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Lai Foong Beef Noodles @ Jalan Tun H.S. Lee, Kuala Lumpur

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In the city, there are actually lots of things to eat. There are one street in particular that pretty well know for a lot of beef noodles. It really depends on your taste preference as many of them love this stall, Lai Foong Beef Noodle that located in Jalan Tun H.S Lee that operate inside a kopitiam called Kedai Kopi Lai Foong. There is one opposite too that some of my friends prefer over that stall.

For this stall, it had been ages since I last visited this place and few years back I was firstly introduce to it as my ex company boss love this stall alot and the secretary have to drive all the way down here to make a take away for him.

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An early coffeeshop place that you might wanna consider to drop by for some good food or a beef noodle soup in Pudu.

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I was also told that not to miss their Char Koey Teow and I tried ordering using Hokkien and obviously they don really udnerstand me. Means not Penang Char Koey Teow but the next stall auntie is surely from Penang that sells Jawa mee and stuff. Would try that next round.

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Beef noodle here are pretty good as you stand nearby the stall you can smell the aroma of the beef noodle soup already. Imagine how many times those beef slices have to dip into the soup to make it cook and towards noon, the soup will be thick enough to make it extra kick.

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You can actually choose your ingredient. Of course mine, I would love it to have a good mixture with alot of other spare parts.

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this is what I mean the soup is pretty sweet and aromatic with bones and meat are being boiled along./

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here is my bowl of slice beef noodle that some Louise & Anna order.

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Their Beef balls is a must order. Springy and a bit solid that good enough to chew. I finish half of it. Hehe~

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Here is my bowl of beef noodle. A good mixture. .

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I have always love mine with a good mix. We were there around 11.30 am and the soup is strong and aromatic. You can even taste some spices that they have added in there. Beef Slices are good, done medium then let the hot soup make it cook. For an early weekend morning to have this, its sure satisfying. One of a good bowl of beef noodle soup in KL.

If you are new here for the first time, do give it a try~ Parking there is a big issue. You can consider park at Central Market then walk over.

*NON-HALAL

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 8/10, pretty good pun -Stamped-

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

Location:
Lai Foong Beef Noodle
138, Jalan Tun H.S.Lee, Kuala Lumpur
Wilayah Persekutuan, 50000

GPS Coordinates: N3 08.722 E101 41.806

Operating hours: breakfast till lunch

Tel: 03-2072-8123

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Kedai Makanan Rasa Lain @ Bercham, Ipoh

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As on the way back to KL, and I just love my friend Ian as he always love to find food during his sales discover over the other states then will bring me there whenever he had the chance or when I follow him, cuz he knows I love to eat in those kind of hidden places. Kedai Makanan Rasa Lain is one of a good recommendation.

This journey, he decided to stop by Ipoh and bring me to this Bercham area which is the other side of Ipoh, that I will consider pretty outskirt already. If you consider coming from Ipoh town it will easily take about 30 mins – 45 mins to reach here.

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Neverthe less, if you ask me to drive another round again to this place, I think I am capable or driving myself here as I did recognise a few buildings. . .:D

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Okay, cut things short that we reach here pretty early as no wonder he hurry me from Penang, that he tried to reach here to beat the heavy dinner crowd. I notice quite a moment later upon our arrival, family by family start to pouring in and I asked Ian, that the people there “sot sot (means crazy in hokkien) one? so early come dinner? as it was bout 5.45pm – 6pm and near half full already.” He explain people around the area eat dinner early!

According to Ian, you must pre-order their signature item if not, its hard for you to order their signature item on the night itself as they are trying to safe the best for the customers either by choosing one of the item. As to order, I let Ian take care of what;s for dinner .

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Signature Claypot glass noodle

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It was serve boiling hot as when I took a few other picture it was misty and the side of it is still boiling. The soup is sweet with freshness that cook along with the crab and glass noodle cook to perfection. Crab were fresh and meat is hard.

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Another signature ‘Cheeze Prawn Claypot’ while it was servce right infront of me, the smells entrails to my nose and I istantly swallow my saliva as the smells is just too good! As we dig up, look at the cheeze ooze and flow around the claypot with its stickiness texture like pizza, I just cant wait to put it into my mouth. Cheeze topple nicely on the fresh prawn and eat it along with rice is just a match made in heaven.

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Vegetable nothing to shout about .. .

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As we finish our meal, I observe alot of table also order this ‘Saito Fishball’ which is homemade and being steam in high temperature then after that just add on some simple soy sauce with fish oil and garlic. To me is nothing to shout about too as its just another home made fish ball that are a bit bouncy.

I find the price is quite reasonable as 3 of us ate about RM 110 for all the above. It was another great and satisfying mean that Ian had intro me, as on the way back to KL he stop and buy 2 small bottles of mineral water and mee too. Only found out that the dish uses quite alot MSG as no wonder it taste super good!

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 7/10  quite good ah . . -stamped-

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

Location:
Kedai Makanan Rasa Lain 味不同海鲜坊
69, Psn Medan Bercham 2,
Pusat Bandar Baru Bercham,
31400 Ipoh,
Perak.

Open: 5-10pm

Closed Weds

Contact: 012-512 8407, 012 485 3085, 016 567 5349

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EAt Food Village @ Publika

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Well, how often do you find nice food all under one roof? One of the place that I frequently visit is this new Eat Food Village at Publika that host many of the famous hakwer food from all around Klang Valley to be under one roof.

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The whole concept of the food court had turn into very old Shanghainese concept like back to the 1920’s. With classic wooden entrance, huge wall chinese classic painting on the wall will greet you.

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The food court offer cosy and huge dining area . . .

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Cha Time is available here too, less queue . .:D

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What I mean is with all the famous hawker stall  . .

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Famous Chicken Rice from Segambut if I am not mistaken.

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Famous Hokkien Fried Noodle ..

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Kin Kin Pan Mee that need to put alot of chili to make it umph

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My favourite Bukit Mertajam Yam Rice. .

Price in here are pretty reasonable that starting from RM 7.90 – RM 13.90 and it turns out to be one of my favourite food court. Most of their food usually sold out around 8pm as they have less night crowd. So do not be there late. .

*NON-HALAL Food Court

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 8/10, one of my Fav Food court ~ Recommended! -Stamped-

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

Location:
E.A.T. Food Village,
Publika Shopping Gallery,
Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur.
(same level as Ben’s Supermarket)

Opens daily from 10am to 9pm

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3 Movies Review: Battleship, Soul of Bread & We Not Naughty

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Genre: Action/ Sci-Fi/ Thriller

Wow, just how fast time flies and its time of the year again for summer movie to kick off and Battleship is the first movie to start off the season and the show had been kick ass.

Its about human discover on another galaxy that like a earth discover and send a super high tech most expensive to be build satelite to discover on the planet and when we have discover other planet, they also discover back us and they also send their fleet to scout on us.

This is where the whole battle begins on the water of human and super high tech machines. A Great movie to watch and definately Battleship had kick the summer movie season a great start. Regard it as a 2nd best movie after Transformer~

Highly recommended to watch!

– Tik Ching, Pass, Stamped –

Overall ratings 9.5/10, very good eh . .  . .

– The movie rated by me is by my own personal preference. Watch it at your own risk –

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Genre: Romance/ Comedy

The soul of Bread is another movie from Taiwan which is from the director that film that successful movie Apple of my Eye. Comes this love comedy that a guy from local town that had been baking bread for this family and just fall in love with the daughter since long time ago. Till then a world famous baker had dissapear from stress and appear in this small town to look for his mom favourite bread.

From there love triangle happens, and this is what I believe it thru whenever the quote on FB appear, if you never cherish the girl you have, there definitely will be another guy appear to cherish her more.

This movie also speak alot of Taiwanese Hokkien and was not translate out, so me and my friend 2 of us laugh the most as if like we are the orang gila!

Not a bad movie to watch when you are free.

– Tik Ching, Pass, Stamped –

Overall ratings 7/10, quite okay ah for a 2 hour movie . .  . .

– The movie rated by me is by my own personal preference. Watch it at your own risk –

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Genre: Family/ Comedy

Its about Singapore kids growing up on using the latest social plateform and how they create havoc for their parents in the modern society that full with complains and competition. None of them realize how their parents sacrifice for them until the kids went thru a few situation only realize.

I find that this movie is too long, that make it quite draggy. If it had been cut short for 20 minutes then should be a great movie as the total duration is 2 hours and 15 minutes.

– Tik Ching, Pass, Stamped –

Overall ratings 6/10, not bad lah . .  . .

– The movie rated by me is by my own personal preference. Watch it at your own risk –

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Penang Best 888 Hokkien Mee (Prawn Noodle) @ Lebuh Presgrave, Penang

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Penang is already famous for its street food and many other hawkers center are famous to outstation crowd and some are famous among the locals, as once the word spread, the hawker center will enjoy brisk business. One of the hidden gem for Hokkien Mee that I have been hunting for the past few months that often close and now they have reopen back is this 888 Hokkien Mee Stall which is located on Lebuh Presgrave (Sah Tiau Loh – in hokkien means 3rd street) which is one of a famous hokkien mee (prawn noodle) stall among the locals.

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This street is very near to 1st Avenue mall which is like 2-3 streets away from the mall that if you plan to walk here from 1st Avenue, it takes about 10 minutes walk. This hawker center area is located the same street with Kwang Hwa newspaper factory.

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This is the street hawker center of Sah Tiau Loh (三条路小贩中心) which many kind of food to offer with the corner shop is a coffee shop that host many hakwer stalls and those that spill over to the road side. Some of the street hawker food unable to serve food into the coffee shop due to some conflict. It is best you ask them before you order if you are seated inside the coffeeshop.

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Well, anyone of you heard about the recent competition of Hokkien Mee in Penang? It was held at Times Square on December 2011 that  Penang Best Hokkien Mee stalls in the state were spotted and came by to compete to emerge the best as these were voted by the public.  888 Hokkien Mee emerge as crowd favorites and won the best in this catagory (click here for The Star News also to spot top 3 hokkien mee stalls in Penang) I am not sure that the winner of 888 hokkien mee is the same as this or not as they mention near Sunshine Square. and this is at Town area but to me still the same name and take it as another branch. 😀

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Before the wont this category, this stall had already been very famous among neighborhood and since when I was a kid I came by to eat with my grandfather and recently been craving for it so bad and manage to get my satisfaction. In the order you can choose to add on some ingredient like pork ribs, intestine, and others.

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You can add on some ‘siew Yuk’ too but the siew yuk for the day not so nice.

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This is how cramp the place look like that solely sole for Hokkien Mee only. To get a spot is pretty fast as the turn over per table is quite quick.

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This is my order of Hokkien Mee @ RM 3

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Why is it one of my favorite is definitely because of the soup base, its sweet with prawn taste and know that its cook along with prawn shells also, not only that its also cook along with pork bones and meat that make it so nice. It is serve along with small prawns that cook inside the soup for long time and some pork. I wanted to add on some pork ribs and other ingredient was sold out.

It is best advise to go before 10.30pm as most of their add on ingredients get sold out very very fast.

Pricing of add ons:

Normal Noodle @ RM3

Mee @ RM0.60
Egg @ RM0.60
Fish Ball @ RM0.60
Pig Guts @ RM0.60
Pork Belly (烧肉) @ RM1.60
Pork Ribs (排骨) @ RM1.60
Pig Trotter (猪脚) @ RM1.60

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In front of the Hokkien Mee stall comes this very busy Wan Tan Mee Stall also. I see alot of people flock on this stall and decided to give it a try too . . .

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I was sitting there for 45 minutes, and this guy was so busy for 45 minutes and its non stop action. I forgot to take the picture of Wan Tan Mee but I find it nothing much to shout about as the unique is the noodle which is just a bit springy as I have better ones in other coffee shop in Penang.

Overall, if you are in Penang to hunt for very nice Hokkien Mee (prawn Noodle) this is one of the stall highly recommended by me, as during CNY holiday I came here 3 times. . 😀

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 10/10,very good, highly recommended Hokkien Mee!!~ -Stamped-

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

Location:
Presgrave Street Hawker Centre
Lebuh Presgrave

*NON-HALAL

Closed on Thursday
Daily 4.30pm-12.00am


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Nice Pasembur @ Cecil Street Market, Penang

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As most of us know that Penang is really famous for its hawker food, and one of the place that I have nearly forgeten which is really famous for hawker food during afternoon among the locals under the very hot atap which is located at this Cecil Street Market or known as 7th Street market (Chit Tiau Loh Market in Hokkien), one of the busiest market in Penang filled with lots of fresh variety of ingredients also which is sardine packed with lots of nice hawker food. Can say that majority of the hawker here are old school that had pass to their kids now. Cecil Street Market

This hawker center is at peak during lunch hour and tea time that visited by a lot of people from offices and neighborhood. Do prepare to soak in sweat as the place is very hot under our hot sunny days.

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Well, in Penang there are two types of Pasembor, one which is the Chinese version which adds on with a bit of jelly fish and pretty similar to the Indian version.

As for the indian version is also known as Pasembor or another word is Rojak Mamak that is also used in KL with the term known as Rojak, that actually fills with shereded cucumber, potatoes, beancurd, bean sprouts, and prawn fritters as for seafood like spicy fried crab, fried octopus or others are all optional, served along with sweet and spicy nut sauce.

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One of my favourite stall in this area is this Pasembur that I had eat since when I was a kid and now the younger generations had took over from their parents. This stall is one of the famous stall in the hawker center.

Most of the time I have been here, this stall never stop working or never once I have seen them free. . Constantly chopping off the ingredient to meet the customer’s demand.

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One of their secret is that the gravy.

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This is one of my favourite Pasembor as the gravy is a bit sweet and spicy that blends very well with shredded mengkuang, cucumber and little mouse (as what i called in hokkien by translation). Then the unique in this stall is that they do add shredded jelly fish . . RM2.80

I would say one of my favourite pasembor and if you do visit Penang and in the afternoon, this hot place is one of the place you would want to consider for hawker food. Recommended~

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 8.5/10, recommended~ ~-Stamped-

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

*Non-Halal
Location:
Cecil Street Market
Lebuh Cecil, Georgetown
10300, Penang


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