I haven't blogged for so long coz my camera went on strike.
it's still in ICU....
dont know if it'll be cured.. if not, have to retire it!
these were taken with a borrowed camera.
this CKT is from "sea view" on old klang road just outside central supermarket. i only had a bite so i cant say for sure but i think this vendor's health concious coz he used very little oil. so much so that the noodles stuck to each other!
the pork dumpling from the chinese lady's la mien stall is very good though. she's from china and makes the dumpling skin and noodles from scratch. it's amazing seeing how she pulls the dough and it magically becomes noodles!
the soup's very flavourful and the fragrant seaweed gives it a nice touch.
I had her kon low la mien noodles. they were okay but I didnt like the Chinese mushrooms in it. the noodles' texture was perfect though.

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Gavin and i made shepherd's pie with this cheap minced beef we bought. we learnt a hard lesson... NEVER BUY CHEAP BEEF MINCE! it was sooo fatty.
IF it weren't for the cheap mince it would've been perfect coz the seasonings were good and potatoes creamy and soft.

to season the beef, we added

• chopped garlic and onions
  
• lea and perrin's sauce
• chicken stock
• black pepper and salt
• some chopped cili padi
  
• soy sauce
  

to the mashed potatoes we added

• garlic salt
  
• milk
  
• cheese on top
  

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we went to jln alor last wed to see wat the hype was all about.
honestly? i still don't know. perhaps we sat at the wrong stall or ordered the wrong things?
just appears that they're all out to cheat everyone [tourists included]
the CKT was only so so .... and RM5!
the spicy pork noodle, also only so so but at RM5.50 it was exorbitant! these crooks...

seriously can someone tell me what the hype about Jln Alor's food is? i'd like to know.

Gavin and I love our choysum stir fry with ikan bilis.

No tedious and messy peeling or chopping of garlic or onion involved, just some ikan bilis fried in oil and salt till fragrant then in the choysum pieces go. Put the stalks first because they take longer to cook. stir around for awhile until you feel like it's ready to be eaten.
it's yummy.

bad bad nasi kandar day...
don't know if it's because we went to eat at 2pm, or that it was a rainy day or that the procurement officer goofed up and they ran out of salt, or that the chief chef was on a sickie but that day on Jalan TAR was a bad bad day for nasi kandar.
everything tasted dismal and bland, including the curries. the mutton was chewy and tasteless, with hardly any meat on the bone. in fact the spices tasted like they'd gone rancid or something. the chicken was a mass of black goo that tasted of.... nothing. in fact I really don't know what was put into it apart from perhaps, black soy sauce. the curry sauce didn't even taste like curry but was merely a watery mass of grainy bits. perhaps the only decent thing was the deep friend papadoms. but...all that for RM20! so not worth it. I would've enjoyed plain maggi mee more.

Malay food at sunway mentari: JARING

the first thing i saw were these huge beef bones. apparently it's for the sup tulang which I didnt get to have today but I will some other day.
they look like they must've been difficult to chop...
prices are.... not that cheap. but I suppose that's what happens when a place gets so popular/famous.
look at the queue! you know it's gotta be good.... the roasted chickens look tempting too.
the fiance had his favourite ikan pari and kangkung and some other indiscernible curry.
I had my favourite sambal egg and potato "cutlet" thing which is deep fried with some fish pieces in it. [anything deep fried is tasty] and what looks like oversized brussel sprouts. all were yummy. I had some coconut milky curry sauce with the rice which was really tasty too.



lotsa lotsa curries! yummy but guilt inducing bcoz of the high amounts of fat/cholesterol involved. Malay curries tend to have more coconut milk than indian curries but they're good too in their own way. This place is always packed with lunchtime workers so try to come at non peak times. definitely worth a visit or two or three or four....

Ajisen Ramen

Perhaps I was being stupid but I went to a ramen restaurant and ordered a bento set instead. It was only so-so, but then what was I expecting? this place is famous for its ramen. apparently its soup is extra special or something. anyway in my bento set were 2 pieces of agedashi tofu which was tasty, a cut up breaded chicken fillet and a very sad salad. I hate it when I get served a western style salad with RICE. it's just wrong. and, the reason most Asians hate salad is bcoz here, it's served in this wrong wrong wrong way, shredded cabbage with a huge dollop of bottled dressing on top. I suppose we don't know how to make a proper salad. but I'll save that argument for another day.

Kelvin said this volcano ramen is just like what its name suggests - it'll make u erupt! only for those who like their ramen super spicy. it looks like there's a huge mountain of sambal on top.

i think this is a fried chicken ramen.

what looks like ribs on top of the ramen. the milky soup is what makes it different from other ordinary ramen soups.
beef ramen.
fish ramen. basically the ramen combi is the same, half a boiled egg, bean sprouts, seaweed, and the protein of your choice on top.
the next time I come here, i will order the ramen.

NASI LEMAK SUBANG JAYA
To celebrate his first day living in Subang Jaya, Gavin and I decided to go for the famed Nasi Lemak Subang Jaya.

Apparently Subang Jaya has a "new' kind of nasi lemak which is nothing like the original. Instead of rice cooked in coconut milk, it's just ordinary white rice. instead of being wrapped in a banana leaf, it's served up on a plastic plate. instead of being made by malays, this stall is run by ..... some guy named Lim. and it's situated in a chinese kopitiam in SS14. we arrived around 2.30 and still the line was so longggg.....
this queue never seems to end...
but Gav waited patiently in line...
here's what we ordered. we opted for the fried chicken and long beans with a generous dollop of sambal. it was delicious with the chicken hot off the oil, so it was crispy and juicy and tender. the rice was yummy with curry sauce and spicy sambal with onions on top. the long beans were tasty too, cooked in the ordinary chinese style with garlic and oyster sauce. it was yummy, but at RM6.50 a plate it's a little on the steep side for something eaten at a hawker kopitiam that we call the "Dirty shop".
still, I suppose if you have to choose between this and a fried chicken+fries+coke meal at macca's, I'd rather have this.

Wong Soon Kee - in SS14, same row as the proton showroom. nasi lemak is only available for breakfast and lunch. at nights the "tai chow" people take over.

my 100th post! wow. this spicy chicken cornish pasty was eaten at secret recipe. I reckon it's very easy to make a pasty. just make the pastry and wrap up the filling inside and bake. kind of like a baked curry puff. the filling was very curry-like as well. saucy, full of shredded chicken. Tasty, and the crisp buttery pastry was the best part. and it's filling enough for a light lunch. The bits of carrot in it make a nice difference in texture.
I had this fluffy 'appam' at sri devi in SS14. I hadnt had sweet appam in years, and this came with the coconut milk on the side. I like the coconut milk flavour but I also like it crisp so to counter it, i eat the crisp edges first then douse the middle part with the coconut milk.