Nasi lemak Antarabangsa

April 30th, 2009

I finally managed to meet my dear friend Louisa on that night after being home for 2 months! I was always either busy with my family or sorting stuff out for them so this time I managed to spend longer time in KL on my own. I was so pleased to see her, Nat and Simon. I used to hang out a lot with them during my days working in KL. Would never forget how much support she had for me throughout those years. Thank you Lou!! Anyway we met in Coffee Bean @ Bangsar Village and then headed off to Nasi Lemak Antarabangsa shop which just opened across the road. I think we used to come to this shop, it was Angel's those days and we used to come here for the mamak mee goreng. I have heard a lot about the nasi lemak antarabangsa, but have not had the opportunity to try it yet until today! Lou ordered the massive ice-kacang for us four to share and also a nasi lemak for us to share.

Check out the ice kacang tower! It was massive and I know why she said it tasted good and you don't need additional topping of syrup... because it was so sweet! haha. Overall I think this is quite good, think it was less than RM5.

Here comes the main star. Nasi lemak topped up with deep fried paru (cow's lungs?) and sambal sotong kembang. Oh best. The nasi lemak sambal was really good and I enjoyed the sotong. I thought the paru was disgusting, well maybe I am just not used to it as the others enjoyed it alot! All these for about RM7? Pretty decent I would say and I would definitely come back as I think it's much more convenient to come here than Wendy trying to find her way to Nasi lemak antarabangsa in KL. Gee, I would never find that place. Out of my range..

pardon the photo quality as it was taken with my basic nokia camera. :)

Meatball noodles at Section 17 coffee shop

April 30th, 2009

I was probably still in dreamland when my friend, Zin buzzed me and said he was almost reaching my place and told me to get ready for breakfast. I was like what??!!?? I managed to just got freshen up quickly and he still had to wait for me before we finally got to the coffeeshop nearby where I used to live, nearby the market in Section 17, PJ. We had the meatball noodles and it was good. Still tasted like it used to be, though slightly pricier this time. I think it was around RM4.50.

Noodles served with black sauce and topped up with minced meat and chinese sausages and freshly cut scallions.

Accompanied by a bowl of pepper-ish soup with meatballs.

Of course, not forgetting to eat the noodles with some green pickled chillies! Yummy!
I just wondered why they can't serve simple meals like that in overseas? Just eggs and toasts? Well, there's a price to pay for everything I suppose.. :)

Roasted duck for lunch

May 10th, 2009

Mum was in KL after her Penang trip and we decided to go for lunch with my Aunty and May. After turning around aimlessly, we picked Sunrise for their roasted duck! I used to frequent this place those years and I love the roasted duck here. Best! Only complaint would be how freaking hot the place was. I think they were roasting the duck at the back of the shop and there was just a couple of ceiling fan and basically hot air were circulating. It was crazy feat to endure. I believe this scenario is very highly common in most Malaysia's restaurants. I would not mind paying extra few bucks and get the place fully air-conditioned. That would be heavenly!

It's at Paramount PJ and check out the signage. Sunrise! Pardon me for the poor photo, I was trying to catch them while my aunt was trying to catch up with the green light at the traffic light. :)

Our starter- salted vegetable soup. I love this soup. It is quite sourish and yeah, it tasted awesome!
Our 3/4 roasted duck! We figured out a whole duck would be too much for 4 of us to handle, while 1/2 might be insufficient so we went for in-between! hehe. it proved to be abit too much, half would have sufficed. Well I think it costed around RM40 for this portion of duck.

Very crispy, I love the ducks here. Well, I thought they tasted a little bit different though. I thought they used to taste even better those days. It could be me, I don't know for sure.
I always grab the drumstick first! Haha

Nail job

April 25th, 2009

Hello everyone, I do get some friends telling me, yeah seen your blog, got a lot of food! Yeah so I thought, how about something different for today? Anyway, this was taken last month when I returned from Hong Kong and I could not wait any longer to try out my new limited edition MAC nail polish from the Sugarsweet collection 2009.

Here you go, MAC's Peppermint patti. The minty green is awesome. Reminded almost exactly like the color on Tiffany's boxes! Aahh sweet! Dad commented it looked weird though, Mum said nice and well, whatever lah! :)

And this was from Revlon 760- cherry crush. I loved this color since I had them on from a spa session in Bali. Think my combo that week reminded me of Christmas themed color. A little too early eh??

A closer view. Bear in mind, this was after 1 layer of base, 2 layers of application of the nail polish and a layer of top coat. Some recommended that it should be 3 thin layers for the matt look. I could not be bothered. :)

Day out in Pavilion and afternoon tea at Pappa Rich

May 8th, 2009

Another day out in KL/PJ during my stay last in PJ last couple of weeks or so. I went out with Kah Yan and we decided to head for the Kin Kin Chilli Pan Mee in KL because the last time I had this was when I came back from Bermuda for my summer holidays and that was in August 2008! Another friend, Amy took me to a similar shop in Kota Damansara selling this type of pan mee, but nothing beats the original! :) That was good, but this was just even better! Haha maybe I am such a sentimental person, I don't know.

Anyway, here is a close up of what I had. Noodles with fried anchovies, minced meat, some chopped scallions, fried onions and finally topped up with a perfectly poached egg. All this and a small bowl of soup for RM5,30 (that would be approximate 1 pound or even lesser at this point in time) Don't forget to stir them up with a spoonful of dried chilli to give it the extra kick! Hence named "chilli" pan mee.

What I was trying to say earlier about stirring them up with some dried chilli. Yummy! I finished them off with a can of water chestnut drink. :)

After that steaming hot weather in the restaurant we decided to head to Pavilion because I was searching for the MAC viva glam 6 lipstick which I eventually found from Isetan! Yay! You would have seen the post me mentioning about my newly acquired lippie. Me and Kah Yan, we thought the C monogram at Coach was kinda cool for our background picture. Sorry Coach!

One picture is never enough with this beautiful young lady.

After a couple of hours, we decided we had enough and hence headed off to Pappa Rich in Section 14 PJ for tea. It was my first time actually, I think this place does better drinks and food than the others so called kopitiams like Old town and whatever they call it. I could make better iced coffee from the pack than those shops and they charge me like RM3.80 or RM4.8o for a glass of iced coffee? That is really crap! I just wished that the air-conditioners in the restaurants could be much cooler, I am having a hard time finding an iced cold place.

Look at how thick the freshly baked bread was! I had some toasts in Old town and they were so thin and brown and they reminded me like a piece of cardboard with some kaya and thick butter in them. Gee, I could run a profitable coffee shop easily. I really do wonder how these people survive and manage their business. I am concerned especially after looking at the number of malls and outlets and restaurants mushrooming all across PJ, KL and Melaka!
We had to spread our own kaya(egg and coconut type of Jam and no, Tiptree does not do this in this particular variant). I like this idea because I don't like it when they just slap like a half cm thick of butter on to my toast and what was I supposed to do? Get a knife and spread it or just let it melt and wait until the bread is lined with butter? I have no idea!

See, they were thick breads and soft. At least I realised that I was having my toast. Nice!
Yes I could not get enough of the toast.
Glass of iced white coffee. It was quite good as I was told by Kah Yan.
A very pleased and satisfied Wendy posing with her slice of toast and a glass of iced "cham"( mixture of half coffee and half milk tea) It was good, I had yucky ones where I was so tempted to ask them, what did you mix it with? I am really curious. Well, maybe I should start doing that, I pay my money and they should just re-do my drinks like any Starbucks would do.

Half boiled eggs nicely done.