Regent Pandan Layer Cake

Finally I get to eat the original Pandan Layer Cake. I ordered one 500g Pandan Layer Cake and one 500g Yam Layer Cake but then I was informed only Pandan Layer Mix Yam Layer Cake is available so I ended up with 2 x 500g Pandan Layer Mix Yam Layer Cake and I gave one away.

This article on timeout dot com website says:

"According to a feature by the Malay Mail, it was Regent Pandan Layer Cake Shop’s owner Cheng Yew Ho who invented the pandan layer cake about 35 years ago, using a sturdier cake base to hold the dense jelly-like pandan filling (made from fresh pandan juice, santan and hoen kwe flour). Due to popular demand, Cheng also opened the iconic Golden Bake bakeries in SS2 and Klang." 

The two articles by Malay Mail in 2016 make good reading:

1. Last chance to eat: Klang’s Regent Pandan Layer Cake Shop may be closing its doors (Sunday, 25 Sep 2016)

2. Klang's Regent Pandan Layer Cake Shop to stay open after all (Monday, 03 Oct 2016)

Thanks to Malay Mail, the owner decides to stay open and so I get to eat the original cake after missing the Pandan Layer Cake I bought from Golden Bake bakery in SS2 many years ago. Previously, I will just buy an inferior Pandan Layer Cake from Aeon Bakery to eat until I found Lisa's Pandan Layer Cake on fb.

Side view. 5 layers. The cake is moist and light. A bit eggy and with real yam pieces in the yam layer cake. No artificial taste at all.

Two boxes of 500 g each (MYR 32 nett each).

The box cover shows the famous Klang shop for Pandan Layer Cake - "Regent Pandan Layer Cake Shop". Maybe one day I will get to visit the shop if I travel all the way to Klang.

The two boxes stacked on top of each other in one bag. Delivery fees is MYR 13 nett by Lalamove arranged by the FB organiser for this group buy. Received yesterday at 3.47 pm. Paid for and ordered on Saturday 25 April 2020 d39.

*** Monday 4 May 2020 d48 ***

7.57 am - Shared this breakfast of CKT bought on Sunday 3 May 2020 d47 from Swee Heng. Big portion (MYR 7 nett) and we add two fried eggs ourselves.

My portion.

Not that much but enough.

8.54 am - I can't believe that I did not eat any Honey Butter Biscuits from Texas Chicken since they are bought on Thursday 23 April 2020 d37. All 10 of them have been sitting in my fridge for 11 days so I force myself to eat one and was so very full after that.

1 pm - Not-My-Lunch of wanton noodles with char siew and wantons bought on Sunday 3 May 2020 d47 from BC & S Enterprise Coffee Shop. The soup is from the same day delivered with the siew yuk rice.

This pork trotter vinegar dish (MYR 26 nett) is bought on Tuesday 21 April 2020 d35 (13 days in the fridge) from Mama Cooking. This is half of the original portion. Look at the layer of solidified oil.

So I scrapped off all the solidified oil. Mama Cooking put black beans in this Pork Trotter Vinegar Dish. Since it is in the fridge, the gravy has solidified into jelly so it is like eating trotter jelly.

1.51 pm - I scooped half the gravy jelly and one piece of thick skin and meat into the rice from siew yuk rice delivered on Sunday 3 May 2020 d47, The gravy jelly is so appetising - sweet and sour and the cold meat and skin is tasty so I finished all the rice and ended up being so full that I did not eat any dinner at all. Just a slice of the Pandan Yam Layer cake at 4.30 pm and that is all the food for Monday 4 May 2020 d48.

Rice vinegar

Yesterday was the furthest I went since 18 Mar 2020 stay-at-home started. I went to buy takeaway food from those coffee shops that we frequent previously located 4.3 km away.

9.55 am. We shared this pork Yee Mee at

MYR 6.50 nett from Swee Heng on Sunday 3 May 2020 d47.

I was requested to buy some lap cheong so when I was ordering CKT, I spotted lap cheong so I persuaded the CKT seller to sell me 3 sticks. He asked for MYR 3 nett for each but I paid him MYR 10 nett for all 3.

I was also tasked to get this exact brand of rice vinegar which I did. They want to use this vinegar to pickle homegrown habanero chili. Must be narcissus brand and nothing else. Luckily the neighbourhood sundry shop has this brand of vinegar.

These are the homegrown Habanero chilies. I was told by the home growers that the above may not be Habanero chilies because they do grow Habanero chilies too as shown by the two photos with red chilies below.

Latest batch harvested.

Previous harvest of red chilies and habanero chilies.

Red red habanero chilies - no synthetic pesticides used, home grown. Too bad I don't eat chilies!

Home made angku sold at MYR 1.10 nett. The red dot angku is with coconut fillings.

The skin is much thicker than the ones I  used to buy made by Aroma Nyonya. Taste good though. I bought 9 with mung beans fillings and one with coconut fillings.

Late lunch or early dinner at 4.30 pm - Nasi Lemak Curry chicken at MYR 10 nett.

Roast pork rice at MYR 9 nett. Delivered to doorstep.

Bak Kut Teh

This is half of the Bak Kut Teh (Toh Guan) and yam rice we bought on Friday 1 May 2020 d45 which we shared as lunch yesterday (Saturday 2 May 2020 d46). We have some Grab points to redeem so we bought via Grab for MYR 29.24 and redeemed MYR 10 so the nett price is MYR 19.24 (we also bought one portion of plain white rice) and we went to the shop to pick it up ourselves. This Bak Kut Teh is the one shown here as we often eat at this shop. We requested to have Sai Guat (literal translation is small bone which is supposed to be part just above the pork trotters). Thick skin for collagen.

1 pm - Banana walnut cranberry cake - 4 pieces left and I gobbled up 3 pieces before I stop myself. I could go on but the cake is very sweet so I have to stop. I was told to achieve the texture of moist and dense, it needs to have a lot of brown sugar in it - that's why it is on the sweet side. No artificial taste so it is very tasty despite being a bit too sweet.

1.30 pm - I ate half of the guava in this container.

3 of 3 jelly (MYR 15 nett each) that I received on Sunday 26 April 2020 d40. There is this much left so both of us shared it.

4.30 pm - This is my portion. Of the 3 flavours that I bought, I like this flavour the best: Pandan, Santan and Gula Melaka wins over cocount mango jelly and longan soy jelly.

5.40 pm - 2 of 2 bak chang we bought on Friday 1 May 2020 d45 for MYR 6.50 nett. Both of us shared it.

Consistent with the 1 of 2, it has lean pork meat inside which I like. At 7 pm, I ate 2 slices of green gardenia wholemal bread and 1 slice of sprouted rainbow bread with 7 of 12 texas chicken tender so 5 left to clear.

Long wait

This lunch was eaten on the Sunday 15 March 2020 before stay-at-home time. There were many people in this eatery, Yang Kee at OUG so we had to wait for about 30 minutes for our meal. The servers were wearing masks which is good. We ordered the exact dishes we ate on Sunday 23 February 2020 but without the drink. A small mix beef noodles at MYR 9 nett and a small radish beef noodles at MYR 10.50 nett. Total MYR 19.50 nett. The portion is small enough for me to finish a bowl of noodles at one seating on my own. Now to eat this, have to order using those food delivery service app.

Moving on to my time stamped daily food lists.

*** Friday 1 May 2020 d45 ***

9.36 am - Since we bought big soft buns last Saturday 25 April 2020 d39, this is Not-My-Breakfast of the 5 of 5 soft bun with luncheon meat and egg. I believe this big soft bun is the same bun used for Ham, Luncheon Meat, Egg Apollo Bun at Imperial White Coffee, Kuchai Lama.

Who likes to put ketchup too?

10.30 am My Breakfast of a fried egg with raw tomatoes and 2 slices of frozen sprouted 7-grain rainbow bread. I was surprised to find that the frozen bread is soft even though I did not thaw it.

12.30 noon I finished the curry potatoes bought on Sunday 26 April 2020 d40 with a slice of soft white bread to soak up the gravy.

2 pm Cut the only fruit that is still here from the Fruit Box received on Friday 24 April 2020 d38 which is a guava. While I cut, I ate some pieces of guava including the middle part with some seeds.

4.20 pm I am very worried when I know that next Monday May 4 is an important day because it seems the majority of people can go back to work starting on that day so both of us went out in one car which is now allowed to go pick up takeaway bak kut teh that we paid for using Grab for tomorrow's lunch. The bak kut teh shop is 600 meters from our place and I could have walked there but it looks like it is going to rain so better to take the car. Then I noticed someone selling food in a nearby coffee shop so I went to take a look and saw Bak Chang selling for MYR 6.50 nett each so I bought 2 to try. Not that oily which I like but is a bit too salty for my liking but still tasty because some people will say that it is flavourful and that it is not salty. It has goat peas aka black eyed beans, mushroom, salted egg yolk and a piece of lean pork meat in it.

I like that they put in a piece of lean pork meat and there are no fatty pork parts in this bak chang.

From the same Bak Chang seller, I also bought these food items for a total of MYR 30 nett. These two egg tarts cost MYR 2.50 nett each and the two of us have one each. The taste is acceptable.

I also bought one kaya puff for MYR 2 nett which is now in my fridge.

5 mung beans or green beans pastry in a roll. I am not sure how much it costs because I have forgotten its price when the seller told me. This item and the noodles below cost MYR 10 nett.

***updated on 3 May 2020 d47 Sunday - went again and bought 2 more and asked for the price - it is MYR 4 nett***

5 pm - I like to eat mung beans pastry so I always buy them when I see them. I have bought different brand mung beans pastry from Medifoods, PJ and Organic Express, PJ and many other shops. Huat Huat KouPing has many other products as shown on its website. The mung bean pastry tastes more sweet than savoury and I ate two at one go at 5 pm. I could eat all 5 but I stop myself and keep 3 for tomorrow.

I also bought this pack of 10 bricks of Hicomi Dry noodles. I am not sure how much it is because I have forgotten it when the seller told me but I know that this pack of noodles and the mung bean pastry cost MYR 10 nett. 

***updated on 3 May 2020 d47 Sunday - went again and bought 2 more and asked for the price of the salted green bean pastry - it is MYR 4 nett which means this pack of noodles costs MYR 6 nett***

The wheat flour noodles look like this.

I like to eat red bean buns and this brand Sweetie (6 buns at MYR 3.40 nett) is one that I often buy. The taste is on par if not better than both Gardenia and Mighty White red bean buns. I bought this pack of red bean buns at SpeedMart which I also drop by on the same trip to get some household items such as dish washing liquid Sunlight Grapefruit flavour MYR 5.69 nett, Nescafe Gold sticks 20 for MYR 9.50 nett, one Gardenia green packet wholemeal bread at MYR 3.30 nett, a tub of Pringles sweet and sour cream, a tub of Mr Potato Tomato flavoured crisps, and a pack of paper towel at MYR 1 nett.

*** Thursday 30 April 2020 d44 ***

8.22 am - My breakfast of shared Nyonya Chang and Oyster Chang from Kim Wah bought on Saturday 25 April 2020 d39 so all Bak Chang from Kim Wah have been cleared from the fridge.

The oyster chang on the left tastes of the sea. The Nyonya chang is not quite the authentic sweet and blue nyonya chang but still tastes good. I was told it is sweet but upon eating it, it was not as sweet as I thought it would be so it is tasty to me as I love to eat soft glutinous rice.

10.09 am - Ate two segments of cold, raw cucumber to clear them from the fridge and to cleanse my palate.

12.40 noon - for lunch, we shared this pan of instant noodles, big bok choy, roast duck (bought from SRK Noodles on Saturday 18 April 2020 d32 so the roast duck is in the fridge for 12 days and still taste good.

Big bok choy, roast duck, wolfberries aka goji soup tastes like choy kon soup.

1 pm - my portion of instant noodles, two pieces of duck meat and some big bok choy (received on Sunday 19 April 2020 d33 so the vege is in the fridge for 11 days). Satisfying lunch due to the taste and also because it cleared two items from the fridge.

To Scoop or To Peel

Monday 27 April 2020 d41 - Time to cut the papaya bought on Saturday 25 April 2020 d39. So after cutting it into two halves, should I scoop the papaya out or just peel the skin?

I tried to scoop out the papaya but found that it is difficult to control as it is very juicy and soft so I ended up peeling the skin away and cutting it into pieces. Sweet and juicy! Ate the papaya for two days.

The peeled skins go into a compost pit and the seeds was scattered around the front yard to see whether they will grow into papaya trees or not.

Tuesday 28 April 2020 d42 - Time to cut the honey melon because due to inexperience, I put the honey melon on its side and that spot was bruised so I had to cut it though it was not very ripe yet. Since it was not that ripe, I could not scoop up the fruit but had to slice it and peel off the hard skin.

Since it is not that soft, I had to cut deep, leaving the hard meat on the skin so there was only two containers of honey melon to go into the fridge.