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Fried Rice Noodles

Ingredients

70 g Rice Noodles

10 g Carrot (Slices)

100 g White Cabbage (Thin slices)

4 cloves Garlic

3 – 4 pcs Shitake mushroom (Slices)

20 g Pork (Slices) – Can be substituted with chicken or beef

2 pcs Lap Cheong (Slices) – Add according to preference

1 Onion (Slices)

Mixture A

2 tbsp Light soy sauce

¼ tsp Pepper

½ tsp Sesame Oil

Mixture B

2 tbsp Light soy sauce

1 tbsp Oyster sauce

½ tsp Pepper

½ tsp TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

Mixture C

2 cup Water

3 tbsp Light soy sauce

2 tbsp Oyster sauce

1 tsp TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

Method

1. Marinate the pork (chicken or beef) with mixture A and set aside

2. Heat the wok with 3 tbsp of oil. Fry garlic till fragrant and golden brown.

3. Add carrot and white cabbage. Fry until soft over small fire and add in mixture B. Set aside as mixture D.

4. Heat the wok with 3 tbsp of oil. Fry onion until soft and add in mixture C.

5. Add rice noodles and stir fry until water is fully absorbed. Add mixture D and stir to have a complete mixture. Ready to be served.

How much are you willing to spend for hawker food? RM 1? RM 10? Or RM 100? Normally when come to food, money is secondary to me. I used to spend RM 100 or more in ONE day, just for varieties of roadside food along Kaoshan Road, Thailand.

I know many decided to get Thai girlfriends to save some money in Thai food, some decided to hire Thai maid to cook for them but as for me, I decided to hunt for nice Thai Restaurant. As much as I love Thai food, please don’t expect me to eat same thing over and over again right?

Rak Thai is not just a Thai Restaurant that serves delicious Thai delicacies but sell a lot of Thai daily products such as my favorite tom yam instant noodle, Thai chili sauce and chili paste. What impressed me is most is the waiters/waitresses here who speaks good Thai.

Duh, speak Thai? Like that also want to impress. I tell you, most of the waiters/waitresses in Malaysia Thai restaurants do not speak Thai at all beside Sawadeekap. If you don’t believe it, try to speak a few words and see their priceless facial expression.

If you follow my blog before, I spent about RM 124 in Chakri Palace in Malaysia ?? Guess how much I am planning to spend here? The set for 2-3 RM 53.90+ attracts me. Correction.. The set for 4 RM 89.90+ really attracts me but unfortunately I don’t have 4 stomachs like cow.

I only have one stomach and one “hump at the front” (don’t ask me what is “hump at the front”! So, reluctantly have to ordered the set for 2-3

Start with my favorite, Tom Yam Gai as appetizer. This is good to stimulate your taste buds before they go to “spicy shock”. Follow by so called “Green Curry Chicken” (I might be color blind but it looks yellow to me ) and Stir-Fried Kangkung.

If you can take the “not so spicy” Tom Yam, I bet you will survive with all the other dishes. I got to know that a friend of mine will turn into tomato red if he takes spicy food. Cute isn’t it? To me, I don’t turn red but I will sweat like PIG but hey, all these food are marvelously great. So, I don’t mind turning into PIG.

The Crispy Fried Fish Lemongrass Dressing is very unique. This is totally different as compare to most of Fried Fish with Thai sauce (which means, fried the fish with readymade Thai sauce from bottle). I believe this is the authentic way of preparing the Thai Style Fried Fish.

More importantly, it taste really good and sometimes I will crave for this dish.

Not to worry about drinks, you will be served with Iced Lemongrass Drink. If you love the fragrant and taste of lemon grass, I bet you will like this drink very much.

Again, I have made a right decision not to order set for 4 as I hardly finish all the dishes here. The portion is really big and I guess my bottomless stomach is not bottomless afterall.

Rak Thai

L232 A, The Gardens, Mid Valley City.

GPS: 3.118657,101.678335

Few days ago, someone used my website to spam and ended up McAfee labeled my website as suspicious with SPAM URL. Seriously, whoever is that, please grow up! Learn to appreciate someone’s piece of work rather than abusing it.

I cannot figure out why McAfee can even believe that my website is a SPAM. The only reason that I can think of is maybe I do “SPAM” a lot about good food. Ops, I am doing it again now!

Human evolution theory by Charles Darwin believe that “men from monkeys” but it says nothing about women. So, human evolution theory by TikkoSS envisage that “women from swans”. Why? i) angel alike ii) graceful iii) slow and steady iv) classy v) tiny brains

That is for men and women. What about food evolution? I have no clue at all but Peng Heong shows an evolution from hawker stall to big restaurant. Yes, from very small zinc roof hawker stall by the roadside to big concrete cozy restaurant.

My father used to drive me all the way to Klang for lunch here when I was a teenager. Back then, this shop is just another hawker stall but now, they even earn a title of No.1 Paikut. Not only that, they serves a variety of delicious Hakka dishes.

Before you start calculating on my age, I am not that OLD! Teenager life for TikkoSS was just few years back. I am still very young by the way.

Since I mentioned Paikut earlier, this is a must try dish. I also ordered black vinegar pork leg and pepper pork belly soup. OK, too bad for muslim friends that this is a non-halal restaurant but good news for Pork’s Lovers.

This paikut is boneless and soft. Just nice for lazy people like me that hates bones. The gravy is extraordinary nice. The black vinegar pork leg is one of the few that qualify to enter my mouth. I don’t like if it is too sourish. The pepper pork belly soup is so so only considering that I like my mom home made soup.

Beside all the pork dishes, they also serve common green vegetables, eggs and pretty good assam fish too. It is very difficult to find a restaurant which their cooking style matches your taste bud. I love this place as almost every single dish is exactly how I like it.

If I am in desperate mode but broke, I think plain rice with egg already sufficient for me. Hmm.. the strawberry and honey are so nice… Ops, slightly off topic as I am enjoying my favorite strawberries now while blogging about this. hehe

Did I finish all the dishes? Of course! Am I alone? Of course not! I am with my family at that time. You really think I am that “big” eater meh? All these dishes only cost about less than RM 150.

If you get lost in Klang next time (like I used to experience before when I trusted my dumb dumb aka GPS), you can drop by at this place and try it before you find your path back

Peng Heong Hakka Paikut Restaurant

No.2, Lorong Gudang Nanas, Off Jalan Pasar,

41400 Klang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.

TEL: +6019 – 260 0855, +6012 – 236 9855

GPS: 3.048211,101.445136

Website: www.paikut.blogspot.com

How many of you still remember what happen on 1 July 1997? Don’t tell me young people like you forget this auspicious day? This date marks the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from UK to China.

Mass migration or better known as migration tide happened even before 1989 as many were pessimistic towards Hong Kong future. That is the time when receiving countries enjoy the exchange of cultures, expertise and FOOD.

Now, you don’t have to travel all the way to Hong Kong but to SS22/19 instead to eat Hong Kong dim sum. Many of you might know this place, Restoran Jin Xuan Hong Kong Dim Sum.

If you go during breakfast, lunch or dinner time, this place is so congested that you might need to queue up. Quite a long queue tho. Normally in any restaurant, the queue is proportionate to the quality of food. The longer it is the better it is.

STOP Drooling! Well, I am not sure about you but my saliva nearly drool out when I look at varieties of pre-made dim sums that are available. Maybe I am too hungry.. hehe.. Since I am so hungry, I have to remind myself not to overly ordered

Only fried food? Nah.. these are just few of the many other choices. I spotted on many that I am craving for even before looking into the menu.

If you know me in person, you know that I am bad with names. I cannot even remember pretty girls’ names sometime. Sad isn’t it? So, please don’t expect me to name what I ate that day. I guess I am good at one thing, FEEDING my FAT!

If you are custard bun lover, please don’t hesitate but order this straight away. As much as I like custard bun in Dragon-i @ Pavillion, KL, I think this is also another example of deliciously yummie custard bun.

Another dim sum that I like most is the bacon meat rolls. I love this straight away as what TikkoSS’s said “Love at first bite!”.

There are few other dim sums that I ordered and I can tell you the dim sums here really have a good standard. I cannot recall how much I spent that day but I managed to capture few of the dim sums price as below:

Century Egg Congee RM3.50

Deep Fried Prawn Roll RM3.50

Cabbage Roll RM 3.50

Deep Fried Radish Cake RM3.50

Char Siu Pastry RM3.50

Chee Cheong Fun RM4.80

Scallop and Prawn Dumpling RM4.00

Marmite Pork Rib RM10.00

I think it is quite reasonable considering the dim sums range from RM 3.50 to RM 10. You don’t have to stuff yourself with quantity but I prefer quality food. I share so that you can try it too!

Jin Xuan Hong Kong Dim Sum

59, 61 & 63, Jalan SS22/19, Damansara Jaya,

47301 Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur.

TEL: +603 – 7729 6866

Business Hour: 7am – 11pm (daily)

GPS: 3.128188,101.616079

Many believe that the secret of slimming down your body is by not eating. WRONG! The best way is to reduce your food consumption and EXERCISE! Yes I mean real exercise, walking for 5 minutes or window shopping is not considered as exercise, k? Make sure you work out till you sweat!

I found a place to make you sweat even without exercising. Best is when there is food involved. While walking around Desa Park City Waterfront, this restaurant caught my attention, The Steamboat Ketam Village.

I am not a fan of steamboat because it is boiling hot. Worse is when I can’t even tell if the food is well cooked. Also, I don’t know why many people like steamboat considering Malaysia is a warm and humid country. Sweating like pig seems like unavoidable.

But there are exceptions. This restaurant is fully air-conditioned. Well, they have an open air section too if you really really plan to get wet! Normally this place will get very congested especially during dinner. So, make sure you get there earlier rather than queuing with empty stomach!

Now, you have one of the toughest decisions to make beside which clothes to wear for the dinner. The SOUP! You can choose either a clear chicken soup or a spicy tom yam soup. To avoid cracking my head on tough decision, I just ordered both at the same time!

You don’t have to wait 30 minutes for the soup to be ready as it is already premade in the kitchen. However, you need to spend some time boiling the soup before you can put in the ingredients. It is quite fast to be honest. This is because all tables are equipped with electric hob.

I get undecisive when I look at the menu. This happens quite severely especially when I am hungry. It must be a sign of low sugar in my bloodstream. All dishes looks so deliciously tempting.

Normally I will just point on what I like and ended up too much until I cannot finish it. This time I am smart, at least that how I feel when I ordered it. I chose for a standard steamboat set. The portions is quite decent for one person. Not too much, not too little.

In that one plate, you get fishballs, carrots, prawns, crabstick, noodles, ramen, vegetables, some fried stuff bla bla bla. You won’t believe that all those is only cost bout 16++. Pretty good deal isn’t it.

As much as I claimed earlier that I am not a fan of steamboat, I am somehow impressed and like this restaurant. Food is good, services are friendly and last but not least, it makes me sweat. I can sense that I am slimming down very soon. Just drop by at this restaurant if you happen to be in this area.

Steamboat Ketam Village

Desa Park City Waterfront

GPS: 3.186623,101.629071