Indecisive

This photo was taken in mid Nov 2015 (last year) - An Viet, a new Vietnamese eatery that is located at The Gardens Mall (lower ground floor). We wanted to eat there but we didn't because after browsing the menu, we couldn't decide on what to eat so we walked away. Perhaps one day.

Golden Sand Croissant

MYR5.90 per piece. Here is another bakery getting onto the bandwagon of the highly sought-after Salted Egg Golden Lava Croissant by making their own version named Golden Sand Croissant. This is the branch at Tesco, Mutiara Damansara next to The Curve. I did not buy any because the croissants did not call out to me even though I love to eat salted egg yolk custard fillings.

Close up view. Later I noticed that the promoters have cut up one croissant into 4 pieces and asking us to try. I wanted to take a piece but my hands were dirty so I did not take any. The texture of the inner parts of the croissant looks like bread and I overheard that when one buys two croissants, there is a special price of MYR9.90 for both. Is anyone keen to go to King's Confectionery to try this?

At long last

Last Saturday, I had to run an errand in Kepong and I remember reading this post back in 2013 about delicious beef tendons nearby so two birds with one stone it is.

As we seldom venture into Kepong (it took me about 3 years to try this after knowing about it), we ordered as much as we could. The total cost is MYR33.50 nett. We did not ask for the breakdown as we find the price to be reasonable.

A bowl of beef meatballs with hor fun in beef broth. The beef balls are just as tasty as those from Soong Kee and there is a big piece of daikon as can be seen in the photo above. I like to eat daikon (white radish) with beef as the taste complements each other.

A bowl of mutton. This is part of a wanton noodle meal. I find the mutton very delicious as the meat is tender and the mutton taste is strong. Definitely not for those who dislike the taste of mutton.

A bowl of beef tripe. This is also part of a wanton noodle meal. We are surprised to find two pieces of beef tendon in the bowl too. The beef tripe is flavourful and soft yet chewy. Simply delicious!

A bowl of beef tendons that just melt in our mouths. There are many pieces of real beef tendons in this small bowl, without any konnyaku pieces unlike those serve in some places.

One of the two plates of wanton noodles (dry) ordered. One can also opt for other type of noodles such as hor fun, mihun (vermicelli), and yellow noodle.

This is a bowl of pork noodle from another stall in the same coffee shop - MYR6 - with hor fun and mihun. We noticed quite a number of tables having this pork noodle so we guess it should be good and it is.

A closer look at the ingredients

Sri Edaran Coffee Shop, corner shop lot located in Sri Edaran Light Industrial Park, Kepong. I would like to eat here again and again but it is simply too far from where I stay so perhaps in another 3 years?

Answer

Most of you say that the question is very easy so does that mean that all other hawker stalls also serve the same type of dip for a particular type of dish? Is it a must or can we mix and match the dips to the food? Often I ask for the dip to be omitted so I do not know their names. Do they have names or are all of them called chili in general?

You can match the colour of the bowl or plate to the saucer containing the dip to know the answer. For those who gave the correct answer and would like to receive a surprise little gift from me via normal snail mail, please feel free to email me. :D

Pan Mee (must be served with a watery sourish sambal belacan dip?)

Char Siew/BBQ Pork (must be served with a watery sweetish chili boh dip?)

Curry noodle (must be served with a thick spicy sambal belacan paste dip?)

The 3 dips - do they even have names?

Match the Dips

We were given 3 saucers of dips as shown above: 

1) Left - dip in the olive coloured saucer 

2) Middle - dip in the white saucer

3) Right - a watery dip in the green saucer

when we ordered the following items below:

A) Curry Noodle

B) Char Siew (BBQ Pork)

C) Pan Mee

Can you match the dips to the items? 

A: Curry Noodle

B: Char Siew (BBQ Pork)

C: Pan Mee

Crazy hand

The glass of cham ping (iced mixed coffee and tea - MYR2 ) is not mine. The plate of economy rice (chap fan) next to it is mine. My right hand suddenly developed a will of its own and kept on taking more and more petai (stinky beans) until I had to walk away. Luckily the price was only MYR7.50 nett. Petai is supposed to be expensive.

Semi-Monthly Brunch

The two of us have the above brunch: total MYR 9.50 nett (hopefully they do not increase this price in the near future) about twice a month at Ajimal Razim coffee shop. There are two AR outlets in Sri Petaling and we always go to the one occupying a corner shop lot located near the New Restaurant Ipoh Chicken Rice Restaurant .

Nasi Lemak (Rice cooked with Coconut Milk) MYR6 nett - in this case, the rice is cooked  with cardamom too and ginger so I find the rice tastes very good with a piece of fried chicken and egg that we requested for the yolk to be fully cooked or else it would be a sunny-side up egg.

We also asked for the sambal (sambal is a condiment typically made from red chilis and belacan - fermented ground prawns dried in blocks) to be omitted as we find the sambal portion to be too much and its taste is sweet when we prefer it to be more spicy than sweet.

Roti Telur (Paratha Bread with Egg) - MYR2 nett. We used to order a glass of hot Nescafe Tarik (tarik means to pull) that costs us MYR2 nett but now we order a glass of hot Cham (coffee mixed with Tea) to lower the price to MYR1.50 nett. Nowadays I ask for all dips (dhall, fish curry) for the roti telur to be omitted and just eat it plain because I want to cut down on my calorie and sugar intake from this meal.