Kin Kin Chili Ban Mian @ KL

Perhaps there is plenty of you all have no idea what " ban mian" is. Let me do a little explaination for it. " Ban Mian" is just actually noodles, just it was lengthen in it's width, like 1/2 inch, then flat and long. It was something like " kuey teow" but was thicker than that.

"Ban Mian" was usually match well and cooked in soup based style. But, in this shop, you can only found one kind of noodle, which is in dry based, and the boss named it as " Chili Ban Mian" .

Restoran Kin Kin

When the boss served the noodle, it was just looks so plain and there is no diffrent with normal dry-stir noodles. Then I was decided to have a taste of it and it just taste simply plain and can can is zero taste at all.

However, after i put in a scoop of the dry chili which prepared on the table, miracle happened!! The taste have an overturn of 360 degree which you will ever feel that this was the most delicious noodle that you ever ate before. I will suggest that when you are there and having this, you increase the amount of the chili powder gradually as the tastiness is different for each individual.

What special about this Ban Mian? What make it outstanding from others? The secret is inside the chili. Beside spicy, it has its special fragnance. Is it garlic, onion or whatever which enhance its fragnance?? There was a notice sticked on the wall showed that: "Don't steal the chilli." Now you know how many opponents it has who try to steal its recipe.

For majority who live in kl or study there, there is currently a few branches for this shop. However, I would still recommend that all should come to this original shop and the it definitely provided the authentic taste of this chili ban mian. (This is share by my friend whoever visit the branches)!!

Chili Ban Mian served together with fried egg (Original looks before adding the chili powder)

The tasty looks of the chili ban mian (adding of chili)

Additional dish to add on

The miracle ingredient-chili powder

Lastly, the price of this chili ban mian is only RM 4-5. It also serves with a big portion. It also kinda inconvenient if you are not driving.

Address: Lorong Tunku Abudul Rahman 2, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Curry Wanton Mee - 咖哩云吞面 @ SS2

Trouble with what to have during your breakfast? Curry noodle? Or wanton noodles? why  not try the combination of both of them-curry wanton noodle. This stall has been a mysteries , since it always open in such an early time, none of us will woke up in such foggy period. Fortunately for writer who is me got such opportunity to enjoy this. 

As what I know, this stall start this business around 4am in the morning. When you are thinking that you are having your breakfast, the rest might be still having their midnight supper and will have a great sleep after a grab of this noodles. 

The speciality of this noodle is they are combining the yellow thin size noodle which frequently used for making of dry-stir noodles with soy and black sauce, and combined this into the curry soup base, which result in " curry wanton noodle". The great taste from the smoothness of the noodles and the well-cooked curry match both these together and formed another greater level of tastiness. The size served by the boss is definitely generous as this will allowed you to have a full and great feeling during the beginning of the day. It also served with a gigantic amount of side dish like fish ball, " tau pok" , which is the deep fried tofu skin, minced meat and also with the deep fried items.

What you need to pay attention is that when you are order and wanna have your noodle there, please do share the table together with other as there are only 2 table with severals of chairs is prepared. Well  this also is kinda good way for human to sit down and chat with each other while enjoying your meal.

Lastly, the price of this noodle. If my memory is still clear, this bowl of delicious noodle was own by me with just using RM4-4.5. This is definitely cheap and low price.

Curry Wanton Noodles

The stall, which located just besides the market

Grazia Cafe @ Sutera, JB

     Where is a nice place to have high tea with your buddy? Today, let's introduce a nice coffee house to you. Grazia cafe located at the taman sutera, which is nearby the Sutera Shopping Mall. This is a small but nice ambiance cafe. 

Knowledge of coffee

Decoration of the cafe

     The interior design was great. Wall decorated with several painting and there was a book shelf which provide you a reading material while you are enjoying your coffee. Besides, there was a corner which displayed the type of coffee beans, books about the coffee and accessory to sell. You can having your meal at the dining table, sofa or bar table as long as you are comfort with. By the way, if you wanna to have a long section here, please don't choose the low sofa without back seat, you really will torture your backbone.

Left top: Flatwhite, Right top: Caramel Machiatto,
Left below: Cafe latte,  Right below: Double Ristretto Cappucino

Left top to right down: Smoked duck aglio olio, Chicken chop, Cheese cake, Tomato Sauce Pasta

     The latte art here was quite nice as well as the taste of coffee. The carameal machiatto was strongly recommend for the sweet lover. Double ristretto cappucino smells good! Overall, all the coffee here really achieve a standard level. But they can't do a latte art on flat white ;(

     For the spaghetti, smoked duck aglio olio was delicious. It has little bit spicy but the taste will lingering in your mouth for long time. The chicken chop also recommended as the chicken was grill with nice, tender and juicy. However, the pasta with tomato sauce was too simple and lose to the aglio olio. Other than that, here also has pizza, sandwich and cakes.

     The cheese cake was really a suitable dessert. Really delicious and won't feel bored with the cheese.

     Overall, this is a nice shop with friendly screws, nice ambiance, nice food and cheaper price. You may make a visit here.

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Adress: 80, Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/3, Taman Sutera Utama, 81300 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

     

Stickhouse -- Ice-Cream Yum Yum @Sunway Pyramid

     Stickhouse, first in Malaysia, a new innovative healthy gelato concept from Italy,  located at Sunway Pyramid shopping mall. You can see colourful sticks of ice cream displayed at the transparent freezer. This fascinating picture makes you feel like return to your childhood, pulling your parents' corner of shirt and begging them to buy the ice cream for you. You will feel happy by seeing those colourful ice cream sticks in front of you. Dessert really is a good mood stabiliser.

 

     There is mainly 3 types of ice-cream sold here: mini (RM4.90), classic (RM6.90) and premium (RM8.90). What so special about this ice-cream? Firstly, they claims that the ice-cream produced using only 100% natural and genuine ingredients without adding artificial flavouring, colouring, or preservative. Fresh fruit, milk and cream together with the "Stickhouse Bases" and the decorations guarantee a healthy, full-bodied product with a persistent taste. There is variety of taste but mainly are fruit flavour such as watermelon, mango, grapes, orange, milk, soy and etc. The mini ice-cream is really mini in size, so I think you better buy a classic one. On the other hand, the premium type has hazel nut, pistachio, green tea and others all have peanut topping and really tempting.

     I bought a watermelon flavour because its red colour was exactly like the watermelon flesh! When I first bite it, I have a delusion that I was eating the watermelon. It was nice but just little bit too sweet. 

Stickhouse
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Address: Sunway Pyramid shopping mall

Restaurant Korean House @SS2

     This Korean House located at SS2, PJ, upstair of a shop. 

The menu was designed luxurious.

     The first impression that restaurant leaf to me wasn't so good. That day, we went to celebrate my friend's birthday. That was a hot Sunday afternoon. The small restaurant was filled with customers. This was a small restaurant which have around 10 tables, I think. When we reach there, there was nobody came to serve us. 6 of us have been stand there for about 15 minutes for looking the screws ran in and out. Got a couple standing in front of the counter and waiting for cashier too. We were like a transparent souls and no one noticed us. By the time passed and our patiences being faded, we stopped one of the waitress and asked any available seats. That waitress said yes and pointed to us and then leaf. We were stunted there at that moment. We thought she will lead us to the seat. At last, we went to find the empty seats for our own. Maybe they were too busy.

     If you wanna to order the BBQ set, you have to ordered at 2 sets. This was their rule. One set of BBQ at least RM30. So we didn't ordered as we ordered the promotion set lunch, which is RM10. The side dish were quite a lot, around 10 types. But seriously, that was normal taste only. Kimchi plays a soul role in korean cusine. For this korean house, the kimchi has a space to improve even my friend also shaking his head while testing it. But the cucumber pickles was quite good, slightly sour and refreshing. The japanese egg bean curd also not bad. 

      The set lunch we ordered included rice, soup and fried meat. You can choose chicken, pork or octupus for the meat. We ordered 3 of them. All were fried with cabbage and actually taste the same except the texture of meat. The octupus has beaten all the other 2 out as it was really chewy, by the way the price for it also double up. Actually the portion of meat they gave quite a lot, actually was quite full. Although they stated  that it was spicy but honestly it wasn't. 

Spicy Fried Chicken (RM9.90)

Spicy Fried Octupus (RM22)

Spicy Fried Pork (RM9.90)

    We also ordered other dishes. We did a very stupid mistake that was we ordered the spicy fried pork..It was exactly the same as our set lunch! In conclusion, all the fried meat come from same source, all are same taste.. 

Spicy Fried Pork (RM28)

     We also ordered the Ginseng Chicken Soup which was around RM28 if not mistaken. That one was quite nice. It was enough for 4 people. Although it has no strong herbal taste and smell as chinese herbal soup did, it was still delicious. The light taste tonic soup boots up your energy.

     The dish here was normal level and little pricey. The policy of obligatary order 2 sets for bbq wasn't a welcome act for me.

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Address: 185 Jalan SS 2/24, Ss 2, 47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Pepper Lunch @ Sunway pyramid

      This is a restaurant introduced by my friend. When we both hungry and passed by this restaurant, the smell of food came out and attracted us to walked in the restaurant. 

Pepper Lunch

     This is Japanese style teppa restaurant. You will be served with a sizzling hot plate of fresh vegetable and meat. Then you can "cook" by yourself by adding the special sauce they have prepared for you. The sauces are honey brown sauce, garlic soy sauce and other seasoning like pepper and salt. When you pour the sauce onto the hot plate, sizzling sound and smoke come out and be careful of the oil spillages. 

seasoning

     There is quite a variety of the menu. There are pepper rice which has chicken, beef, salmon; pasta; curry; premium beef set and etc. I ordered the salmon pepper rice and I felt it was marvellous! The salmon was cooked in suitable texture and slightly salty which was match with the rice. One thing I like the rice was the presence of corns which gave it juicy taste. Not need to pour too much seasoning to avoid over salty taste.

Salmon Pepper Rice (RM 16.80).
The cheif was so generous and gave me a lot of salmon~

      Besides, curry chicken pepper rice was totally different with the salmon set. It has it own gravy which will flow out once you stir the rice. Thus, I don't think you need to add on the seasoning. You are the cheif on your own, so you can determine how many percentage the meat is gonna to cook. Since the chicken is bigger bulk compare to salmon which is thin slide, I suggest you can cook it with longer time. 

Curry Chicken Pepper Rice 

     Don't underestimate the sizzling hot plate. This is a special electromagnetic cooker, which can heats up 260c in 70 seconds and remains 80c for 20 minutes. So must be bear in mind there, don't ever try to touch the hot plate with bare hand! There is a paper wrapped around the hot plate and its function as prevents oil spillage in addition act as a barrier to protect you. I still felt hot when I was having the meal in half way. How efficient the hot plate is!

     The ambience was good and comfort. The screws were always friendly and there provided free, self-service ice water. It was soothing effect to take the ice water after the 'hot' meal.   

     Overall, this was quite a nice place to have your lunch here. The price is reasonable and Salmon set was really nice! 

Pepper Lunch

Address: F1.05, Lv1, Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall, PJ.

Branches: Mid Valley, Pavillon, 1 Utama, Suria KLCC

Website: http://www.pepperlunch.com.my/

     

Toast & Roast @ Ss2

Want to grab a great taste of authentic roasted chicken and pork ? Here is the place where you must visit. This place located near SS2, and is a hot and favorite place to visit by the student as there is plenty of university at the vicinity area. The first time when I taste the roasted pork - char siew, it totally enlighten the my's taste bud as this is the first time that the writer taste such a great taste on the roasted items.

Roasted pork-char siew

The recommended food to order is noodles and char siew, as it matches perfectly with the char siew. If you worry will feel hungry, can order rice as well. This restaurant also serve with plenty of varieties for the customer to chose with, like for example: fried bean sprout, roasted pork (shao rou), roasted chickeng and steamed chicken and so forth

Toast & Roast

The menu for toast & roast

I will greatly recommended that while enjoying the delicious lunch, can order a glass of lemongrass drink as it definitely add the point to the whole set meal and smoother your throat as the restaurant is kinda lack of air ventilation system, so you might feel hot and sweat when enjoying the lunch.

Toast & Roast

Address : 20, Jalan SS2/72, Petaling Jaya, 47300 Selangor.

Reminder : As there is always plenty of customer, remember park your vehicle at the street behind the restaurant

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