Category: Food

KFC and McDonalds

Date: 25 August 2019

Hi everyone! So my bf is a Huge KFC fan, but normally I ban him from eating it when I’m around because it is just a bit too unhealthy for me! This weekend was an exception and he convinced me to have KFC with him for dinner and it was my first time trying KFC in Malaysia. This blog will talk about both KFC and McDonalds.

Here is what we ordered for our KFC dinner…

1 x Zinger Combo (One Zinger burger, wedges and a can of pepsi), 1 x 2 piece chicken hot and spicy, 1 x 5 piece nuggets, 1 x large coleslaw = RM 43.39 delivered (RM4 delivery fee).
  • The chicken and zinger burger – the highlight for me, chicken deep fried until really crispy but not oily at all!
  • Wedges and nuggets – a bit of a let down, prefer McD nuggets hands down.
  • Coleslaw – similar to the texas chicken one, my bf’s favourite side from them

There is a McDonalds close to my workplace, so I’ve had it twice for lunch with colleagues. Here is what I had…

2 pieces chicken rice set (came with coleslaw and a drink)

This was my first time eating fried chicken at a McDonalds AND with rice! It was surprisingly good (both the rice and the fried chicken)!

Nasi Lemak Set A Spicy

Second time around, I decided to order something with fried chicken and rice again because the first time was so good! But, for someone who can’t take spice I’m not quite sure what I was thinking ordering spicy chicken with my nasi lemak! It was good….but spicy! Personally the sambal in the nasi lemak was spicier than the chicken for me. Only recommended if you can take spicy food!

Food review summary

  • Favourite dish: Fried chicken from KFC
  • Price: both $
  • Taste: both 4/5 stars
  • Overall: 4 stars
  • Really recommended to try some local flavours of McD and KFC if you’re visiting Malaysia (KFC recently came out with green chili crunch chicken)

Restaurant SY (Seafood Restaurant) – Batu Pahat

Date: 5-9 August

Batu Pahat is my boyfriends home town. Last week I travelled down to Batu Pahat in Johor for work. It was the third or fourth time in BP. My colleauges and I rated this as our favourite restaurant!

  • They have plenty of seating, but it’s a popular spot, so don’t come too late!
  • Deep fried shrimp, so yummy!
  • Fried tofu. Crispy on the outside, nice and silky on the inside!
  • Pork ribs – great eaten with rice.
  • Stir fried veges.
  • Er…forgot what dish this was!
  • Fried prawns with salted egg and pork floss!

There were 3 of us dining (2 girls 1 guy) and we ordered 3 dishes each time we dined there. It averaged around RM20 per pax as we ordered seafood both times and we were pretty full.

Food review summary

  • Favourite dish: Deep fried squid.
  • Price: $$ (very reasonable for restaurant quality seafood)
  • Taste: 4.5/5 stars
  • Service: 5/5 stars (waited a looong time)
  • Cleanliness: 4.5/5 stars
  • Overall: 4.5 stars (highly recommended)

About the restaurant

  • Location: No 2, Jalan Setia Jaya Utama, Taman Setia Jaya, 83000 Batu Pahat,
  • Phone: 07-438 9686
  • Opening hours: Lunch – 11am-3pm, Dinner – 5pm – 10.20pm

Penang – Gurney Drive Food Court & Drinks Edition (Xing Fu Tang, Pann Tea, Instea)

Date: 15 July – 26 July

Hi everyone! I’ve been in Penang (Island) for work for the last 2 weeks, so today’s post is about Penang food! Even though we ate a lot, I did not get a lot of photos unfortunately, because I was with colleagues and felt a bit self conscious taking so many food photos! So, I’ll just introduce Gurney Drive Food Court and some of the cafe’s we went to. At the end of the blog, I’ll talk a bit about other foods we tried.

Gurney Drive Food Court

Started of the meal with coconut water and sugar cane juice. Be careful where you sit! The shop owners have designated seating, so if you sit at their table, you must order from them.
Taro cake (savoury). I am a sucker for taro, so I really enjoyed this dish and you can’t get this in Kuala Lumpur.
Char Koay Teow. It was ok, I couldn’t tell the difference between this and the KL version.
Rojak (traditional fruit and vegetable salad dish). This was my first time trying this and it isn’t for me. The sauce overpowers the fruits and vegetables.

Gurney Drive Food Court – Food review summary & Location

  • Favourite dish: Taro cake!
  • Price: $ (but a bit more expensive than the normal food court price in Penang)
  • Taste: 3.5/5 stars
  • Overall: 3.5 stars (it was ok, next time I would go in the weekend when more stalls are open.)
  • Location: 172, Solok Gurney 1, Pulau Tikus, 10250 Jelutong, Pulau Pinang.

Drinks Edition

What do colleagues do when they are working in another city and have nothing to do? Go for drinks…..we tried Xing Fu Tang, Pann Tea and Instea

  • All 3 of us ordered the classic brown sugar bubble tea.
    RM 12.50 each.
  • A bit sweet for my liking but also very addictive. Within 5 mins I had drunk half. Will be going back but not for a while (due to the price and the calories).
Another famous drinks place in Penang. This one, we ordered via Grab Food. I ordered the classic Four Seasons Tea, very light and refreshing. My colleague ordered their bubble milk tea, which was not as sweet as Xing Fu Tang.
  • Their signature drink- fruit tea. Very nice, not sweet and refreshing. High recommended!
  • Instea’s bubble tea! We were all like “what the heck is that”, and took turns trying it. We concluded it was either a cheese or custard thing. My colleague said the bubbles were a bit hard so only had half.

Drinks Edition – Review summary & Location

  • Favourite drink: Instea’s signature fruit tea!
  • Price: $$ (drinks are even more expensive than food!)
  • Taste: 4/5 stars
  • Overall: 4 stars (they were all good, and would go back to all of them)

Overall, I had a great time in Penang. They serve foods in smaller portions at around RM 5-6, so you can order more than one dish and share with friends. The traffic jams were the only downside about Penang island. So, try not to travel around 4.30-6.30pm. My bf and I will be going back to Penang at the end of November for the Penang Marathon. So, look out for Penang food review #2 🙂

Unique Seafood (PJ) 奇怪海鮮

Date: 30 June 2019

Truth is – we went there 2 weeks ago, but it’s so good I must do a review! When my mum and sister came from Taiwan to visit my bf and I in KL, this was one of the restaurants on our list to take them to. If you like seafood, specifically crab, you won’t regret coming here.

  • Like any good Chinese restaurant, each table gets peanuts and chillis RM4
    I thought they were free…
  • Mix Vege Loh Hon RM 23
    Fresh and flavourful vegetables (cheapest dish of the day)
  • 1. 7 Big Meat Crab with Butter Sauce RM115
    The sauce is to die for! Must dip bread into this sauce!
  • Deep Fried Bun RM4.50
    Worst decision ever was only ordering one portion of these babies.
0.5 Tiger Prawn Salted Egg RM55
If you love salted egg, you will love this dish! Because of the sauce, and how they cook it, you can eat the shell (yay no peeling!)
Eek! Ok, so definitely only for special occasions!

Food review summary

  • Favourite dish: Salted egg prawns! Yummy!
  • Price: $$$ (very pricey, but I guess that’s the cost of seafood?)
  • Taste: 4.5/5 stars
  • Service: 3/5 stars (waited a looong time)
  • Cleanliness: 4/5 stars
  • Overall: 4 stars (definitely would go back again)

About the restaurant

  • Location: Lot 9B-3, Jalan Kemajuan, Section 13, Petaling Jaya, 46200, Selangor.
  • Phone: 016-2104266
  • Opening hours: Lunch – 11.30am – 2.30pm, Dinner – 6.00pm – 10.30pm

Batu Pahat, Johor – Ming Castle Dim Sum & Kafe Kiri Kanan

Date: 6-7th July 2019

This weekend we went to Batu Pahat, Johor, a small town in the South of Malaysia. The bf grew up there and we made the trip to visit his parents, and to return his dad’s car which we’ve been borrowing for 2 months (thanks bf’s dad)!

On Saturday afternoon, we decided to watch the new Spiderman – far from home movie at Pacific BP Mall, so after that we dined at Kafe Kiri Kanan for dinner. By the way, I thought the movie was average…..

Kafe Kiri Kanan

  • Nasi Goreng Seafood RM 12.76
    Really good, in food court standards.
  • Ramen Sayur Ayam Sup RM 8.45
    Light meal, I don’t think it was enough for bf’s dad as he kept stealing the mum’s food!
  • Kari Ayam + Roti RM 8.70
    Light meal for bf’s mum. Tasty but a bit spicy!
  • Nasi Lemak Ayam Goreng RM 8.45
    Bf enjoyed his fried chicken (always does).

Kafe KK – Food review summary & Location

  • Favourite dish: My fried rice in omelet!
  • Price: $
  • Taste: 4/5 stars
  • Overall: 4 stars (above average food court food, will go back)
  • Location: Pacific BP Mall, G73, Jalan Kluang, 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor

Sunday morning, we went to yum cha (apparently the only one in Batu Pahat).

Ming Castle

  • BBQ Meat Bun RM4.50
    Didn’t taste this one, looked ok?
  • Sesame Ball RM4.50
    It has red bean paste in the middle, recommended!
  • Carrot Cake RM7.50
    I thought this was just average.
  • Prawn C Fun RM5
    This one was just average too…
  • Fried Prawn Roll RM6
    The star of the show! Crispy tofu skin on the outside, prawn and chives on the inside.
  • Pork and Century Egg Porridge RM2.80
    A good tummy filler but not as good as congee back in KL.
  • Sweety Yolky Bun RM4.50
    I always have to order this dish, and check whether the inside is runny like it is meant to be..
  • Ok, so it was runny…..but the outside bun wasn’t as soft as I imagined and tasted a bit plain.

Ming Castle – Food review summary & Location

  • Favourite dish: Fried Prawn Roll
  • Price: $$ (for Batu Pahat standard)
  • Taste: 3/5 stars
  • Overall: 3 stars (only if you’re desperate for dim sum)
  • Location: 181, Jalan Abu Bakar, 83000, Batu Pahat, 83000

Now we are back in KL, it’s time to rest up and get ready for another week. Hope everyone has a great week ahead 😀


Templer Golf Country Club

Date: 30 June 2019

The unique limestone in the middle of TGCC.

This week we have a very special food blog, because my mum and sister are visiting Malaysia for the first time from Taiwan!

My sister is a golf player, so the bf contacted a colleague who plays golf to take her for a game. Today we visited Templer Golf Country Club and had lunch at the Japanese restaurant at their club house (not sure if the restaurant has a name or not). We had heard good things about the restaurant from several people, so our expectations were pretty high…

Saba set – RM 29.70
I love grilled saba fish, and this one did not disappoint. Juicy fish and tasty rice. A bit on the pricey side, but I would order it again.
Oyakodon – RM24.40
A pretty decent bowl of oyakodon. Tender chicken and eggs on a bed of good quality japanese rice.
Hiyashi Chuka – RM20.15
Mum and sis both ordered this, cold Chinese style noodles and they both liked it. Springy noodles with tasty sauce.
Onigiri (2pcs) – RM 6.40
Mum ordered extra rice for sis, as she was playing 18 holes that afternoon and noodles itself wouldn’t have lasted long.
The rice balls had different fillings – one had plum and the other some kind of meat floss? Again, the rice was perfect.
  • The restaurant has a lot of variety….

Food review summary

  • Favourite dish: Saba set menu
  • Price: $$$ (a bit pricy for me, but probably normal price for a golf club)
  • Taste: 4.5/5 stars
  • Service: 4/5 stars
  • Cleanliness: 4/5 stars
  • Overall: 4 stars (highly recommended to dine in when playing at TGCC)

About the restaurant

  • Location: 21, Jalan Rawang, 48000 Rawang, Selangor
  • Phone: 03-60919111
  • Opening hours: 11am – 6pm Mon- Sun

Restoran Mi Hokkien (上城福建麵)

Date: 15 June 2019

Last time we were in the Up Town area (Damansara), we noticed there were a few restaurants that were really popluar to the extent that tables were set up on the pavements. One of those restaurants was selling Hokkien Mee in large plates. We went back for a try.

We got there early, around 6pm and there weren’t many people. It is more a late night/ midnight eatery (open until 2:30am most days).

There one page menu – you select what dish you want and for how many people, which determiens the serving size and the price.
Note: the prices down the bottom are only for their hokkien mee.
  • We ordered hokkien mee with 2 types of noodles. I thought we wouldn’t be able to finish…
  • and finished it within 10 mins!
  • Plate of veges to balance out the meal. Very flavourful with lots of sauce and garlic.
  • Hokkien mee a bit plain by itself but a tasty dish with the sampal chilli.
They have two dining areas, so we didn’t realise they sold duck until we went to the other side to pay. The duck looked and smelt really good. Will definitely order next time.

Food review summary

  • Favourite dish: Hokkien mee (fat noodles) with sambal
  • Price: $$ (around RM 50 for 2 people)
  • Taste: 3.5/5 stars
  • Service: 4/5 stars
  • Cleanliness: 4/5 stars
  • Overall: 3.5 stars (good but not great)

About the restaurant

  • Location: 121, Jalan SS 21/37, Damansara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
  • Phone: 013-3345550
  • Opening hours: 5pm -2:30am Mon – Sat, 5pm – 2am Sun

Weng Heong Bak Kut Teh (永香肉骨茶)

Date: 9 June 2019

Bak Kut Teh (pork bone broth) is famous in Malaysia. I’ve tried it twice in KL (once at Lot 10, once at Four Seasons food court), they were both disappointing experiences. I told my colleague that I don’t like the Bak Kut Teh in Malaysia, because the meat is not tender (like the ones we get in Taiwan). He recommended I go to Klang, which is around 20min drive out of KL and is famous for their Bak Kut Teh shops.

The boyfriend, took me to Weng Heong BKT, and it did not let me down!

  • We arrived at 1pm on a Sunday. Even though the restaurant was full, we were able to find a table for 2.
  • Menu and prices on the wall.
Claypot (soup) for 2 people. We asked for lean pork and pork ribs. The meat was tender and juicy. The soup was thick and very flavourful! The best BKT, i’ve tasted in Malaysia so far.
Me enjoying my meat. Warning: do not come here on a first date, there will be no conversation and you will both be sweating like crazy people.
  • A plate of vegetables (for a balanced meal). Very nice with the fried garlic.
  • Each table gets a small serving of Yu Char Kuih (Chinese Crullers). For you to dip into the BKT soup or can be eaten alone (how I like them).
Every few tables share a pot of hot water. This is for you to top up on your Chinese tea on your own. The way to eat BKT, is to wash it (the oiliness) down with some tea after every mouthful!

Food review summary

  • Favourite dish: BKT pork on bone
  • Price: $$ ( RM 49 for 2 people)
  • Taste: 4/5 stars
  • Service: 4/5 stars
  • Cleanliness: 3/5 stars
  • Overall: 4 stars (best BKT tasted in Msia so far)

About the restaurant

  • Location: 39 & 41, Jalan Batai Laut 5, Taman Intan, 41300 Klang, Selangor
  • Phone: 03-3341 4408
  • Opening hours: 8am – 8pm every day except Mondays

Jin Xuan (锦选)

Date : 4 June 2019

Today I am introducing my favourite yum cha restaurant in KL! Actually…it’s the only yum cha restaurant I’ve been to so far (3 times), but because it’s so good I haven’t wanted to try any other places yet!

Thank you to the Hari Raya public holidays, today we visited the branch closest to our home – Old Town, Selangor for lunch. They have a total of 8 outlets in KL.

Thousand year egg & pork congee
RM 5
What is yum cha without congee, right? The congee was thick, with generous portions of egg and pork. Loved the extra flavour from the ginger shreds! Highly recommended.
  • Fried Yam Pastry
    RM 5.50
    Crispy on the outside, soft yam paste and meat in the middle.
  • Chicken Gluten Rice
    RM 5.50
    Gluten rice with a good portion of meat.
  • Crystal Shrimp Dumpling
    RM 5.50
    Similar to the popular har gaw (shrimp dumpling), but wrapped in a crystal/clear pastry. I personally prefer the har gaw (pic below).
  • Shrimp Rice Roll
    RM 6
    The rice roll is so soft and the satay sauce gives it extra flavour, a must order!
Steamed Chicken Claw, Siu-Mai & Har Gaw
RM 5.50/ each
The chicken claw is different to the flavour i’m used to in NZ, so I thought it was just ok. Both the siu mai and har gaw were above expectations with lots of meat/shrimp and lots of flavour.
  • Golden Bun
    RM 5
  • I have tasted a lot of golden buns that aren’t runny in the inside. This restaurant manages to make them runny every single time. This is so addictive, order with caution!

Food review summary

  • Favourite dish: Congee & Golden Bun
  • Price: $$
  • Taste: 5/5 stars
  • Service: 5/5 stars
  • Cleanliness: 5/5 stars
  • Overall: 5 stars (Yes, it’s that good!)

About the restaurant

  • Location: 19, Jalan 1/21, Old Town, 46000 Selangor
  • Phone: +603-7781-5688
  • Opening hours: 7am-11pm every day (even yum cha for dinner!)
  • Website/menu: https://jinxuan.com.my/menu/

Nam Heong (南香)

Date: 30 May 2019

This place is famous for their chicken siew pao and egg tart. I tried their chicken siew pao for the first time a few weeks ago and have been craving it ever since! So, after work we decided to have dinner at their restaurant located at Starling mall.

We arrived around 6.20pm, which is considered early for a weekday so there wasn’t a lot of people at the restaurant nor the mall (which made finding parking easy)!

They use an online ordering system – easy to use, by I personally prefer flicking through a menu (call me old-fashioned).
I ordered a twin mixed roasted meat rice – bbq pork and roast pork
RM 16.90
Not too special for me, star of the dish was the rice…
The boyfriend ordered their signature wat dan hor + cirspy pork lard
RM 14.10
He also said this was average only.
  • Premium butter and home-made kaya
    RM 6
  • This is to die for! Look at that butter! So unhealthy but so addictive…
Ipoh white coffee
RM 4.20
Apparently the uncle who developed this is still making coffee in Ipoh. I thought it was nice but personally not a big fan of white coffee (I drink mine black).
Takeaway siew pao and egg tart
3.20 RM/each
This tastes good, even after a few days in the fridge! I love the siew pao, while the boyfriend loves their egg tarts. Win-win!

Food review summary

  • Favourite dish: Kaya toast & chicken siew pao
  • Price: $$
  • Taste: 4/5 stars for pastries, 2/5 stars for food
  • Service: 4/5 stars
  • Cleanliness: 5/5 stars
  • Overall: 3 stars (definitely let down by the food)

About the restaurant