28.08.10 / Child's Play, Food review, Parenting, Travels / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (2)
Tags: broga grilled fish, Broga Ikan Bakar, charcoal grilled fish, Pusat Memancing Ikan Broga
I read that Broga is most famous for their Grilled Fish. Although there are many many restaurants around the town, this particular one is most difficult to find.
We actually went up to Sek Na Tuk 3 times to and fro, but we just cannot find this place until later then (good we did not give up earlier). Situated down the dangerous slope down the road on the left of Sek Na Tuk Temple ,you won’t believe that there is one so famous restaurant is situated in there.
To reach the restaurant, you actually have to drive in the narrow road on the left of the temple. It was scary as the winding road was too narrow for 2 cars, and if you make a miss, you can really fall down into deep into the valley!
Pusat Memancing Ikan Broga
Although situated so deep inside, we are surprise to see that almost each table is occupied. In fact, there are many BIG cars inside.
We are very lucky yesterday as there isn’t huge crowd and long waiting time like weekends (where they park their cars all the way in from the entrance of the pond). Now that I know that such crazy crowd exists, I would not dare or want to drive into this place on weekend!
Place to bakar their fish with charcoal
Salted Grilled Fish
I ordered this for the kids since they cannot take anything spicy. Although it is plain, the grilled fish smells simply aromatic.
Signature Dish - the Chilli Padi Sauce Fish
I love this and the light sauce is just so nice to go with my white rice. But hubby said it was too spicy for him so my maid and I had this for ourselves while hubby shared the kids’ fish ;p
Besides fish, you can also order brinjal and lady fingers (which can be grilled in many way), there is nothing else you can order . I saw each table order at least 3-4 types of fish. How I wish we come in a bigger group so I can try out their Asam / Nyonya / Tomyam / Mushroom / Black Pepper Grilled.
It cost us Rm49 for 2 packs grilled fish, 1 pack grilled lady finger, 3 plates rice and 2 can coke. Not very expensive, and yet it is not cheap either.
19.01.10 / Celebration, Food review, Just info / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (3)
Tags: Deep-fried Crispy Peanuts, Homemade CNY cookies, Homemade Crispy Peanuts
Crispy Peanuts anyone?
A friend of mine send some samples for me to try and I tell you, these taste heavenly delicious and crispy! Even myself, a person who dislike hates-nuts-very-very-much have to admit that this peanuts taste really good. My boys were fighting for it just now and I even got myself 3 jars (one for my mum, one for my in-law and one for ourselves). Blame it on Chin Lee who send this to me. (I think I am gonna need the best acne treatments after munching them:( )
Each jar crispy peanuts is Rm12. If you wish to order, I would suggest you to take at least 2 jars because the first jar will definitely ended up in your stomach the moment you open your first jar to taste it.
To buy: Place order with me a week upfront so my friend can ask her mum to make and collect from in Seremban during the weekend.
To collect: Can arrange meet up during the weekends
03.01.10 / Food review, Melaka / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (5)
Tags: Chinese, eating, kuih, malay, Melaka, Perhentian Kuih Kampong, Perhentian Kuih Kampung
Only 5 minutes away from my mum’s house, we often go to Perhentian Kuih Kampong for our evening tea. They serve very good small pack nasi lemak (70sen/pack), and have the most variety of Malay Kuih in Melaka. Among my favourite is their juicy Kuih Koci (40sen/pc) which is very thickly ladden with white coconut milk. Some Malay bloggers said their asam pedas is fantastic (hmm…must try it out one day). Sorry I do not have more pictures to share, but you can google for more information and pictures from some Malay bloggers.
If not mistaken, this stall has been operating since 1978. When I was very young, my grandpa used to tapau kuih from this stall back for me when he cycled back from work (at almost 90 now, he is still cycling daily passing by this stall).
By late evening, it is very crowded as that kuih stall only arrives and start selling kuih only starts to sell at 4pm. As it is situated in the middle of the main road of Ujong Pasir (next to a surau), it is almost impossible to get a parking there. Mostly of their patrons are local Chinese and Malays (now I see lots of Malay tourists too). Good for us that this place is not really discovered yet (coz there are too much other good food to feast for all Chinese tourist who comes all the way to Melaka to eat 
29.12.09 / Food review, Melaka, Travels / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (8)
Tags: ba ku teh, bakuteh, Cendol, Durian, durian cendol, Hotel Puri, jonker, Jonker 88, jonker street, Kedai Kopi Teck Wah Heng, Laksa Nyonya, Little Nyonya, pork slice, street, Ujong Pasir
Kedai Kopi Teck Wah Heng (another quieter part of Jonker Street)
When I was schooling, this used to be one of my favourite shop for breakfast. I have not visited this place, I think for more than 5 years.
Yummy soft pork slice coated with flour
This shop is famous for their soft pork slice (flour coated) cook in Bakuteh’s soup. Instead of serving with claypot, the dish is served individually with yam rice. You can opt for just pork slice or have your soup mix with intestines. Per serving is Rm5 (they add your bakuteh soup generously when you ask for soup refill) and each bowl yam rice is Rm1. Although it is crowded, I see that most patrons are local (good that it’s not discovered yet…*nyek…nyek…nyek*)
Inner garden of Hotel Puri
After breakfast we send the boys home and put them to sleep. Once they were knocked off, we continue our food hunt at Jonker Street (ok, we are not that *tong chiak* actually, just that by then it was noon already so it is time for lunch again). Since it was a Public Holiday, Jonker Street was very crowded. Not wanting to look for a side parking at the roadside, we went to a paying parking lot and walked to Hotel Puri (since QQ wanted to see where Yue Niang lives - place where Little Nyonya drama series was filmed).
It is really a beautiful hotel comprise of 3 long houses where the middle house was demolished and converted into an open air garden / restaurant.
It was extremely hot. A good time for a icy cold cendol. I heard from my brother that cendol and laksa from Jonker 88 is good (hmm..don’t remember this place existed during my schooling day so they must be new). This shop has the most crowd in jonker street (sorry, there will not be anyone to serve you, so you can see people queuing under the hot sun, waiting for their turn to carry their cendol/laksa into the shop themselves) so hubby had to queue while QQ and I squeezed into the extremely narrow shop to seek for a seat (you need to come in a Gang so someone queue while some go wait for table).
Crazy or not the crowds inside Jonker 88 Cendol Shop
I tell you, it was IMPOSSIBLE to get a table! There were already so many people standing at each table waiting so I decided to just tapau the cendol and eat else where. Forget about the laksa….
Opposite the shop along the extremely crowded walk way
And the above was where we stop by and eat our Cendol. So pityful eh??? Normal Cendol is Rm2 and Durian Cendol is Rm3. Well, worth it because the cendol is really nice. Even my proud-to-admit hubby also agreed!
After trying out some nice shirts opposite the shop (too bad I was too large that none fit nicely into me), my handphone rang and mum called me saying that the boys were awake. We quickly walked to our car and drove back to Ujong Pasir to eat at our favourite place instead (check out later this another crowded place situated a bit out of tourist area, but luckily not discovered yet by tourist, hehehe….)
27.12.09 / Food review, Seremban / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (1)
Tags: dim sum, hospital, Melaka, Min Kok, Paediatric, Pantai, restaurant, Scallop Dim sum, Seremban, Wu Kok
This round back to Melaka, I planned another eating trip for us all. Instead of having breakfast before depart, this time we departed earlier so that we can stop at Seremban to enjoy some of their famous local delicacies. Thanks to direction and a proper drawn map from Chin Lee, we stopped at Restaurant Min Kok, Seremban to try the most famous Dim Sum at Seremban.
Wu Kok and Lo Mai Kai
Steam Scallop Dim Sum
According to Chin Lee, this huge restaurant is very crowded on weekends and patrons are required to take queue number.
Location: Restaurant Min Kok, Seremban (near to Era Square, nearby Terminal 2)
Overall Taste: 8/10
Price: Not cheap but reasonable for price of an air-con restaurant, plus good taste dim sum served
Although the food taste quite good, unfortunately the boys were not feeling well and were extremely cranky. One by one of them even pooped at the restaurant (they were only wearing cotton pants) and Korkor even had some of his *peanut butter* dropping trailed on the floor when I ran him to the toilet 
Since we had to run to and fro to the toilet, one after another boy, and hubby rushing in and out to the car to fetch water, pants for boys, we lost mood to enjoy the food. After *gulping* all food ordered, we quickly make a move and rush back to Melaka, hoping to get them to see a paed. We reached Melaka at around 1pm, and then went to Jusco Melaka to wait till 2pm for the reopen of the paed clinic at Pantai melaka (Dr Lim Bi Yu, thanks to recommendation by Li Li).
Next coming up…continue hunting for famous food in Melaka…
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02.12.09 / Child's Play, Food review, Parenting, Penang Trip, Travels / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (6)
Tags: Add new tag, Chee Cheong Fun, Delima, Lorong, Muar Chee
Teochew Cendol near Komtar
Food hunting was not easy especially if you have 2 cranky babies who were not willing to ride in car seat. We were finding for the famous Teowchew Cendol stall situated at one of the small lorong. Unfortunately after making so many rounds around Komtar building for more than an hour with kids screaming, both boys wanting only Mummy to carry them and not Kakak, calls made to Healy’s hubby and also stopping by to ask local people, we just could not see any old man selling this famous cendol at any small lorong. Thus an old man directed us to this modern one, and sorry to say, the taste is a total disappointment to all of us. Best cendol for us is still in Kuantan, selling by a Mamak stall beside Shell station along the mainroad on way to heading to Teluk Cempedak.
Genting Cafe, Lorong Delima 6, Greenland (in a housing area)
One of the main reason why I kept wanting to go to Penang. I just cannot forget this very nice Chee Cheong Fun I had there years ago. Although my brother is familiar with Penang food, he has no idea which restaurant I am refering to, each time I tell him. (Just like how I cannot remember the name of restaurant in Melaka, where I usually dine our local food). Luckily we found it after stopping by to ask people nearby.
Chee Cheong Fun from Genting Cafe (Big Rm2.50)
My brother did “ta-pau” similar chee cheong fun, also with Har-Kou (Shrimp Paste) from Gurney Drive on the first night, but it taste so terrible awful that I did not even wanna swallow it. Am I too fussy or what? Nothing beats this one from Genting Cafe, I guess. We ordered 2 big plates and tapau back too. Hubby said I so “Tong Jiak”!
Char Keow Teow at Genting cafe (RM3.50)
Know whats the reason of pricing all the food above? You know, our eyes almost popped out when the hawker collected Rm10 for 2 plates of fried keow teow at New Lanes! Crazily. At Genting Cafe, it is only Rm3.50 and it tasted much better too.
Muar Chee
I must say that Gurney Drive still have the best Muar Chee. Too bad we did not have a chance to sneak out of the hotel after the kids were asleep although hubby and I planned to, earlier.
01.12.09 / Food review, Penang Trip, Travels / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (7)
Tags: Cafe, Joo Leong, Penang, porridge, Thai Fried Oyster
New extension of Kek Lok Si temple (we were sitting in the middle of the fish pond, overlooking to the constructing gigantic Golden Statue of Kuan Yin)
It is always my favourite place and I think I been to Kek Lok Si each time I visit Penang. But this round, climbing up is indeed very very tiring for me. Probably due to aging and I have lost my stamina unlike my younger days. Furthermore, there were 3 kids to be taken care of.
FYI, the boys are no longer wearing diapers as they are uncomfortable with wetness. They only clad in cotton shorts so we have to make sure that they go to the loo every hour. We also bring along a potty in the car and a big bag of pants for change (in case accident happens).
Hubby and my brother went down again to drive up the car when we realised that now cars are allowed to be drive on top of the hill. We then drove further up to their new extension as all of us were too tired to walk anymore.
At Him Heang, to get the tambum biscuits
Next we stopped at Him Heang to get the most famous Tau Sar Pneah. The crowd was so long, and we were told to wait for 25 mins for the biscuits to be packed (see the crowd queuing towards the kitchen?) We just placed order and then decided to come back to pick up the next day.
After eating nearby, we went back to the hotel again, for water play. Surely a must if stay at Gurney Hotel coz it was so fun. Check out who came over to our hotel to visit us
Later in the evening, Cynthia came over to brought us to the best stall in Penang that serves delicious porridge. So good compare to those hawker stalls food that we had at New Lane on our first night.
Chu Chap Chook (Porridge with lots of inner parts)
Prawn Vermicelli
Is this place familiar to you? I was trying to find the signboard of this place but see none. Then I google and found out that place is called Joo Leong Cafe, situated at Sg.Tiram (correction: Perak Lane, Jelutong, thanks to Ming Hooi for pointing out).
How to go into this place: This wooden stall is actually back facing the main road so we need to turn into a small housing road, then park at the small place beside some wooden kampong house.
Thai fried oyster
Besides good porridge, we tasted the best Fried Oyster too (called as Thai Fried Oyster), from another a small stall attached to the porridge stall. It taste a little bit different from the normal oyster we have and the oysters are huge!
If I remembered correctly, this is called 3 Taste Tauhu Bakar or something like that. Also prepared by the same stall selling the Fried Oyster. Hubby loves this!
We had also Peanut soup served with Yau Char Kuai, sold by another small stall here. Too bad my battery is very low and I did not take much picture from here. Thanks to Cynthia and Joe for this sumptous dinner treat. Still waiting for picture from Cynthia’s camera..*hint…hint*
30.11.09 / Food review, Penang Trip, Travels / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (9)
Tags: Bamboo, Bukit, Clams, crab, Fish, Jetty, mantis, Penang, prawn, restaurant, seafood, shell, soft, Sotong, squid, stingray, Tambun, tiger
We reached Seberang Perai at about 2.30pm. Since we did not managed to go into Ipoh on our way to Penang for lunch, we stop at Bukit Tambun for seafood so that we do not have to drive out to Prai again for dinner.
Initially we wanted to visit the recommended restaurant, Ghee Seng, but unfortunately they only open at 3pm. Not wanting to wait for another 15 minutes, we went next door to Restaurant Jetty.
Below are the dishes we ate:
Stir Fried Stingray with Sauce (Rm16) - nice!
Bamboo Clam stir fried with ginger (Rm16)- but I thought Bamboo Clam should be rectangular???
Steam Tiger Fish (RM12) - sweet flesh but too bony
Fried Squids (Rm8) - nice and cheap but the sotong is soo tiny
Mantis Prawn with sauce (Rm12) - not very nice
Fried Soft Shell Crab (Rm25) -best among all. We even had 2 plates of this!
Total bill was Rm108 for 4 adults (including Kakak). Verdict: Overall food was so-so only although it is quite cheap. My brother said Ghee seng’s seafood taste better or it is either we ordered wrong way of cooking those dish. Had ordered too much fried stuffs until our tongue went numb.
What’s happening to the kids there
We also did not manage to order prawns and crabs as the kids are too difficult to manage (we have to eat really quick before the 2 boys get cranky.) Didi was already showering himself with the plate of grains I gave to him and then pee on his pants. Korkor on the other hand, was already crying wanted to be carried. Talk about eating seafood with little kids!
25.09.09 / Family, Food review, Makan-makan, Melaka, Parenting / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (5)
Tags: dim sum, Melaka, portugis, seafood, settlement, square
Eating in Melaka is great and we love going back for food. Of course we will not go to famous places with lots of tourist with crazy crowds queing on the middle of the road (pic here on our national paper), under the hot sun standing in the middle of the road, waiting for a table during weekends and public holiday. If we want to dine at such places, hubby will take leave on weekday where you can see the shop owners actually sitting there chasing flies waiting for people to come.
Dim Sum at Tengkera (corner shop, same row with the famous Satay Celup)
We usually have heavy breakfasts in Melaka. Having dim sum in Melaka is very much cheaper as compare to what we have here (although they have increase the price a lot over the years). Our favourite place for the best “Tai Pau” is at the Ban Hong Xiang Tea House at Gajah Berang (also another crazy place with crazy crowds where we have to help ourselves snatching the steaming hot Big Pau once they are out from the kitchen to the steaming bamboo tray, but hubby prefers this one at Tengkera (forgot name of the show) with less crowd and easier parking.
We were lucky that the kids were fast asleep on the 2nd night. Guess where hubby and I sneak out to while the maid keep on eye on them in the room (with my parents at home)?
The Portugis Square
Hubby and I took a stroll to the Portugis Settlement, which is only a very short walking distance away. I was so surprise that there are so much changes made to the Portugis Settlement with so many new stalls selling seafood facing a very beautiful sea facing walkway and a modern jetty (replacing the broken wooden jetty where I used to play with my friends).
Butter Garlic Baked Scallop (bottom) Tepung Goreng Sotong (Top)
Sorry for the lousy pictures (I forgot to bring out my camera) and also missing scallops (which already ended in our stomach). Price of the seafood here is a little bit higher than those fishing village in Serkam, Muara Sg.Duyong and Crystal Bay.
- 100g Fish Rm4
- 100g Squid Rm3
- 100g Scallop Rm7
When our food arrived, it is almost 12 midnight. By then almost all food were sold and yet there are so many people coming over to take their heavy dinner (with rice some more!).
08.07.09 / Chin Nee, Food review, Melaka, Parenting / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (16)
Tags: alai, Bakar, bay, crystal, Ikan
Believe or not, I have not been to any ikan bakar in Melaka before this although I have been growing up and staying in Melaka for more than 20 years. My mum was strict, so I can’t go out far with friends at night. So when I grow up, I almost forgotten about these places until recently!
So during the last few trips back, we have been going to several places for Ikan bakar, searching for the best. Hubby has been utilizing his annual leave so we could stay 2 nights so we could enjoy more of my favourite food in Melaka.
Hubby looking at the choices of fresh fish from the sea (@ Crystal Bay, Melaka)
We have been visiting or searching for the best ikan bakar among these 3 places:
First visit: Serkam (about 45 mins drive towards Muar direction from Melaka town)
Second visit: Muara Sg.Duyong (only 5 mins drive from Melaka town)
Third visit: Crystal Bay, Jln Alai (about 10mins drive from Melaka town)
Sitting by the river lined up with fishing sampan (boat)
We reached our destination quite early. Great view as we were sitting by the river. QQ loves looking at the sampan on the river although she hardly eat any food there.
Happy Korkor in red
You know why I always talk about Korkor? I kinda miss him as he is always carried by Kakak, while Didi (a more demanding baby) is always with me on the sling. Even in the car, Korkor is always sitted at the back row with Kakak as Didi wants to be with Mummy all time in the middle row. Not fair? What to do…sigh…
Hot BBQ Otak-otak in basket
I forgot my camera and the lousy pics above were taken from my hp. Sorry no pictures of our food as I were too excited when the food arrived, hence busy gobble down the food.
Verdict:
Ikan Bakar @ Serkam - cheapest and nice but the environment is lousy
Muara Sg.Duyong - nearest to the town. Cheap too, but all their food is tasteless. Not worth going at all. We rather drive further…
Crystal Bay, Jln Alai -great food but most pricey among all three places. Still it is consider cheap for many.
Coming up next….map to these places..(I am going to sleep first, will sketch them tomorrow)
22.12.07 / Family, Food review / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (7)
Tags: 1U, Barney, Kajang, Lat Thong, Msau, post office, Seri Kembangan, Sg.Chua, soup, Spicy
Finally I found the “Lat Thong” (Hot soup) shop in Seri Kembangan, thanks to Msau for the help on the location. Situated behind a post office, it is quite easy to locate.
Not sure if there is anything wrong with our taste bud or what, hubby and I still feel that the Sg.Chua, Kajang’s version taste better.
However the price in this shop is quite cheap with a reasonable serving too (RM7 per head for both spicy soup or the Fa Thiew chicken).
For more photos of food and location, you can visit tekko’s blog for more details.
Hmm…must go back to try the Kajang one again one day !
21.12.07 / Food review / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (7)
Tags: Kembangan, Seri, Steamboat
Ever tried this famous All-You-Can-Eat Steamboat at Seri Kembangan?
There are a huge variety of seafood (crab, prawns, huge scallops) to choose from and you can even grill their marinated seafood beef, pork and chicken wings. I tell you, they are really yummy. QQ really had a good share since she is dining for free! For desserts, there are lots of nice cut fruits and ice-cream too.
Price is RM20. 80 per head (exclude drinks). If you happen to be in this area, try it out. They are really packed, even on weekdays! More details and the location here.
09.12.07 / Child's Play, Food review, Parenting / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (24)
I feel bad as I haven’t been cooking recently, and all we ate for lunch and dinner is food from hawker stall. My poor girl, not only she feel tortured, in fact, she love eating noodle all time.
So for tea time, we will try to make do with whatever snack we have at home. Since we have lots of cookie cutters at home, we did this yesterday.
Just put a slice of cheese in the middle of two slices of bread, and cut them out with shapes. Boy, she loves those Mickey and Stars. She just popped those little Mickey and Stars until we had 4 slices of bread with 3 slices of cheese.
Guess who had to eat to leftover from the bread? Her poor mummy is the only victim at home that had to sapu (finish) those bread chunks, minus the skin
And thanks to Shireen on her Burger King’s birthday party’s influence, I couldn’t find any Burger King around my house area until I had to resort to this for dinner.
It was the first time I tried the Mc Donald’s Grilled Chicken Foldover!!! And it feels Sooo GOOD !!! And please, do not tempt me with any more nice sinful food picture on your blog otherwise I’ll be obese in no time. Otherwise I am going to produce my own crispy bacon with my new microwave bacon cooker, the only totally enclosed unit in the market.
Guess what I am going to do tomorrow? Hunt down Burger King, of course!!!!!!!!!
04.12.07 / Food review / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (13)
Tags: black, end, grapes, seedless, sharp, US
Still remember the nice black grape that I mentioned sometime back? See what I got during the weekends.
Nice black crunchy US seedless grapes! See the sharp end? Boy, they are really SWEETIES!!!!
Cleaning Tip: A good way to clean off the white powder is to roll them with a clean wet cloth after washing. See my *blink blink* shinny grapes?
My poor persimmons have to end up sitting in my fridge while I enjoy savoring these sweet grapes. I dare not buy too much as I know grapes can cause overheating and constipation also. Am grateful just a bit to satisfy my taste bud
In future, I think I would just purchase 2 of each fruits instead one whole basket so I can have more varieties. Better than letting them rot isn’t it?
Or anyone wanna come help me finish them?
30.11.07 / Chin Nee, Food review / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (19)
Fruits below are not for prayers but for my own consumption. Not sure it is my gila (crazy) hormone or what, these is what I have been stuffing myself round the clock. Hope too much fruits won’t harm my body, will it?
I am crazy over fruits all day long. My favourite only used to be orange, but now, whatever fruits I see at the fruit stall, I want to buy them all.
Few days back, got some *yukky* green apples (which I used to hate a lot), oranges, and today some persimmons and pears (for boiling dessert). I even saw some very nice black extremely sweet US grapes (with sharp end) but I wonder if I can finish them all before they get rot.
I even bugged my hubby to take me to eat this “sai-mai-lou” (honeydew snow-ice dessert) while we were in Kuantan.
Again snow ice is never my favourite but that time, I just feel like swallowing all the ice into my body. How nice if I have a machine like the Rancilio Silvia but for ice-crushing so I can crush my own fruit ice! ….*yummy-yummy*….