Thursday, December 17, 2009

Healy Mac's @ Changkat Bukit Bintang

It was a holiday and Friday night when Lern had a craving after watching Man vs Wild, wild boar! The first choice was Bermuda & Onion but I did not want to have it for 3rd time aka so sick of it. Second choice was Werner's but unfortunately they don't serve pork.

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At last, we landed at Healy's Mac, an Irish Bar and restaurant that serves beer, beef, lamb, seafood and most essentially, PORK!

A Pint of Guinness
A Pint of Guinness - RM20

Lern
His hobby of drinking guinness is back on track!

Seafood Carbonarra Spaghetti
Seafood Carbonara Spaghetti - RM33.00

I was never a big fan of any food that relates to creamy.As for this, prawn, bacons, parmesan cheese, rich cream and white wine blended so well with the springy and firm spaghetti. Me love it!! Besides the serving portion was really generous as we were given 7 fresh prawns. Though we were here for pork ribs, carbonara spaghetti simple stole the limelight. Honestly, I was very very much attracted to seafood carbonara spaghetti than pork ribs.
ps: I had it all by myself!

Roasted Pork Spare Ribs
Roasted Pork Spare Ribs - RM49

Pork Spare ribs are roasted in a rich dark bbq sauce until fork tender and the meat was remained moist and juicy. Scrumptious and no additional bbq sauce is needed! To be honest, I felt it's better than the pork ribs I've tried in B&O, Dave's, and Elcerdo.

Us
Three consecutive weeks of insufficient sleep yields a pale face :(

It's a great place to hang out but not recommended for dating though as it's an al-fresco and bar concept with noisy music played. I did feel awkward seeing people on my left, right and front were sipping their beer while I was having candle lite dinner with Lern. As a whole, the food was beyond my expectation but the limited choices was the letdown. Anyhow, I would definitely make another trip here for other fancier dishes, ie PORK KNUCKLE!

Reindeed
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Ipoh Makan Trip - Day 2

I could still remember vividly how often I had visited Foh San in SS2 and the long queue we had to endure. Dim Sum in Foh San has always been rated best by my dad especially Lotus Leave Rice(Hor Yip Fan) that he had always tapao-ed for tea session and that's why we craved for it almost every week. Despite having scrumptious dimsum favored by locals, the service was rather disappointing. Over recent years, their standard dropped dramatically and probably this issue had driven them to closing it down. I suppose.

#1 Ming Court HK Dim Sum (32,34,36 Jalan Leong Sim Nam, Ipoh)
Ming Ting
The journey continues after the first day of hunting food. If you weren't ipohan, most probably and likely you'd opt for Foh San that is perpetually packed.As much as research I did, I can't seem to find the significant difference on ming court and foh san. What I got was both are equally good, awesome and best. I wish I could beg to differ. Knowing we will wake up late as well as late for dim sum breakfast in Foh san and hence we chose Ming Court.

Siew Mai
Siew Mai

Har Kao
Har Kao

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Fried Wantan

Mou Chi
Mou Chi

Lou Mai Kai
Lou Mai Kai

Fishballs
Fish Balls!

Pudding
Soya pudding

#2 Funny Mountain (49, Jalan Theatre, Ipoh)
Funny Mountain
After filling our stomach with dim sum and keep extra storage for next food, we adjourned to Funny Mountain for a bowl of smooth tao fu fa.

TFF
We were kia-su, afraid that the tff will be finished in a blink and we left to funny mountain as early as possible.

Tao Fu Fah
Consumed with sugar syrup while hot, it was as smooth as silk. Priced at RM0.80 per bowl, I could literally order 2 or 3 or more bowls of smooth tao fu fa.

#3 Kedai Kopi Kong Heng (74, Jalan Bandar Timah, Ipoh)
Satay Sauce
Right after checking out, we ended our food trip at the last destination for a stick of porky porky satay! What else could we opt for since we are chinese! Muahaha

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Kong Heng kopitiam shares the same business concept as Capitol Satay, pay for what you consume. It shares the same hygiene concept too, a man tops up the plate with more satay which might eventually be someone else who don't want. I was lil digusted by this, but the porky satay tastes really good.

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Pork Intestine

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Visiting Ipoh without savoring ipoh hor fun means an incomplete the food trip. Just before leaving ipoh, we still managed to consume ipoh signature dish, Ipoh Chicken Hor Fun.

4# Sam Poh Tong (Cavern of Triple Gems)
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We made a stop at Sam Poh Tong before exiting Simpang Pulai Toll to do some sightseeing on beautiful limestones.

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Us being kind, feeding the tortoise with veges, a.k.a throwing the veges at them. Muahahahahha

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We were lucky to catch the tortoise fighting show. The left tortoise was kinda ripping the right tortoise's skin off. Urghhh This is evil!

#5 Kek Lok Tong (Cave of Great Happiness)
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I was quite amazed by magnificent stalactite found in Kek Loh Tong as compared to Sam Poh tong which allows me to feed tortoise only. Not forgetting the scenic cave view with cool breeze. Ahhh shiok! (since it rained the whole day)

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A zoom out look of Kek Loh Tong

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We were pretty satisfied with the food we had but I do believe there are hidden gems that we are yet to try. Thus, more homework to be done :(

Holidays come at the right time after 3 weekends of traveling around and 3 weeks of insufficient sleep. Whatever it is, I still need to wake up in 5 hours time for work. Working on Sunday spells depressed :(

And so, good nite.

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Away

Phuket Island & Phi Phi Islands are really breath-taking except being trapped inside scorching hot weather and had delayed flight for twice! AirAsia should learn time management but I guess it would never be succeeded. Watever it is, you better not delay my flight tomorrow! I reckon that's what you get for the amount you'd paid. Arghhh *curse curse*

Promthep Cape, Phuket
Promthep Cape @ Phuket Island

The work has officially started and so does the holiday. Hence, I'll be off to Kota Kinabalu tomorrow for 3 days which implies that imma get another flab!

With that, I bid you good night :)

 
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