Sunday Roast

Our Sunday roast dinner: Roasted chicken with stuffing, cheddar mashed potatoes, boiled broccoli, carrots roasted parsnips and gravy.

The Sunday roast is a traditional British main meal served on Sunday (can be for either lunch or dinner), consisting of roasted meat (beef, lamb, pork, chicken or seasonal meat such as turkey or duck can be used), roasted potatoes accompanied with stuffing, vegetables, Yorkshire puddings and  gravy. 

This meal was probably my best Sunday roast dinner ever and a very good effort by Laughton for preparing such a tedious meal! Looking forward to next Sunday though! But no, I will be in Malaysia!! 

Dinner at Lala Chong, Old Subang Airport

May 19th, 2009

Dad and Kevin joined me to KL as we had to settle some college stuff for my brother as he just gotten his offer letter to study in KDU in culinary arts. We decided to head to Lala Chong at the old Subang Terminal airport for our dinner.

Me auntie

Lala Chong? We just had to order the "shiong tong" lala. Pretty good. I had dinner here once, the same dish but many years ago with an old friend of mine, CCY. I thought the dish looked like butterflies especially when they served it with some candles underneath and it looked so pretty. Okay for those new, I have a thing for butterflies; which probably explains the butterflies motives on my Roman blinds in my room at home.

Thai style tofu. Pretty good also. Nice flavour to it and the tofu was really smooth.

"Pat ku choy" or paku pakis in Malay stir fried with some tuna and some chillies. Hey this is really unique and tasty. Definitely a must order, a nice change from the usual yaw-mak with beancurd or typical greens stir fried with garlic. Highly recommended.

Steamed "patin" fish with some shredded ginger, garlic and soya sauce. This is a river fish, so not many people would like this. My dad loves this fish and he goes around searching for patin every single time. It was really tasty and we got a smaller-medium sized one and it was steamed just right. Look at the fins! Note: this fish can be a bit more fatty than the other usual type of fish. If you are a patin fan, do order this.
Another close up of the fish.

Steamed mantou buns to go with the crab dish.
The other sinful alternative: deep fried mantou buns.

Butter sauce crab. The sauce was very tasty and crab was also pretty good. I was too lazy to crack open the shells for the meat so I just had a small taste. I had a cracked tooth so it was kinda hurting me pretty badly so I decided not to further damage the tooth. Had crowning done the same week also!

Took this one after dinner. These are tilapia fishes and they can be quite good and very reasonably priced. Some would not like this as it can taste a little muddy also, just like the patin.
Anyway, it was a good dinner and the bill was just under RM200 I think, inclusive of drinks and a large bottle of Carlsberg.

My new found breakfast place, Section 17 PJ

Hello everyone, just to share a new discovery of a breakfast place nearby my place in Section 17, PJ. They serve the best Chang Jiang coffee in PJ I would say and we've been here many times and the food is great too!

This is one of the noodles variant that I had the other day, kuehtiow soup with fish paste and I ordered some extra pig's intestines to go with it. Oh it was a delicious combo! The fish paste was really good and those intestines were really good, was really fresh. The soup base was delicious too topped up with some fresh scallions and fried garlic.

Look at those intestines and fish paste combo. Awesome!
The tasty Chang Jian coffee! Oh it's a great alternative and much economical alternative to Starbucks.
They also serve the steamed kampung chicken. It was very smooth but for me, I prefer normal chicken to kampung chicken as the meat is more tender.

Dinner at Madam Kwan's and drinks at Vintry May 7,2009

It was a great night tonight, able to meet my two dearest friends from my Sunway College days and meeting up always turned out to be a rare opportunity as my gf, Mei Yee was always busy and always left me and CCY (the other guy in the picture that you will see later on) on our own. Haha, anyway it was always fun meeting them lot. For tonight's dinner we headed off to Mid Valley as CCY actually drove all the way for dinner from Bahau. We really appreciate his time , effort and of course plastic card! (thanks for paying the bills! :) )

I picked Madam Kwan's for something Malaysian as I was pretty sick with western food. Here we go, a photo of the ladies.

CCY and me.

3 of us together.

Claypot seafood beancurd to share.. It was quite nice.

I picked Nasi Bojari and they all ended up ordering the same! Delicious as usual! Yummy! Cost around RM24 if I am not mistaken. Huge portion just look at the whole chicken thigh.

We then headed off to Vintry, it's a wine bar nearby where I stayed and I kinda like it over there. CCY wanted to let me try their house cheesecakes as they did them in lychee and durians! He knows I would love to try anything with durian in it!

A bit of their deco and set up. Not too bad actually. Quite cosy.


Mei Yee, insisting to get me moving to the other side to take a photo, as it was her better (more hot) side. Haha, well you guys decide.
See how confident one is when they know its their best angle! :)

CCY and me again. What best angle? We looked great in any angles! Haha Mei Yee, don't get mad alright.
A glass of port for me and the lychee cheesecake and durian cheesecake for us to share. It was really good, we liked the lychee cheesecake as it was really unique and Mei Yee said it tasted like lychee. Haha she is really funny, we should probably label the cake next time and get her opinion again. Lychee cheesecake, of course taste like lychee LAH! :) The durian cheesecake was GOOD too. Thanks again CCY! Looking forward to the next outing!

Lychee on the left and durian on the right.

Lunch at Damansara Utama

My aunty took me to this restaurant nearby her office in Damansara Utama to try out the wan tan mee and this is just opposite Damansara Uptown and we had the yam cake for our starter and the homemade yam cake dipped with some chili sauce was really good!! Prices here are really reasonable too.

The Menglembu wan tan mee. I think it should be from a place or an area but whatever it is, it was good! Char siu was tasty and the noodles was abit springy or crunchy, accompanied by some nice wan tans. Overall, I will be back here again for sure!

Close up view. Yummy

Dinner at Ming Chun Kee, Section 17 PJ

I headed out to dinner with my aunty and May to a nearby restaurant just at Section 17 and the food is pretty good here and best part, the decent pricing. All three dishes for just about RM40! We ordered Japanese hot plate tofu, claypot curry fish head and spinach with dried scallops and anchovies.

Klang Bah Kut Teh

It was Labour's Day and it was also a public holiday over here in Malaysia so Chua, Angela, Amy and me decided to head to Klang for my "big tree" bah kut teh shop. I could vaguely remember how to get there and this is one of the place we used to frequent like 3 times a week during some audit period for one of my audit clients. We called it the big tree shop because this place had a big tree within the compound, and seriously it was BIG. I only take the dry version of the bah kut teh here in this shop. When I come to this shop, the below dishes are almost standard dishes for me, I must order them! Probably because I think they are just fantastic. We had a pork siesta that day, judging by the photos haha.

Below, entry #1- Original bah kut teh.

Check out those meat!
Entry #2- Dry version bah kut teh. Awesome!

Entry #3. Fresh romaines. We needed some greens to make us feel less guilty.
Entry #4- Steamed tofus with fishballs.

This was how my plate looked like. No, actually more food was piled up. :) We had a great time, great companion and of course, great food. Bill came up to around RM50 and thanks to Chua for lunch!

Typical day at home, March 12, 2009

I missed home and home is great! My typical day in Melaka is basically getting up at about 7 or 8 am, yes I know that sounds crazy, I actually wake up earlier than I did when I was working in KL or even Bermuda. I think this is simply because I am asleep latest by 11pm; I like the lifestyle, early to bed and rise up early. Maybe I am jet-lagged. I don't know. Plus the weather is simply too hot for me to be hanging out in the open-air cafes. I rather be at home with the air-conditioner turned on FULL blast! My sinus and allergy was getting worse too, just as I reached home; I think it is the "hayfever" and I get terrible runny and blocked nose and itchy and watery eyes. I remembered the last trip when we came back to Malaysia in July 2008, my eyes were irritated by the water here. Hmmm, maybe takes time to get used to the water. Should be alright soon I suppose. Anyway, I keep popping in "Actifed" twice daily, so I am drowsy most of the time and probably explain me getting into bed so early!

Okay, this is currently one of our favourite dinner place- coffee shop that serves duck noodles and they are the best in town! Below is a picture, after me stirring them all up. Yummy! It is an asian type of flat rice noodle with bean sprout, scallion, pork lard and of course, shredded duck meat!!

This is how the duck noodles should look like prior to stirring and of course, topped up with extra red chilli sauce!

And no visit here is complete without extra order of braised pork intestine and fried tou-fu. Oh they are really delicious! I told my dad I could probably eat this everyday!

Desert- Leng chee kang.

Here is a picture taken with my sister, Laura.

One with me Mum.

My sister Belle and my precious doggie- Nugget.

One with Mak.

Again with Mum.

Another with Daddy who obliged though unpleased as it was a little too candid for him.