Sandakan - Good Taste Restaurant
Friday, February 17, 2012 //
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On the very last day of my trip to Sandakan recently, we had the famous Yu Kut Teh and Bak Kut Teh that is a must try here. Well, if you know me well I've been to Sandakan too many times but have not actually heard of seafood teh (fish kut teh) before until the boyfriend kept asking me to try it because apparently he loves it so much and tried it the last trip he was here. He even took pictures of the articles on the walls along with the contacts and sent it to me!
Anyways, my uncle is familiar with this place so off we came to Good Taste Restaurant to try out their famous, none other than their seafood teh fish kut teh (is that how you even call it? that is how you call it. ) since in Kota Kinabalu and most other states in this nation we only tried Bak Kut Teh before. Of course, this shop do serve Bak Kut Teh still for pork lovers but I still prefer the original ones back in Jesselton ( Gaya Street , KK ).
This was in the morning around 11am , super packed with humans waiting for tables and for most, happily enjoying their food. That's my mum! See how happy she was ;D lol !
like I said, this shop is famous and was featured in seriously a lot of magazines and newspapers that the articles are enough to fill up the four faces of the wall and I have never seen any restaurants / cafes featured in so many before , this place is proven to be really that good :)
Their unique seafood dishes features dishes like fish slices kut teh and prawn teh which comes in two types of soup. A strong pepper soup which is the dark color soup as shown above and the lighter in taste yet sweet soup which is the white soup as shown below. Personally, I liked both of it, but I love the lighter one the most, it complements the sliced fishes really well.
Another dish that is a must try is this super soft, easy to peel off skin called "Nai Mang" according to the chinese . I am not sure what is the name of this fish in english but I know its a poisonous kind of fish but it is alright to take it in small quantity , and surprisingly it is very good!
The rather normal Bak Kut Teh in my opinion, like I said I still prefer KK's one as compared to this because I love the taste of the herb soup in KK's one better :)
Besides these dishes, of course they also serve pig organs and drunken chicken and prawns dishes.
Must try dishes! Each bowl of the Yu Kut Teh and Bak Kut Teh cost about RM 8 - RM 12 per bowl.
and of course, various types of vegetables!
Their daily business hours - 8am -2pm , 6pm - 9pm
Good Taste Bak Kut Teh Restaurant
Lot 5, Block D, Bandar Nam Tung,
Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia.
Tel: +6089 615 899
Labels: Chinese, Family, Food, Kota Kinabalu, Places to Eat, Sabah, Sandakan
A Little Bit Of Everything...
Saturday, February 19, 2011 //
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The original Valentine's Day has just went by a few days ago, but as for the Chinese's version of Valentine's Day where they actually throw oranges into the sea ..
yadayada, you know the drill..
I've actually wondered, do people actually pick them up?
I'm referring to people in Malaysia, since the tradition started in China I bet they do collect it..
but in Malaysia it is always a whole different thing.
got this from Mary during her trip to Penang recently,
it's actually the rice art thingy inside the dolphin with my name on it (:
As for me , Valentine's Day has always been just another normal occasion spent with friends (:
this year's was a sad one as I was totally busy spending time with my friends doing assignments and
a dear close uncle of mine has passed away on that day itself. May He Rest In Peace now.
Thus this valentine's day has been really hard on me, and of course to my families too.
Well, apparently the Chinese also believed that the last day of Chinese New Year is the Chinese Valentine's Day.
Which leads to a Chinese dinner with Leslie & I; Mary at my current favorite Chinese restaurant nearby our place, Kong Sai.
I've been there quite often but realized I have never blog anything about this wonderful restaurant.
But, that night we started ordering and had a little bit too much of everything,
took us a while to finish everything, but as usual overall food was good and reasonable for 3 person.
That fish, is seriously for 5! not for 3!
and the soup was amazingly good as usual,
Lotus root and peanut soup , always reminds me of home.
By the time we finished the dishes we already have hard time drinking that 2 bowls of soup :/
But, I really did enjoyed dinner that night.
Besides that,
I also noticed that I have way too much food pictures in my folder which I have yet to upload :/
Partly it is also because one of my assignment now requires me to take pictures of everything I eat,
thus I have a lot of pending food pictures from everywhere and thinking if I should upload them..
but for starters, hmm...
the deliciously cushion soft pineapple tart which is famous in Taipei from Denise and
Home made macaroons by my classmate.
I seriously can't wait to try the macaroons in France. Hope I get the chance to.
which leads to my coming trip on Monday,
I'll be flying off to Dubai on Monday and then France (:
Will be away for sometime, until I'm back,
I will miss my family, and him (:
my super-uber tired going to collapse soon face and his usual hyper face.
Till Then.
Labels: Chinese, Food, Friends, Kuala Lumpur, Personal, Places to Eat, Places to Visit
Kuala Lumpur - Luk Yu Tea House, StarHill Gallery
Saturday, January 29, 2011 //
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Last weekend,
Leslie and Mary accompanied me down to Bukit Bintang area because I wanted to shop around that area,
so before our shopping journey, we headed to Starhill Gallery for our late lunch + tea session.
Chose this particular place after Loh recommended me the night before,
well I wanted to try the other places out too but I shall leave that for next time.
True enough,
they have this amazing deal for certain dishes at 3-6pm everyday,
which cost only RM3.6 per plate,
and normally will cost you about RM9 and above.
However, what we had here was not entirely RM3.60 each,
some were from the ala carte menu,
and we actually ordered more than this but they didn't have what we wanted :(
Anyways just for testers,
we had these...
1) Chicken Siew Mai
2)Baked Yam Puff
3)Seaweed Chicken Roll
4)Century Egg Roll
5) Lotus Pancake
6)Chicken Porridge
7) Fried Rice Noodle
8) Wan Tan Noodle
9) Sweet & Sour You Tiao
10) Kam Heong Clams
11) Island Salad Prawn
12) Mixberries Ice Tea
13) Cranberry Mojito
Not in order of the pictures though, well I personally will recommend the Baked yam puff , Century Egg Roll, Lotus Pancake , Kam Heong Clams , Mixberries Ice Tea as their best dishes that I've had.
As for the Sweet & Sour You Tiao its actually " yao cha guai " but cooked with sweet and sour sauce, you know the typical sweet and sour sauce for fish ? yeah it tasted like that. Something different I may say.
And I would say their seafood was one of the freshest you can get in KL,
I mean you paid for the price, so it should be worth the money and of course it comes with quality and the ambiance, a different dining experience.
Well our total bill came as MYR 80+ including tax.
That's how the shop look like , very oriental like dining area.
Anyways, its worth the try but next time I'm there I wanna try something else (:
Till Then.
Labels: Chinese, Food, Friends, Kuala Lumpur, Places to Eat, Places to Visit
Penang - Pearl of the Orient - Through My Eyes.
Saturday, November 13, 2010 //
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Penang that is.
Well I had a 5 days weekend last week due to Deepavali and weekends,
so I couldn't bear to waste that 5 days weekend doing assignments at home.
Thus, comes the random plan of going to Penang ,
along with my cousin and Mary,
we didn't plan anything but everything just happened so fast - it felt like a dream.
I would say its a fruitful trip, considering its just 2 days and 1 night but we did so so much.
so much than what I've expected we will do due to time factor. Needed to come back earlier due to me having an interview for my marketing research on Saturday.
Nevertheless, I'm glad we made it there :)
First stop at Penang was to check in the hotel. A kind man saw us at the bus station and decided to guide us on which place to stay is the best. Initially our plan was to stay at Old Penang Guestshouse situated at Love Lane,
But the man told us that it was a "red light" area, thus we ended up at Oriental Hotel.
We were lucky, situated nearby was the famous Kheng Khee Street, so following the map..
we found the Penang Most Famous TeoChew Chendul !
There were so many people lining up at that time, and we had to eat it by the road side- standing!
I dislike kidney beans, but heck , I wanted to try the best - so I ate it :) haha
As it was drizzling, thank god it didn't rain heavily!
We roamed a bit more, in search of Little India.
On our way, we happened to saw this shop which sells Zhung Zhi or also known as Guo Zhung :D
It instantly attracts me because I have not eaten one for a long long time.
What was surprising is that, this shop was also visited by Jason before.
So it must be good right, even though it was situated at the back lane and there wasn't anyone there.
We decided to order their famous Guo Zhung and Yam Cake - it was pure, heaven..
I reckon, this is what I miss most in Penang :D
Definately, A must try!
Moving on, we headed to Little India since it was Deepavali,
so we expect to see a lot of little indians knick-knacks around.
Saree sold there was at really, really low price - about RM20 and above.
Old buildings, burnt buildings , vintage looking buildings,
reminds me of Melacca and Ipoh.
Then, we visited the Kapitan Keling Mosque which was located nearby.
and we saw this advertisement in front of a pharmacy advertising red wine , seriously.
It's so scary.
there was a shop selling fresh butchered meat.
As I was taking this picture, the butcher smiled at me :D
Indian opened it :/
Saw this really antique style parking ticket machine.
and it still works! Digitally.
Further down the road, as it was getting late, while heading back to our hotel,
this caught our attention.
It's like flour made noodle , tasteless and must be eaten with brown sugar.
Sweet but a bit plain too.
It's okay to try it though , something different :)
At night, we headed to Gurney Drive Hawker Stalls for dinner.
The selections was a lot , but nothing much that caught our attention.
Decided to try their grill fish, my must eat in penang food - oyster omelette and the Penang Char Kuey Teow. The Penang Char Kuey Teow stall had a really long queue to it, and apparently,
it was reviewed by magazines before so we decided to try it.
I find it rather dissapointing though, not as nice as I thought it would be.
After dinner, we headed to Gurney Plaza,
supposedly for dessert because we saw a theme cafe from outside window.
Clinic Cafe - whereby everything, especially the interior of the shop was designed like a clinic,
the hospital beds as the chair and etcs.
Interested to try it out, but it was disappointing as they don't serve any desserts so we move along to search for what Mary recommended as saying the famous, Penang Chicken Wing.
Grilled Chicken Wing,
situated like 15 minutes walk away from the mall.
The chicken wing was RM1.80 each, and the Thigh was RM5 but it was very tender, huge and meaty.
At this point I'm already feeling hungry! AHH.
We headed to Batu Ferringhi after that, for their famous night market.
There were not many stalls as I thought a night market would be,
just a stretch of stalls selling almost the same things, exceptions for the ones nearby Tarbush and The Ship restaurant.
Some of the stalls there have really unique things,
Mary and I end up with really nice decorating lights for only RM20 each.
Whilst the one I bought last time, was RM50 in KK.
Bought a new tee too , cheap cheap tee :)
On the way there, we saw this really nice place, so we decided to visit it again after the night market walk but we didn't know how to tell the cab driver where and what shop was it.
Just remembered the location, since its nearby our hotel, located at Jalan Burma,
so we kinda like guide the cab driver and here we are
Jemputree!
A tree house concept restaurant,
with good and reasonably priced food and beverages ,
love the ambiance.
Upon paying the bill, we discovered that this shop was reviewed by a magazine before too.
Lucky us :D
We all slept at 2am that night and woke up at 6.30am to go for Dim Sum at Dim Sum Food Restaurant!
My cousin's friend, whom I just met that morning,
took us here after we told her we heard that this is where we can get the cheapest Dim Sum in town,
We ordered so so much, and in the end,
she paid the bill :/ but I bet what we ordered here maximum is only about RM70
had shark fin soup here too :D
Anyways, after breakfast , we went to the famous Penang Biscuit Factory,
Him Heang to get our supply of this famous biscuit and it was really fresh.
We went around 10am and lucky us its not sold out yet, because we heard that its limited each day and
once its sold out the shop will close right away, especially it was a public holidays too.
but the shop was opened for us ;D real lucky.
Next, we visited the Fort Cornwallis and met up with Francis Light.
the entrance fee here is RM2..
founder of Penang :D
this is actually a church, looks more like a prison to me
They used to store their weapons and make powder weapons here
Nearby was the Clock Tower..
Isabella Santo and I :D
Next we went to Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion , or Blue Mansion
entrance fee was RM12 and we had to follow tours to explore this place, and tour are only available at 11am and 1.30pm,
again lucky us we got there in time because we didn't know we must follow tour to visit this place.
The tour took about approximately an hour .
It was a historical mansion , everything inside is about FengShui.
Too bad we can't take any pictures, but everything inside was really antique.
includes the late people's clothings , bed and etcs.
Next up, we headed to the Reclining Buddha Temple.
The name of the temple, Wat Chayamangkalaram was built in 1845 by a Thai Buddhist monk.
We all used the wheel of fortune machine by paying 50 cents and we each got our "readings".
Mine is kinda true, at some point la.
the 33-meter gold plated buddha at Pulau Tikus
Since it was Deepavali, they have this special event where you purchase this thing,
and then write your name on it or special wishes,
then light it with candles.
After that, Isabella recommended us to try out this famous coconut ice cream, thai style.
It's like a sorbet kinda coconut ice- cream, served with crushed peanuts and nata de coco.
Awesome ;)
Then, since we have extra time to spare,
we continued our journey to the newly opened Hard Rock Hotel!
Saw Micheal Jackson in front of the cafe! :P
After roaming around, we decided to go to Kek Lok Si temple at Air Itam.
also known as Temple of Supreme Bliss.
The largest buddhist temple in Malaysia,
there were a lot of people there as usual,
but we didn't take much pictures though.
I am not a buddhist myself,
but its fun to explore the temples once in a while.
We got there by walking up through a whole street of flea markets,
a definitely different experience than driving right up to the top.
For our late lunch, I had the Penang asam laksa from the nearby market around.
the soup was really asam, and they used sardines and blended it along with the soup.
Something I've not seen before.
Well there's a stall opposite which apparently,
supposed to be more famous but Isabella said it came out in newspaper before they put tissues inside their noodle, eww!
The one that I had tastes just as good, according to her :D
Lastly,
we headed to Penang's largest shopping mall,
Queensbay Mall before heading back to KL.
Till Then !
Labels: Authentic Flavour, Chinese, Holidays, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian, Penang, Places to Eat, Places to Visit, Vacation
