Home's Best

I never ate curry noodles as much as I have since marrying into the Chin family. Neither have I had such great tasting curry noodles as the ones my mother-in-law makes. Her secret, aside from the frying of the spices, is the replacement of coconut milk with creamer! You have to try it to believe it.

All laid out.

All dressed up and served!

I Love Yoo

After a great shoot with a sweet pastry chef, we had a quick bite to eat at this little kiosk in Kota Kemuning. It shows the reemergence of old Chinese snacks - this one being the yue char kuey (hence the pun on the kiosk's name, I Love Yoo).

Menu is basic - choice of the flour fritter with either soya bean or porridge, with a drink. Good yoo, nice porridge, and very natural soya bean milk.

Simplicity rules at I Love Yoo

Simple menus, simple choices.

QSR-style meals.

An assortment of the yoos,

Carb heaven!

I Love Yoo!
Carrefour Kota Kemuning
19A Jalan Anggerik Vanilla N31/N Kota Kemuning Shah Alam 40460 Selangor.

C Plus Plus

There is just something that does not gel with the way Chyniis is presented. It looks like an upscale Chinese restaurant. Its name points to something a bit avant garde, but the food is, honestly, not even as good as my neighbourhood 'tai chow' (a restaurant which does quick meals, made over roaring woks).

My folks, my mum-in-law and my family dined there, and truly, after the first noodles came out, I just did not want to bother asking Kit to shoot any more.

The frontage.

Interior branding.

Inferior meehoon.

Pricey beef noodles.

Chyniis Restaurant

 G45, 46 & 47, SSTwo Mall

40 Jalan SS2/72 47400 Petaling Jaya Selangor

Tel: +603 7956 7288

Chatime Again

Our favourite tea haunt.

This visit to Chatime in SS2 Mall was different. (Cue Psycho music). We brought Erin with us!
As well as grandma. Erin really enjoyed her chocolate hazelnut mousse tea with pearl and coconut jelly for RM6.90.

Grandma raved about the fragrance of the hot brown rice green tea (RM5.90), while I was kept calm with the gorgeous longan red date with agar and less sugar, costing RM6.40. It's a lovely, authentic Asian beverage, with a great aroma and the lovely crunch of the jellies.

This trip's selections. From L-R, longan, milk tea with grass jelly, brown rice tea and chocolate hazelnut mousse.

Fishy Business

One of my final meals with the senior management staff of a company I have consulted with for about seven years (the number for completion and wholeness, no less!) was at a place I ate at when I first joined the company in USJ, Subang Jaya.

This meal was simple and no-frills, but full of taste. 

Fish head is the specialty at this place. This is the curry variety with loads of vegetables and bean curd.

The steamed fish head in soya sauce and scallions is delicate and fragrant, with no taste of mud.

Tender, meltingly good steamed chicken dressed with soy, spring onions and garlic.

A heaping plate of sweet potato leaves to round out the meal.

The meal, with rice and tea, for four people came up to RM87.40. It could have fed two more people!

F4 Fish Head Restaurant
Lot 776, Sub Lot 3, Jalan Subang 4,
Subang Jaya Industries Park 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor
Tel: +6012 315 3891

Nephew Jerred Turns One!

My brother and sister-in-law celebrated their one-year-old’s birthday with a small dinner party for friends and family where they turned the guests loose on the ala carte menu at Fullhouse, Sunway Giza. A dangerous thing to do with foodie relatives, but it certainly gave us lots of scope for reporting. 

The oyster shooters looked chic, but were a wash out with bland, insipid flavour, and an unforgivable melted ice and sauce mix. RM10.90 for the murder of innocent molluscs in tomato celery, lemongrass lychee and citrus slush.

Forest mushroom soup was rich and creamy, with nicely roasted flaked almonds. A tad salty, but generally okay for RM8.90.

Seared Atlantic salmon with deep-fried lotus root, Asian greens and teriyaki glaze was a good East-West combination at RM26.90.

Oysters Mornay were a lot better tasting than the shooters. Filled with a rich spinach and cheese sauce, three pieces were RM15.90.

The grilled mixed seafood featured Atlantic salmon, mussels in half shells, scallops, prawns and squid with sauteed Shitake mushrooms and orange emulsion. Pretty tasty for RM26.90.

Some people loathe it, but papaya milkshake is actually a nice combination. RM7.90.

The kid in me loved the rose strawberry magic ball blended, which features these syrup-filled jelly balls which pop in the mouth. RM8.90 for a fun mouthful!

Lavender flower tea is calming and very comforting on a cold night. The fact that it is refillable is a plus point of the RM6.90 pot.

 The eating got a bit out of hand after this. We also ordered the Wrap From Rome which is a smoked salmon, romaine and crouton salad at RM12.90. The Chicken Parcel is an oven roasted fillet of chicken stuffed with mushrooms and Chinese herbal jus which was very, very good. Tender and original, it was worth the RM22.90. 

Fullhouse Sunway Giza

C-2 Sunway Giza Mall

Kota Damansara 47800 Petaling Jaya

Tel: +603 6141 8095

Tarbush Revisited

There was a lot of eating during the last quarter of 2011, so I will make my entries brief until I catch up. I had this pleasant lunch with one of fantastic designer friends, Nick Foong. He and I went to college together and meeting up is always a pleasure. This meal was at Tarbush, the place which began my love affair for Middle Eastern food. This is the original branch in Ampang.

Fatoush Salad with olive oil, lemon juice and crisp bread bits.

Vine leaves stuffed with rice are not very popular with the locals who shudder at the briny saltiness of the pickled leaves, but I love them and think they're very refreshing. 

The Mixed Grill satisfies even the most carnivorous.

The chicken chop comes with spiced rice.

Tarbush

Lot G05, Ground Floor, Ampang Point Shopping Centre, Jalan Mamanda 3, 68000 Ampang, Selangor

Tel / Fax: 03 4253 4177