Monday, June 6, 2011

..kuchai ??

...had a meetup with my uncles, aunt & cousin yesterday and we went for a light meal at this place some where in kuchai lama.. totally recommended by me cousin..amazing place this "new" kuchai lama area, the whole place's just bursting with new restaurants, cafes and eateries and combined with the old ones that are still standing, this area's turning into a foodie's paradise...my last visit to kuchai lama a few years back gave me the impression that it was sort of an abandoned suburban area left behind by everyone and that it had seen better days a long long time ago...

anyway, like i said in my earlier post, i think everyone's just really jumping into the food business.. sometimes, when one's lucky, there's a bull's eye hit, some times, a complete miss altogether, an off-tangent kinda food & place...

but this place that my cousin brought us to, almost hit the bull in the eye.. almost that is if not for the hard sell by the waiter to get us to order bigger portions of food, which was not really that necessary actually...




simple fried sui-kow..nice crispy, freshly made, with minced meat on the insides that dont smell or make you feel like you're tasting the previous week's food..nice, i like it..







not sure about this dish but i think it's yau-cha kwai filled with duck meat plus some veges..i'm not really one to appreciate duck meat, so it was kinda just another appetizer to me.. the mayonaise on the top was a bit too heavy though..





now..this was the purpose for our visit..their hong kong style wan tan mee..the noodles are apparently imported from hkg..!! and i have to say, there's a certain special springiness to it.. with simple light soya kon-lou sauce that lets you taste the freshness of the noodles rather than the saltiness of the dark sauce used locally or the crafty use of char-siew and chee-yoke char to make up for any lack of flavor.. i remember eating just such noodles a long2 time ago on a budget trip to hong kong in search of work.. and i remember thinking how nice it tasted then.. as it did yesterday...



and this one just brought back those memories with one single swallow..

this is the spicy version.. lightly spicy and doesnt overwhelm the natural taste of the noodles at all.. nice..very nice..





so i have to say.. this one is good. a nice little place called "yummy duck" that serves really yummy hong kong style wan tan noodles.. i would go back there again, hopefully soon and that is if i can find my way there on my own.. hehe

Sunday, June 5, 2011

me so bloated..


..after eating these fabulously fantastic food served..

was taken to this restaurant located smacked right in the middle of a malay kampong area, somewhere in cheras yesterday. i wasnt really keen on having a heavy dinner as i was still feeling a bit full from my lunch earlier..but i got convinced and was told that i would not regret it..



anyhoo..as we approached the restaurant, i could see that people were queueing up waiting for tables outside and the restaurant was just over-flowing with busy & noisy eaters inside..had to wait about 1/2 hour before our dishes arrived..



first up was this vegetable dish that was wrongly ordered..errmm..ok, nothing special except the combination of supposedly crispy seaweed with gently stir-fried choy-sum was rather unique..and could have been fabulous if done correctly as in if the seaweed part were to be more finely shredded..






next up was this special fried rice just over-flowing with ebikko (fish roe)..look at that !! wow..very special indeed. first time i see such an ingenuous presentation. the taste was fishily nice too..hehe and it seemed like every table in that restaurant was having this dish too..






then came my favorite dish..butter fried, but this one using soft shell crab !! just the yummiest soft shell crab i have ever tasted. no need peeling, breaking shells..just plonk them inside the mouth and taste the juicy crab goodness with the crispy egg/coconut bits that kinda just melt in your mouth..







Oooo..just look at that creamy & colourful indonesian curried prawns..hmmm, taste is absolutely wonderful if man-tou (pic below) is used to dip in the sauce, otherwise, on its own can be a bit overwhelming..








freshly baked/fried man-tou. can be eaten on its own too..quite tasty i must say..crispy on the outside, soft on the inside..





i think my cholesterol level must have shot up through the roof after that meal..i certainly felt real bloated, but satisfyingly bloated...haha.. and can you believe RM 85.20 for all the above !!??.. definitely worth the money this one..

i will be going back there to try out other dishes in the near future..and if you decide to check out this place, rest assured you wont be disappointed..


Thursday, June 2, 2011

Surprise... !!!

wheeeeeeeeeeee.....

once in a while, i come across a totally unpretentious place serving absolutely fantastic food and that makes me so happy...hehehe

i was just looking around for a bit of dinner cum supper after work last night and decided to walk into this neighborhood cafe...it's called mr kaya kopitiam, in bukit tinggi, klang..saw like a million and one dishes on the menu and just absent-mindedly pointed at their mee goreng mamak without much expectation.

what eventually appeared before me was totally mouth watering in both appearance and taste !! take a look at the pic below..looks yummy eh?


if only all cafes could serve up nice & simple dishes like this deliciously, people wouldn't have to go around searching for good food..

looks like i will be going back to try out the rest of their million and one dishes frequently to see if it wasn't just a one time lucky flash in the pan ...hehehe








on a subsequent visit, i decided to try something else..

this is their version of penang fried koay teow..not quite like penang ckt at all but very tasty nevertheless..










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