Category: Food Porn

Last Friday, Lee’s bro treated us for dinner at Hoi Tin Lau and also to brief us on what to do the next day for his wedding.

Last time Hoi Tin Lau was located at Grand Continental Hotel but now it’s located at a new place at Jalan Mendu. You know… The Dua Puluh Sen and Guardian there, there’s reflexology center too. It’s at the block behind them. Hoi Tin Lau served Chinese cuisine and it’s not halal.

I have no idea of the food name(I’ll just make it up myself) and the prices though. Just show you the photos and all I can say is the food was YUMMY! SERIOUS! It’s really DELICIOUS! I’m out of word to describe. All of them! Ok… Except the peanuts, I don’t like to eat this kind of peanuts ;p It was fully packed that night.

Left: Our appetizer. Sweet & sour midin. First time having this kind of midin. Usually we have it stir fried with belacan or garlic. This is the sweet sour variation, served cold.

Rght: Seafood noodle, it’s green, it should be green if I’m not mistaken. Under the lighting and from the photo it seems green to me but was browned by the sauce. My first time having green noodle ;p

Left: Combination dish, there were 4 types of food there. For the first time, I ate abalone(that’s what Lee told me when I asked him, I’m not sure it’s abalone or not hahaha…). Yea… My first time.

Right: Deer meat cooked with some sauce, don’t know what sauce. Very tender meat. My first time eating deer meat.

Left: Fried kailan, great dish. It’s always one of my favourite. This is my 3rd time having this dish. The one here is different from those I tried before, it had hint of sweetness because pork floss(assuming only, it could be chicken floss) was added.

Right: Butter prawn was great! I prefer this than the one from Sarawak Club. It’s sweeter but the sweetness is different from the sugary sweet. As if marshmallow was used *LOL* Not sure ;p Just judging from the sticky texture. looked as if it’s melted marshmallow. This is one of the best wet style butter prawn for me.

Two thumbs up and two toes up from me!

Just word of warning, the place is extremely noisy. Oh well… It’s like this in many Chinese restaurant anyway. If you are having a stressful day, better don’t go there hahaha…

I think asam payak is no stranger to the locals but I was so wrong. Apparently many don’t know what is asam payak. I tried to find details in Google and got many unrelated results. I can’t seem to find any details for it even wiki didn’t turn up in the result, that’s so odd. I blogged about it years back, now… I’ll blog about it again.

If you’re wondering how’s the taste, it’s sour, very sour but I LOVE it! ;p

In fact this “fruit” (I don’t know which category should it be) is used in many food in Malaysia such as asam laksa or umai. I don’t have much details to share with you. All I can tell you is that it’s sour, only available during its season, June and July(I think… Since I saw it a lot last month and mom bought it this month ;p).

The dish you see here is asam payak served with mixture of belacan, chili, anchovies, sugar and salt. The taste? Sour, salty, and spicy hahaha… Not sweet because less sugar was added and if you have too much sugar for it, it will not taste nice. The main thing to savour is the sourness. It can be served in other way as well but this is the usual way I eat my asam payak.

One word of advise, do not eat too much and when you have empty stomach, you’ll get stomachache.

Remember the prize I got from 4th Sarawak Bridal Fair? Complimentary buffet lunch from Four Points by Sheraton.

I’m supposed to go with someone else but sadly this someone let me down. This someone doesn’t even bother to get back to me as promised. I was told “next week, next week…” and the “next week” never come. Even until today, it’s the last day of the voucher validity, there’s not even a single feedback from that person. Well… I told this person before, “if you still treat me as your friend, please arrange a time for us to go together since we’ve been talking about it since last year.” So… Can I say that I’m not a friend to this person anymore? Not that I’m being sensitive but this is the fact, I’ve been treated by this person like a stranger for most of the time.

All I can say is that, I’m very disappointed with this person. Enough is enough.

Few weeks back, I decided that I shouldn’t wait for this person to go with me, good thing I made the right decision. If I did wait, this voucher is going to be wasted.

I decided to go with Allen since he was the one who picked me up to the bridal fair that time. If not for him I won’t be winning the voucher. What Louis said was right, I should go with Allen. Since Allen’s birthday was coming, so I decided to make this a birthday present for him.

Off we went… Not much photos because I was not allowed to take photos there. I know… You see many blogs posting the photos of this place but sadly I’m not that lucky. I should just shut up and don’t ask.

I asked the person that brought us to the table whether I could take photos or not because I’m afraid that I might be stopped for taking photos halfway and there were many people that time, it will going to be oh so humiliating. I saw many staff there, looked like security guards walking around the restaurant, to avoid unwanted issues I asked for permission and got turned down even after I passed them my name card. Boo…

The place was packed later as the Pre-School convention was held there. The participants went to have lunch there and I saw many of my classmates there. I didn’t greet them though ;p Too far.

Anyway…
Left: Taken last time.

Right: Sneakily took a snap when the security guards walked to other section. The section you see in this photo is the candy section. So many candies! I should have ta pao some back! However, I forgot all about it because I wasn’t feeling very well that day and my mind was distracted by something else. Sigh…

I did not eat much, I was not really in the mood to eat, I didn’t have much appetite that day. Such wrong timing. These were what I had eaten, so little -.-” Luckily I didn’t pay for it therefore the feeling wasn’t that bad ;p


Lots of choices to choose. The pizza was the best. I didn’t like the meats, just any meat except those from the appetizer section, because they were so dry and overcooked -.-” Others were fine. I did not go for the cakes because they were all sponge cakes with different decorations and some local kueh lapis(if I recall correctly). I managed to try out 24 types of food.

After lunch, we decided to check out the swimming pool. I love it! The green, the blue and the brown blended so nicely with the bright blue sky and fluffy clouds.

The reflection was very nice too. Great place for photo shoot. How I wish I could swim there, it was so hot that day.

Enjoy the photos.

So… It’s the time again for our gathering and we decided to have it at Patio. Luckily we picked 16th June, if it’s earlier than that, we will have to make a last minute decision to shift somewhere else. On the 16th June, they reopened. On the day they re-opened, we had our gathering there. Slight renovation was done, there’s no more partition.

Oh… You can use My Privilege Card to get 15% discount but they only gave me 10% aiks… I didn’t realized it, only knew about it when I flipped tru’ the book the next day.

Anyway, let’s see the food that we had:

Our drinks: Hot coffee(RM2), mango smoothie(RM7.90) – tasteless but good thing it’s tasteless, you will know hwy later, ice lemon tea(RM2.50), Heineken – someone was emo *LOL*(RM6)

Left: Fish and Chips(RM10.90), well… it’s just fish and chips, nothing to comment.
Right: Lamb chop(RM15.90), very sad… ;p You see the photo you will say so too.

Left: Mixed grill(RM22.90), I shared this with Lee since he had his dinner earlier on and the portion was just nice for us to share, so we shared. There’s beef, chicken, lamb and fish in there, all very thin slices. The sauce was very salty.
Right: This time, Jee made vanilla muffins for our dessert. Very sweet muffin but it’s a very successful one.

As usual, Lee made dessert for us too, American Chocolate Peanut Cake. He even wrote something on the cake hahaha… I thought he’ll write “happy birthday” but it was “happy gathering 16/6”. We jokingly said that why is he so pathetic that he had to make his own birthday for himself and also asked him where’s the candles ;p

Very paiseh ok? It’s outside food and we brought so many muffins and a cake in! People sure won’t be happy with us doing this. A cake is fine, as it is common to celebrate birthday at an eatery and bring in your own cake but we had so much that day -.-”

Anyway, luckily my drink was quite tasteless, the muffin and the cake were really sweet *LOL* Sugar overloaded. Luckily I could sleep well that night after consuming so much sugar ;p

Believe it! This is the first time I’m having dinner with my family at Food Bazaar, tHe Spring.

Left: My mom ordered Beef Laksa from Madam Tang’s stall. Portion is slightly small and the price a bit expensive but that’s the kind of price you will also get even in the shop itself.

Right: My bro ordered this. This is from the hot plate stall but I have no idea what this is.

Left: From the new stall selling nyonya food, I don’t remember the full name of this dish but there’s “satay chicken” in the name. First bite was quite tasteless but after that it felt as if the flavour just burst out and getting more and more flavourful on subsequent bites.

You can add-on RM1 to get a bowl of rice and the rice they’re using isn’t the usual white type, it’s the purplish type but it’s not pure. They mix it with white rice but still for RM1 on getting such rice is not expensive at all.

Right: My dad ordered Teppanyaki beef. For the first time, he ordered such expensive food ;p It’s RM18 if not mistaken.

By the way, I don’t remember the prices for most of the food ;p It happened two weekends ago.