Archive for 3.0 - 3.9
2009-10-04 at 13:47
· Filed under 3.0 - 3.9, Drink, GPS, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian, Pork Free, Tea Break, Western ·Tagged Belgian chocolate, macadamia nut
After our lunch, we adjourned to our usual favourite place in Solaris.
... Häagen-Dazs Shake of Belgian Chocolate and Macadamia Nuts.
Rating: 3/10
It came with a chocolate stick biscuit, which I thought was a straw. It was so thick that my straw could stand on it on and the straw was even being pushed upward by the viscosity of the liquid. I guess I had the wrong choice of mixing Belgian Chocolate with Macadamia Nuts. I was having sore throat drinking this as the Belgian Chocolate was still too strong for my liking. It was very sweet and diabetic. Perhaps I’ll go with Choc Choc Chips next time. But at RM23.90 (excluding taxes) per cup, it’s rather costly I might say.
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Location: N3 10.544 E101 39.599 (estimation)
*Photo courtesy of Damien Loong
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2009-08-31 at 11:24
· Filed under 3.0 - 3.9, Chinese, Drink, GPS, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian, Pork Free, Snack ·Tagged snow fungus, tong sui
After our breakfast, we went to SS2 for dessert. EL wanted KTZ, but I told him that KTZ won’t be opens until 12:30pm. Then we adjourned to nearby tong sui shop at the row of shop behind McDonald’s.
... EL's guai ling gou. He said it was very bitter.
... AT's egg custard.
... my favourite snow fungus with red dates tong sui.
Rating: 3/10
My snow fungus tong sui was quite runny. I remembered it was quite nice few years back when I had it. I guess things change.
Location: N3 07.022 E101 37.280 (est)
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2009-08-30 at 13:45
· Filed under 3.0 - 3.9, Chinese, Eat, GPS, Lunch, Maiden Experience, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian ·Tagged clay pot, crab, fish, rice, spare rib, vegetable
This place was recommended to me by a fellow colleague, cause he came across a flogger’s article regarding the food here and thought I might be interested to give it a try. On the day we were heading back to KV, we stopped by here for lunch, sacrificing the much talked about yam rice, which was not far away.
... the place with double standard name. I thought I was lost at first.
... vege, which was similar to what we get yesterday, small portion.
... Guinness Stout spare ribs.
... the famous dish at this place, the clay pot crab rice.
... fish with kuay teow in it.
Rating: 3/10
The vegetable, similar to our dinner last night, was very small in portion. Fortunately, it wasn’t as salty as the one we had last night. The spare ribs cooked in Guinness Stout was rather disappointing. I would be expecting it to be better than those I could find in KV, unfortunately, it has plenty of fats or skins. I can’t really distinguish if they were fats or skins under those colour, which made the whole chewing experience really bad. Besides, the taste wasn’t that good either. Any one of those Guinness Stout spare ribs I had in KV is better than this.
Everyone seems to be ordering the same thing, the clay pot crab rice. Unfortunately, it doesn’t taste any good at all. The rice, which seemed similar to other clay pot rice, darkened with soya sauce. Somehow, the rice was tasteless to me. With the crabs being placed on top of the rice and cooked in the clay pot, I was expecting the rice to have the sweetness of the crab’s essence. Similar to the fried vermicelli with crab, which made the whole vermicelli smells very crabby. When I have the crab, the meat was tasteless too. I’m not sure if it was due to the lacked of freshness of the crab, or the crab just crappy. Meat wise, they certainly wasn’t that bad, but it just tasteless. I wondered what happened.
Lastly, the fish was still acceptable. Somehow, the choi bou was not crispy. Maybe they turned soggy after I took my photos? The bill came up to RM92 for the 5 of us, which took us completely off guard, as our dinner last night cost us only RM101.
The order was made based on CK Lam’s recommendations at What2See. Somehow, I’m sensing that she shares the same sentiment with KY Speaks when it comes to food.
Location: N5 16.437 E100 27.457
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2009-08-28 at 20:33
· Filed under 3.0 - 3.9, 6.0 - 6.9, Chinese, Dinner, Eat, GPS, Maiden Experience, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian ·Tagged duck, fried kuey teow
First stop was a fried kuey teow in one of the street off Chulia Street. But the stall was not opened and rumoured that the uncle whom cook there has passed away. Hence we were detoured to another place by DL’s colleague.
... any of the fried kuey teow there tastes better than most of those in KV.
Rating: 6.5/10
The fried kuey teow here wasn’t too shabby. The style was quite similar to the one I had in Ipoh at Sin Lean Lee, with its egg fried at the bottom of the wok and scooped up later. Hence the flat dish looking bits of fried egg. The flavour was good, except that the first thing I tasted was, salty. It was salty beyond my expectations. Most of us agreed to it being too salty while DL finds it right on spot. Told him, his ciggy gonna kill his taste bud.
... it has square kuey teow in it with duck meat and chicken egg. Seems to be a local delicacy for Penangites.
Rating: 3.5/10
I was quite afraid of having this because it contains duck meat in it. Very bad for my strict diet. Anyway, I had a small piece just for tasting. Fortunately, not something that I’d fancy. Instead of duck egg, chicken egg was used, for a bowl of flat-noodle-mix (koay chap) (loosely translated from Hokkien).
Location: N5 24.990 E100 19.969
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2009-08-24 at 13:08
· Filed under 3.0 - 3.9, Eat, GPS, Lunch, Maiden Experience, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian, Pork Free, Thai ·Tagged fried rice
... Bangkok fried rice.
Rating: 3/10
I’m not sure what I was eating. The fried rice was pretty bland. The meat with sauce was close to tasteless. Fortunately, the fried egg was quite nice, though it wasn’t enough to make up for the shortfall of the rice. The portion was very big. Found that out when I flatten the rice.
Location: N3 04.118 E101 36.126
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2009-08-23 at 17:48
· Filed under 3.0 - 3.9, Chinese, Eat, Halal, Maiden Experience, Snack, Vegetarian ·Tagged Chinese crullers, mix bun, porridge
... tempted to have light snack because KCWK once said the food here was nice.
Rating: 3.5/10
Had the porridge set, which comes with a porridge and Chinese crullers for only RM3.90. Then I order an extra mix bun as I’m a sucker for that. The porridge was really runny, no wonder I got hungry so soon. The crullers were still quite crispy even they’ve been on the shelf for a while. Though they were really really oily. The mix bun was a disappointment. I was expecting the glutinous rice to be harder and sweeter, instead this was very soft and almost like sticky flour, which I don’t like.
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2009-07-06 at 13:21
· Filed under 3.0 - 3.9, Drink, Eat, GPS, Lunch, Malay, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian, Pork Free, Vietnamese ·Tagged black jelly, kaya butter toast, mee jawa, soya bean, vietnamese noodle
... a tribute to Michael Jackson.
... just wanna try out all the stuff there, so side orders like this can't escape.
... I swear they called it the Jawa Mee there.
... TSL ordered the Vietnamese Noodle.
Rating: 3.5/10
My cup of black jelly soya bean wasn’t sweet enough. Soya milk taste was pretty runny, making it rather tasteless. As for the kaya butter toast, it wasn’t even comparable to Uncle Lim’s toast. Lacked of any kaya and butter taste. The only thing nice was the bread was actually crispy. Though that doesn’t warrant a second chance. The Jawa Mee was bad. It was salty. The good stuff was, there were plenty of crispy crackers and it was served hot. The Vietnamese noodle, as according to TSL, it was sour and very salty. I’ve always thought Vietnamese noodle supposed to be sour and sweet. Hmmm…
Stuff to avoid: today’s items, all of them.
Location: N3 04.893 E101 35.417
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2009-06-19 at 13:08
· Filed under 0 and below, 3.0 - 3.9, 6.0 - 6.9, Chinese, Eat, GPS, Halal, Maiden Experience, Non-vegetarian ·Tagged fried bean curd, fried kuey teow, fruits rojak, yong tau fu
PG begged me for lunch today, sort of, because he was in Toyota waiting for his car to be serviced. Something which took him a whole day. Since I’m so nice, so I decided to pick him up from there and let him join my colleagues for lunch. At first, I thought I’d only get a few people from my side and go for lunch, later it turns out that there were 9 of us in a total of 2 cars, hogging this place. This was the first time I’ve been here with such large group of people.
... ALGJ ordered this halal yong tau fu.
Rating: 0/10
This was downright the worst yong tau fu I’ve ever tasted. The chilli sauce was nothing and the sweet sauce was bad too. The bean curd skin with fish ball was bad too. Don’t even get me started on the soup. The bad ass-ness of this was comparable to the chee cheong fun stall in SS2 by the road side. They were both probably operated by the same people or relatives to each other.
... my favourite fried kuey teow of all time, despite it was halal.
Rating: 6.5/10
I was glad my plate of fried kuey teow was rather nice today. Despite the egg yolk was punctured, as usual. ALGJ got a bad copy as she got her plate of fried kuey teow much earlier than me. I let her tasted mine, she said mine was better, while hers and LGFL’s copy was charred badly. I thought the fried kuey teow fat lady has finally got her act together by keeping up with her consistency. I guess she still flops once a while. Fortunately, she doesn’t flop on my plate. Kudos!
... fried bean curd with stuffing.
... fruits rojak from the same stall as the fried bean curd.
Rating: 3.5/10
Fried bean curd was nothing to shout about. The taste was mediocre. The good thing was, the fillings didn’t spill out as I pick it up with my chopsticks. Unlike some fried bean curd place, they put mines in it. Once you had your chopsticks over it, the fillings will explode right onto your face. The same sweet sauce was used on the rojak as well. It was lacking in the prawn paste taste that I preferred. The crackers were nearly non-existence. Too precious to give more, perhaps.
Location: N3 05.716 E101 36.331
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2009-06-10 at 13:15
· Filed under 3.0 - 3.9, Drink, Eat, GPS, Lunch, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian, Pork Free, Western ·Tagged aglio olio, fish, HK yinyong, potato wedges, spaghetti
I told PCL about the new menu in Full House last week and she wanted to come. Unfortunately, I can’t make it for another round of Full House. This week, she was available for lunch, so we make a stop at Full House.
... HK yinyong which wasn't hot enough.
... I ordered a fish & wedges.
... PCL's aglio olio spaghetti.
Rating: 3.5/10
The fish & wedges I had was quite bad. Though my strict diet insisted that I should only have a small piece the most. The rest of them went into PCL’s plate. The fish, the common Dory fish, it stinks, as usual. The aglio olio spaghetti, which was very nice the last time I had it, was a little less salted today. But it was still good, better than Michelangelo’s aglio olio.
Location: N3.11497 E101.58974
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2009-05-24 at 14:01
· Filed under 3.0 - 3.9, Chinese, Drink, Eat, Lunch, Maiden Experience, Non-halal, Non-vegetarian ·Tagged barley, fish ball, fried bean curd skin, pumpkin
DL asked for lunch today, along with MH. He suggested to have wanton noodle at Koon Kee in Petaling Street. But as he picked me up, he changed his mind again. The ever fickle minded DL said we were going for roasted pork in Pudu. He get my assurance if I could eat that. As if I got a choice when he’s around, not like he’d go all vegetarian. Anyway, I said it’s alright if I’d just have very little of it.
Unfortunately, when we were there, the shop Wong Mee Kee was closed. So we settle for the nearby yong tau fu instead.
... this exceptional iced barley has some mix of pumpkin in it.
... mixture of yong tau fu.
... only fried bean curd skin YTF and the pork intestine are visible here.
Rating: 3/10
The iced barley with streaks of pumpkin was rather nice. The soup was not bad but the fried yong tau fu weren’t good at all. According to DL, it has mixed of salted fish in the meatball stuffed into the fried bean curd skin, which I find it rather odd and unappetizing. Usually, with lousy food, it would have been accompanied by excellent condiments. Unfortunately, the condiments, both chili and the sweet sauce were both very watery. Definitely not the kind of yong tau fu that I’d come back again.
Location: N3 08.345 E101 42.690
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