ABC market good food part 2

After the lunch, we were rather full and have a good chat. Left 1.5 hours before the Jason Penang cuisine stall would re-open at 5:30pm. So, we went to Queensway shopping centre for some window shopping and eventually bought an arm wallet. For use when jogging.

5:30pm we returned to the place and found the stall open already. Without any hesitation, we chop a seat and went to order the food.


The mouth watering Penang Asam Laksa. It looks authentic. After I dug in, the taste is quite orginal but not great. For Asam Laksa the taste is fairly original, but I find it a bit thin, the taste.



The stall owner also fried Penang Char Kway Teo. Well, this is good. True Penang style.


Yum yum. Still the fried kway teo.

It was quite a satisfying trip. Tried some good food. Pity the Penang Laksa not thick enough.

ABC market good food part 1

I actually don't know the ABC market somewhere near the Alexandra market, only until I found out there is a stall selling Penang Laksa there. Just suddenly wanted to try out the Penang laksa and therefore organised a simple food hunt with Mr See there.

We reached there after 2:30pm and the Penang stall already close for afternoon. No choice, we have to settle for other things.


Fishball noodle, with many articles in front of the stall, I guess this should be a good try. Credit to the stall, the fish ball is fresh and springy. The soup is nice.


The Fatty Cheong roasted pork. The much hyped roasted pork at ieat blog. Frankly, this roast is good but not great.


The siow bak is crispy at the skin and tender inside with fair amount of fat. The char siew is nicely done, crispy outside and full of favour. However, the meat inside is a bit hard and not much fat. See my KL post for the die die must try KL char siew, you only know when you tried it.


My friend ordered this fried hokkien mee with O Ba leave. I am not impressed. It taste ok but the noodle never absorb the soup throughly.

We took a break after all these and decided to come back after 5:30pm for the Penang stall.

Food hygiene in focus

After the Geylang food poisoning incident, the news everyday is about the food hygiene. How the existing grading system work? How the restaurant and hawker is preparing their food? Suddenly all this is in spotlight. Actually it doesn't really matter to me. This kind of incident is unavoidable.

All the focus you have for this period of time would frizzes out after a few months. Then, nobody would bother about this subject anymore. What you can do is actually to train up your immune system to be able to process more dirty food.

It is true. I always see hawker or assistant wearing the hand glove but handling the money together. Even in a restaurant/stall where the guy who cook the food has to double up to handle money, they would do this. So, how hygiene you can get?

KL Food Hunt 09 Day 3 - Petaling St Chee Cheong Fan

After finished the Ba Ku Teh, it was around 11am, hard to squeeze in another heavy lunch. So I suggest something potential light but tasty.

The same shop which sells the Kim Lian Kee Hokkien Mee at night, is selling Chee Cheong Fan in morning till noon. I made the decision to eat this, and gladly I did.

Chee Cheong Fan is quite a normal dish, in the sense that you can find it in many places. However, the way it is being prepared vary from Singapore to Johor, KL and Penang. Remember the Penang style Chee Cheong Fan which is close to here but served with prawn paste? I also tried the Anson Chee Cheong Fan which has the turnip inside.

So, this version of the Chee Cheong Fan is a little bit different. The Chee Cheong Fan is chop into thin stride and serve with the usual sauce and chilli.


Petaling St Chee Cheong Fan. The fan is in thin strip and surrounded by sauce and chilli. The sesame is on top. I am surprised how good it is! Really. The fan comes with a little of oil and is soft. You dip a little bit of sauce and chili, it is quite satisfying.

This post would be the last for KL Food Hunt 09 series. Overall, it was a good trip.

KL Food Hunt 09 Day 3 - Sun Hong Ba Ku Teh 新峰肉骨茶

On the third day morning, we went to SUN HONG MUK KOOT TEA (新峰肉骨茶) at Medan Imbi. The translated name spells differently than what usually people would do. Nevertheless it is a good ba ku teh. I have been there few years ago, others brought me there. It was really good.

Beside the Ba Ku Teh, what I really like is the salted vegetable, but they are not selling anymore. Too bad. After they revamped the menu, by including more sze char dishes, that was being taken out. We ordered the normal vege instead.

What we have is really simple - Ba Ku Teh (original version), Tou Po, You Tiau and Vege.


Single serving Ba Ku Teh, but it is good for two also. Since normally you would order other side.


Ba Ku in close up. Notice that, the meat is cut into square shape. I am not sure the reason, but the meat is good. One bite size you can detach the meat.

Overall, the taste of teh is superb, it is the herb's version. Not the pepper type soup. The Ba Ku is nice, nice cut of meat. One word - Good. There are many celebrities pictures on the wall which you can take a look also.


The vege we ordered, sze char standard.

The place is at
No.35,37,39 & 41 Medan Imbi

Tampines 1 first impression

Today is the first day Tampines 1 open for business. It has already created a buzz in the blog sphere. Many people have blogged about the mall. My first impression after a brief walk during the lunch time. The crowd was huge.

Food attraction:
- Manpuku Japan gourmet town operated by Ajisen, which you can order food from 10 stalls
- Xiao Bar Wang by Jeff Wang, brings you the taiwanese snack
- Sake Inn selling Sake only
- Carl Jr in neighborhood
- Teadot cafe selling tea
- Sushi Tei in mall

Fashion draw:
- First shop of UNIQLO in Singapore
- Topshop Topman in sub urban mall

Healthy Living:
- Few sports shop like World of Sports, Sportslink, Running Lab club together
- Amore Living with swimming pool

Some fresh idea for people hungry of retail therapy.

KL Food Hunt 09 Day 2 - Gurney Drive at The Gardens

After the coconut house, we went to Mid Valley. I have the plan to meet up with KL friend for a meal and chat. She suggested the restaurant at The Gardens called Gurney Drive which apparently serve Penang food. Gurney Drive is a famous place in Penang, a night market or hawker centre. The concept is pretty simple. They try to bring the Penang hawker food into restaurant. The restaurant layout itself represent hawker centre. However, the price is not.

Ok, time is up and we finally met. We have four person, so very easy to order and share the food. It didn't take long for them to serve the food.


Penang Asam Laksa. The laksa just sucks. Before my friend order, I asked her whether it is authentic, she said she tried before and it was quite good. However, the version I have is not. It simply sucks. You know Asam Laksa has two type - Tasty or not tasty. It is the later. The taste is simply not right. I think in Malaysia or Singapore, many people screw up the dish. Once you tried the good Asam Laksa, you won't forget it.


Penang Chee Cheong Fan. Seriously I am not sure what is special about the Chee Cheong Fan, but since my friend ordered, I just have to eat. I don't like it, seriously. The fan is plain and the sauce is prawn paste base. I never try prawn paste chee cheong fan before, and I think it just sucks.


Penang style Fried Oyster. Ok, something encouraging comes. The fried oyster is alright, however the oyster is a little bit small. The chilli sauce is average to good.


Penang Cendol. Wau... this is good. Penang style cendol means you get cendol + red bean + gula melaka + coconut milk. As simple as that. No other ingredients, but it taste good.


Finally, the famous Penang Char Kway Teow. Ok, thank god, they didn't screw up. The char kway teow just like the other Penang style char kway teow I had before, it is fantastic. This is the only dish you need to order, I feel.

After eating all these, we were quite full already. This would end my second day of food hunt. Because I have no stomach for any subsequent feasting.

Google Chrome CPU hogging

I don't know about your experience. But, apparently Google has developed the CPU hogging tradition. Sometime back, I have CPU hogging issue with Google desktop, out of no where. This time, it is about Google Chrome, the browser.

I find it a bit strange, but this is not the first time I encounter this. I went to this website and leave the page open for a while. By the time I came back to my table, the CPU was getting really hot. So, I open up the CPU meter to take a look. The Chrome process was hogging the CPU.

Open up the internal process manager. Following is what I observed. The flash plugin is using lots of CPU cycle, without apparent reason. So, the Chrome is still a work in progress browser. I prefer to stick to my firefox for now.

KL Food Hunt 09 Day 2 - Coconut House

After the western food, we went to the "old" place - Coconut House at 3 Two Square. My first encounter with Coconut House was way back at Melaka. At that point of time, they were still serving the wood fired pizza, jazz song and oldies. After they moved to KL, Pudu Lama, I went once with friend. This time, they have just moved to 3 Two Square (again).

What I like is the wood fired pizza and atmosphere, relax and calm. The food generally a bit pricey, tasty, and they really put in effort to make it italian, by using authentic ingredients. So, I don't really look at the price much.

We reached there around 2pm+, not many people and ordered our food.


Coconut House with its banner. The atmosphere is still quiet, but the decoration is a bit too modern. The food and atmosphere don't really match perfectly.


My first order was Salad. I can't remember the exact name, with pear, and some other things. Taste wise, quite alright, they have a wide selection of salad. Sometime it could be too exotic to suit your taste. Ok, I must admit, I don't really know what is authentic Italian.


My next order was a Coffee. I forgot the name again, but it was recommended on the menu. Unexpectedly this is something like expresso, very condensed. I guess those hard core coffee lover would love this.


Ok, this is the third time. Again, I don't know what this is called, my friend ordered it. It is like a bread with filling. Of course, it is baked by wood fire and it is tasty.


I guess some close up on what is inside is needed. It is quite good.


Everybody loves a sweet ending. This is the house special Tiramisu. I am not a dessert fan, so I can't tell you how is this compare to others. But, judging the taste it self, the tiramisu is good. It contains biscuit which is soft and melted.

Although the price is on the medium to high side, I would still come again. Bottom line is the atmosphere is quite good and the wood fired pizza is tasty.

KL Food Hunt 09 Day 2 - 6 to 10 Grill at Section 17 PJ

By the time, we went out of home, it is almost noon time. The next stop would be Petaling Jaya or PJ where many good food stall or restaurant is found. Looking at the food guide, I decided to go to this grill/western food stall.

When we reached there, it is 12pm already. The breakfast was gone, we are in for the lunch. The shop selling both western food and nasi lemak. Not interested in Nasi Lemak, although many folks were eating it. I settled on pork chop and my friend ordered the chicken chop.


Pork chop done nicely. The portion is nice and just by looking at it, it is tempting.


So, I made the first cut. Woh, the meat is tender. The key to a good pork chop is the meat needs to be tender, and it is not easy. It shows the standard, if the stall is able to make it tender.


My friend's chicken chop, which is also good.

If you live nearby, it is a good place for western food. Without a car, it is quite difficult to get to the place.