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Food

Sri Kamala Vilas Restaurant @ Little India, Singapore

While I was in Singapore, I met up with Nicolepoopoo and she wanted to try indian food for dinner. As I wasn't familiar with Little India area, we decide to do a search on the computer for a restaurant to go to. The restaurant of choice? Sri Kamala Vilas Restaurant, which is practically everywhere we go. There's a total of 2 →


Thai Food @ Bukit Genting Hill, Penang

Continuation from my long list of posts regarding my trip to Penang, this one is about this little place known as Bukit Genting Hill. Awesome name right? A Place with two Hill in it's name. Getting there requires a bit of a drive towards Balik Pulau towards the south west part of the island, in term of address, there's not →


Air Hitam Asam Laksa @ Jalan Pasar, Penang

On the journey up towards Kek Lok Si, while we get near Jalan Pasar, our Penangite friend decide to pull us over to the side of the road, dangerously close to the T-junction where cars were squeezing by and the locals were busy going about doing their morning shopping at the wet market. All because of the Asam Laksa road →


Kopi Cine @ George Town

While walking around George Town, the group I was with decide to take a break and just relax, chill and do some silly photo shoot (you'd see those in another post). We stumbled upon this place after passing through some of the more rustic building and it just gave us that feel good and chill vibe. Consisting of 2 shop lots, →


Sid’s Pub @ Bangsar South

My first introduction to Sid's Pub since I got back to Malaysia a few months back was the one in Bukit Tunku when I went there to meet several friends for a drink and chat. Since then, another group of friends brought me along to the outlet in TTDI (Taman Tun Dr. Ismail) which is nearer to home and then to →


Paddington House of Pancakes @ The Curve

It has been awhile since I last been to Paddington and so on a Wednesday before heading off for Salsa, that's where we went. Since the last time I visited the place, Paddington House of Pancakes at The Curve has expanded from just a single store to the size of 2 lots. Design of the place is beautifully done but →


Satay Celup @ Restoran Capitol Satay

The line stretches along the row of shops leading to the restaurant, people standing by the roadside with cars speeding past them. All with a hungry look in their eyes, aiming and talking and plotting on how to maximize the space on the table with food. This is not a script from a local drama, but it's a local scenario that →


Chicken Rice Ball @ Kedai Kopi Chung Wah

The Malacca Road Trip is never complete without some meals and the 1st stop upon arrival was the famous Chicken Rice Ball restaurant that everyone say must go to. The Restaurant is also famously known as Chop Chung Wah or 中华茶室, located just at the entrance to Jonker Street, you will not be able to miss it. If you're driving, there's →


Father’s Day @ LaLa Chong Seafood Restaurant

It was a combo celebration whenever it comes to this time of the month in June. My dad's birthday is very near Father's Day and so it's always a Double Celebration whenever we celebrate his birthday as we'll celebrate Father's Day as well. The restaurant of choice was Lala Chong Seafood Restaurant in Ara Damansara, just further down from the Pantai →


Crystal Jade @ Mid Valley Gardens New Menu Launch

Recently Crystal Jade @ The Midvalley Gardens launched their new set of menu with emphasis on the "Zong", a type of chinese dumpling made from glutinous rice and bamboo leaves that is traditionally eaten during the Dragon boat festival which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. In the Western world, it's more famously →


Ken Ken Bentong Chicken Rice @ Restaurant Yat Yeh Hing

It was after a long meeting on a Saturday morning that we decide to just head over to a shop nearby for lunch (well... it wasn't exactly a less than 15minute drive but what the heck...). The restaurant of choice was Yat Yeh Hing, just opposite St Ignatius Church (SIC) along the LDP heading towards Kelana Jaya. Reaching there about 12ish, →


The Queen & Mangosteen

2 Sundays back, I met up with @Joshuaongys and @Tiffanietty to have a nice lunch to celebrate Tiffanie's birthday. The restaurant of choice? The Queen & Mangosteen. A British themed pub styled outlet in Vivo City. Initially when we got in, it was quite bad as no one ushered us from the entrance and despite us standing around for a good →


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 →


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... Ingredients: 1 Chicken →


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 →


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 →


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 →


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, I ventured to this place in Chinatown, Singapore in search of lunch. You know how much I love my Dim Sums and how I want to finally be ordering food →


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 →


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 →


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 →


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 →


The Saturday Quick Pic!

'Nuff said.


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 →