Manhattan Fish Market @ Queensbay Mall

There is two places making me think of seafood, one is chinese styled, How Yau (Teluk Kumbar). The next would be Manhattan Fish Market (MFM). The seafood here is fresh and best eat with its flaming sauce and garlic rice.

Shown here is "perfect-catch" top-up set meal which comes with soup and iced tea (peach or lemon) for RM9.90. The iced tea is free-flow. Drink sharing is allowed, at least in Queensbay outlet.

Side pic (3rd) showing garlic butter mussel eaten with white toast bread. Just one of my style of eating it, you dont have to follow. I think it would taste better if the bread is garlic bread, unfortunately, even you would like to pay for garlic bread, it is not available in the restaurant.

Yummy garlic butter mussels. It serves with white toast bread. One serving consists of half dozen of them. Freshly served. Highly recommended.

Another best dish here is flamming platter. Flamming platter for one is good enough for one and a half person. Flamming platter for two is good enough for three person. Especially you order some side dish like the mussel like I do.

The prawns will be topped with flamming sauce (sunway pyramid manager once told me it consist of mayo, soy sauce, sugar ... can't remember it all). The sauce is called flamming sauce is because it will be flammed in front of you before served. Notice the burned mark on the prawn, didn't you?

Another nice part of this dish is the fish. All fish is fresh here. Haven't tasted any fish which is not fresh here. Highly recommended restaurant for western style seafood.

Wan Tan Mee (noodle) @ Stadium, Ipoh

Morning/Afternoon stadium's wan tan mee stall, the well-known Min Chee Wan Tan Mee. Available in pork, prawn or mixed wan tan. Some adds char siew (roast pork) to the noodle too. (Mee is Malaysian's word for noodle).

The Wan Tan Mee looks dull. However don't be fooled by its looks. It tasted great. Due to petrol price increases, I ordered plain wan tan mee without char siew (roast pork).

As for the wan tan (small meat dumpling), I prefer pork. If you like the wan tan a lot, you can order big bowl of wan tan as some surcharge too.

Complete the meal with Taiwan's Ai Yi Ping (Love Jade Ice). Actually it is lemon flavoured shaved ice with some jelly at the bottom of the bowl. Cooling drink for the hot malaysian weather.

Fridge Magnet From Penang Hill

Haha. I was one of the lucky guy which got a chance to get onto penang hill before the cable car operation stopped for a long 8 months maintainance and repair. These two magnets are from the stall up there. One for RM6 and Two for RM10. Magnet's build quality is good. Kinda worth the buy.

Fisherman Grill @ Desaria, Sg. Ara

Fisherman Grill located at Sg. Ara. This is one of the first few western food restaurant I visited when I first worked in Penang.

Garlic bread is good, sometimes I even ordered extra portions (soup comes with 2 slices of garlic bread). Dessert is good as well.

Main course are so-so or to some extend below par compared to their other food served here. Specifically the pics here shows fish picata set lunch and duet of cod and salmon. The ala-carte here isn't cheap, the duet cost close to RM30 yet the quality is poor. Dont put high expectation on the main course.

Here comes the soup. This is included in the set lunch. You will be served a cup of soup (soup spoon on top). I still dont know exactly what soup is this. I am guessing spinash with chicken. Well, it tasted extremely well. In fact the soup is what makes me come back every time.

Since I ordered ala-carte, I dont get to have free soup. Since soup is what makes me coming back, I ordered this mushroom soup. It tasted very well too. General comment is the soup here are tasty. So far I never encounter any lower quality than recommended soup here before. So if you come here for the soup, you are on the safe side.Not to say the food here is bad, but the main course really needs some improvements. For now, what makes be coming back is still just the soup and garlic bread.

Spagetthi, Fettucini & Mushroom Soup @ Pizza Uno

I has been talking about Pizza Uno when comparing Italian food. Till now, I still think Pizza Uno holds the best italian food experience in my heart.

Here is Pizza Uno's Spagetthi Marinara White. It comes with fresh mussels, king prawns, squids and fish. The taste of the white sauce is simply mesmerizing. Like out of the world. Greatly recommended. Cost RM20+ during last visit.

Here is the fettucini carbonara. The pasta is freshly hand-made in the kitchen itself. White sauce mixed with beef bacon and brings out the best of the sauce and bacon. Highly recommended after the spagetthi marinara white. Cost close to RM20.

The only thing seems degraded is the wild mushroom soup. From highly recommended, it is now recommended. Hard to justify it's taste vs the price now. It cost about RM10 per cup. It is used to be served in a bowl as well. Quantity and quality of this soup degraded.

Another recommended dish is pollo lasagne (chicken and mushroom) which I dont have the picture here.

Overall Pizza Uno is still the top notch Italian food restaurant I ever tasted. Unfortunately, it is available only in KL. Sorry penangites.

Laksa, Cendol & Popiah @ Air Itam Market

Famous Assam Laksa available at stall opposite air itam market. The business here is good. Expect to wait for a while or join other's table when come here on weekends.

Cendol equally good compared to the assam laksa. Real cooling drink on hot days. Furthermore eating here is open air so no fan or aircond supplied.

As a side dish to assam laksa, here is the fried popiah and fish cake. This stall is known for its popiah but it sells fish cakes and prawn "crackers" too. But to me, only the popiah worth the recommendation.

Thai Station @ Perangin Mall

I went to Komtar to get my camera bag last week. I sort of needed it as my old bag isn't convenient to withdraw camera as withdrawing camera needs to put the bag down. I now got myself a tamrac 8x which I can withdraw by swinging it to the front. Withdrawing the camera now takes only 5 seconds.

Back to food. We park in Perangin Mall and found this thai station restaurant. This is our 2nd visit. We don't come to Perangin Mall often. Our first visit was quite a while ago and hence can't really remember the experience.

Here it has some booths which is kinda cosy. There are tables too, if you prefer those.

There are some spices, chilies and peanut for those whom want to add more flavour to the dish. I ordered water chestnut and jackfruit dessert as drink and V ordered ice blended honey dew. I always order the same dessert in every thai restaurant. The honey dew drink is very sweet, you might want to add some water to it.

Here I ordered pandan chicken (the pandan wrapping is extra long), seafood tom yam soup and soft shell crab. Dishes are served with two white rice. Pandan chicken tasted okay, not much to talk about it.

Tom yam soup tasted good. Sweating and drinking the soup constantly (for those whom know me, I am not good at spicy food). This is red tom yam soup. There is another white tom yam soup (some called it clear tom yam soup).

Last but not least is this soft shell crab dish. Tasted okay and best served with chili sauce. Overall the dining experience is slightly above average. However the set back is, it cost a little more for the quality of the food it serves. For the same price, I would prefer Siriwan located in Krystal point. Give it a try for thai food lovers.

Pizza Hut @ Sg. Dua

Starzbites sausage pizza is a new pizza introduced recently. With my last RM10 kfc/pizza coupon, V and I decided to give it a try for our dinner. It tasted quite nice, recommended for sausage lovers.

It has black sesame, mayo, sausage and your choice of toppings from family favourites or supreme variant. I eat the pizza crust first as sausage part is nicer. At least to me.

Alternatively you can take sensasi delight which is the budget meal. You will get a pan-crust pizza of your choice.

When you order starzbites pizza, make sure you ask for the wheel to spin. You entitled to one free goody. They tend to forget or purposely forget, at least for the sg. dua branch. The worker is ignorant enough to just leave the wheel on our table then walk away. So V just turn to deli-wing. :)

Haih, nowadays pizza hut worker's standard seems to get from bad to worse. I asked for cheese powder, that guy seems understand and nodded. But nothing came, he just keep wiping tables. Fed up talking to them, I get up and took from the counter. Yet still paying 10% service charge. The service is poor.

Wedding Photographer @ ...

I had been busy this two days as I was appointed as wedding event photographer. I can't disclose the rest of the photos until the newly wed'ed couples give me permission to do that. This is what I can post.

Lovely, isn't it?

I am out of home, hence expect slower posting. Stay tuned for more.

New Corner Lok Lok @ Telok Bayan

Today I would like to introduce a lok-lok (steamboat with sticks) place. It is located at Telok Bayan (Kam Wan) Food Court (behind i-avenue, next to shell petrol station). It has varieties of food (of course above pic only showing a small fraction of it) and the stall is very clean compared to many other lok-lok stall.

To eat lok-lok, you place the food on sticks into the pot of hot water/soup for a while. Then serve with lok-lok sauce. The sauce can be chilies, sweet, sour or even mixture of it.

If you are new to this stall, the owner is helpful to assist you on the sauce.

The best I like about this place is about its cleanliness and the sauce. My favourite mix is 2nd row most left is the hot chili sauce and 1st row in the middle, tom yum sauce. Beware, it is very hot. Taste it before taking a lot of it. Order drinks too, you will need it. :)

The lok-lok here is slightly more expensive than other lok-lok selling in pasar malam. But I have no problem recommending here because of the cleanliness, good hospitality and fantastic sauce.

Grill chicken and salmon @ Home

Generous slice of norwaygian salmon pan grilled in teriyaki sauce topped with onions together with smash potatoes, french beans and lettuce. A perfect healthy meal for the day. One of my favourite home cook dish.

Drumstick de-boned pan grilled in oriental sauce with carrots and onions. This dish condiments are butter corn and lettuce with mayo. Best served with chilli sauce. I guess that's the way Malaysian eats their chicken chop. :)

Sherperd pie @ Home

Here is a post on sherperd pie which we made last month. Sherperd pie is relatively easy to be made as it doesn't involve the pastry. Pan fry the onions and sausages till lightly cooked. Pour in mushroom soup concentrate and add little bit of water. Continue to stir till boil then pour into the baking container.

Coat a layer of smashed potatoes on top of the soup. Here is a view just before putting into a convection oven.

Bake for an hour or till potatoes are lightly burned. Burned potatoes gives the extra crisps. Here is the sherperd pie. Beware of hot containers.

Chicken Bolognese Spagetthi @ Home

The results of chicken bolognese spagetthi. Yummy. Full of meat sauce unlike those out there.

Chicken bolognese main ingredients are carrots, onions, button mushroom and blended chicken meat. Oh, there is another ingredient which is not in the picture. It is TOMATO PUREE.

First, put in some oil into the pot. Heat up the oil then put onions into it. Add blended chicken meat into the pot after the onions. Stir while putting in mushroom and carrots. Subsequently, pour tomato puree into the pot.

Close the lid for about 2 hours or until the carrots are soft. Then serve with spagetthi or other pasta.

Typically we cook more sauce then put them into the freezer. When we want to eat spagetthi another day, just need to reheat the sauce in microwave oven. But make sure the sauce if cool before put into freezer else your fridge will spoil fast.