized Mee

Grilled Sotong

Grilled Lala

Grilled Fish

Yummy Yummy @ Asia Cafe

2005-10-19T12:29:00.001+08:00

There were nine of us. We went to Asia Cafe at SS15 to have our dinners. Asia Cafe is similar to a Food Court with around 70 or more stalls. It is exactly opposite the Inti College. The environment is not bad with a big screen at the inner side of the cafe, which MTVs are always showed, or perhaps some football matches during its season. That was my second visit to Asia Cafe. Though I have been there before, I was still excited on the number of stalls there.

Asia Cafe located at SS15

The Hokkien Mee or the Prawn Mee and it tasted quite ok.

The Korean Food.

I also ordered the Korean Food and it is the one recommended by the stall people as the "Da Chang Jin" food at RM 13.90(if my short-term memory still functioning properly), and according to him, we don't have to go over to Korea to experience the "Da Chang Jin" food. We could do it just there! As for the taste, I would say so-so only?!! :p LOL...

The Barbequed Squid.

The Chicken Chop at around RM 7.90.

The Creamy Sauced Spagetti with Sausage at RM 7.90.

The Pancake.

Looks like a kind of fried bread to me.

I think this is the bread with cheese inside.

Man Tou (a type of bread) with Crab in Tomato Sauce at RM 18 for the 2 crabs and RM 7.50 for the Man Tous.

The smelly fried tofu. :P

Yummy Yummy @ Kim Gary

2005-10-19T12:29:00.000+08:00

15th of October 2005, this was the eve of my buddy's birthday. With the thought of letting her bf celebrate her birthday for her, I booked her birthday's eve. We went to MidValley, which is easily accessible by public transport from our house. When we reached there, we first bought 3 movie tickets for the movie Wait Till You're Older which is a highly recommended movie. Then, we went to Secret Recipe to buy 2 pieces of cake before we headed to our destination - Kim Gary. She chose that restaurant as the venue for her birthday treat from me. Guess she really likes the Chessy Steamed Rice there very much.

We ordered two set lunches which include an appetizer, a main course, a dessert and a drink. For each set, the price ranging from RM 13++ to RM 16++ depending on which topping chosen. For the appetizer, we can choose from cream soup and tomato soup (Luo song tang). For main course, it's the Cheesy Steamed Rice, but for toppings, we could choose from a list of choices. There are the Chicken Chop, Pork Chop, Fish Fillet, etc. And there are two kind of sauces that we could choose from, the white and red one. I ordered the Red Sauced Fish Fillet Cheesy Steamed Rice while Hooi Weng chose the White Sauced Chicken Chop Cheesy Steamed Rice. As for the dessert, since we have tasted the default jelly which we thought was not that nice, we decided to add-on RM1 for a change to a strawberry yogurt. For drink, we got ourselves "yin-yong" (a HongKong style of drink which is actually Coffee + Milked Tea), and they tasted quite nice.

Some pictures of the food we took at Kim Gary, MidValley:

Cheesy Steamed Rice with Fish Fillet
Cheesy Steamed Rice with Fish Fillet

Cheesy Steamed Rice with Chicken Chop
Cheesy Steamed Rice with Chicken Chop

Appetizer, Dessert & Drink
The Appetizer, The Dessert, The Drink - The Three MustEaters. :P

Yummy Yummy @ Saisaki

2005-10-16T12:30:00.000+08:00

Well, it's a good day for a buffet, isn't it? :P We had Japanese Buffet in Saisaki Japanese Buffet Restaurant which is famous for its category. We also ordered a small bottle of Sake at RM 12. The buffet is available at around RM 50 including tax. Saisaki Japanese Buffet Restaurant is located at Wisma UOA II, Jalan Pinang, which is near to KLCC.

Saisaki Japanese Buffet Restaurant

Chopstick and Toothpicks

Some food there.

Some food there.

Some food there.

Some food there.

Green Peas and tiny tomato (I love it!)

Dessert

Dessert

Dessert

Sake (Small)

KLCC Night View

Magnificient KLCC Night View

Yummy Yummy @ Ipoh

2005-09-23T12:31:00.000+08:00

Yummy Yummy @ Singapore

2005-09-13T12:28:00.000+08:00

Roasted Chicken Rice at Holland Village

Mee in Mushroom Sauce at Holland Village

Rice Puttu at Little India

Cheese Thosai at Little India

Masala Thosai at Little India

Hor Fun (Kuew Teow Soup) at Chinatown

Mini Steamboat at Chinatown

Buffet Lunch at SEA Village, Sentosa

Buffet Lunch at SEA Village, Sentosa

Potato Salad and Chicken Wings Set at Sharpino's Pizzeria, Sentosa

6" Pizzas at Sharpino's Pizzeria, Sentosa

Lasagna at Sharpino's Pizzeria, Sentosa

Fish Sliced Mee and Fish Sliced Soup at Lau Pa Sat

Fried Dumpling and Handmade Mee at Lau Pa Sat

Closer View of the Handmade Mee

Fried Rice at Lau Pa Sat

Sea Coconut with Lime and Ice-creams at Lau Pa Sat

Nasi Lemak at Foodcourt

Roasted Duck Rice at Foodcourt

Roasted Duck Mee at Foodcourt

Fish Porridge at Foodcourt

Mini Steamboat at Orchard Food Centre

Pan Mee at Orchard Food Centre

Fried Carrot Cake and Mee Suah Soup at Orchard Food Centre