Jasmine Chia: Food

Experiences - Friday, July 03, 2015

The kaya bread effect

We were really lucky this morning, we found a parking spot directly opposite the entrance as soon as we got here. While others had to park a...

Nasi lemak has become the staple food for the regular Malaysians morning breakfast. This dish has grown up with us since we were young. It's hard to resist those aromatic coconuts infused rice coupled with basic sambal sauce and even harder it is for us to describe everything in a sentence of two because it brought with it a flurry of emotions. Over time, this dish has also evolved, the rice is still the same but the sambal sauce has incorporated with many other ingredients to cater to the needs of different palates.

On one of our regular Saturday morning, we headed to Brilliant Nasi Lemak for a late brunch and were told that they offer a variety of side dish to go with the coconut rice. Brilliant!

Try to spot this logo when looking for this place. It is right opposite RHB bank.

My order is the one at the top, it's stuffed squid sambal. The one on the bottom is nasi lemak with 3 types of sambal (regular, shrimp and one more don't remember). The dish on the most right is pork curry and that is their most recommended dish.

The meal was splendid for a late lunch. We were hungry and the menu seems to offer almost all my favourite dishes, from nasi lemak to wanton noodle to kaya toasts. Then I ended up eating more than I should (I have a constant battle between loving to eat and not wanting to be fat). Even though the crowd started to pour in (which I don't understand why because it's already quite late for lunch too) but we didn't have to wait long for our subsequent orders, we were rather occupied with our own food.

Halfway through eating, the table next to us ordered this. We couldn't resist not ordering and hate to be a lose out for something that looks so delicious. Boy, I'm glad we did. This fried drumstick is marinated overnight using lemongrass, galangal, turmeric and curry leaves. The result is a drumstick that is rich and flavourful from the spices.

Fried chicken wing, this is more for the health conscious. They use the air frying method, i.e. no oil is used in the process of frying the chicken wing. It's equally tasty and savoury.

Lastly not to be missed is this signature dessert that I can't recall the name, yet again. It helps to soothe the throat after all spiciness and fried stuff we had earlier. The portion is quite generous or perhaps I already had too much prior to this.

Brilliant Nasi Lemak Uptown
56 Jalan SS21/58 Damansara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Mon-Fri: 10.00am-9.00pm Sat-Sun: 9.00am-9.00pm

P/s: If you're there on a weekend, look for Joe, the owner. He is still single.

Food - Thursday, June 11, 2015

Discovering Nasi Lemak: Brilliant Nasi Lemak Uptown

Nasi lemak has become the staple food for the regular Malaysians morning breakfast. This dish has grown up with us since we were young. It...

Food - Thursday, April 02, 2015

A secret brunch hideout

Away from the hustle and bustle of the city's beat. This little tuck shop is located within a high end housing area. When I first cam...

Food - Saturday, October 02, 2010

Ming Court 明閣

My recent trip to HK is mainly a food trip. With my mum and my aunty, 2 main chef in the family tagging along, it will be injustice to our f...

Just in case you’re wondering what we’re doing at the end of the queue there, we’re queuing for possibly the cheapest Michelin restaurant in the world. After trolling heaps of comments and ripples of blog posts on the Internet, we took our chance and waited for 45 minutes. It's best to go in group then you can have someone to take turn to queue rather than wasting time together, unfortunately once your number is being called up you need to have everyone present before they allow you to go in else it will be given to the group after you.

Tim Ho Wan, which means “Add Good Luck” in Cantonese, was started by Mak Pui Gor who hailed from Four Seasons Hotel, left in a bid to carve his own niche. Even though awarded with star, the price of food remains to be affordable and became a ticket for layfolk to sample cuisine that is mostly reserved for the upper echelons of society.

One of the many newspaper / magazine snippets on this famous restaurant pasted all over the window of the restaurant, acting as wallpaper. Take note of the things to order here, so that you will know what to order the next time when you get there.

All the dim sum dishes here are quite good but my favourite of all these will be the 酥皮焗叉燒包 (Baked BBQ pork buns) and 香滑馬拉糕 (Malay sponge cake).

This is what you should expect when you eat here. If you want good food, then you need to start training your patience. I will still come back here for the good food, hopefully this food here will still be as good and price remain the same. They have recently open up a new branch as Sam Sui Poh, the waiting is a lot shorter but I read a lot of negative comments for that branch. Good luck!

Address: Shop 8, Taui Yuen Mansion Phase 2, 2-20 Kwong Wa Street, Mong Kok, Hong Kong. 旺角廣華街2-20號翠園大樓2期地下8號舖.
Phone: (+852) 2332 2896

p/s: Perhaps I should also mention this, the cost of our breakfast that morning is around MYR120 for 7 person. Cheap eh, for a restaurant with such big fame.

Food - Friday, October 01, 2010

Tim Ho Wan 添好運

Just in case you’re wondering what we’re doing at the end of the queue there, we’re queuing for possibly the cheapest Michelin restaurant in...

Food - Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Boomarang @ Boat Quay, Singapore

In the spirit of keeping up with the tradition of trying new food, I organized a dinner yesterday with a group of close friends at Boomarang...

Events - Thursday, March 25, 2010

Penang Food Fair @ York Hotel

Always my favourite Today, I had a quick buffet lunch with my colleagues to catch the Penang buffet @ York Hotel before it ends this weekend...

Food - Friday, January 15, 2010

PS. Cafe: An experience to remember

After our exploration last week at a ramen shop on Robertson Quay, this week, HL YM-ed me and popped a link showcasing some of Singapore’s ...

Food - Monday, June 01, 2009

Tampopo @ Liang Court

Not too long ago, a friend mentioned to me a good Japanese restaurant in Liang Court. So Ron and I decided to try out this place called Tamp...

My earlier post, I mentioned something about a dessert that comes in a yellow box. In it, it's 6 individually wrapped soft biscuit / cake, whatever way you prefer to call it. One thing about the Japanese, they are very particular about packaging. This box packaging is probably the standard packaging that one can find. When it comes to packaging, the Japanese can be very elaborate but that normally will also translates to a higher price tag.

Anyway, I had initially wanted to save this box of dessert for my mum but I was curious what's inside the box. The packaging does not give me any clue about the content other than knowing it's some nice dessert, from what my friend said. So I googled it and I think that was a mistake because after that I opened up and ate 2 of it and that's all happening at 10:30pm, way past my no food after 7pm rule!

Hakata Torimon!

The words on the packaging is written:

The spirit of OKASHI. It is what gives a peaceful and pleasant mind to the human race. All the time, man seeks romance in the OKASHI. We have been working hard and carefully, and work on. To weave the romance and fancy into each OKASHI. This, at last, we have made up "The HAKATA SEIYO-WAGASHI." If you taste the feeling and the spirit of the OKASHI which value tradition and living in the times, there is no pleasure better than it.

Honestly, I have no idea what they are trying to say. To me, the Japs are better known for their "amusingly" incorrect English. Perhaps some kind soul out there can enlighten me on this. Note the sentence, "there is no pleasure better than it", that sounds a little deluded.

The content inside the box

This is a box of very delicious dessert. The filling consist of some yummy white bean jam and has a velvety texture. The skin and the filling are both soft and luscious. Thinking about it now, I think I still have the taste lingering around my taste bud. So back to why I think this thing fascinating to me? What makes me break the 7pm rule?

Hokkairo

The individually wrapped biscuit has an air activated self heating function in it. You will find a small little white packet sticking on the inner side of the plastic packaging. It is called hokkairo, it's a small pouch containing iron, water, cellulose, vermiculite, activated carbon and salt. When the plastic wrap is open, the pouch will be exposed to oxygen in the air. The oxygen and the iron will form Iron Oxide (rust, eeks!) but as the rusting process takes quite a while to take place, so salt is added to act as catalyst to fasten the process. More information about this can be found here - Link

I took the liberty to open up the pouch to check the content. The heat generated is not v hot, it is just warm but not warm enough to make the whole dessert warm. Perhaps it's just a feeling thing, holding a packet of warm dessert on hand. So, the conclusion is even though the dessert is good but the one that fascinated me more is this self heating pouch than dessert. In the end, without realising it, I am only left with one now in the box.

The creamy and velvety dessert

From my googled result, I also learnt that this dessert has won numerous of awards. Although I am not sure what are the awards about but I guess it must be something good. There is also an online website where you can purchase this, sadly everything is in Japanese words and my limited Japanese words recognition can’t get me very far to buy it online. So, if anyone that is going to Kyushu again, this is definitely one thing that I will advice you guys to buy.

Note: Thanks (again) KK!

Food - Friday, May 15, 2009

Gift from Kyushu (Part 2)

My earlier post, I mentioned something about a dessert that comes in a yellow box. In it, it's 6 individually wrapped soft biscuit / cak...

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Jasmine Chia

The kaya bread effect

Discovering Nasi Lemak: Brilliant Nasi Lemak Uptown

A secret brunch hideout

Ming Court 明閣

Tim Ho Wan 添好運

Boomarang @ Boat Quay, Singapore

Penang Food Fair @ York Hotel

PS. Cafe: An experience to remember

Tampopo @ Liang Court

Gift from Kyushu (Part 2)

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