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November 2015

Xiang Fu Xiang Cheng Hunan Chinese Restaurant @ The Scots Garden, Old Klang Road

by Taufulou 30/11/2015

I am a big fan of spicy food. If you mention anything about Sze Chuan food, I would rarely decline your invitation to go for foot hunt. This was a recent thing that my best friend bought me to this place as we ran out of ideas on what to eat. Located facing the main road of Old Klang Road, at level one you will find this Xiang Fu Xiang Cheng Hunan Chinese Restaurant.

Its a shop that sells pretty authentic Hunan food which means most of their food is spicy base but not as spicy as Sze Chuan yet for this you can still taste the aromatic of their classic flavours.

Price here are pretty decent base on the portion that they are serving.

Their signature soup is not to be missed – Signature Pig Stomach Chicken Soup (Big) @ RM 108 serve nearly 10 pax. Pungent in flavour, slightly thick, making your stomach warm with hits sweet base from those cooking hours that they have.

Next is their Signature Braised Pork @ RM 38. Cook in their clear soy base, pork cook to perfection as its so soft that fats nearly melt in your mouth, as the soy base gravy I drink it like soup as it mix with salted veggie at the base.

Hot Plate Japanese Tofu @ RM 18. Pretty decent as serve with pippin hot plate, with a bed of bean sprouts at the bottom and their home made gravy is great.

Stir Fried Choy Sum @ RM 15 is just a plate of normal fried vegetable.

This is another dish must not miss as Tiger Stripes Pork Braised Meat @ RM 22. Cook differently as this gravy is thick, slightly sweet with salty end. Pork quality here seems pretty good.

Another of my favourite is Sour Pickled Vegetable Fish (fish you can chose fish of the day or better quality) Forgot what is the fish we oredered as the whole fish + this is RM 68. Mild spicy of dry chilli, salted sour soup base with salted vegetable, garlic cloves and some Sze Chuan Spice.

Currently this is one of my favourite China food that offer pretty good food and price is reasonable. Came here 3 times in a row.

*NON-HALAL

-= KA CHING =-

Food rating 8/10 , nicee, Recommended! -Stamped-

-WARNING –This is based on my individual taste. Try it at your own risk-

Location:

Xiang Fu Xiang Cheng Hunan Chinese Restaurant (鄉府湘城湖南菜馆)
(Facing the front main road; Above Wong Kok and beside Beer Factory)
Lot 1-47, Level 1,
The Scott Garden Mall,
289, Jalan Klang Lama,
58100 Kuala Lumpur.

Contact: 603-7982 5071

Facebook Page: fb.com/xfxc.hunan

Operating Hours: 11am to 11pm daily

30/11/2015 2 comments

Events

Glenmorangie Whisky Trial @ Hacha Mecha, TREC, KL

by Taufulou 28/11/2015

written by Taufulou

I am excited as constantly Glenmorangie is one of a whisky that and my friends drink during special occasions and as for this round to be slightly more unique, I will be enjoying their Whisky Trail.

For this event, it is hosted at Hacha Mecha which is sited at one of a newly development site known as TREC which currently is the hottest night spot to be in town.

Before our dinner, we mingle around at IKKI bar. Setting up my foot here for the first time, it does look pretty cool place to be.

IKKI seems like a fun place to be as its design is very classy yet more like a gentleman club, with its luxury placement of leather sofa right in the middle, velvet version right at the back for smaller version.

There are curtains that separates alot of section to give it more like a private section along with foosball table is available for your chill out session.

If you need to be private or host private group function, they have a private room available too.

woot, Haig club is available here . .

starting off with Mint Julep – Glenmorangie version. Never knew it will work well too.

We were then usher back down to Hecha Mecha go be ready for the food trail.

Menu for the night is pretty interesting.

If many of you in business, I am sure you know this prominent young figure, Bryan Loo that owns Chatime Malaysia and yah, Hacha Mecha and IKKI is his latest concept F&B development under his arm.

We started off with Ultimate Wagyu Slider (100% Wagyu Patty, Brioche & Fioe Gras) pair with Glenmorangie Lasanta. Eating it individually seems a bit blend.

Then I stack up my own version by combining the 3 ingredients together, Foie Gras created the massive aromatic explosion of taste with the sides balance it up well on the acidity along with a sip of Lasanta to end it, as it gives the slightly sweet end with hint of orangy to balance up the taste of the combination.

Next dish coming into our way is one of my favorite course is this Shichimi Crispy Squid & Salmon Ceviche , pair with Glenmorangie 18 years old. This would be my first time trying out Glenmorangie 18 years old and loving the smokey cask of it. Slightly nuttiness as with perfectly fried squid along with clear taste flavour of salmon does make a perfect combination for this pairing.

Chef is busy preparing for our next dish.

Third for the night is Tori Tare Gratin Donburi with Chicken Thigh, Mustard Cream and Cheddar. On the combination itself, it do look heavy as the cheddar spread is aromatic and thick. Sipping thru Glenmorangie Signet with this, I think it is a bit miss for my palate as both are so strong in character whereby I find Signet have an amazing taste. It is so smooth, yet smokiness is not too overpowering yet hint of fruity and bitter sweet end is tasted at the end after taste. Such a great whiskey from Glenmorangie.

Last is Miso Chocolate Sins with Macerated Strawberries, Chocolate Coral, White Chocolate miso Ice cream and Mint pair with Ardbeg 10 years old.

First time hearing Ardbeg, along with explanation. I am already amazed with this Whisky as it covers one of the best ingredient form certain whisky to make up this. Under Jim Murray’s Whisky Bibble is name as World Whisky of the Year. Imagine That!

Its a pretty complex whisky that it only comes in two ways. You love it or you hate it. I love it because I have admiration towards smoky whisky. Taste of this whisky is pretty solid where smokiness, peatinest, yet creamy and smooth finish. Do take note that this is only 10 years old!

However, my love for the night still goes to Singet. First time drinking it and beats the rest of the range, of course I still rate Glenmorangie Asta is still my all time favorite, however this would now come second. Made in luxury bottle and heavy glass cap that certainly do make it exclusive. Limited in production and in market. Do grab it and stock up if you are a whisky drinker.

It had been long time since I see both of them and Happy Belated to you Sally as when this post is up, your birthday is over. 😀

What a great night to end myself with. All of you do have a great weekend.

28/11/2015 0 comment

Events

The First 10 Feet Tall Snoopy in Malaysia @ The Shore Shopping Gallery, Melaka

by Taufulou 27/11/2015

written by Taufulou

This year, Christmas school holiday certainly do influence alot of malls moving into more kids thematic friendly as one of the main attraction. The first to launch is The Shore Shopping Gallery that will be featuring the First 10 Feet Tall Snoopy in Melaka, Malaysia

Themed as “Dream Big with Snoopy & Friends at The Shore Shopping Gallery”, the mall will transform into a Snoopy dreamland with a display of Malaysia first 10-feet Snoopy sculpture and 3-feet tall Snoopy scatter around the mall to celebrate this coming festive and holidays. Up to 100 piece 3-feet Snoopy will be full display in The Shore Shopping Gallery at early of December.

Aquos Atrium at Ground Floor has been magically transformed into Snoopy Dreamland!

Here you go on this Snoopy 10 feet tall figure.

Even his signature house is there for you to take picture with.

This is the official launch as during this event, The Shore Shopping Gallery is giving away the flight tickets & Universal Studio entrance tickets to Osaka for 2 pax too! Shoppers can meet Snoopy & Friends up-close in Universal Studio, Osaka by minimum spending of RM300 and above in accumulative receipts at any outlets to participate the Spend ‘N’ Win Lucky Draw from 21 November 2015 to 27 Feb 2016.

Grand draw is on 28 February 2016 at 3pm on stage at Ground Floor, Aquos Atrium with prizes worth of RM30,000.00 to be walk away.

In this event also meet some of our local artist.

Heading to Melaka as one of your local travel destination? Kids can check them out now. Find out more in their FB Page: The Shore Shopping Gallery

27/11/2015 2 comments

Events

“Casino” of Wine Trivia at Eight Gourmet Gala – EGG @ The Pinnacle Annex

by Taufulou 27/11/2015

written by Taufulou

Woot woot, back for second time again for this Wine Trivia as this round it is being hosted at E.G.G – Eight Gourmet Gala which is another eatery which is quite well know with folks around this neighborhood. For wine trivia, the trick still remains the same as with RM148++ per pax, you will be given an amount 80 wine point with minimum per bet is 10 points.

With this buy in, it is like actually a blind wine tasting that taste how well your palate and upon each wine being serve, it is your time to guess on all the characters and regions.

It goes by level 1 – level 3.

Each of us were given a glass of wine, as it kick start off with white.

10 points per bet. If you are confident on the character you can place a maximum bet of 50 points per single bet.

EAch bottle being pour for tasting will be wrap in black cloth and upon all the bets, the dealer will then reveal on the character of each wine.

Middle of the game, upon all chips that you have won, you will be offered on first round of auction with chips that you have. There are 3 food items being auction and depending on how many chips that you have you can make a bid.

This is my new found love of wine, which is Argentinian wine as both have strong character of dry wine. Loving it.

On the last bid item which got every one excited is a bottle of wine. This is the winner where player 1, 4, 7, 10 and 12 team up to win this winning bid bottle.

As for now, what you can do is by checking out their offerings as this will be running on monthly from December 2015 till next year, December 2016 :

The ‘Wine Trivia’ packages offered are:

Bottle Package
With any purchase of MHD wines, customer will receive 80 wine points and 3 glasses of wines for 3 ‘Wine Trivia’ betting sessions.

Glass Package*
With every purchase of MHD wine of the day at RM25++ per glass, customer will receive 20 wine points for 1 ‘Wine Trivia’ betting session.

*Please note: This is a seasonal package, EGG will select a MHD wine for the game and invite walk-in customer for the game. The game will commence once 6 or 7 guests are gathered.

Optional: Top-up chips at RM60 nett for 80 wine points.

To heighten the experience, guests will be able to redeem their wine points over multiple auctions that will be happening at the end of the session, bidding to win bottles of wine and other unique prizes! Guests will also be able to combine their wine points with friends to increase a bid or redeem Eights Gourmet Gala (EGG) dining cash vouchers at the end of the session. For reservations and enquiries, kindly contact Ms. Zana Chin at +6017-592 9381.

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Award Winning Guest Chef Wong Wing Keung is at Lai Poh Heen @ Mandarin Oriental, KL

by Taufulou 26/11/2015

written by Taufulou

Mandarin Oriental KL is moving quite aggressively to promote new culinary experience to many enthusiastic foodie out there. With their most recent completion project with Three Michelin Star – Chef Aziamendi, next line up under their belt is welcoming award winning Executive Chef Wong Wing Keung and his team from Yee Tung Heen Restaurant hail all the way from The Excelsior Hong Kong is here from November 26th to 29th to tempt your taste buds with their special menu for lunch and dinner.

During this period, Master Chef Wong will be presenting you his award winning set dinner menu that he had recently won from Hong Kong Tourism Board 2015.

For their first dish, will be presenting you their Chiu Chow Dumplings in 3 styles. Starting from left (anti clockwise ) with transparent skin is Traditional dumpling with yam served with Chiu Chow chili paste, vegetarian dumpling with mushroom and carrot serve with Chiu Chow tangerine oil and Carrot and crab meat dumpling serve with reserved bean paste.

This 3 have quite a unique combination of taste as their signature Chiu Chow sauce do enhance each dumplings in different ways. My personal favorite would be vegetarian dumpling with mushroom and carrot as its quite a well balance dish and dip gently on the tip to bring the additional kick of flavors into it. Dipping it too much will over power the whole taste of it.

Next is double boiled honey locust fruit soup with matsutake and assorted fungus. To bring the clarity of soup yet a simple taste of aroma been through multiple process.

Among the dishes, I love this simple presentation as it sure look like mushroom in the while forest. I would call this mushroom in 3 ways. This is actually Twins Mushroom Platter, as the first item is shiitake mushroom stuffed with Matsuteke and Shrimp paste, follow by crispy bits and finally which is their signature mushroom buns with assorted mushroom, as the base is coated with cocoa powder to make it looks like on the ground.

Love the texture of the bun as it is soft, slightly fluffy, with light crips from pan fried and assorted mushroom is not overpowering that pairs well with the bun.

This nicely presented dish which look like a school of Koi swimming in a lake is their

Steamed Grouper Fillet with Crab Meat and Crispy Ginger is done to perfection where fish fillet is soft and fresh where crab meat do add in the sweetness of taste along with crispy ginger to balance it out.

As palate cleanser, this simmered papaya with brown fungus in chicken broth is pretty interesting. Mini balls which is actually papaya do end up taste very similiar to sweet cherry tomato and after taste of it is with a hint of salty end.

The look of this plate is like a simple dish as in actual fact, it is not simple. Braised Rice with crab meat and spring onion actually went thru with 3 rounds of cooking. Rice is fragrant and filled with wok hei, yet it is dry enough to create the mini impact taste of it. Generous kind of ingredient in the gravy is filled with chunky crab meat.

Ending of this meal, you will be served with Chilled ginger milk custard, follow by roll of black and white sesame oil and lastly deep fried mini sesame balls with egg custard.

Ginger milk custard is very interesting, as from their custard is rather soft that is near to jelly yet on the top of dressing is brown sugar with ginger with a hint of spicy end. Sesame ball with egg custard is a bomb!

For this food journey, indeed it do portray to me on classic taste of cantonese cuisine in modern presentation. For this 7-course award winning set dinner is at RM388 per person nett and RM588 nett per person with wine pairing. However if you are nearby and still keen to try, then you can opt for their lunch set menu at RM 68 nett per person with 2 different menu to choose from.

For reservation please contact +603-2179 8885 or email to [email protected]

26/11/2015 2 comments

Food Local Food Location Non-Halal PJ Recommended Selangor

Choon Prawn Mee House @ Taman Paramount, PJ

by Taufulou 25/11/2015

written by Taufulou

Back to basic is always nice, especially when manage to find some nice street food related to Penang Food. Did pop by here couple of times whenever I am craving for simple bowl of Penang Loh Mee or Hokkien mee as got influence by KYSpeaks with his constant visit to this place.

Choon Prawn Mee is tuck in this busiest food district in Taman Paramount during day time as Kedai Kopi O&S is one of the busiest along the stretch.

This concept is quite similar to Penang Green House Hokkien Mee where you can choose to add on or a mix combination of ingredients into your noodle.

I must give credit to their Duck Meat Koey Teow Soup which is quite near to authentic Penang version. Simple clear soup that pack with flavour and I am not a fish ball lover, however this is pretty good as its smooth and bouncy. Fried Garlic oil do add a bit of punch into the soup.

Loh Mee is one of a authentic version that serve in a thick soupy base in dark sauce. Some might like it some might not. However is one of a food that will soon to extinct for a Penang street food. Add in garlic, and their home made chili, definately it would not run too far.

Soup is thick enough to ensure its Penang version.

Another style to enjoy our Penang Hokkien Prawn mee is to get a Ying Yeong Soup whereby Prawn soup and loh mee soup base mix together.

Its a place to get a decent Penang hawker food.

*NON-HALAL

-= KA CHING =-

Food rating 7.5/10 , pretty good consider Penang street food! -Stamped-

-WARNING –This is based on my individual taste. Try it at your own risk-

Location:
13 Jalan 20/14
Taman Paramount,
46300 Petaling Jaya

Phone: 012 265 8193

25/11/2015 0 comment