Bitter Gourd Fried Egg

Last Weekend, I accompanied my bf to his part time job at the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall and had a bittergourd fried omelette with prawns (RM7) at Purple Cane Tea House. My initial thought was...wahhhh...so expensive for an omelette but the price was ok after I saw there were 6 to 7 prawns in it as well although the prawns weren't that fresh...



















Yummy to the last bite although it was a bit oily...

Ipoh Food....So So Yummy!!!!

I have held back blogging on this as I feel so hungry each time I look at these photos again...Now that I am full after lunch, this is the best time to tell u all about what I ate in Ipoh.

Breakfast Day 1

1. Green Juice - Pegaga Juice or Pang Tai Woon

2. Pork Tummy White Pepper Soup with Kway Teow Noodles

3. Sinfully Delicious....tender and chewy....

Breakfast cost us RM8.50 for 2 glasses of pegaga, 1 bowl of pork tummy kway teow and 1 bowl of spare ribs double noodles.

Lunch Day 1

4. We ate Roast Meats here...

5. Roast Duck, Roast Pork and Vegetable Stew...

6. A closer look at this crispy skin lean duck...

I think this meal was below RM50....not too sure...but not exceeding RM50 for sure...

Breakfast Day 2

7. Foh San DimSum...reached here at 7am plus plus...the place was packed!!!

8. We ate quite little as my tummy wasn't awake yet...we only had loh mai kai (glutinous rice chicken), egg tarts, char siu bao, siu mai and har gao....

9. Char Siu Bao (BBQ Pork). The filling was yummy...not too sweet and there was a mixture of lean meat and fats (more lean than fats) and some onions in char siu sauce. Really yummy...

10. Egg Tarts - Warm custard...yummy but I much prefer Tong Kee's flaky pastry...

11. The Art of Releasing the Loh Mai Kai from its bowl...

a.) Tip the bowl over and use the chopsticks to help ease the rice out...becareful..it's hot!!!

b.) After it loosens, this is how it looks like sliding out of the bowl...use your chopsticks to push out any that might still be in the bowl....

c.) Voila...all out and ready to be eaten.

This was the best loh mai kai the both of us had in ages. The rice was not too oily or mushy. The chicken and the marinates tasted just right and was fragrant from a touch of chinese rice wine...

12. Siu Mai - The pork filling was very fresh and there was no gamey porky taste. It wasn't too oily too...

13. Har Gao (Prawn Dumpling). 1st time I eat such fresh prawns in har gao...best thing...it was pure prawns inside the skin...no pork meat fillers like the ones I get in KL...

14. A whole dumpling...

15. One Bite reveals....Prawns!!!

16. There were an average of 3 to 4 medium sized prawns in each dumpling!!!

The DimSum meal for 2 of us plus Chinese Tea cost RM29.00

Lunch - Day 2

17. Before we left Ipoh, we had pork satay...first time I ate pork satay....I enjoy the satay pork blood the most....the intestines were interesting and the pork was only so-so....

This Lunch cost us around RM25.00 as I had takeaway too....

I am very eager for the next makan trip to Ipoh. I hope it'll be very soon...

Kek Lok Tong at Ipoh

Over Wesak Day's long weekend, I went dating with my friend to Ipoh for a overnight trip. We left PJ at 6am and reached Ipoh at 8plus am. After a breakfast, we set off to see a beautiful cave and temple called Kek Lok Tong.





This sure beats last month's trip to Sam Poh Tong...this is way way nicer!!!

Grrrr....no pets allowed...No dog! No cat! No bunny?!?!?!




Very cooling in here....


The staircase up



This stalactite reminded me of that Captain Davy Jones in Pirates of the Carribean



The Cave opening



The magnificent view of the valley below surrounded by limestone hills



The staircase down to the valley....



They even have a stepping stone path to promote healthy reflexlogy lifestyle






The beautiful lotus pond. 1st time in my life, I see so many lotus plants...






A Lotus Bud



Some Lotus shots






After the flower fully opens, the petals comes off and leaves the pod containing the seeds.



Lotus Pod shot



They also have a tortoise and fish pond...in this case, no feeding allowed by visitors to prevent dirty water and over feeding...



My favorite lotus shot

Beef Sukiyaki at Kiku Zakura, Berjaya Times Square

Tonight, I had beef sukiyaki and iced green tea at Kiku Zakura, Berjaya Times Square.


For appetizer, they served unagi (eel) wrapped in beancurd skin.



The set comes with beef sukiyaki, salad, rice, pickles, miso soup and watermelon.



The beef sukiyaki was a generous portion in a salty sweet light based soup. There were about 10 to 15 slices of thinly sliced beef, spring onions, tofu, green vegetable (I don't know the name but in cantonese, we call it tong-po choy), mushroom, onion, carrot, konnyaku (a type of jelly) noodles and a raw egg that was added in that hot stone bowl of sukiyaki broth.



See...here are some of the stuff that was in the sukiyaki which I scooped out...









Everything was yummy as usual. The total damage done was RM31.05. Not bad for a healthy balanced meal.