Category: Food Porn

Here’s quick update… Extremely busy and I don’t even have time to update properly and even explore my new laptop. 🙁 I haven’t been touching it for 2 days already.

Went for lunch at Food Bazaar at tHe Spring last Saturday after I bought my laptop. Couldn’t decide what to eat as I was still very full from the morning laksa. Simply made a decision to try out Hot Plate. All I can say, “NOT NICE, NOT WORTH”.

I have know idea which was which. They looked the same *LOL*. So basically we ordered Hot Plate Rice with Traditional “Baba” Sweet Sauce Chicken and Hot Plate Rice with Oyster Sauce Chicken, each RM5.80. When it came, I didn’t know which was mine so I tasted both sauces and *HORROR* they tasted the same except one was a bit spicy, one wasn’t. *SHRUG*

Was invited to Mother’s Recipe to try out their food. My first time got invited to taste food for free hehehe… Felt strange when reached there *LOL* paiseh. There was a minor breakdown in communication earlier on, she thought we would go on Saturday but we went on Friday as we had changed the appointment time several times until we got confused ourselves. This means whatever we ate and saw that day(last Friday) were not specially prepared just to impress us, it’s just their usual stuffs.

She briefed us on how they started this business and of course introduced us to what they have to offer. Since there were 2 of us only and it’s our first time doing thing like this we were pretty shy *LOL* She asked us to order any food that we want but we didn’t know what to order. So we asked her to recommend. There were so much food! Portion wasn’t small too.

They serve home cook food, it’s really home cook style the Nyonya’s way, not fast food style. Even tasted very homey. Not many people appreciate it though. For those that seldom have chance to have proper meal at home or away from home, especially cooking from your mother, I’m sure you will appreciate it. No MSG added in the cooking. I’m not saying good thing about them because they let me eat for free, the fact is that it really tasted like my mother’s cooking.

Left: Pan-fried fish & lime (RM6), the fish will depends on the fish they have on that day. This one is hong boi(in Hokkien), they also have other meaty fish availabe as not many people will like to eat this. Me too, I don’t really like it but it really tasted like home.
Right: Ko Kua (Bitterground in Hokkien) stir-fried with eggs(small-RM6, medium-RM8), I’m sure you are familiar with this. Miss home now? I didn’t know how to eat this last time but now I kinda enjoy it especially fried with eggs or steamed it with the middle stuffed with pork .

Left: Mother’s blanched midin with ‘Ulam’ Dip (RM6), the “Ulam” Dip has santan in it. We usually have this at home by frying it with belacan minus the santan(coconut milk in Malay), this is Nyonya style according to the owner.
Right: Belacan Beehoon (Nyonya-Style) – RM5, usually the belacan beehoon we have is the wet type right? This one is dry. It’s just like eating salad. The belacan is spicy, sweet and sour.

Left: La Kia Kio(in Hokkien, I don’t know what it’s called in other languages hahaha…) Fish Soup(RM5), another homey dish. I love la kia kio.
Right: Mixed Veg Curry (RM5), their new dish. The curry was quite thick however the owner said they had diluted it a bit this time to see whether it’s acceptable by the diners or not as some people don’t like thick curry but still quite thick. Personally I like their Thick Nyonya Chicken Curry that I had last time.

Left: Cinchalok Dip (RM2.50), we sometimes have this at home too.
Right: The whole table for two of us only. Hahaha… We didn’t finish them all, only finished the curry, the la kia kio soup and the fried fish. She asked us to tapao the belacan beehoon back hahaha…

Though it’s Nyonya, it’s almost exactly like what I have at home everyday. Not that we are the Nyonya, just that I’m sure every home in Malaysia will sure be serving food like this at home.

By the way, it’s located near AmBank at Tabuan Laru. Just few shops away from J&J Cafetaria.

Couldn’t decide where to have lunch last Sunday and we ended up at Moly’s Place. It’s located just behind Habour View Hotel. Since we seldom blog about Malay food, so we decided to had our lunch there before catching a movie at Star Cineplex(will write about it when I’m freerer).

Each table is identified with flower’s name. We sat at the Rose table. Nothing much to rave about the food variety, they serve food like fried rice, fried noodle, fried kueh tiaw, mee jawa and so on. Just standard Malay food. The drink you see here is ice lemon tea(RM1.60).

Left: Nasi Goreng Kampong(RM4), nothing to rave about…
Right: Mee Goreng Mamak(RM4), portion very little and quite spicy. Nothing special also.

Basically that’s about it.

Had snow ice at Star Cineplex last Sunday. Damn! I want to CURSE!!! It’s BAD!! Very bad! If you are the owner of this chain or related to them, please take note! It sucks!

On the wall, it stated “Simply Irresistable”, I’m sorry… It should be “Simply Resistable”!

I had snow ice from iGloo many times already and this is the worst! Luckily I didn’t pay full price for it instead I’m using the buy 1 free 1 coupon from My Privilege Book. I’m very disappointed with what they had given me at the “station” at Star Cineplex.

The texture sucks big time. It’s more like “paste” than snow ice. It’s not fluffy and cooling. Instead it’s yucky! Just like eating “ice paste”. I rather eat normal shave ice or ice cream than having this kind of “paste”. I really don’t know how to explain.

Here’s the texture it should look like or like this, not what I’m showing here. I know it’s not clear but you can see the presentation, I don’t mean the container, I mean the texture and how messy it is. It’s enough to turn you off! Imagine if people that had never tried this before and tried it for the first time at Star Cineplex, you will lose your customer for good, don’t forget the cineplex is always a place with lots of people, quality control is very important!

I know I’m very harsh in this post, what to do?!?! I’m in really foul mood! Damn it! Why do things always have to come in one go!??! Sigh… BUSY!!!

CRAP! I still can’t get use to the idea of friends getting married though it’s a norm at this age. ARG!

Hehehe… Jay requested for top 5 food and top 5 drinks so here you go 😛 I give you my top 10 food, not really top 10, it’s more like I give you whatever I came across when browsing my photo archive. No drinks because I’ll just give you the answer of plain waterX10 as my favourite drink hahaha…

So here you go… 10 of my favourite food in no particular order, pictures shown are for illustration purpose only:

Left: Sarawak Laksa for sure! Hahaha… However not kolomee, I don’t like. Where is the best Sarawak laksa? Hmm… Frankly I don’t really have any idea on where is the best, different people has different preference, I don’t really care as long that it suits my tastebuds, they are the best because some Sarawak Laksa are really really bad(if you know what I mean), tasted more like curry laksa or no-taste laksa.

Right: Japanese food! Now got addicted to sushi because of Sushi King *LOL*

Left: Sweet & spicy tapioca snack.

Right: Steak and continental food.

Left: Tao Kae Noi.

Right: Popiah.

Left: Korean food, especially the kimchi.

Right: Seaweed twist.

Left: Chong Qing Steamboat, it’s been a long time not dining there, not sure still there or not…

Right: Fried calamari. Used to have good one at Lau Dian(a cafe at Padungan) but I don’t know where to get good one anymore.

That’s all. I have more but better limit it to 10 hahaha…