Famous 45-Minutes Pork Noodle @ Ooi Noodle House, SS15

May 16, 2012 By Nicholas Chan Leave a Comment

Famous 45-Minutes Pork Noodle @ Ooi Noodle House, SS15 – My friend told me about a famous pork noodle (g yok fun) in SS15, Subang Jaya. I didn’t really bother about until a day, suddenly my mind feels like finding it. I search on Foursquare about the location and I not really sure, it says ‘Famous 45-minutes Pork Noodle’, so I follow the map on Foursquare and reaches this Ooi Noodle House.

I asked for 2 bowls of pork noodles, koay teow and the person told me, “Need to wait 45-minutes wor…”. I was like, really?

I went in to the cafe, it was tea time about 3pm, I saw many people were waiting for the pork noodle, reading newspaper, playing with iPhone and iPod. Seems like everyone is OK with the wait, so me and my dear Hueisean waited together, chatting the way to our pork noodle to arrive.

It costs RM5/bowl and to be honest, the soup is really tasty. It’s very sweet and ‘pork-ful’. There’s sinful deep fried lard, minced meat, pork liver, sliced lean pork and vegetable. I guess it really lives off with the name of 45-minutes pork noodle. I’ve got to say, it worth the wait (once in a while). I really like the pork noodle, but the wait is kinda long somehow, have to wait for the mood comes again and I’ll visit the shop – Ooi Noodle House.

Ooi Noodle House

78, Jalan SS15/4B,
Subang Jaya.

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Filed Under: Hawker / Street, Klang Valley Tagged With: Food Blog, hawker food, klang valley food, lard, long wait food, Lunch, pork, pork noodle, ss15 food, Subang Jaya Food

Another Taiwanese Milk Tea – Mocato Tea @ SS15, Subang Jaya

May 13, 2012 By Nicholas Chan Leave a Comment

Another Taiwanese Milk Tea – Mocato Tea @ SS15, Subang Jaya – SS15, Subang Jaya is getting to become a mini-Taiwan franchise neighbourhood with so many Taiwanese food, beverage and desserts shop popping up at there like Chatime, Snowflakes, Coco, Par Tea Time, HOTSTAR XXXL Chicken, and this one Mocato Tea, which is created by founder of Jogoya Japanese Buffet.

My Penang friend, Yiphing and Chien Chern came to dinner with me and after dinner we didn’t know where to go, randomly suggested SS15. At SS15, we randomly came to Mocato Tea because it’s something new that we haven’t try before. It’s quieter there, and the interior ambience is kinda cool too! They have Unifi hotspot somemore for high speed Internet.

Actually nowadays bubble tea feels all the same to me, Gong Cha, Chatime, Sharetea and so many more. It’s just for the fun of drinking it and spending time at a different environment. I ordered myself a Black Jelly Milk Tea (RM5.90 regular cup) and it’s actually standard milk tea with a kind of stripe chewy black jelly. Very springy, very Q, but I prefer pearl more.

Overall, it’s kinda good and if you order pearl, they give you a big cup of pearl. So far so good, will come back to this place. =)

Macoto Tea
62, Jalan SS15/4D
47500 Subang Jaya,
Selangor

Telephone: +6012-2235045

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Pasar Malam-Style In Taylor’s University

May 13, 2012 By Nicholas Chan Leave a Comment

Pasar Malam-Style In Taylor’s University – University was pretty happenings last week for two days. As early as 9am, the Char Koay Teow uncle has already started his job frying koay teow. I don’t know it’s nice or not, I also don’t really have much confidence in him, but I did see many people queuing up for it.

What’s happening was the Borneo Jazz Festival brought in a few hawker-style food stall to Taylor’s for 2 days to promote the Borneo Jazz Festival which is happenings now. I have no idea, the event is this weekend but they promote it few days before, how can people here have time to buy air tickets to fly there? Anyway, it’s nice to see the food stalls here, it feel lively, awesome, fun, shiok, and shuang, although I didn’t buy anything. Hahaha. I was too lazy to queue is another reason.

Filed Under: Hawker / Street, Lifelog, Lifelog / College Life Tagged With: Food Blog, food stall, hawker, Lifelog, Pasar Malam, taylor's university, university life

Cool Cafe – +Wondermilk, Damansara Uptown

April 26, 2012 By Nicholas Chan Leave a Comment

Cool Cafe – +Wondermilk, Damansara Uptown – +Wondermilk Cafe is a very cool cafe located in Damasara Uptown. Why I mentioned it’s cool is because of the interior decorations which is very artsy and beautiful, so does the food choice. The cafe is decorated with many artsy stuff like decal, photoframe, typography, warm lighting and has nice cafe music playing along.

I went there with my dear, Hueisean for a little afternoon tea. +Wondermilk Cafe is famous for cupcakes and sandwiches. Since we were not really hungry, we just ordered one piece of cupcakes and a beverage. This is also to save cost because cupcakes are expensive. Haha.

Free wifi is available at there. We chat chat and take photos at there and eat the Chocolate Oreo Cupcake (RM4.50/cuppacake). It tasted not very sweet, just nice and crunchy a bit. Kinda good.

As for the beverage, I ordered a Minty Lime Chiller (RM8.90) which is lime + soda + mint leaves which is very refreshing and quenching. It’s kinda expensive, I can make the same thing at home. Haha.

She’s so happy! =D

Overall, the cafe is very comfortable, but price wise is kinda high. They sell Lomography camera too! ‘Drink More Milk’ – motto of +Wondermilk Cafe.

+Wondermilk Cafe and Cuppacakes

41, Jalan SS21/1A,
Damansara Utama,
47400 Petaling Jaya.

Telepehone: +603-77258930

Business Hours: 9.00am – 10.00pm daily.

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Lunch At My Elephant Thai Restaurant, Sri Hartamas

April 14, 2012 By Nicholas Chan Leave a Comment

Lunch At My Elephant Thai Restaurant, Sri Hartamas – One of my school’s design project is to visit some local brand restaurant and experience the design. But then I’m not going to talk about design but food! One of my favourite food is Thai food, because the food taste is very suitable for Northen Malaysian who likes strong sour and spicy taste.

I went to one Thai restauran at Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur – My Elephant. Upon entering, it doesn’t feels like it’s a restaurant serving Thai food, the design and decorations is very modern and simple. The restaurant is very narrow and not-big. It was lunch time and they have special set menu. Only at night that you get to order their a la carte menu. We actually went to the restaurant quite early, 1 hour before it’s official opening hour, the staff was kind to allow us to go in to wait. We made our order and waited for the food to be served at 12pm sharp.

They have a plenty of food in their lunch menu, Pad Thai (Thai beef noodle), tomyum seafood, fried rice and more. There’s 4 types of fried rice and each of us (my team member) ordered a different fried rice each, starting from RM9.90. Check it out below.

Khao Phad Tom Yum – Tomyum Fried Rice (RM12.90) – Strong taste of Thai food spices, I don’t really like about it, my friend Arvin liked it.

Khao Phad Sapparot – Pineapple Fried Rice (RM9.90) – Plenty of pineapple hidden in the rice and the rice is fried with curry powder, taste a bit salty, not bad.

Khao Phad Kapi – Thai Belachan Fried Rice (RM9.90) – Served with sour mango, sweet dried shrimp, and sweet pork, tasted pretty good, the belachan taste is awesome.

Khao Phad Lychee – Lychee Fried Rice (RM9,90) – Something different, but like typical fried rice top with a lychee.

Frankly, all of the fried rice at there were kinda nice, the taste are good, the place is clean and the food presentation is very well too. Lunch menu comes with a fresh pandan drinks too. Definitely I will go back again to try out other food.

My Elepahant Thai Restaurant

Jalan Sri Hartamas 8,
Taman Sri Hartamas,
50480 Kuala Lumpur.

Telephone: +603-262010649

Business Hours: 12pm – 2pm, 6pm – 10pm (Closes on Monday)

Check out the website for another outlet at Section 17, PJ.

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Filed Under: Food / Thai / Nyonya, Klang Valley Tagged With: Food Blog, fried rice, klang valley food, kuala lumpur food, Lunch, set lunch, sri hartamas food, thai food, thai restaurant

Poco Homemade – Cozy Homemade Desserts & Art Craft Cafe

April 10, 2012 By Nicholas Chan Leave a Comment

Poco Homemade – Homemade Desserts & Art Craft Cafe (Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur) – Poco Homemade is a cafe located in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, mainly selling daily western and Japanese-style of homemade desserts like cake. Besides, they do sell simple Japanese dishes like Curry Katsu, and some local-style lunch meal. On top of that, it’s also a art craft store, selling handmade cute collections.

The cafe is very unique and different from a typical kopitiam in Malaysia, or Starbucks. I went there with a few friends to check out the place for a project but later this place was rejected by the lecturer. Nevertheless, we did have a nice afternoon at there.

Located in the housing area of Bangsar, Poco Homemade looks different from others shop at the area. The blue color entrance looks so-not-like-Malaysia and upon entering, it felt very cozy, very warm and relaxing with nice French cafe music playing on the background.

The interior decor is very simple, with lots of art crafts decorations at every corner of the cafe and filled with retro second hand furniture. In there, I do not feel like I am in Malaysia, it’s like somewhere else, Taiwan, Japan, Northern Europe maybe.

There is a wall showcasing customer’s writeup on “My Ambition”, something that is usually done during primary school time for the first essay writing. The cafe some times used for workshop, and mini music session.

We were happy to chat with the kind owner, she said that she was inspired to open such cafe with her husband after visiting this kind of cafe in Japan.

Poco Homemade - Cozy Homemade Desserts & Art Craft Cafe

Found an antique camera, Agfa!

We ordered some in-house special desserts to try out, price wise is not really cheap because of the small portion Every pax has to order a drink minimum which I don’t really like about this.

Homemade Custard Cake (RM9), this is very soft, not too sweet and I find it very pleasing and nice.

Dacquoise (Matcha flavour) (RM12), a kind of dessert cake from France made with layers of almond mergue and buttercream. Well it’s crunchy, and the mid part is creamy like ice cream. It’s not so crunchy like a biscuit, yet it’s just feel like another kind of biscuit to me. Very special, very nice, but not cheap for just only two pieces. Haha.

Soya Green Tea (RM6), nice combination of green tea and soya milk. I taste soya milk more, but there’s taste of green tea too. Good!

Well, the place is very enjoying and calm. It felt very peaceful and seems as if away from the busy city of Kuala Lumpur. You need not to travel to Northern Europe or Japan to experience this kind of cafe. =D

Poco Homemade

1, Lorong Kurau,
Taman Bukit Pantai, Bangsar,
59100 Kuala Lumpur.

Telephone: +603-22875688

Business Hour: 12pm-9pm

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Nyonya Food Precious Old China Cafe, Central Market

March 31, 2012 By Nicholas Chan Leave a Comment

Nyonya Lunch At Precious Old China Cafe, Central Market – Recently, I have an assignment which is to research the design of local brand restaurant in Malaysia which features strong local or South East Asia. It’s pretty hard to find such restaurant with good design in my opinion. I’ve found one which is Precious Old China Cafe which is located in the Central Market.

So I went Central Market with 2 of my group mate, Wesley and Jia Hui via LRT as Central Market is located next to Pasar Seni LRT station only.

It was early when we arrived, it was about 10.30am and the restaurant haven’t open yet, so we sat by the food court until 11am, only then we get to go inside Precious Old Cafe Restaurant to eat, see and experience the space. Haha.

Precious Old China Cafe is actually a Nyonya restaurant featuring old-Chinese-interiors design and setting. The menu range from one-dish meal to Chinese-style rice + few dishes.

I ordered myself their in-house special, Nyonya Nasi Lemak (RM10.80) which comes with purple nasi lemak. The dyed is from a kind of purple flower which is similar to the purple rice that I had in Hat Yai’s Saban-Nga Restaurant in Thailand. It’s served with curry chicken, sambal paste, some Nyonya biscuit, boiled egg, nuts, and ikan bilis. The curry chicken and the rice were awesome, but I don’t really like the sambal sauce, it’s a bit sour. After all, this dish is good.

My friend ordered himself a Nyonya Balachan Fried Rice (RM10.80). He said the rice is good, as well as the fried chicken, and it’s so much better from Old Town’s.

The food at there actually quite nice, and it’s so crowded during lunch hour, filled with people working around the area. Price wise, is above affordable, but it’s acceptable give it’s food choice, location and settings.