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JD Cooks ~ Hokkien Mee

One of my favourite food is Hokkien Mee, largely contributed due to me being 1/4 of an Hokkien although speak not a single word of that. As there are only a few of us at home for dinner today, my Mom decided to cook this and Char Kway Teow for dinner. The main ingredients is of course the ultra thick noodles. Other ingredients includes marinated pork and cabbages. Last but not least, is of course the lards. Eating Hokkien Mee without lard is like eating Prawn Mee without prawns. First step is to gently fry chopped garlics until it is golden brown. Next is to add in the other raw ingredients like pork and prawns. Next comes the noodle. Sprinkle some salt and pepper to flavour it a little before adding some chicken broth. Dark soy sauce is added to provide the dark colour look and oyster sauce/soya sauce is added to further enhancing the flavour. Let it simmer for at least 5-10 minutes before adding in a secret ingredient. Flounder fish seasoning, makes the Hokkien Mee taste even more like those famous Hokkien Mee places. And with that, it’s nearly done. The last step is to add in the…
May 15, 2011
Chinese
Restoran Makanan Laut Zhen Liew Siang @ Sentul Raya

When May and I started seeing each other when we came back from Newcastle, I would normally spent alternate Saturdays having dinner with her family, and there’s where they brought me to this place in Sentul. It’s been a long time since we were here and it’s about time to pay them a visit, since dinner time with Kayden is much more enjoyable now. We reached there slightly after 6PM and as we had anticipated, most of the tables are already seated with people and there’s just an odd table that is still free. We ordered some of the must have dishes and dinner is serve in less than 15 minutes. It’s so fast that they haven’t even bring us our pot of tea! Roasted Pork Knuckle. They don’t only serve this at German restaurant anymore, a lot of Chinese restaurant have this as well and this is one of the signature dish of the restaurant. The pork is served with sauce that look like curry, but don’t taste like curry. The sourish taste of the sauce provide an different variation for the pork knuckle. Fried Chicken Wings marinated with Fermented Beancurd, another one of the signature dish of the…
May 10, 2011
Chinese, Our Baby
Heng Kee Dim Sum @ Taman Dahlia, Cheras

Dim Sum is something that I would normally avoid as a proper meal, mainly because of my gout condition. Most of the ingredients that is used are normally prawn so that limit my choices to eating only the Loh Mai Kai or the Chee Cheong Fun, that is until I found Heng Kee. There’s quite a variety of dim sum available, and best of all, most of their selection don’t contain prawn. My prayers were answer! Heng Kee Dim Sum is located at Taman Dahlia (I only know that this place is called Taman Dahlia recently), very close to my house. I had been there a good few times, and find that the dim sum is much better than Seong Kee @ Taman Connaught. Here’s Kayden having a piece of action at the restaurant. The restaurant is not big and I anticipate that weekends will be crowded. The Hong Kong style Chee Cheong Fun is one of the nicest dim sum here. The smooth and silky texture makes it one of the must have! Ham Dan Siew Mai, made from chicken and does not contain any prawn. What I like is that it’s the same as eating those normal Siew…
March 12, 2011
Chinese, Our Baby, Pa-sonaru
Chinese New Year

This year’s Chinese New Year celebration is somewhat different. Different because Kayden is a year old and different because it’s held at a new place as well. So there’s a lot of getting use to because our house is literally deserted for the duration of the new year. What happens during the 1st day of CNY is normally a sit in lunch together, but due to the size of my family, we will normally do it buffet style. And later in the evening, we will adjourn to a relative place to have another makan-makan session. This year, it’s different as it’s done here at this new place. A family shot from the view above. Well if you think my family is big, think again because all of us can take up 10 tables easily. So it’s no wonder that foods need to be aplenty during the session. Some of the food includes Vegetarian Ribs, Lap Mei, Mutton Curry & Chicken Puffs. It’s sort of like a pot luck session where each family will bring some food of their own. Other foods include Fried Mihun, Chicken Curry and Home Made Nasi Lemak. Well food is not all it matters, because the…
February 10, 2011
Chinese
CNY Reunion Dinner @ Elegant Inn, Menara Hap Seng

It’s almost an yearly tradition now that me and my bunch of friends gather around for once a year CNY Dinner. After ding-donging for quite a while, we decided to have it earlier this year to accommodate everyone. After reading some reviews from femes food blogger KY, decided to try out this place, Elegant Inn @ Menara Hap Seng. The restaurant is currently having the Standard Chartered RM888 promotion where the chef have come up with a special menu exclusively for SC cardmembers. Since it’s only for 8 diners, we have to opt for other menus which ranges from RM798 all the way to RM2388 per table. I initially booked a table for 15, but ended up there’s only 11 of us that could make it. The waitress initially mentioned that rooms are only given for diners who spent more than RM1K+, but she make a U-turn later and decided to give us the room as well. Me, May and Yam are the 1st to arrive about 730PM, but we have to wait until about 815PM before everyone is properly seated. We chose the Happy Menu (RM998/table) and the 1st dish that was served is Braised Shark’s Fin Soup with…
January 25, 2011
Chinese
Celebrating Dad’s Birthday @ Restoran Keng Seng, Damai Perdana

Finally I got to spend Saturday chilling at home blogging. There are times that I forgotten what day it is so I guess sometimes working the whole week does have an effect. Yesterday was me dad’s birthday and we celebrated it at a Chinese restaurant close by our house. The place is located next to the now defunct Restaurant WSW, which I wrote about not too long ago. Kayden already busy eating the sauce plate. We ordered a simple set meal at RM388. The first dish to arrive is the Hot & Cold Combination consist of Yam Basket, Thai Style You Tiao, Fish Roll and Fish Cake. The Yam Basket is nice, so is the Thai Style You Tiao. The Fish Cake and Fish Roll is ok too. Next on the list is Shark’s Fin Soup, which is pretty good with loads of crab meat. Steamed Patin is very fresh and the texture is just nice. My only comment is the sauce is a bit salty for even someone like me, but I guess will be very good to go with rice. Roasted Suckling Pig, with only really the skin that’s being served. It’s well worth the RM388 that we…
December 12, 2010
Chinese
Hau Kee Restaurant @ Taman Cheras (Yulek)

Hau Kee is one of those restaurant that I will dine at once in a while with my bunch of friends, but somehow not in my radar to blog about it. So when we were there having a late dinner/early supper the other day, I decided that maybe it’s time to write about it because it’s one of the famous restaurant around the Cheras vicinity. Despite being a Tuesday night, the place was almost full house with customers arriving well past the normal eating hours to get their late dinners. Stir Fried ‘Fan Shu Miu’ My friend, Lai, always said that Hau Kee had one of the best Hokkine Mee around KL, but I beg to differ because I feel that the mee is always lack of ‘Wok Hei’ and the taste is generally so-so. Plus the amount of sambal belacan that they provided is so minuscule-ly little. The Sing Chow Mai (Singapore Fried Bihun) is pretty average and a bit on the dry side. I think that must be one of the reason that Lin and Yam didn’t finished the plate. The Wat Tan Hor is quite good, with the gravy that comes with it very flavourful and…
August 21, 2010
Oriental Cravings @ One Utama

Oriental Cravings is one of those small restaurant located in some nook or corner in 1U and you can easily missed it if you are not familiar enough with this shopping mall. But heck, even for someone like me who’s quite use to shopping around also didn’t know that this place exist until May was talking about it a week back. Our first choice is to have dinner at Chillis, but being Saturday, we were told that we need to wait 20 minutes for a table, since it’s almost Kayden’s feeding time, we don’t want to take any chances and head here for dinner instead and the food turn out to be quite good. A plate of Mui Choy Khau Yuk (Stewed Pork Belly with Mui Choy) @ RM22.90. To be frank, despite my love for pork, this dish is not my favourite. My grandma would sometimes cooked this at home too but I find the Mui Choy taste a little to strong to my liking. Then again, it’s just me. I managed to take a bite and it taste quite alright and I’m sure those who like this particular dish will agree that the one served here is quite…
May 26, 2010
Dragon-I @ The Curve

Apologize for the lack of food postings recently. So sooner or later, I will need to disassociate myself as a food blogger (that is if I’m even qualify as one). I guess the main challenges nowadays is having the time to devour our food properly in order for me to be able to give a review of what I eat. Guess that won’t happen until at least Kayden is a little big older. Kayden’s been having some rashes and some slight cough, so he’s getting a bit agitated for the past 2 days. So for dinner with May’s parent yesterday, we wanted to go to some air-cond place instead of the normal ‘Dai Chow’ place. So come Dragon-I, a place that I have said for quite a while that I wanted to eat (although I ate like a few times before), just out of sheer craving. So we head over the The Curve for dinner. But it’s a bit unfortunate that when we were seated, we realised that the air-cond is not working in the restaurant, so we ended up in a slightly more posh place with no air-cond. Their famous Shanghainese Dumpling is definitely a must try at RM9.…
April 25, 2010
Farewell Dinner @ DucKing, Jaya One

May’s family is definitely a fan of Chinese food, and since it’s May’s sister last night here in KL, and most of the other Chinese restaurant is fully book, we decided to head to DucKing for dinner. Have only been to DucKing once, part of the reason is because of my gout, so eating duck is out of the question. But I’m surprised that there are a whole variety of other dishes there too. Like, Live River Lazy Fish, whatever that means. Or France Turbot Fish. We wanted to order the cheap Talapia at RM4.20/gram, but it’s not available. Both of us while waiting for the gang to arrive. First to come is the Salmon Yee Sang, at RM38. It’s the one of the best Yee Sang that I ate this year (even though I don’t eat much of it because of the peanuts!). The plum sauce is tasty which brings out the best of the other ingredients. One of DucKing’s specialty is their Pork Lard rice. Unfortunately, by the time we want to order, it’s sold out. So we have to settle for white rice instead. To fulfil our daily Green quota, we ordered the Hong Kong Kai Lan,…
February 26, 2010