Kuantan Chinese food

 The food in Kuantan is pretty cheap, I remember before heading back to Kuala Lumpur we stopped by this chinese restaurant to eat. It was spectacular. I don't remember the restaurant name though but the food was good and the price was right as well! The minced Chicken Tofu pictured above is to die for!

 The Herbal chicken is also nice. It's easy to make this dish though, I can make it as well, my mom is quite good at making this but the restaurant did a very good job making this dish as well.

 This is the yam bowl with vegetable and squid. I like the yam but squid is not really my thing especially when it's cooked all slimily!

This is the talapia (a kind of fish) cooked with the asam style, basically cooked with this tomato and chili puree with lots of lemon so it has this sour and spicy taste to get rid of this particular smell that this sort of fish has. I love the sauce though!

I will definitely go back there and I would get the name of this place again soon!

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Jeffrey James

Food Galore @ Swiss Garden Resort and Spa Kuantan!

 I had a one night trip to Kuantan and we stayed in Swiss Garden Resort and Spa. It's a pretty decent 5 star hotel, and it's good because hotels usually talk about how peaceful it is, and well, it was really peaceful, private. I felt like the hotel was mine! So back to food, we were greeted by the General Manager of the hotel and had a chinese dinner. We left the ordering to the GM and he ordered us some shark fin soup. Pretty decent, it's not WOW food but it was good.

 It was then followed by some prawns cooked with nestum and broccoli cooked with asparagus. Nothing to shout about as well but it was good.

 As i said before, no one can screw up fried rice. And the chinese food in the chinese restaurant in Swiss Garden didn't screw up their food. It's nothing special but it was good as well, it will never impress me to go all the way there for chinese food but if i'm staying in the hotel, I won't be disappointed with it as well.

The buffet spread in the morning was fairly decent as well, I like the fact that they had the egg white omelette as an option. It's good that people who are worried about their health to be able to ditch the yolk of an egg!

 The porridge was also quite reasonable. My dad requested for some and it was fine.

 The chicken sausages, baked beans and chicken ham was nothing to scream about but it was okay.

 I didn't like their ayam masak merah (spicy chicken) and flavored rice. Not good.

 I also went to the deli and ordered myself a nicoise salad. It wasn't wow fantastic but it did satisfy me.

 My dad and I got the suite room so this was the living room.

 The bed room.

And the view from our room in the afternoon. I appreciated the beach so much!

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Jeffrey James

Beaufort Home Cooking @ Beaufort

 Beaufort is about and hour and 30 minutes drive from the capital city of Borneo, Kota Kinabalu. So I was on a road trip with my mother to visit a magical masseuse in a town near the border of Sarawak and one the way back we decided to stop by Beaufort, as the place is known for it's chinese home cooked food. The four dishes above only cost us Rm34!

 This is the Pork Omelette. I think the beat the eggs until it turns foamy and then they fry it. It's really good, the inside part of the dish feels like cotton. It's so nice and flavourful! But it is a tad bit oily though!

 This is the sweet and sour pork, it wasn't WOW good but it was nice. I know places that charge higher but isn't as nice as this. And, a chinese restaurant that screws up sweet and sour pork should just close down.

 Im a big fan of battered prawns. And they didn't go wrong with this. I like mayo as well, and well, it's gooooooddddd, but not wow good. Wow good would be fried battered TIGER prawns. That would be awesome! But for rm34 for everything. I ain't complaining!

This is fried local vegetable with pork slices and lardy sauce. It's a staple to Beaufort cooking and I can just eat this alone. The food in general was really good, and I recommend it not because it's GOOOOODDDD but because it's value for money, however, only stop by if you are driving past Beaufort town! There are loads of these kind of places there!

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Jeffrey James

Sayur Manis @ Austral Park

Sayur Manis is a local vegetable found and grown mostly in Borneo and this vegetable is very common in Sarawak and Sabah, so this dish, Sayur Manis cooked with eggs served with fried rice, topped with fried egg (yes a very eggy dish) is something I always order when Im back in Borneo because the vegetable is easy to eat and I like the taste from the fried rice. A plate like this would set you back about Rm7 and it is rather good to eat. However, this isnt the best sayur manis dish I've had, I still prefer having it in Miri Sarawak! But it's still good nonetheless!

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Jeffrey James

Tamparuli Mee @ Tamparuli Town

So Sabah, which is a Malaysian state located in Borneo, is famous for several food. One of them being the Tamparuli Noodles that are found in Tamparuli, a 30 minute drive away from Borneo's capital city, Kota Kinabalu. The noodles are basically egg noodles, but it's made in a different way and the texture differs from any other noodles. This is truly a unique noodle found only in Sabah and it can be cooked in several ways (soup, fried etc). So the dish above, the Tamparuli Mee, can be found in a restaurant located next to the only bank in Tamparuli town, which is the Bank Simpanan Nasional. THe pork, eggs and vegetable they garnish this fried noodles with is just awesome, and the lard as well as the sesame oil used are also good. I can tell you that I am willing to drive for thirty minutes to have this Rm3.50 plate of heaven!

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Jeffrey James

Feasting @ Asia Cafe

 Yesterday was the mooncake festival so I went out to have dinner with my dad and his friend. I was quite lazy to search for a restaurant so I decided to drop by Asia Cafe in SS15, Subang. For your information, Asia Cafe is a HUGE food court with lots of variety of food available. You can basically find anything you want there! The food pictured above is the beef rice. I like how the mixed the minced beef and made it flat. The soy sauce was quite tasty as well.

 My dad ordered this deep fried lobaks, It was pretty basic.

 This is fried bread. With mayonaise. I had one, nothing special. Even though I love mayo~!

 These are Chee Cheong Fun, it's basically chinese flat noodles. It's plain. I don't like the sauce.

 Now the deep fried mushrooms are good! It came with a side of blended green chillies and man was I in love with it! This dish cost me Rm9!

The buttered pork ribs were ordinary as well. Nothing to shout about.

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Jeffrey James

Chinese Food @ Bandar Sunway

 There's this dodgy place run by an old married couple. I like to call this place Uncle & Aunty, I don't actually know the name of the place, but I know it's located in Pjs7 in Sunway and it's really dodgy. For those of you who are particularly particular on things like cleanliness, this place is not for you. However, the food here is quite good, The minced pork tofu (pictured above) is only Rm5.50.

 The dish above is the Choy Sum cooked with Roasted pork. It's mediocre, and I must admit it's a little too salty. But I needed a dish that is green in colour. And the price is also about Rm5.50.

Now their best seller is the Butter chicken, the 'butter' sauce that they use is mostly made out of condensed milk and cream and it is quite good. I like the added green chillies and the curry leaves. It's really good especially when eaten with rice. Calories wise, well, this is a killer but it's oh so good.

Once again the cleanliness of the place is totally off.

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Jeffrey James

Mixed Dishes @ Damansara Perdana

 I had this dish this morning as I was hungry. Nothing special, cheap though! I just paid Rm4 for some fish, eggs and vegs. As compared to other places. I appreciated that the food was still warm. However, the fish was a little dry. But I can't complain much, I was hungry :S

I like the curry soup, I just paid Rm1.50 for it. It really taste very curry like. As in they didn't just use a paste from a packed. It feels very authentic. I quite enjoyed the curry, I didn't really appreciate the oil though:S

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Jeffrey James

Dim Sum While Waiting for Car Wash!

So you all may already know that I love my Dim Sum, it's not exactly carb free but it still beats ordering a plate of fried rice. So while waiting for my car to be washed, i dropped by this random Chinese Food Court in Bandar Sunway and ordered Dim Sum. It wasn't bad, it's just very very very ordinary. It wasn't nice either. The cost price of each plate is Rm2.30.

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Jeffrey James

Curry Soup and Dimsum @ Bandar Sunway Pjs 7

 So there are these dodgy apartments in Sunway City, I used to eat here every morning when I was still staying here. So since I was on my way to campus, I decided to stop by and have breakfast. I ordered the Curry Soup, with tofu and wantons. It's fairly decent but it's value for money as it only cost me Rm3. It's nothing to rave about but the price is worth it.

However, the siew mai dim sum is my absolute favorite in the shop. They bought it from some random supplier but at Rm2 a pop, it's cheap as compared to other places. I love the taste of these babies and damn I always leave with a smile on my face after having lunch here! It's seriously damn worth it for the price!

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Jeffrey James

BAK KUT TEH @ Damansara Perdana

So I was starving when I reached home yesterday and saw this Chinese Food area in Damansara Perdana called JD corner I think. I know it's something corner but anyway, I saw that they had a Bak Kut Teh Stall, for you international readers, Bak Kut Teh is a Chinese Herbal Tea Inspired Soup originating from Malaysia and they usually mix it with all kinds of pork and vegetables and tofu. So I just had the pork belly with some tofu and lettuce, without rice of course and it was goooodddddd! It wasn't the best, but it was still good, the soup tasted like chinese herbs and it made my body feel all warm inside. The food above cost me about Rm8.50!

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Jeffrey James

Janggut @ Hilltop Kota Kinabalu

 So Janggut which means beard in Malay is a restaurant that serves reasonably good Tom Yam in Kota Kinabalu. Apart from their Tom Yam, they are also known for their home made tofu and fried noodles. Pictured above is the Chicken TomYam heavily garnished with Coriander and Bean Sprouts. I like how the soup is mixed with coconut milk to give it a very thick feel. However, this will set you back around Rm7.50 and is quite costly for a typical coffee shop food.

The fried noodles below are also really great. I like the use of chillies and coriander when they fry the noodles as it gives the dish a punch on flavors, it's hard to find dishes that are light but at the same time has so much flavor to it. It's totally worth a visit!

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jeffrey james

Yong Chow Fried Rice @ Damansara Perdana

Still on the road to recovery with my Food Poisoning issue, I decided to have fried rice at this restaurant called Ah Sai in Damansara Perdana. I went for the safest option of Yong Chow Fried Rice because no chinese restaurant which is still running can screw up a plate of fried rice. There's nothing really special about it but it managed to fill me up nicely! A dish like this cost me Rm6.

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Jeffrey James

Fatty Crab @ Taman Megah

 Fatty Crab has been around the scene for quite some time and is quite famous for it's chilli crab, especially in the Muslim community. The restaurant is constantly full and I am lucky to have one of the owner's son as a good friend. So I was brought to the restaurant to have a nice and FREE dinner. I must say that the Chicken Wing (pictured above) is really really good, I like the way they fried the chicken and the marinade that goes with it is really good!

 The Fried Rice at Fatty Crab is also nice, it's not overly flavored and the mixture of the ingredients like beans, carrots and prawns really suit the dish well. But then again, what kind of Chinese restaurant can screw up fried rice? This is good though, I must admit!

This is the signature dish, the Chilli Crab, I'm not a big fan of crabs, because I'm too damn lazy to pry it open, you can say that it's maximum effort for minimum pleasure and I prefer soft shell crabs. The sauce however is really good, it's not WOW good but its good. The malay community seems to really like the sauce though as compared to their chinese counterpart, so if your taste palate is more malay, you would appreciate this dish even more than I would. The sauce is also really good with toasted bread!

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Jeffrey James

Face2Face and Food Poisoning

 I love Face2Face. I remember going there all the freaking time because their Pan Mee (Flat Noodles) is to die for! But since I'm on a no carb diet, I just had a little bit of my friend's Mee Kolok (Pictured above), it's nice, i like the use of minced pork, barbequed pork and pork balls (yes, it's a very porky dish) and the mixture of sesame oil and garlic oil with the noodles is really tasty! A meal like this would usually set you back around Rm5.90.

 So I ordered this, a soup with eggs as well as vegetable. It's fairly decent, but I got food poisoning after that, I'm not sure if it's from the vegetarian dish (previous post) or if it's from this one, but I know that I kept on throwing up and had the worst bowel problem over the next two days, it's so ironic that I have a food blog and I got food poisoning right after. I'm going to stay away from this for awhile.

Now this is some three layer tea that my friend really love. He ordered one of it but I must say that they add a little too much ice. It's also about Rm4 a pop and to order another one would be quite expensive. Face2Face is a franchised restaurant and you can find it scattered all around west Malaysia and some parts of East Malaysia, you must try the spicy Pan Mee though!

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Jeffrey James

Beef Noodles @ Kah Hiong Hilltop Kota Kinabalu

 This is a restaurant I went to quite some time ago that serves the best Beef Noodle soup! Pictured above is the noodles mixed with a special chinese soy sauce, i think its a mixture of various soy sauce, sesame oil and pepper. It's then garnished with some minced beef and spring onions. Quite nice! I like the mixture of the eggs noodles and the sauce.

This is the Beef soup, its basically beef parts (balls, tripe, meat) etc along with some winter melon cooked in beef broth and garnished with spring onions. It is very nice but I don't like the fact that they add in so much MSG into the dishes! But it is worth a visit! It's damn good!

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Jeffrey James

Chinese Delicacies @ U Village Sungei Wang

The Ying Yong pictured above is a mixture of Tea and Coffee mixed with condensed milk. It's reasonable, as you can get this anywhere. Taste wise it's okay, it's just a drink that chinese restaurants like these can't screw up.

This is the deep fried prawn dumpling accompanied by a side of mayo. I think it's quite a rip off as they only gave me five pieces of tiny dumplings for Rm8.90. I could have ordered rice. It tasted fair, nothing really special about it either. I guess people generally go to this restaurant for the crowd!

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Jeffrey James