Pan Mee and Ramen (Serdang)

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

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

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

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