Yong tau foo @ Puchong Yong Tau Foo

We heard about this yong tau foo place from the papers and from blogs. So we decided to try it.

The place is simply called 'Puchong Yong Tau Foo'. It is quite deep in Puchong - the 14th Mile, to be exact. But no worries - i am not recommending you to try it out!!!

The novelty of the place is that the food is only stuffed after you have chosen it. The idea is that it is freshly cooked. And people have said that the stuffing is done generously.

I beg to differ. The stuffings were far from generous. For RM1 a piece, it sure was not worth it. The taste was nothing extraordinary too. Just go to your neighbourhood yong tau foo stall and it will not be that much different.

Blue cheese burger @ Tony Romas, Sunway Pyramid

We went there as a farewell for some of the students opting to go to the UK for 2nd year. Initially we were supposed to go to Fridays but it was full. So we ended up here - quite reluctantly for me! The only thing good about Tony Romas (i've been told) is it's pork ribs. But they dun have that in the local outlets here.

So i settled for this burger. Wasn't that bad. For one, it was big enuf to satisfy me! Almost had difficulties biting into it. Secondly, i loved the cheese. Nice!

But with almost every other gourmet burger that i have eaten in M'sia, it was just too well done - and ended up being rather dry. This was even when i specified i wanted it medium. Maybe i should ask for medium rare next time?

Deep fried Mars Bar @ Chippy, Raffles City shopping centre

This has to be the ULTIMATE comfort food!!!!

Super unhealthy? Four small pieces of Mars Bar - choc with caremel inside, deep fried! Crunchy on the outside, soft and gooey on the inside! Top it with vanilla ice cream AND chocolate syrup!

Baby back pork ribs @ Tony Romas

One of the places i had to eat at when in S'pore recently was Tony Romas. Now some may ask why go there when we have so many TR outlets here in M'sia, the prices being cheaper compared to the higher exchange rate across the causeway.

The reason is simple - PORK!

The local TR outlets do not serve pork! And TR is famous for its pork ribs. I love pork ribs. I love pork! The best pork ribs i've had was at some restaurant at near the border of Austria and Germany at Fusen. It was huge, tender and so delicous! But i digress.

So off i went to the TR at Suntec City. I was early to beat the dinner crowd and also, i had a concert to go to after dinner.

No hessitation - i went for the Original Baby Back Ribs. I went for the smallest portion - so that the hole burnt in me wallet is just as small!

It came with jacket potatoes and corn. The jacket potatoes were wonderful! It must be the bacon bits! It's exactly like how the jacket potatoes taste like in the UK. Lovely! The corn was really juicy and sweet. I left it to the end so it was almost like a dessert.

OK - the ribs. It was good! The portion was small compared to the one i had in Germany. The meat was tendr and came off the bone easily. The sauce was a little on the sweet side but there wasn't too much of it to overpower the ribs.

It was a satisfying meal! I topped it off with a cup of coffee.

The service was pretty good too - nice sweet waitresses. Only complaint? They stole S$0.50 from me!!!! After paying the bill, they brought back the bill wallet with my change and i left it there until i was ready to go. I opened it and found only the bill! No change!!!! Oh well...

Cirspy Jumbo Combo @ Cafe' Cartel, Singapore

We were starving after the run and just wanted to stuff our faces.

WS and i remembered that Cafe' Cartel (yes, the "Cafe'" is written that way) serves free flow bread!!! So off we went, to the branch at Raffles City.

Upon perusing the menu, i suggested the Crispy Combo which was meant for 3 people. Then i looked below it on the menu and saw that they also had a Crispy Jumbo Combo for 5 people!!!! Yes, we had that! The 3 of us.

Here it is - it was amusing as the girl at the next table could not stop staring at it when it came. And she kept on throwing glances at our table!

It consisted of fried chicken, fish fillet, rodeo wings, mixed vege, wedges. It was also suppose to have prawn dippers but they ran out and replaced it with calamari (i found a 'lost' scallop in the midst of the calamari!).

The fried chicken was really good. Skin was crispy but not too much flour. Meat was juicy and tasty. Huge portion. Boneless. Went really well with the BBQ sauce.

The calamari was alrite. The wedges - well, they weren't our priority. The vege was quite miserable - just the baby carrots and a few pieces of cucumber.

Very satisfying! less than RM40 per person.

The rodeo wings were nice - i love wings so it was hard to get it wrong.

The fish fillet was pretty good too! The fish was fresh and the batter again not too thick.

Pineapple fried rice @ restaurant outside Kinabalu Park

This place is meant (i think) for workers at the Kinabalu National Park. It is just across the road from the park. As there are only 2 restaurants in the park, and both are quite pricey, i went over a couple of times to this place for me meals.

The first time round, i ordered the pineapple fried rice. It turned out better than i expected!



There was a generous serving of prawns, squid, fish cake and fish slices to go with the fried rice.

The rice was a wee bit soggy - but it was an enjoyable meal, with the cool air and the view of the mountain at the distance.

Pork Ribs noodles @ Toa Payoh, Singapore

The place is a kopitiam opposite Trellis Towers at Toa Payoh. Our mate told us we could get our breakfast there.

I ordered the prok ribs noodles from the prawn mee stall.

It doesn't look much but it was pretty good. It used the prawn based soup which was tasty - much better than the prawn mee soup from Tan Kee.

The ribs were boiled to perfection - at least, to my liking. It was juicy and tender and came off the bone easily. Finished off everything including the soup! :-P~

Duck noodles @ Imperial Treasure Restaurant, S'pore

I blogged previously about having dim sum at this place (see here).

We were pretty hungry when we got there as we did not have breakfast. WS decided to get something more substantial in addition to the dim sum and ordered the roast duck noodles.

It looked good and he confirmed that the taste corresponded to its looks.

Mille crêpe @ Food Foundry, PJ

After a spot of filming we did on our chapel grounds, Michelle, Samuel and i headed off for tea. Sam recommended we try Mille crêpe nearby. Michelle has heard about it and was game. I had no objections.

What is Mille crêpe? Well, let's turn to Wiki for help:-

Mille crêpe is a French cake made of many crêpe layers. "Mille" ("mil") means "a thousand," implying the many layers of crêpe.

The place is Food Foundry, a corner lot on the ground floor of the flats nearby my church grounds.

The food? It was not too bad. We tried the normal one (vanilla), a strawberry one and a chocolate one.

We all concluded that the best was the cheapest one - the vanilla one. It taste exactly like how it is - layers of thin pancake with the flavoured filling.

Not too bad. The place was nice too - when we were there, it was rather breezy.

Duck rice @ Wong Kei, London

Yes, the infamous Wong Kei!!! The place where tourists go to see just how rude the waiters can be. It's also the place where students go as it is the cheapest duck rice in town!

To be fair, the waiters have mellowed thru-out the years. I guess the novelty of rude waiters has worn off. I found some of them to be polite, even!

Almost each time i traveled to London, i would go there to fill me tummy! It was the cheapest duck rice in town. And i must admit the quality wavers.

I usually order the duck and roast pork rice.

The roast pork is so good. The layers of fat and meat topped with crunchy skin - lovely! The duck also has the layer of fat between the meat and the skin - British ducks! You can't find that here in M'sia. I haven't found any yet. All healthy skinny ducks here!

The portions are large. Generous cuts of pork and duck, all on top a great big plate if rice. Don't forget the 'chilly oil' too. The meal also comes with a small pot of chinese tea, on the house!

There is a section at the front reserved for individual customers - also a good chance to make conversation with strangers and other tourists.

I love going to that place. The smell of the place is so typically like a chinese restaurant. I hear the frenly banter in cantonese between the staff. There's usually this 'uncle' who'll be whistling so old chinese tune. Not the best duck in London but it's one of me fav places to go to.

Dim sum @ Imperial Treasure Restaurant, Singapore

Kit had to make reservations as it was a Saturday. When we arrived, we were given a table but was told that we can only have it for the one hour that we had reserved for. Well, that was a good sign, i guess. Lots of people wanting to eat here.

'Here' is on the 5th floor of Ngee Ann City along Orchard Road.



On to the dum sum. We had the standard har kao and siew mai.

The har kao was simply lovely! The prawns in them were so fresh and crunchy.

The siew mai maintained the standard set by the har kao. WS jokingly complained that it had too much prawns in them!

We also ordered the woo kok - deep fried yam puffs. The yam was superb! My only minor complain was than there were enuf filling in them for my liking. But the wonderful yam made up for it.

I insisted on the following deep fried prawn dim sums.

Finally, to fill up, i had the lotus leave rice. It was great! So tasty. The mixture of the taste was so good - from the lotus leaf to the rice to the prawn and pork and other stuffs in it.

Set lunch @ Esquire Kitchen, Sunway

It was Friday and we had to go 'rescue' one of our mates. That meant going out for lunch with her!

We were at Sunway Pyramid and ended up at Esquire Kitchen - the lady's choice. I suggested that we tried their set lunch - basically, we can choose one pork dish, one chicken dish, one fish dish, and one vege. It came with an egg foo yong. I kinda decided on everything and no one really had any violent objections.

We went for the classic Tung Po pork, fish stir-fried with ginger and onion shoots, lemon chicken and kai lan.

It was all generally quite good. The pork was tasty - and unhealthy! The fish was nice. The chicken was alright. The egg tho was really sad. Aren't there supposed to be prawns in egg foo yong?

Anyways, all this for RM55 excluding drinks. We had chinese tea which was free flow and took the opportunity to have a long comfy chat after lunch.

Rawa tosai @ Sri Paandi, Bangsar

I was an hour and a half early so i decided to look for place to have tea. I wandered around and to my surprise, there was a Sri Paandi outlet there. It's near the First Coach Bangsar stop.

Not wanting anything too heavy, i decided to go for the Rawa Tosai. I almost always go for this when we go to the section 11 outlet for breakfast.

I like it as it is usually quite crunchy! It's not too filling and it has the bits of vege in it which adds to the taste. The chutney they serve at Sri Paandi's is also quite nice. On some occasions, i found that they serve a special chutney - mint chutney! Now that's really nice!

Japanese dinner @ Sakae Sushi, Subang Jaya

It was a belated birthday celebration for me sis-in-law and we ended up at Subang Parade. I suggested going to Sakea Sushi since i knew she liked Japanese.

It was a Saturday night and there was a queue formed outside when we reached there. A good sign.

i was hungry and i started off with this before the mains arrived.

It was rice and mango wrapped with salmon. The mango went really well with it.

I had Chicken Katsu Curry rice. it was kinda small for me - yes, i'm comparing with the portions found at Misato, London (must blog about that another time). But it was nice. Typical Japanese curry. The photo was too blurry so i won't embarrass meself by putting it up!

Me sis-in-law had the Beef Bibimba - according to me sis, this is a Korean style dish.

Basically, the food is served on a hot stone bowl. Not too bad.

I ordered soft-shell crabs which were nice too.

And i really wanted to try their special makimonos - i ordered the Sunshine Maki - generally prawn in rice wrapped with mango. A wonderful blend of tastes. Nice!

Another plus point of this place is that they have kiddies sets too. Me niece had a 'Minibus' set!

Will definitely go there again. It came up to RM210 (around 30 quid) for 5 adults and 2 kids.

French fine dining @ Lemon Grass, PJ

I believe the name of the restaurant is Lemon Grass. It is actually part of the Taylor's School of Hospitality and Tourism. The students run the place and get practical training.

They were hosting the dinner at the end of the National Rounds of the LawAsia Moot Competition 2008. We were tired exhausted and just wanted to be fed and go home and sleep. Yeah, we were sore losers! Lol!

The table set-up. Looks good-eh?

We started off with some finger food. Nothing to shout about and the baguette base wasn't nice - 'lau foong' edi!

We had some not impressive mock-tails to quench our thirst too. I went for fruit juice after this and even that wasn't very nice.

Here's our menu for the night:-

Appetizer - Paprika oil seared scallops on yellow watermelon with coriander pesto, alfalfa sprouts and coconut lime foam.

I was ambivalent about this. Scallops were nice. It however din go too well with the watermelon.

This was followed by pumpkin soup (for details, refer to the menu above). No one around me liked the soup at all!

The main course - cod fillet on a bed of mash potatoes

I thought the fish was a bit... fishy (in cantonese, 'sang') but the rest din think so. Still, it was nice and fresh.

The best part tho was the mash potatoes. Lovely!

And finally, the desert! Mango and Passion fruit mousse cake, chocolate macaroon and citrus crème brûlée (burnt cream!).

The mousse cake was too sour for the guys and too sweet for the girls!!!

The remaining two were winners to all of us! Yup, end off on a high note. Only small complaint wiil be that they were too small!!! A good complaint, dun u think?