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Fatty Crab @ Taman Megah, Kelana Jaya

2011-10-13T23:37:00.002+08:00

The initial plan was Ming Tian Food Court when i made a last minute decision for the craving for Chilli Crabs. Thus, we went to the famous Fatty Crab located behind Ming Tian.
As usual, the place is full, with bunch of peoples sitting outside the restaurant, waiting for tables. The waiter is quite polite actually, making sure that we get a seat while we are waiting. They actually took our orders first.
I was caught by surprise to know that they actually served a very limited choice of dishes. The crabs cost around RM32 per 600++grams, and they are actually only 2 types of cooking method, Steamed or Chilli Crab.
Nearly every table was ordering fried rice, and I actually wonder whether they serve white rice. The chicken wings and Satay can be ordered only after we are seated.
The fragrant smell of the chicken wing is really really good, that I am almost craving for another after having the first, of which I have to admit, above average good.

The Satay is actually lean meats with very minimal fat, almost none actually.Too healthy for my liking *shame*.

The fried rice seems to be the speciality here, nothing special, but the prawns does taste fresh, and is good enough for above average grading.

And here come the FAMOUS CRAB, with its side kick-the toasted bread.

I would say that the crabs are fresh, and you could feel the texture and its freshness, no complain about the crab at all, even when there were so many bad remarks on serving of bad, dead frozen crabs in many other websites.

But the gravy is a little bit too sour for my liking, although my friend love it to the max, and actually ordered another plate of bread to dip the sauce. Nonetheless, the gravy is good, and very thick too.

The bill came RM98 for 3 person, of which I would say, still acceptable at KL's rate and the quality of food served, with no mistake that the crab actually cost around 75% of the total bill. But fatty crab do live up to its reputation, and I still do wonder, how would the Steamed version will actually taste like.

Cafe de Nata, Macau

2011-09-13T21:04:00.004+08:00

Macau is famous for its egg tart. As we have a very short trip to Macau, we wanted to find the best available egg tart in Macau town.

Koi Kei Pastry shop is everywhere selling the egg tart and other famous pastries but most review quoted that it was too commercialise and lost the taste of originality. Thus we make our way to Cafe de Nata also known as Cafe de Margeret.

To find this shop, I believe we consulted few locals people and we have lot of problem when communicate with them. The road are all in portugese and the people there speak cantonese. Those portugese word do not directly translated into Cantonese and it was really a big trouble to locate the shop. Anyhow...we manage to find it.

verdict: Yes, definately a much better egg tart compare to those available in Malaysia. The egg is very aromatic. Pastry is thin and crunchy. The egg is so smooth and silky and it is warm despite been kept for sometime.

Really something worth trying.

Goku Raku Ramen

2011-09-06T21:40:00.004+08:00

There is new ramen shop in Mid Valley and I decided to try it out the other day.

Famous for it broth which they identify themselves as "ultimate tonkutsu broth'...They even got a page on the menu that teach the patron how to enjoy the broth to the maximum.

When I was there, I had just finish my ultimate gym and I am craving for something filling yet healthy thus I order the tofu salad and their famous ultimate goku raku ramen.

The ramen come first. The aroma of the 48 hours boiling hot broth is so strong but the amount of oil on top of the broth is a turn off. There is leek and garlic oil that make the soup so aromatic. One things I have to admit is I don't really like the broth because it taste too porky. Not to say I am not a fan of pork, I love pork but the aroma was just too strong for my liking. The ramen was OK, springly and hard seem like uncook but bareable. The aromatic eggs turn out to be hard boil egg and nothing to shout about.

A flip through the menu, their char siew seem expensive thus I put a very high standard on the char siew....It turn out to be a piece of pork with thick fat and it was pretty bland. Again the porky taste is turn off.

My friend say maybe I do not know how to enjoy the ultimate broth but she end up admitting the broth aroma is too strong and too oily thought we reminded the waiter we wanted less oily.

Anyway it was a good try and I believe those who really like aromatic and strong taste broth should try it out.

The tofu salad turn out to be good. White chinese tofu is normally bland and taste awful if eat it raw but the salad with sourish dressing turn the salad to be impressive. Worth trying

Anyway....stay by for my Macau HK food posting....Very busy nowadays so no time to post about it....

Gong Cha vs Chatime (Hong Kong)

2011-08-16T20:55:00.003+08:00

Recently during my trip to Hong Kong i get to taste both Gong Cha and Chatime...

It give me a good basis to compare to Malaysia version of bubble tea.

Gong Cha: Signature bubble tea with pearl, chocolate with pearl and coffee with caramel.

Verdict: SO good and so rich that 3 of us have imsonia after drinking it. We end up sleepless as the coffee is so rich...Aroma was good but the same problem with the pearl....Too big and too chewy...

Chatime: Mango juice with grass jelly

Verdict: As we arrive just before they close shop, we left with very very little choice. However, the drink is just perfect and refreshing after a long walk whole day.

COnclusion: Gong cha is HK have same standard as Malaysia....while Chatime, I have no conclusion as I didnt manage to taste the same drink to make comparison

Chatime vs Gong Cha

2011-07-23T15:07:00.004+08:00

Well.....it is another hit on town....Years back it was donut....now it was bubble tea...

As fiery competition as donut between Big Apple and J.Co, this round competition saw Chatime and Gong Cha running to be the favourite bubble tea in Malaysia...

So here my verdict

Chatime....lot of variety..pearl is nice and chewy

Gong Cha....My vote go to gong cha as the tea is more fragrance and smooth. However the pearl is a bit hard and too chewy for my liking....

Well, those who like bubble tea so much....my advice is you can go ahead with drinking but not too much.....Is still consider a processed beverage where the syrup, milk powder and flavour powder is factory manufactured.....SO....just be moderate

Pastis - The Garden

2011-07-13T22:56:00.003+08:00

Been to this place in The Garden call Pastis for tea time set twice in a week. Haha...

Nothing fancy about it but just need to post it here to introduce the tea set.

As you see from the picture, the tea set come with a tower of 3 layers of foods ranging from cakes, sandwishes, creme brulee, tiramisu, chocolate and toasted pizza. It also come with tea or coffee for 2 person. A long list of coffee and tea is available for patron to choose from. Normal tea would be earl tea, breakfast tea, chamomile, peppermint tea and the list go on....

So next time while you are waiting for your girlfriend doing her shopping or to take a rest after a long hour walking across mid valley and the garden, stop by at Pastis - Ground floor of The Garden, opposite Isetan main entrance....

Ding Tai Fung

2011-07-13T22:07:00.005+08:00

If my memory never fail me, I had try Ding Tai Fung for 3 times and I never snap photo using my camera before....Yeah, how failure of me...

Anyway, big name no need much to mentions.....Ding Tai Fung serve famous Shanghainese food. Famous for its Xiao Long Boa and La Mien, the restaurant had expended to Malaysia with 3 outles - Pavilion, The Garden and Empire Gallery.

Xiao Long Pau - come with few choices such as normal version or with crab meat.

My favourite food of all - Stewed beandcurd with honey sauce

I order it on all the visit. Is so nice....a good appertiser or as side dishes for your La Mien...

Hot & Sour Soup La Mien - be prepare to have a hot stomach especially you dare enough to put in some hot chilli oil....Is good and sweaty experience!!!

Another food i try before is the pork chop fried rice.
Sorry as there is no photo....However the portion is so huge that it can fit 2-3 person. The fried rice is so so and nothing to shout about. But if you think Xiao Long Bao is not enough for you, a fried rice is just nice for you.

Ayam Betutu

2011-06-06T21:50:00.000+08:00

A photographic blog.....too lazy to blog and I have little information about it...

Anyway, it was Ayam Betutu near Nusa Dua, Bali

Dirty Duck Diner

2011-05-28T12:34:00.004+08:00

For quack quack lover.....here is sometime you will like.

One of the Bali must visit restaurant will be Dirty Duck Diner that serve bebek bengil.

Bebek mean duck and Bengil mean crispy...If my interpretation don't fail me ya...hehe

Bebek bengil take a long time to cook thus pre-order for group basis is needed or arrive early to the restaurant. The restaurant is usually full house no matter when you go.

Located in the middle of paddy field and lot of water features and flora around, the restaurant does have 100% Balinese feel.

Back to the duck....The duck was first boil with local herbs for hours before it was taken out for cooling. Before serving the duck will be deep fried to perfection.

Verdict: Crispy. Tender meat. Meat seperated from bone easily and is very juicy. Herb taste maintained. Portion is good for sharing if you cant eat much.

Other food we order : spicy snapper fish and Gado-gado. Their Gado-gado is super nice....

Babi Guling Ibu Oka

2011-05-20T21:23:00.004+08:00

Ok....OK......bawa bertenang.....

post ini tidak halal dan tak akan halal sebab saya nak introduce makanan Bali paling famous, paling sedap.....dan paling tak halal....

Tuan tuan dan puan puan.....Babi Guling Ibu Oka

Ok, change back to English because is so inappropriate to use Malay Language in this post!!!

I don't think I need to introduce much about this Babi Guling. In Malaysia we have our very own roasted pig with rough skin just like pimple skin but Bali babi guling skin was crunchy yet smooth.

Coming from the family where produce roasted pig, I know the reason why their skin is not rough like those in Malaysia. The roasted pig in Malaysia was marinated with lot of salt and half way through the baking, the skin will be poke to allow the oil to come out thus leading to all poking area to be expand and become rough....

While that thus not happen in Babi Guling in Bali, one can expect the skin to be crunchy yet chewy and below the skin was thick layer of fat!!! YES FAT!!! A lot of FAT!!! But taste heavenly...

We order Babi Guling Rice that come with rice and babi guling of course. However we are given liver sausage, babi guling skin and meat, vegetables and fried intestine...Well, sound porky right?

Verdict: The meat was juicy but was way too chewy. The reason why it was so chewy is because the seller do not cut the meat against the meat line but was inline with it. Thus it take really a lot of hardwork to chew the meat into smaller pieces. Skin was nice but was fattening while the liver sausage taste horrible. For chinese, we normally add in liquor into liver sausage to put aside the porky smell of liver, but Ibu Oka didn't do that and it end up taste weird.....

Well, in conclusion although the it get bad comment from me, I still believe it was a must try delicacy in Bali.

Dewata Cafe, Seafood at Jimbaran Beach

2011-05-12T20:35:00.001+08:00

Everyone who is went to Bali or currently planning for Bali would have heard about the expensive Jimbaran Beach Seafood.

Well, we are the victims...Hehe....

But what the point of going to Bali but not enjoying the seaside seafood dinner. Romantic for couple, nice avenue for chit chat for friend gathering trip and also family bonding place if you are having family trip.

There is hundred of restaurant and cafe serving the same Balinese grill seafood in Jimbaran Beach and is up to you to choose your own place. Our driver, Mr Bagus drop us at Dewata Cafe and we was greet with a group of staff who warmly usher us to the beach side. Well, they want our money, no wonder the treatment is so good.

We opt for Package A (initially cost 1.3 million but after negotiationg and make some changes in menu, we get it at price of 1.1 million rupiah)....Ok, the 'million' sound horrible but when convert to RM it was about RM500.

This menu fit for 5 person but since we have 7 person so we already prepared to have a light meal and have another drinking session in hotel later on.

Well, as normal, we as Malaysia Chinese always get discriminated. We waited for about 1 hour and a half but our food wasn't serve yet compare to the 'ah mo' that come so much later than us. But well, Ah mo is so easy to 'chop' compare to we the stingy young malaysian chinese....Well, is OK

7.30pm when the sun already set and hundred of plane had touch down and depart (yes, we can see all plane in and out of Denpasar Airport since Jimbaran Beach is just beside the Airport), our food was finally served.
7 virgin coconut (Haha, define virgin please, this look old to me)

Here come the started, fish soup and salad. The fish soup taste like ajinamoto and pepper soup and the fish is kinda hard. We hadly can identify whether it was fish or chicken.

The salad is too small portion for 7, not to mention that the taste was just 'below restaurant' standard. There is steam potato as well....Sadly forgot to capture the photo. Anyway, this 3 wasn't our main attraction.

The come the greenish kangkung which is obviously overcook. But fine.......fine...we wait and waited for the arrival of our main dish...

Clap clap....tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Presenting the main course:
1.2kg of lobster (i doubt the size)
1.2kg of fish (again the fish taste like chicken...Hard testure)
Clam (OMG, super good. The sauce was awesome)
Fried Calamari (Good. It wasnt crunchy but the testure was nice and not very chewy)
Squid Sate (This is really chewy. Basically it test your gum and teeth stregth)
Grill prawn (Quite generous serving of prawn. It taste good with a bit of hangus taste)
1.2kg crab. (The crab is too small for 1.2kg lo but fresh. Taste really sweet)

Conclusion, the seafood is fresh and as tourist, a life time experience for once is worth it. The total bill come out to be 1.5million rupiah about RM 545 ringgit for 5 person. Is pricy but worth the price we pay, maybe not for now, but for the 2 hours we spend that day. Total satisfaction. If it was Malaysia, sorry I don't think I gonna pay that for a seafood dinner except there is same concept and better venue.

Tahu Tipat - Balinese Local Delicacy

2011-05-08T21:21:00.004+08:00

After an adventurous para sailing and banana boat, we decide to have some snack before our spa session and our Driver decided to bring us to Tahu Tipat located at the roadside leading to Nusa Dua beach.

Tahu Tipat mean Tofu with ketupat serve with peanut sauce. In Bali, peanut sauce is serve in almost everything such as Satay, Gado Gado (Bali style of salad) and also Tahu Tipat. However, their peanut sauce is sweet and not spicy like what we have here in Malaysia. To sum up, the peanut sauce taste like those 'sweet sauce' in dim sum shop with a little bit of peanut inside.

When we are at the Tahu Tipat shop, we have problem communicating with them. They don't speak English nor Malay so our Driver talk to them personally while the rest, we communicate using sign language!

There is various kuih muih at the stall also which cost about Rp 1,000 each. I personally like the stuffed tofu. The tofu is stuff with vermicelli with some spice. It taste very good. In here, all trading is based on 'TRUST'. We just eat and eat the kuih and by the end of the day, we just tell them how many kuih we have eaten they will charge accordingly. When we are busy eating, one local lady stop by to buy the kuih. What she do is she select the kuih using her BARE HAND and put into a small plastic bag which make us wonder, the kuih we eat might have been touched by hundred of people and is now inside out stomach....hehe....thank god we survive the day without any stomachache.

So here come the Tahu Tipat. It cost Rp 10,000 each which was about RM 3.50 in Malaysia. All Tofu is freshly fried before it was cut into smaller pieces together with the Ketupat. Then the Tahu Tipat will be serve with peanut gravy and chilli padi. It also come with crackers.

Frankly it taste very good. Whats more if we are sitting at low bench beside the roadside serounded with big tree and bird chirping all the way.

Whats more, if you feel hot and heaty, opt for Es Cendol. Es Cendol is actually Bali version of Ice Cendol in Malaysia. The first few sip seem weird but after a while, you will like it.

So next time you are in Bali, forget about the expensive gala dinner or lunch....Opt for local delicacy like this....Cheap and nice.

Nasi Pedas Andika, Kuta

2011-05-07T21:46:00.005+08:00

Bali have a lot of similarity with Malaysia even their breakfast is as heavy as Malaysian food. If we have Nasi Lemak in Malaysia, Bali have its Nasi Pedas. Nasi Pedas Andika in Kuta is one of the famous brand for Nasi Padang in Kuta that only local patronage will come and dine. The place is small and hot as the sun directly shine toward the place we sit.

Food is pretty easy. The waiter scoop rice into the basket and we choose the ingredient we want. As normal, Nasi campur ingredient in Bali cannot run very far. They have:

Serunding ayam
Tempe goreng
Telur Rebus Goreng
Tempe Tofu masak lemak
Vegetable - Sayur Nangka i think(taste aromatic....macam jasmine)
Sambal pedas sepedas pedasnya....Memang pedas gila...
and mee goreng if I not wrong...dunno why they eat mee goreng with Nasi in Bali

Well, the weather at the morning is already burning hot and we are all sweating. I pretend to be cool as Malaysian can eat spicy food...Well, once i touch the sambal, I just stood up, walk toward the freezer, take the Teh Botol and start drinking. No joke, is really pedas....No wonder it is call Nasi Pedas.

If you still scare of heaty body later, can always opt for Panda Herbal Tea.....maybe it helps....

My Nasi Pedas with egg, vege, tempe, sambal cost me Rp 17,000....that would be around RM 6.

Warung Made's Kuta

2011-05-06T21:59:00.008+08:00

We had just come back from Bali not long ago and we are all set to blog about the food we eat in Bali.

The first meal we have is at local warung with nasi campur with ayam bakar. It taste extremely good and goes well with Indonesia famous Teh Botol. Sadly we didnt capture the name of the warung as our driver just drop us there and we are too hungry to snap the photo of the warung. The food here cost about Rp 16,000 to Rp 30,000 depending on the food you choose which is quite cheap. My ayam betutu nasi campur with egg and vegetable cost me Rp16,800 while Yen Thoong Nasi Campur Ayam Betutu with vege, egg, sate lilit and other side dishes cost Rp24,000.

Anyway, lets jump to the dinner then. Our first night dinner is at Warung Made's. Warung Made is kinda famous in Bali with lots of blogger blogging about it. There is 2 Warung Made, one in Kuta and another one nearby Seminyak. You might be wondering, what so famous about this Warung that it become famous. Frankly, my answer is that I personally don't understand why it is so famous until the driver know where the place is without me need to elaborate more.

The good things about Warung Made is it serve all kind of food ranging from authentic Indonesia food to grill, western and even seafood. As we are in Bali, we tend to order all Indonesia food.

Here is our main course for the night.

This is the nasi Campur Biasa (Rp35,000)and Nasi Campur Special(Rp60,000). Nasi Campur Special come with sate lilit while the biasa don't. The nasi campur come with tempe goreng, tempe tofu, serunding ayam, telur, sayur bayam, sayur nangka (famous in Bali) and sambal. To me the nasi campur is just 'so so' as compare to the one we have for lunch.

Our vegetarian queen order her first meal in Bali as Nasi Campur Vegetarian (Rp35,000). Well, to me it look like my Nasi Campur Biasa except it does not have the shredded chicken

Oi Mei order Nasi Goreng Udang. Look at the rice, we can know it was still kinda wet and lack of 'wok hei'...Wok Hei is important in Chinese Dai Chou but not in Bali I guess. The Nasi Goreng Udang is Ok judging from the taste but it was a bit pricy (Rp45,000)

Bored of rice, Choi Ling opt for Fried Noodles (Rp30,000). It turn out to be disappointing judging from it presentation. I guess the taste also wasn't as nice as any local Malaysian fried noodles.

Fook Weng wanted something Balinese yet stomach filling food thus he order 1/2 Nasi Goreng 1/2 Gado Gado that cost Rp40,000. Gado Gado is Balinese fresh salad serve with peanut sauce. He commented the food here is just 'so so' which I believe his meal got nothing to shout about.

Last but not least, Nicholas order his Nasi Goreng special (Rp50,000). I kinda steal one of his sate ayam to judge between Malaysia sate and Bali Sate. I was actually hoping for sate lilit rather than normal ayam sate though. However the best things about sate ayam here is the gravy. The gravy here is peanut sauce but not spicy. Is sweet peanut sauce like what they use to serve for Gado Gado as well. The nasi goreng is nothing to shout about as all the nasi goreng here taste the same.

Here is our drink. We order Honey melon, Ice lemon tea, papaya lemon juice, pineapple banana juice, pineapple lemon juice, and pure carrot juice.

Overall, i believe Warung Made's is a bit over-rated by most blogger or foodies. There is so many local warung out there in Bali that serve cheaper price and more delicious food.

Bali.....here we come

2011-04-27T23:53:00.002+08:00

Dear reader,

Sorry for the long wait as part of HarkauSiewmai kaki end up in Bali few days back....We are going to come back with lot of nice posting on Bali food....

Be ready

Josephine Cafe & Bistro @ Ipoh Garden South

2011-04-07T00:47:00.005+08:00

This cafe & Ipoh was recommended by my friend Josephine. I like the environment here a lot as it was a nice place suitable for hang out with good food. Too bad I had already taken my dinner. Thus, we only have some light supper.

Thus, we decide to order a small piece of cake a 2 serving of salad. As this post was rather outdated, I only remember this salad as helping with enoki mushrooms.

But I really love the Ceasar Salad here. The meat was warm and the helping was rather large. Really hope to go back for it.

The cake look tempting, and was really not bad.

Don't remember the name of the drink, but it was really not bad.

Claypot Chicken Rice @ Kampar

2011-04-07T00:09:00.005+08:00

Dropped by Kampar for the Claypot Chicken Rice opposite the old cinema which is currently a furniture shop names Foo Wah, a shop opposite KFC.

The 'yau choi' is really not bad, or more on its fresh.

The best thing about Kampar's claypot chicken rice is that the rice is cooked with soup base compared to other places (especially KL/Selangor) where only normal water is used.

Its just 6pm and the place is slowly getting crowded. Doesn't remember the price, but it was very reasonable considering the helping was quite huge.

Restaurant Makanan Panggang Oldies & Goodies

2011-04-03T20:48:00.004+08:00

Very outdated post!!!

Ok lets get started.....Besides from sweet strawberry and steamboat in Cameron Highland, we took the opportunity to explore some restaurant in the highland. One of the catchy signboard we saw is Restaurant Makanan Panggang Oldies & Goodies....for goodness sake, BBQ meat at highland sound like good compliment thus we headed in.

The restaurant is same row as Strawberry Moments...Well, cameron town is not big so is easy to spot this shop....

As we are going to have a long way back, we order quite a fair of food.

Claypot Tofu...
I like the gravy a lot....serve with siuk yok and lot of treasure inside....

Hot plate Tofu ~ by mistake we order 2 tofu...lolx...
The tofu is smooth and gravy was nice. As we have 2 type of tofu on the same meal, out of sudden i feel so 'jelak'

Asparagus with mushroom...
No comment on vege....But i like mushroom as normal....yummy

The star of the meal.....Mixed BBQ Meat...
CharSiew is Ok...nothing to shout about...
Roasted chicken is good. Tender and juicy.
Roasted duck is also good but too chewy for my liking. The garlic sauce on top add some kick to the roasted duck..
Roasted pork is so so....Nothing great!!!

As our 'chang chen pou lou' soup which is longevity soup doesn't arrive, thus I can't review on this but such a fortune that it doesn't arrive as the soup is kinda pricy...

Overall, the restaurant was just normal and I don't think their roast meat is up to my standard since I expect too much from the Restaurant Name!!!!

3.5 star is my rating...

Malabar Palace, Hartamas Shopping Complex

2011-03-31T22:23:00.006+08:00

Tired of Mamak food and want to find authentic Indian Food?

Well, D Tandoor sound to be the place or Spice of India. This 2 choice have been a famous spot for higher end of Indian food. However, what I want to introduce, maybe can be a substitute of this 2 restaurant.

Introducing Malabar Palace, Hartamas Shopping Complex.
Sorry for my bad posting on this because I really cant remember all the food name. I was bad in Hindi so to remember more than 5 dishes is tough for me...

As I have been to only D'Tandoor and not spice of India....I cant really comment on the food quality. But if you would ask my preferences, I still prefer D'Tandoor...

I would say Malabar Palace serve fusion Indian food. The restaurant is not that big and able to accomodate the capacity of up to 50-60 people. Accoding to their website http://malabarpalace.webs.com/ they serve northern Indian food...

Ok, lets go to the food that we order...

1. Appertiser 1 - Paneer Fingers

Cheese wrapped and deep fried...serve with special sauce....thumb up

2. Appetiser 2 - Chicken Tikka Wrapped.

Normal....I not a fan of tortia wrap....But the filing is good!!!

3. Naan - 3 naan of our choice (Butter, Dried Fruit and garlic)

mamak naan taste better....sorry to say that the butter naan is too bland for my strong tastebud

4. Complimentary papadam with special gravy

The gravy is yummy....addictive!!

5. Briyani Lamb

I would say that the highlight of the day....Half of the table people are crying due to the spiciness of the food...Spices are well blended with the rice!! thumb up.

6. Mango Rice
I didn't taste any mango....but the taste was quite special...

7. Butter Chicken

One word....Yummy.

8. Some spinash thingy & vege dalca - Palak Paneer if i not wrong

No verdict.....Try it yourself....One of my friend like the green...Another one like the dalca....As for me, I dont like Vege. :-)

9. Spicy prawn - Dunno what its name....

I like it....but the serving too small.

Well, for big eater, the serving is not that big....The bill for this meal come to about RM 200++

Hokkien Mee @ O.S Restaurant, Seapark

2011-03-27T22:17:00.010+08:00

O. S Restaurant is actually a hawker stall like restaurant situated opposite Paramount Caltex. behind Giant hypermarket. Went there after a recommendation from a friend that actually does not like Hokkien mee, as she complained on the lards used in cooking hokkien mee (but what is a hokkien mee if its without a minimal amount of lard?). Thus, has been visiting this restaurant quite often in this month.

The 'siu chau' in the hawker stall only start their business after 5pm up to around 12am at nite. But I prefer to go later than 8pm. After 9pm, the place will start to get crowded and you might need to wait for awhile for the food to come. All around, you will see most of the tables ordering the same dish of 'siu chau', 'hokkien mee', or black noodle.

I would say the 'watan hor' is a so-so from this restaurant. But, i do like their sambal a lot, as it goes well with the 'siu chau'.

The 'siu chau' cost RM6.00 per person serving.

Out of curiosity, i also give the fried chicken wing a try. It was nothing much special, but I do feel some crunchy bits of garlic(of which I am really not sure whether garlic is one of their secret weapon) in their marinating ingredient), although I am not sure whether I tasted it correct. Someone please correct me if i am wrong about this. The chicken wing cost RM2.00 per wing, but I think that would be the standard price in KL/Selangor.

Overall, I do like the siu chau here, although there are 2 other location that I would love to try on.

Stay tuned...for next hokkien mee location.

Yat Yeh Hing（日夜兴生窝海鲜饭店）@ Kelana Jaya

2011-03-20T22:51:00.013+08:00

Yat Yeh Hing (日夜兴生窝海鲜饭店) is actually situated near Kelana Jaya LRT, at the side of LDP beside housing areas. A visit to this small food court is actually my friend's idea, coz of the reason, she missed the soup served with the chicken rice here. But, we actually need to line up and the soup is actually a self service. I am still OK with that rule, considering there were too many people waiting to be served. But we ended up getting a rude comment from the waitress, telling us that there were no need of two person lining, one would be enough, cos we are getting the place crowded :( . Tell me about bad service.

The soup is considerably good, as I don't really have high expectation on soups served along with chicken rice, but they do allow us to have a big bowl of it shared among few people.

A good chicken rice always come with good chili sauce, but this one is really a so-so.

The chicken in considerably pass enough.

The roasted pork is still a good, although not in very good category. And of course, we could easily finished it.

The 'ngar choi' is really normal, of which i don't understand why chicken rice have to come with taugeh, although its understandable that Ipoh "Ngar Choi Gai" comes with it. Unless, the taugeh come from Ipoh.

Overall, the chicken rice here is good. Its just the service here is unsatisfactory.

Restaurant New Boston Klang

2011-03-20T11:34:00.004+08:00

Restaurant New Boston Klang have been in existence for many many years. I use to patron the restaurant with my family when I was very young but due to its slow serving of food, my family decided not to frequent the place anymore.

However, due to the restaurant becoming more and more famous, and my colleague are addicted to that place, lately, I do frequent the restaurant again!!! Anyway, if you guys do not mind waiting one hour plus to two hours, then why not....The food here is nice....

The Restaurant is famous for its steam Lala.....almost all table will order this dish..Dash with cili padi, lotsa ginger, fried chop garlic and fresh lala, this dish is worth dying for.....opps...i mean worth waiting for...

Other dish such as Nestum Mantis prawn is also very nice....However i feel it was to try to my liking. But the chewwy mantis prawn with sweet and salty taste of sugar and nestum, is really addictive!!

Dont forget about the Hokkien Mee.....is super black and nice...yummy...

Chop Chung Wah, Jonker street

2011-03-01T22:12:00.005+08:00

There is one scene in Jonker Street, Malacca that always caught people attention which is hundred of people queueing up for a plate of chicken rice bowl.

The shop was basically close by this iron bar and will only open if there is people finish up their meal and the owner will then allow certain number of people to come in. It will then be close until there is another group of person finish their meal.
Very 'Pah Pai' right? And look at how narrow is the road leading to the shop...Purposely park 2 motorcycle there....

So when we step in, the lady boss tell us, half chicken cheapest set priced at RM 28.80.....So we just simply say yes...

So here is the food.....Half kampung chicken and 5 plate of rice ball with 5 cute ball each. That is what the RM 28.80 set meant to be!!!

The chicken was rather dry but was sweet and have the 'Que' texture.

But the things that i would say stand out from other place is the rice ball.....The rice ball is so aromatic and I can just eat it without the chicken....The rice is handmake and that why it wasn't as compact as those 'very commercialise' chicken rice ball shop. One can still taste the rice although it was shaped to ping pong ball size. Yummy...

So next time you guys go to jonker Street, remember become 'Yau Kooi' like us....queue up for hours for this magical food...

Happy Chinese New Year

2011-02-01T23:40:00.000+08:00

I would like to wish all my reader Happy Chinese New Year.....

May you leap the year just like the rabbit to up more level in life, wealth, health and prosperity....

Gong Xi Fa Cai......HUAT AR!!!!

Yee Sang - Info

2011-01-30T14:14:00.000+08:00

Name :
Yee Sang
Loh Sang
Loh Hei

History:
Fishermen along the coast of Guangzhou traditionally celebrated Renri, the seventh day of the Chinese New Year, by feasting on their catches.[1] The practice of eating raw fish in thinly sliced strips can be traced back to ancient China through the raw fish or meat dish known as Kuai (膾, kuài). However the present form of yusheng is believed to have started in Chaozhou and Shantou as far back as the Southern Song Dynasty[citation needed] In Malaya's colonial past, migrants imported this tradition; porridge stalls sold a raw fish dish which is believed to have originated in Jiangmen, Guangdong province that consisted of fish, turnip and carrot strips, which was served with condiments of oil, vinegar and sugar that were mixed in by customers. (wikipedia)

Ingredient:
Raw fish / Abalone / Jelly Fish
White Radish
Carrot
Chili / Pepper
Picked ginger
Pamelo pulp
Chinese Parsley
Turnip
Peanut
Sesame
Crispy prawn cracker
Oil
Plum / Sweet sour sauce

Toasting:
Toast using chopstick with auspicious wishing such as 'Nian Nian You Yu', and 'Pu Pu Kao Sen'. But modern word such as 'Good Bonus', 'Hit jackpot' seem to join in the toasting nowadays...

Best time to eat:
7th Day of CNY. Ren Ri (Human Day)
Picture of loh sang taken from Restaurant Happy Family, Setia Alam

T Cafe aka Lord Cafe, Tanah Rata Cameron Highland

2011-01-23T13:06:00.006+08:00

Situated above Marrybrown Restaurant in Tanah Rata is Lord Cafe, more popular known as T cafe. That is our very first place to have our meal once we arrive Cameron Highland.

T cafe serve good scone and good place for enjoy a cup of tea.

As we arrive about 3pm in the afternoon, the cafe was quite and there weren't much customer inside. This cafe had been heavily popularise by a lot of foodies and blogger that i do not need to mention much...

Lets straight go to the food then...

Cream scone (RM 2.50)
One word....Best...

Strawberry scone(RM 2.80)
Yummy, but i still think cream scone is the best

Strawberry crepe (RM3.80)
The pancake is just too bland for my taste bud

Apple pie (RM 3.60, or RM 5.00 with vanilla ice cream)
It was Ok. Wasn't too sweet but the pastry is just too dry...

I was craving for chicken pie since they promoting it so badly all over the cafe but sadly it was fully sold out.

Well, the next time I am craving for scone, i know where I am heading too....haha...ok, maybe it was a bit too far....But if I were in Cameron, i believe this is a place I wouldn't want to miss....

Strawberry Moment

2011-01-13T21:34:00.005+08:00

I went up to Cameron with my crazy bunch of colleague to relax and have a mabuk session together...*toik***

and talking about Cameron, the first things that come to most people mind would be Strawberry.....and there is weird things about strawberry.....which open for argument...

Is Strawberry sweet or sour? Well, I argue a lot with my colleague about this issue that I feel that I spend more time in arguing than enjoying strawberry...

Anyway, one place not to be missed if you guys visit Cameron Highland would be a cafe name 'Strawberry moment'. The name clearly tell you what to expect from the cafe....Yes, sweet moment with strawberry....

Among the famous dessert would be 'strawberry strudel', strawberry chocolate and strawberry juice. Well, to know more about the cafe and menu, you can log on to their website www.strawberrymoment.com

Here is what we order:
First visit: Strawberry strudel, strawberry juice, fresh combo fruit yogurt, *forgotten desert name*

Second visit we have blueberry strudel and strawberry ice-cream.

Besides dessert they also serve food such as pasta and soup. One of my colleague order the mushroom soup but it turn up to be overx10 salted. No matter how much hot water requested, the soup still taste salty...

The shop is connected to a souvenir shop beside where tourist can purchase strawberry product such as jam, chocolate, strawberry coffee and so on as gift to friend and family.

For those who have sweet tooth like me, well, u guys gotta love it. Sadly I been there twice with full stomach, thus cannot really enjoy the dessert....Dessert should be serve first next time!!!

Formosa Chicken Rice

2011-01-11T21:36:00.004+08:00

I went to Malacca again on Christmas with bunch of crazy fella as I was craving for chicken rice ball. After a horrible jam in Malacca town, i almost fainted to see such a long queue in the famous jonker street chicken rice ball. Since my stomach is drumming very badly, we decided to drop off at Formosa instead.

Formosa being very much commercialised compare to other chicken rice around the town, offer wider range of food and drinks. The price is of course at a higher side compare to other stall in Malacca.

We order the famous steam chicken and rice ball, char siew, siew yok, wanton soup, chicken feet salad, and taugeh.

The chicken is tender and juicy but i tasted better steam chicken before.
The rice ball is so compact that it doesn't seem to be made out of rice. It feel like eating a dough thought.
The wanton soup is not to my liking as the wanton is small and the broth wasn't taste good. To me is merely a 3/10.

The cold chicken feet salad is also not to my liking. The cold chicken feet taste awful and got some smell on it.
The taugeh is good, but i still craving for Ipoh chicken rice taugeh.

Char Siew and Siew Yok is above average but not the best I have ever tasted.

Overall, it was just a decent lunch as I am super hungry at that moment. However, it does not satisfy my craving for Chicken Rice Ball....

Overall rating - 4/10

Pun Chun Restaurant, Bidor

2011-01-07T22:40:00.003+08:00

Knock knock knock....

Is 2011..............

and to kick start my new year, I went to Cameron Highland with a bunch of crazy colleague....On the journey from KL to Cameron, we stop by at Bidor, for its ever famous Duck noodles.

Among the few famous shop, we decided to settle down at Pun Chun restaurant although they have a branch in Klang Valley nowadays.

Pun Chun is famous for its Duck noodles and Woo Kok (Fried Yam filled with char siew). Most of the patron are local who stop by for a plate of wan tan mee. Since our mission is Duck noodles, we order 4 plate of noodles and 5 woo kok to be share by 5 person.

The duck noodles cost RM 6.80 which come with a plate of noodles with dark soy sauce and a bowl of steamy hot duck soup. The duck soup is cook using various herb and it taste like normal Chinese chicken herbal soup. The duck is surprisingly tender and juicy after hours of cooking. The noodles is springy but is just OK for my liking....Sorry, I am not a 'wan tan mee' person...hehe

The woo kok is extremely good....I could say one of the best i ever tasted. The yam was smooth and the char siew blend very well with the pastry....yummy....Thumb up...I will definitely stop over again the next time I pass by Bidor...

***by the way, the auntie selling the duck noodles are quite unfriendly though....

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

2010-12-23T22:36:00.002+08:00

Dear Reader,

Harkau Siewmai would like to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...

Enjoy your turkey and log cake.....

Sorry for long 'silent nite' in our blog....We promise we will come back soon with lots of update very very soon...

Thank u...

Nadeje Mille Crepe - Revisited

2010-11-11T22:51:00.006+08:00

Lately there is new item of 'must eat' in Malacca besides from its chicken rice ball, ice kacang durian and satay celup.

The new things is mille crepe cake from Nadeje...

Nadeje situated few door beside Ming satay hut that sell pork satay. Nadeje is a nice place to chill with comfortable sofa and nice cup of coffee...The crepe cake was nicely done and wasnt too sweet.

During our trip 4 of us order 2 slices of original crepe cake, 1 slice of mango crepe cake and 1 slice of chocolate crepe cake. Just see how many layers of crepe and creme per cake...
Original

MangoMango

ChocolateChocolate
Feeling not enough, we even breing back to KL, 17 slices of crepe cakes. We have no choice but to put into huge vacuum bag with lot of ice as crepe cake must be stored in cold environment. Not to forget crepe cake tend to lost the taste if it was not consume within 24 hours.

Other favourite of crepe cakes include green tea, rum raisin, and tiramisu.

If you like to chill for a while, enjoy a cup of coffee of your liking...

Wala....what a day

La Gomera Spanish Buffet @ Neo Damansara

2010-10-20T13:02:00.001+08:00

We decide to give Spanish food a try after Heather, a friend of mine found out about this place in mydeal, and the price was not really that expensive for a buffet dinner(@RM29.90). This is my first time having Spanish food, so the review is based on MY OPINION ONLY and NO COMPARISON was done for Spanish food).

But overall, I will give the environment and lighting a B+, it is definitely a comfortable place to have dinner in.

The services offered by those waiters are great too...Thus, thumb up for that too.

They offer free food tasting on their new dish, seafood in spanish sauce, of which I like the sauce very much, not too spicy,at least not too ordinary that you can make comparison to tomato sauces that you could find anywhere.

One of the dishes I like most was the cold prawn. They are considerably fresh and not too colds, that you can actually feel the freshness and juiciness of the prawns, even when they are not that big.

The lamb dishes was not bad too. The lamb are succulent and not too hard. In fact, they have nearly every kind of meat (chicken, lamb, beef, seafood) in Spanish sauce.

Of course, you could never missed out raw oysters. Theirs was not big, and only one on every order you placed using the small clips similar to Tenji.

The seafood was OK, just a tad too salty.

This is considerably new to me, but I like the crunchy part of the bread, and taste even better when you dip into the soup.

Forgot to take pictures on the spaghetti, but they are really not as good as it looks, and too sour for my liking. Even a friend of mine who has a passion with spagetties couldn't take it.

Overall, I would rate B for La Gomera, and I think I will recommend it for family gatherings or even dating...:)

Ming Sate Hut - Malacca

2010-10-16T10:29:00.005+08:00

Craving for sate babi? or pork intestine sate?

Head to Ming Sate Hut at Malacca nearby Mahkota Parade. Situated a few shop beside Nadeje Crepe Cake shop, Ming Sate Hut serve variety of sate from chicken to pork, intestine to lamb all under one roof.

The sauce is also very unique. Rather than the usual peanut sauce, the sauce in Ming Sate is cook with chunky pineapple that give the sweetness taste of the pineapple.

The chicken satay is nothing to shout about as other stall can simply serve the same standard as theirs.

The intestine sate is very unique indeed. There is no smelly taste or neither it was hard. The intestine was nicely bbq over the charcoal fire. Well, it was my first time eating intestine by way of BBQ...

The pork sate on the other side taste much better than the chicken version.

Nancy 's Kitchen

2010-10-12T20:58:00.005+08:00

I was invited by a crazy bunch of colluegue to be the judge for WTF Challenge which stands for 'Where's the food'...Each participant are required to search for food that they never taste before and marks will be given based on the food, price, ambience as well as the presentation of the food itself.

Nancy Kitchen is located at Jalan Hang Lekir, which is off Jonker Street....very easy to locate the shop. Once have to queue up as the shoplot was rather small and can accomodate about 30 person at ground floor and another 40 person at upstair.

Among the dishes we order are as follows:

For started we opt for popiah and 1 set of Top Hat (Pie Tie)

For main course we order Pongteh babi, cincalok egg, 4 angle bean and otak otak serve with white steam rice.

The bill come at RM 61.50 which inclusive of 4 drinks.

The popiah and pie tie was extremely well done.

Pongteh babi was nice as well but a little too oily for my liking...

Cincalok egg was normal and turn up to be salty...But that is the way it should be since cincalok is salty in nature.

4 angle bean and otak otak was nothing to shout about.

Overall it was a decent meal....for the price that we pay, it was consider affortable..

Lastly i give the challenger 71 marks out of 100....not that bad after all....

Formosa@ Sungei Wang Plaza

2010-09-30T21:24:00.014+08:00

After the McD Run 2010, we plan to cari makan somewhere nearby KL city. Nicholas suggested Sg Wang since Heather plans on shopping in Sg. Wang after the lunch meetup. Little did we expect that the run actually ended at 10am and all of us are really hungy. The original plan of visiting T-Bowl 'tak jadi' since it opens only on 11am. Thus, we choose the one that opens earliest,Formosa. The menu are rather tempting, with my favourite 'oyster mee sua' in the list.

The mee sua was rather disappointing compared to the one from Shih Lin. But the size of the oysters make up for it.

The mee was really 'so so only' as they were too salty and ordinary with minced meat+soy sauce, bbq sauce etc...

I can't differentiate which mee is with which sauce as they look really alike that Heather mistaken mine for hers.

The price was rather high for such a portion of food as they were not exactly filling. End up, I would rate C for the food, portion and price. The environment wise was still OK, good for a drink and light snacks with friends.

Happy Mid Autumn

2010-09-22T22:11:00.004+08:00

Hope everyone enjoy great moon cake while appreciate the round moon tonight...

Happy Mid Autumn to my dearest reader....

Klang fried mee hoon kuih and curry yee mee

2010-09-21T21:57:00.003+08:00

As a Klangite for the past 23 years, I am kinda lousy food seeker in Klang. I really need to depend on my friend on the tasty food in Klang.

Lately, my friend brought me and Nicholas to one unique place that serve fried mee hoon kuih (pan mee) and curry yee mee. I been to the place many time but I didn't know they serve these food. This is because I was always there at night time.

The morning and afternoon stall serve famous noodles and one of the specialties is Fried Mee Hoon Kuih. Thin pieces of Mee Hoon Kuih is well fried with mince pork, vegetable and mushroom and serve with crispy ikan bilis. Basically it was just the same ingredient for soupy mee hoon kuih but it was a 'fried' version. Almost all patrons order a plate of this dish..

The curry yee mee is also not bad. The sweetness of coconut milk blend very well with the spices and 'liu'....Serve with vegetable, fish ball, tou pok, fish cake and char siew, the curry yee mee is something that one cannot miss.

Some Vietnam food we eat

2010-08-19T21:45:00.009+08:00

Well, being in Vietnam for 2 weeks, no doubt I have tasted food from 5 star to street food....Well, here come the list of food we tasted...sorry that there is no evidence by way of photograph since most of the time I am dining with some GMs, managers and so on.....sometime it was also unsave to bring camera around to hawker centre because lots of children will be standing beside begging for food!! poor kids..

Street food: Stalls in Ben Thanh Market....we have that everynight for our dinner..

Fastfood : Lotteria

Vietnamese food : Pho 24, Pho 2000 (refer previous post on pho 2000), broken rice

5 stars : Palace (on the way to my phuoc - picture below) and Yeebo (chinese food, in HCMC - sorry no photo..dine with GM)

Breakfast : Lousy hotel breakfast (chicken feet), Vietnamese sandwish - with roasted pork, chilli and lotsa vege, just like subway

If there is something i can recommend in HCMC beside their famous Pho and Grill Pork would be Yeebo Restaurant....During my last meal before we headed home, we were treated with a steamboat gala at Yeebo. The soup of the steamboat consists of chinese water creshnut, snow pear, chinese white cabbage and 2 huge pig bone. Once the soup is boiled, the waitress will remove the bone and cut off meat from the bone and serve it as a side dish. The ingredient for the steamboat is so fresh that the prawn is still jumping when we put it into the boiling broil....Yummy...href="http://yeebo.com.vn/">Yeebo Restaurant

normal scene for dinner at Ben Thanh Market

Steak at pasar malam price at Ben Thanh market

Asparagus seafood soup...taste like sharkfin

Saigon Beer with smelly fish sauce and Vietnam Ajinamoto

Seafood rice in Ben Thanh market

Fried Rice in Ben Thanh market

Cheated!!! Curry Chicken rice but got beef inside also...

Fried mee with gravy

Chicken Pho..from Pho 24

Lala in claypot and soup....not nice, malaysia version 100 times better

Broken rice with pork and prawn....Taste like pork and prawn stir fry with salted fish

Some stall at road site

Some grill stall in Ben Thanh Market....saw prawn jump off from BBQ pit and seller pick up from the road and put back to the pit

Vietnamese yum cha culture

Lotteria Promotion

Bear Bear, probably will make ppl become bear after drink it

Best food ever

Fruit in Vietnam is the best....Sweet...even green banana also damm sweet

Dine at Palace (not sure what the name of the restaurant but local call them palace....Is on the way to My Phuoc before the theme park...not easy to find indeed..Famous among expatriate and rich bosses

Hong Kee Dim Sum in Damansara Jaya( Near Atria Mall)

2010-08-02T23:08:00.013+08:00

I always favour Jin Xuan Dim Sum until Nicholas insist on going to Hong Kee, saying that Hong Kee is much cheaper. Well, this I could not deny, but still I favour Jin Xuan, cos they dim sum seems to be fresher and I personally think that it taste better.
this is a plate of fried 'lobak gou' that icould get in any stall in pasar.
the chicken legs did much better...just a bit too skinny for my taste.
siu long pau was nothing special
the pau was hard(apparently kept in storage for quite awhile and not heated well enough too'
'wu kok was also a big disappointment

The food are either not warm enough, not well heated enough or just plain.Its' always said that foods get from good to bad when a restaurant gets famous. Maybe i am just a bit too late...

Northem Beach - Pie and Cake

2010-07-29T21:31:00.004+08:00

If you are looking for a nice and cheap western food or italian food in Penang, you should head to Northem Beach foodcourt. The italian food is cook by Italian...No joke!

Previously when I am in Penang, I order the Chicken Pie set which come with salad and cake.

Just forget about the salad because I dun really enjoy much after few flies buzzing around the fresh vegetable and mayo...

Lets look about the delicious Chicken Pie in the cup...the Pie pastry is crispy on the outside but soft in the inside. The Chicken gravy is thick and full with potato, carrot and creamy taste. Excellent to eat with the pastry.

About the cake, it look very dry and in deed it was dry when I eat it...However, I must praise that there is no stall can sell such a better cake which somehow I feel much better than Secret Recipe...Brava...

So next time, head to Northem Beach for a satisfying food with affortable price...

Wantan Mee

2010-07-14T21:48:00.004+08:00

One thing that I hate in Klang Valley would be the Wantan Mee. It is so difficult to find a stall with wantee mee that can taste as good as those in Penang.

Wantan Mee in Penang come with lard and lotsa oil....I know it is unhealthy but it taste so so so good...

I strongly recommend wantan mee in Pulau Tikus...Early in the morning, there is lot of uncle and aunty having morning coffee in Pulau Tikus. Small market selling fruits, foods and flower is located along the street.

Lorong Selamat Fried Hor Fun

2010-07-14T21:34:00.000+08:00

Due to the popularity of the stall, me and my collueague force ourselves to go to overcrowded Lorong Selamat Fried Hor Fun, also known as Tall Guy Fried Hor Fun..

To me the stall is overrated....It taste same like normal wan tan hor or ying yong to me....

but i do recommend to try the fried osyter from another stall within the same shoplot...hehe...

Penang Char Kiew Tiau

2010-06-26T15:54:00.004+08:00

Where is the best Penang Char Kiew Tiau???

I have try :

Newlane (beside Sunway Hotel)
Goodall II (Jalan Burmah)
Goodall I (beside a Chinese school)
Northerm Beach Foodcourt

Which photo is which stall.....erm, i already misplace...wahaha...
so u pick and guess la...

One thing i notice from all this picture is that the prawn is so much bigger than those we get in KL...

Malaysia Airline ~ Malaysian Hospitality

2010-06-22T22:24:00.005+08:00

If there is one thing that Malaysia Airline can beat AirAsia, it would be the food!

Forget about finding the wallet to buy your favourite nasi lemak or donut, Malaysia Airline provide it all chargeable to your flight ticket!!

On my flight to Ho Chi Minh City, I was given a choice of Nasi Lemak with spicy chicken or Chicken prata. Well, I decided to go for Nasi Lemak with spicy chicken...

Erm, it turn up to be Nasi Lemak with spicy prawn....erm..."Misrepresentation"....

But overall it was good. Nice Fragrance coconut milk rice with spicy prawn with a piece of dried fruit cakes and juices. Sorry, AirAsia, but your nasi lemak cannot compete with this...

On the way back to KL, I was given choices of beef satay with fried rice or chicken prata. Well, sinful with my 'bo' experience in Vietnam, there is no more chance I will eat beef anymore. Thus i opt for Chicken prata.

Is more like a murtabak ayam serve with darca. The prata is tasteless...and my prata is obviously not cook as compare to my colleague. The prata is so hard and the taste of uncook flour is still there....The darca is also tasteless....Fortunately there is Forrero Rocher to cheer me up

Anyway, no doubt Malaysia Airline services is good....food is good....but 4 times with Malaysia Airline, 4 times I have bad terbulences. Maybe the plane is flying too fast and the plane is too small...

Pho 2000 - Vietnam

2010-06-18T21:53:00.005+08:00

I just back from Vietnam not long ago for business trip and immediately have my exam. Sorry for the long 'lost' of HarkauSiewmai...

Lets get back to the topic...

In Vietnam, there is 2 biggest barrier when come to eat.
1. It is not easy to find a place to eat which is clean.
2. It is very normal to accidentally eat beef even u order a chicken dishes.

So my advice is.....

1. If you are not so adventerous and want to avoid staying in hospital, please do not eat at street food especially those sitting down at stool and eat at low rise table.
2. Learn this power word "Khong the an chit bo' which mean I cannot eat beef.

I would like to start the Vietnamese food corner with the introduction of Pho 2000. Pho 2000 become famous after US President, Bill Clinton visited their shop many years ago. Now Pho 2000 have several branch and one that can easily catch one eye is the one situated at Ben Thanh Market.

Pho (pronounce as Fur) is traditional rice noodles make in Vietnam. It was serve in aromatic soup that have been boil with herbs and chicken bone. Becareful if you eat at other place because I have eaten beef Pho even thought I order chicken Pho. So to make things clear, make sure you use the powerful word.

Pho is served with basil leaves, taugeh and vietnamese chilli. Vietnamese Chilli is super super spicy and don't ever try to bite it. Put it in the soup and stir it. The spiciness will come out by itself.

Beside ordering the Pho Ga (chicken pho), we also order Grill Pork rice. Vietnamese Grill Pork rank number 1 to me. There is no chance one can such a tasty grill pork in Malaysia. yummy....saliva drolling...

Last but not lease, for a very safe version to avoid BEEF......here is the vegetarian Pho....taste like bah kut teh with vegetable...hehe

Here is the drink we order....Fresh Fruit Ice and Red Bean Ice

Penang Hokkien Mee

2010-05-16T10:52:00.005+08:00

In Klang Valley, Hokkien Mee is fried noodles with thick black soy sauce. However if you are traveling to Penang please be aware that Hokkien Mee in Penang is actually Prawn noodles in Klang Valley...

There is a lot of stall selling Hokkien Mee in Penang and it was you own choice of which stall is your favourite....

The only different between Penang Har Mee and Klang Valley version is the prawn is bigger, juicier and tender....and the seller is never stingy in giving those prawn....and another good selling point is the amount of fried scallot they put in....Yummy yummy

Penang Chee Chong Fun

2010-05-11T20:05:00.004+08:00

What make Penang Chee Chong Fun special?

The answer lies on the sauce they use. Traditionally we eat Chee Chong Fun with sweet sauce and chilli sauce but in Penang, they have something different...Shrimp paste.

A thick stinky shrimp paste with a dash of sesame seed is the things that make Penang chee chong fun stand out from the crowd.

My journey to Penang last month have given me chances to taste the unique yet stinky food. Frankly I am not a fan of shrimp paste due to its taste and aroma.

Newlane Food Court[beside Sunway Hotel]

Priced at RM 2 for small and RM 3 for big plate, the chee chong fun was fairly drained with sweet sauce and shrimp paste. The aroma of shrimp paste was not so strong but just nice for people who do not like the strong adour of shrimp paste....I like this

Goodall II foodcourt

Totally an opposite of the one I have in Newlane. The shrimp paste here stink that once you try to stir the chee chong fun, the adour can just stink the nose for few seconds. Well, this was order by my friend who love shrimp paste. But for me, I can't take the aroma....

But from my friend verdict, he like it and he think it was fairly good as those we have in Newlane...

So if you like stinky smell, u know where u can get it!!!

Ghee Hiang vs Him Heang

2010-05-03T18:48:00.000+08:00

What would you buy for your friend as souvenir if you are in Penang?

I bet it would be a box of 'Tau Sar Pneah' or better known as Tambun biscuit.

There is 2 famous brand in Penang been Ghee Hiang and Him Heang, rumour to be manage by siblings!

It have been a long debate between this 2 brands of which is better.

Ghee Hiang been the most famous among the tourist have 2 outlets in Penang, one being in Macalister road and another one at Burmah Road.

Ghee Hiang tambun biscuit come with nice box, pre-pack into a plactic bags of 4 biscuit each. Their main point of selling are the old brand name of 150 years and cleanliness.

For me, I think the outer skin of ghee hiang biscuit was somehow not as fresh and nice as Him Heang. The filling was a bit too sweet to my liking but was less oily.

Him Heang on another hand is more famous among the local and also my prefer choice. Located at Burmah road, Him Heang always face shortage of supply and it was well known that sometime, one have to pre-order before able to collect their tambun biscuit.

Him Heang biscuit have a well done outer layer been medium crispy. The filling was much oily been more lard and fried scallot been mixed with the bean (Tau Sar). The aroma of the filling is much stronger than those of Ghee Hiang.

Their selling point is that freshly baked from oven. One can feel the fresh heat been release from the box.

The only bad things about Him Heang is the packaging was not nicely done. If you put on your car and you drive from Penang to KL, most probably all the biscuit is upsite down in the box! Well, not really a nice way to give out as a gift...hehe

Anyway, Ghee Hiang vs Him Heang....I personally think it would much depend on each person taste and preferances. I personally like Him Heang, my sister prefer Ghee Hiang....So which 'Hiang' are you?

Padthai - Bangkok Fried Keow Teow

2010-05-02T20:36:00.000+08:00

Padthai is a traditional food in Bangkok resemble our local fried keow teow.

The rice noodles (keow teow) was much softer than what we can get in Malaysia, more oily in nature and very smooth.

In every street in Bangkok, beside the famous pork noodles, padthai would be available day and night.

Once can choose from original padthai, chicken padthai, seafood padthai to pork padthai. On each table, there is sugar, peanut, thai chilli sauce, chilli flack and fish sauce which one can season the padthai according to our taste.

The difference between padthai with our local fried keow teow is padthai taste much sweeter, oily and smoother.

Anyhow, i somehow prefer padthai over our local keow teow...hehe

Penang Laksa @ Ayer Itam - Revisited

2010-04-29T23:04:00.004+08:00

If there is a thing that I will regret leaving Penang without it would be eating Penang Laksa.

Penang Laksa or more famous as Asam Laksa in KL is not really my favourite food. The spicy and sour soup filled with stinky fish and prawn paste look very disgusting at the first look.

However, Penang Laksa at Ayer Itam prove my theory wrong for the first time last year when I was in Penang and when I visited Penang this year, I make it a must to visit place despite I have a tight schedule.

The stall is located at Ayer Itam market which added more 'stink' to the food. I reckon that there is tasted better Penang Laksa in other place but somehow, Ayer Itam one are still my liking.

The broth wasn't that stinky compare to other stall as the prawn paste was quite diluted. However, I appreciate the amount of fish inside the broth. The amount of mints and vegetable goes very well with springy noodles.

Yum yum....I just love the laksa with the sugar cane drink from stall nearby....

A must try!!!

Refer to my old post...Penang Laksa 2009...I could believe I capture almost the same photo as well...

Penang Laksa 2009

Cabbages & Condoms Restaurant

2010-04-27T22:46:00.008+08:00

I read a lot of blogs about Bangkok before I fly over there for a 4 days vacation. There is few post that really catch my eye and one of them are about dining in a restaurant with condom theme.

Since the place we stay in just a stone throw away, we decided to have our very last dinner in Bangkok at Cabbages & Condoms Restaurant. The restaurant located at Sukhumvit 12 which is about 5-10 minutes walking distance from Nana BTS station and 3 minutes walk from Times Square.

The condoms theme serve as an awareness program in educating the public on the important of safe sex. Well, Bangkok is famous for sex tourist anyway, so I believe having some awareness programme can help a little bit in reducing the spread of HIV virus.

Our order list are as follows:

เมี่ยงคำ (Mieng Khum)- TBH 120
Thai ancient appetizer - lemon,dried shrimp, peanut, ginger
deep-fried coconut, chilli,shallots,and special sauce ,wrapped in wild betel leaves
The taste was good with a good blend of fresh ingredient, special sauce and herbs. However, the peanut is just too hard for a nice chew

แกงเผ็ดเป็ดย่าง (Gang Phed Ped Yang) - TBH 200
Hot and sweet roasted duck cooked with coconut milk,and green pepper

The virgin green pepper could be easily mistaken as green pea. A bite on the pepper explode the good aroma of pepper but no spicy taste. The sweetness of coconut milk blend well with the curry and the juicy and tender roasted duck enhance this meal

ไก่ห่อใบเตย (Kai Hor Bai Teoy in herb leaf bikini ) - TBH 200
Deep-fried Chicken wrapped in pandan leaf,served with special sauce
The chicken is very tender and juicy. The sauce is also quite special. I personally think it was plum sauce.

ปลากระพงราดพริก (Pla Ka Pong Rad Phrik) - TBH 350
Deep-fried whole sea bass topping with chilli sauce

Too crispy for my liking but i just love the sauce

ต้มยำกุ้ง (Tom Yam Gung) - TBH 250 (big portion in hot pot)
Thai spicy shrimp soup,seasoned with chilli,lime,lemongrass,and galanga

Yum yum....At last a decent tom yam from Bangkok....been searching for days and night

Drinks - Grape juice, honey dew juice and lime juice

Thai Dessert
Sweeten jack fruit, water chestnut, boiled tapioca balls, coconut milk serve with shaved ice and syrup

Total burn in the wallet:

1640 Thai bath....
It was a little bit pricey but the environment was extremely nice with soft music instrument play by beautiful lady smiling all the way, natural curtain from the rain forest tree, condom decoration and free condom for all visitor...Why not!!

Temptations Restaurant & Bar@Mahkota Cheras

2010-04-25T21:35:00.006+08:00

It has been really quite long time since my last post last year!!! I would like apologise here.

We decided to go Mahkota Cheras on 11 April for Choi Ling's surpise birthday gathering. We also celebrated Yong Joo's birthday in advance. As recommended by Yen Thoong, we chose Temptations Cafe for our dinner.

"Salmon Fillet" with Teriyaki sauce, potato,vegetables for RM22

"Butter Fish" with potato, vegetables, Beure Blanc sauce for RM20

"Nachos" for RM 16

"Mexican Chicken Breast" with butter rice and vegetables for RM18

"Seafood Platter" fish fillet, mussels, tiget prawns, scallop, squids fot RM22

"Ceaser Salad" for RM14

Group photo - Happy birthday to Yong Joo and Choi Ling!!!

Overall, the environment is quite nice, food is also not bad and fishes are fresh and the price is also reasonable. It's definitely worth a try if you are nearby at Cheras or Kajang areas.

Contact:
No. 3, Jalan Temenggung 5/9, Seksyen 9, Bandar Mahkota Cheras, 43200 Cheras, Selangor.
Tel: 603 9010 3020 / 012 3564519

Operating Hours:
Tues-Sun & Public Holidays: 11am - 11pm. Closed on Mondays

Result: 7/10 (Marks reduced due to its far distance)

Shihlin Taiwan Street Snack@ Tropicana City Mall

2010-04-24T22:58:00.007+08:00

Actually a visit to Shihlin wasn't part of my plan in TCM(Tropicana City Mall). It was craving of a friend of mine towards the XXL Fried Chicken, of which i reluctantly agreed with the promise that the Oyster Mee Sua was rather good.

The XXL chicken, or better known as the Shihlin Fried Chicken, was rather good with crisp on the outside and tender in the inside. I rather like this compared to Uncle Bob, which can be very spicy at some point. But there's one thing that I would like to set as a reminder( the outlet in Tropicana doesn't cut the chicken into pieces and that you have to bite on them as they come in a big piece-not sure about other outlet though). However, the price was rather high(RM 6) for a piece of chicken for a meal.

The Oyster Mee Sua was rather good with the thick broth( mind that I am rather picky on mee sua) and 3 oysters. The aroma was already tempting when the mee sua was placed in front of me. I would definitely go back for it even when the price is rather high(RM6) for such a small helping. But its good enough for a meal.
There were only 2 type of drink served, mineral water(RM2) and V-Soy soya milk(RM2.50).
Was definitely a good try if you happen to shop at Tropicana City Mall(on the same floor as Carrefour)

Restaurant TYY, Sg Ara

2010-04-16T22:37:00.002+08:00

I have been working in Penang for some days and I have the opportunity to travel around and eat the best food Penang can offer...

Today we end up in Restaurant TYY, very near to our office to have Yam Rice.

According to the colleague in Penang, the yam rice here is superbly good which is serve with the sour and spicy pork soup. I reckon that the yam rice is delicious and the soup is extremely nice. It was so difficult to get another one nicer than this. We order 2 huge bowl of the soup, one being plain pork with meat ball and another one with all 'pork inner'. We also order braised egg which was cook with the 'vinegar pork knuckle'. Again this is nice but the broth is not sour enough but turn out to be sweet....Still I like it though.

Besides, the restaurant is famous for its chicken rice. We order a plate of 'char siew'. It was very sinful to have fattening char siew with partly 'hangus'. It was very delicious. The char siew is sweet and well cook. I love it..

AirAsia Nasi Lemak....

2010-04-12T21:08:00.005+08:00

As I am a big fan of AirAsia due to it successful low cost model for Asian market, I personally would like to taste the food sold on board to experience whether the food are so lousy as what I normally heard.

Well, for service wise, I personally think there is pro and cons between both big airline in Malaysia being the MAS and AirAsia. A lot of people are shouting loud on AirAsia for not providing free food on board and it was said that the price charge for the food are extremely expensive. For me, I look on another way, why do we pay few hundred buck extra just for the food and a little bit extra services that they provide while we are complaining paying RM9 for a Nasi Lemak?

I ordered a Nasi Lemak on my way to Bangkok as it was a 2 hours flight which fall on my lunch time. Being squeeze in small seat with no extra space for leg seem to be very uncomfortable, what more if we are to dine there. No choice, for lower price this is what I have to compromise.

The Nasi Lemak look very average to me. Aromatic coconut milk rice serve with sambal and very 'sad' portion of ikan bilis and 3 tiny pieces of chicken rendang. For a price of RM 9, i reckown that it was pricy. We can have better portion with half the price if we are on the land.

But think again? How many time can you eat on the sky? For the price of RM 9 i personally think is reasonable. Imagine the processing time, making sure the food is fully prepared, transporting from kitchen to airplane, cost of air-stewardess to push the trolley and shouting 'Any food, sir?', and so on, RM9 seem reasonable...

Gosh, am I promoting AirAsia? Hope I am not....but what I want to say, you get what you paid for....

MBK Fifth Food Avenue

2010-04-11T13:49:00.004+08:00

Finding a food in Bangkok is never a problem. Every nook and corner, you can just find food to fill your empty stomach.

From street food to luxury restaurant, you will have hard time to decide where to eat.

Talking about Bangkok, one cannot run away from shopping...There is lot of huge shopping mall selling goods from fashion to technology ware.

MBK was one of them. MBK stand for Mah Boon Krong is a huge shopping mall that sell everything under the sun. I would say, it resemblem a Chatuchak Market with covered and air-condition place.

After a long day walking at the mall, one can go to fifth floor for a good meal.

MBK Fifth Food Avenue serve food from local Thai, Balinese, Arabian, Western, Indian, Chinese, Iranian, Japanese, Korean, Hainanese, Vietnamese and even Vegetarian.

The price is above average but with the sofa seating and 'free Thai Ice Tea' for tourist, I believe it was quite reasonable.

Here is what we order:

Balinese Special Fried Rice
Warning to those small eater, this portion will be more than enough for 2 person. It come with huge plate of fried rice serve with 2 Indonesian Satay, one fried chicken with special sauce and a egg.

Green Curry with Rice
The green curry taste good but lack of mint aroma. Somehow I feel that Bangkok Green Curry do not have strong basil and mint taste as compare to those we have in Malaysia.

PradThai
Prathai which resemble Malaysian version of Fried Keow Tiaw is a very famous dish in Bangkok. It come with chili flake, sugar and peanut to add the aroma and taste.

The food court system uses touch and go system whereby one will get a card and for each food we order, an amount will be inserted into the cards. During the check out from the food court, one will need to pay at the counter the price of food consume.

Conclusion, the food was nice and reasonable prices. However we saw some insect flying around the food court. Maybe MBK can consider to have pest control or look into the hygiene matter.

Bangkok Street Food - Pork noodles

2010-04-10T12:10:00.003+08:00

In my mind, I always thought every street in Bangkok will sell tomyam...but to my horror, I couldn't even find tomyam in Bangkok except those high end restaurant.

On the other side, every street in Bangkok do sell Pork Noodles.

A bowl of noodles serve with blacken soup with few pieces of pork tender meat and fish ball is what I see everywhere.

The noodles is white in color and not like those we have in KL (KL serve yellow color noodles). The soup resemble the bah kut teh broth but it taste rather bland. Every table it come with 4 side ingredient which we can add on ourselves. The 4 things are vegetable, sugar, chili flack, and peanut. In some places they even have fish sauce and vinegar pepper as well.

Thailand people are very healthy. There serve vegetable for free. You can add those vegetable as much as you can.....

So next time you go to Chatuchak, or where ever in Bangkok, stop by and enjoy a a bowl of this delicacy...

Mango Sticky Rice

2010-04-09T22:57:00.005+08:00

What is the food running on your mind relating to Bangkok?

Majority of us will say Tomyam or prathai.....

How about Mango Sticky Rice?

In every street in Bangkok, you can find people selling Mango. Certain stall also offer sticky rice to eat with mango.

Mango sticky rice is so famous in Bangkok that most Thai Restaurant in Malaysia had also start to sell it. But trust me, none of the sticky rice in Malaysia can beat Bangkok version.

The tasteless sticky rice is cook to perfection and with a little bit of coconut milk that create strong aroma and sweetness is the perfect combination. A small scoop of the sticky rice with a slice of mango melting inside the mouth is the greatest thing ever....Yum Yum....

What a great supper with a can of beer....

Bangkok street food - insects

2010-04-06T20:35:00.004+08:00

What have 3 pairs of legs and an antenna?

Insect....

and if you think it was gross, how about it end into the pot of boiling hot oil and then end up at your mouth, then throat, then your lovely stomach...

Gross, gross, gross.....damm gross...

I been dare to eat this...and i try to deny the dare....but end up i brave myself with one grasshopper....

It taste like 'ikan bilis' with soy sauce....

But guys, the gross part is not the taste but the legs kinda stuck in your mouth and no matter how many time you try to goggle with water or so on, you still will have the feeling of something in your mouth...

Yeah, maybe is psychology!

Bangkok Food - Tangerine Juice

2010-04-04T20:56:00.004+08:00

I have just come back from Thailand and we have lotsa food there. We will post one by one and spam the whole blogspot with Bangkok food very very soon.

For the first post, I am going to introduce the famous and the drink that I like the most in Bangkok which is the tangerine juice.

In Bangkok they call it orange juice but for me I will prefer to classified it as tangerine or maybe mandarin oranges as it does not taste like the normal orange that we have in Malaysia.

The freshly squeezed tangerine is place into the bottle and buried under shaved iced to maintain its freshness and add the extra coolness to it.

The juice can be found at almost everywhere in Bangkok with a price tag of 20 Baht which is about RM 2 in Malaysia.

Having a sip of this fresh and sweet tangerine juice really is the biggest kick in Bangkok especially the whole day walking around the HOT city.

T-bowl cafe

2010-03-23T21:31:00.006+08:00

T-bowl cafe (toilet bowl cafe) incoporated the concept of dining in the wash room and it was situated at Sungei Wang Plaza and another branch at Queenbay Mall, Penang.

We visited the Sungei Wang Plaza branch to have this unique experience. If you are not those pantang person, I believe you will like to sit on top of toilet bowl and eat your meal from the toilet bowl.

Among some food that is quite famous will be the ice cream which have the shape resemble the SHIT...

This is what we order...

Oreo Milk Shake
Honey Lemon
and Shampoo

Shark Fish Snack as starter (thumb up...i like this very much)

and Black Pepper cheese baked rice, Chicken chop baked riceand fried spagetti with chicken chop...

The food there was nice and as par as food serve in other Hong Kong food cafe such as Kim Gary or Wong Kok Char Chan Teng. I like the chicken chop baked rice as there is a lot of cheese and the white sauce taste very good with the juicy and tender chicken chop...

Basically it was a nice experience to dine there. It was more like having an experience rather than enjoying our food there as it was our first visit but I really like it. The food is good and I will be coming back for more...

Total damage: RM 70.00

Restaurant Coconut Flower @ Teluk Gong

2010-03-19T23:32:00.005+08:00

During CNY I bring my friend to have a dinner at Teluk Gong, the place to be for a nice seafood. Frankly I do not think Klang Seafood is nice but majority of people like to come to Klang for Seafood Dinner.

So I decided to go to the common seafood restaurant that I always go in Teluk Gong which is Coconut Flower. Well, the name come from the Coconut Flower liquor or toddy. It was nice if it was serve with a little bit of Guinness Stout.

So here is what we order.

Stir fried mantis prawn with dry chili (Kong Pou Har Kao)
- I like this dish as it taste good. A little bit of spicy and sweetness plus with the fresh mantis prawn make the whole dish very nice. The serving is also quite big.

Tom Yum prawn in coconut shell
- The prawn wasn't that fresh maybe due to Chinese New Year season where there is less fisherman going to the sea. The tom yum is excellent...

Butter squid
- the butter doesn't blend well with the squid and the squid is a bit too hard to chew...hehe

Steam Lala
- is good but cannot compete with Lala Chong

Fried lala bee hoon
- Sadly the amount of lala is so insignificant that I thought i was actually eating a 'bee hoon goreng kosong'

Some greenery stuff to balance up the meal...

Well, overall the place was too commercialise. The restaurant can accommodate more than 120 tables at one time and they have to compromise with their food quality. However, the price was quite reasonable, and it was a nice place to hang around...Just make sure you come early to secure some parking....and yeah, dun forgot the coconut flower liquor....A must try!!

Huang Chang Chicken Rice@Batu Berendam, Malacca

2010-03-19T01:12:00.007+08:00

Malacca has always been famous for its chicken rice ball, the normal chicken rice rolled into a small round balls. However, there are 2 facts that we should know about Malacca chicken rice( that as what I was told about),
1) they are for breakfast, but tourists(like me) will take them to be lunch.
2) locals don't usually go to Jonker Street to have their chicken rice ball breakfast.

I had 2 chicken rice meals while I was in Malacca( for this trip), one of them is in tourist spot filled with pictures of artists from various country and big names who had visited the chicken rice shop.

One of my friend's personal favorite is this Huang Chang Chicken Rice Shop located in Batu Berendam, Taman Melaka Baru.

A long queue has formed outside the shop when we went there around 10am in the morning. My friend placed the order once we were seated. i was shocked when he ordered 40 rice balls and half a chicken(Hai Nan Chicken Rice) for the 3 of us. I was even more suprised when he mentioned that usually they took 20 rices balls per person. Then i realised the reason behind this 'massive portion'. Actually, the balls are not that big,

and it taste so good. Hand-made is always better than machines, as machine made chicken rice balls are much harder in texture-wise and the quality of hand-made chicken rice is certainly much better. Talking about rice, the Hainan chicken certainly can't be forgotten.

The texture are soft and tasty, and certainly much fresher compared to other Malacca famous chicken rice shops( the difference are rather obvious).

And one thing about this shop, the foods are rather economical.
Just Rm 8.50 for the half chicken and we spent lesser than RM20 for the 'breakfast' for 3.
I will definitely revisit Huang Chang the next time i am in Malacca.

p.s. : so sorry that there are limited pictures for this posting, the fragrance was too tempting.*smile*

Nadeje Patisserie Cafe@ Malacca

2010-03-14T23:29:00.014+08:00

A trip to Malacca always focus on foods like 'satay celup' and 'chicken rice ball'. I am not excluded as well, until after I was taken to this cafe. With its blue sign( that was all i remembered, not the name, but the colour), Nadeje was actually quite famous among Malacca locals.

Actually, i still can't get the name pronounced correctly yet. As i can never remember addresses, I guess a pic on the name card will do.

Enough for introduction lets get to the main course. Nadeje is actually a cosy cafe specializing in selling only one type of cake, the mille crêpe. Mille crêpe is actually a type of French layer cake, which is thinly layered crust from eggs and creams(a layer of crust and a layer of cream). And it would be a bad idea to have the cake as take-away, as the texture will change if the cake was not kept refrigerated or cold enough.

the original mille crepes

A piece of green-tea mille crepes

Other than finding this idea of cake making refreshing, I do like the soft texture of the crepes a lot as well. Its like eating a mixture of ice-cream cakes with a slight taste of eggs( what else could you expect when it was layered with creams and egg crust?). But the taste of the cake was just nice( not too sweet and not too heavy). A piece of this crepes cost around RM6-7 a piece(as costly as cakes from Secret Recipe, but the texture are considerably much better). They also offer a variety of flavors, such as chocolates, strawberry, mocha and rum & raisins, just to name a few.

Not only the cakes, but other desserts are very tempting as well. They even prepare a glove-like cover for the pot to keep the tea warm. As this place is kinda famous, its not suprising to find the cafe crowded during tea-time around 3-4pm. Its definitely a must try for those visiting Malacca.

P.S: dear admin, hope that I am not doing too bad for my first post *smile*.

Little Tree @ Kuchai Lama

2010-03-04T21:48:00.005+08:00

This is totally outdated post!!!

Little Tree juice bar is located at the new business center in Kuchai Lama. The landmark would be CIMB bank which is located just opposite of Little Tree. One can easily identify the cafe as the signboard was so GREEN!!!

During our visit there is one promotion whereby one can order selected food at the price of RM 2.99 with a criteria that the customer are to choose drink from certain category. It was actually very affortable...There is also lunch set provided...

Here are some of the food...

Nyonya curry mee (RM 2.99 if order selected drinks)

Stir Fried Prawn with oat served with lotus leave rice

Cheezy baked rice with chicken chop

Wild mushroom soup (I hate wild mushroom taste)

Cheese Chicken with fried rice

Watermelon plus orange booster..

Overall food quality and taste : 4 stars...
Price : 4 stars
Ambience : 4 stars (seperate smoking and non smoking, wifi, dimp light at selected area}

Happy Chinese New Year

2010-02-12T21:52:00.004+08:00

HarKau SiewMai wish all readers Gong Xi Fa Cai,

May the year of Tiger bring luck, fortune, wealth, health and happiness to you and your family.

Happy Chinese New Year

~~~Say No to TIGER skin and TIGER meat~~~

CNY lucky food

2010-02-04T21:39:00.001+08:00

Ever heard of people complaining that they gain weight a lot during Chinese New Year?

Well, why not? the whole 15 days is full of eat and eat and eat....drink, drink and drink....

Remember traditionally people used to cook for whole day just for the reunion dinner? Nowadays most people no longer do that and simply have a good 8 course meal in restaurant or go for steamboat. Well, for me, my mom will still cook the traditional Teochew and mixed Hokkien food to usher Chinese New Year. Anyway, let us see what do certain food mean in Chinese New Year whether it was serve as food or an offering to the goddess.

Mandarin Oranges = Gold (Kam)
Nian Gou/Sticky Cake = Growing perfectly (Poo Poo Kau Shen)
Pineapple = Inviting good fortune (Ong Lai Ong Lai)
Apple = Harmony and Safe (Peng Peng Ann Ann)

Fish = Plentiful of wealth (Nian Nian You Tu)
Prawn = Happiness (hee hee haa haa)
Steamboat / Dumpling / Rice Flour ball = Tuan Yuan

Osyter = Good things (Ho Sie)
Fatt Choi = Good Wealth
Low Sang / Yee Sang - Life of fullness
Yam Basket = Abundance / Plentiful fortune
Fish Maw / Pig Stomach = Place to keep money
Abalone = Luxury
Choi Sam = Wealth
Poon Choi / Fortune Pot = Choices, Abundance, Wealth

Strawberry Field @ PJ uptown

2010-02-03T20:40:00.005+08:00

This is another long overdue posting...

During Christmas eve last year, I decided to have a simple dinner together with Nick, George, Yap, CL and YT. As we are all auditing at different area I decided to gather at the middle point which would be around PJ town. Bored about Jaya 1 and SS2, I decided to try out some new food in PJ uptown...

I search online and saw some recommendation for a cafe name Strawberry Field, located in PJ uptown just a step walk from Menara MPPJ...

YT and CL order the Christmas set which come with a spagetti, brownies, soup and drinks. As both of them arrive early, they have almost finish their meal when I am there together with George. Before I even have my seat, YT shake his hand indicating the food wasn't up to his expectation.

The spagetti is not good at all. No taste of cheese at all and it seem like a fried noodle in 'tai chow' stall...The brownies is actually chocolate moist cake topped with ice- cream and chocolate

I settle down and decided to have meal here while deciding where to go for second round later. I order grilled fish with lemon sauce while fook weng order his seafood platter. Again the food was so so only. The lemon sauce seem to be done in Chinese style. The seafood platter is just like sotong goreng and udang goreng at nasi kandar stall...

Ken Yap arrive later and order his steak. He say is quite tender but the sauce do not have the 'kick' to make the steak taste good....

Nick arrive the last and after we warn him about the quality of western food, he decided to go for asian food. He order tom yam fried noodles and it was proven that asian food taste much much better here.....The tom yam paste is really a kick off....Spicy, Sour, Salty....just nice for the fried noodles.

Quality and taste wise it was not good and not up to my expectation but for the ambience and price I would say it was reasonable. Just have a look at my honey lemon....They chunck the whole lemon in it and not nicely sliced it.....Sweat!!!

Shanghai 10 @ Genting

2010-01-18T21:02:00.004+08:00

Everytime I go to Genting, I found our the food there tasteless and not worth the money. Thus I always opt for fastfood there.

This time around, I saw a new restaurant in the middle of Genting Times Square name Shanghai 10. Thus we try it out.

Lets make it quick and as summarize as possible

Fried bean curb skin...Normal taste...How good if there is sweet sauce to accompany this starter

Xiao Long Pau....Taste wise is just mediocre but the thin layer of skin is strong enough to ensure the soup is not leak out. Well, you know there is a lot of dissapointment when eat Xiao Long Pau at outside stall....But I still think Dragon-i Xiao Long Pau is the best...

3 type of La Mien (crab roe, duck, and normal)

Come with side dish of braised peanut, jellyfish and cucumber

Snow Jelly Drink

Avocado paste dim sum - Sweet in the inside bland on the outside

Sugarcane drink - Sweet and refreshing but too pricy for the small portion

Mango Sago Lo Lo - As cold as Genting....hehe

Restaurant Clan

2010-01-13T20:47:00.005+08:00

Everytime I pass by Sri Petaling, my friend will tell me that Sri Petaling is famous for dim sum. When I ask him what is nice, he will just keep silent. After some research in few famous food blog, I decided to drop by at Restaurant Clan with 'Piggy J' and 'Cili Padi' after our tiring trip to Genting. ~~Actually Piggy J wanted dim sum since he missed dim sum in Genting~~

Restaurant Clan is famous for some reason. One of it is due to its Kai Wo Pau (Chicken Nest Bun). No all dim sum place in KL or PJ serve this in their menu and thus it was a must to order food here.

Kai Wo Pau is actually Pau filled with Lo Mai Kai (Chicken Glutinous Rice). Just imagine an hot Lo Mai Kai been inside the fluffy Pau pastry. The glutinous rice is very soft and aromatic. A good aroma of 'hua tiau' wine can be smell as soon as the waiter serve the Kai Wo Pau onto our table. The filling include chicken, button mushroom, glutionous rice, char siew and most importantly the salted egg york. So sinful but very very delicious. The fluffy bun absorb the gravy from all the ingredient....Thumb up...

We also order other dim sum such as Chee Chong Fun, Harkau, Siewmai, Lalamai, beancurb skin roll and peithanmai (century egg dimsum). The Chee Chong Fun with char siew turn up to be thick and warm. I will prefer it to be serve hot. Same goes to Harkau as the skin have harden and do not taste as nice as it suppose to be. Other dim sum is 'so so' and nothing to shout about.

Conclusion, I would prefer if all the dim sum been served hot as it would taste nicer. The price is average but there is much room for improvement in term of the dim sum. Service is good but not so friendly as they seem as if they wanted to chase away the customer after eating to let other customer to occupied the table.

One advice for people who wanted to go there....Please go early as there is limited parking and the table is usually full during weekend.

Ma Lat Lou Kitchen - Episode 2

2010-01-09T12:13:00.005+08:00

Being a bachelor, I am use to live in a lonely world. Sometime I get lazy to even go out to 'ta pao' for lunch.

Well, is lunch time and there is nothing much available. I prefer not to cook Maggi Mee either thus I explore what I have in the freezer and try to cook whatever I have.

Well, I have some leftover mince meat, vegetable, lotsa sausages, egg and some prawn....Quite a good ingredient for fried mee or mee hoon. I explore the dry kitchen to see any mee hoon available in the cabinet. Yes....there is...

Guys, this is my ma lat lou way of cooking fried mee hoon.

Ingredient:

Mince Pork
2 sausages
2 eggs
Some green vege
mee hoon
garlic
prawn
some salt and pepper
soy sauce
corn flour

Steps:

1. Soak the mee hoon and vege in some plain water
2. De-freeze the sausage and prawn
3. Marinate the mince pork with soy sauce, pepper and corn flour
4. Heat the wok and fry the egg. Then fry the sliced sausages

5. Take both egg and sausages out and fry the mince pork with garlic for 2 minutes

6. Put in the prawn and put some water to boil it
7. Add in the mee hoon and put some salt and pepper for flavoring. You may add thick soy sauce to blacken it
8. Here come the difficult part...Fry the mee hoon with big fire....haha..

9. Add in the fry egg and sliced sausages....
10. Enjoy....

oh...dun forget to switch on the filter fan to suck out all the smoke....else u have difficulty cleaning up your kitchen....wahahaha

Monte's Restaurant & Wine Bar @ Klang

2010-01-07T21:00:00.010+08:00

Few days back, my department have a farewell party for one of the longest surviving colleague that manage to sail through the high and low of my department. Well, to survive in our department is not an easy task but on the same time quite fun to have crazy colleague in difficult time. Conclusion, all of us manage to sail through the worst time of all.

To send off this cute little gal who is flying off to US very soon, we decided to go to Monte’s after some push by one of my colleague.

Monte’s originated from Bangsar and has one branch in Klang. Not much people know about this branch. My colleague told me that they serve same menu but with different price…Hope she didn’t conned me on that information…I try to Google© the restaurant name but 99% of it was related to Bangsar Shopping Complex. I bet the Klang branch wasn’t that famous after all.

Well, we order quite a lot of food. Let have the list rolled:

Mushroom Soup
It was very yummy and creamy. Just perfect with the toasted French loaf.

2 sets of Pumpkin Soup (come with my lunch set)

The texture of the soup was quite well done but I regretted that the chef have over salted the soup

Simply Grilled Fish
The name simply grilled is quite funny as most of us is trying to make fun of the name and guessing how badly would the grilled fish came out. Thank god it come out ‘simple and nice’. The chips was big, and the dory fish was fresh and cook to perfection. I love the salad too...

4 sets of garlic butter grilled fish
I have to say that the garlic butter grilled fish came out the same as my simply grilled fish except it was topped with garlic butter sauce. I could smell the sauce from a far but my colleague commented that the taste is as par as Manhattans Fish Market.

Prawn and Fish Combo
Another staff, a prawn lover chooses the Prawn and Fish Combo. The fish was tender and juicy but the prawn was just OK. Nothing to shout about.

Grilled lamb
I believe it was so so since my food taster didn't say anything after her meal. But she was quite satisfied after all

Grilled chicken..
Erm...I believe it was tasty...Well, why not you try it out?

2 set of Mixed Grill
The portion of mixed grill was quite small compare to other restaurant but it was just good for one person. Serve with grill lamb, chicken, sausages, egg and side dish of chip and boiled vegetable

Mixed Nachos
Look delicious but I didn't try it as I was quite full...

Total burn for the session is RM255.30. Considering meal for 9 persons, I would say it was worth every single cent we spent. The pricing is reasonable and serving portion is also quite generous. Ambiance was OK but I believe the one in Bangsar Shopping Complex could offer a better atmosphere.

Ampang Homeland Yong Tau Fu @ USJ Taipan

2010-01-03T22:34:00.006+08:00

Well, if you ask me what my first meal was in 2010, my answer is Yong Tau Fu....My favorite food of all...

I stop by at USJ Taipan after almost 20 hours of self famine....Well, I was actually on the way to pick Piggy J and 'cili padi' to Genting and we decided to stop by for a quick lunch a.k.a. tea time.

We decided to settle down at Ampang Homeland Yong Tau Fu at 4.30pm which really tell us why the whole shop is quite empty. Only 3 tables is occupied and plenty of table is left empty.

Piggy J decided to go for Set A, Meal for 3-4 person that cost RM 47.00

The set come with:
10 pieces of Yong Tau Fu (to be selected by customer)
5 pieces of fried dumplings
5 soupy dumplings
2 Assam Fish
4 pandan chicken wings
And medium green vege to balance up the diet.

Well, for Yong Tau Fu, we settle down with one stuffed chilli, 2 stuffed lady finger, 3 fried bean curb, 3 fried 'yau tiou', and one fried stuffed tau fu pok.
The Yong Tau Fu is ok but cannot compete with the original tasty Yong Tau Fu in Ampang or Puchong.

The fried dumpling and soupy dumpling is nothing to shout about. The soup was plain and bland. There are rooms for improvement for the soupy dumpling.

The Assam Fish tastes more like Tomato sauce fish. I was expecting something spicier and sour but it turn out to be sweet!! It would be nicer if the fish is hot rather than warm…Well, more chilli and lime is what I hope they can do!!

Pandan Chicken Wing is delicious. It was well marinated and the aroma of pandan leave leave a kick into this dishes. However, the serving for the chicken wing was a little too cold for my enjoyment. It would be nice if it was just out from the wok.

The lettuce was fresh, crunchy and sweet. Well, it was perfect dish to cool down the over heated fried food.

Overall, the food was nice and reasonable priced. There are a lot of choices of yong tau fu to choose from. The only setback is the food is rather cold and not as tasty as the original ampang yong tau fu!!!

SourPuss Café @ Esplanade

2010-01-01T16:46:00.006+08:00

On behalf of HarKau SiewMai, wishing all readers a very HaPPy NeW YeAr, Best Wishes, Good Health and Incredible Success for 2010!

4 hours before the arrival of 2010, managed to drop by Esplanade, Singapore for dinner. Esplanade is something like “2 durians “located along Marina Bay, close to the Singapore River. Inside the durians comprised of concert halls and theatres for art performance. In short it’s a theatre on the bay.

After exploring a while ended up in SourPuss Café. The cafe seems small inside, yet they have varieties of food ranging from western burgers, pasta to satay and ikan bakars. The mushroom chicken pasta seems ordinary nothing special, but the marinara pasta seems superb. Marinara pasta is seafood pasta filled with prawns. Don’t really have a picture of it, but the aroma and display of the marinara pasta were terrific.

Other than that, the ikan bakar sambal was equally good as well. The portion of ikan bakar was big and fresh. On top of that the sambal tastes delicious, sweet and spicy. So, if you cant take hot and spicy, yet wanting to try this. Remember to inform that you want it to be less spicy.

The place is nice for chillout, in normal days it should be quiet and peaceful. Nearby the cafe there is a perfect view to river side. Average spending per person is about SGD 13-15. It locates at 1st floor of Esplanade Mall... The speed of food serving is slow may be it was full house that day. Overall, great.

Jing Xuan Hong Kong Dim Sum Damansara Jaya

2009-12-30T21:32:00.004+08:00

Well, this photo have been in my harddisk for sometime and I hardly have time to blog about it.

Few months back, I decided to go Genting to have some gamble and thus I meet up with one of my friend who is on the way to Genting to snap some photo for competition. Before we depart we decided to have early dim sum in Damansara Jaya.

Rather than opt to the conventional Hong Kee Dim Sum, we decided to have a try on Jing Xuan Hong Kong Dim Sum. Well, the crowd was quite reasonable as it was an public holiday when I visited the shop. It wasn't as crowded as Hong Kee Dim Sum.

Well, patron have to order the dim sum based on the menu given before they steam it. However there is also some waiter walking around with trays of dim sum for us to pick.

Well, this is what we order for 2 person.

Pan Fried Gua Zhi, Fried carrot cake, Fried yam (Wu Gok)

HarKau

SiewMai

Beancurb skin roll

Pau, Porridge and Char Siew Pau (photo in friend camera)

Review : The dim sum standard is as good as Hong Kee Dim Sum. The dim sum size is quite big and very easy to feel full... Less oily compare to others dim sum shop. Personally i like their Siew Mai the most because it was really compact, tender and springy...The taste of the Siew Mai is also very unique and I like it. The pan fried dumpling (Guo Zhi) taste a bit bland but very juicy inside. Beware when you eat this because the filling inside the thin skin is super duper hot...and the juicy meat can easily burn your tongue....Well, I kena slight burn because too 'tam chiak'....

Conclusion, it was worth the money you spent and Jing Xuan and Hong Kee is at par in term of their service, pricing and food quality

Happy Winter Solstice

2009-12-21T20:49:00.003+08:00

Dear Reader,

We would like to wish all reader a happy and warm Winter Solstice which will be celebrated tomorrow. "Tang Tang Yuan Yuan". Have a great time with family

We would also wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year....Hope you have great holiday and enjoy the few remaining days in 2009 and everyone will have a great year ahead....

Sincerely from:
Harkausiewmai team...

Ajitei Japanese Cuisine @ Plaza Singapore

2009-12-20T09:56:00.014+08:00

Hoho Merry Chrismas... Everyone is in holiday mood...
After a busy week... It's time to treat myself with a great meal...
I was told to meet up at "Wei Jing" (in Mandarin) in Plaza Singapura. I was thinking it probably will be serving us with Ajinomotos... After exploring around for the location, I realised that I got the name wrong it was known as "Wei Ting" ... lol...

Instead of getting ramen, we added some twist by ordering a pattaya, cheese baked rice and curry. But first presenting to you Gyoza Wafu, 5 pieces of very hot "jiazi"... wahaha... Nothing very special.
Then comes the Mr salmon (Grill Salmon Fin). The display was interesting with the head and fin. It seems as if the fish was grilled when it was diving into the Atlantic ocean... The fish was kind of fresh and it is crunchy... Pretty nice for a fish head lover...
Then comes the pattaya. To me it really looks like nasi pattaya or omurice. But actually there's no rice in it. Hiding inside the net of mayonnaise, BBQ sauce and fried eggs was my favour, slices of cabbage. If you are vege lover, an equation of vege+mayonnaise+fried eggs = the feeling of salad...haha

Finally comes the Yaki Seafood. It seems like cheese baked rice, but on top of it there is mix of curry in the rice. It is not very spicy and it tastes very nice together with the cheese and prawns. Best of all, it is quite reasonable at the price of $6.80. If you dont want seafood, can try out Yaki Chicken which is a dollar cheaper with chickens.

Overall, we enjoy our meal. the environment is quite so pretty awesome to chat. Average per person spending is $13. Other than these, they also have varieties of dessert as well, and rumours said it's not bad.

Mojo signing off harkau siewmai's expedition.

Ma Lat Lou Kitchen - Episode 1

2009-12-19T11:27:00.006+08:00

Hi guys....

Since I am sick and I have nothing much to do, I am thinking of teaching everyone how to cook using the Ma Lat Lou Style (Single Guy Kitchen).

Every time when we fall sick, our mom will cook us porridge which is tasteless and boring. Today I am going to teach you how to make porridge taste yummy but healthy too.

Today menu is : Century Pork Porridge. I just cook it few minutes ago so I better upload it before I lose my blogging mood.

Ingredient:
Plain Rice
Water
Mince Pork
China Salted Vegetable
Carrot
Century Egg
Salt and pepper
Soy Sauce
Fried shallot and spring onion for garnishing

1. Firstly, boil the plain rice with 1.2 litre of water. Let it boil for 7 minutes

2. Chop the carrot and chunk it into the boiling hot porridge
3. If you want a soupy porridge do not stir it, but if u like porridge that is thick and sticky just like what i love, keep on stirring after you put in the carrot.
4. Marinate the pork with soy sauce and pepper.
5. After about 5 minutes and the porridge is almost cook, put in the mince pork.

6. Soak the China Salted Vegetable for few minutes to wash away any sand or dirt
7. Chunk in the salted vegetable
8. Slice the century egg
9. After about 15 minutes of cooking, slower the fire and put in the slice century egg
10. Cook it for another 3 minutes and add in salt and pepper for flavoring. Remember eat less salt...
11. You can enjoy your porridge with garnishing of fried shallot and spring onion if you want.

Here is the nice and healthy porridge with no oil added. Enjoy

Eat-zy Teowchew Porridge & Rice

2009-12-18T11:25:00.004+08:00

It was a sin for us not to update the blog for such a long time....Sorry for those loyal reader for such a long wait....All the blogger is busy with their exam that ended on Wednesday....So i guess, let put an end to the sleeping blog...

I am sick this few days and have been eating porridge for the pass few days....

That remind me of my porridge experience in Eat-zy Teowchew Porridge at Jalan SS14/2. Teowchew Porridge is a plain porridge eaten with some side dishes which is normally salty in nature...

Famous side dish will be salted egg, salted vege, salted fish, and fried egg with 'choi po' (salted white carrot)

Last month when I first visited Eat-zy Teowchew Porridge, I was make known that they serve one of the best teowchew porridge in the town...They have variety of porridge ranging from plain porridge, taro porridge, sweet potato porridge and unpolished rice porridge.

I order plain rice (because i feel hungry very fast if eat porridge) and 3 side dishes. I have the bean curd with mince pork, salted vegetable (Szechuan vegetable) and pork patty with salted fish...

Beside that they also offer other side dish that I do not oder such as steam fish, variety of green vegetable, preserve vegetable, braised egg, braised pig intestine, and the list go on...

So if you are in SS14, why not you stop by and have a try....

Sorry for the blur picture but you can check out other blogger for the same recommendation www.foodstreet.com.my

3 hooligans @ Out of Africa

2009-11-22T23:13:00.016+08:00

One fine Saturday evening, 3 hooligans ventured to Petaling Jaya to search for wild & exotic food...

Lo and behold....

Here is where we satisfied our EXOTIC tastebuds...

Vegetarians will not like to hear this...

We managed to hunt down a few tasty meat!!

*Tada!!

Baked Cheese Ostrich

This dish was a dissapointment as the cheese did not go well with the ostrich meat. Too much batter was used to fry the fillet. The meat tasted quite bland. Maybe the ostrich did too much exercise...Or maybe we Malaysians are more familiar with KFC...*slurpp

On the plus side, the mash potatoes tasted GOOD! =P

Next...

Grilled Seafood Platter

Ahh..looks like something from the Manhattan's Fish Market right?

You know what?? They really do taste better @ Manhattan's Fish Market ...

Probably due to the reason that they do not have much seafood in Africa.

It was not bad. The seafood were very fresh. As you can see, 3 mussels, 3 prawns, we could evenly divide the portion for 3 persons.

It also came with side dishes (as seen in the picture below)

CHIPS!!! (My favourite!!)

And of course the boiled carrots rich in beta-carotene & the green vege cooked African-style which tasted like...vege..of course..*Grins

Now, the BEST meat of the night...

Zuri Duck *Yummy

Voted as Best tasting meat of the night by all 3 of us!! But the selection of RICE as the side dish was really OUT la!!! I personally insisted on CHIPS!! But...but...I had no one to support my vote :( 2:1 for rice...Gosh..

Anyway, meat-lovers should really try this dish! Not only was the meat tender and juicy, but the grapes gave it a very UNIQUE taste!!! We all loved this!!!

Last but not least...

We decided to add one more order as our appetite for exotic meat was not quite satisfied.

And here we got our SURPRISE!!!

Venison Pie

We waited quite a while for this dish as it was a last minute decision. But the wait was well worth it!!

Look at it!! It not only looked good and smelled good!! Take note of the detailed sides of the crust and how the effort was taken to shape the crust and not just leave it plain...

Let's take a peep inside...

Would you just look at that??!!

The smell was heavenly!!!

The gravy in there tasted so wonderful with the CHIPS!!!

The venison meat in there was tender, juicy, and cooked just nice!!!

The crust, as you can see, is not too thick that it totally kills your appetite, but baked to perfection...

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Ooohhh hmmm....We 3 hooligans were satisfied tonight....

Definitely worth a try!!!

Especially when this quaint little place has been in existence for many years already.

There must be more good food we did not get a chance to taste on the menu.

There was an alchoholic drink by the name of "White Elephant" (something like that) which none of us dared to try!! Just in case it got out of hand...*Wink

Snowflake

2009-10-26T21:03:00.003+08:00

Few week back, after a long night of class, we decided to stop by at Snoflake, a taiwanese dessert shop situated just opposite of Asia Cafe. It was same row as Baker Cottage but you have to pay attention on the signboard on 1st floor instead.

One just need to queue up, order and take the UFO and proceed to find a seat....

Yes, UFO....I am not joking!

The high tech beeping UFO is actually a device to show that your order is ready....One can find a seat and start chit chatting with friend and when the UFO beep and vibrate, it mean it is time to collect the dessert that have been ordered earlier.

So we decided to have Grass Jelly Ice with green bean and lotus seed. We also have the grass jelly with yam ball...both is priced at RM 4.90...

Other specialy include the famous Hot Soya Bean with 'Yau Tiao' or in other word is 'Yau Char Kwai'...

Big Reminder: The serving portion is large so if you have small tummy, you can share...

MOS Burger@ everywhere* yet not in Malaysia**

2009-10-23T21:51:00.007+08:00

Presenting to you.....
MOS BURGER.... aka MOSt delicious BUGGER... ok I made up myself...
Now where is the burger? where's the food?

Well, I'm not that cheap for not investing any money for Harkau Siewmai...But this what I get after ordering.
1 drink , 2 small buckets and 3 8. I suppose they ask me to wait? ok, so we wait then? by the way what is the 2 small buckets? While waiting for the food, let check out what's it...
Written "coffee fresh", "better half"... WTH is MILK!!! Burger plus milk?

You can try, but I putting it into my drink. Oh forget to mention I am having Ice Milk Tea... Oh yeah, this is the time where looking how the milk and tea get together, while waiting for the burger. If u had another cup u can speed up the fusion process, by making the well known "teh tarik....."

Ok, the lady came with a basket of food and taken away the 38. Foods checked....
French fries bigger than the Mc Donalds.
The next moment will be the "MOS burger Unwrap" This is the moment we long waited for....

1st of all the MOS Cheeseburger,Beef, $3.55, energy level 405.6kcal, total fat 20.7g, cholesterol 33.8mg, carbohydrate 38.4mg, sodium 1016.8mg and potassium 584.9mg.

Next my favourite, TERIYAKI CHICKEN BURGER, $3.35,
energy 427.6kcal, total fat 27.1g, cholesterol 107.8mg, carbohydrate 4.8mg, sodium 1088.6mg,potassium 351.8mg. This is nice, cause the teriyaki chicken was good. 5 stars....

Total energy restored 833.2kcal...

Compare to Mc, it's kind of different, I like the cold milk tea and the teriyaki chicken. Cause the drink was refreshing and the chicken was kind of juicy and tasty... Dont think we had it in Malaysia....

The END.....

*Many outlets in Singapore, the one I went is at 252 North Bridge Road #B1-38 Raffles City Shopping Centre 179103. Close to City Hall MRT Station.

**I'm not very sure whether there is or not at the moment, but heard that previously we had it in KLCC, but somehow close down

Nice food...Would you eat?

2009-10-16T21:11:00.014+08:00

If this is the best food in the world due to its freshness...Would you eat?

* Disclaimer* Video below might be too extreme for someone....If you have a weak heart, please don't watch....if you are eating your KFC, i suggest you put down your chicken first!!! Hehehe....

Food vs Animal Cruelty!!! You decide!!!

For me, definately a big NO

Village Restaurant(家乡小馆）@Rawang

2009-10-16T15:25:00.009+08:00

It was quite some time that I did not update this food blog. Sorry about that. I am currently auditing a manufacturing company at Rawang and we did go out search for nice food at Rawang area. Last Wednesday, 3 auditors including me went to try the "Winter Melon Soup"(冬瓜盅）and other food at Village Restaurant.

The highlight of course is this:

"Winter Melon Soup"

The "ingredients" of this soup include pork, mushroom, dried scallop, etc. This was my first time to try winter melon soup and 3 of us totally agreed that it was fantastic and very delicious. This is medium size which cost RM20 and large size would cost RM25. This winter melon has the power of keeping warm the soup as well. After half an hour finish another two dishes, the soup was still very hot.

"Smoked Chicken" This cost us RM20 as well per plate. The smoked taste is quite heavy and it was surely not as delicious as winter melon soup.

"Potato Leaf" This cost us only RM6 (so cheap right?). It is very tasty and all of us like it very much.

"Chilli with Ginger" We needed this chilli to cover the heavy taste of the smoked chicken!!!

The address of the restaurant:
No.15-16, Block B, Gerai M.P.S Rawang,
Rawang, Selangor 48000

This restaurant is near to the popular "Lan Je Steamed Tilapia" restaurant. I have yet to try and hope to go before we ended our fieldwork at Rawang!!!

Result: 7/10 (Marks reduced to its distance and not a good environment as it is near to roads but it's really worth a try if you are nearby)

Seri Melur, Setia Alam

2009-10-10T11:44:00.004+08:00

I have been working in Setia Alam for almost a year and I have yet to blog any food in Setia Alam.

Restaurant Sri Melur, is famous for its spicy nasi kandar which a lot of variety of food. I always eat Briyani with curry chicken or mutton. It was extremely nice. As it is very impolite for me to snap photo especially dining with my manager or boss, thus, there is not much photo of food snap in Setia Alam.

However, a search on my photo folder reveal one photo that I can use for blogging purpose. The photo below show a Roti Tisu of at least a metre long. Yes, A metre long!!!

It was cruncy, sweet and very oily. We took about 20 minutes for 4 person to finish the roti tisu....and by the end of our lunch, our finger are greasy and sticky...Thanks to lotsa planta, sugar and condensed milk...

One reminder: Don't seat outsite or near the fan if you order the roti tisu as the strong wind will blow the roti tisu away!!!

Happy Mid Autumn Festival

2009-10-02T22:29:00.002+08:00

To all Harkausiewmai.blogspot reader, we would like to wish all of you Happy Mid Autumn Festival.

May the round moon unite you and your family.....
May the full moon give you enlightement....
May the brightness of the moon lead you to a good future....

Happy Mooncake Festival!!
!

Haagen Dazs Ice Cream

2009-09-26T13:15:00.007+08:00

It was a hot season again and cold food is dancing in my mind now....ABC, cendol, ice cream and etc.

Talking about ice cream, I love ice cream expecially Haagan Daaz ice cream. Being born in average income family, Haagan Daaz Ice cream is a superior food for me. There is only rare ocassion where I will step into Haagen Daz shop to twist my taste bud with the sensational cold ice cream that meld on your tongue.

Among the parade of ice cream they offer, i personnally fall in love with Mango Sorbet, The Five passionfruit, rum raisin and chocolate. I still can't find the pineapple coconut flavor which I believe I will like it so much.....

No doubt Haagen Daaz Ice Cream is the best ice cream I ever tasted!!