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Today is my turn to conned KC to lunch… all the way to Klang! Had a meeting there and so got him to drive a separate car. Jack and Julian came along, Jack know he is being taken for a ride but since he don’t want to drive, he got no choice, Julian on the other hand, just got conned :P.

We headed to Klang town to this famous Peng Heong Hakka place which Sam had been telling me for ages but I have yet to go. Tried to go there once for dinner but its closed! And later I found out, they open everyday expect the first day of Chinese New Year up to 4.30pm! :S. They have their own blog with some basic information, check out http://paikut.blogspot.com/

Anyhow, I got a feeling KC is cursing me when we reached Klang town as the jam was horrible because they had closed 1 side of the bridge at town :(. And when Jack got down of my truck, he remarked “I would never come to this kind of place” (referring to the jam and distance)…

The place is busy, food being served fast, friendly people and the food looks good. We order a piece of their famous, must have Hakka paikut which is a big piece of pork with a long bone at the side. The big piece cost RM10 and its chopped up for sharing. I am a Hakka but never had this before, should bring my dad there 1 day and see what he says :).

We also got a small claypot of mutton curry which comes sizzling hot at RM6. At first, I wouldn’t think curry would be good in a Hakka shop that specialised in paikut? But I was wrong, besides the paikut, I would rate this as the next best thing to have! Mutton are superbly tender and soft yet without the usual heavy mutton smell. A must I would say.

At RM6 each, we also got a small Hakka Meatballs, fried and cut up, its huge in size but its just ok to me. The sour and spicy vegetable soup is not bad, usually we have it in a light soup but this one is very thick, more to sauce than soupy type but its quite good and addictive to me :).

The rice here is not plain rice, should be cooked with stock plus ginger? Not sure but its like chicken rice, it have a very light taste in it, can almost eat it on its own. I usually try not to add rice, but really can’t resist it here!

So how good is this place, when the rice arrived and KC took a spoon of it without any of the above yet, he commented “the rice alone makes the trip worth it” and Jack after taking the paikut and curry “this place is definately worth coming” :). So judge it by yourself :P.

GPS: N03 02.920 E101 26.692

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Passed by this place about 2-3 weeks ago, it had just open then and decided to check it out. The place is cozy and contemporary, very well renovated, looks like the owner spent quite a bit on the place. There are open air table outside or you can opt for seats inside the air conditioned restaurants. Service is also good and the owner is very friendly.

The waitress recommended their curry mee, it comes with a light curry gravy with a big spoon of sambal to mix in according to your preference. I mixed in the whole spoon and still find the curry to be a light, base is there but not thick enough, maybe this is their style. There are plenty of “tau pok” and long beans in it too.

Something interesting here is their Sambal Udang Spaghetti, sort of a fusion mix. Its spaghetti topped with a sambal sauce, prawns and some vegetables. The sambal sauce is light but very spicy to me and my tongue was burning! But I would imagine this would be very nice to people like Elaine who love spicy food :P.

I find the papaya milk to be light too but the cincau milk is quite nice. Overall, for curry mee, I would still prefer MC Curry but the environment here is good, a nice place to sit down and chat over drinks and light meal. Total damage, about RM25.00 for curry mee, sambal udang spaghetti and 2 drinks :).

GPS: N3 00.272 E101 32.057

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Got conned again by KC today to follow him to Puchong for lunch today for him to do his chores :(, anyhow since he is driving, don’t want to complain so much :P. The “dei kao chung” ah John brought us to Restoran Goodwill, a typical Chinese coffeeshop.

Over there, I saw this stall known as Taiwan Loo Mei, which serve rice or porridge with stewed duck, pork, tofu, intestines, salted vegetables, etc. I saw it served to a few tables and it actually looks good! The duck are served on a heated tray with candle below, not bad for hawker’s food ;).

I ordered a mix of duck and pork plus a whole piece of tofu with rice for RM7.50. The gravvy is light but full in taste and not oily, you can almost have it like soup with rice :). Duck meat is tender and not too fat.

GPS: N3 02.787 E101 37.389

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This lam mee place have been around for a while now… I remember those days I used to follow my mum to Fajar and would go there for lam mee. I also heard that this is somehow related to May King, the famous lam mee place in Jalan Pasar?

Anyway, as it have always been, instead of lam mee, I would order lam hor fun (thin koay teow), I find it a lot nice with the sauce. The lam hor fun here are served with prawns and pork plus taugeh… the good part is the chili with is a must to go with the lam hor fun. Its been a while since I came here, its now RM5.00 per plate for noodles. They also have the noodles available with curry, soup or dry version.

Besides that you can add in some side orders like sui kow, foo chiok roll or fish meat balls at RM0.90 each. I only ordered the sui kow and foo chiok roll today. Sui kow so so, a bit hard but foo chiok roll is nice and comes in soup ;).

GPS: N3 08.127 E101 37.425

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Andrew the nice guy decided to buy lunch and the few of us (4 all together) headed to the Vintry in Medan Damansara. What we did not expect was that at the end of the lunch, we were all being porkalious till we said we have enough pork for the whole week :P.

First impression when you open the door, Vintry looks nothing more than a wine cellar, definately not a restaurant but at the back of the cellar are some comfy tables where I would classified it as a good place to wind down and relax over wine or beer after a hard week, not to mentioned good food :).

Pork, pork, pork…that is all we want… we wanted to order the roast pork which is their signature but alas… its not ready yet :(. So we settled for some caramelised roast pork instead, RM 16 for 200g I think… can’t remember and we ordered 2 plates, greedy! Then we ordered a honeyed fried cheese and a sautee mushrooms.

The caramelised roast pork is nice, just like chinese roast pork being fried with a dark caramelised sauce, but I find it a bit too salty, but its perfect to take with wine or beer I guess but not on its own. Also 2 plates of this is definately a mistake, too salty and too much! The mushroom is nice, just simply sautee with garlic and the cheese is really good too, deep fried and extra honey is provided too. A little sweet for me the honey cheese but it was excellent for the rest. Hmm… not a good sign… becoming uncle, taking less sweet stuff :(.

I got a Fried Korean Noodles, which is basically instant korean noodles fried and topped with more caramelised roast pork! The others got the Pork Chop, Cuban Sandwich and Beef Burger. We generally share all the dishes but its so huge… we were having trouble finishing!

The noodles is so so only and a little salty with the pork. Pork chop is fantastic with a very rich creamy and cheesey sauce served with fried wedges and greens. The burger is huge, covered with cheese plus chips as the side. Cuban sandwich is nice too, filled with ham and bacons plus vegetables and cheese. Overall, I think the pork chop is the best ;).

I must say, we enjoyed the meal a lot and the waiter is friendly. But I noticed the price have increased slightly comparing with their menu available online, but I supposed that’s because of the crazy increase in pork price as well.

Overall, I would say, its a good experience at the Vintry, good food, nice enviroment and not too costly. I would really love to be back and hopefully this time, I can get to try the roast pork with a cup of wine prehaps ;).

GPS: N3 08.398 E101 39.448

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