Malacca: Beautiful Roof – Just one beautiful photo of heritage shophouses’ roof top. Lovely!
Month: August 2012
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Malacca: Hing Loong Taiwanese Noodle @ Jalan Bachang
Malacca: Hing Loong Taiwanese Noodle @ Jalan Bachang – On my recent visit to Malacca, I have found a nice eatery outlet and that is this Hing Loong Taiwanese Noodle shop at Jalan Bachang. It was introduced by a local Malaccan friend and he brought us here to try out. Malacca is always famous for Chicken Rice, Laksa, Cendol but this is something new to me.
Although it’s new to me, it has more than 30 years of history in Malacca and serves Taiwanese style beef noodle, pork rib noodle, and more of Taiwanese-style noodle. It’s something very special. Normally we only get to eat them in Taiwanese restaurant, but this one is located in a local-style kopitiam (coffee shop).
It’s famous for Beef Noodle, you can choose either soup base, or dry base. Since it’s famous, I’ve ordered a dry one and it looks and tastes good! I’ve never been to Taiwan but I’ve been to a lot Taiwanese restaurant, I’ve got to say that this one is better. It’s spicy, the beef is soft and tender, and the thick flat noodle is very springy. Yums. Best of all, it’s only RM4.50, so much cheaper than those in Taiwanese restaurant in the mall.
Ignore the food presentation, it might not looks good, but it’s nice.
Pork rib noodle @ RM4.20. A little soup with a few pieces of grilled pork rib. This one is not a spicy, the soup tasted a bit sweet and salty. Nice too.
Zhajiangmian 炸酱面 @ RM4.20. Fried minced meat sauce noodles, didn’t try this, so I can’t comment on this.
Little Min tagged along with us, she’s my friend, Jia Hui’s cousin. Cute right? Very talkative.
Well, the lunch was simply awesome, but the portion seems to be a little. You can order some side dish like beef soup, pork ribs and more to eat along. If there’s a chance, I wanna come back for it again.
Hing Loong Taiwanese Noodle
No. 11-J, Jalan Bachang,
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Malacca: Happening Night @ Geographer Cafe, Jonker Walk
Malacca: Happenings Night @ Geographer Cafe, Jonker Walk – Every Friday and Saturday night, this street – Jalan Hang Jebat, or widely known as Jonker Walk came alive with big crowds of people walking along the street with stalls selling food, souvenir, clothing as well as pub, cafe decorated with many antiques.
This is the best part of Malacca and always very happenings during the weekend’s night. Shopping and street food were not our main activity that night as we had filled our stomach with Satay Celup. So, we chilled out at the Geographer Cafe, together with some live band and beer.
Geographer Cafe is one of the most happenings pub / cafe along Jonker Walk, there’s another one located right across the street. Any of these will make you stay until midnight with nice music, and crapping with friends. RM41 for a jug of Carlsberg Draught, what do you think?
Arvin – Medan Hokkien-kia.
Wesley – Seremban boy.
Jia Hui – Ipoh girl.
Nick Chan, the blogger!
Li Hong and Steve – Temerloh couple.
The night was simple yet, fun. It’s just a relaxing night and talking around with friends, fostering relationship and getting to know more about each other. Live band was OK, playing with oldies song that some I’ve heard before.
The whole street turned into a trash street after midnight. At about 1.30am, we went back home. The place was quiet then. By the way, you can find various cocktails and food too at this Geographer Cafe.
Geographer Cafe
Jalan Hang Jebat,
75200 Melaka.Telephone: +06-2816813
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Malacca: Super Long Queue Capitol Satay Celup
Malacca: Super Long Queue Capitol Satay Celup – One of the famous food in Malacca is the Satay Celup. Well, to me, it’s just Lok-lok dipped into hot boiling satay peanut sauce. Let’s start talking about this famous Capitol Satay Celup in Malacca that everyone agrees that it’s famous…… for the long queue.
The last time I went for Satay Celup was the Ban Lee Siang’s, but this time I came to try the most famous one. It was about 7.16pm and the queue span across for shop outlet. The queue was indeed, very long. Since we were already, just queue up and wait, we’ll then see how good it is.
Instinct tells me that all of the visitors to the Satay Celup were all tourists or not Malacca. The queue was really long and it took us about 2 hours + to get a table. Cars passed by, tourists walked by, and they looked at the queue, looked at us, some even photographed us.
Actually, there’s another 2 outlet of Satay Celup located on the same row of Capitol’s. One have no customers, and another one has quite a number of customers, of course Capitol Satay Celup has the most. I think some people are lazy to queue and they go to another shop.
Queued from daylight to night falls, what we did was just talking all along, Facebook and talk again. I suggest you to get a chair, get ready some entertainment like video, or playing cards to wait. 2 hours, my friend! Or the best, don’t queue, don’t eat! I’m not going to queue again, I tell you.
Opens only at 5pm daily, and have a limited number of tables in a small space, Now I know why the long queue.
After 2 hour plus of waiting, of course it’s time to eat! Basically, Satay Celup is a dish where an assortment of raw and semi-cooked seafood, meat and vegetables on skewers are dunked into a boiling pot of peanut satay sauce. Each of the skewer costs RM0.90 and it damages me RM17 that night.
I have got to say, it’s not enough per stick like fish balls you only get two on a stick, or you get only one scallop on one stick. After trying it, the satay sauce does indeed taste different but then I still prefer Penang’s Lok-lok where you dip it in just boiling water, then you mix it with different sauce of your choice like satay sauce, tomyam sauce, chili, ginger and more instead of just one choice of sauce. Moreover, you get different pricing too in Penang instead of flat rate RM0.90, not to mention, better and fresher cockles in Penang.
Well, it’s my personal opinion. What do you think? If I would ever come back again for Satay Celup, I don’t wanna queue again (tired, not fun), I’m gonna go back to the Ban Lee Siang that I have been before, not this, just minus the cockles and the long queue. =)
Capitol Satay Celup
41, Lorong Bukit Cina,
75100 Melaka.Telephone: +606-2835508
Business Hours: Opens daily at 5pm till late night.
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Malacca: Malacca Straits Mosque / Masjid Selat Melaka
Malacca: Malacca Straits Mosque / Masjid Selat Melaka – Just went to Malacca, the historical city of Malaysia over the weekend for a short trip with my classmate and checked out this new place that I’ve not visited before – the Malacca Straits Mosque, also known as the floating mosque for the locals.
It’s located on a man-made island of Pulau Melaka. Surprisingly, I didn’t see it in the top ten list of ‘todo in Malacca’ in some travel website. I actually came across it from blogs when I was searching for ‘Photography Malacca’ and the image result came top for it.
And so, I went to search for it on my little trip to Malacca last weekend. It’s pretty easy to find as Malacca is so small. Road direction signage does well in Malacca on guiding people to the correct destination. Just follow the sign to ‘Pulau Melaka’ or ‘Masjid Selat Melaka’. =)
The blogger, Jia Hui, Arvin, Wesley, Steve, Li Hong.
Well, it’s just a mosque, built on the sea, over looking the Straits Of Malacca. You can get some good sunset shot here and the mosque will look even prettier at night when the lights are up.
The Pulau Melaka basically has nothing much, just the mosque is interesting and that’s all. It’s pretty quiet on other part of it and many imcomplete construction project, don’t know why.
Straits of Malacca.
It’s fun checking out new places in Malacca. Perhaps I should get a tripod and wait for sunset next time. =D
Check out for more post about Malacca here.
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(Almost) Sunset: At Malacca
View from the bridge connecting Pulau Melaka.
(Almost) Sunset: At Malacca – Malacca does have some good places for sunset watching like by the beach of Portugese Settlement, the floating mosque (Masjid Selat Melaka) and on the bridge connecting the man-made island of Pulau Melaka. However, I didn’t get a chance to really experience the sunset as it was still early and we were rushing to queue for the famous Capitol Satay Celup. Anyway, I will plan to go back to check out some nice sunset at this historical city of Malaysia. =)
Melaka Raya.
Check out for more post about Malacca here.
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Yesterday At Kuala Selangor
Sunset.
Yesterday At Kuala Selangor – A spontaneous visit to the fishing village – Kuala Selangor on yesterday with my uncle. It turns out many of my relatives were there at my uncle’s place. It’d been some times that I have been to this peaceful fishing town 60km away from Kuala Lumpur. Since it’s still first week of my semester, I am still free to go anywhere. =D
Dodol machine.
Getting away from the busy city seems kinda fun too many as Kuala Lumpur can be boring some times. I pretty like the countryside area where you can see beautiful sunset, a clear sky with less air pollution, the sweet sound of nature and the friendly people.
Fresh crabs.
No, I don’t want to live at the countryside, but I enjoy being at there, for leisure and relax. It’s just fun.
Had a sumptuous fresh seafood dinner there cooked by my aunty and it’s nothing that you can find in the city. =D
By the way, I’m getting away to Malacca for the weekend, any new place to visit?
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糖百府 Tong Pak Fu Hong Kong Desserts
糖百府港式甜品 Tong Pak Fu Hong Kong Desserts – Went to Paradigm Mall today after class as I have a long break in between the next class and tried the Hong Kong desserts shop – Tong Pak Fu. This one is the real desserts franchise from Hong Kong, not to be confuse with the Penang-made Snowman Tang Bo Fu.
There’s various outlet of Tong Pak Fu in Malaysia, you can find it in Suria KLCC, Empire Shopping Gallery, Paradigm Mall and soon opening in Penang too! Tong Pak Fu serves a variety of Hong Kong desserts like Mango desserts, sesame paste, walnut paste, beverages and more icy desserts. There’s curry fish ball too!
We were really too free and spent about an hour plus at there. Taylor’s U is kinda stupid lately because they arranged my timetable in a poor manner. We have an hour class in the morning and in between we have about 6 hours break. What to do? Eat Tong Pak Fu. Check out the desserts that we have ordered.
Mango Fluffy Ice Series. RM8.80 for regular, the ice is very nice, love the pop eggs too, but not the tasteless Nata de Coco. It would be better with real mango cube. But overall, acceptable. =D
Horlicks Fluffy Ice Series. RM11.80 for Large. Pretty nice with grass jelly topping and the taste of horlicks in the ice is very strong. Good for horlicks fans.
Red Bean Paste. RM4.80. According to my friend Jia Hui, she said this is not good. The taste is weird and too saturated.
Sesame Ball. RM5.80. Basically, this is plain glutinous rice ball tang yuan with sesame topping. It would be awesome if there’s filling inside.
Well, I have got to say they are so-so only, the pictures in the menu do indeed look awesome, but taste wise is just normal. I would prefer Hui Lau Shan for mango and KTZ for sesame paste. =D However, the fluffy ice is very cool here.
Tong Pak Fu @ Paradigm Mall
Lot UG-K01,
Upper Ground Floor,
Paradigm Mall,
No 1 Jalan SS7/26A,
Kelana Jaya,
47301 PJ.Business Hours: 10am-10pm
Email: paradigm@tongpakfu.com.my
Telephone: +603-78860556
Fax: +603-78860556
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New Breakfast Place At Church Street With Toast & Egg
New Breakfast Place At Church Street With Toast & Egg – Besides Toh Soon Cafe, I have recently found another breakfast place in George Town, Penang and that’s at Eng Loh Coffee Shop, Church Streeet. This little coffee shop located under the classic and still running Eng Loh Hotel. It’s a kopitiam serving a few hawker food like Koay Teow Thng, Wan Tan Mee, fried bee hoon as well as a variety of toast bread.
I always wanted to look for good breakfast but I kinda hard to wake up early in the morning. While I was still in Penang few weeks back, I got up early to check out the sunset with Hueisean dear, then after that we headed to Church Street for this breakfast.
I saw people who was eating the Wan Tan Mee and I was so tempted to order one too, but ended with toast and western breakfast set. Haha. In the in-house coffee shop menu, you will see a variety of toast for you to choose, it’s hard to try them all, the best is get a lot of people then order all of them. =D It’s pretty interesting.
I ordered a normal butter toast with half boiled egg. But with kaya paste, it will be better.
Western breakfast set, not nice in my opinion.
Anyway, I will come back again for other stuff, it’s a good place for morning breakfast in George Town. Price is OK-nice too.
Eng Loh Coffee Shop
48 Church Street (Lebuh Gereja)
10200 PenangOpening Hours : 8am – 3pm
Closed : SundayGPS Coordinate : N05 25.106 E100 20.457
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Sunset: Not So Awesome At Tanjung Bungah
Sunset: Not So Awesome At Tanjung Bungah – Last week in Penang was not awesome because it’s haze everywhere. But I still ignore the hazy weather and go out to enjoy the sunset, hoping that I could get some good one. The one at Tanjung Bungah wasn’t that nice, but it’s a fun one for me.
I went to the little beach in front fo Naza Taliyya Hotel with Kenny. I guess this place has a good view of Tanjung Bungah with beautiful seaside condominium in view. Tanjung Bungah is now famous for luxurious sea view super-condominium, how wish I can own a unit there too. =D
Well, I couldn’t really get a good view of the sun set, it just went behind the cloud. =)
Have a nice day!