Friday, October 28, 2011

found a nicer place..

so....it was my deepavali holiday getaway lo...haha..didn't really go anywhere lah but decided to go stay at a hotel in town..just to get the feel of like going on holiday somewhere like that lo..hehehee

anyway, the next day me and my friends went back to our new food hunting ground in seri petaling, absent-mindedly walked into the same cafe that we had visited the last time..was about to sit down but suddenly felt the urge to try something else instead..and so we did..

i said to my friends..hey, let's all quickly quickly run out before the waiter comes to take our orders..hehe. so, we got up, pretended to all point to something across the street.. and rushed out. we then walked into this dim sum place just a few doors away..there were like quite a number of people in there but we managed to find one table to sit down..the menu was wonderfully illustrated, sending our expectations up..we just pointed here and there and the order was done..food came very quickly in a few minutes and they looked like these..





first up was this shanghai "xiu loong pau" which my friend wanted. i have to say he orders this particular item every single time we all go makan dim sum..haih..don't know what's so special, looked to me like the "pao" went swimming like that....haha..in any case, he said this one wasn't good as compared to that din tai fung place at empire shopping centre (of coz that was before that place kena
explosion..we await eagerly their re-opening)





next up was this deep fried crispy "woo-kok"..(yam..)..very flaky, quite tasty, not oily at all..in other words not bad lo..i wonder how they make the external pastry part..so flaky, so light and crispy, they sort of melt in your hands..hahaha






this is their hong kong style fried carrot cake "lou pak kou".. again not oily, taste was decent & spicy enough but did not have that oomph factor.. would have been nice if they could add a few more drops of oil when cooking it...and oh yes..maybe turn up the fire a little bit more..?






this is "siu mai" with added fish roe on top.. fresh and crunchy prawn pieces on the inside.. maybe if they had put the more colorful ebikko on top, would have perhaps looked more enticing and taste a bit more seafoody...nevertheless, it was fairly decent in taste..still beats a lot of other places..





this one's crispy prawn roll. one word..NICE..again without the oily residue blotting the paper serviette underneath...hmmm, this place must really pride itself on serving really really non-oily dim sum..is it on purpose or just their recipe, i wonder..?? can't complain i suppose, less oil means more healthy lo..blek.. :OP






..and we saved the best for last. this one is fried "foo-chok" or dry bean curd..very very nice.. crispy, tasty and again, when i held it in my fingers i felt no oil stains..wow !! i could eat this everyday...i give this 5 out of 5.. :O)




all the above came out to less than rm50 !! and it included many glasses of warm water and my 3-layered coffee brew (forgot to take a pic of it coz it was so colorful i immediately drank it..)...cool isn't it, to get this kind of pricing at this day and time for six dim sum items..??

would i go this place again? a definite yes..because i saw so many many other dishes on their menu (mouth watering pics really..) that i would love to check out next time.. they got crabs lah, fish lah, of coz prawns and other meats too & vegetable dishes to make for a full course dinner..

Monday, October 3, 2011

two places..

...and more..

so..i was hanging around the seri petaling area yesterday evening and i chanced upon this new section that i've never really noticed before ...wahhhhhh...so many many new eateries there..every shoplot was a cafe or restaurant of some sort..it was approximately a kilometre long from one end to the other..well almost.. and deciding what food to eat was like the most difficult decision i've ever had to make in my life..!!


being a penangite, i had to try out this place called the chopper board cafe. it had the word penang below the cafe name and so i assumed they served penang fare..and of course i ordered the char koay teow. it came out looking like it had all the necessary ingredients for a good plate of ckt.. tastewise, it was quite good, had good wok-hei...but something was missing..?? maybe lard wasnt used for the cooking...and despite my asking for my ckt to be fried with extra chilli, it did not give me a fiery taste and the friendly waiter offering me sambal to add just wasnt quite right..not the way penang ckt is eaten. a friend tried their noodle soup which was deceptively tasty.. i had thought that his noodles came out of a maggi packet but i was wrong..

all in all, it's a good place to have some decent penang hawker fare..i must check out their curry mee and prawn mee next time..

seeing so many cafes in one place got me uncontrollably excited..so i forced my friends to crash another cafe right after..this one i have read about on some foodie blogs..restaurant herbs & spices. the pictures on the walls were just too tempting..i got sucked in by some magnetic force..hehe
i ordered a plate of hainanese chicken chop to be shared..and it was good..the chicken was fresh, and tender on the inside and so so crispy on the outside. i didnt need the accompanying sauce to enjoy it.. it was so good..but i was too full to finish it or to even think about ordering any other dishes..next time will go try this place again..

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