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2009-11-02 at 18:42
· Filed under 6.0 - 6.9, Dinner, Eat, GPS, Indian, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian, Pork Free ·Tagged chicken, curry, putu mayam
... putu mayam sans the brown sugar and coconut flake.
... 1 of the best fried chicken in town, despite it was already cold.
Rating: 6.5/10
Though I still prefer my putu mayam with brown sugar and coconut flake combination, but this wasn’t too bad either. Mainly because the curry was quite nice, and the dhal was especially nice as well. The fried chicken was consistent to what I’ve had the last couple of times, though it was cold, most of the time. I have to spot the right time when the chicken was freshly fried. Then, according to AC, the chicken would be much nicer by a few hundred thousand folds.
Location: N3 07.192 E101 34.765
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2009-10-29 at 13:16
· Filed under 6.0 - 6.9, Eat, GPS, Halal, Indian, Lunch, Maiden Experience, Non-vegetarian ·Tagged banana leaf, chicken, fish, fish egg, lamb, papadam, rice, squid
... lamb on left, chicken on right.
... fried chicken.
... fried fish eggs and squids
... fish cutlets.
... rice on banana leaf with limitless papadam.
... according to MSF, these were fried bittergourd. Though they weren't bitter at all.
Rating: 6/10
The place was packed with crowds. The people keep coming and going, throughout lunch hours. MSF told us that they don’t use MSG in their food, hence the mildly flavoured gravies and stuff. The lamb was like quite normal, though the curry chicken was nice and tender. The fried chicken was disappointing. Fried fish egg was something new to me, though I don’t really like it. As for my favourite fried squids, it was pretty… tastely. Not salted at all.
The bill came up to RM80 for the 4 of us. Seems pretty steep for the amount of food served.
Location: N3 06.099 E101 39.226
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2009-09-06 at 07:49
· Filed under 0 and below, 4.0 - 4.9, 6.0 - 6.9, 7.0 - 7.9, Breakfast, Chinese, Drink, Eat, GPS, Indian, Maiden Experience, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian ·Tagged beef, rojak, cuttlefish, noodle, vermicelli, marinated pork, hakka mee, kopi-o
Rushed to Seremban early this morning for some breakfast in the wet market. According to AT’s eating magazine, there were some nice food stalls there worth trying.
... gotta have a black coffee to boost my day, starting so early in the morning.
... this was 1 of the items introduced in the eating magazine, vermicelli with squids.
Rating: 6.5/10
This vermicelli was quite different from what I usually have. Instead of clear soup, I was served with a brownish soup, which was quite salty in its nature. Then there were some cuttlefish strips and best of all, those sliced porks. The vermicelli itself was not very well prepared. It has the smell of raw vermicelli, which I don’t like. The sliced porks were very nice marinated. I guess I could just eat that all day long. Should have been called the marinated pork vermicelli instead.
... the specialty of the stall was dried beef noodle, instead of the soup one though.
Rating: 0/10
AT went to order a bowl of beef noodle. She mistakenly ordered the soup noodle, instead of the dried one, which was recommended by the magazine. I had a few sips of the soup, which was very plain and watery, unlike any beef noodle’s soup I’ve had. I heard the noodle was home made too. I supposed that was to attracts more people to try it out with the notion that it was healthier? Anyway, I give it a zero because a bowl of beef noodle from Teppanyaki would’ve tasted much better. Perhaps it was her trick of leaving something behind, so we could have something to yearn for on our next visit.
... it contains pork in it and special concoction of gravy.
Rating: 7/10
I was quite tempted by the rojak’s photos in the magazine. AT said it was just a few stalls away from the stall selling vermicelli. Despite feeling a little full already, I went ahead to try it out. How often would I be visiting the wet market so early in the morning, let alone the one in Seremban’s? I was glad I did went ahead and be a glutton. This rojak (pasembur) was unlike any of those that I find in KV. It was served with pork (not the meat) in it and has five-spice powder in it, which made the gravy so special. Though it was quite spicy by comparison. Something worth a second try or takeaway.
... after those, we went around the stalls to go for Tow Kee's Hakka Mee.
Rating: 4/10
I’m not a big fan of Hakka Mee, but since it was highly recommended, we went ahead and gave it a try. Initial impression was, it was very salty. I felt a slight tingling on my tongue. I was guessing it was due to the used of alkaline in the preparation of the noodle or it has way too much salty. Somehow EL and AT can’t feel that, but they loved the soup on the beef noodle though. My comment for this noodle? It was nothing extraordinary as I could get similar stuff in Glenmarie.
That’s about wrap it up for our breakfast in Seremban. A day which I woke up so early and I still can’t believe it myself.
PS: will update the stall numbers when I got them from EL or AT.
Location: N2 43.840 E101 56.200
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2009-08-29 at 13:11
· Filed under 6.0 - 6.9, Eat, GPS, Indian, Lunch, Maiden Experience, Non-vegetarian ·Tagged mee goreng
This was one of the eating places that recommended by EL. His first remark was, “Those Indian guys can speak fluent Hokkien.” I find it rather amusing and got no idea what I was getting into, but I could only pray for the best. Some of them asked if it was spicy, but so far in my life, I’ve never had a mamak/Indian’s mee goreng which is spicy or very spicy.
... spinning the wok like a top.
... Indian mee goreng. Very reddish.
Rating: 6/10
The reddish appearance was quite surprising for all of us. I guess this only exclusively available in Penang. Taste wise, it was quite nice, a little bit sweetened. The chilli wasn’t spicy, but it tends to burn the mouth after consuming it. I guess it was like mee rebus, but the noodle was stir fried along with the gravy until the gravy was dried. In conclusion, something different than your usual stuff. Not sure if this is Halal or not, didn’t pay attention to any Halal certification on the stall or the shop.
Location: N5 25.882 E100 18.733
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2009-07-11 at 12:36
· Filed under 6.0 - 6.9, Eat, GPS, Halal, Indian, Lunch, Maiden Experience, Non-vegetarian ·Tagged fried chicken, hard boiled egg, rice
... nasi kandar with nice fried chicken.
Rating: 6.5/10
My sister said the fried chickens here were nice, so we came here to pack some chickens back home for lunch. Seeing that the business was so good, I decided to have a pack of rice takeaway. The mixed gravy were quite nice too. At least once of them was sweet gravy, similar to Saji’s. The chickens weren’t crispy but the taste was good. Overall was nice if only there were more gravy as there were too much rice.
Location: N4 01.519 E101 01.024
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2009-05-09 at 13:41
· Filed under 5.0 - 5.9, Drink, Eat, GPS, Halal, Indian, Lunch, Maiden Experience, Non-vegetarian ·Tagged curry, iced lime, roti telur
I was joining AC for a car test drive. While we have some time to spare for a quick lunch. He recommended this place to go along with my strict diet.
... adhering strictly to my diet, getting an iced lime again.
... AC said this place served pretty good roti telur, so I had to try it. The curry was good though.
Rating: 5.5/10
The roti was nothing to shout about, but I do like the curry there. Perhaps a little more curry would made everything tastes better.
Location: N3 03.910 E101 34.690
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2009-05-06 at 09:29
· Filed under 5.0 - 5.9, Breakfast, Drink, Eat, GPS, Indian, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian, Pork Free ·Tagged iced lime, tosai egg, tosai telur
I’ve lost count of my number of days of strict diet. Anyway, I’ve already finished my medications. I hope these were acceptable diet to meet my strict diet requirements.
... again, I'm drinking iced lime only rather than iced tea.
... I hope tosai egg is a permissible diet.
Rating: 5/10
Location: N3.11003 E101.60332
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2009-05-01 at 08:57
· Filed under 5.0 - 5.9, Breakfast, Eat, GPS, Halal, Indian, Maiden Experience, Vegetarian ·Tagged roti planta
Going for a 2D1N trip to Ipoh, but before that, I need to take my medication. So I told KCWK that I needed to eat something before embarking on a out-of-jail (for him) journey to Ipoh. He suggested the nearby mamak restaurant.
... 2nd breakfast on my strict diet. I supposed margarine is acceptable.
Rating: 5/10
It’s been ages since I last had roti planta. I don’t know what prompted me to order a roti planta instead of roti kosong or roti telur as my usual order. Anyhow, I knew that I could take butter or margarine. Probably that’s why I went with roti planta. The taste was acceptable and it was crunchy. I guess it has sugar in it. I remembered the last time why I ditched roti planta was because it was very oily on my last encounter. The molten margarine was leaking out from my piece of roti, literally.
Food was served on banana leaves, despite what you ordered, except for drinks, of course. It was pretty neat actually. Unfortunately, the service was super sucked! The place wasn’t that crowded when we were there, but we had to call for the waiter over and over and over and over … (repeat 873289324x) before 1 voluntarily waiter willing to serve us. What’s with these staffs man?
Location: N3 11.511 E101 38.310
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2009-04-30 at 09:25
· Filed under 6.0 - 6.9, Breakfast, Drink, Eat, GPS, Indian, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian, Pork Free
Today is the start of my somewhat healthy diet. I’ve been thinking, whether roti telur with onion would be a suitable diet. Come to think of it, they are considered acceptable based on the reference list I got from my doctor. Besides, it’s been weeks since my last visit to CS Restaurant.
... ordered iced lime insted of iced tea.
... I guess roti telur with egg and onion should be a permissable diet.
Rating: 6/10
Instead of my usual iced tea, I had to order iced lime. Coffee, tea and cocoa are not permitted in my diet. Say bye bye to my chocolates for a month! For my roti telur banjir, which I asked for curry, he go and mixed it with a little bit of dhal and sambal ikan bilis (anchovy).
Location: N3 06.594 E101 36.208
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2009-03-07 at 18:36
· Filed under 7.0 - 7.9, Eat, Halal, Indian, Maiden Experience, Snack, Vegetarian
I couldn’t stress enough on how much I like to eat pappadam (only good ones). I don’t know what’s the reason behind it but I just never get bored eating them. It must be has contained cocaine in it. Though I really hated those square types. So I will only eat those round types. Though different nasi kandar place serves different taste of pappadam, but I do try to stick with those places that serves round type pappadam so that I could take the opportunity to fulfill my cravings.
I’ve always wanted to buy pappadam and bring it back hometown to fry, because it’s inconvenient for me to do it here at the rented apartment. But most of the time, I’ve forgotten to do it buy them. In fact, this time was the first time I’m buying the pappadam, which I’ve got no idea how it looked like in raw form. So, I was hunting blindly in Carrefour one afternoon. I tooked 2 packs of Carrefour brand pappadam at first. Fortunately, I met my company’s tea lady, Achi there. She showed me where to get other brands. She mentioned that Taj Mahal one is nice. So she showed me the way. Unfortunately, Carrefour only carry Lingam’s brand and their own Carrefour brand. So I only bought 1 of each brand for testing.
The result came out really bad and my parents has had bad impression on my tastebud. They said it was very salty. I tried a few of Lingam’s pappadam, it was indeed very salty. It wasn’t the kind of pappadam that I was expecting. It was darker than the usually light yellowish pappadam. It even has the flour taste in it. While the Carrefour one, I had to get it refunded because it has expired.
Then, 1 find day, while shopping in TF, I managed to find Taj Mahal pappadam. I was overjoyed and danced on top of the trolley. Hence I sapu a lot of them back this time with excuse that I’d like to share them with my fellow colleagues.
... these Taj Mahal pappadam were introduced by my company's tea lady.
... if it's that good, don't mind buying more to try.
... looked just like what I used to have when I have my nasi kandar.
Rating: 7/10
Yes, it was indeed very good! The taste and fragrance were just right, except it was still very salty. My mum can’t stop nagging on how I shouldn’t eat so much of these because it was so salty but she can’t stop popping them into her mouth while frying them. A show sign that pappadam is irresistible. Her excuse? She’d consume more so that I don’t eat that much. Yeah, right! lol
Just leave them in the tray after frying so that the frying oil would soak into the kitchen wipe. Then your pappadam would ended up drier and taste better. Don’t worry about them getting all soggy for getting exposed in the air for too long. I think you might have a 20-30mins of window after frying. Perhaps avoid frying them when it’s rainy day when the humidity is higher.
I hope I could try out the Carrefour pappadam next time while still stocking up on Taj Mahal’s pappadams!
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