So we finally decided to try out the Poh Piah (wet spring roll) stall at the monday night pasar malam at SS2. As the stall was usually way too crowded and our stomach way too hungry, we usually passed up the idea of waiting in starvation.

This time around, after buying our usual dinner packages to be enjoyed at Misai mamak stall, one of us decided to order 4 pieces of poh piah. The friendly hawker said “come back in half an hour”. So we enjoyed our Char Kuih Kak, Nyonya Kuih, Fried Chicken, and so forth at Misai, and finally went back to the poh piah stall.

Sure enough, the uncle still remembered that my friend had ordered half an hour ago. He was way busy in preparing for another batch of poh piah to be served to his crowded customers surrounding the stall.

And I do mean crowded!

While waiting, we started to chat up with the hawker. All of a sudden, the uncle said “I’m retiring.. been selling for 30 years and it took me 5 years just to get the skin right. It’s tiring and this will be my last day “

Everyone around the stall displayed a look of dissapointment on their face.. We tried to convince the uncle to teach one of us to take over the business, but he said it’ll take months to learn, full time, and basically probably telling us to just keep our day job and stop harrassing him preparing the lasts of the poh piah.

Feeling somewhat lucky and yet dissapointed at the same time, we collected the poh piah and head home.

Overly satisfied customer

And it was really good! Easily the best poh piah I’ve had in KL. Too bad this first one is also the last one.

I secretly hope that the whole retirement thing is just a trick for getting more customers. We’ll see if he comes back next week. hehe

Address:
Jalan SS2/61,
Petaling Jaya, Selangor
GPS: 3.117419, 101.621593

Tags:  hawker,  pasar malam,  popiah,  spring roll,  SS2 SS3 SS4

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Following the recepi of Kung Pao chicken, fried fish, and indomie, here is another excellent entry presented to you by none other than your friendly chef, KY. Here’s the mouth watering entry of beef with mushroom, complete with ingredients and steps.

Step by step, so easy

The ingredients:

• Beef, sliced
• Mushroom, duh.
• Garlic, Ginger, and Spring Onion
• Cornflour
• Salt, Soya Sauce, and Maggie Seasoning

The steps:

• Marinate the sliced beef with maggie seasoning and soya sauce
• Heat up the oil and fry up ginger and onion till you can smell it
• Throw in the beef, fry for a while
• Throw in the mushroom, fry.. what else.
• Add in premixed cornflour and water as the “juice”
• Serve on a plate with spring onion sprinkled on top
• PROFIT

This is so yummy we finished everything

note: The way you want the beef to be cooked (rare, medium, well done) depends long you fry the beef on 3rd step.

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A friend of mine went to Redang last year, and brought me a cup of sand from the beach, that was kept in a starbucks cup. I put it on top of my PC, and it remained there without much fanfare, and I thought: why not get some entertainment value outta it?

So I had a discussion with my clients at my workstation a while back. Both of them are women of 30+, conservative Malay ladies equipped with tudung and traditional baju kurung. Lets call them Puan A, and makcik N.

Puan A got here first, and in the middle of discussion with her, she asked “what’s that on top of your PC? Some sort of kacang or asam?”

“Well why don’t you try some?” I replied. Since I always ate her food at her office, I thought I’d return the favor.

She took the cup, slowly open up the lid, dug her fingers into the sand.. took some .. and before I had the chance to stop her, she put it into her mouth.

“YUCK YUCK YUCK *puke/spit* ” and I gave her some tissues while laughing my ass off. She was the first victim of the day. “Jahat la you” was what she said. hehehe

Makcik N arrived thereafter, and inevitably she started asking.. “Oh, what’s that in the cup?”

“I don’t know, but you can try some” or something was what I replied. Knowing me, she was abit suspecious, but she still thought it’s some sort of food.

“KY ni jahat, must be something funny..” she said. “You can ask Puan A what it is, she’s tried it just now” I said.

She was trying to ask Puan A while extending her hand to the cup… but all Puan A could do was laughing non stop while Makcik N repeated what Makcik N did 10 minutes ago. Putting the sand in her mouth.

This time both of us were rolling on the floor laughing while the makcik wiping her mouth off and spitting into the tissue and telling me “Ku akan ingat kan youuuuuuuu!” (I will remember you!)

hehehe.

A couple of weeks later, an excerpt of the email sent from Makcik N to the team including myself and Puan A.

“Puan A,
Whatever it is.. kite dua2 makan pasir ! (both of us ate sand!)”

hehehehee. I love my job.

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In previous posts I have introduced you noobs about Pho, an expensive Hue meal, and vietnamese coconut ice cream and coffee. This time around I visited another excellent old school type of food establishment to have some classic Vietnamese BBQ and Steamboat kinda thing.

Don’t exactly know the name of the place or where exactly it is located as my friend zoomed through the narrow streets in the scooter bringing me there. It’s somewhere nearby District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City, and I think the place, or the food, is called Lau Ca Bong Keo, or something like that.. anyway.

The setting of this restaurant is almost like a kopitiam, but with very low chairs and tables (perhaps a foot high). Kinda cute in a way, but also very pragmatic, you don’t have to stand up to put the food on the burner or in the steamboat like how we usually do it here in Malaysia.

BBQ old school style, with charcoal like it’s supposed to be! I had marinated shrimp and a type of river catfish. My host told me the fish is seasonal, so I must have been lucky. It is served with some soya sauce and red chili. The fish tastes sweet and the shrimp.. was AWESOME. Tastes slightly salty but very, very sweet and succulent.

After the BBQ, the next dish was something like steamboat. This is served with burning charcoal and a healthy dosage of fresh vegetable such as lettuce, bean sprout and basil leaves. The main ingredient was the fish again, it was very good. While the marinated BBQ type was sweet and succulent, the steamboat with soup, brings out a different taste and texture from the same fish.

A bottle of Heineken went really well with that meal. Like Pho, this is a must try if you go to Vietnam.

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By now most of you have probably seen my housemates Sotong and Horng (sometimes spelled as Horny). There is however, another hidden and sometimes invisible female santa chick living with us. Her name is Heuy Fang and have you seen someone looks more like santa than her while brushing teeth?

I hope she’s not reading this, she might decide to stop drawing the awesome mural on the garden wall otherwise. hehehe.

Have a nice day.

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