Tired from the cookies baking, we decided to have a very simple dinner at home. What could be simpler than Claypot Chicken Rice – although in our case, it was “Rice-Cooker” Chicken Rice.So I tossed together half a kampong chicken, Chinese mushrooms and Thai sausages and voila!The chicken rice was cooked very quickly and our 1-dish meal was a very satisfying dinner :-)) … [Read more...]

Chinese New Year is just round the corner and there’re not many weekends left before the Year of the Rat dawns. So, today I decided to start making some cookies – my famous Peanut Cookies!It’s the first time I’m using my Fagor oven to bake cookies and the 1st tray put in was a test. The temperature at 200 deg.C was too hot and the top tray of cookies was very quickly browned. Thereafter, I turned the temperature down to 150 deg. and the cookies were fine.600g of peanuts yielded 4 such containers … [Read more...]

Kheng's Kopitiam 24 Jalan Anggerik Vanilla M31/M40600 Kota KemuningShah AlamHaving woke up late on a Sunday - one of the very rare occasions that I do, I had an urge for kopitiam fare. So we headed to Kheng's Kopitiam, in Kemuning "town centre". It was just after 11.00am and the place was pretty packed. Like so many other kopitiams in the area, the interior was almost an exact replica of the one across the street - small round & square tables with stools around them. We ordered the iced … [Read more...]

Teluk Gong Seafood & Steamboat VillageKompleks Medan SeleraJalan PJS 10/2, Subang Indah46000 Petaling JayaTel: 03-5632-3673This restaurant was opened sometime last year and while I was still living in the USJ area, I used to go there quite regularly. As the name suggested, besides bringing Teluk Gong to Sunway, their seafood is always fresh. You can’t miss the place – after the roundabout from Subang Jaya heading towards Sunway, turn left after the BHP petrol station. You can’t miss the … [Read more...]

Jaya Palace RestaurantGround Floor, Menara LYL12 Jalan 51A/22346100 Petaling JayaTel: 03-79682000 The recently-opened Jaya Palace Restaurant in Sect.51A is located smack in the middle of industrial and office buildings. Menara LYL where it is located is not fully tenanted and it's not hard to miss the restaurant on the Ground Floor. The decor is modern with a touch of Oriental splendour. Rich brown timber panelled walls give the place a very warm contemporary air and there were also a few wooden … [Read more...]

Last night we had a simple meal at home. I cooked LL’s favourite Kari Ikan Pari. As usual, I put in lots of vegetables - ladies’ fingers, tomatoes and brinjals. And as usual, LL walloped the fish while I went for the vegetables!Tip: To ensure your ikan pari tastes good, marinate it in some salt and assam jawa. The assam jawa eliminates the fishy smell (which ikan pari tends to have) and at the same time adds a nice sourish tinge to the fish.A plate of Quick Stir-fry Green Vegetables complemented … [Read more...]

This Cha-Siew stall is located in Restoran Simon’s Delight in Seapark Petaling Jaya - it’s the corner coffee-shop facing the well-known Seaview Coffee-shop. The guy who runs this stall is a cheerful fella, who once admonished us for calling him “uncle” - he told us in no uncertain terms that he was not an uncle, and that we should call him “Lang Chai”. So, now we refer to this stall as the “Lang Chai Cha-Siew”!If you talk about melt-in-the-mouth Cha-Siew, I can think of no other equivalent. This … [Read more...]

Ipoh New Chang Jiang RestaurantNo.13 Jalan 20/16, Paramount Garden46300 Petaling JayaWith a hankering for some Ipoh-taste food, I took my colleagues to try this joint in Paramount Garden, PJ. It was opened sometime last year and I have been there a couple of times before. Its set-up is typical of the kopitiam style which seems to be the rage these days. Their round and square tables are flanked by wooden stools.Their menu is not terribly extensive. They serve items like Dry Curry Noodles, … [Read more...]

Teochew Porridge Stall@ Restoran Sun Fatt KeeSea Park, Petaling Jaya(opposite the Sea Park Wet Market)This Teochew Porridge stall is run by an older-husband-younger-wife team in the corner coffee shop located right behind Maybank in Seapark, Petaling Jaya. It is an established joint as every day there’ll be queues forming at this stall, patiently waiting to have their orders taken.Whenever I feel like having something “light” and “liquidy”, I’d head for this stall. My favourite dishes to go with … [Read more...]

It’s been more than 6 months since we moved out from USJ and we missed the food at Taipan. So, last weekend we decided to re-acquaint ourselves with some of our favourite hawker offerings there.The Yat Wo coffee-shop in Taipan (at the corner facing RHB Bank) has always been our firm favourite. Previously it was known as Hup Yik. We ordered our usual gastronomic delights:Pan MeeI always go for the “pinched” version, ie pieces of pan mee torn with the fingers, vs the strips-type rolled out from … [Read more...]