Clams cooked with ginger

ginger clams

I love these clams…the larger ones with a white shell and a tender
and moist center. I had these for dinner just now. It was cooked with
ginger, but that did not overwhelm the taste. The place I go to does it
just right – slightly underdone and the clams are fresh. Mmm…

Anyway, my mental faculties are somewhat impaired right now and Mr.
Sandman is being insistant about doing his duty, so I’ll have to reply
the comments tomorrow. My apologies about this – there’s some really
insightful and feedback in the past few posts, thanks for all the
responses!

P/S – Your posts always provide much needed insight to keep me in check, maria callas. πŸ™‚

Hai Pa Wang Seafood

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It’s pretty packed for a weekday night.

hpw waitress
The waitress took our order.

jelly
We bought some multi colored jelly from an unsolicited table to table vendor.

butter prawns
Buttered prawns. Crunchy and buttery.

fukui fish
Fu kui fish. Sweet and sour.

oyster pancake
Oyster pancake. It came with a unique pepper and sea salt sauce.

hpw us
L-R: Miriam, Ah Lung, Huai Bin (me).

Hai Pa Wang Seafood, Padungan.
30/03/2004

Throw a whole pig into boiling water

making kueh chap

That’s how you make kueh chap…basically, you pick up a live pig
(you may need help if the pig exceeds a certain size) and throw the
whole animal into a vat of boiling water. Watch it scream and struggle
as it’s being boiled alive. When the pig has stopped moving (you can
establish this by seeing if the water is still churning), drain the
water and chop it up into pieces.

stall 34 kueh chap

This was related to me by a friend as we were eating kueh chap at
Stall 34 in Petanak. He’s kidding of course, but kueh chap does contain
many byproducts of pork as well as pork meat itself. It’s a mix of pig
intestines, stomach, skin (fat), meat with other things like eggs and
tofu. Pig brains and genitalia are considered specialty gourmet items,
so those are obviously not included. The Chinese say every part of the
pig can be eaten except for its bones (though it can be used for soup).

kueh chap petanak

Kueh chap is traditionally made with pork, but hey, you can even throw in a stray dog if you want.

dog kueh chap

I’m sure no one would notice.

Seafood at Petanak, Kuching

petanak central market

This is Petanak Central Market. We went there for seafood last
night. Petanak is another option for Top Spot (?) in the city for
seafood. This place is more down to earth.

petanak 99

We sat at table 99. There was me, Ah Boon, Ah Lung, Miriam and Ah Ann joined us for a while.

poh fah seafood

We ate at Poh Fah Seafood. It had my surname on it. πŸ˜‰ Stall 38.

petanak garlic

Here’s a must for every seafood meal. Raw garlic. Mmm…

petanak chicken

This is the first dish that came out. I think it’s chicken, comprised exclusively of drumsticks.

petanak fried rice

We all had fried rice (goes well with seafood) except Ah Boon (he had steamed rice).

petanak cockles

This is the next dish – cockles. It’s those shells that goes into halves once cooked. It was nice.

petanak us eating

Here is a blurry photo the proprietor took of us. Beer goes well with seafood too.

petanak seafood

This is some tofu dish. Tasted surprisingly nice when you have the munchies. I had two.

petanak oyster pancake

Here is the classic of all seafood meals here – oyster pancake. It’s
crunchy and nice, with oysters in the middle. Best dish of the meal
disregarding the chicken, which should be discarded since it’s not
seafood per se.

petanak cat

Here’s a skinny stray small cute kitten that I found. I swear I
wasn’t holding onto her by force. She liked me, and stayed under my
chair for the rest of the meal. I like her too, very cute and small and
furry.

Hartz Chicken Buffet (Please do not vomit into the sink)

hartz chicken buffet

Hartz Chicken Buffet is an eat all you can buffet for RM 13.90. It’s
main feature is chicken, but they have a wide range of other things on
offer like salads, cakes, soft serve ice cream with toppings and free
flow drinks. It is a firm favorite for stoners with the munchies and
people who eat more than 2 pieces of chicken (which works out to be
more expensive at traditional outlets like KFC, McDonald’s etc). Here’s
a couple of pictures from the outlet in Kuching at Sarawak Plaza.

hartz interior

This is the dining area. There are tables for two lining the main aisle with group tables at the back and to the side.

hartz food

This is the food area. There are warmed plates which you pick up and choose whatever food you want.

hartz salad bar

There’s a salad bar with fresh vegetables. The areas all have sneeze
guards but there is a large clientele of children so I don’t think that
works all that well.

hartz hot food

Here’s the hot food bar. There are mashed potatoes, baked potatoes (creamed, with skin intact), pasta and other salty hot foods.

hartz dessert

This is my favorite dessert area – with apple crumble, pies and all sorts of other sweet warm food.

hartz cakes

There’s also another area for sliced cakes (not warmed like above).

hartz drinks

Of course, there’s also a free flow self serve drinks area with
sodas (usually drink 100 Plus, remnants from my tweaking days) and
coffee and tea.

hartz ice cream

This is the best feature of Hartz Chicken Buffet – a soft serve ice
cream machine! I love this, you can make your own sundaes with the
toppings provided on the side.

hartz chicken

Finally, this is the main feature of Hartz – here’s where the
chicken bit comes in. This is the chicken bar, with fried chicken,
roasted chicken, fried chicken liver, fried chicken stomach (they call
it gizzards) and well…just all sorts of chicken. Mmm…tastes like
chicken.

hartz chicken closeup

Here’s a close up of the chicken. This is the fried chicken and the
roasted chicken. The management staggers the food out ie it comes out
in intervals instead of all at once. Thus, there’s only two offerings
at the point this photo was taken. More comes out as one batch finishes
and there’s a mad rush to get the good bits – drumsticks and thighs.

hartz sundae

This is how I make my sundaes – put some apple crumble and bread
pastry on the bottom, fill with soft serve ice cream and sprinkle (or
droop) with the topping of your choice.

hartz vomit

Lest we forget, management reminds us not to vomit in the sink.

Cat fish (Ikan Keli)

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This is catfish from Giants. We were walking around shopping for
groceries when I stumbled upon this. Two largish fish for just RM 2.20,
what a great deal for a starving programmer, I thought. It kinda
reminded me about the lamb brains [sixthseal.com] I got while grocery shopping a while ago. This is what the label looked like:

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The cat fish was a little odd though, it was hard to slice and there
was this innards I cleaned from inside but still left a yellow stain on
the fish itself. It leads to concerns about heavy metals and other
things that this bottom feeder could have accumulated, but hey it’s
just RM 1.10 per fish. :p

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The other side of the catfish. These catfish leaves browny residue when touched.

Rasa Ayamas

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Rasa Ayamas @ Pusat Bandar Damansara photo

I’ve never eaten at one of the Rasa Ayamas outlets before. The only
previous contact I’ve had with the Ayamas brand is their cold storage
mini drumsticks and of course, the chilli sauce. There is no Rasa
Ayamas outlets in Sibu or Sarawak to the best of my knowledge.

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We had Rasa Ayamas Saver Meal B – which came with two thighs of your
choice, a plate of stir fried vegies, spring rolls, rice, soup, dessert
and drinks for two.

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This is a picture of the meat area.

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The place seems to be popular during lunch time.

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The workers were suitably, er…industrious and the turn around for
food is the same as you’ll expect in a fast food outlet. The spring
rolls came out later though, probably a 5 minute wait.

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Here’s a photo of the Rasa Ayamas interior.

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This is “Saver Meal B” for RM 17.90 (minus spring rolls).

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We had Golden Roaster and Pepper Roaster for the chicken. My
apologies for the out of focus picture, I didn’t realize I did not have
macro mode on until I got home.

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This is the chicken rice and the soup (which has bits of fish (meat?) balls in it).

ayamas_vegie.jpg

The vegetables were stirfried with a suitably low heat – resulting
in a nicely fresh taste being imparted to the dish. Er…what I mean to
say is, they didn’t “murder the vegies” as a common saying goes back
home.

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Here’s the mini spring rolls…it was okay, nothing to write home about.

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Dessert – nata de coco and lychees served chilled.

Rasa Ayamas has chicken that tastes surprisingly good and the price
is cheap for a meal for 2 in KL, considering what they’re offering.
It’s also salty and full of MSG and hey, that’s good enough for me. πŸ™‚

Shin Kee Beef Noodles Specialist @ Petaling Street

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We went to this place after mass on Sunday for their beef noodles.
It’s called Shin Kee and it’s supposed to be famous for their beef
noodles. The location is somewhere around Jalan Petaling, it’s within
walking distance of Kota Raya. Anyway, I had the dried beef noodles and
I thought it was alright, but I’ve had better in Sibu. Remember the old
Chopsticks in town (not the new one in Pedada)? Yeah, those beef
noodles were the best I’ve ever had. πŸ™‚

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Anyway, back to Shin Kee, you can ask for a mix instead of pure
noodles eg noodles and hor fun or noodles and rice vermicelli and so
on. I just had the pure noodles one. It came with some concentrated
beef sauce (with beef meat) on top of the noodles and a bowl of soup
with beef pieces (cooked just right, slightly on the rare side), beef
stomach (there’s another word for this, but the term escapes me right
now), and fish balls. The soup was bland compared to the beef noodles
in soup.

Here’s what the beef noodles with soup looks like:

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The soup is much tastier than the dry beef noodle’s soup.

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This is a photo of the cooking area – the place is clean and looks new, a nice place to eat and the beef noodles are good too.

Bangsar mamak @ Jalan Telawi

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This is the mamak center at Jalan Telawi 2 in Bangsar. We ate there last night.

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Here’s a scene of the place – Medan Selera.

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We ate at Yacob Tom Yam. Great variety of fried rice.

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The large perforated thing is roti tisu (tissue). The guy said it
unfortunately deflated while walking down from the front stalls (we
were at the back). minishorts
[urban-flirt.net] has a better photo. Did I get the permalink right? I
can’t tell with IE 5. I don’t know what the other roti is, but it came
with beef liver. Note the giant watermelon juice in front of Alice.

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I had Nasi Goreng Pataya (fried rice with stuff, wrapped in fried egg).

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and went for a Giant mango juice which I couldn’t finish. Damn thing must be close to 1 liter.

Anyway, I just got back from work, I might update again later if I’m
not too tired, only had 4 hours of fitful sleep last night and woke up
at 6:15 am. Otherwise, I’ll update tomorrow during my lunch break.

Valentine’s Cafe Review

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This is the Valentine’s Cafe Pan Fried Prawn Noodles from
Valentine’s Cafe in Paramount Hotel. I had dinner there with my buddies
Christopher and Ting Chuan. Christopher is also studying in Melbourne
and lives near me (both in Melbourne and in Sibu). He just came back
yesterday but he’s going to stay until the end of February. On the
other hand, I have to head back to Melbourne soon to finish my
Industrial Experience. πŸ™ I love Sibu, there are people who prefer it
over in Melbourne, but for me my hometown is the best place.

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Anyway, back to Valentine’s Cafe, it’s a pretty good place to eat.
It’s at the Paramount Hotel opposite Taman Selera. If you’re from Sibu
you should know where it is, it’s the newly opened hotel. Nice ambience
and the service is pretty good too. You don’t feel pressured to leave
as soon as you finish your meal, unlike other hotel attached
restaurants. We stayed there for a while to catch up on stuff after
finishing our meal. The prawn noodles is pretty good at RM 9.50 (A$
4.75) and there were 5 (!) king prawns in the plate. The portion is not
very large, but it’s quite delicious and I love seafood so it’s pretty
good value for money.

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