| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 |
I went to Ipoh with a couple of friends few weekends back.. N we spent alot of quality time..doing what everyone does best EATING...haha... There's 2 place in particular which i think has superb food..So here goes.. NOTE: The pictures taken werent intended for this blog entry much earlier ...so pls dont screw me for the poor snapshots..hehe... n there'll probably be more words than pics.. #1 OLD TOWN KOPITIAM Cuisine: Mostly buns & coffee Rating: 4/5 for a kopitiam Take a peek at the signboard..
I cant recall the exact location of this kopitiam... So hope this signboard will help..haha..oh..n d price is really within anyone's budget..hehe
Lets start with the interior...
D cafe is nicely decorated with furnitures, paintings n other stuff which will remind you that you are sitting in a kopitiam.. a modern one tho..it gives you a feeling that you are in the past..f ew decades back..brilliant..even d cups they use are real kopitiam style.. D Downside, mayb its alil cramp n warm... Food...food...food..
If u take a peek in the menu,
u mostly see buns n coffees in a wide variety... We odered lots of them to share...
Altho d presentation is nothing shout about. The yumminess of this simple foods will unfold when you take your very 1st bite...haha..D POLO BUN & D KAYA+BUTTER TOAST especially... there's a slap of butter in it...When you take your very 1st bite, the feeling of the smooth butter melting on your tongue..haha.. it drove me crazy for more...Both the buns were crunchy too... n felt like it just came out of the oven... As for the TOAST BREAD WITH CURRY CHICKEN..its another masterpiece... Im sure alot of us out there enjoy dipping bread into curry n eatin them.. So sum smart fella in this cafe is so brilliant to come out with this serving... d crunchy toast...n d hot but not so spicy curry...yum yum.. definitely a must have...I think im starting to drool al over again... The plus side about the toast in this cafe is u notice...its BROWN..unique?? Enough said bout the buns...time to flatter d drinks a little... if you were to ask me...But anyway, d drinks r really nice too... D beautiful aroma of white coffee...haha... I think the white coffee works best for me compared to the other 2 coffees in the top pic...u can really taste d difference between those original ipoh white coffee n those in other places...mmm....
OLDTOWN KOPITIAM's stuff..hehe... must visit there when u peeps r in ipoh...ill get more details on d location... more to come...*to be continued* -miao-
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| Monday, October 17, 2005 |
hi all.. I was curiously hopping thru each and every (almost) foodblog that i saw.. then i came to read that they do have food-blog events.. like the one i just saw in Emily's La Dolce Vita. She did the In The Pink food event to create awareness for Breast Cancer. was quite interesting. the bloggers that participated cooked or baked something in pink
and she did a round-up for it .. so do check out..
and then i dropped by Cathy's my little kitchen to see that she's hosting the Blogging By Mail 3.
It's actually bloggers swapping 'food or recipes or anything listed' to one another.
then they have to post up an entry about what the blogger swapped..
and of course what u sent as well
so this time around.. the theme of the event's Home for the Holidays
....."I propose that this time around your package include some or all of the following:
A Food Section from your local paper A grocery store flyer from a store where you shop A photo of your kitchen A favorite holiday recipe A food item made from a family recipe (and the recipe!) A handwritten note from you explaining a bit about the package contents, telling about an important holiday for your family and your traditions for that holiday, and telling about your plans for the upcoming holiday season...." and so .. i signed up for it.. ahha ... it'll be fun thinking of what to send .. and thinking of what u'll get. .ahhaha be sure to check out the link on the left.. there're some worthy n fantastic foodblogs.. there's a whole lota stuffs.. some of the locals ones are Masak-Masak, MalaysiaBest by 5xmom, MakanSakan and Yummy Corner celebrity chefs : Jamie Oliver and Kylie Kwong my current fave is .. she who eats.. actually.. i like them all.. ahhahaha ciao... |
yay! i'm first. yeah cause miss yeemei is too busy with her assignments and test... then we ordered Penang Villate Nasi Lemakwhile me ? no need to say much. i'm plain lazy. bah. so.. first review hah.. hope it'll be interesting .. Place : Penang Village Restaurant At : Taipan & Tmn Tun Cuisine : Nyonya / Malay unfortunately, we went during tea time around 3pm .. so the menu's abit different it's written Tea-Break Menu (with limited food) so maybe they have more food during lunch and dinner. For appetizer, we ordered the Penang Village Pie-Tie presented nicely. the filling was something like.. pohpia filling, with crabstick meat, cashewnut..
rating : 3.5 / 5 (i think the pie-tie in chicken rice shop is nicer ...) *yeemei agrees with sweesan!*
nicely presented again. the rice was moulded in a square shape served with Rendang Chicken, Prawn and Sambal of course. and ... that vege thing... which i dont know what's the name of it.. hahaha Rating: *let yeemei do the job* yeemei thinks that the nasi lemak is rather nice...give it a 4/5
almost the same as the nasi lemak but my rice was moulded in a cone shape and i had rendang chicken, a few pieces of malay-styled lobak, popadum and the sour vege thingy Rating: 4/5 (everything was good but maybe they should give more rendang or sambal or something)
so the 2-shop-lots restaurant looked very empty except for out table and other workers. and... cause of that .. we got a limited choices of food to pick ... Other food listed in the menu are like.. Kuey Teow Soup, Fishball noodle.. alil bit chinese food there as well.. but nevertheless, we're quite satisfied with our food.. yeah cause we were darrrnnn hungry before that.. |
| Sunday, October 16, 2005 |
test test hrm.. ok Just Heavenly is up!! almost just let me get some link up at the side and we're done!!! yay!!! contented betul.. i just did my blog template in the morning .. then i did another one for this during midnight .. until 4am.. *yawn* yeah yeah.. might seem to be a lil bit like My Doggie Life v5 ... but... nice mah.. not nice meh ?? *self puji* test test test ok ... bagus ... Cheers, Swee |