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Chawan, Bangsar

One fine Sunday night, I and my friends were searching for food at Bangsar area. We are all Penang people and do not familiar with the area. The area was rather quiet. Our mind is all about Chinese-style kopitiam, but somehow I couldn’t find any at Bangsar area. I parked the car at Bangsar Village Mall and decided to go tour around the place to look for cheap and good food. Unfortunately, none, and lastly we went to another Old Town-style restaurant, the Chawan.

One thing, do you know that the word “Chawan” actually means tea bowl? It’s a kind of bowl use for preparing and drinking Japanese tea. In Malaysia, Chawan means cup, but the spelling is Cawan.

Looking through the menu, the first impression wasn’t very pleasing because the menu was not in a good condition. Like I said, it’s another Old Town-style, so don’t be surprise to see the food choice similar. HOWEVER, Chawan is more centered on Malay cuisine, with a quite a number of Nasi Briyani, Nasi Lemak and more.

I read on Foursquare that the Kopi Frappe is a must order. So what it’s actually about is the mix of two different coffee. Like Ipoh White Coffee mix with Hainan Coffee. There’s many kind of coffee for you to choose on the menu.

I order Nasi Tomato Beef Rendang Tok RM10.90. I know you are now wondering what Tok is all about, beef rendang is curry beef cook in rendang style but what about beef rendang Tok? I also don’t know, it’s just appear that the beef is in dark brown color and doesn’t taste any spicy which is just not an good experience for my mouth. I was expecting something spicy with good spices. This disappoint me, and one thing, it tasted like a rock. It’s so hard to chew with my strong teeth.

On the other hand, Nasi Tomato Beef Rendang (RM10.90), without the word Tok tasted good. The spices fill my mouth and the spicyness exploded right in my mouth, gusting down towards my stomach and I felt awesome. It’s not super spicy, yet it brought me an all new experience after eating the beef rendang tok.

The Nasi Lemak Ayam Rendang (RM10.90) was up to my expectation. The lemak rice, sambal, curry chicken rendang, ikan billis, half boiled egg, cucumber slice and a little bit of kang kung, serves on a piece of banana leaf which made the presentation beautiful. In my opinion, it’s so much better than Old Town’s. The curry sauce was actually same as the beef rendang, but using chicken instead. What’s best about this is the sambal gravy which makes the dish perfect. First taste of it tasted normal, 2nd taste of it makes you eat more, 3rd taste makes you feel hot, and yes it’s spicy and good.

Lastly, a glass of sky juice completed my meal and I find it awesome because it’s the cheapest drinks among the menu at only RM0.50. =D

Chawan

69-G Jalan Telawi,
3 Bangsar Baru,
59100 Kuala Lumpur

Telephone: +60322875507

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September 14, 2011
Short Short Trip To Cherok Tokun Recreational Forest, Bukit Mertajam

Hello people. How are you? Malaysia’s Day ahead, Happy Malaysia Day! Woohoo.

So back in Penang few weeks back, I went to Cherok Tokun, the famous recreational forest at Bukit Mertajam. It’s a really very very very very short trip. It’s not 5 minutes, but I guess about 15 minutes, include using the toilet and buying food.

I was actually curious about this place and have heard about it from friends and Internet, and I wanted to know how it looks like and how to go, so I went to check it out the place with Hueisean as my guide to the place.

It’s pretty easy to go and you probably can find it with a GPS. I don’t really know how to write the guide here. So sorry.

The place is in fact similar to Botanical Garden in Penang, though it has smaller entrance, and it utilize the existing forest area and turn it into a recreation park. There’s jogging track and hiking trail for park lover.

There’s also store selling fruits and drinks, as well as a mini tea-house that allow you to enjoy some Chinese tea, and light Chinese dish like tea egg, mee tiao noodle.

The mini tea-house is the best thing at this place in my opinion, which Botanical Garden doesn’t have. Enjoy light meal, chit-chat with friends and enjoy the beauty of nature at the same time. It feels so good.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get to try because I was in a hurry. Gonna go check back this place in other time. Have you been there before?

September 14, 2011
Nice Asam Laksa At Alisan Near Taman Bahagia LRT

CNN has rated Penang’s Asam Laksa is the world number 7 most delicious food [source] and it’s the pride of Penang and Malaysia. I was surprised and excited with the rating, it’s not just top 100, or top 50, it’s top 10! The smelly and weird taste of the sourish soup and prawn paste makes it the delicious dang for you to enjoy.

No doubt, it is too my most favourite Penang food of all time as I have grown up alongside with this number 7 title. I am a super asam laksa fans especially for it sourish sweet soup and the thick white noodle, mixed with a bunch ingredient like onion, shredded fish, pineapple slice, cucumber, lettuce, common mint and ginger buds which makes it a perfect dish that could be eaten at anytime of the day. The mouthwatering food makes my hometown, Penang stands out to the world.

Ever since I come to KL to study, I have been missing the asam laksa quite a lot and there’s actually not really much that can be compare to the authentic one in Penang. Many tried to imitate, but many failed. However, I have a great surprised last night where I had asam laksa for dinner, introduced my KY.

This asam laksa is located to what the local known as – Alisan, or to be general is somewhere near Taman Bahagia LRT Station. With the help of GPS, we successfully arrived at the place, which is an open air food stalls by road, behind a row of shoplots.

I felt amaze when I saw a queue of people lining up for the food served at the asam laksa stall. It’s a self-service stall. What’s different is that it’s stated Kedah Asam Laksa, instead of what you normally see – Penang Asam Laksa. Nevertheless, Kedah is just next to Penang and the fragrance of the laksa soup circulate to my nose buds. “Ohh, it must be good”, I told myself. =)

The queue took about 15 minutes. Despite the queue, my friend, Arron and I waited anxiously for our turn. They do not offers just asam laksa, but a variety of dishes like Mee Jawa, Teochew Mee Teow, Chai Koay (vegetable cake), and few others more, and too beverage. Even though there’s a variety of food to choose, our main pick was still the asam laksa, but we ordered a Mee Jawa and two pieces of Chai Koay to try out too.

You will be amazed with the serving as it’s served in a plate instead of a bowl but you have nothing to worry. Malay do serve asam laksa in this way too, it’s just that the soup is lesser than a normal bowl of asam laksa. The white noodle is cut into shorter strip to ease eating on a plate and spoon.

First thing first was trying the soup and with much anticipation, it didn’t failed my taste buds. The sourish and sweetness exploded in my mouth and wash through my throat. “Ahh, this is good”

Shredded fish, cucumber, onion, white noodle, prawn paste and ginger buds were just serving well along with the yummy asam laksa soup. No doubt it’s recommended by the famous food blogger. Price is RM4.50 per plate. Forget about the place of this laksa’s origin, Kedah or Penang, it’s now the best asam laksa, in Klang Valley. I said the best, as I couldn’t find any better, yet.

Mee Jawa a.k.a. Mee Rebus is actually an Indonesian noodle, yet this is rather famous among the Chinese community. With much curiousity, we ordered a plate to give our taste buds a try. Unfortunately, there’s no explosion in my mouth and mind. Not really a thing that will make me to order it again. Price is RM4.50.

At only RM0.70 a piece, we ordered two pieces of Teochew Chai Koay to try. With a dipped in the special made chilli sauce, it actually made my day even better. The crunchy vegetable and the skin makes it good.

Lastly, my dinner ended with a bowl of ice kacang / ABC (RM2.80) which I like the most is the price firstly and the tower of shredded ice hiding a bunch of yummy ingredient e.g. red beans, grass jelly, jelly bubble and sweet red syrup. It’s indeed a good one provided a good price.

Well, this has made it into my favourite stall in Klang Valley and will definitely visit it for more asam laksa crave.

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September 9, 2011
Spent My Wednesday Afternoon At Muntri Mews

I am a selfish person and I don’t really like to spend money to buy a coffee and enjoy the hotspot internet at a nicely cafe. But my mindset changed lately when I spent my afternoon at the Muntri Mews Cafe on Wednesday with a little bowl of Chinese desserts and using the free hotspot Internet.

It’s fun to spend time at home when there’s air con and no need to spend any money but I feel that after some times, we will started to slack and rot at home, then life gets boring and dull. It’s actually pretty good that you bring your computer out and spend your usual online activity, online business out there at a nice and cozy cafe, with some light meal for bites.

I was thinking of going to Jing Si Books & Cafe but I couldn’t find any parking around the busy financial district area of Penang. Then I Googled and found about MoonTree 47 but it was closed and I ended up at a cafe of a flashpacker hotel, Muntre Mews. Quite a cozy place for some hideout. Still in search for some nice heritage cafes with nice coffee to chill out during the afternoon of my holidays. Any recommendation?

By the way, I ordered myself a bowl of Cheng Th’ng (RM6.00+), which in fact is similar to the local’s Si Koe Th’ng and I have no idea why they named it that way. A bowl of desserts and Internet was just perfect for an afternoon chill. The Cheng Th’ng consist of longan (dragon eyes), coconut jelly and little small sea coconut bath in a sweet desserts soup and topped with a few cubes of ice. It might not worth the price as you can get similar thing with more ingredient at a roadside store, but given a nice environment and music, it’s a good eat and there’s no bad about it.

July 17, 2011
Dinner at Clinic Cafe, Seberang Jaya

I want to tell people that I went to clinic, to eat dinner. LOL. It’s the Clinic Cafe at Seberang Jaya, near to Sunway Carnival Mall. It’s more likely a themed restaurant with a hospital/clinic feel. I read about it in the newspaper and pretty curious about the place so I and some friends went to check it out. I believe there’s already one similar in Singapore’s Clarke Quay, but that’s more on drinking instead of meal.

It felt a little bit creepy to me when dining in there because, the waiter and waitress dress like a medical officer and it’s like dining in a clinic. Well, this is a simple one, the one in Clarke Quay, Singapore is more beautiful than this. We went there during dinner time but there’s like only 2 tables dining, include us. Pretty quiet. I think old chinese people wouldn’t want to eat here because of pantang.

After looking at the menu, the food is cheaper than I expected, but not very low price yet. It starts from RM7 and above, serving local oriental and some local western food.

I ordered the cheapest Tom Yam Fried Rice at RM7.80. They have put in a lot of spices and there’s tom yam taste but I dislike the spices, maybe some like it but not me. Don’t you feel creepy when eating rice in kidney bowl which use during surgery? Eww, haha.

My friend ordered the Yang Zhou Fried Rice, looks not bad, and tasted pretty good too. There’s lots of vegetable and forgot to mention that all our fried rice came with 4 crispy fried shrimp.

Oh shit, I’ve forgotten what my friend ordered for this beverage. It’s chocolate milk shake with vanilla ice cream if I am not mistaken, taste good, but RM5.80.

Have you been here before? I not sure whether will I return to this place or not, it’s far! Come open up one in Penang island then that’s good. =D

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June 30, 2011
Set Lunch At 600CC Taiwanese Restaurant

600CC is a Taiwanese Restaurant that is based in Penang which currently have 5 outlet, Gurney Plaza, Prangin Mall, Tesco Penang, Sunway Carnival Mall and Pacific Megamall.

Recently, I went to 600CC for lunch and found out they have set lunch menu, so I went to try out their dishes. I am not really a frequent visitor to 600CC because of I a little bit dislike paying 16% taxes, which result in a more expensive meal. Because of set lunch menu, it’s better than ordering a la carte.

Set lunch consists of a milk tea with grass jelly and a main dish which starts from RM9.90.

Mom ordered a Zha Jiang Mian 杂酱面 (Mixed Sauce Noodle with Minced Meat) – RM10.90. It tasted sweet and the noodle was springy enough, thought what’s weird was having cucumber in the dish. Some like it, some might not, I’ll say OKOK only.

As for me, I ordered a beef noodle (台湾牛肉面) – RM12.90. The soup was good and the noodle is actually same as the one used in the Zha Jiang Mian. I like they put crunchy salted vegetable in it which is kinda nice, in fact I was biting on the salted vegetable more than on the beef meat. Beef meat was soft. It’s really awesome eating a beef noodle for lunch, I felt it may not be the best, but it’s good to eat.

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June 12, 2011
Sunset At Teluk Kumbar, Gertak Sanggul

I think and think and think, I think Teluk Kumbar is located in Gertak Sanggul, and Gertak Sanggul is under the district/town or Bayan Lepas. Am I correct? When people talk about Hai Boey or Hao You seafood, you will hear about Teluk Kumbar and Gertak Sanggul. This two names always make me confuse about the place.

Nevertheless, they are both the same place in my opinion. I hear more people say Teluk Kumbar more than Gertak Sanggul. Recently, I went there to have my seafood dinner with my family and I took out my camera to take some shorts of the seaside and sunset.

It’s a really nice place to eat seafood because it’s by the sea have some seatings near the beach, and a little children playground too. So it’s not all about eating, but play too!

Have you been there before?

June 12, 2011
Tomyam Soup Pad Thai And Tomyam Fried Rice On Macalister Road

Here comes some cheap Thai food hawker stall that I’ve visited recently for lunch. Few days ago, I went to the Pinang Delicious Food Court on Macalister Road for lunch. I heard that there’s some nice fried rice at there from friend, so I decided to order fried rice for me for lunch that day.

The fried rice is actually from a Thai Food hawker stall and they serve various Thai dishes too but mainly fried rice.

So, I ordered a Thai Tomyam fried rice (RM4). I found it pretty nice, but a little bit not so dry, and surprised to find crab stick in there which makes it tasted sweet. The tomyam taste was just nice, not too strong and feels good. If you are craving from strong tomyam, it maybe not enough for you. In my opinion, if it’s drier, then it’s perfect!

Mom ordered a Pad Thai With Tomyam Soup served with white rice (RM4). The tomyam soup was pretty sour and the pad thai was filled with vegetable. I like the tomyam soup more. =D

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June 8, 2011
Kimchi Fried Rice At B Station, Taylor’s University

More and more restaurants are popping up at Taylor’s University commercial area, the Syopz @ Boardwalk. Korean, Chinese, Japanese and recently an Italian restaurant, I wonder what’s next. Few days ago, I went to the Korean restaurant, B-Station to have my dinner.

Looking over the menu, I felt like eating kimchi and so I ordered the Kimchi Fried Rice (RM9,90) with added minced beef (RM2.00).

It comes with the kimchi vegetables, a soup and of course, the rice with a sunny egg.

Well as for the taste, I got to say I like it because I can taste the kimchi taste in the rice and can feel the little kimchi among the rice. The minced beef added some meat biting experience in the mouth, making it even better.

Unfortunately, the soup was not that nice, it’s a korean soup but served warm, not hot enough. Pricing wise, I think it should be less than RM10 instead of adding RM2 for the beef meat.

From what I have known, this restaurant is operate by real Korean and the chef is also a Korean. You guys can check out the place as it has nice interior.

B Station
LG1-12 Commercial Block,
Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus,
1, Jalan Taylor’s,
47500 Subang Jaya,
Seloangor.

Tel: +6012-3193484

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May 12, 2011
Padang Brown Food Court

One of the nice place to have some local hawker food for lunch and tea is the Padang Brown Food Court, which located at Padang Brown, in line with Perak Road. Padang which literally means field, which on the other hand, Padang Brown means Brown’s Field.

There’s actually 3 food courts on Padang Brown, one houses under the official food court built for hawker, another 2 are not really official. It’s quite easy to spot this food court as it’s inline with Perak Road and also by the junction of Perak Road and Anson Road. There’s a monument in the middle of the food court too.

This food court only opens in the afternoon and offer a variety of local hawker food for you to try out like Char Koay Teow, Lok Lok, Asam Laksa and more.

People usually finds lok-lok at night time but at here you can find it in the afternoon. Lok-lok is actually raw food on stick, which you need to dip them in super hot boiling water and cook your own food. Then you eat it with different sauces. You can get as cheap as RM0.50 per stick.

I wasn’t that obsessed with char koay teow back then. All of this craving and obsession for char koay teow comes after I went to study at Kuala Lumpur and I had so much char koay teow during this holiday in my hometown, Penang.

I ordered myself a plate of char koay teow (RM3.00) at the food court and the redness looks spicy and yes it is, somehow it’s still good even it’s spicy. Although, it might not be the best, it’s still so much better than char koay teow in Kuala Lumpur and other places. You can always request for less spicyness. The only thing was it’s not dry enough.

Despite all the hotness, a glass of coconut juice was chilling at the food court and it’s a must try. =)

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April 28, 2011

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