KY eats – Penang Curry Mee at Hoi Kee, Segambut

I’m a big fan of curry mee, the good old Penang curry mee. The type that comes in santan based soup with fragrant chili paste and typically ensures a few smooth trips to the loo if you have it say.. three day in a row.

In Klang Valley, you usually call it curry laksa.

Penang style curry mee at Hoi Kee kopitiam

This particular stall of curry mee was discovered accidentally when we went Hoi Kee kopitiam at Segambut for nasi lemak with pork. It was already finished for that day, I chose to try the curry mee as a substitute, and it turned out to be a brilliant accident instead.

nothing beats that fragrant sambal and raw cockles

While this version at Segambut does not come with pork’s blood (otherwise it’d be totally perfect), the chili, soup, and other ingredients did come together harmoniously to make a great bowl of curry mee. I also especially love those big juicy RAW cockles. Something that I believe people like Kim would love to have her hands on.

KY and Haze, with cendawan joining us too

So if you are a curry mee lover like me, this is definitely a place to check out. For those staying at PJ, go to Restaurant Okay, but be there before 9 a.m. But for everyone else (especially those who isn’t so keen on coagulated blood anyway, or can’t wake up before 9), this is the best place to go!

Oh, they are pet friendly too.

Address:
Kedai Kopi & Makanan Hoi Kee
No. 2, Jalan Segambut Tengah,
Segambut, 51200 Kuala Lumpur
GPS: 3.18564, 101.67633

I wanna go to Philippines!

A couple days ago I went to the Philippines, for a total of one day, with over half the time spent on the road (it was the Friday before Christmas, bad traffic). I messed up big time, I did not even get a chance to eat the famous balut!

If you have no idea what balut is, just take a look at the picture below.

Lovely isn’t it? Yes, I want to noms that down yumyumyum!!

There’s plenty to do at Philippines other than just chewing down balut, of course. The dried mangoes are super awesome, them pork dishes (at Cagayan, the Philippino restaurant at Centrepoint) are delicious, and there’re of course, pork rind and fried garlic I can buy back to Malaysia too!

Heck, there are even diving spots not far from Manila.

You guys will get to suggest and vote for what I do next when I’m there. What a concept right? (and there’s even a surprise for you if I manage to complete the task!)

Other than that, I also have to escape from a dangerous animal, so vote for me and I be your remote control blogger eating everything and anything you ask me to when I am at the Philippines! I need to win the Bloggers without Borders contest from Hotlink Prepaid Data Roaming.

Go here to vote for me and my video ya thanks.

Gotta escape, gotta eat!

I want my Coconut Juice!

The weather’s been out of whack lately, it was raining constantly for a while, and then now it’s super max hot. Look at cendawan the delinquent Bengal cat here, even the wild animal’s feeling the heat and had to stick out his tongue to get some relief.

Cendawan is over heating

Yes, we do occasionally take the cat out for a bit of a tour, to let him pretend he’s a dog of sort. Perhaps that’s what made the kitty learn how to play fetch in the first place.

Anyway, we found ourselves a salvation on a hot Sunday afternoon while driving around Puchong buying lights a couple weeks ago. (by the way Top Ten trading is the best place to buy any lights, it’s way cheaper than anywhere else we tried).

The salvation was a road side coconut juice stall.

coconut juice by Jalan Puchong, near Tesco

Places like this used to litter every other street corner in Klang Valley, but lately most of them have since been replaced by the likes of 7-11, 88 speedmart and such.

RM 2+ (RM 2.50 if I remember correctly) for a freshly opened young coconut, and they even have crushed ice to go with it too. You also get that sweet coconut meat in that 100% pure juice drink.

Ahhhh, how I wish we could get this everywhere!

Address:
Jalan Bandar 8,
by LDP, Puchong
GPS:  3.03170, 101.61442

KY cooks – Kimchi Jiggae (Kimchi Soup recipe)

Whenever we cook dinner at home, I usually take a photo and post up the main dish of the night on twitter, and since we started cooking at a regular basis about a month or so ago, the Kimchi Jjigae (kimchi soup) dish is by far the most sought after recipe from my tweeter and facebook friends.

“By far” also means like, 3 of you, but here is how it’s made

glorious bowl of Kimchi Jiggae

You can get this at pretty much any Korean restaurants and they are usually served with a bowl of steamed rice. They’re usually priced close to RM 20, with the cheapest I’ve had coming in at around RM 10.

This recipe calls for ingredients worth about RM 20 or so but serves 3-4 person.

ingredients for kimchi jiggae, minus the pork here

Ingredients:

• 1 packet of Kimchi (you can get it at cold storage/isetan or Korean specialty stores at Ampang, the more fermented the better)
• 200-300 grams pork of pork belly slices, cut into squares
• 3 table spoon of miso paste
• 2 red onion, slices
• 1 packet of soft tofu, cut into your desired shapes
• 6 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
• 6 cilipadi (or Jalapeño peppers if you can find them)
• 3-4 slices of ginger
• 3-4 stalks of scallion, cut into 3 inches in length
• 2 table spoon cooking oil
• 1 table spoon of butter (optional)

first you fry, then you stew, it’s that simple!

Here’s the steps:

• heat up frying pan with cooking oil in medium heat, then fry onion, garlic, ginger, chili, and pork belly for 2-3 minutes
• add kimchi, continue frying for another 2-3 minutes
• add half a liter of water, add miso paste, stew for 20 minutes
• add tofu and scallions 2-3 minutes before serving

Haze and Cendawan enjoying dinner, I think it’s spicy? hehe

For those who doesn’t prefer pork (the horror!), you can make this dish with chicken or beef too. For those who loves more vegetables, you can also add radish when you start stewing.

Happy cooking!

KY cooks – Salmon Steak with mushroom, carrot, & french bean

Ever since we got the kitchen renovated, it’s been more and more cooking adventures, and as such, this blog will start to share some recipes I gather/invent/randomly made up.

The Salmon Steak is a very simple and healthy *gasp* dish that I learnt during my stay in the States many eons ago.

ingredients for salmon steak dinner

First, the ingredients, assuming for two person:

• 2 pieces of salmon steak (Norwegian if you’re rich, Alaskan also if you’re rich, I got mine from Cold Storage for about RM 10 each)
• salt and pepper
• a clove of garlic, a carrot, fresh shiitake mushroom, french beans

steamed vegetable, sauteed mushroom, and pan fried salmon steak

Steps:

• marinate both sides of salmon steak with generous amount of salt and pepper, leave for 20-30 minutes
• cut carrot & french beans, then steam them till soft (you might want to steam the carrot first, and longer)
• on the frying pan, first fried some sliced garlic till golden brown, then remove them
• with the same oil, now sauté the mushroom (cut in half), then remove them
• the frying pan can now be used to fried the salmon steak, in medium heat, for 5 minutes a side
• by this time, your vegetable should be ready too, serve everything at once, sprinkle some salt on the steamed vegetable

salmon steak with carrots, mushroom, and french beans

So there you go, salmon steak with mushroom, carrot, and french beans. If you want to be healthier, consider baking the salmon instead, but I’d probably advice to add a small slice of butter on top if you do that.

Everything here costs about RM 30 for two, not exactly very cheap, but boy it is good!

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