ecomony mee @ sunshine market

Another good breakfast meal is fried noodles.

 

There are many stalls of this kind in the sunshine sq food court but

The one I like best is located directly opp the entrance to the fruit/sundry/pork area of the market.

 

And as usual, there are many varieties: fried beehoon, fried mee, fried koayteow or fried maggi.

Me, I always go for the fried mee. Always satisfying.

Took and additional packet of combo maggi+koay teow. Didn’t really like it..

The noodle is not too salty and not too oily and not too soft..

Oh yea, The chilli is equally important, both blended and sliced.

 

Rate  8/10

cupcakes galore...

Elpea made some “elmo” cupcakes for ry’s’ 5^th birthday in his kindy…

She made a few types of coloured icing.

They look and taste pretty good.

But she was not too happy with the “red” as she couldn’t get “elmo red”

I liked the blue though

choco-banana pie and special choc cake @ starbucks

Starbucks Chocolate banana pie

It’s getting more and more disappointing every time I eat this.

Words that come to my mind: Hard, bland, flaky, mana banana?

I didn’t like the crust at all. Maybe it’s just me. And I felt there was not enough banana. (thinking of secret recipe’s choc banana cake..)

:-P… 3/10

 

Starbucks Special choc cake

#1, its myr9 for a slice…!!!!!!!!!!!

#2, um, its very chocolatey

#3, eer, its soft like cake looh..

I give it 5/10 because I like the brownie at Secret recipe better and cheaper…. (yaya, I know.. “brownie” does not equal “cake”.. shaddaplah you…)

lohbak which my dad buys for us..

One of my favorite foods is lohbak. It’s basically strips of seasoned pork wrapped in a ‘soy based’ skin/wrapping and deep fried. I can remember my mum and aunt preparing this dish when I was a kid. They would slice the pork into strips, season with salt/pepper and 5 spice powder then wrap them in the soy wrapping and deep fry them. Quite tedious and time consuming, which is why I remember my mum making it only once in a while.

 

I’ve eaten other lohbaks but this is one of the better ones that I’ve tasted. Some make it with minced pork but I feel using pork strips is better. It gives it a harder texture with more “crunch”. Minced pork makes it “soft”.

My dad normally buys 10 pieces for us. I do not know the exact location of the shop but i know its at mt erskine.

 

Overall rating of 8/10

our cook is good so thats why i am "tah-pui"

Some of the goodies that elpea cooked over the weekends…

 

Lotus root/carrot/pork soup*

Sir fry veg with sliced Taiwan sausages

Rice with peas.

Baked beans with egg and potatoes**

Dry Pork curry with potatoes

 

*ry’s FAVOURITE soup

**me/ry’s ALL TIME FAVOURITE and “can eat everyday” dish

roti canai @ opp bukit gedung mosque

We’ve been buying from this stall for “year’s” already.

It’s in the shophouse directly opposite the bukit gedung mosque by the “river”. A few doors away from the bukit gedung chicken rice.

 

I used to eat the roti bawang (onion bread) but these days I feel the roti kosong (plain bread) actually taste much better.

The crust is crispy but once you bite in, you’ll realize that the bread maintains its softness as well.

And what is the roti without the “kuah campur”. The “mixed” gravy is also quite good and we hv not found any other stall that rivals it.

 

Note that the queue is quite long on weekends. I usually hv to wait 20-30minutes for take-away…but always worth the wait.

I rate it 9/10 for both roti kosong and gravy

 

supertanker chicken rice

This stall is quite famous for its chicken and duck rice.

I normally order the chicken/bbq pork combo.

The chicken taste average only, I actually had better.

And same goes for the sliced bbq pork. I felt there was too much “fat”.

The only plus point is that the gravy is quite nice. It’s actually from the “drippings” of the roast chicken/duck.

I rate it 6/10

curry and bangkali roti @ home

We are simple people.. Bread and curry also maketh a meal. And curry is best dipped with bangkali roti.

Bangkali roti used to cost 60/70cents. These days its at 90cents and the bread is actually smaller than I previously remember it. Times are hard..

mee goreng@coffeshop in front of pulau tikus police-station

I always seem to go back to this stall. Why? Because taste wise its pretty good and both elpea and ry like it as well.

I rate it 8/10.

big apple donuts part 2

While I was wandering around gurney, I could not resist going back to buy more donuts…

 

Clockwise From top left

Durian, (tasted a bit weird, very artificial… )

chococino (I think),

kiwi, (for ry)

vanilla cream, (cant remember the actual name but it tastes ok only…)

whizznut (peanut butter.. yummy…)

pink panther, (for ry)

brandons daily food...

Elpea prepares brandons”broth”  with the slow cooker.

Takes 2hours +

Rice+veg or with chicken meat..

playing with sugar

Elpea experimenting with cupcakes and icing, in anticipation of ry’s birthday request for a cupcake “birthday cake”

Her butter icing is quite good, both taste and texture wise.

 

manila place @ gurney plaza

We were planning to go to A&W for lunch but it looks like it was not meant to be. Gurney was under renovation and that whole restaurant wing was closed. Actually we looked at the new shop listing but A&W does not seem to be on the new list. Closed?

So anyway we walked around and decided on “manila place” as we’ve never been there before.

Quite cozy place and it was 60% packed.

Ry had the kid’s meal of boneless chicken with mushroom sauce and fries.

Elpea had the soup in a bun thing.

I had the fried soba noodle. Nothing very spectacular.

Elpea had the iced peach tea, I had the iced lemon tea and ry had the orange juice.

They actually had a separate menu for drinks and dessert. And they served pancake and crepes. Yummy.

We chose the mango crepe for dessert. It was choc full of mango slices which elpea said could be better.

We were too tham chiak that we forgot take more photos

We were served quite fast and overall food was average.

And this is the 1^st time ry finished the whole kids meal by himself.

Price was quite reasonable as well ~$70.

MACCALUM STREET ROJAK

We finally managed to buy the rojak from maccallum street. It only starts selling at 130pm onwards. Sold by a husband and wife team. Elpea said they worked very well together unlike other stalls :-)

We bought 2 packs.

One of the main difference “visually” is that It has a lot of nuts and deep fried shrimp.

But taste wise, it has too much shrimp paste. Overpowering, actually.

Now, some people may like it but we felt it was too much.

As soon as the rojak come into the car, ry nearly started puking and said the smell was bad. We just laughed at him and thought he was ‘drama’ as usual. Opened the window for him somemore..

But after elpea started eating it she said she didn’t like it as the shrimp paste was really just too much. And she was trying to get the taste off her mouth all the way back home.

My take? I kinda liked it, the squid was very fresh as was the fruits. The sauce was well… Different..

It was not bad, but it was only ok for me.. And I did feel there was just too much shrimp paste.

BUT I actually liked the load of peanuts and deep fried shrimp.

Well, Its just different. By the way, I finished the 2^nd pack as elpea wanted to give it away. :-P Hahaha..

I rated it 6/10 but only because my preference is still to the one in chai leng park and the one in the taman opp tesco extra...

BIG APPLE DONUTS @ gurney plaza

Was at gurney during the weekend and was surprised to see the “big apple donuts” where “pastasia” used to be.. Actually not very surprised as I was just waiting to see ”who” would replace “pastasia” as its business was not very good :-) We bought the 6pack…cost ~$12 (in pix, clockwise from top left) CHOCOHOLIC x1 (with choc stuffing..very nice) WIT NUT x1 (with peanut butter stuffing..my favourite) ALIEN x2 (this is the one with the chocolate shavings) KIWI x1 (ry had this as he requested it. It had green gooey kiwi jelly, which I don’t think I liked. Reminded me of ‘slimer’ from Ghostbusters, but ry enjoyed it and finished the whole donut by himself) CINNAMON x1 (surprisingly light and nice as well.) The doughnut base is different from “dunkin donuts”. It’s the bread/bun-base and not the cake base. It’s very light, soft and fluffy. Again, you need to consume it within 24 hours else it won’t taste that nice anymore. Can be refrigerated but take out 5-10mins before consuming. Do not recommend to microwave By the way, I used to “import” these donuts or the dunkin's everytime my sis comes home from KL… well, not anymore….. hehehe..The only other thing missing is “dunkin donuts”…I’m patient....

excuse, me, i have to make a call, "hello sis, eh, you got big apple donuts in KL or not...?..."

ramekins at last.

Found ramekins finally..

And where of all places but in the market

Not glass but the metal type.

Bought 6 big ones and 6 smaller ones (see pix from choc molten cake posting)

All for less than $20.

The glass ones cost $14-$20 per piece and I cant find them on the island anyway.

 

I also found the stainless steel metal mixing bowl in one of the malls on the mainland.

Looks very nice but its $109

A bit too expensive.

So we didn’t get it in the end.

The search continues…

 

fried rice at home

We had leftover rice and the stuff from the steamboat so elpea whipped up a very good dinner on Saturday. Simple and satisfying.

She made fried rice with eggs, Taiwan sausage and sliced cabbage.

The rice was just nice and I liked the crunchiness of the sliced cabbage. Taiwan sausaes taste great as well.

She also made soup with all the meatballs and dumplings. This was for ry as he needs soup with his rice. I didn’t go for the soup but instead ate the stuff in the soup.

I could not decide what to eat 1st as I love fried rice and I also love meatballs/dumplings. Very satisfied.. Thank you dear.. I can eat this everyday.