Restoran Kepala Ikan Chan Sow Lin @ Chan Sow Lin
When my relatives dropped by from Ipoh for a visit, we decided to go for some nice meal and one of the place we’ve been wanting to go to was the Curry Fish head restaurant in Chan Sow Lin after my parents shower praises about it’s dishes.
Even though it was lunch time, the crowd hasn’t really trickled in to the restaurant so we manage to get a nice big table in the air conditioned part of the restaurant and our orders taken fairly quickly. (more…)
mikeyip.com cooks Pan-Grilled Chicken
It’s been awhile since I last post up something I prepared at home and so here, I present to you my very own Home Made Pan-Grilled Chicken with Mushroom & White Wine Sauce
It’s a fairly simple dish to prepare along with it’s side dishes of Mash potato and salad/coleslaw. What you’d need for a 1 person dish is… (more…)
The Taste of Vientiane
Saving the ‘best’ of my Vientiane post for last and the best I’m talking about is food! The major importance whenever we travel to a foreign country is to try the local dishes. Right? Sadly, when you follow tour guides, they tend to bring you to places where you eat food you can always eat back home.
The 1st night I arrived in Vientiane, the only place I went to was Nazim Restaurant where they basically serve Halal food which is really not what I like. Everyone who knows me well knows that I love my porks and Halal restaurants don’t serve pork. Well, can’t really do anything about that since I was there with some colleagues. Left with no choice, it was the Tandoori Chicken that I choosed. You can read more of that in the previous food post. (more…)
Nazim Restaurant @ Vientiane
Sabaidee! That’s the Lao’s way to say Hello. Just an update from Vientiane, it was at Nazim for dinner. Located just beside the Mekong River, Nazim Indian Halal Food restaurant serves up some nice indian dishes we can eat back in Malaysia.
Having malays as part of the team, we have to make sure that the place we go to is Halal as most of you know, muslims can’t really eat pork. (more…)
StrippedSteph’s Birthday Surprise @ Graze Restaurant
StrippedSteph’s birthday just passed and to myself, one of the best thing that I could pull off was the place to bring her for dinner to celebrate her birthday. She has been bugging (more like interrogate) me where I’m planning to bring her for dinner and my only answer to her was … “KFC”. That answer naturally get her pissed off but hey, who would want to tell the VIP where they have arranged for the dinner right? After all, that’s what we call SURPRISE! Right?
Anyway, the place of choice was this little restaurant known simply as Graze. Located at Rochester Park, it’s definitely a place she didn’t expect me to bring but the one thing that is priceless to me is her look when she saw the place when we stepped into the restaurant. (more…)
Food from the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards
For those of you who didn’t go for the NAPBA, you must be wondering what type of food we had. Whether Nuffnang only fed us Pringles the whole night or there’s other type of food. Well, guess no more. Here’s what we ate. We started off with some plain water and a piece of bread per person.
About 30min into the event, Marinated Smoked Tuna with Feta, Herb Salad and Balsamic Olive Oil was served. (more…)
Yam Char Restaurant @ Chinatown, Singapore
This should have been posted long long ago but due to the terrible connections at some of the places I ventured to, it’s hard to do so. Some time back, StrippedSteph and myself ventured to this place in Chinatown, Singapore in search of lunch. She knows how much I love my Dim Sums and how I want to finally be ordering food in Cantonese instead of in my oh-so-wonderfully-crappy mandarin.
The venue of our choice? The Yam Char Restaurant, located in the heart of the Chinatown, about 5minutes slow walk from the MRT station. We got there at about 3pm after checking out some of the shopping complexes in Orchard Road area (Doing the touristy thing) and we were just in time for their High Tea Buffet. At SGD18.80 per person (SGD14.80 for the kids), it’s quite a reasonably priced buffet. (more…)
Ah Beng’s Guide to Wine Tasting
Wine: Pinot Noir(France)
Label: Joseph Drouhin Laforet, Bourgogne
Color: Red
How ATAS people describe it: The hue has a brilliant ruby-garnet color. The nose offers effusive aromas of crushed berries. (On the palate, the wine is full of charm and very pleasant to drink); fresh and fruity berry flavors with light and elegant tannins.
The Ah Beng Way: This one red-red coror one, smell and taste like Ribena like dat. (more…)
Balestier Bak Kut Teh @ ION Orchard
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love my pork, and one of my fav. pork dishes are the bak kut tehs. Tell me where the best Bak Kut Teh place is located and I’ll try to make it there to give it a try. One such place I was recommended to try out in Singapore is the Balistier Teochew style Bak Kut Teh (pork rib soup) from a famous eatery in Balestier Road. Well, instead of heading over to Balestier Road (I don’t know where that is), Strippedsteph and I went to the one in ION Orchard.
(img from camemberu.com)
We were ushered into the place and got ourselves a nice table to sit on, atmosphere wise, the place is nice and comfortable. Maybe because it’s located in a nice shopping complex like the ION Orchard. Anyway, it took us some time to browse through the menu and since we know what we are going for, we place our orders quickly. One thing I was reminded to do is, leave the Malaysian taste bud at home cause I’ll be overly disappointed if I judge the food based on what I’ve been eating all my life. (more…)
Restoran SumYi @ Kota Damansara
The area this restaurant is located at are quite new, located near the factory lots between Kota Damansara and the exit to the new highway that connects Shah Alam with Sg. Buloh. This restaurant’s located right next to another chinese restaurant called Restoran Lan Jeh which somehow have a lot of people going to. Food wise, that restaurant’s choice and style are quite limited. But that’s up for another post.
I don’t really know the names of all the dishes that was ordered cause the order was placed fast and quick in cantonese in names I’ve not heard of but the food served was the usual ones we see our parents cooked or eat elsewhere. One thing for sure, the cook at this restaurant know what he’s doing and the food are quite well prepared. (more…)
Ice Kacang Kepong Baru
Was brought to this place by my family cause they saw a review of it on TV. And so we off, to this place at Jalan Kepong Baru, it’s located about 2 stalls away from the T junction so it’s not hard to miss.
First impression of the place, we find that there’s quite a number of people there, normally when there’s a lot of people, it could only mean that the food there’s quite good right? Well, we found a nice table to sit down, ordered an ice kacang for each of us and waited. (more…)
Burger Bomba @ SS2
Previously, I posted about this burger stall in SS2 that I like to patronize, well, there’s another one I like to frequent too. Mizi’s burger stall located right in front of the SS2 Fire Station, anyone staying nearby or have a car would definitely try to make their way over there.
I believe this couple has been selling burgers there for quite some time while working their full time job as firemen saving lifes that’s in danger and so forth. The last trip I went to the stall, A couple standing in front of me ordered 10 … yup… 10 burgers! I mean, like are they having a party or what? (more…)
Burger & Nasi Lemak Utara SS2
To me, there’s 2 famous Burger stalls in SS2, the first one is located in front of the Fire Station in SS2 operated by the staff of the station and the other is located opposite SS2’s Police Station.
It’s quite easy to spot this burger stall as it’s the first one in the open food square. To help those that doesn’t know how to identify food stalls, look for the sign Gerai A1. If you still missed it, I suggest to go to the nearest Optometrist and get your eyes checked.
Anyway, to me, it is popular since the early 90s as it’s one of the few stalls out there that sells not only your usual Burger Ayam or Beef Burger and Benjo. It’s one of the few stalls out there that also sells Rabbit Burger and Deer Burger. Yup, you heard me right, Deer Meat burger. (more…)
Marché @ Vivo City
It’s been awhile since I last ate at Marche, it was so long ago that I can’t remember what I ate there but I’m sure the one I had at The Curve, Mutiara Damansara is similar to the one at Vivo City.
It was a nice day when both StrippedSteph and I could spend a nice quiet day together that we decided to head somewhere nice for dinner. The venue of choice? Marché Movenpick Restaurant @ Vivo City. (more…)
Fruit Rojak & Tau Foo Fah @ Damansara Jaya
How many of you heard of the food court in front of Atria and the famous fruits Rojak stall that’s practically there every day? I’m sure majority of the people who grew up in Damansara Jaya like me would have eaten the rojak from there before or heard of the place before.
This uncle has been around for quite some time, even during my school days I’ve been patronizing his stall after school on my way to Pelangi (won’t tell you what place that is, those of you that’s familiar with the area back in the early 90s would know). (more…)
SS2 Durian Feast
The atmosphere behind the SS2 police station was like a party cum feast cum Mega Sale and it truly is. There were people everywhere, 3 stalls was set up by 3 different groups (I think so since all 3 have different names) and each stalls are packed with people.
(All You Can Eat!)
All you can eat Durians for RM10, who wouldn’t want to eat? And then there’s the Durian Raja Kunyit (DRK), popular choice among every patron to that site, even though the DRK are the most expensive ones yet they are always the first to be sold out. It’s been awhile since I last experience such a rush when it came to eating fruits, I doubt that I’ll ever be so excited unless it’s another trip to binge on durians. This time around, it was all thanks to Softbunny and Fulat for heading there with me. (more…)
Chee Cheong Fun @ Lucky Restaurant Revisits
Whenever I have a craving for Chee Cheong Fun as I’ve blogged previously, I’ll head to this particular stall at Lucky Restaurant, located in Seksyen 17, it only opens during the morning. Catering mostly to the breakfast crowd, the portions served are huge but it also come with a price (compared to the many other Chee Cheong Fun stalls I patronised).
Even after so long, the portions have not been reduced. This is something very good as we hear of many tales where Food portion was reduced but the price was raised. Many people also find it a tad pricey to have a Chee Cheong Fun meal there but to me, the price charged are fairly reasonable. After all, the portion we are looking for are quite huge. (more…)
Braised Pork and Potatoes
I don’t really know the exact name of this dish, some sites online called it Red Cooking Pork and Potatoes, some called it Braised Pork and Potatoes. For me, I call it one of my favorite dish. This is a traditional chinese dish, a stew that is very simple to prepare.
Ingredients:
- 3 strips of Pork loins, cut to cubes
- 4 Potatoes, chopped to cubes
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons of thick Soy Sauce (do keep this around as you might need to add in a tad more if it’s not to taste yet)
- 2 tablespoons of light Soy Sauce (do keep this around as you might need to add in a tad more if it’s not to taste yet)
- 2 pieces of garlic
- 1 red onion, sliced to 8 pieces
- 1 cup of water (more…)
Home Made Spaghetti Bolognese
Just sharing a photo of our Home cooked Spaghetti Bolognese.
Prepared by StrippedSteph
Cut Throat @ PJ Seafood Restaurant
This is one of the harshest post that’ll ever appear on this site, I can’t help but being disappoint with the food there and I don’t normally mess around when it comes to food. It had been awhile since my family last came here for dinner and so we thought that it’ll be a nice place to go to celebrate my dad’s birthday which is actually today! So … HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!
We arrived at the restaurant about 7ish, normally by then, there would be a lot of people but it wasn’t so on that night. Found a spot to seat, menu was given and the Manager was trying to recommend (but it was more like trying to push) some of their dishes and we made our choices.
These are the food we ordered, I don’t really know the names of the dishes so I’ll just comment on them without the names. (more…)
Eating Seafood in Kota Kinabalu with Celebrities
What happens when you have a bunch of hungry guys and girls including the likes of Hannah Tan, Pietro Felix, Harith Iskandar, Hans Isaac wonders what to eat for dinner? Well, wonder no more, these sets of food was from some time back when we were in Kota Kinabalu for a show.
The restaurant we went to is known as the Ocean Seafood Village Restaurant, quite a popular one in Kota Kinabalu and according to some of the locals, one of the most expensive places to eat seafood. We were invited by Fellest and his family to join them for dinner there and how can we just say no to some good seafood dinner? (more…)
Roast Duck @ Loong Foong Seafood Restaurant
After eating at Sunrise Duck at Seapark for a number of time now, I decide to bring Stephenie to another famous restaurant where people just lined up in droves to buy Roast Ducks. That place was known as Loong Foong Seafood restaurant located just about 15minutes walk from Sunrise. The place operates only at night but you can see people lining up to buy ducks there from as early as 5ish. I used to be one of them who would go there to buy on the way home from work.
Got ourselves a nice place to sit and proceed to order half a duck with a simple plate of vege. It took them about 5min before serving us our food which is quite ok looking at the amount of people waiting in line for their take-away. (more…)
Wing Kee Famous Ipoh Hor Fun @ Changi Village Food Court
Having made my one and only trip to Changi Village, I got the chance to eat the famous Ipoh Hor Fun stall at the Changi Village Food Court. Why I say it was famous? The people that was waiting in line in front of the Wing Kee (Since 1976) stall made me think of it like that.
As I walked into the food court, the one thing that caught my attention was this long line of people in front of the stall compared to the many other stalls in the premise. My friends asked me what I want to eat but even before they asked me, I already made up my mind wanting to give it a try, after all, that stall’s window was plastered with food reviews from the likes of Makan Sutra and many others.
After getting our spots in the place, off I went and got myself in line and within 15minutes or so, it was my turn to order. It was plain simple, just say the number that’s written next to the food photo and that’s it, the gentleman standing in front of me will promptly say the name of the dish and ask for money. The amazing thing is, he say the name of the dish so softly yet the cook behind the window was able to hear him. Even I had a hard time hearing what he said especially in the noisy environment we were in. (more…)
