Turmeric Glutinous Rice

Pulut Kuning Beef Rendang (Turmeric glutinous rice with beef cooked with spices and coconut milk) - MYR9.90+ 6% GST (no service charge)= MYR10.50 nett at Belanga. The small portion is just right for me and the beef rendang is tasty. I like to eat glutinous rice cooked this way too, just as I like to eat lo mai kai.

Update (28 February 2015 Sunday): price is still MYR10.50 nett with more raw vegetables (salad) this time. The beef rendang is a bit on the salty side but the glutinous rice (pulut) is a little bit too hard, I prefer it to be softer so maybe no more next time until I have forgotten about the taste. I felt too full after 2 hours that it was very uncomfortable for me.

Many stalls

This was my favourite ABC (Ais Batu Campur - Mixed Ice) 20 years ago and still taste good - MYR3.30 nett a bowl/glass. This is one of the very rare occasion where I did not eat early dinner due to meeting up with a friend at night. It has been almost quite a number of years that I have not been to this place.

Char Kway Teow mixed with yellow noodle - MYR5.50 nett.

Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun with BBQ pork (char siew) and prawns - MYR5.50 nett.

Stall 37 for the char kway teow

Stall 36 for the Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun

Food court at night

Familiar?

The famous SS2, PJ night food court.

The ABC stall is stall 41, the first stall on the right with the red board signboard.

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Updated later (24102018 Wed from draft)

On another visit, we ordered two glasses of ABC and HK CCF again.

The HK CCF is smooth and tasty but has too much unnecessary gravy.

Original Seremban Beef Noodles

To me, Seremban Beef Noodles is like this - dry version with dark sauce with peanuts and salted vegetables and must be eaten with Lai Fun (a type of rice noodles that is thicker and cylindrical). Breakfast set - a bowl of noodles, two beef meat balls in soup, one drink of your choice = MYR14.90 nett.

A closer look at the noodle. Ala carte price for a bowl of dry noodles with tripe, beef meat is MYR9.80 nett. Taste good as the dark sauce is only slightly salty as I read online someone complained that the sauce is too salty so they must have corrected it to be only slightly salty so that it goes well with the salty vegetables.

There are many choices for the breakfast value sets that are served from 9 am to 11 am. The above photo shows only a quarter of the value sets.

Value lunch sets are available from 11 am to 6 pm at a higher price with one additional item which is the grass jelly or it could be kwai lin go but you could request this jelly to be replaced by a scoop of ice cream. There are more items in the value lunch set menu than shown in the photo above.

You can choose to replace the Lai Fun noodles with Mihun, Yellow noodles or Kuey Teow but I think the dark sauce goes best with the Lai Fun noodles. The choices for drinks for the breakfast value sets  are as shown above. For the lunch value sets, they provide different drink choices.

Some other selections in the lunch value set menu - there are still more sets than shown in this post.

Nice decorations - with a Christmas tree as Christmas is just around the corner.

Internal and External seating areas.

Other than beef noodles, they also serve nasi lemak, prawn noodle, sweet and sour chicken rice and other types of noodles.

Yee Kee Beef noodles from Seremban is now in KL at Fraser Business Park, Pudu so we don't have to travel all the way to Seremban to eat this tasty noodle.

Workday lunches

Apart from those who cook their own lunches in their office pantry, how do you decide on where to eat lunch? Would you consider driving out to another area for lunch or just eat at the eateries within walking distance of your office?

As much as I love to eat Japanese food, I have not eaten and will not eat at this restaurant during lunch because it is too expensive for workday lunches although to be fair, they do have some affordable bento sets but I prefer to eat the salmon bento set which is not cheap so it is a no go at this place.

Most of the time, I will eat economy rice at the food court which has about 7 to 8 halal food stalls but I only stick to 2 or 3 stalls - the chinese mix rice stall, vegetarian stall and chicken rice stall. I try to be early, if not there would be a very long queue for food.

This is the vegetarian stall that I frequent more than the chinese mix rice stall because I prefer the vegetable dishes here which are less oily. Although it says vegetarian it serves hard boiled eggs with sambal so my meals will always be yinchoy (amaranth), broccoli/cauliflower, and one hard boiled egg and the price would be around MYR5 to 6 depending on the portion that I get myself.

One day, there were no hard boiled eggs so I took this omelette. I asked the cashier, is this real egg or fake egg and she answered yes real egg but it turned out to be a fake omelette which is made from soy flour so it is like eating a slightly sweet pancake, double carb portion for me. I should have trusted my own judgement. When I looked at the texture of the omelette, it looks more like pancake than eggs. Oh well, my mistake. Never one to waste food, I polish off everything on the plate.

Sometimes, I buy a small pizza on offer at MYR3.90 nett from Aeon Big Supermarket and eat it for lunch and tea but it is quite salty so I don't do this often. If my memory serves me correctly, the above is a cheese tuna mayo onion pizza.

Bake your own

One day I was in TK bakery and I was surprised to see that one small piece of pandan layered cake costs around the price of a slice of cheese cake from Secret Recipe so that means that a slice of cheese cake from SR is not that expensive. That is the market price of cakes now so no wonder many capable people choose to bake their own cakes at home. Since I do not bake, I ordered and shared two slices of the cakes below with my friend.

Yogurt cake - raspberry topping - MYR8.80 nett for a slice. Can detect the yogurt taste but my friend says that the raspberry jam topping could be better.

Marble cheese cake - MYR8.80 nett for a slice. Cheese and milky taste. Reminds me of the Chinese New Year Dragon Cookie - the ones that were twisted like an S alphabet with ridges on the cookies. They satisfied my cheese cake cravings for now.

SRK Noodle House

We went back to SRK Noodle House to try the other dishes.

Sarawak Laksa - MYR7.80 nett - taste ok despite not looking good. Not that spicy.

Ding Bian Hu 鼎边糊 (Bien Bien Hu on the menu) - MYR9.80 nett. The noodle (rice sheets) is made by pouring rice paste all around the sides of the wok and when it is cooked, it is broken up into pieces and pushed into the broth which is cooking inside the wok. The portion here is quite a lot but I managed to finish it.

Signature dish

The previous time that we ate at Sepiring, we did not order its signature dish so we went again just for it.

Ala carte order - Nasi Ulam Ayam Percik (Coconut Spiced Chicken with Raw vegetable salad Rice) - MYR20.90 nett (the price stated on the menu is inclusive of 6% GST and 5% Service Charge). Two of us shared this dish as it was a big portion.

The whole chicken leg above was covered with the percik (coconut spice) gravy. This gravy does not taste like the usual percik gravy that we are used to. It is richer so we get satiated faster unless we ate the chicken together with the refreshing raw vegetable salad (ulam).

The ulam consists of raw onion slices, raw four angled bean (winged bean), bird's eye chili with lime juice and herbs such as lemon grass and spices such as torch ginger (bunga kantan) so it is very appetising but I had to pick out and remove the chili because it is too spicy for me.

There were 7 pieces of keropok lekor (deep fried fish cake sticks) and kerisik (toasted grated coconut) on top of the rice so small eaters would have difficulty finishing this dish on their own. Glad that we gave this dish a try as it has more than enough ingredients for both of us.