Dinner at Orkid Ria Seafood Restaurant during my Langkawi trip in August 2009. A visit to Langkawi Island wouldn’t be complete without a seafood meal, and we decided to splurge a bit with…
Lobster muahaha!!!
Lobster stir-fried with chilli paste; probably not a wise option, as the strong seasoning was too dominant that it’s hard to taste the original lobster flavour. Nice texture though; freshness at its best…

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Dined at Chao Yen restaurant at Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall in July 2009, which branded itself for authentic Teochew cuisine.
Teochew food focuses on braised, steamed and salt-preserved cooking methods; and probably most famous for its congee with variety of side dishes.
Braised intestines, duck meat, squid and tofu
Combo of some iconic braised dishes…

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Dined at the New Restaurant Ipoh Chicken Rice in Sri Petaling, Kuala Lumpur last weekend. It’s a branch of a famous restaurant (in Gasing, PJ) which has been operating since 1977; this one was opened a couple of years ago.

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Dinner a couple of weeks ago at K10 claypot chicken rice restaurant in Bercham, Ipoh. K10 is one of the Malaysia’s most famous restaurants specialises in claypot chicken rice, a simple yet tasty Cantonese delicacy.

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Cold Stone Creamery, an ice-cream parlor franchise from Arizona, USA, is known for its mix-ins and lively service culture where the workers would sing a tune or two when tipped by the customers.
Tipping is not common in Asia though; so I guess the staff would probably sing along whenever they feel like it. Sharing some videos of the staff in action from Cold Stone Creamery outlets in Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan…
Japan – Forget ice cream, the girls are champs…
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Saturday lunch at Meng Kee restaurant at Hicom-Glenmarie Industrial Park, Shah Alam. Their char siew (Chinese barbecued pork) is one of the best I’ve ever had, nuff said…

Meng Kee Char Siew
Address: 20, Jln Pekedai U1/36, Hicom Glenmarie, Shah Alam, Malaysia.
Phone: 019-379 3629
Was thinking of having fish for dinner yesterday (Jan 10) and bumped into the restaurant by chances while making rounds at Puchong Jaya.
The restaurant dubbed itself as a ‘wild natural river fish specialist’, and I am very much a fish lover (in edible sense)… so it clicked as soon as I saw the restaurant.

Steamed
bating fish, presumably a kind of catfish… fresh and delicious
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Dined at Farmland Restaurant in Sri Petaling, Kuala Lumpur, last Sunday (Jan 4). The restaurant is one of the branches of the restaurant famous for its porridge steamboat.

Double based steamboat, with porridge and tomyam base on each side
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