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Its was a beautiful Sunday morning and the weather is cooling, so I decided to take my MTB out for a ride since I need to test it after tuning it yesterday at the shop. The bike felt much better but it start to drizzle as I leave home but luck is on my side, as I go further, the weather got better. I took a big round cutting to the back of KK and into the park area opposite the shops. I passed by this park so many times, but I guess when you are driving, you basically just speed by and don’t bother about the scenic view. So, I stopped to enjoy the view, dream that the big bungalow by the lake for sale will be mine soon and snaps some shoots

I was rounding the shops in KK for breakfast and decided to stopped at Restoran MCF. Passed by this place a lot of times but never tried. So I parked the bike up front and went in, turns out they are selling all sort of mee hoon, mainly with fish. They also serve it with prawns, roast pork and all sort of varieties. Price is not cheap, cheapest is about RM6 for a bowl of mee hoon with fish, but the serving are generous.

Since I just had seafood the night before, I decided to go with roast pork. It comes in 2 bowls, first one are dried mee hoon top with roast pork and fried pork lard. Accompanying it is a bowl of vege in stock soup. Its not bad, but a little dry and I told myself I should have just order the fish one which everyone is eating, hehehe… overall is ok, I think I should be back to try the fish one. Its basically soup mee hoon served with 2 piece of deep fried fish.

As I got home, all tired and ready to just drop dead, my dog stared at me and reminds me that he needs his walk… arghh… so here’s a video of him at the park . So many things in 1 Sunday morning

Makan first, think later

Pandamaran was one of the earliest seafood attraction that caught the crowd from PJ and KL rushing to it during the early 90’s as far as I can remember. Back then it was just a few seafood restaurant converted from houses. Later when Teluk Gong came up, we see the shift of the city crowds there.

Visited this place over the weekend again, this time I went to Klang Seafood (Kedai Makanan Laut Klang) which is recommended by Soh Cicak. Its one of the many rows of seafood restaurants located on Jalan Nipah. On the way there, I passed by a BKT shop in Pandamaran which I tried once, the BKT there is very unique, no soup, just gravy and very oily, will go there one day and share it here.

Anyway, back to seafood, the place is busy like many seafood establishment in Klang on the weekend. Looks like Pandamaran is still quite happening and popular place to go for seafood. We were there at about 7pm plus and most of the tables are filled.

The waiter came and we started to order, first on are their fried tang hoon which the waiter recommended, steam fish (red carp) with mee hoon, kangkung belacan, pandan chicken, fried egg oyster and kum hiong crabs. The waiter actually told us all the different variety they can serve the crabs with, we decided to go with salted egg crabs but the waiter then whisper and say salted egg is not good, hahaha… we were shocked… he told us what they have and when we wanted it, he said its not good and better don’t order! hahahahaha… so we burst out laughing and he defend that he is just being honest but had to do his job and told us what they can offer, funny guy, so we settled for kum hiong as per his recommendation.

First to come are the pandan chicken, basically bits of chicken wrapped in pandan leaf deep fried. To me it taste just like otak-otak, quite unique actually. But its really small piece that you can just pop the whole thing into your mouth

Fried oyster with eggs are normal, kangkung belacan are quite tasty too but can’t beat the thai style one in Oldtown . The fish is not bad, steamed in teow chew style, but I think it would be great if they add more salted vege and make it a little more sour. Tang hoon also normal la.

Last to served are crabs, the kum hiong is a bit different, with a lot of curry leaves, so the kum hiong have a strong hint of curry in them. But the crab size are the small one, I usually prefer the big one.

After the meal, we decided to end it with some fried ice cream. Basically its ice cream wrapped in flour and deep fried. There are different flavors you can choose from but we just took 1 each of the 6 flavors available. We had to eat these fast before it all melts, crispy skins and yummy cold ice cream in them. You can also get these at the SS2 Chow Yang pasar malam or the Cameron Highlands pasar malam.

Bill came to about RM150 for 6 person, prices are ok except for the crabs which are quite costly at this place and I wouldn’t rate the crabs as fantastic. Anyhow I had a good time meeting up with friends, sharing about my last hash and later having them over to actually test ride my bike… hehehe.

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Makan first, think later

Had a late lunch after hashing and everyone was too tired to go to Jack’s countryside estate for bbq, so when I finally got hungry later at night, I look up my buddy Cicak in Klang for some food hunting.

He took to port klang town, behind the rows of shops after KFC, next to the houses is where Restoran Tian Lee is located. It looks like a make shift restaurant extended from a house like most makan place in Malaysia. Its almost 10.30pm then and the place is still packed. We one of the only two tables left and sat. This place is famous for their balitong and mee mamak (yes I know, chinese place selling mamak noodles).

I noticed that almost every table will have the balitong, mee mamak as well as their crabs. Balitong are cooked in a spicy sauce while crabs are kum heong. Unfortunately when its our turn to order, they have just finished selling the balitong and we do not feel like crabs that night. So we settled for the mee mamak, top with their restaurant own tofu (chiew pai) and some fried bamboo clams (chuk tan).

After that is pure wait, as I looked around and I noticed that tables that have there before we arrived have not been served yet! So, its then down to beer and chit chat. They have 2 chiefs, an Indonesian looking lady with a Chinese Aunt and a Chinese Lady will be the one preparing the ingredients and managing the kitchen. Even though there aren’t too many tables, should be 15 or so, the wait is long. After about 40 mins or more later, our food finally came!

The mee mamak is spicy and I was told the balitong is even spicier! Just like how the mamak did it, its fried with eggs, onions put they added curry and some basil leaves into it. Smells good, taste is ok but super spicy. I was feeling cooling with beer and the nice weather at night, but the moment I down the noodles, I started sweating like mad, that’s just how spicy it is!

Next comes their chiew pai tofu, its basically tofu stuffed with pork then fried. After that its top with some sweet and sourish sauce. Sliced cucumbers and crushed peanuts are added to. This is not bad and quite unique, I just wish I haven’t taken the mee mamak first, its kills off some of my taste bud, hehehe.

Last are the bamboo clams and they are fried with a thick and nice sauce. Its a little spicy but very tasty. These are the small bamboo clams and this are the type I like, not the big one which have too much juice in them!

The meal came to about RM40 for the 3 dishes plus a big bottle of beer. That’s quite ok and reasonable I would say. Nothing is cheap anymore nowadays . Will come back to try their balitong and cicak informed me that there are also good fried fish dishes nearby, the next time perhaps

Makan first, think later