Bungkus Kaw Kaw

We were at Publika when we saw this kiosk selling food similar to nyonya colours.

Close up.

We bought cham ice from them at MYR 5.50 nett served in a plastic drink container. Taste ok, not kaw kaw enough for us.

Barcook Sweet Potato Swiss Roll

 Yesterday Thu 22.apr.21 is our weekly grocery shopping day at Midvalley Mall.

Raya decorations at Midvalley Mall. A traditional house.

The front view of the traditional house.

*** Cakes from Barcook ***

I finally bought the sweet potato swiss roll after reading Lina's post about it nearly a year ago.

Side view to see the swirl.

Can feel the sweet potatoes bits inside the cake. Suitable for people who love cream because there is a lot of cream as shown in the photo above.

Total price for 3 items is MYR 42.60 nett.

*** Din Tai Fung Bento ***

Pork chop fried rice bento box. They provided julienned ginger to be eaten with the xiao long bao. That single bao is a lau sar bao.

Prawn fried rice bento. Had them for lunch and dinner. 

Total bill is MYR 62.05 nett after applying the 15% self pick up discount.  The bento used to be in cardboard box but now they chose to use this plastic container which is not environmentally friendly.

*** Food for the day ***

7.40 am - two of us shared this 3jc Mee hoon which seems like it is not available in Singapore.

11.20 am - shared these 5 pieces of deep fried dough.

Ate the red bean tong sui inside the car in the car park before getting down to start grocery buying. Total price of 5 pieces of deep fried dough and one portion of red bean tong sui is MYR 9.70 nett.

Perfect Creme Brulee

 

I bought a box of creme brulee from a young home baker at MYR 25 nett with 4 authentic flavours: vanilla, earl grey, Genmaicha, coffee on Sat 17.apr.21 by collecting it from his house.

This is earl grey tea flavour. The earl grey tastes authentic and strong. That night I could stay up until 3 am which I believe is due to the earl grey tea.

The creme brulee is smooth and soft. I don't know what the texture should be like so I Googled for an answer and found many similar content:

"The final texture of crème brûlée is soft-set, similar to the texture of Greek yogurt, not a firm custard like flan":

From:

https://blog.thermoworks.com/desserts/thermal-secrets-creme-brulee-2/

"The custard will be quite wobbly; it should jiggle from side to side when nudged. However, it should not be liquid in the center. It will be barely set, but not liquid"

From:

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-creme-brulee-at-home-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-139072

So that means this is the perfect creme brulee because it is soft and smooth but not liquid.

This is the vanilla flavour.

He torched the sugar on top when I was near his house so the sugar layer is still crispy when I got home.

Must consume immediately!

Ming Kee Porridge Jalil Link

Teng Zai Congee at MYR 10+ (MYR 10.60 nett). Teng Zai Juk is Cantonese for 艇仔粥 aka Boat Congee. Ingredients are just spring onions, strips of dried squid, peanuts and Nori 海苔 aka edible dried seaweed.

This eatery started operating in Dec 2020 at Jalil Link and it is the 5th branch I believe.

Storefront.

Bought this congee for his lunch on Sat 17apr21.

*** 10% off for Takeaways in April 2021 for Rakuzen ***

It has been more than one year that I didn't eat my favourite grilled salmon with salt aka salmon shioyaki from Rakuzen, the Gardens Mall so I bought it as a takeaway. Have decided not to dine in.

Also bought the Saba Set. The top left compartment contains deep fried salmon head which don't have any meat.

As I have been feeling like eating steak but didn't want to pay through my nose for good ones, I ordered this beef teppanyaki set for MYR 49+ which gives me 14 cubes of tender juicy beef. I asked for it to be well done and it was. I am savouring them slowly by eating two cubes a day. 

The compartment on the bottom right contains two pieces of deep fried salmon meat and next to it are slices of garlic instead of pickled radish. The vegetables compartment has cabbage, carrots, green and red capsicum, and beansprouts with wok hei.

The set lunch includes a bowl of miso soup and a bowl of chawanmushi.

The beef set has a bowl of fried rice which was eaten on the next day Tue 20.apr.21 as dinner.

Total price after 10% discount for Takeaways is MYR 124 nett.

For April 2021, there is 10% off for Takeaways and MYR 20 e-voucher for every MYR 250 spent.

The fried rice for dinner the next day with added iceberg vege and kfc nuggets from the previous Thursday, 5 days ago. There is half a piece of salmon shioyaki hidden underneath the fried rice. This fried rice has wok hei as well.

*** Duck rice takeaway ***

As we still have spicy sour mustard greens from Sunday, we bought roast duck rice for mon 19.apr.21 to eat with the mustard greens as monday's dinner.

The remaining portion of roast duck rice for Tuesday's lunch to finish up the remaining spicy sour mustard greens from Sunday.

Finally cleared this bowl of spicy sour mustard greens after eating it for 3 meals on 3 days.

Village Roast Duck whole leg rice at MYR 17.90 nett.

Dotty

 I bought the salted egg yolk cronut from Dotty's Pastries and Coffee reviewed here in 2016 by beepit delivery which was delivered by a food panda rider. Beepit and food panda must be collaborating to do the delivery.

Sun 18.apr.21 2.30 pm - ate a quarter of Dotty's salted egg yolk cronut. The cronut is heavy and rich so I kept the remaining 3 quarters for another day. The salted egg yolk is sweet and salty.

It is quite big.

I ordered a total of 8 items from Dotty's KLCC branch.

I received a call after placing my order online to let me know that the banana cake at MYR 10 and cinnamon roll at MYR 7 are not available so they gave me a few choices to select as replacement. My replacement choices are plain butter croissant at MYR 7 and speculoos croissant at MYR 13 that has biscoff biscuit and biscoff biscuit spread on top of it.

Salted egg yolk croissant at MYR 14+.

Tue 20.apr.21 12.41 noon - ate this salted egg yolk croissant as lunch. Was surprised to see that in addition to the salted egg yolk toppings there are salted egg yolk fillings too.

In fact, there is a huge lump of salted egg yolk fillings so I kept it to be used as bread spread. Will need a few days to finish eating this big lump.

Salted egg yolk doughnut at MYR 9+.

Gave this donut to my friend. She cut it into halves and sent me this photo.

Close up. Not as much salted egg yolk fillings as the croissant.

More photos from my friend. Seems like I was wrong. The fillings are just as thick as the croissant's fillings. Even lau sar bao doesn't have this much salted egg yolk fillings. The salted egg yolk fillings taste better with donuts than with croissants because it doesn't go well with flaky buttery layers of the croissant as well as the cronut.

Speculoos croissant with biscoff biscuits toppings at MYR 13+.

Plain butter croissant at MYR 7+. It has a strong sweet fragrant butter taste so he couldn't eat it.

They even include a small container of Flechard salted butter.

Butter cake at MYR 12+.

Made from butter, self rising flour, castor sugar, salt, evaporated creamer, vanilla essence, butter oil and eggs.

Taste ok, no fake butter fragrance. A bit dry but still oily. Consider to be in the category of can buy again. My friend says this is really buttery so if you like very buttery butter cakes, can buy this cake from Dotty's.

Salted egg yolk burnt cheese cake at MYR 20+.

Top part is cheese, bottom yellowish part taste strongly of salted egg yolk. Sweet so cannot eat more than one quarter each day.

The cheese part is dense and tastes of real cheese. The bottom part tastes of real salted egg yolk so this cake is extremely rich and authentic.

Apam Gula Hangus Cake at MYR 14+.

The bottom part is very firm as it is the cake also known as Kuih gula Hangus, kek sarang semut or Honeycomb cake.

The top green paste has pandan and coconut taste. This cake is topped with coconut shavings. He ate half and I wrapped up.

8 items in 7 boxes and 1 cake in cling wrap. Dotty's pastries and coffee uses real butter and real cheese so it is worth buying.