Malacca food

Whenever we go to Malacca, we think of Historical building, the unique culture and no doubt different varieties of foods. I went to Malacca with friends couldn't help to take as many pictures as I can, there's always something interesting to see and learn there. After a whole day walking around Mahkota Parade, St.Paul Hill, A'Famosa, Dutch Buildings, Jonker streets, museums and etc, we choose a place call New Newton Food court to dine in and stretch our legs, I order Bahkuteh with Yam rice and my friend order chicken rice balls. I had Chicken rice ball before, it taste like normal chicken rice except the rice is roll into balls. I love the Bahkuteh which is pork cooked with dark soy sauces in claypot and the special yam rice, that was delicious. The food courts has pretty roof design, replica of Malay traditional roof. The price is a little expensive compare to old coffee shop around Malacca but its worth it, there're many other stalls there and you can choose any food you fancy such as Chee Cheong Fun, Char Kuey Tiaw, Wantan Mee,Ngiu Chap, Satay and etc. The price range from RM3-RM8. Even until today, I can still remember the Bahkuteh I had there in Malacca, the meat is tender and juicy, just like the picture I took there.

Mooncake..mooncake..mooncake

Year in year out, there're many celebrations that Malaysian would look forward to, one of them are the Mooncake Festival. During the Mooncake Festival, or sometimes refer to as Lantern Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese community will light up lantern and enjoy the sweet mooncake with families outside the house under the moonlight. I love colorful lantern light adorned at shopping mall or houses, festive decoration always perks our spirit. Of course the celebration won't be complete without enjoyin mooncake myself. There's many flavor in the market nowadays, the traditional mooncake will be the lotus paste with egg yoke and red bean paste (with o without egg yoke). These mooncakes are sweet and sticky but need to be savor slowly and washed down with a cup of chinese tea. With the wake up trendy market nowadays offers many more flavors such as chocolate mocca, coffee flavors mooncake and even jelly mooncake with yam, laychee and durian flavors. The price would range from RM4 - RM12 a piece. So many varieties of mooncake to choose from but I guess like any festival, the reason for all the celebration is to bring family together, the young meet the old, the old tell stories of forgotten years over sweet delicacies.By the way, you can get the mooncake mostly all bakery or cake house, they even come with fancy boxes too.

Banana Leaf rice at Sri Pandi

I went to this restaurant with my Indian Friends, they said the food is plentiful and very delicious. I found it interesting and yes..definitely plenty for me. The restaurant is located Seksyen 12 at PJ area. Again unless you are a local, you won't know, that within this housing area, there's a Indian Restaurant that sell really great Banana leave Rice. Apart from that there's definitely Briyanni Rice, Tosai, Roti Canai. But my visit here is to try the Banana leave, the minute we got to our seat, The team of waiter carrying their food tray came at once, asking for drink order and if you ask for Banana leaf rice, they would immediately lay the banana leave, rice, condiments and then present you the side dishes. I love Indian spices, sometimes we all have this craving for exotic food. When I look around the restaurant, I noticed that there's multi-racial customers dine here, Chinese, Malays & etc rub shoulder and enjoy their hearty meal here. Food is halal and great, the waiters are very attentive and generous too. I believe Sri Pandi is meant for big eaters, definitely worth to go. The price range around RM8-RM10 for banana leaf rice and all depends on the side dishes you order. If you look for autenticity meal, this is the place for you.

Kon Lou Mee ( Pork Noodles)

This is a must try dish in Kota Kinabalu, most Sabahan love their food hot and freshly prepared. Kon lou Mee (or Wantan Mee by West Malaysian) is actually homemade noodles cooked and served with either roasted pork, char siew (sweeten grilled pork), mince pork, pork sausages, roasted chicken and etc. It also came with hot soup. I think the meal best ate with Nescafe Ice (which is my favourite). My family normally came to a Kopitiam at Bornion Corner Shoplots in Luyang area. It's the row of shop opposite Damai Luyang. The shop is always full unless if you come early. What most people do is scan the whole coffeeshop and if they saw anyone has just finished their meal, like a vulture, they would make a beeline to the table and stand there anxiously waiting for the customer to pay and leave. Sabahan are nice folks, they won't let you wait too long. The table will be quickly clear away to welcome the next customer. Did I mention it's hard to get a parking lot here too? Well, I don't think that would deter any food lover to miss their weekly konlou meal ritual here. The price is around RM4.50 per dish. With great meal, what else can bring family together except of course when the bills come.

King Hu Tg. Aru

This is a very old fashion Chinese restaurant, unless you are a local, you won't guess that this place serves marvelous dishes at affordable price. There won't be any menus here, since most of the patron at King Hu are regulars and practically memorized all the menus. But for those who really wish to indulge in something exotic, you can have ostrich meat or pork knuckles served cold, my favorite. There's other common dishes such as sweet sour fish fillet, lemon chicken, seaweed soup and even steamed garoupa, but I can assure you the taste is simply delicious. The other night, we had want to celebrate a birthday and came in without reservation. Need I say that the place is almost fully booked, but I told the waiter there, we have 9 people with us, they quickly usher us to a big table (taking away, the reserved sign as he go off). So the trick is just say, you have at least 6 people dining in. Otherwise they won't take you in. I don't really care for the decor, its pretty out-dated, dire need of face-lift, but the customer couldn't care less. The food is the main attraction here, and the restaurant only open at night.

We had pretty decent meal size for 9 people, Lemon chicken, sweet sour fish, cold sliced pork knuckle, stew fried Sabah veggie and mince meat with tofu. All that cost about RM100. Not bad at all. I always recommen this place to everyone who happen to miss local cuisine and they never been disappointed so far.