Good Food - Mustafa Satay Bota

Date:  Feb 7, 2016

Yesterday, we arrived at Ipoh International Airport.  From there, my In Law picked us up and on the way back to Setiawan / Seri Manjung, while we are on the Ipoh-Lumut Highway, there is this Satay store that you cannot miss, and it served very very good Satay.

So, from Ipoh, drive towards Lumut direction, you need to use the Ipoh-Lumut highway.  Just after you passed Batu Gajah, and before the Petronas University @ Iskandar, you will pass by this Satay Shop but the road side.

You won't miss it during near dinner time, as the smoke and the queue will attract your attention.

It's amazingly nice ya!

My this son, Kay Kay only eat nice food.  So, judging from him keep on eating the Chicken Satay, about 15 sticks, we knew the Satay must be really good.  And given That just before we got on to the flight at 2pm, he ate one plate of chicken rice, so, now, almost 6:30pm, he ate 15 sticks of satays.

And even so hot, he also dare to eat it.

Of course no need to mentioned how many sticks Jay Jay has eaten, just look at his smile.

How much the Satay cost?  Of course cheap cheap la.

Everyone who line up there, ordered at least 100-200s.  I like his beef satay.  Super nice!

I even use the Satay sauce for my bee Hoon, become Satay bee Hoon.

Good Food - Bak Chor Mee Cooked by Japanese

Date:  Feb 5, 2016

Thank you my friend, Larry who brought me here two days ago to eat my first bowl of authentic bak chor mee cooked by Japanese’s father and daughter and a young helper.

So, today, after I finished doing my CNY wet marketing for CNY reunion dinner, Instead of eating at Tiong Bahru, we drove to Block 710 Clementi West Street 2, Weng Kwang Coffee House.  Here, at Ah Hoe Mee Pok, me and my wife eats the nice bak chor mee.

This Mushroom Minced Meat Noodle is only $4.00 per bowl.  

This is the one that is on the news on New Straight Times, where the Japanese father and daughter took over Ah Hoe Mee Pok and selling the Bak Chor Mee.

The price is OK, not so expensive.  

The prawn although looks small, is sweet, fresh and cook correctly (煮得刚刚好), the timing of the cooking is correct that is why the prawn is quite nice.  $4 you can 1 prawn.  $5 bowl you can more meat plus 2x prawns.

I love their meat.  Very tasty.  Not sure how they do it, but very tasty and tender.

I love their pork lard.  The cut it thin for every piece, and seems to fried it to golden crispy.  Love it!  When you eat it not so sinful.  Hahahaha

I also order a bowl of meat ball soup for $3.  Nice, especially they put the pork lard in.  

Oh ya.  The daughter and father and family stay in Park West.  So, I am their neighbour.  

This is their address of the Ah Hoe Mee Pok.  I will go back and eat again and again.  Just like the Penang restaurant near by, the Japanese restaurant at Faber heights there, and of course Cassa Croutes at Park West by Chef Patrick.  These are my favourites makan place near by my house.  Not forget to mention the Curry Fish head at West Coast Plaza, i.e Cozy.

Where To Buy Nice Fish Maw In Bangkok

Date:  Sep 20, 2015

This is dried fish maw.  (from a small fish).

It is from Bangkok Thailand.

It is delicious.  You can soak it in water for 10-20 minutes, and then, use it in salad.

You can put some into your instant noodle.

You can put some into your curry fish head.

You can put some under the fish when you steam the fish.

You can put this into any soup.

I got this from Or Tor Kor Market.  

Or Tor Kor Market is a very nice market that you can buy a lot of thing here, such as Fish Maw, Mangoes, etc etc.

It is just beside Chatuchak!

It ls a market.  Very clean.

Easiest way to get there is by MRT.

Go towards Bang Sue direction.

Stop at Kamphaeng Phet station.

Take Exit 3 to Marketing Organization for Farmers.

When you come out from the station, the Or Tor Kor market is just on the left hand side of this view.

Then, you walk straight inside.  Until 1/4 distance from the other end.  The store is on your left.

This is the store.

This is the old lady that sell the Fish Maw.

I bought 1KG of it.  It is big but can bring on board even Tiger Airlines.

Very good quality of fish maw.

Last trip I think about 2 months ago, I went with Hock Koon to get the Fish Maw too.

So happy.

And this is the kind of food you cook.

 

Next time when I cook with fish maw, I will post it here.

Very Delicious Penang Restaurant

Date:  July 25, 2015

Today is National Youth Day.

I took a day off to spent time with the kids.  So strange, they always busy during the weekend because of the enrichment classes.

Only time to go cycling is on this sort of holidays.  Kind of nice to have such holiday.  :) 

We cycled to West Coast Park today.  The round trip journey takes about 17.24KM.

During lunch hour, we quickly stop at this restaurant.  

Just 10 minutes before 12 noon.  We reached at this restaurant at Clementi West St. 2.

Island Penang Kitchen.

They used to be at China Town. 

And only recently they moved to Clementi.

Sometimes I do my morning walk, I walked passed this restaurant.

And we ordered three of this Penang’s famous food!

The Penang Fried Kway Teow is very nice.  The sweet sauce that they used to fried the Kway Teow is the authentic Penang one.  Very nice, and taste very good.  I like it. 

The Penang laksa is very nice.

Quoted my wife saying: “This is the best Penang Laksa I have eaten for the last 10 years…”.  Very authentic.

Especially with the prawn paste.

And I ordered myself the Special Prawn Mee.

Just look at it.  It is one of the only expensive dish they have.  $15 per bowl.  The rest of the food are $5 to $7.  

Why this one so expensive?

Because got scallop.

Few big prawns.  A note about the prawns, very big and fresh.  That is why the prawn soup base is nice. 

The Tu-Kar (Pork Leg Meat) looks damn shiok.

Tu-Pee.  Pig Skin.  Very tender and nice.

Pork Lard.  Overall, nice.  I like the Prawn Mee soup.

Golden Fried Rice.

At first I ordered the fried rice for Kay.  But he does not like it.  So, we let him taste the Char Kway Teow.  And he loves it!  This is the first time Mr. Kay eat fried kway teow and say it is very nice.  

So, this Penang famous food place is really live up to the “famous” word.  Nice!

Not expensive.

Every thing is like $5-$6.  Only my Special Prawn Noodle is costly.  

I think I will come here and eat quite often.  :)

Artichoke @ Casse Croute

Date:  Jul 27, 2015

My In-laws were in town last week.  So, I brought them downstairs for french food. 

These are the artichokes from France. 

And this is our dish.  Chef Patrick steam the artichoke.  And present it on the plate like this.

This is after steaming it for close to 1-hour I believe.  Of course, we called and ask him to steam it before we arrive. 

Of course, he showed us how to eat it.

So, you peel one leaf by one leaf out from the Artichoke.

And you only eat the bottom part.  It kind of taste like those sweet potato texture.  

So, what you do, is to put this in your mouth, use your teeth and push the “meat” into your mouth.

That is the the only part that is edible.

My father in law seems happy eating this.  He had never eaten this before.  Neither do us.

After you peeled, it looks like this at the bottom.

Patrick said call him when we finished all the leaf out side.  

“Patrick!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Patrick came out, bring this piece of left over artichoke into the kitchen.

Blink blink!

5-minutes later.

He brought this out.  He peeled the flowers, and decorate nicely onto the plate, and there are more stuff to eat.  This is the second course followed after we eaten the leaves.

You can lift up the top part.  And there you go.  More stuff to eat.

Now French chef also do like Chinese chefs, decorate their dish like a lotus flower.  hahahaha

Very nicely presented.

You can’t eat the flower thou...

Of course, we eat other food.  The smoke herrings is nice.

The kids always love his creamy mushroom pasta.

Teo Chew style cold dish - the pig head meat.

Mutton...

Rabbit.

Nice wine too… $48 wine.  Good value.

This is where I eat.  Just downstairs at the club house.