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I always satisfy my craving for Ramen (Menya Musashi) inside Isetan as this new Japanese Eatery,area EAT PARADISE  was added since Isetan open its door in 1-Utama. I only always walk on the customer service side wing and never did I even bother to walk on the other side, till I read Bangsarbabe’s blog on this restaurant, Tonkatsu by Ma Maison, I was like why did I never walk to that area.

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Before you walk into the outlet, they have a huge cabinate located at the near entrance that feature all their food and what you can expect when its been serve. I must say the portion is pretty huge.

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This cozy little area hidden in the back corner of Eat Paradise house this Tonkatsu by Ma Maison. Ambiance is cozy and all staff are friendly.

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 Open Kitchen Concept. .

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Menu are pretty straight forward as they only serve Tonkatsu series and there are a few types for you to choose from. I am quite impress that they design the menu and order of food like steak. Small portion with about 180-250G of meat(your choice of selection chicken or Pork), or large with 250g and above if not mistaken. All order comes with rice, soup and unlimited refill of cabbage. For rice we get to choose White rice or Multi grain rice for healthy selection.

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Before you dine, we are given a little ball of Oroshi (white reddish) with tamari dressing to eat before the main course. I read on the pamplets, the reason of this is to help refresh the palate and digestive process. Interesting.

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On the table itself, they have special sauce, soy sauce, sesame, sesame dressing.

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 On the table there is a guide for you to show how should we eat our meal.

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I ordered extra with Potato Salad @ RM 5.90 Something simple, not to heavy mayonnaise and its a perfect balance. Love it~

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 Here comes my Nameton Set @ RM 32.90

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Its a mix with fried prawn, pork loin & Pork fillet. Both the prawn and pork were fried to perfection with crisp on outlayer and pork is still moist and juicy. Prawn is very fresh and pressing lemon brings extra taste in it.

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 Dipping with Mayonnaise is not one of the best option for pork but goes well with my prawn.

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 The miso soup is way too salty for my liking.

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On my set also comes with Tonjiru, noodle is cook well, warm enough to finish the whole thing in seconds.

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 My healthy multi grain rice.

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 On our tray we have a sauce tray that we follow on the instruction for our pork cullet dipping area.

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 with Salt, spicy sauce and original sauce.

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 Jumbo Rosu Katsu Set @ RM 28.90

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 Jumbo means you have your pork loin in bigger cutting.

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and look at how the pork is being fried, will still pale red meat left behind  and with well balance of fats in between makes it yummy!

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 Love the wasabi mustard that pairs uniquely with the tonkatsu.

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as all our set comes with finely cut vegetable and of course dressing for it is to enhance the flavour and I ended up refill twice. The sauce is perfectly good~

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Since our sets doesnt have  Tonkatsu house special miso sauce I ordered it and try. I prefer their house special sauce. @ RM 2.

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It looks pretty decent when it was serve and Anna end up cannot finish her jumbo Rosu which is about 300g of pork.

Tonkatsu is not bad but certainly one of the best I have come across so far. Price I think its slighlty expensive compare to the normal ones. Worth to give it a try.

NON-HALAL

-= KA CHING =-

Food rating 8/10 , nicee, for a tonkatsu! -Stamped-

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

Tonkatsu by Ma Maison
2nd Floor, Eat Paradise, Isetan 1 Utama
Bandar Utama
Petaling Jaya.
Tel: 03 2096 2888

Over the weekend, my best friend Ian was quite free then gave me a call ‘Woi, want to go have lunch? Go Batu Caves there makan’? I was like harr.. serious? Batu Caves? then he was like very good eh, will never introduce you wrong food, then I call Ken along too. Driving from my side to another side to hunt for this restaurant. Pan Heong Restaurant is one of a well know restaurant that attracts many from near and far. He also mention that why I should come here to makan is that they use Charcoal to cook! anything cook with charcoal always create another flavor out of it.

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Pan Heong Restaurant is very well known to many locals especially their neighborhood area. With the quality of food and of course their very reasonable price had attracted people from all over then. It was Sunday morning and I was blow away on the numbers of customers queueing up for a table.

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My other group of friends came earlier, therefore we got a spot pretty fast.

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As when I dine in a new place, I always love to observe other tables on what they are ordering or what are the usual repeat order that they(diners) eat.

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As my friend told me, they started off in under a tree and their business had grew so fast then they move to shop lot themselves.

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Started off with a simple Vegetable @ RM 11

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We did not order white rice therefore we go for their Fried Rice as I see many people order. It is a very simple dish that they fried it till very aromatic and ‘wok hei’ as I always love my fried rice to have chinese sausage. @ RM 15

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This is one of their signature HOr Fun and supposedly to order their ‘Sang Har Mee’ but as majority would prefer this for this round. @ RM 15. I love the gravy texture, smooth with egg add up onto while it is serving very hot to let it cook itself while its hot. Smooth gravy and pair very well with the koey teow.

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Next one of my favourite is their Kao Yoke Mee Hoon @ RM 17. Mee hoon was not fried too dry, moist as it originally suppose to be and eat along with the soft fatty Kao Yuk is just perfect. – Recommended!

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Nam Yu (fermented bean curd) Pork is one of the dish not many places can cook well. I must say this place have done it well, that I nearly whack the whole plate by myself instead of sharing it with another 7 more pax. It is well marinated and deep fried to the edge is crispy, and the taste of fermented bean curd is there that do not over power the taste or too strong. – REcommended! @ RM 18.50

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One of the dish that many table order is their Porridge. Then we opt for Fish Porridge @ RM 18. Silky smooth texture of porridge just like the one I had it in Hong Kong, sign’s of being boil long enough to come into this texture. Notice that the fish meat cook instantly under the super boiling hot porridge. Its a bit mild in taste yet just taste good~ Heee,, for sick people, it would be a good meal for you guys.

Overall, the food is not bad and the portion charge with the prices I would say its on the cheaper side as total bill came to RM 105 and dine with total 8 pax.

*NON-HALAL

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 7/10  quite good with reasonable price . . -stamped-

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

Location:
Pan Heong Restoran
No.2, Jalan Medan Batu Caves 2,
Batu Caves,
68100 Selangor
(parallel to SRJK Kheow Bin)

Tel: 03-6187 7430

GPS Coordinates: 3.233434, 101.674165

Opens from 8am to 330pm daily

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One of the coffee shop or kopitiam that I used to visit very often is Lee Huat Cafe that had been here that make its name to many Penang people on the good food for breakfast. The place open as early as 6am with 50% of the stall already start operating and the rest slowly starting off. By 7.30am most of the stall would have been operating.

Most of the stalls here are pretty well known for its good taste and quality. Of course there are a few ones that are more famous.

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Well, it had been ages since I last visited this place which I think more than 10 years ago. So before heading our journey to Cameron Highlands my friends they all decided to stop by here for breakfast. Reach here about 6.30am

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Well, of course Penangnites doesnt wake up that early as this is what we can expect the whole kopitiam to be pretty empty.

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Many options are available and depends what kind of food you prefer in early morning. .

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Still after all these  years, Curry Mee still one of the famous one that will be super busy as the sun is rising.

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One of the items that not many places you can find this any more which is Oyster Porridge used to be very famous also as I am not too sure about now ..

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The rest order Chicken Rice in such early morning. . Siau liau . . RM 4

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Turns out to be pretty good though with the chicken meat is moist and aromatic and the skin is pretty good, not really a white rice as it had been cook along with a bit of chicken oil.

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This is what I have for my breakfast, normal toast and half boil egg with a cup of hot Kopi . .

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Loh Mee turns out to be good too with its gravy meant to be starchy and thick, add on with the sambal makes it more perfect.

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I still love Penang version of Wantan Mee because comes with fried wanton along. Noodle is quite springy that makes it no comment and of course lots of char siew would be good. . .

I sure do not mind wake up early and come try other items in this Kopitiam again. . .Hmmm . . I think I should do it again . .:D, for travellers if you are looking for some hawker center to eat for breakfast, certainly here would be one of the place to recommend. 🙂

Parking is very limited around the area and happy hunting for parking space.

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 7/10, so so lah~ Recommended for its ambiance -Stamped-

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

Location:
Lee Huat Cafe
Jalan Masjid Negeri,
Jelutong, Penang
(Next to Esso Station on your left along Jalan Masjid Negeri before you turn to Jln Tan Sri Teh Hwe Lim)

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Continue our food hunt, as direct after the Wan Tan Mee (click here), then our next station that Jasonmumbles rarely miss when he is back to Melaka is one of his favorite stall, Hajjah Mona Asam Pedas which he rate one of the best Asam Pedas that he come across so many stalls which Asam Pedas also know as one of Melaka delicacies.

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As I have been to the famous Jonker Street (from Donald and Lily’s Restaurant) and I did not know that by walking distance of around 5 – 10 minutes you are able to reach this stall which is located to the newly build hotel by the river if I am not mistaken.

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This place is damm pack with alot of people with its famous asam pedas that attracts many outstation customer also.

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The Asam Pedas is prepared fresh daily to cater for their demanding crowd. . .

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Then you just choose what type of fish you want and choose the extra side dish like egg, chicken, fried fish and others.

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This would be the normal set that every one would order, asam pedas with a plate of white rice and smack with a fried egg.

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Of course I always prefer mine with salty duck egg . ..

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Famous for Asam Pedas with their mild curry which is not so spicy yet a bit fragrant and perfect to eat with rice.

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According to Jason, their taste is not consistent as usually he would usually order a plate of Asam pedas to try first as if the taste for the night is at the best, he would order more. . and if the taste is not on par, he would just finish just one plate, and on that night we had, he said that their quality was not at their best so had just only one order.

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 8/10, not my taste but Jason Loves it alot . .u can try it out ~-Stamped-

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

*Halal

Location:
Hajjah Mona Asam Pedas
No.6, Jalan Laksamana,
Taman Kota Laksamana,
75200, Melaka
(a corner unit and located infront of newly constructed Hotel – just walk from Jonker Stret bout 5 -10 minutes)

GPS : N2 11.625 E102 14.730 (Marked as Assam Pedas in Malfreemaps.com)

Tel: +6012 – 601 3672 / 3676
Operating Hours : 5pm to 5am Daily


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Another Puchong discovery as I felt that there are alot of food outlet in this area. One of the latest discovery is this shop LSY-Pot which their signature is on claypot. One of famous chinese eatery by using claypot to cook the rice and with some add on ingredient as I love my version with alot of chinese sausage and one chunk of salted fish.

Oriental Claypot Chicken Rice @ RM6.90 small, RM13.50 large

This is how I like my claypot chicken rice to be, aromatic of a bit chinese wine, chinese sausage and the most important is they use a very good quality of salted fish.

If you prefer your Claypot chicken rice to be seperated out, they can do it ‘Chicken served on a plate on top of white rice’. To me, this taste better than the mixture of everything inside the claypot, as it manage to seperate the taste out of it and the watery gravy on top of it perfect to go along with rice!

I have been hearing this famous Nasi Kandar Beratur for very long time, that every time that I passby that area I will tell myself must go eat but always ended up in Nasi Kandar Line Clear which is my all time favourite.

On that night that I arrive back in Penang, we directly head to this place as I was inform that they have the most authentic curry that use all spices available to cook on it. The difference compare to the rest of the Nasi Kandar is the spices aroma in the curry, not really spicy but aromatic.

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With the name itself Beratur (Lining Up) you sure do have to wait for your turn to arrive, as on that night we were lucky that the line took us mere 5 minutes, sometimes you have to wait as long as 30 minutes to an hour.

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Of course they sure do have some of their dishes would be their signature order,

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Not many places now that still use coconut shell to take the rice.

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After putting the white rice on the plate its your turn to hunt down your favourite dish that is available on the couter.

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Of course I love my plate of Nasi Kandar to be very Banjir (flood with gravy) especially a mixture of all the available gravy on the counter. This plate order is with Beef slices, Ladies finger and Telur Bawang. The best of all is the beef which is very soft and the gravy that soak along in it is kick ahh!

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My plate is beef slice, telur bawang and ayam madu. Total damage for both plate is less than RM12 and if it is in KL definately more than that.

Its still worth a try as its famous for its authentic spices used in to cook the curry, but I still prefer Line Clear. After this hunt, I have heard another upcoming best nasi Kandar some where in Jelutong. Will be my next destination!

Plz Note: Different people always got different pricing in this stall, especially tourist might get rip off, so always ask for pricing before you take any!!

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 7.5/10, good ah~-Stamped-

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

Location:
Nasi Kandar Beratur
98 Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling,
10200 Penang, Malaysia.
(next to Kapitan Keling Mosque)

Opening Hours: 10.00pm-9.00am

GPS: 5.416815, 100.337582


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