The Land Of Famous Ipoh Chicken Noodle With Beans Sprouts

July 27th, 2009 Posted in Travel
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When you are in Ipoh must have…. famous Ipoh chicken hor fun (noodle)

Smooth tasty chicken…… makes me hungry just looking at it.

It is well known for it’s smoothness. You are suppose to eat it with the chicken and bean sprouts.

Famous beans sprouts. They are shorter, crispier and juicier.

Closer look, hmmm yummy! I can eat the whole plate by myself :P

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There are so many places you can find Ipoh hor fun in Ipoh. But this is one of my personal pick which is call Cowan Street Ayam Tauge And Koitiau which is of course located at Cowan Street. It is just off the road of Hotel Excelsior. By the way it’s only open at night. Whenever you drop by the land of grace, this can be one of your destination for food. But if you are looking for chicken noodle during the day, there is another one near by Cowan street as well. Just a few blocks away, at Theatre Street, you can find another popular tourist chicken noodle, Low Wong and Onn Kee. Low Wong is open for night time only as Onn Kee is open for lunch and dinner and the kopitiam is air conditioned.

Happy eating, till next time…

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Few of my favourite things from Malacca

February 10th, 2009 Posted in Travel
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Satay celup! What can i say, some of you might think it’s lame but i like it. Nothing beats food on a stick in a spicy peanut sauce. My favourites are foo chuk and yul char quay. It’s like a sponge that soak up all the sauce :P

Another one of my favourite choices are prawn and cockles (see hum)

Dip it in for a few minutes and ready to eat. Some people might find it not hygienic but why are you thinking when your eating :P Just eat it!

One of the most popular food in Malacca is the Chicken Rice Ball. Personally i don’t really enjoy it. I guess cause i come from the town of chicken noodle don’t really find the chicken appealing. But i do find the rice ball appealing. Ya everyone gotta try and eat rice in a form of a ball ^_^

One of my must have in Malacca is cendol! Very popular Jonker Dessert at Jonker Street. It’s usually very crowded with people on the weekends and holidays.

Not only it’s popular for it’s dessert you can find the shop is decorated with antiques all around.

typewriter is real.

Old shops usually have a fake upstairs.

They have lot’s of choices for cendol on the menu. Not only they serve cendol, there are 2 other stalls that serve Baba laksa and goreng goreng (fried stuff)

We order one regular cendol and one with durian. Some sort of dry noodle and some goreng goreng.

Cendol is a must have. I just love the Malacca brown sugar, yum! If you don’t know what’s cendol, it’s the green thing that looks like a worm. It’s not as disgusting as you think. Cendol in a whole is crush ice with big red bean, cendol, brown sugar and some coconut on top.

When i look at this table and chairs it’s what they use in a kung fu movie.

What’s on Jonker Street? Chinese clogs. I don’t know why but they are lot’s of them.

You will also come across fancy trishaw around the streets

Hmm….

Caps made of Coke and Pepsi cans.

Not sure what this is but i thought it looks kinda creepy.

This wall is popular for wedding shots. I saw it in a couple of bridal shops.

Along the streets…

The Jetty. It’s behind Holiday Inn hotel. It goes far out and they have pubs, and karaoke in the vicinity.

Time to sign off…

Till next time…

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Of Cabbages And Condoms…

December 22nd, 2008 Posted in Travel
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How is cabbages and condoms related? Cabbages are a common food in Northeast Thailand, in fact they are a staple part of the diet, they are grown in all villages, there are everywhere and everybody uses them. Now, if condoms could be as common and used as often, then some of the population and health problems facing Thailand could be overcome. Let’s take a journey inside the restaurant.

Source Cabbages and Condom (background)

The restaurant is located at Soi 12, Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok a little lane next to a hotel.

There’s a souvenir shop at the restaurant.

Flowers are made of condoms. You will see decorations within the restaurant decorated by condoms.


Rather interesting…

Santa condom and his lovely beach girl condom. You can see everything is made out of condom, creative.

From the entrance onwards i was just snapping away like some freaky tourist. Can’t help myself :P So how does the restaurant actually look like…..

I was so surprise on the set up, it’s so pretty. I pick to sit outside, great ambience. Luckily that day was not too hot and they did a good mosquito fogging too.

I think upstairs is the smoking section.

They serve traditional Thai food with some Western food. Well.. most visitors there are tourist. Didn’t take any pictures on the food cause i order typical tom yum and pineapple fried rice. The food taste pretty good. In Thailand if you eat local food, it’s pretty safe. I enjoy Thai food and pretty much stick to the same type. Pricing is slighty more expensive than outside but still affordable. Example: if a tom yum cost 180 Baht outside it would cost 250 Baht here.

Last but not least, this is Condom man. It says made from contraceptive pills.

When you pay the bill they will give you condoms for souvenir. They gave me & Peking duck a red and a blue one. It’s a place you should pop by whenever you pay a visit to Bangkok.

Don’t forget to be safe!

Till next time…

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Yummy Steamboat

October 20th, 2008 Posted in Just stuff
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Been freezing at my store for days and i wanted to eat something warm and soupy. What’s more better than steamboat. I have mentioned it to peking duck every time we pass by the area that the steamboat there is quite nice. It’s located at Bandar Puteri Puchong.


It’s not one of those fancy steamboats. Just another ordinary coffee shop (kopitiam) that specializes in steamboat. There are a lot in the area so be careful when you choose which shop you plan to eat. There are some that’s fancy and so is the price.  We order for 2 persons as you can see in the picture.

We added additional fish balls and foo chuk.

No doubt it just look like any other steamboat, but why is it my favourite? I simply find the soup base irresistible! Well maybe it’s the MSG (it doesn’t taste like it,  maybe it is maybe it’s not) but it’s really really nice. If you are one of those cantonese that like soup like me, then this is the place you should not miss!

Till next time…

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Catch Up With My Good Friend

August 24th, 2008 Posted in Just stuff
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For context, refer to:

Part 1: She Says, I Like You But Only As A Friend

Part 2: She Say’s I Like You But Only As A Friend

Caught up with my good friend on my very fast 1 day trip to Singapore. It’s been around 2 years since we last met. It’s good to see him. We met up around 3:30 pm in Wisma Atria and he took me to a nice little cafe in Paragon. When he ask me what would i like to drink? The first thing that came to my mind is i need a good chocolate milkshake! He looked at me stunned, why? You should have told me earlier i would take you to a place that serve fabulous milkshake haha! I told him, it’s ok i’m sure whatever milkshake they serve here is better than Malaysia. Sorry to say people, M’sia serve bad milkshake. I’ve been back here for 10+ years and i have never had a proper milkshake. I didn’t know ice-cream was so expensive in M’sia that they have to serve it with either a lot of milk and water and it would taste stale with whatever flavor you ordered, ewww!

I got my chocolate milkshake and he also ordered a orange cake with vanila ice-cream. The cake was really yummy! Not too sweet nor fattening just nice. Oh… and my milkshake was FAB! The feeling was OOO going down my throat, where have you been all my life :P We spend the whole afternoon catching up with his things, my things and whatever things that’s going around. By the way i was at Singapore for one day cause my bf has to attend a meeting, so i tag along. Time flies… before we knew it it was 6+ and time for dinner. My bf finish his meeting and was suppose to meet up with us at Paragon. After half and hour still no sign of him. Apparently he couldn’t get a cab. He walk a few streets down hoping he can get a cab from there, it got worst, he was a little lost. Did you know in Singapore you can’t just hail a cab from anywhere, you have to go to a taxi stand. Usually it’s pack especially during peak hours. My friend said, ask him to wait there, we will find him no point when he can’t get a cab. So we went to look for him.

We found him standing in front on this. Telok Ayer Market also known as Lau Pa Sat. We decided we wanted to eat Chinese food so my friend wants to take us to one of his favourite place that serve famous Shanghai dumplings. We took a cab and went back to Paragon. I forgot what’s the name of the restaurant.

This is on the cover of the chopsticks. Ranked by the New York Times as one of the World’s top ten best restaurants. Well it better be good ;)

We started off with the famous Shanghai steam dumplings also known as xiao long pau. I have to say… it was fantastic!

A closer look. Hmm… i’m making myself hungry.

I think this is fried rice with pork chop, my bf ordered this, tasty!

This is their own homemade noodles with pork chop. If you like clear soupy noodles, this is good. Otherwise you might find this boring.

This is my friend’s favourite. It looks like wanton noodle soup. He says it looks boring but it’s tasty.

Last but not least, you gotta have a nice bowl of chicken soup. I’m a soup lover. This soup comes a little close to my mom’s soup. My mom make fantastic soup. Good soup has to taste pure and tasty with the original spices that’s cooked inside. All 3 of us is a soup lover, something we didn’t missed.

We had a great dinner, but sadly my friend has to go back to work to prepare for some crappy proposal. He was bitching about his work to me. He is in a nightmare, hell hole that he can’t seem to get out of (he is in the IT field). After that, we said our good bye’s and he’s off to work and we headed back to our hotel and pick up my dancing shoes and off to Union Square.

Union Square is the place to be when you are a salsa fanatic. They have salsa every night and it’s packed with people. They also have a Spanish band that will play for about 20mins. Nice dance floor and space with good ventilation. You will find all the salsa craziness in there. For the salsa fanatics, Union Square is located at:

165 Tanjong Pagar Road
#02-05 THE AMARA HOTEL Singapore 088539
Tel/Hp : 62246116
Fax : 62241661

I saw only a few familiar faces as it was on a Tuesday night but still it was packed. Had a few dances and call it a night. The next day after my bf finish his meeting, we drove back. I mean “I” drove back. I can’t believe i actually drove all the way from Sg back to M’sia. It’s not that bad, only about 4 hours. Hat’s off to me ;)

Till next time…

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