Kota Kinabalu - Nyonya House, 1 Borneo
Monday, December 20, 2010 //
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This post is supposed to be about Nyonya House.
A newly opened Nyonya Restaurant at 1Borneo , if I'm not mistaken,
the owner is a Malaccan.
The whole restaurant theme is focusing on Malacca's peranakan homes.
Basically you can get Nyonya dishes and local dishes here, to top everything with awesome desserts and kuih muih.
Awesome Melaka Ice Kacang that tasted good for dessert RM6!
BBQ Stingray - RM18
This tasted as good too!
An authentic Nyonya dish recommended by the waiter.
It's called Jiu Hoo Char (RM10)
A type of veg, mixed with carrot, cuttlefish and chicken and mushrooms.
It's something different I may say because the cuttlefish brings out the taste of the dish and the vege is fresh :)
Lastly, tried the one and only crab dish in this restaurant.
The Pineapple Flower Crab (RM22 for medium)
So you're tired with butter crab / tomato base crab, this is the next option you should go for.
Personally, this one taste better than any tomato base crab that I dislike.
It consists of chunks of fresh pineapple ( sour ) and the sauce for the dish is naturally sweet so it actually complement the dish.
The crabs were really fresh, making it tastier and the flesh are blended also with the sauce,
eating the sauce = eating crab meat.
ohh la la.
Worth every single penny.
Till Then!
Labels: Authentic Flavour, Food, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysian, Melacca, Melaccan, Places to Eat, Sabah
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
Kuala Lumpur - ViVo Restaurant - Timesquare , IpohIpoh - Giza
Sunday, October 10, 2010 //
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Last Saturday was spent at TimeSquare with Leslie & Kelly.
We tried out a new food outlet during brunch - ViVo
well I'm not really sure if this shop is still very new or anything like that since all these while it was hidden at ground floor and is not really visible.
Its an American restaurant thats famous for its pizza and panini .
We ordered a Barbeque Chicken Pizza , Grilled Chicken and a Smoked Salmon Speghetti.
As for drinks, we had Mango Delight without cream , Choco Brownies & Mallow and a Cafe Latte.
Everything was so kinda good, satisfactory level , even the price was kinda reasonable.
I remembered our bill came and it was about RM78+ for everything.
I reckon this is one of the few places that has reasonable food pricing with satisfactory level food.
Well, later that evening we wanted to go to Giza but due to unforeseen circumstances,
the cab driver who did not tell us that he didn't know the way end up taking us to Sunway Pyramid.
He was dumb enough and lied to us about Giza being in Pyramid like as if we didn't already know its in Damansara.
So he frankly said he didn't know the place ,we figured there's no point of arguing so end up roamed around pyramid again.
Little did I know, the next day I end up at Pyramid again dealing with some stuffs with Leslie & my cousin.
Seriously, I'm really getting sick of that place because every week I will be there at least 3 times during lunch breaks and weekend it gets so annoying that I would try to avoid going there if I can.
So, this weekend it's different.
Went down to Midvalley, Gardens.
Tried out the open food court at Gardens, apparently they serve a lot of different country cuisines ,
the pineapple fried rice Leslie had.
I had Salmon Teriyaki , no picture though.
and finally from Sentral,
Giza ( and the cab driver still don't know the way until he had to ask us for the direction ).
Well, Giza was a bit disappointing if I may say so.
I would not ever go back there unless for,
1) a place to chill and hang out drinking alcohol.
2) The Supermarket
3) Tao Cuisine
The reason behind this is ,
1) spending RM54 on cabs from Sentral-Giza-Sunway ( With Meter ).
2) No cab stand at all. Called 2 cab companies and both got no cabs to deliver.
End up waiting for a cab further down the road and only to see one after an hour of wait.
3) Nothing to shop or see there as it was just a small mall.
Saw these at the supermarket and I thought it was really cute and chic.
Colourful!
Had dinner at Giza though,
at a place called IpohIpoh.
The sky was so beautiful. Purplish sunset.
I had chicken burger special.
The patty inside is wrapped with an egg served with salad and fried chickens.
It was just nice I guess.
Leslie had this claypot Ipoh noodle.
I tried out the soup, it tasted good :D
next up was the Bak Kut Teh I had this morning for brunch.
It was at a shop nearby my place and it was really yummy.
Black sauce is love.love.love.
With Chili + Cuttlefish as its base.
Looking at the pictures now makes me hungry even though I had it only this morning
What I like most is you can request to have the meat with no fats so it's less fattening.
and of course, today is Sio Sen's birthday - 10.10.10.
Got her this tumblr from Starbucks, she loved it so much that she screamed when she saw it :D
Managed to find time catching up with the guys for our long missed yumcha session at Jaafar.
Chilled till 4+am , so much to catch up on and laughed about.
I miss them already.
Little update about Uni now is,
I watched a very funny French movie that was used to be a "Must See" movie when it came out during my French Class.
I enjoyed it much because it was really hilarious and dumb :S
It's the story of Pierre Brochant who has that game with his friends: every week, they have a mission to invite to their dinner table the dumbest guys they can find and make fun of them. Hence the idiots in the title - though con, in French, is a bit stronger than idiot (and yes idiot is also a French word).
I watched a very funny French movie that was used to be a "Must See" movie when it came out during my French Class.
I enjoyed it much because it was really hilarious and dumb :S
It's the story of Pierre Brochant who has that game with his friends: every week, they have a mission to invite to their dinner table the dumbest guys they can find and make fun of them. Hence the idiots in the title - though con, in French, is a bit stronger than idiot (and yes idiot is also a French word).
My next training will commence on the 30th of May next year.
Which I will have to start preparing the CV like this week and apply for internships.
Crazy how we have to work super early this time.
The hectic assignments and presentation life is still going on.
Just remembered I have a test going on Tuesday, probably a presentation too ( if I happened to be so "lucky" to get chosen )
Dissertation proposal :(
Lastly,
The event on the 30th of October is giving me headache.
Will update more about it soon I guess.
Till Then.
Labels: American, Authentic Flavour, Food, Friends, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian, Movie, Places to Eat, Places to Visit, Special Occasion, University, Western
