... fried balitong, something I've never had for a very very long time.
... roasted pigeon, a rarity in local food courts.
Rating: 7/10
Went to nearby food court with EL after an XM session. He said there’s nice roasted pigeon there. So we went to try and we ordered both roasted pigeon and fried balitong. Roasted pigeon was nice, the outer layer was sweet, glazed in honey. The meat was salted and seasoned with cinnamon powder as well. The fried balitong was nice too, reminds me of my childhood.
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
... sea coconut longan drink.
... plain nasi lemak.
Rating: 7/10
I was there early expecting to have a plate of satisfying nasi lemak with nice fried chicken. Unfortunately, the fried chicken only available from 2pm onward. At least I get to know that the stall opens even during lunch time and even better, there’s fried chicken during lunch, on Saturday.
Location: N3 04.360 E101 35.356
Today I celebrate PCL’s belated birthday. Brought her to Sunway Pyramid for some shrimpy actions. We came here once long long ago, which I didn’t not blog about. And back then, it was newly opened and do not accepts credit cards. Which surprised both of us. Past experience told us that, this place has some really nice tasting shrimps, not because they were very fresh, but the preparation method was excellent.
... PCL ordered the Bourbon Street Baramundi.
... while I ordered the Shrimp New Orleans.
Rating: 7/10
It was difficult to choose which was better from the 2 choices that we made. The Bourbon Street Baramundi has the shrimps all stripped naked of its shells, soaked in special mixed sauce. Garnish with a big slap of mashed potato acupuntured with stripped tortillas. There were some fish fillet laid over the mashed potato, which was similar in colour. Fish fillet was mildly grilled to retains its moist. Though the fish fillets weren’t very fresh because PCL was irking over the foul smell emitting from this type of fish.
As for the Shrimp New Orleans, the shrimps were half shelled and sauteed over garlic butter sauce. The shrimps have good fragrance to it because of the sauteed garlic butter, which soaked deep into the shrimp’s meat. This style reminds me of the Cajun Shrimp I once had on my first visit here. It even has a similar piece of garlic bread on it. The only difference was, this has a bowl of rice over it. The sauce from the effect of sauteed was good to be eaten together with the rice.
The shrimps used weren’t overly fresh, though they could’ve been better. But the preparation methods was great, which made everything tastes quite nice. Based on my first experience, do stay away from fried shrimps in batter. They aren’t nice.
Without taking the price into consideration, it could easily score a well 8/10 on it because they were quite good, especially the sauteed items. But the price was indeed a bit steep just for a lunch. And the nature of this diet was really bad. I bet my strict diet monitor was wailing.
... probably the best prawn mee I've had in KV. Not that I've tried all, but best thus far.
... as according to EL, this is Penang's style by adding in law mee's gravy. But then again, EL is mainlander.
Rating: 7/10
The prawn noodle mix with law mee’s gravy was something new to me. EL has been repeatedly asking me if I tried any of the hokkien mee (which is called prawn mee here) when I was in Penang. Though, the prawn mee was already good by itself. The soup was thick enough and very tasty. I didn’t even finish my chilli paste that was provided due to the sufficient tasting soup base. With the added gravy, it made the soup even saltier. The gravy was really salty. Perhaps it was just good for its original purpose.
Location: N3 06.468 E101 37.496
Went for a quick dinner nearby the place we stay. Yet again, I’m at the Fishing Village seafood restaurant for the second time.
... a few big prawns, enough for the few of us, especially when I was still on strict diet.
... this plate of vege was very small portion and it was very salty.
... Teo Chew style steamed fish.
... my favourite dish, black pepper fried squids.
... Tom Yam style vermicelli.
Rating: 7.5/10
This time, the salted egg yolk prawns weren’t that good, despite I was comparing to the one I had the first time, which was already cold and slightly sweetened. The fish was acceptable with the soup right on spot. Fortunately, the soup wasn’t as devastating as the one we had in Yan Yan A One’s. Then my favourite black pepper fried squids. This time, the squids was not fully deep fried, it was a tad less crunchy than those I had last time. Finally, the tom yam vermicelli was acceptable, but it was a bit sweet though which I find it rather odd.
Location: N5 27.595 E100 12.822
Finally, the place where people would say phrase like, “you’ve not visited Penang if you haven’t been there.” Yes, the infamous Lorong Selamat’s fried kuey teow. Before I was even there, EL has been telling me how Penangites would never patronise that place due to its exuberant charges on a plate of fried kuey teow with bigger than usual prawns. Anyway, according to my GPS’ Point of Interest, the description was “a diva with red cap and goggle.” That’s intriguing.
... finally, we were here.
... the auntie that wore a red cap and goggle when doing her magic.
... fried kuey teow was cooked with charcoal.
... finally, after waiting for more than 90 minutes.
Rating: 7.5/10
It took us more than 90 minutes for our 4 plates of fried kuey teow. Apparently, they have fucked up the order, despite having the plates stacked in chronological order. When our fried kuey teow was served, the most apparent thing would be the 3 big prawns lying on top of the flat noodles. Fragrance wise, it wasn’t anything fancy. Fortunately, the taste was good. It wasn’t as salty as the one I had last night and the fragrance from the pork lard was good. As for the price of the dish, it was RM6.80 for a small sized one. I have had no complains because I don’t have it often. Since I was a tourist there, I guess I have to do what a tourist gotta do. At least the taste was good despite all the waiting.
Location: N5 25.026 E100 19.477
The first time I had a really nice BBQ pork was at Ming Kee in Glenmarie, which was a branch from the infamous shop from KL. But as time passes, it got worse and worse until I stop going there. Then recently, AC told me about this place with really really really nice BBQ pork. He always wet the blanket whenever he talks about the BBQ pork. Finally, this fine weekends, we managed to squeeze some time and visit the shop for some BBQ pork actions. As he always say, I can’t have the pork, so I should only just take the noodle, mocking me and my strict diet.
... a place which AC don't remember. All he does was remember the BBQ pork here.
... the highly acclaimed BBQ pork.
... hakka noodle is 1 of the food served there.
Rating: 7.5/10
The BBQ pork was indeed very nice. Tasted very much like the Ming Kee BBQ pork which I’ve had last time. Though it tend to get very sticky. It got really troublesome especially when the meat got stuck in between teeth and on the molars. The noodle was nothing to shout about. I’ll try out the rice on my next visit. Definitely a place that I’ll go again, since it’s quite near to where I stay and I could have some nice BBQ pork. The portion given for 4 pax was quite a lot too and inexpensive, at least for now.
EL is so going to complain about me consuming meat again. As different circumstances call for different measure. If I don’t take the first step, how would he know there’s such nice BBQ pork just around the hood, right?
Location: N3 07.113 E101 35.934
... homemade fried squids.
Rating: 7/10
Squids were given by our neighbour and my mum soaked them in batter and had them deep fried. Result: AWESOME!
Yup, there goes my strict diet. Anyway, I just had a few pieces and I skipped my dinner due to my rather heavy breakfast.
Had a very late lunch today because I was waiting for AC’s call. When he finally calls, it was almost 3pm. Anyway, went to meet him up and have lunch nearby the place. He recommended stuff from the morning market, which apparently most of the stalls were closed. Of course they were, it’s already half way through noon. So we ended up in Medan Selera instead.
... entrance to Medan Selera from the market's side.
... cendol served in cups. Look at the amount of cendol on that cup.
Rating: 7/10
Cendol was nice. Aside from it being served on a cup, there were nothing much to complain about. Though I was hoping gula melaka was being used but the brown sugar used wasn’t all bad. The red beans has the roasted fragrance to it. Though it’s a bit too sweet, only a bit. Much much more better than road side’s Indian’s cendol. I’d come back here for a quick fix of cendol whenever I feel like it.
... fruits rojak which took more than 10 minutes to prepare.
... popia and fried tofu.
... take a peek into the popia and fried tofu.
Rating: 6/10
Fruits rojak was acceptable. At least it was better than Jalan Ipoh YTF’s rojak. There were plenty of water spinach in it. The only complain I had was, instead of giving large pieces of crackers, it was served in shattered pieces of crackers, which doesn’t have much tasting to it.
Popia was quite nice, though it lacked the taste of red sweet sauce. It was moist and juicy, with the same crackers used in rojak found in it. Despite it was soft, the fillings don’t fall apart as I pick it up with my chopsticks. I guess the auntie who made this has years of experience in making good popia. I’ve got nothing much to talk about on the fried tofu though. Probably not overly sweetened by the sweet sauce in it, like most fried tofu do.
After having so many sweet stuff, cendol, rojak, popia and the filling in fried tofu were sweet too. I was stuck with either ordering a mee jawa or chicken rice. Mee jawa was more suitable for my strict diet because of the lacked of meat, but I ended up with chicken rice anyway because I wouldn’t want another sweet food.
