Hock to Xuan Xin Steamboat ..

After my gym and Peter's badminton sessions with his buddies, we both decided to go for something light .. ( yes initially we thought we wanna go for porridge steamboat .. but when we arrived the place, we realised it was a buffet style ... so , from light to heavy ...... hahahaha )

The price was quite reasonable with the amount and quality of food they served .

We Chose the Porridge and Ocean King soup base ... The Porridge was Good .. As I am a ginger lover, I requested for More ginger and wow .. really good
The Ocean King is so so nia ... So next time NO NO for us ....






Seafood should goes in the porridge base... We put in the dried oysters , cuttle fish , big pieces of fish meat , prawns and YES My favourite spring onions .... Yummy








The porridge is really sweet after all the seafood. We put in prawns, cuttle fish , dried oyster , fish Meat .... Wow ...







This is a good place to go for steamboat ....

Cheers
Carole Tan

Breakfast for Hubby

I cannot recall when is the last time I made breakfast for hubby during office working days,because we always late .. hahhaha .. So thought today I made him " loving " sandwiches for his breakfast.

Since I reached home quite early yesterday I went to the Mini Market below my apartment and I bought Ayamas Tuna Fish , a loof of Gardenia Bread and I mixed the tuna fish with 3 hard boiled eggs, dried Mc Cormik Basil Leaf and pepper .. Too bad I cant find carrots and Big Onion at the Mini Market.....................

1st Step ....

2nd Step ...

3rd Step ....

The Final Step ...Carole's Loving Breakfast !!! hahahhahaa

Hock at Passion of Kerala , Minden Heights

Yesterday evening was great. We have dinner at a famous banana leaf restaurant at Minden Heights Gelugor.

This was my first time there and my second time for Banana Leaf rice. The 1st time was with my best frend Yvonne near little India ...

We ordered several dishes to go with the White rice ...

We ordered the Mango Lassi , Banana Lassi and Sour Lassi....

The Bawal Hitam Goreng for the Boys

The side dishes thats comes with the white rice

The Curry Chicken Gravy ...

Fried Chicken ... Wow Sedap !

Squid curries ... SO so nia

The boys waitting for their dish ... One with his pity face and one yawning ....

The pampadom ... Very nice too ... Not oily at all

After the dinner we went to Gurney Drive .... Hoping with the 10 minutes walk we can "walked away " the fats we took just now ... hahahha

Cheers

Carole Tan

Hock till Ipoh .. part 3 (end )

Before we headed back to Penang , we stop at this famous Mah Chee ( Penang we called is as Muar Chee ) at Taman Panji . This stall is in the 8TV Ho Chiak programme , dont play ! ... We was struggling to find the place for nearly 1/2 hour and lucky our Driver ( my beloved Husband ) did not give up. Thanks to the Ipoh people who guided us there too

The Long Q for the Mah Chee and Peanut Soup ..... Really a Must Go Place at Ipoh

The Uncle is preparing the mah chee balls using hand leh .. not in Penang where the seller use the stainless steel thing to chop the glutinous paste ...

Really Shock at frist because RM1.50 for this small portion ... BUT ..But worth it ! because the taste is Really GOOD , the Mah Chee is QQ NenNen ..... WOWOWWOWOWO !

The Peanut Soup ... also RM1.50, the soup was thick and very creamy .. .YUMMY

Paiseh to ask the uncle how many pots they sell one day . Ok next round will ask liow ...

... We arrived Penang at 6.30pm after our 14 hours trip to Ipoh .. All of us was very satisfied with this trip and K and P .. U have to see la who is the Itinerary planner and tour guide...

And please remember our Lorong Po GARDEN !!! hahahha

Cheers

Carole Tan

Hock till Ipoh ... Part 3

We headed to Tambun, where we can find famous and fresh Pamelo. Malaysia Pamelo is originated from Ipoh I think ( ??? )

We can basically get the fruits anywhere at Ipoh town , but the freshness and the price wont be the same .. compared at tambun.

The place behind the shop where they stored the fruits ...

The Famous Pamelo .. per piece is only RM8.50 , was told in Penang was RM10.00 per piece

The Fresh Buddha's Palm. The aunty told us that the fresh fruit is usually for prayers and they usually process it to Jeruk' . The taste of the fresh fruit is Bitter ...

The Green Kam .. very sweet ...

The ReD Dragon fruit.. 1kg is RM5.00 and 2 Kgs is at RM9.00

Good DEAL ? No idea .. cos i dont really like the fruit ... :P

The Cikus !!!!! Aunty was telling that the sharp shape the flesh is smoother and the round type the flesh is rougher ... Anyway to me I missed out Ciku tree at my Kampung !

Hock till Ipoh .. Part 2

After our heavy lunch at Yee FAtt , Curry Mee , we decided to walk to the Tow Boh Kong temple across the street. In front of the busy crowded temple we saw one bIg stall selling Mee Ku Kuih .. I believed there is around 20 workers making the Mee Ku and we decided to try out the Longivity Bun , which the lady told us the filling is pandan lotus , normally those buns the fillings will be peanuts.

The King of the Mee Ku ( Rm80 per set ) Very cute and the Ku ( tortoise) made me think of Nemo ... hahahah see those eyes.... ???

The workers is preparing the head and tail for the Mee Ku

The Longivity Bun that we bought back to Penang. The fillings was good, not too sweet ... Nice !

The Yellow Mee Ku , I think we can get during the 9th Emperor Festival only ... ?? .. Maybe ...

The Bigger Yellow Mee Ku with some writtings .... Very cute ?

Can you see the flour for the Mee Ku behind the stall ? Guessed how many Kgs they used for this 9 days ???? Un-imagineable

The workers busy packing and attending non stop customers ....

Hock till Ipoh ... 1st october 2008 ( part 1 )

Me and Peter, and 2 other friends... made a last minute plan to Ipoh Just to makan and look see look see ... ( actually is us last minute 'forced' them to go la.... )

We departed Penang at 4.50am and reached Ipoh at 6.30am. The 1st stop for the makan place will be this Yoke Fook Moon Restaurant for Dim Sum.

We ordered few plates of Dim Sum. Maybe too early, we cant really go for more, or maybe we wanna safe our tummy for other treats from our long food tour itinerary ... :P



We tar pow back the Bird's Nest Egg Tart which cost us at Rm3.50 per piece. It is in bites size , as big as 50cent coin.. To me is a bit expensive..but something new ...


This is a special Dim sum we had. The crust is actually from the Cream Crackers, ( Kiam Pneah ) Special but taste so so....








On the way out from the restaurant we saw this BIG pau ... I think the size is like our nomal 0.5kgs butter cake that we can get in bakery ...
Too big for us and a NO NO too ..

This is the second stop. We went to this 50 years of history shop for Curry Mee. They served few others food such as Loh Mai Kai .. but too bad, by the time we reached there at 12pm the Loh Mai kai already finished.... So we ordered the Curry Mee only. They served two types of curry mee. One soup base and one Kuan Loh ... Very very tasty ... This is a must place to go when we are in ipoh ...

This is the Soup base, which is really good Kick if you love hot spicy soup .... WOW !









Below is the dry types... The curry is very creamy and ... ( next round I will bring along the bengali roti for the extra curries ... )
Both they are selling for RM3.90 per bowl and really good ... A must try in Ipoh !







... to be continue part 2 ...

Cheers
CT