..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

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..

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..

ok...no more..!!

..japanese food for now lo..hehe

was walking around sunway pyramid yesterday because i had to satisfy this huge craving for something and then decided to try out this eating place while waiting for my something to be prepared..the place was kinda crowded, so i thought, must be okay one lo.. mana tahu..




err..this was supposed to be squid lo..tasted flat. the breaded crumbs used not so appropriate lo..like eating those locally made frozen fried sotong like that..luckily not taste like rubber lo..







err...another flat tasting dish, chicken fried rice..i always thought japanese fried rice supposed to be extremely tasty one but this one like my coffee shop fella cook one lo..totally no salt, no aroma..haih..








supposed to be ebi tempura but what i tasted was tepung tempura only ..luckily the prawn no boric acid taste..otherwise, epic fail lo..







my friend ordered this chicken teppanyaki but i think i can make nicer teppanyaki. this one was more like salt-free stir-fried taugeh & cabbage only..the teppanyaki outlet at the pavillion food court is still the best lo..





it seems like everyone's getting into the food industry nowadays..hmm, i think i can open up shop also lo like that, going by the quality of food dished out by some people out there....haih..


nevermind, fortunately hor, my excitement yesterday came from elsewhere....right after that meal, i quickly quickly rushed up to get my "something" lo.. wheeeeeeeeeeeee





ladies & gentlemen, i present to you my latest craze..!!

BLACKBERRY Bold 3 (9780) !! hehehehehe.. i was using the BB Curve 3G 9300 model for a few months and kinda liking it more and more each day lo.. and i've been biting my nails anxiously waiting for the BB 9900 to be launched but it seems like that is like taking forever and i've got no more nails left on my fingers ah !!..so i really had to go out there and get this one to tie me over for the time being ..or at least until the dusts are settled on the 9900 lo, it being a new OS7 and yada yada yada..and probably gonna be so so expensive when launched anyway..so it'll probably be like a year or so down the road before i think about getting the 9900 lo.. (hmm..but that's what i said when i bought the 9300 4 months ago ..aiyooo..like so deja vu like that eh? ..hehe)

dont get me wrong though, i still get heaps and heaps of fun with my HTC Incredible S but that one's a totally different ball game lo.. but for twitter, bbm, whatapps, emails, nothing beats my blackberry (for now..)...!! hehehehe..

. Anime no tochi? Iya, kore wa tada no ishō wa...

。アニメの土地？いや、これはただの衣装は... (means i thought i was in anime land but no lah..it was just costume play..)



i thought i went to tropicana city mall yesterday but sekali i walked in, i felt like that i was in japan like that..suddenly all these anime characters were alive and walking around, dancing, prancing here & there...aiyooo eh so cute these people..but i also saw characters like captain jack sparrow (who must have landed his ship in japan by mistake) and the grim reaper and and...aiyoo, i also cannot recall all these other movie characters that got caught up with those japanese characters..it's cool i guess for these kids/adults to indulge in their fantasies..luckily hor they don't actually fly, kick, jump, shoot or kill like what they are capable of in the movies..otherwise, it would be real havoc..hahahaha






























..so after all that excitement, must of course go eat japanese food right...? hehehe..this time around, we ended up in a very very good outlet..Sushi Tei..nice, the nicest japanese food i've had so far..





this is salmon fried i think..did not think fried salmon would be nice..as usually they are used in sashimi..but this one was not bad..not bad at all..











this is crispy ebi mentai mayo..meaning crispy shrimp with salmon roe & mayonaise..so so tasty, the mixture of shrimp & salmon roe was heavenly..almost melt in the mouth kinda feeling...












negitoro maki fried..is like tuna wrapped in seaweed and then fried..ok..not what i liked but only because i don't really like the taste of tuna..












and finally this is ebi & yasai kakiage or shrimp & vegetable tempura..got bits of fresh onions in there..i thought it was rather nice but my friend said this one similar to the mamak style kuih..ya meh?







i had actually wanted to go to chicken king one, but after seeing those cosplay characters, suddenly my tummy felt like having japanese food..but of course, i got walked2 a few times round and round near the chicken king outlet lo..it was so hard but had to restrain myself from going in lo ..kekekeke. next time, i shall "attack" the chicken king outlet like nobody's business...

..i think i can...

open a noodle shop ady...

i bought a small rice cooker for office use yesterday and decided to try it out today..and here's the result..wahhhh...not bad wor..noodles came out just right, the springy texture was there and all done under 10 minutes !! and it's healthier than using the microwave oven..hehehe

i think i can open a noodle shop ady...what you think? :OP

mommy kena pulak..

...hahahaha...kakakakaka..

i had wanted to bring me mom out for a belated mother's day lunch/hi-tea the other day and was wondering where she might want to go eat..then suddenly, some one coincidentally drop off a promotional brochure for a "new" cafe near my office on that day itself... (new as in someone took over an older setup lor..). anyhoo, me and my staff were all going gaga over the foodie pics and thought...hmmm, looks so tasty, let's all go there..

..and of coz, more delicious-looking food pics awaited us at the place as we salivated over their menu, so we just started ordering like nobody's business lo..

and here's what we got..





i could have sworn what i saw on the brochure was a yummy looking bowl of prawn mee (you know, as in har-meen)...this one looked like dead prawns swimming in brown water..tasted like dead prawns swimming in brown water too lo...aiyooo..














this one was their supposedly special vegetable selection..errr..nothing special lo..only edible lo..ok lah, ok lah, at least got taste lo..











another brown looking dish came out...it smelled quite good actually when it was served, and we thought...wah, finally..but then when we took a bite, it tasted like the same dead prawns used in the prawn noodle dish..to be fair, it was very crispy though but had a strong boric acid taste to it..hmmm..maybe it was deep fried "mummified" prawns..but they called it special fried prawns lo..









yet again..another brown colored dish came out..but this one tasted ok actually...it was tau fu broth or was it soup..no, it was broth that had a thick soupy texture to it..aiyah..nvm we slurped it all up anyway, we were that hungry you see..












luckily this one has reds and greens in addition to the brown color..hahahaha and finally we all agreed that this one was actually the best dish of the whole lot..this one is their sweet & sour chicken..(luckily we no ordered the prawn version...kakakaka)






the bill came to rm148 which fed 7 of us..the quantities were rather huge but we were really disappointed with what was served to us..we got conned by beautiful tasty looking food pics again lo..haih..this one epic fail..

then the next day, me mom called to say she got a bad tummy run that morning and wanted to know if we all had the same thing..but no lo..i told her it must have been her vegetarian breakfast that she took earlier that day..otherwise hor..i sure go tell ten thousand of my friends never to go eat there...