wahlao eh !!

..so i was up in genting lo for the malaysia day holiday..like most chinese people, i went gambling lo..hahahahaha (not really true..but we get stereotyped anyway...hehe, just like what i'm gonna tell you about the movie we watched up in genting..)

and the good news is i won RM 800 betting on a single number (18) at a roulette table. my only attempt at a table on the second day and my one and only bet on that day..sekali the number came out, i grabbed my money and walked straight out of the casino..wheeeeeeeeeee...

and of course with that winning, i had to belanja my friends all go makan and watch movie lo..and we decided to go see Nasi Lemak 2.0, a movie directed, co-written, and acted by our "infamous" local boy.. namewee....wahlao eh..i thought i was gonna die laughing from beginning to the end of the movie...granted there were a few scenes i didn't quite get or understand, i just laughed because everyone else was cracking up !! on the whole, it was really really boisterously good.. for a first timer at acting and directing..namewee is talented..

a lot of stereotypes were depicted but in a most hilarious way and i don't think anyone of us was offended in that cinema..i saw a mixture of audience, although the majority number of patrons were malaysian chinese..but everyone laughed like mad throughout the movie..i think we all saw the funny side of "us" in that movie.. :O)

i especially loved the curry neh dancing scene, it was so bollywood but yet the song was sung in chinese..and that part about people hiding behind trees & bushes was really steroetypically hilarious..david arumugam's face alone in that scene really cracked me up..and all the acting was quite natural..not bad really.. everyone should go see it..

and i think the language/dialects that are spoken in the movie is rather original..people actually do talk like that out there.. if we only really stop to listen..and i think if we could all take time out to laugh at ourselves once in a while, this country might just be a happier place for everyone of us..

and so after a good laugh and a happy time in genting, it was back to our normal grind again in KL..

so good....

...it was a long awaited holiday for me over the past one week during the raya holidays..so off i went with some friends to melaka..

it's been a great many years since i last visited that place and much has changed since then..for one, melaka raya area seems a little bit bigger than previously, a lot more busier than previously and the people much much more than previously...

but it was a leisurely trip for the bunch of us..to just play tourists but of course we avoided those obviously touristy sites like a-famosa lah, the stadhuys lah etc..etc.., and instead just went walk2, cari makan, beli-belah...as in curi2 malaysia...and i tell you, i have never seen such a huge underground shopping complex as i saw in the dataran pahlawan under-field complex.. wow..so many shops, so little time, so so tired from the daily walks in air-conditioned comfort...hahahaa..

but for this post, i just wanna tell you about my discovery of this little art cafe in jonker's walk area..i'm pretty sure it's already famous without the need for me to rave about it...anyway, it was the highlight of our visit to melaka..

it was actually a chance walk-in into this cafe coz we were so tired from walking under the noon day heat and we saw this cute little cafe which seemed to be blowing a cool breeze at us as we walked by...so anyway, i just had to say that this was the BEST tasting nyonya melaka laksa that i have ever ever tasted in my life..it was so good, i almost drank all the soup..the color and texture were almost perfect, the taste was exquisite..really..u go try and see and then tell me..




one of us ordered this somewhat normal looking nasi lemak, although it came with yellow rice (? nasi kunyit..) but i took a spoonful and found it rather tasty despite its plain looks..








this samosa & springroll combo was simple & nice too..crispy on the outside, fresh fillings on the inside..






this is what they are famous for actually..coffee !! i had the ice blended local coffee mix..i think..beats SB or CB any time..







...this is the cafe lo..from the outside..








...and this is how it looks on the insides..nice & cosy, a cool atmosphere for the always hot melaka weather !!



so..if you ever thought about making a visit to melaka, this place is good enough a reason for you to make that visit..the place is called calanthe art cafe.. :O)

...on a side note..see these people queuing up to go into the coffee shop ? it's supposedly one of melaka's famous chicken rice balls outlets....hmmm..the weather was too hot for us to join in the silly queue...maybe next time..

it's been so long....

..years really, since i last laid my buds on these fabulous mouth watering delicacies..

i found this place by chance actually while i was going up an escalator with a friend at the pavillion shopping centre yesterday..suddenly, there was this little sign board that screamed out at me.!! come get the best tacos, nachos & other mexican spread - at Popilla !! and then it was a good 10 minutes of frantic, heart palpitating excitement verging on disappointment, searching all over for that outlet at the lower ground food court area...and just when i was about to give up..wah lah !!..like magic, the stall suddenly appeared right in front of me..



this is THE place that brought back memories of a place long gone..almost cried when i saw it..hahahaha (ok..ok..granted this was nowhere near the likeness of Taco Bell, but it was very very close enough...)





ok..well..these fellas dont quite look like mexican amigos but they can sure serve up some really nice mexican feast in a jiffy, like speedy gonzales.. yibba..yibba...andale..!!





and this folks !!..this is the one thing that has been missing from my life for over the last ten years !! i kissed the ground & praised the lord for bringing me my kind of nachos !! just you look at those melted cheddar cheese...wheeeeeeeeeeeelelujah...!!




..and this of course, completed me yesterday..wonderfully crispy taco shell, filled to the brim with spicy minced chicken, laced with an exact amount of sour cream & salsa sauce & loaded with lots of freshly cut tomatoes & crunchy lettuce shreds..all topped up with a hefty sprinkling of grated cheese that just melted in my mouth with every single bite.. uuummmm..yummy.. can you taste it ?


the above plus a drink of pina colada for only rm 12.40..!! unbelievable...

i was in no mood to share with anyone, i had to eat them all, every little bit of it, almost licked the paper wrapper too..at that moment in time, it was just me and my tacos & nachos and nothing else would have mattered... and they were all mine, mine, mine mine...huargghhhh !!

so now..i'm drawing up my next few sunday trips to Popilla to savor their echiladas, burritos..etc..etc..

i podía comer aquí para siempre....

i thought i would..

..give this playground place a visit again since the last time i went there was a bit of a let down..who knows..maybe the chef was in a bad mood that day..haha and anyway, parking spots were plentiful around the cafe lot last night..

i wanted just a light meal as i had not had my dinner yet.. so i ordered the following..


this was appetizer/dessert..haha. it was a supposedly -25C ice floss. i ordered the orange flavored one..it was kinda nice, tasted a bit like ice cream but without the heavy creamy taste, kinda melt-in-the-mouth sweet.. those little pearl-colored balls on the side were nice. they "pop" when you bite into them..like small little eggs..haha




this was my dinner..moonlight fried koay teow..i suppose they called it moonlight was becoz of the raw egg placed on top.. to represent the moon i guess... the taste was sort of bearable but i wish they had not used frozen crab sticks & other frozen processed bits & pieces of seafood. Would have been nice if fresh prawns or squids were used..


well...i guess i would just go back to try other ice floss flavors..

cheap and so good ah..

wow..i just discovered this fabulous eating place..and i think this has to be the ultimate-great-food-at-extreme-value-for-money place so far..

a very unassuming seafood restaurant by the highway..the only giveaway is the huge number of people sitting and some standing & waiting for tables to be emptied..the place was really packed yesterday when i was there, but surprisingly, we managed to get a table, put in our orders, and the food placed on our table in less than 15 minutes..

anyway, i'm gonna just let the pics below speak for themselves..




first up was this vegetable curry..totally rich & yummy, full of coconut milk zest !! and you can have fish-head version, chicken, prawns, crabs or whatever you fancy..








..and of course, i had to have my salted egg ration for the day..hehe..this one cooked with mantis prawn..totally awesome..








next was this stir-fried kai lan..first time in my life i sort of enjoyed munching on kai lan...just tells you how good it is..coz mostly i would prefer softer vegetables like spinach or potato leaves, but some how this one won me over..





finally, the toast of the town !! their signature dish - Oyster Omelette..every table had one i believe!! nicely huge and totally fresh oysters were used. just unbelievable how fresh those oysters were..hmm..maybe they had just scooped them out from a fish tank..hehe. my only gripe..the mild chili sauce wasn't exactly appropriate..maybe something spicier might had added even more oomph to that dish..but then again, even without any chili sauce, on its own, the dish was already absolutely tasty..



...and can you believe, the above 4 dishes with rice and a pot of chinese tea for an incredible price of RM50.20 ??!! i think eating in any fast-food joints for 4 persons would have cost much much more...and if you can't resist the temptation after salivating over the pics above, head on over to: foo chuan seafood restaurant at 2580 persiaran raja muda musa in klang (highway leading to port klang..) right this minute .. wheeeeeeee...

oh..by the way, i hear their crabs are really really good too..!! i'm gonna make sure i try that on my next visit..

it's been a while..

...since i put up anything korean..music, food, etc..etc..

no, i havent lost my love for all things korean or japanese..just that i havent really come across anything that catches my attention so strongly until this..

for someone with his kind of background, it must have taken him massive amounts of determination to live and an unbelievable passion to still pursue this dream of his..

he is such an inspiration to humanity, against all odds really...anyway, do watch and be amazed..





..now imagine if bik could sing well like this, jib would sure win the next round hands-down.. ..nella fantaseeeeeea..satu malayseeeeeeahhhh..lalala lalalala..mega shopping time ahhhhhhhh... lala lala lalaaaaa....

if you are in..

..a jiffy and really2 hungry for some good food..

there's this place in ss2 pj that serves up quite tasty seafood dishes at the speed of lightning..as in, before you can even say..err...can i have some chili padi...the dishes appear on your table already..that's how fast they take your orders, cook and then serve them to you..all under 10 minutes..

i was there with some friends and we had ordered the following and i was thinking that with a large crowd already seated at roughly 20 tables, we were gonna have to wait a while..but just as one waiter brought the plates, spoons & forks, another waiter started putting our dishes on the table..



this one came up first..eeeeww..one big ugly looking fish BUT hey...the flesh was so fresh and sweet, we just had to overlook the face staring back at us and just gorged away at the meat..hehe



next up was this asam prawns that had a bit of curry sauce in it..it was totally fabulous, there must have been like 8 huge prawns in there coz i ate 3 and there were 5 of us and everyone must have had at least one, i think.. :OP




another fantastic dish..soft shell crabs deep fried with salted egg yolk..we actually ordered two plates of this one coz one plate just wasnt enough to satisfy our lust..hahahaha (why ah...anything cooked with salted egg is nice one??)



then came this huge clams fried "kam-heong" style..clams were huge but we found the meat a little bit on the puny side..if only we could have eaten the shells...hmmm





finally, we also had our token plate of vege..must lah, after all those meaty dishes, we need to ingest some fibres to ease our next morning's businesses right?..dont want to make no hard rock chocolate muffins that refuses to get ejected from our ovens no? ...lol lol




all the above including some drinks and unlimited helpings of rice came to about rm 167-00.. considering that we had altogether 6 dishes that fed 5 of us really well, we couldnt complain..the food was good and tasty enough, almost bordering on excellent..

so if you are in the ss2 area, this place is called paris seafood restaurant and it is located on the same road leading to the ss2 mall.. do go early coz the place can get really crowded..then again, at the rate the food gets served, you'd probably wont need to wait too long.. hehehe