Food I found in Temerloh Pahang

I went for on village homestay program for 2 weeks in August, honestly I am not use to village life, but I am happy I made it through. I learn to love Temerloh because of their food, besides the family I stay with has a mom who cook really well, I had Fish cooked in Durian sauce (Ikan Patin Masak tempoyak) or deep fried Talapia. Temerloh is famous for the Patin fish which look like cat fish but the head is slightly wider. I tried these fish in many style of cooking here, fried, sauces, steamed and even grilled. The village where I stay throughout the program are mostly Kelantanese and during teabreaks or breakfast, I had lots of Kelantanese delicacies such as Satar and Lompat Tikam. Satar is fish meat that's wrapped in banana leave in cone shape and is grilled over flamming charcoal fire. Lompat Tikam is a very sweet dessert that has two layer, green and white, main ingredient are coconut milk with rice flour. The dessert is normally served cold with generous helping of coconut syrup or gula melaka. Another local delicacies are banana fritters or cekodok pisang, mashed banana that's mixed with flour, sugar and water and then deep fried til perfection. Most of the local delicacies are sold cheapest at RM0.30 to RM0.50. Fish dishes are expensive in Temerloh compare to the rest of town in West Malaysia. Patin fish could reach up to RM12 per kilo. But people always hunt for good food regardless the price, well not everyone but I am definitely one of them.

Rasa Nyonya Restaurant

I don't particularly like this restaurant, not because of the food, but the service is really bad. The waiter can't be bother with our order and keep looking another way, so that they won't be able to see us if we call them. Probably hoping we forget, get tired of waving our hands and walk out from the restaurant. However since my blog is about food maybe I should complaint about the food, did I say complaint? Hmmm, I mean comment on the food. First, There aren't many choices, and when we asked if fried bittergurd means deep fried, the waiter said "yeah", but it came out stir fried, much to my dad disappointment. I also found the fish slice has some kinda smell, too long in the fridge or something. Anyways, the rest of the dishes are okay, not so good but ok. We didn't ask for the signature dish which is Ox-tail soup, which I tasted before and it was superb. We had Fried fish with Thai sauce, sweet & sour fish, fried fillet on tofu, Fried Bittergurd and Stir fried Brijal with salted fish. The bill came out for 9 people is around RM140. Not bad but service could be better. I won't be rushing to this restaurant any time soon.

Fancy that!!

So many cakes and yummy sweet dessert in Manila, sometimes we don't know what to eat. I chance to see few cake house in Mall of Asia that sells fancy cakes, it's call Goldilocks. The one the struck me is the these Spongebob cake, on the right is Nemo. Just look at the vibrant colors, very striking!
I seen another creative cake topper, but its wedding cake and I found it very cheeky. I haven't seen anything like these in Malaysia yet, I really hope they do soon.

Little Italy - in KK

Little Italy is my place to dine out if I feel like I want to indulge myself. For local Sabahan, this may be a little spendy but the food here well cooked, good service and I love to come any chance I got. My favourite food here are many, I specially love the thin crust pizza and just the right amount of spice and ingredient. Plus they even note the dishes that's low calories (for diet conscious freaks!). The other day, I treat my lil' bro a nice lunch at Little Italy, he ordered a regular Hawaiana pizza and risotto with seafood for me.
I have ice latte and my bro has lemonade, no dessert because one thing missing in Little Italy is the variaties of dessert available. Otherwise we probably won't mind making room for dessert.

All time favourite-Nasi Goreng Ikan Masin

There were times after we been bustling all day at work and all you want now is a good hot meal. It's been really hard to get a good parking spot nowadays, you even have to fight your way to an empty seat at everyone's favourite coffeeshop. Finally when you ready to order, your mind just went blank, looking helplessly at the Chinese characters on the board (only word you understand there is "menu") and the not very english auntie cum waitress waiting impatiently for your order, the only dish that can never go wrong is Nasi Goreng Ikan Masin (or Fried rice with salted fish). I love these meal, it's ready to go (if you want to tapau), hot from the wok, appetizing (salted fish?! Oh yeah) and it has all the vitamins too (hmm..) Well I can say it all depends what your cook decided to throw into the fried rice, I went to Man Tai last week and they served fresh seafood, so I got my slices fish, prawns, squid, bit of eggs, chopped veggie and of course sprinkled with salted fish. All for RM5 a plate, they even throw in free soup for you. Most Malaysian eatery from mamak stall to big 5stars resort served Nasi Goreng Ikan Masin and every place has their own unique taste(Chinese, Malay, Indian), that's why I would say these dish will never go out of style. It will always be my personal favourite! By the way you can add egg (sunny side up) on top, taste marvelous if you ask me!

Simple but Delicious

I love rotiboy, doesn't everyone? Once there's this round sweet smelling bun out from the oven that lure everyone in the vicinity for a quick bite. It resulted in long queue, made everyone wonder why people wait patiently just to get their teeth on the soft sweet smelling coffee flavour bun in KLCC. I never fail to buy one or two before heading home after long day in the mall, doing what else? Shopping!! It only cost about RM1.80 each. In Kota Kinabalu these type of buns are sold at Tuah Baker's on 4th floor Palm Square , Center Point and also Wisma Merdeka Shopping mall, I think that I deserve a coffee break, don't you think? I'll be laying back on the couch, tv remote in one hand, rotiboy in another and one cuppa hot coffee to wash it down, if you happen to look for me. Yum yum..happy weekend everyone while I enjoy my rotiboy.

Manila Food Craze

My family and I went to Manila for a holiday last year, how and why we choose to go there is beyond me, I wanted to go to Bangkok at first but I think something came up, our trip to Bangkok is canceled and is replaced with other trip. Some how, we choose to go to Manila because mom always wanted to see the churches and buy christian relics there, which I found fascinating too. Apart from food of course, the trip was alright, we have a little storm at Clark airport and the cab and hotel have some misunderstanding but we manage to get a cab to our hotel at Cherry blossom hotel. Its very strategic location, which is near the Robinson's Mall. Here's a tip guys, if you travel, always get a cab from the mall, they are much cheaper and has a meter rather than took those at hotel which is double a price. The hotel is alright but I hated that its infested with cockroaches, the hotel vain efford to get rid of them with controlled pesticides, some how these bugs manage to live through that. The worst part is they eat my Bibingka cake. How disgusting! Now that's an introduction to my food craze in Manila, I found this really delicious cake call Bibingka, it made of plain flour, rice flour, sugar, ghee and coconut milk. These cake are cooked on an oven and then the hot yummy bibingka is sprinkled with sugar or cheese on top. These processes were done at Bibingka stall all over Manila. Cost 21 peso, that's RM1.70 then.

Another place I love in Manila is the food court, there are like food heaven, any mall you go, they bound to be great food court, Robinson, Mall of Asia, Glorietta or others. There's food everywhere, mostly consist of roasted pork, grilled seafood,salted eggs and etc. You can't help but be amazed with the colourful food presentation. Most meal cost from 60 peso or RM4.70 including soft drinks, now that's a bargain. I found it strange that they don't have Ice Nescafe on the menu though, somehow it annoyed me because I get all cracky without a dose of Nescafe, but breakfast at cherry blossoms turn out to be better than the room co-habitant. They serve american breakfast,no buffet but ala carte. They served bacon and eggs, ham & eggs, mangoes and pancake etc. I like them all, simply delicious. Cherry blossom Room rate is about RM120 a night. For those who fear about security in Philipines,well you know how media tend to exaggerate the news. I went to a restaurant called Iceberg and the interior is very clean and hip. We are kind of sceptical at first but we are glad we had our dinner there. By the way, I probably should introduce you to some food I've tasted and enjoy at Manila, there's Bangus or fried fish fillet with mangoes, Fried To fu, Sisig or mince pork cooked with onion (common but very delicious!) You just have to try them, I don't think you will regret it. I found my holiday in Manila very enjoyable, shopping and food haven. I will definitely come back.