Category: Food

• Scones

  06.29.10 |Food| Permalink | 1 Comment

  
  
  

  I tasted the best scones in Cameron Highlands in T-Café, a small coffee shop opposite the Tanah Rata bus station. It was served with cream and homemade strawberry jam.

  After that, I was looking for recipe to make some. Do you know that scones were the first thing I learned how to bake? I took home science in school and it was the first recipe in the book. It is really sad that home science is no longer a subject in school. I learned how to bake, cook and sew from it.

  I found a couple of good recipe online. I haven’t been baking for a long while. The first batch of scones, I forgot to put sugar after I made the dough. The second batch was better but the third batch was perfect.

  The second & third batch recipe was from the same recipe. They need buttermilk. If you cannot find buttermilk, all you have to do is to put 1 tablespoon into the milk and leave it for 5-10 mins. You will see curd forming in the milk. It makes the scones smell really good.

  I believed the technique of doing scones must be correct to get delicious scones. I watched a couple of video from YouTube to learn the technique.

  Here is the recipe that I used to make the second & third batch: http://www.joyofbaking.com/SconesCoffeehouse.html. On the fourth batch, I put egg as my friend suggested. It taste good too.

  You try it!

• Mangosteen

  05.09.10 |Food, Travel| Permalink | Comments Off on Mangosteen

  
  
  

  It is in SEASON!!! Yeah it is one of my favorite fruit. Some countries may not have this fruit, it is really too bad for them.

  The fruit is purple outside but the edible part is white. It is juicy, sweet and very nutritious. I heard now they have pure juice extract from mangosteen. I wonder how many mangosteen to make a bottle of juice.

  Do you know that if you look at the bottom of the fruit, you can tell how many edible white parts in the fruit? Example the one in the picture has 7 petals which mean it has 7 white parts in the fruit. I love choosing more petals. Simply delicious, if your country does not have this fruit and you are in Malaysia, you have to try it.

  
  
  

• Oh Pizza Hut

  03.10.10 |Food, Service| Permalink | 1 Comment

  Do you believe it that twice I went to Pizza Hut here in Penang, Malaysia, twice they do not have what I ordered? They are always running out of food. I am very curious how they do they inventory management.

  I ordered pasta, they told me no penne pasta.

  I ordered salad, they ran out of coleslaw and another time, ran out of thousand island sauce.

  I ordered ice-lemon tea, they ran out of ice.

  I ordered ice-cream, they ran out of strawberry or chocolate flavor.

  Management if you are reading this blog, you better upgrade your food inventory. If not, you are just chasing your customers away unless you don’t bother. I wonder if one day, you will run out of pizza to sell.

• Shabu Shabu

  02.20.10 |Food, Kuala Lumpur| Permalink | Comments Off on Shabu Shabu

  Absolutely love Shabu Shabu at Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park in Klang Valley. After a few days of eating the Chinese New Year food which consist of a lot of meat, my family decided to eat something soupy with lots of vegetables to wash down the meat.

  We chose Shabu Shabu steamboat. It is a buffet style with conveyer belt to serve you. You can pick anything from it. It has meat, seafood, lots of vegetables, bean curd (taufu), seaweed, egg and mushrooms. They have pork, beef and lamb for meat. I love them all, it is cut into thin slices and taste superb.

  I like it because each individual has its own steamboat pot and soup. They have tom yam, miso and chicken soup. For dessert, they have free flow of fruits and ice-cream.

  I will certainly go back again. Let’s hope they open one here in Penang too!

  
  

  
  

• Deceitful Cup of Tea

  01.01.10 |Food| Permalink | 5 Comments

  
  
  

  No pun intended. I have been deceived by Lipton and next time I will stick to Boh. I bought a packet of Black Kiss Milk Tea. It is something new in the market, I thought I give it a try.

  After I made my first cup, it smell and taste like coffee instead of milk tea! I looked at the ingredient, it has coffee powder….YEAKKKKKKKKKK!! I get sick when I drink coffee and they should put added coffee in the front of the label. If I have bad allergy towards coffee, I will sure sue them!

  
  
  

• Penang Sg Pinang Food Court

  12.13.09 |Food, Travel| Permalink | 1 Comment

  
  
  

  Many asked me where are the good food in Penang. Well, good food is everywhere. I believed everywhere you go, there are hawker stalls. Most hawker stalls have asam laksa, chow kuew tiew, Penang G cheong fun with dark prawn paste and others.

  I always passed by the Sg Pinang Food Court when I am on the Jelutong Highway and I decided to drop by for some good food. I must say that there are a lot of varieties of food there. If you are here, you should go. It is not hard to find if you go on the Jelutong Highway heading to town. You have to go early to get a place to sit, it is always filled with people.

  One special store is the BBQ seafood stall. Many varieties of seafood that you can bbq to eat. I ordered the special bbq brinjal. It is the most expensive brinjal I ever eaten. It cost me RM8. From a local point of view, it is costly.

  
  
  

  You must try this place if you are visiting Penang. It is not very hard to find.

  
  
  

• RM1 Asam Laksa

  11.10.09 |Food, Travel| Permalink | 3 Comments

  
  
  

  Today where can you find a bowl of Asam Laksa for RM1 about US 30 cents? Seriously, there is and the place is in Kuala Jalan Baru, Balik Pulau, Penang. The stall is set up very long ago, asam laksa used to be only 30 sens.

  It is also a DIY asam laksa stall, meaning you scoop your own noodle, cut your own cucumber, onions, kunyit, chili and scoop your own hot soup. You can put as much as you one in the bowl with no extra cost. Of cause the bowl is small.

  The stall is managed by a malay family. I loved the Asam Laksa here. I can have at least 2 bowls of it on any day. If you go to Balik Pulau, you must go taste the special DIY laksa.

  
  

  
  

• Daorae In Penang

  09.16.09 |Food| Permalink | 1 Comment

  
  
  

  I just love Korean Food especially the kimchi pot hot pot with different vegetables, taufu and noodle. Yummy :P~~~. I also love the BBQ meat but the beef was a little tough and pricey. I kind of like the pork better. Of course, you must have the ginseng chicken soup too.

  Daorae, the Korean BBQ Restaurant is at I-Avenue in Penang island. The service is very good and the food is simply delicious. When my family was there, they gave us a room and had our private dining. The chef came and visited us and my children were amazed at how tall his chef hat was.

  Overall it is a good place to go. There were many little dishes that were given free with plenty of cool tea. The place is run by Korean and I would want to go back there again. Now enjoy the pictures….

  
  

  

  

  
  

• Cherries

  08.12.09 |Food| Permalink | 1 Comment

  
  
  

  I love cherries. I first got to taste cherries when I was in Australia studying. I love it ever since. I used to carry a big box back every time I come home for holidays. Cherries have a very short life span after it is pluck. You cannot really keep them very long, it will go bad. It is one of the reasons why it is so expensive in Malaysia.

  When I was in US, I was so happy to see cherries. It is selling 1.28 per lb. It is so cheap and yummy. I bought 2 lb right away. If I get it here, it will be RM10 for probably 20 cherries.

  I managed to loot another 6 lb back from Costco to carry home to Malaysia. I gave half to my in laws and the rest were gone within a few days. If only we can plant cherries here, I will have a garden of it. If anyone coming here from US, bring me cherries!

  
  
  

• Satay

  06.26.09 |Food| Permalink | 1 Comment

  
  
  

  Have you eaten this before when you were in primary school? I love to eat this and I remembered my canteen is selling at 5 sen for 2 sticks. Even today, I love to eat it. It is sold at my local supermarket.

  Basically it is fried fish stuff but it taste delicious. It has some sesame seed on it. If you leave it in the fridge, it becomes crunchy. My son loves it. Too bad his school canteen does not sell it. His school canteen is pretty pathetic, nothing much is sold there.

  My school canteen has almost everything. We have asam laksa, noodle soup, karipap, all kind of fizzy drinks and of coz my favorite junk food store. The canteen lady even knew me by name. See I am so popular in her store. She does give me extra noodles when I buy from her.

  I also missed the ice balls with Sarsi syrup. One ice ball was sold of 5 sens. It is kind of messy to eat. Normally I just suck the icy juice. Of coz there is this ice-cream potong. You get to spin the small ferris wheel and when it stop, the needle will determined how many stick of ice-cream you get. Once I got 10 sticks. Fortunately I have my friends to help me finished it. These were sold outside of school gate which is not legal. Those were the day.