Simon & Jun life journey

Sa kot (Yam Bean) soup

Yam Bean a.k.a “Sa Kot” in Cantonese and can be eat it raw as it is very sweet, so using it to boil soup will make the soup delicious. It is easy to boil and its better to use slow cooker to boil it as it need around 3 to 4 hours to boil and the taste is superb. Not sure what is the benefit of this soup but is really delicious even with just a simple ingredient.

1/2 piece of small Sa Kot
3 to 4 pieces of chicken leg
1 piece dry scallop
3 to 4 pieces of dried oyster
1 carrot (chopped to pieces)
Water (put the water reaching almost half of the cooker)
salt to taste

The ingredient above can cater for 3 person and you just need to wash all the ingredient and put into the slow cooker, let it boiled for 3 to 4 hours. When you about to serve just add dash of salt to taste, preferable to use sea salt.

Kim Chi Soup Noodle

Last week me and my wife plan to cook kim chi noodle for today breakfast as we bought the Kim Chi from Cold Storage supermarket. What makes both of us fall in love with Kim Chi noodle as we have tried it at one of the korean shop in Sunway Pyramid (near the ice skate area). The shop owner is a korean and they really cooks very very nice korean food, quite a lof of korean dine there. Been there twice and having the same dish that is Kim Chi noodles, the soup was so deliciuos with the kim chi and chicken.

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Penang food location map

Here I put all the location map for the food that i’ve try out so is easier for you guys to know the exact location rather than guessing.  All the map below is courtesy of google earth as I cut from there and please let me know if any of the map point to the wrong place as it quite hard to locate from google map.

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Second night in Penang

Come to second night in penang, we try out this place in Tanjung Bungah and its quite easy to find if you coming from Batu Ferringhi you will saw the Swimming Pool on your left hand side. Futher up a bit you can see a low cost flat on your right and there is a traffic light there, turn left on that traffic light as you can see a red signboard “Tai Pak Kong Temple” (note that the wording is in mandarin). Go straight in till you see the temple as the restaurant is next to the temple facing the sea.

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Night at penang

On the first night in penang, we went to Gurney drive where you can find quite a number of food stalls and its quite popular. Its a bit different compare with the last time we visit as the food there not really as tasty as last time so we just have 1 bowl of asam laksa and prawn mee.

 

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Penang trip…continues

The first stop when reach Penang by ferry service is the Fort Cornwallis and the Light house as is it near to the ferry port. Driving distance within 5 minutes where you can saw the cannon and light house. Surprisingly from the man who incharge of the light house said it only open to public recently and not much people aware this light house even the localities dunno about it.

It not really high but both of us not keen to go upstair, but if you got chances should walk up and have a beautiful view to the sea. Fort Cornwallis is an old star-shaped fort and was built by Captain Sir Francis Light in 1786.

 

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Penang trip

We depart from KL around 6:30 and we are using the Guthrie Highway, out from Guthrie toll toward Ipoh around 7:00 am. Traffic on that day is very smooth and reaching Ipoh at 9:00 am for our Dim Sum breakfast at Foh San restaurant, although is weekdays the crowd is still there and is almost full house but no need to wait for queue.

 

 

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Penang…here we come

I’m going to Penang next Thursday (17-04-08) with my wife for holidays and food finding. Anyone have any nice food to recommend, please feel free to drop some and i will try it out.

This will be our second time stepping into Penang as first visit was on year 2003.I miss some of the food there especially Asam laksa, fried Oyster (ho chian) and etc. How does the Penang name come from? this is what i found in wikipedia

 The island was referred to as 檳榔嶼 (Bīnláng Yù) in the navigational drawings used by Admiral Zheng He of Ming-dynasty China in his expeditions to the South Seas in the 15th century. Early Malays called it Pulau Ka-Satu or “First Island”.

The name “Penang” comes from the modern Malay name Pulau Pinang, which means island of the betel nut tree (Areca catechu), family Palmae. In Chinese, Penang is known as 檳城 (pinyin: Bīnchéng / Bīngchéng; Hokkien: Peng Sheah). All three names can refer either to the island of Penang, the state of Penang or sometimes the state capital, George Town.

More specifically, George Town is known as Tanjung in Malay and 喬治市 (Qiáozhì Shì) in Chinese. Penang Island is simply Pulau Pinang (/’pulaʊ ‘pinaŋ/) in Malay and 檳榔嶼 (Bīnláng Xù) in Chinese, and Penang state is Negeri Pulau Pinang in Malay and 檳州 (Bīn Zhōu) in Chinese.

I will post all the photos and all the food we taste when we back…stay tuned.

Source : Wikipedia

Free Zone Cafe

Last friday after work we go for happy hours with my colleauge at Free Zone Cafe in Kuchai Entreprenuer’s Park. We had our dinner there also and the food there taste not bad too. As we reach, there was not much people and only 2 tables occupied at the first floor. We get our seat at the entrance as there is much cooler with the breeze wind coming in.

I order their recommended Tom Yam fried mee hoon with seafood, Lun order Japanese Ramen with Chicken chop and Kevin order the Tepanyaki Chicken with rice.

Below is the photo of the food we ordered.

The shop located same row with MayBank in Kuchai Entreprenuer’s Park.

Melaka - Jonker Street

We did not want to miss all the nice food and historical building in Melaka, so we drove to Melaka town from A`Famosa resort and takes about 45 min drive. First night we drove to Jonker street where at night the street is closed for night market and you will saw a lot of hand crafted souvenirs. We had tried the fried oyster along the Jonker Street but not a good as not manage to get a nice one to eat..too bad.

Next morning after we checkout from A`Famosa, we back to Jonker Street again for photography and lots of foods..for sure. We snap few photo of the Red Building just to compare those photo taken during our “pak to” time in Melaka also. Do alot of different compare to few years back..haha..getting fatter.

Then we just shop around at Jonker Street, where we found 1 shop called “Jonker Dessert” and most of the people there enjoying cendol but we didn’t wanna try it in the first place where we have spotted the Nyonya Laksa that interest us both. We don’t want to get our stomach full so fast just get 1 bowl of the nyonya laksa to taste. The taste is perfect, combination of spicy and sour with nyonya spices makes you can’t resist another bowl.

This coffee shop decorated with a lot of ancient/antic item where you can enjoy looking at it while tasting the delicious food. We left the shop after finish our laksa and a cup of coffee (hainan coffee) in tea bag. We continue walk down to the end of the street and you really can find all sort of antic item there, first time in my life I saw this shop making bounding shoe or some call it foot binding where the shoe is very small binding to the feet and force the feet not to grow big.

I really amaze to see the size of the shoe, can you imagine how the girl stand on the feet so small? The guy in the photo is the shop owner and this shoe is made by his ancestor. I really enjoy travel to Melaka and I’m going to visit again to shot more nice photo.

Source : Melaka |  Wikipedia