PasanKia

It's PC Fair again, colleague and I go to KLCC convention center to shop for some gadgets during lunch time and we had our lunch in the food court there.

There isn't much choices there.
I don't know much about Japanese food, gone to this ramen stall and ask for recommendation. The staff recommend something and I just take his recommendation. Damn, it's a Tom Yam Ramen with Chicken Cutter. Taste bad, the tom yam taste has overtook the chicken stok taste.

Colleagues order food from a stall named Asia Delight, the food are suck:

Conclusion: no nice food in KLCC Convention Center food court.

Today I’m going blog something different, a recipe! I was craving for something sweet, so decided to make a Tiramisu!

I do have few Tiramisu recipes on hand, all have slightly differe in ingredients. Some is using egg white; some is using egg yolk; some is not using egg at all. I don't know which is the most original Tiramisu recipe, thus I choose one of the simplest I have.

Ingredients

A)
2 Egg Yolks
50g Sugar

B)
1 teaspoon Gelatine
35ml Water

C)
250g Mascarpone Cheese

D)
150g Whip topping cream

E)
150ml Warm Water
80g Sugar
4 teaspoons Instance Coffee Powder
2 teaspoons Kahlua (or any coffee liquer)

F)
6 pieces Lady Fingers (Sponge Fingers)

G)
Cocoa Powder

Clockwise from the top left: Mascarpone Cheese, Lady Fingers (Sponge Fingers), Ingredients for Coffee Syrups (Kahlua, instant coffee powder, sugar), Gelatine.


Method

1. Whip the whipping cream and set a side for later use (keep in fridge)
   


2. Whisk (A) over a pan of simmering water until it thickens.


3. Mix (B) and place over a pot of hot water. Stir until gelatine dissolves. Add it into (A) and mix until well blended. Set aside to cool for a while.
   


4. Beat (C) until smooth. Fold it into the above mixture and mix until well blended.
   
   
5. Fold in whipped cream (D) and mix until well combined. (Caution: Fold it lightly or else you will spoil the texture!)
   


6. Mix ingredient (E) to make coffee syrups. Let it cool down.
   


7. Cut the lady fingers into sections.


8. Prepare 6 serving glasses (or any container you want to keep the tiramisu). Fill the glasses with some cheese filling. Dip the lady fingers into coffee syrups and place it on the cheese filling. Fill some more cheese filling and top with soaked lady fingers. Top it with cheese filling and refrigerate until firm (forgot to snap photo for this step).


9. Remove from the fridge and dust with cocoa powder.
   

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Have you ever notice this restaurant in Taman Mewah, right opposite of Kelana Jaya LRT Station? The restaurant painted in yellow and shine with spotlights at night. It caught my sight everytime I drive thru the LDP. Since I have some free time on Monday afterwork, so decided to give it a try.

I make a mistake actually, this is not a good time to eat crabs as there are full moon out there. Crabs tend to softer and less meat when full moon. Should have look at the sky or check out the Chinese lunar calender before ordering crabs :p

Anyway, this is what we had:

Claypot Butter Crab (RM30.00). I love this, it's comparable to the same dish from Wong Poh Restaurant at Dataran Prima.


Salted Duck Egg Crab (RM30.00). This is the first time I eat crab prepared in this way, not bad.


Stir Fried Brussels Sprouts (RM8.00) It look so greenish, according to the waitress, this was prepared by master chef.

If normal crab can no longer satisfy your appetite, they have others for you, try out their king crab, selling at RM269 per kilograms! Well, if that is still not enuff, try their "Value for Money" set menu. "Value meal" selling is at RM8,888 for a table of 10, OMG!

"Value Meal" make up of:

1. Speciality Four Seasons Appetiser – RM400
2. Stewed Superior Shark’s Fin Soup (individual serving) – RM2,400
3. Geoduck Sashimi / Superior Boiled – RM400
4. Lobster Sashimi / Superior Boiled – RM520
5. Superior Stewed Abalone (individual serving) – RM2,000
6. Steamed So Mei (fish) in Hong Kong Style – RM1,000
7. Speciality King Crab – RM1, 500
8. Hong Kong Style Roasted Young Pigeon – RM340
9. Braised Noodles with Lobster Head – RM40
10. Stewed Bird’s Blood Nest with Rock Sugar (individual serving) – RM2,400

The total value: RM11,000
Can somebody buy me that dinner? :p


Restoran King Crab
No. 103-105, Jalan SS25/2
Taman Mewah Jaya
47301 Petaling Jaya
Tel: +603-7808 2388
Business hours: Daily, 11am to 2.30pm, 6pm to 11pm


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Bak Kut Teh(BKT) is one of the most popular Malaysian food. Klang, where PasanKia live is famous of BKT, there are over 200 BKT shops and hawker stalls in Klang! (unofficial count)

A lot of people believe Klang is the origin of BKT, you can see some BKT shop branded as Klang BKT in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor Bahru, or even in Singapore! Well, some story telling that BKT is acutally invented by a guy from Guan Zhou, China. The BKT recipe then passed to a friend, and the friend of the inventor came to Klang and commercialize the BKT. Hence, everyone is believe Klang was the origin because Klang was the first place to sell BKT.

From what I know, there are at least 2 variation of BKT:

1. Soupy, savoury with strong taste of herbs. Almost all BKT in Klang are classified in this type.
2. Soupy, savoury with less taste of herbs. You can find this type of BKT in KL, JB and Singapore.
   

On serving style, there are 2 type:

1. Serve in octagonal bowls. This is how BKT was serve originally.
2. Serve in clay pot. Clay pot become more popular these day as Clay pot can keep the head, plus normally serve with other ingredients like vegetables, button mushrooms, golden needle mushroom, fried bean curd strips and etc.
   

Octagonal bowls BKT usually taste richer than clay pot BKT. This is due to clay pot added other ingredients to neutralize the taste.

Saturday morning, eatinout and SG drive all the way to Klang for BKT, it was 7:30am in the morning! We went to the original shop where BKT started, call Kedai Makanan Teck Teh, it's commonly known as "the store under the bridge" in Klang. Teck Teh has been around for more than 60 years (I dunno the exact age), the current owner is the 3rd generation.

Teck Teh restaurant occupied in a pre-war building. Can you see the Ah Pek in front of the photo? He told me he has been eating Teck Teh BKT since young. I do notice all Teck Teh's customers are older generation too :p




So, how does the Teck Teh BKT taste? Well, the soup was fine with me, but the meat was too dry and hard, due to I ordered the non-fat meat :p I can't comment much, do check out eatinout for his comment.


Kedai Makanan Teck Teh
Last shop in Jalan Stesen Satu, 41800 Klang.


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Hot mama is not hot woman, Hot mama is a restaurant in Sungei Wang Plaza.

Friday lunch, everyone asked to go out for lunch 2~3 hours due to office carpet is under cleaning. Since it's a big group of us, we need to find a place big place to host us and pricing must be affordable. Hence, Restaurant Hot Mama. Sadly, I don't see any "Hot Mama" in the restaurant. :D

Overall, Hot Mama offer normal food with normal price.

Restaurant Hot Mama
E-50, 4th Floor, Sungei Wang Plaza
Jalan Sultan Ismail
55100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03- 2148 1366


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My family has a tradition of making Popiah during Qing Ming Festival and Ghost Festival. Yesterday was Qing Ming, so its popiah time. Mom has prepared quite a lot, my sister was bringing her colleagues and friends home for popiah.

I return home late, too bad, I can only can eat the left over.
These are the left over, some of the ingredients already finished, still taste good though. :D


To make a popiah, first spread the sweet sauce (we use Lee Kum Kee hoisin sauce) and homemade chillies sauce on the popiah skin.


Place all the ingredients together, jicama (sengkuang) filling (mixed with minced meat, prawn, carrots, string beans, chinese sausage, tofu, mushroom), deep fried onion, grinded peanut, bean sprouts, vegetables, cucumbers.


Wrap and that’s it. It’s yummy.

My mom’s popiah is fantastic, therefore I’ll hardly want to order popiah from restaurant outside, the quality has no way close to homemade popiah :p

Anyway, these only some left over food for me, check out boo_licious blog, she has a wonderful popiah party last week.


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