Cari Makan: Sek Yuen @ Pudu, Kim Gary @ Sunway Pyramid.

A human cannot simply live without eating. That’s what I call a fact. Even the boy under the tree featured in National Geographic went missing after 7-8 days of “not eating or drinking”. Doesn’t surprise me in anyway. Even I would go missing if I had not eaten anything for 7 days.^^

The Japanese saying “itadakimas” is meaningful in the sense that, you are not saying thank you that you are able to eat in terms monetary values. The gratefulness lies in the fact that a living soul has given up its life to feed you. AND money NOT EQUALS life.

My activities in KL has a lot to do with eating eating and eating. The eating here hmmm can simply divided to good eats and bad eats.So what exactly is a bad eat? Follow on:

Kim Gary @ Sunway Pyramid.

This was their spicy noodles Korean style which Eric ordered. Asked him how was it? He shook his head. But he was not that bad. He said it was “Ok laH” haha. Not so ok from the looks of it. Instant noodles all the way only :S

My sister and I ordered Baked Cheese Rice. Something we would have ordered in our younger days (not that I’m very old now) Wa.. this was the Szechuan flavored baked cheese rice. Horribleeeeeeeee! @.@

 

After the not so good experience @ a place of pricey not good food, we walked around the shopping centre. Lucky us, good bargains had our moods getting happy again!

As for the good food,

Sek Yuen
313 & 315, Jalan Pudu
Kuala Lumpur
Tel : 03-9222 9457

This was the place the Lees decided to meet up last week Friday before my sister and Eric goes back to Perth. This restaurant has been around for many years now. My dad says the restaurant has been here since a long time ago. Possibly since his childhood days.  We’re one of their many customers there that frequent the place for a good Chinese meal. I would have at least a meal there every time I return to M’sia for University holidays!  So what are their kickass dishes?

The must have Pat Po Ngap or treasure in duck perhaps? Chinese like to add treasure to their dish names haha.

The inside of the duck is stuffed with mushrooms, beans and chestnuts. Not sure what other secret ingredients they use to make this dish so tasty!

Up next is the Mou Tan Har. Mountain Prawns lol? No idea man. But this dish is like the brother from another mother of Prawn fritters. Goes very well with the chili sauce given. Crispy and tasty wahh!!

Max damage in this dish. But the pieces at the bottom is on the oily side.

This was the fried Hai Chou or crab and pork meat ball wrapped in dried bean curd skin I think. Wah shit man!! I am damn banana.  Felt awesome to pop in my mouth. Very light. More suited as snack rather than dinner material.

I believe my family members savored every bit of the  lovely duck as well as the prawns. There was this fish dish which was a favorite among them but I did not quite enjoy that fish as I’m no fish lover. Fish & chips and some other ones are exceptions though :P

To counter the fats, I’ve started my morning swim routine every Mon, Wed and Friday! Poor me @.@.. Today I woke up at 6.30 to make a swim @ 8. 14 laps was my achievement due to lack of equipments. Ear felt much pain so I think I require ear plugs!

WenY

Cari Makan: Fong Fong Yong Tau Foo @ Pekan Ampang, Ampang.

Bringing a Taiwanese around to try food for the last two weeks has been very interesting. Their culture is pretty much different from ours but at the same time their taste of food is fairly indifferent to M’sian Chinese as well.  Their breakfast is supposedly mantou and soya bean milk haha. Oh well we had some soy bean milk last week for breakfast @ Camerons haha. Did we not? Last weekend we popped over to one of the places my family normally goes to when we have a craving for Yong Tau Foo. The place we went to was called Fong Fong Ampang Yong Tau Foo. The most crowded of the row I tell you!!

We practically had to standby at tables while giving people that "Ok, your times up. It’s my turn to eat” feel. Not to mention the heat there was immense. Nonetheless, the consistency I’ve experienced for years has had me keep coming back here for MORE.  After waiting for about 20 minutes we got our seat and ordered our meal :D

For the soupy one, my favorite was the brown skinned one! It’s called the chow tau foo? Or fried bean curd. That one tastes totally awesome! The lady fingers were a tad too old according to my mom and sister, but lucky me. That is something I distance myself from!

Their fried dumplings were super duper awesome as well! Deep fried dumplings sent me to crunchy heaven! Loved every bit of that lunch. I found it very satisfying! Also I’m a sucker for chili sauce. Had 4 serves of it @.@!!  Albeit the place was inferno, I managed to sustain myself from dehydration thanks to the cold herbal tea (leong cha) which was awesome possum in that heat!

This is my sister. And she just can’t get enough  :D

WenY

Cari Makan: T.G.I.F @ Ss14, an old dining.

Since a midget, I’ve been patronizing this T.G.I.F or Thank God Its Friday. How long has it been? Perhaps 10 years or more? The food here has been pretty good since young but for some particular reason, Chilis was always the choice of my group of teenage adults.

Today I had lunch @ TGIF with my family and Eric. It was their farewell lunch before they leave back to Aus tonight. We ordered lots of food if you ask me! Ill let the picture do the talking!:

Fried Calamari Rings!

Boneless Buffalo strips! Was a classic favourite and my dad’s most preferred food @ all this place he says is for “youngsters”. Used to have Buffalo wings but why not try boneless. Not to bad as well :D

Chicken Nachos!

I love TGIF nachos so much! Every other time I have nachos it is always so messy and the taste is poorly spreaded! Subway, Chilis, and even the Ref @ Uni!! Ewww! Ewww!!

Love the way TGIF does this classic nachos which I’ve been eating since a kid! Slices of chicken on a crisp slice of corn chips topped with melted cheese and finish with a slice of Jalapeno! DAmmmmmmm!!!

This pasta is called garlic something something and errr I did not quite fancy it. Ok ok onlyla. Since I learned to cook pasta in Perth, I’ve been a little bit more demanding. My Sei Ku’s chili mussels which my sister adapted is holy smoke, not to mention all the other pastas I myself can cook after picking it up from my aunt. Definitely a standard or two lower when the pasta gets rated by me!

When you go Australia alone to study, there are practically a few paths:

1) Stay with Veterans and learn PROPER pasta.

2) Stay alone = noob bottled sauce = crap pasta.

Next up is the chicken fingers which was not as good as I expected it to be. The ones at Chilis is definitely better than this. Probably only this dish wins @ Chilis.

After downing all the food, it was time to finish the meal with some little sweet delights :D

B rank cake. This cake tasted common, moist, so-so :S. Nothing much to appreciate from it. The bottom one which is the Mocha Mud Pie comes in pricey @ rm15 but serves kickass satisfaction in a small portion. A double thumbs up for this one!! It simply is a must have :)

My tummmy is full!! Nothing much to comment, atmosphere? errr like most places that is errr quite a common scene if you’d ask me. Nothing to shout about.

And my sister along with Eric has left for Singapore before transiting  to Perth. Had great fun with her but great times end too. Rwarrr! See you soon @ Perth sister.

WenY