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Succulent Roast Pork!

Many of my friends know me as a porky person. I love pork. Ribs, roasted, steamed, minced, burgers, whatever, including pork tongues… with minor exceptions such as trotters and intestines. Pork liver is fine by me. Anyways, ever since I’ve been smitten by a delicious plate of hakka noodles, it’s been a hunt for a well done plate of those noodles. Many are average. Probably it comes down to how much lard is used but also the noodles can’t be too soggy. I like them crisp but tender. The minced pork also must be finely made without too much salt or worse, monosodium glutamate (MSG).

Superbly done Hakka noodles

So here I find a lovely plate of hakka noodles, hidden away in a secluded corner of SS2, PJ. It’s fricken awesome! One big bonus. I love char-siu or roasted pork equally as much and this place has hakka noodles with char-siu. Fricken awesome number two, the char-siu is crispy on the outside and crunchy but once you bite in, it’s melt-in-your-mouth goodness. Lean meat but with bits of fat to ensure it’s juicy sweet. Simply awesome! So what’s the name of this place? Well, it’s called Toast and Roast!

Crunchy, melt-in-your mouth Char-siu (roast pork)
Little gem of a place in PJ

Melaka Makan-makan


Sunset reflections on the Melaka River

First, the hectic work week and the scramble to find a hotel considering every place was booked out… After that, a nice drive with friends down to Melaka city. Arrive at 1pm, park, walk down Jonker’s street to Museum Cafe (or Jonker Dessert 88) and have our delicious Baba & Nyonya Laksa. That was washed down with cold Aik Cheong coffee and durian cendol! That done, we head to our hotel to check in and have a shower and short rest. It was really hot. Finally, we emerge at 4:30pm and drive to the Stadhuys. We climb St. Paul’s hill for the first E-Session shoot with Kelly & Chye before wrapping up at about 6:30pm. We then head over to Capitol Satay for the famous Satay Celup! Finding a super long queue, we switch plans and have delicous Oi-chen (fried oyster omelet) and Melaka-style wan-tan mee.

Filling very satisfied and full, we head off to Jalan Hang Jebat (Jonker’s street) and walk around a bit. After a walk up and down the street, we head back to Capitol Satay and join the much shorter queue. It still took about 45 minutes though and lots of ugly Singaporeans queuing up. Anyways, we have our fill of Satay Celup and it was time to head back to bed!

The next morning, we started early, having a quick breakfast at the hotel cafeteria and reaching Christ’s Church at about 8am and started the second E-Session shoot. We finished the shoot around Jonker’s street area and it was time for ice-cream. We went to a home-made ice-cream place only to find out that they’ve gone commercial and no longer made their own ice-cream. That was a pity but feeling all hot and sweaty, cold ice-cream feels really good. Soon, it was time to check-out of the hotel and go back to KL. What trip to Melaka is complete without chicken rice ball? So, on the way out to the highway, we stop by at a small coffee shop serving delicious chicken rice ball. This ain’t the tourist thing, this is where the locals frequent. Soon with all that food stuffed into our full belly, we head back home…


This Oi-chen was really top-grade!


How long do we need to wait?


Secret herbs and spices into our Satay Sauce!

A BBQ Nite

Over at Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam. A most lovely place.

Appetizer, Starters and the Main Course!

Overhead at Ocean Village Seafood restaurant in KK, Sabah.
A couple, probably Franco-swiss, late forties, staring at the expanse of tanks, tanks and tanks holding various sea creatures, from the mundane shrimp, prawns and lobsters to odd looking critters, sea cucumbers and what-not-unidentified underwater objects.

“How do we start? So do we have starters, or appetizers here? Do you have a main course?”

The answer came back:

“Here, you choose and order, and then food arrives and you eat.”

Seriously. Had to hold back any forms of laughter or giggles.

Waiting to be sacrificed for food!

Alfresco dining…

Roadside that is! Yummy cendol!
And yummy rojak of course!

Then of course, we had a proper sit-down dinner a short while later…

Nyonya dinner!