Dinner #37

Steamed Tilapia

Ingredients:

• Tilapia
• Ginger
• Light Soy Sauce
• Cooking Oil

Stir Fried Cauliflower & Brocolli

Ingredients:

• Cauliflower
• Brocolli
• Chopped Garlic
• Salt to Taste

Dinner #36

Wuxi Pork Rib

Ingredients:

• Side Ribs
• Spring Onion
• Ginger - slice
• 1 Star Anise
• 1 small Cinnamon
• Dark Soy Sauce
• Chinese Cooking Wine
• Rock Sugar to taste
• Sesame Seed Oil (drizzle on top of ribs before serving)
   

Mixed Vegetable
Ingredients:

• Lotus Root
• Cauliflower
• Baby Corn
• Carrot
• Celery
• Capsicum
• Arrowhead
• Crushed Black Pepper
• Salt to Taste

Restoran Yan's @ Jalan Alor

Another place we decided to try after CNY - since most of the shops were closed and I was too lazy to cook :p




Char Siew Wanton Noodle - Dried

Verdicts:

• Melts in the mouth char siew.
• Generous portion of noodle.
• Sauce mixture were perfectly done.
   

Char Siew Wanton Noodle - Soup

Verdicts:

• Tasty broth with char siew sweetness and the fragrant of fried shallots.
• Juicy sweet wanton.
• Char siew were better tasting when it's not soak in broth.

Ah Yip Herbal Soup @ Summit Subang

Back to Puchong on the 3rd day of CNY. It was such a quiet town and we decided to do window shop in Summit Subang on Saturday. After an hour of walking, hubby & I decided to have lunch. Came across Ah Yip Herbal Soup restaurant. It's been a long while since I had Ah Yip's. It was hubby's first.

We decided to order set, since it comes with "Gui Lin Gou". We both had Mushroom Duck Drumstick Soup Noodles.




I had Herbal Nourishing Tea & hubby had Lung Nourishing Tea


Mushroom Duck Drumstick Soup Noodle

Verdicts:

• Still as yummy as before. Very thick of herbal tasting soup.
• Big piece of duck drumstick - however, we find the meat a bit dry.

Side Order : Steamed Tofu with Fried Garlic & Fried Dried Shrimps

Verdicts:

• Both fried garlic & fried dried shrimps were superb. Add flavour to the plain tofu.
• Sauce was a bit too salty for my liking.

Complimentary : Gui Lin Gou

CNY Reunion Dinner

CNY reunion dinner, Mom did her usual CNY cooking.


Popia with Kg. Koh chili sauce


Chicken Feet & Pork Maw Soup


Steamed Chicken


"Cekor" with Ginger Dipping for Steamed Chicken

Mixed Vegetable with Sea Cucumber

Vegetarian Mixed Vegetable

Dinner #35

Came across some really cheap, M-L size and fresh prawns in the market. RM40.00 per kg which normally sold at RM75.00 per kg (during the CNY season).


1/2 kg Steamed Prawns

Ingredients:

• Prawns
• Ginger
• Wolfberries
• Dried Red Dates
• Dong Guai
• Chinese Cooking Wine
• Sesame Seed Oil
• Salt to taste

Stir Fried "Tin Chat" Vegetable

Ingredients:

• "Tin Chat" Leaves
• Chopped Garlic
• Salt to taste
   

Stir Fried Baby Jio Choy with Fish Balls
Ingredients:

• Baby Jio Choy
• Fish Balls
• Chopped Garlic
• Salt to taste

Restoran BB Ho Steamboat @ Bandar Puteri Puchong

P & C invited hubby & I for dinner over the weekend to celebrate P's birthday. They decided to have steamboat at BB Ho Steamboat.

Honestly, after trying and been having steamboat at Lo Maji, I wasn't to thrill to have any other sort of steamboat in town. Lo Maji's spicy steamboat is an acquired taste dish. Once you have... you tend to have more. Well, that applies only to me and hubby :p We're addicted to Lo Maji. At one time we were there almost every week!!! Hubby & I sworn to only have our fix not more than once a month :p So far we succeeded :D

Side track a little there. Well, back to dinner at BB Ho Steamboat. Where was I? Oh, like I was saying I wasn't too thrill when I heard of BB Ho Steamboat. Anyhow I should give it a try to see if its any different from the rest of the steamboat house.





Hokkien Fried Bihun with Lala.



Soup based Steamboat. Ingredients for 4 people include Yee Mee, Bihun & Eggs.

The verdicts:

• Hokkien Fried Bihun with Lala was too salty for my tastebud.
• Lala were small and hard to find.
• Steamboat broth has too much MSG - artificial pork bones "taste".
• As we continue eating, the broth got saltier ("tastier") due to the ingredients. When we got to the noodles, I couldn't even have another sip of the soup.

La Risata Bar Pizzeria Ristorante @ Medan Damansara

Hubby & Bro celebrated me birthday at La Risata, an Italian restaurant, last week. I've not been to the restaurant for almost 2 years. It's changed so much. From a single shoplot now they expanded to 2 shoplots. The feeling is still the same. Cozy, homey feeling. But I find it a bit dim compared to before. Most of the staff there were still the same and friendly. Speaking of friendliness, the mosquitos there were extremely friendly with me that night :p As I was enjoying my meal, they were enjoying my legs :p LOL...




Warm bread is served with tapenade.


Carpaccio di Manzo


Gnocchi ai Peperonchini Grillia e Chorizo


Pizza Quatrro Formaggi


Pizza Chorizo


Chocolate Fudge from BreadStory
Nothing much to comment on La Risata except it always make me feel at home. And the food... what can I say. So far it hasn't disappoint me yet :)


Address : 128 Jalan Kasah, Medan Damansara, 50490 Kuala Lumpur
Telephone : 03 2095 9572

Dinner #34

Ingredients:

• Dried Soya Noodle
• Choy Sum
• Fish Balls
• Meat Balls

Broth Ingredients:

• Spareribs / Chicken Breast or Carcass
• Dried Anchovies
• Dried Scallop
• Chinese Cooking Wine - 1 teaspoon
• Pepper
• Salt to taste

Bei King Restaurant @ Sitiawan Part 2

After the disappointing lunch at Restoran Tien & Tien last month, we decided to go back to our regular join Bei King Restaurant to have lunch over the weekends. It was Dad's treat :)


Tofu Soup

Verdicts:

• Was disappointed with the soup as the taste was not the usual traditional Foochow Tofu Soup tasting.
• Was a wee bit salty for everyone's liking.

Stir Fried Dou Miew

Verdicts:

• It has the "wok hei" in this stir fried.
• Simple yet delicious.

Sweet & Sour Fish Fillet

Verdicts:

• Don't know why these days they put in the french fries in this dish. I preferred the one without french fries. It sorta killed the taste a little. French fries just has to go on it's own with a dash of salt as snack NOT cook in/with other dishes.
• Other than the french fries, the fish fillet was juicy.

Oyster Omelet

Verdicts:

• It has lots of small to medium size oysters. In each bite, you get oysters.
• It wasn't fluffy. You get the taste of the egg with scallion.

Mom's recommendation : Prawns wrap in Beancurd Sheet Roll

Verdicts:

• Yummilicious!
• Prawns were fresh and succulent.
• Rolls were fried just nicely - crispy on the outside and juicy sweet in the inside.
• The chili sauce adds a little punch to it.

Total bill came up to RM61.00 for 4 pax with a pot of chrysanthemum tea (free refill).

Medan Ikan Bakar Teluk Muroh @ Lumut

Midnight supper.




Ikan Bakar Pari

Verdicts:

• Typical home BBQ squid. Marinate only with salt.
• Marinated with only salt.
• Sambal was exceptionally spicy. It has belacan, chili padi and tamarin. However, the sambal tasted a bit of overstuffed refrigerator.

Sotong Bakar

Verdicts:

• The inner was not thoroughly cleaned.
• Typical home BBQ squid. Marinate only with salt.
• Chili sauce was not a good combination to go with the squid.

Total cost us RM20.00 for 2 person. We had 500gm Pari, 100gm Sotong, 2 Teh O Ais Limau.


Address : Jalan OBS, Kg. Teluk Muruk, 32200 Lumut, Perak Darul Ridzuan
Telephone : 05 683 7587
Location : Turn off at Marina Cove heading to Outward Bound School Lumut.

Breakfast @ Kg. Sitiawan

Was back in Sitiawan over the weekends. Decided to explore new place to have our breakfast. We've seen this hut along Jalan Besar, Kg. Sitiawan a few times but never did give it a try until now.

This little hut is always crowded during the breakfast rush. Cars will be parking along the road.



The back portion of the hut is facing a river.


See the amount of roti canai? First thing the patrons order is the roti canai, next nasi lemak.


Variety kuih-muih, nasi lemak, mee goreng and bihun goreng.


Nasi Lemak Ikan (see the tiny piece of fish?)

Verdicts:

• Rice has very little santan fragrantness.
• Sambal was spicy and has a tinge of sweetness to it.
• Very basic nasi lemak like I used to have in school days.

Roti Canai comes with only single type of gravy

Verdicts:

• Roti canai buttery tasting.
• Doesn't have the typical Indian-style roti canai texture.
• Comes with only single curry gravy.

Cost us RM5.90. We had 1 Teh O Ais, 1 Kopi Ais, 2 Roti Canai and 2 Nasi Lemak Ikan.

Prosperity Burger @ McDonald

Once a year burger. However, the size seems getting smaller each year. How to be prosperous lah...???

Dinner #33

Stir Fried Cauliflower & Broccoli with Veg Mutton

Ingredients:

• Cauliflower
• Brocoli
• Vegetarian Mutton
• Chopped Garlic
• Sesame Seed Oil - couple of drops
• Chinese Cooking Wine
• Salt to taste

Stir Fried Vegetable

Ingredients:

• Can't remember the name of the vegetable :p
• Chopped Garlic
• Salt to taste

This is how the vegetable look like from the top.


And this is the bottom part of the vegetable.


Stir Fried Lala with chili

Ingredients:

• Lala
• Ginger - juliene
• Chopped Garlic
• Chopped Chili Padi
• Chinese Cooking Wine
• Salt to taste

Steamed Baby Bok Choy & Mushrooms with sauce

Ingredients:

• Baby Bok Choy - steamed
• Scallop Mushroom - steamed
• Oyster Mushroom - steamed
• Broth was from Stir Fried Lala with chili and dash a couple drops of Sesame Seed Oil.