Food Eaten by the English and French

An Englishman is having breakfast, in Paris, one morning (coffee, croissants, bread, butter and jam) when a Frenchman, chewing bubble-gum, sits down next to him. The Englishman ignores the Frenchman who, nevertheless, starts a conversation.

Frenchman: 'You English folk eat the whole bread??'
Englishman (in a bad mood): 'Of course.'
Frenchman: (after blowing a huge bubble) 'We don't. In France, we only eat what's inside. The crusts we collect in a container, recycle it, transform them into croissants and sell them to England.'

The Frenchman has a smirk on his face. The Englishman listens in silence.

The Frenchman persists: 'Do you eat jam with the bread??'
Englishman: 'Of Course.'
Frenchman: (cracking his bubble-gum between his teeth and chuckling) 'We don't. In France we eat fresh fruit for breakfast, then we put all the peels, seeds, and leftovers in containers, recycle them, transform them into jam, and sell the jam to England.'

After a moment of silence, the Englishman then asks: 'Do you have sex in France?'
Frenchman: 'Why of course we do', he says with a big smirk.
Englishman: 'And what do you do with the condoms once you've used them?'
Frenchman: 'We throw them away, of course.'
Englishman: 'We don't. In England, we put them in a container, recycle them, melt them down into bubble-gum, and sell them to France.'
Tags: English Man, French Man, Paris, Bread, Croissant, Fresh Fruit, Jam, Condom, Bubble Gum

Lunch at Belanga

My love for food brought me to Belanga restaurant. Can't recall the meaning of this word, the waiter told me that it's a cooking utensil used in the kitchen. Actually wanted to go into the kitchen to take a picture of the Belanga ...... but after think think think think ..... sat there waiting for my food to come.

The restaurant is located at the walkway of the lower ground floor that connects The Gardens and Mid Valley.





This is their superb Nasi Lemak Ayam (chicken with coconut based white rice). The taste of the spices that was marinated into it were done very well. Ridiculously good. The size of the chicken surprised me. The price didn't.






This is the Nasi Belanga Ayam (nasi = rice). The gravy was filled with spicy chillis and if you are unable to withstand hot spice, don't pour the all the gravy onto the rice.

Exceptional in my case.











Appetite was there and couldn't resist this dish - Nasi Kunyit Rendang Daging. The calories taken shot up but I'll worry about that later.

The rendang curry was thick. Eating the nasi kunyit with the tender rendang daging, bit by bit, was just sheer estacy.









Their internal decor was nicely arranged. The preparation counter was filled with various condiments and food was prepared the moment you place the order (except for pre-packed food).

This restaurant do not charge you the 5% service tax. This restaurant owner has integrity.
Tags: Belanga, The Gardens, Mid Valley, Nasi Lemak Ayam, Nasi Belanga, Nasi Kunyit, Rendang Daging, Food

Michael Phelps' Regime Diet

I was very sure that Michael Phelps would break the record for the most number of golds won in one Olympic Games when he won his first event with such a commanding distance. In the end, he did it in style, 8 golds with all in record time (7 world records and 1 Olympic record) at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. To be at this stage at a young age of 23 is really something to shout about.

I still remembered those days of mine when I was 20 years old where I took part in my church sports day. At that age, I was at full fitness / strength. I won 6 medals out of 6 events in 5 hours plus. Started off with 1,500m - Silver (defended my 1999 silver title and lost to a different fella ........ sigh), followed by 100m - Bronze (1999 didn't take part) and then the 400m - Gold (1999 defending champ).

The day went on with my High Jump - Silver (defended my silver medal ...... nothing to shout about as I should be winning the gold seeing that the previous year's winner was not around but unfortunately another guy won it who was not there in 1999. The same scenario happened in the 1,500m).

Almost by noon time, we had the 4x100m relay - Gold (1999 defending champ) where I started off as the first runner (by this time my strength was dwindling). My last event was Long Jump - Bronze (unable to defend my 1999 title). I remembered I really did struggle in this long jump event where I shortened my run up. The first jump was totally awful where my thigh was so weak it didn't give the push needed to take off ............. hahaha. The 3rd and final jump was good enough for the bronze medal. The guy who won the gold was placed third in 1999. And I don't think I broke any of the records set in 1999 ....... hehehe

My training for this sports day started off 3 months earlier and it was jogging initially and ended with intensive training towards the big day, a minimum of 1 hour a day. Food wise - nothing in particular as I just whacked anything that my eyes saw. In this sense, it was a lot of food. Only on the morning of the sports day, I took milk and raw eggs and energy bars for the needed carbo.

In the case of Michael Phelps, his training schedule entails work outs for up to 5 hours a day and he swims 80km a week. My my my ........ pale in comparison for my case. To keep up with the energy required for such strict training, he requires 12,000 calories of food per day.

His breakfast - 3 fried egg sandwiches with bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise (don't worry about the side effect of getting fat now); 3 chocolate-chip pancakes (size of a discus); western omelette with fries; 3 slices of french toast with sugar; a bowl of grits and 2 cups of coffee. It requires 45 minutes to finish.

Lunch - 2 ham and chess sandwiches with mayo; a pound (0.45kg) of pasta and energy drinks.

Dinner - a pound of pasta with carbonara sauce, a large pizza and energy drinks.

hmmmmmmm I think I have no problem walloping all the food as listed (if you knew me well enough) but then I will bloat up at the same time without any sporting activities. Even if there are activities, it won't be enough to burn up all those 12,000 calories. Besides the training, I need a sponsor to pay for that amount of food.
Tags: Michael Phelps, Swimming, Olympic Games, Calories, Sports Day, Regime Diet

Can You Take the Hottest Curry?

Personally, I could take those tiny weeny chilli padi. Depends on what kind of food I'm having, the type off chilli varies too.

I still remembered one incident while I was in Sudan. A Malay colleague who is a good prepared and cook our dinner (for a number of guys in the house) and he put in the hottest kind of spices and chillies he could find on that night.

Reason why he did that was to make me and another chinese colleague, Kenneth, suffer. Both of us could literally eat up all kinds of chillies and he was so sure that we will cry that night. When his friend mee came out and I took a spoonful, I could feel my stomach burning instantly the moment the fried mee made its way down my body system. Same goes for Kenneth. To his surprise we went for our second helping. Not that it was not spicy or hot but hunger took over .... hehehe.

Even the cook himself ate one plate only. And now, let's see what the rest of the housemates have to say:-
"What are you trying to do?"
"Are you mad?"
"Can you eat what you have cooked?"

Those were strong remarks, with anger but not hatred. Finally, our cook revealed that he wanted to make the two chinese guys to suffer but in the end, the rest of the housemates didn't even eat much. That night itself, a few of them cooked instant noodles for supper...... LOL!

I could say that my chilli intake level is really high and I want to try the world's hottest curry found in Westminster of London. Apparently, this cook by the name of Vivek Singh had cooked something up that could be deemed as the hottest curry.

An executive chef with The Cinnamon Club where he prepared a lamb-based dish that has been named Bollywood Burner. The fiercest, hottest, spiciest and burning dish for all to try.

The how hot is hot level is measured via the Scoville Scale. In that dish, a kind of pepper that contributed to the high burning level in the Bollywood Burner had a Scoville reading of 855,000. I don't know how high is that but a six figure thingy should be at the top of the scale.

But when I found out that those food tasters who were in the restaurants comprise mainly British citizens (not migrants who got citizenship), I felt that the food tasting session was a waste of time.

Come on man ........ Mr. Vivek Singh, bring that dish to Malaysia and we could tell whether the Scoville measurement scale is fit to be used. For your info, our tongues could tell the difference. My Malay or Indian friends had been taking curry since young. Am sure many would volunteer to verify whether it's the world's hottest curry.

Reading: World's hottest curry title claimed by Bollywood Burner - Telegraph
Tags: The Cinnamon Club, Hottest Curry, Vivek Singh, Bollywood Burner, Guinness World Records, Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, Scoville Scale, Hot, Spicy

Buffet Dinner at Latest Recipe

Heard about the latest buffet dinner offer in the city and shoot straight to Latest Recipe restaurant located in Le Meridien hotel at KL Sentral area.














My personal chef was getting my food ready in Teppanyaki style. Excellent cooking. On the far end of the counter was the fresh and raw seafood on offer.

I got a good serving of fresh salmon with some rare octopus meat too. First time ever that I got a taste of octopus.

Shanghai noodle that comes in the special thick sweet & sour soup. Good serving.

Their Indian food counter where I whack their roti naan and whatever rotis they have there. The various curry flavours, be it with meat, prawn, fish, vegetable were fantastic. This Indian food counter took a heavy toll on my food allocation in the stomach.

The restaurant's set-up.
A buffet dinner cannot be without mussels, prawns and oysters.











This how you could be served with the desserts.
The fresh fruits counter.
The desserts' counter. Too many kinds and it was an opportunity cost situation. Eat this and you have to forego the other one.

Got myself a Teppanyaki Coconut ice-cream. Double scoop and that almost killed me ....... overloaded by then.

In the middle of the dinner, we felt that the restaurant was quite warm and one of us were sweating actually. Their air-cond was really lousy.

The other lousy thing was during the time of calling for the bill. It has to take them a good ten minutes before the bill is sent to your table and that too we asked for it twice.

Adults at RM88++ with children at half price.

In this restaurant, they would charge a kid at three years old at the price of RM44++. Hotel buffet dinners usually charge kids from the age of six onwards till twelve years old. Do you expect a kid at three years old to eat anything at all? I don't think they can swallow anything worth more than RM10. This is really overcharging and not considerate at all.

And it has to spoil our evening by not informing us that if you were to park at their basement car park, you could actually obtain a rubber stamp on your car ticket. With that rubber stamp, your car park fee would be much much lower than the RM18 that I paid for in the three hours I was in that hotel. The norm for car park fee in town in usually RM7 to RM9 but this is RM18 man.

When I told the car park attendant that I just had my dinner in Le Meridien, the car park attendant said that the restaurant should have given that rubber stamp on my car park ticket. Now, how would I know that you could obtain that ............ the restaurant's staff were not trained at all to check with customers on this area at all. Lousy.
Tags: Latest Recipe, Le Meridien, KL Sentral, Kuala Lumpur, Hotel Buffet Dinner, Teppanyaki, Shanghai Noodle, Teppanyaki Ice-Cream, Food

Saliva Drooling at The Colonial

Was at The Colonial restaurant located at Taman Danau Desa for dinner. This restaurant was renovated some time back displaying olden days interior. Not bad.

Was there at 9pm so I'm not sure how good was their business during the peak hour.



Cosy with white colour as the main background with big green plants that went nicely with the decors.


My Thai style fried rice. The helping was a bit too little for my stomach.
Family members ordered the rest. This one is the Chicken Chop Rice that comes with french fries and the fattening mayonnaise mixed with vegie. Price - I think it was RM13++

Ipoh Sar Hor Fun - tasteless. Yeah, don't order this. Can't duplicate those found in the real Ipoh city.
The normal steamed Chicken Rice that comes with bean sprout and two fish balls.

The pricing is quite normal with most of the food priced within the range of RM6++ to RM8++.

They serve Western and Oriental dishes.
Tags: The Colonial, Taman Danau Desa, Food, Western Dishes, Oriental Dishes

Starbucks in China

A friend of mine who just came back from China has this picture to show me. He would be joining this company in furthering their branded cafe business venture in China itself. Wish him all the best.In Indonesia, it's known otherwise - Setarbak Kopi.
Tags: China, Starbutts, Indonesia, Setarbak, Food

BBQ Rules

We are about to enter the BBQ season. Therefore it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking activity. When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are put into motion:-

Routine...
(1) The woman buys the food.
(2) The woman makes the salad, prepares the vegetables, and makes dessert.
(3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils and sauces,and takes it to the man who is lounging beside the grill - beer in hand.
(4) The woman remains outside the compulsory three meter exclusion zone where the exuberance of testosterone and other manly bonding activities can take place without the interference of the woman.

Here comes the important part:-
(5) THE MAN PLACES THE MEAT ON THE GRILL.

More routine....
(6) The woman goes inside to organize the plates and cutlery.
(7) The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is looking great. He thanks her and asks if she will bring another beer while HE FLIPS THE MEAT.

Important again:-
(8) THE MAN TAKES THE MEAT OFF THE GRILL AND HANDS THEM TO THE WOMAN

More routine...
(9) The woman prepares the plates, salad, bread, utensils, napkins, sauces, and brings them to the table.
(10) After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes.

And most important of all:-
(11) Everyone PRAISES the MAN and THANK HIM for his cooking efforts.
(12) The man asks the woman how she enjoyed "her night off." Upon seeing her annoyed reaction he concludes that there's just no pleasing some women.
Tags: BBQ Rules, BBQ, Food, Funny, Humour

Most Expensive Burger in Malaysia

I have tasted and enjoyed burgers (hamburgers) from all the fast food joints and the individual stalls selling the infamous Ramly burger found in Malaysia since two decades back. Till today, most burgers' taste could not be differentiated except for the pricing.

A local restaurant located in Bangsar in Kuala Lumpur, The Daily Grind, went one step further in creating a burger for the rich and famous Malaysians or expats.

Heard of foie gras? The goose liver thingy. Yes, it has made its way in between two slices of buns. And it's called the Foie Gras Burger. Price? Selling at RM55.

Seriously, I still prefer the burgers from McDonalds.

Reading: Holy Meatimony, the most expensive burger in Kuala Lumpur City - Malaysian Insider
Tags: The Daily Grind, Most Expensive Burger, Burger, Hamburger, Foie Gras, Foie Gras Burger

Coated Snacks in Johor Baru

Singaporeans and Johoreans had been warned to be extra careful of what you put into your mouth. Crispy snacks like the pisang goreng or fried banana and keledek or fried sweet potato (local snacks which I liked too) were said to have been made more crispy not through the proper cooking method. How have they done it? Rumoured that plastic straws or bottles were thrown into the boiling oil before frying those snacks. The Consumers Association of Penang would be launching an investigation into such claims. How true is it?

Reading: Scare over 'coated' snacks - New Straits Times

Tags: Coated Snacks, Goreng Pisang, Keledek, Crispy Snacks, Consumers Association of Penang, Plastic Straw, Plastic Bottle

Dining at Pavilion

Was at Pavilion shopping centre during the Chinese New Year break. This is the latest shopping centre in Kuala Lumpur that has opened in December 2007, at the shopping hub located at Jalan Bukit Bintang area.

What was I shopping for? Not really but to meet my cousins from Singapore for lunch. The shops located in Pavilion were mostly branded stuffs and not within my means or not necessary to have it in my closet.

We went down to the lower ground floor and found that the food court was operated by Food Republic. According to my Singaporean cousins, it was owned by a Singaporean that owns the Bread Talk confectionary chain as well.

No idea who owned this J.CO Donuts & Coffee but I did hear from friends that people queued up to buy their donuts or doughnuts however you spell it.

And I saw it with my own eyes. Were their donuts really that top notch that people were willing to queue up for it?

I'm going for lunch so no urge to line up there and I dislike waiting for food like this.





Celadon, a Thai restaurant located at the 6th floor, our lunch destination.















There was this room nicely set up but it was of full view to shoppers walking pass the shop (as seen on right hand side in above picture). Definitely won't sit there.













I ordered this Thai Iced Tea where they used mix tea, milk and gula melaka as the sweetener. Don't stir the bottom thoroughly otherwise you would only taste the gula melaka instead of a tea drink.













Plenty of food for six adults and I was again relied upon to finish up the food. Always the case.















In almost every dishes, there were special sauces to accompany those dishes. Marvellous sauces that added special taste to each dish.

Cost? No idea lah as my cousins treated us so I willingly ate as much as I can. No worries as everything is considered half price to Singaporeans considering the fact that Singaporean currency was worth double our Malaysian currency.








If I could recall those prices in the menu, it was alright for a restaurant with such settings seen in it. Not a big restaurant, roughly around fifteen tables.

Everyone of us agreed that service was impeccable. When the ladies in our group enquired about the washroom's location, a waitress guided them to the place and actually waited for them to accompany them back to the restaurant. Now, that's what I call service with customers in mind. Created a good impression in our hearts.

They do have a wine list but we were not keen on it on a hot afternoon.
Tags: Pavilion, Food, Celadon, Thai Restaurant, Food Republic, J.CO Donuts & Coffee, Thai Iced Tea

Vegetarian Dishes

Went to a vegetarian restaurant by the name of Fan Cai Xiang at Taman Danau Desa during weekend with the family's older folks. It was packed with only one table left when we arrived. Given a choice I won't come to a vegetarian restaurant lah.
This was a buttered fried mushroom. Crunchy and tasty. Forget about whether it will give you high cholesterol due to the butter. It's superb.
This is char siew! Vegetarian style of course. Not bad though the taste is far from the actual char siew of course.








Now this is the ginger fish. Forgot the fish's name. Nice dish but definitely not fishy taste at all. It was partly beancurd.

I paid for the dinner. With seven main dishes, it cost us RM190 for 8 adults and 2 kids.

Always find vegetarian restaurants charge way too high for food that resembled the real thing. I could find a restaurant that cooks the real food at a cheaper price instead.
Tags: Vegetarian Dishes, Vegetarian Food, Fan Cai Xiang Vegetarian Restaurant, Taman Danau Desa

Bad China Food in Malaysia

If you do like to eat food, please be wary of the following food products from China:-
1) honey (reason: drug residue) - more of this will make my muscles grow? enough time to build up for Beijing Olympics?
2) oyster sauce (reason: cancer-causing agent 3-MCPD); and
3) dried mushrooms (reason: pesticide residue)

The list doesn't stop there for China which has included frozen eel, seaweed, frozen royal red prawns, shitake mushrooms and salted turnip too.

Others as highlighted in the newspapers are as follows:-
* groundnut kernels from India (reason: cancer-causing agent aflatoxin)
* natural honey, kicap manis, prawn crackers and chilli sauce from Indonesia (on Ministry of Health's watch list)
* roasted seaweed from Singapore (reason: contain metal contaminants)

Just when you thought you were safe from China products as highlighted here and here, it has came upon the Malaysian shore. What went wrong with their quality control over there?

Good thing our Malaysian Health Ministry's Food Quality and Safety Division was on full alert and able to detect such anomalies and all the above stated China food would be cautiously tested before being given a clean bill.

But some of those tainted food products did make it past the Health Ministry's testing and are found in various supermarkets/convenience stores around Malaysia. Was our Health Ministry negligent in their work? They had even confirmed earlier that China food products were clean.
Tags: Malaysian Health Ministry, Food Quality and Safety Division, Drug Residue, Pesticide Residue, Cancer-Causing Agent, 3-MCPD, Aflatoxin, Metal Contaminants, China Food, Food

Spiralling Food Prices

Mitigating steps/procedures are being taken by respective countries in combating against spiralling food prices which don't seem to have a ceiling price now. What I have blogged earlier on Foreseeable Increase in Daily Expenses will cause further increase if it materialise.

* Russia plans this week to impose Soviet-style price controls on a range of foodstuff to soften the blow ahead of parliamentary elections in December.

The government has signed an agreement with major food retail chains and producers to freeze prices on staples such as milk, eggs, sour cream, bread, sunflower oil, sugar and salt. They have also introduced export duties on wheat and barley.

* Ukraine is considering export quotas on wheat, corn and barley.

* China has released stockpiles of pork and is considering doing the same for vegetable oil and grain.

* Bangladesh, Jordan and Egypt, which suffered 'bread intifada riots' in the 1970s, are raising subsidies or slashing import tariffs.

* Argentina, where inflation this year is expected to be 8 per cent to 10 per cent, the government has struck accords with dozens of companies to control prices.

* Italy - Italian authorities opened an investigation into pasta manufacturers over alleged price fixing. Italian pasta makers have increased prices this year - expected to surge by 20 per cent by autumn - as durum wheat used for making the trademark Italian food nearly doubled in price.

* Japan - the government is also monitoring food prices. Marudai Food said two weeks ago it will raise the prices of its ham and sausages, following rivals Nippon Meat Packers and Itoham Foods. Instant noodle makers Nissin Food Products, House Foods and Sanyo Foods have also announced price increases last quarter.

And the oil price has hit a historic high of US$96 per barrel on 31 Oct 2007. Will the target price of US$100 per barrel materialise by year end, earlier than estimated?

Reading: UN warns of food inflation effects - Financial Times
Tags: Food Price, Food Inflation, Economics, Price Fixing, Export Quotas, Stockpiles, Import Tariffs, Export Duties

Palace of the Golden Horses

The name sounds like a place belonging to a royalty family but actually it's the name of a 5-star hotel located on the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur. Palace of the Golden Horses' design is very unique inspired by the Moorish era.
My family decided to go for a buffet dinner at this hotel after we found out that Shangri-La Hotel's Lemon Garden Cafe was without air-condition for that night. The other reason we chose it was because we have not been there for their buffet dinner.

It was about 10-15 minutes drive from my house. We reached there around 7.35pm and went to Carousel Cafe which housed the buffet dinner. Quite empty, maybe most of the city folks were back at their hometown during the long weekend break. The price was RM60 and RM40 for adult and child respectively at this cafe. With that pricing, we expected the food to be satisfactory. To our dismay, it was not. We were disappointed with the food that was served.

* The supposedly fresh salmon fish was really bad as the moment you bite into it, you can tell that it was not fresh at all.
* The mee rebus' gravy was thick but without much taste.
* Prawns cooked in chilli and spices were not fresh.
* Butter for bread melted like nobody's business ....... u can drink the melted butter on the spot.
* I wondered what kind of mushroom soup was that as it tasteless. * Their readily cut fresh fruits were so pale and was off its original colours.
* Cooking style for various dishes were almost the same.
* About 12 main dishes but its quality/taste were not up to its 5-star hotel status.
* The first few tables' lighting at the entrance was too dim.
* The food that I enjoyed were the roast lamb and ice-cream.

Would say that it was a shame that we were the only diners left at 9.10pm (even though officially, it was opened till 10.30pm for the buffet dinner). Need I say more. Everyone has left except my table. Are we supposed to leave as well so that they can close the cafe earlier? Was very sure there was no emergency evacuation at that time. Not long after that, walk-in hotel guests came for their ala-carte meals. If you look at their decorations, it's so old already. I wondered how long this cafe has been in such state (low patronage by diners).

We left around 9.45pm as the mood was not there and right after dinner, we went to a friend's house at Sri Petaling and told them our ordeal. This couple had been previously and had even decided to take this hotel off their list of places to eat forever. So have we!

Shangri-La Hotel has to take the blame partially .... hehe. If not for their air-condition situation, we would not have gone to Palace of the Golden Horses (noticed the hotel area was full of horses).

Please take away the word 'Palace' as the food served at its Carousel Cafe doesn't justify the use of it. The hotel's ambience was beautiful and hopefully their other restaurants are up to its 5-star standard.
Tags: Palace of the Golden Horses, Carousel Cafe, Buffet Dinner, Food, Shangri-La Hotel, Lemon Garden Cafe

Hunting for Food at Mid Valley

dit dit doot doot ...... played with the interactive digital touch screen board that could help you check out what was available in The Gardens. The place was big so need some help to look for food selection.

Ahhhhhhhhh found one, let's go to Din Tai Fung. Seems to be serving dim sum, a kind of breakfast made famous in Hong Kong. Lots of such restaurants serving dim sum in Malaysia also.

But be warned!!!!! Din Tai Fung, a restaurant located at the lower ground floor of The Gardens looks packed from the outside, one of the few restaurants that has opened for business. So, of course seeing that it was packed we went in.

Went in and saw that the prices of the menu were exhorbitant. I have always said that I don't mind paying for good food but when the price is way above board, I would not bow to such prices. Four pieces of shrimp 'siew mai' would cost you RM11.00 (no tax yet). Small serving of a plate of taufu would hit your wallet with a RM18.00 bill.

We walked out of the restaurant without ordering. Too bad. Our prediction - this restaurant will close down in time to come. They were just insulting my brilliance by putting those prices there. Insult a blogger, this is the kind of negative advert lah especially one who likes to eat.

Walked back towards Mid Valley instead and saw this new cafe opened by Seed, a local fashion house. Why not? If don't like, not obligated and can walk out again....hehe

From the front view of Seed's shop, you wouldn't have noticed the cafe which was fronting the Boulevard offices, same row as Maybank.

Walking further into the shop, you would notice a cafe behind some doors.

I came from the other end. Wouldn't have noticed it if I was inside Mid Valley.

Have to take brunch by now after the long hunt and a 'walk out'. We ordered a nasi lemak (how do you call this in english??)

This was RM14.90 and believe me, this plate of rice was indeed spicy. And when I said spicy, you will cry for sure and normally friends won't order it if I mention that it's spicy. My tongue is sort of immune to chili, whatever and however spicy.

A penne pasta with cheese, fattenning but close your eyes while eating it. Forget about those fats/diets, enjoy first.
This serving of Hainanese chicken rice was bountiful. Big plate of chicken breast. Unbelievable. The price also a bit unbelievable but much much better than that Din Tai Fung (yeah, repeating the name again in case you have forgotten)
Tags: The Gardens, Mid Valley, Din Tai Fung, Dim Sum, Seed, Nasi Lemak, Penne Pasta, Hainanese Chicken Rice, Food