Latest Update 2010

Bandar Baru Bangi

1. Yankees : Great grilled fish but service are SLOW, located opposite kajang tol SHELL there's huge neon light sign 'YANKEES'
   
2. Secret Recipe: For some cake indulgence and more 'classy' food, located opposite PKNS
   
3. Restaurant Ayam Kampung dan Gulai Kawah : Great FOOD kampung style, located beside Warta.
4. Soho Thai restaurant you'll see this restaurant once you entered bangi thru Kajang tol its just by the road side beside Rimba Klasik restaurant. they also have another outlet in Sungai Merab. Rimba Klasik is also serving good food and they have nice ambiance too.
5. Old Town Kopitiam: wah this one actually my family's fave hanging spot.in case you're wondering its a malaysian style coffee house
   
6. Old Timer Kopitiam: located nearby old town kopitiam different food selection from old town and their mee and soups are quite tasty.
7. Bangi Kopitiam is also a place to hang out...i don't like the food as its not to my taste bud standards but its still a place to hang out and indulge in snacks plus its the poineer of kopitiam in bangi and it has some how become a land mark here.
   
8. Papa Rich kopitiam: is a great hang out place most of the time the place is full. i love their fried penang kue tiaw
9. Wong Solo: its an Indonesian food restaurant specialized in ayam penyet. if you are chilli lover then this is the place where you can get hot and sweaty coz the sambal/chili sauce is really HOT! but my family loves this place coz the chicken served is ayam kampung/organic chicken and the rice is nicely cooked soft and steamy hot.
10. BBB Tom Yam: you may gonna have problem finding this place coz its the housing area in Section 1 or Fasa 1 very near to the famous SURAU AN NUR or the Darulsyifa' (you can ask bangi people they should know where). this place serves great tom yam soup and the over all food is also good. it only open at night if i'm not mistaken.
11. there's a Korean style BBQ restaurant at sec 7 i can't remember the name of the restaurant its red something i'm not sure but its a korean style BBQ buffet with wide variations of seafood, meat and chicken, veges ice cream etc its a complete BBQ steamboat thing going on it heavenly for those who loves BBQ and steamboat like me.how to go there? from the sec 7 traffic light just go straight and you'll see a lot dedicated just for this restaurant on your right. ...
12. Restaurant Sup Urat Keting: if you like kelantan food like nasi berlauk, nasi kerabu ayam percik etc and soups this is the place. their menu is alot to chooce from. my last visit there, i'd say medium to fair but their specialty is the ox tail soup, 'urat keting' soup (i dunno how to translate that...) soup in general
13. Restaurant Lengkuas : great malay style food mostly pantai timur dish. our family loves to have breakfast there coz lots of choice and all tasty too, they even have kuih for us to choose which is rarely served in a tom yam shop like this. although i think the kuih is only served day time.

Puterajaya

1. Precint 9 food court : all food overe there are not too bad comparing else where in Puterajaya, the foods are consistant, tasty but not that cheap.
2. Sushi King @ Alamanda : just for a change for sushi and an afordable japanese food
3. Johnny's @ Alamanda: Great Steamboat
4. Alamanda Food Court: not always consistent but my fave would be the chicken rice stall, Yong Taufoo stall and the noodle stall
5. Sahara Tent in Alamanda : Middle East cuisine. my husband and i absolutly LOVES this place .i love the bread served there and hubby loves their mutton eggplant curry; the 'bathenjan'. hubby literally ate it all clean and i never seen him do that b4.

Kuala Lumpur

1. Susy's Corner: Great Steak with rather large portion but cheap its a Victoria Station teh cheaper version, located in Ampang.
   
2. Yoshinoya: this is my son and i fave japanese fast food, they're available in Mid Valley,KLCC,One Utama...just to name a few
3. Tupai Tupai: great food but i'm not sure where its located but if you ever heard of it just go and try.
4. Plaza Hartamas: Foods are great but EXPENSIVE! no i dun wanna spend RM10 for a drink!
5. Desa Pandan: Rendezvous restaurant located just by the roadside they serves affordable steaks and grill menu literally copy and paste from VICTORIA's STATION (well at least i think so) non the less its affordable...
6. Jalan Ampang near Sucasa Condo i can't remember its name but its just beside sucasa there's a lovely persian restaurant that serves great persian food. well at least our family approves of it ;)
   

Selangor

1. Up Town, Damansara Utama: this is one of my fave lepak place, foods are good and not so expensive...
2. The Carnival : all you can eat steak and grill buffet...yummy!
3. Mutiara Damansara: Mama DeeDee's serves GREAT Sumatera's and Padang food

how to make chocolate ribbons

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chocolate curls

how to make a perfect chocolate curls...observe... ;)



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Up date on Places to eat in Malaysia

Bandar Baru Bangi

1. Yankees : Great grilled fish but service are SLOW, located opposite kajang tol SHELL there's huge neon light sign 'YANKEES'
   
2. Secret Recipe: For some cake indulgence and more 'classy' food, located opposite PKNS
   
3. Restaurant Ayam Kampung dan Gulai Kawah : Great FOOD kampung style, located beside Warta.
4. Soho Thai restaurant you'll see this restaurant once you entered bangi thru Kajang tol its just by the road side beside Rimba Klasik restaurant. they also have another outlet in Sungai Merab. Rimba Klasik is also serving good food and they have nice ambiance too.
5. Old Town Kopitiam: wah this one actually my family's fave hanging spot.in case you're wondering its a malaysian style coffee house
   
6. Old Timer Kopitiam: located nearby old town kopitiam different food selection from old town and their mee and soups are quite tasty.
7. Bangi Kopitiam is also a place to hang out...i don't like the food as its not to my taste bud standards but its still a place to hang out and indulge in snacks plus its the poineer of kopitiam in bangi and it has some how become a land mark here.
   

Puterajaya

1. Precint 9 food court : all food overe there are not too bad comparing else where in Puterajaya, the foods are consistant, tasty but not that cheap.
2. Sushi King @ Alamanda : just for a change for sushi and an afordable japanese food
3. Johnny's @ Alamanda: Great Steamboat
4. Alamanda Food Court: not always consistent but my fave would be the chicken rice stall, Yong Taufoo stall and the noodle stall

Kuala Lumpur

1. Susy's Corner: Great Steak with rather large portion but cheap its a Victoria Station teh cheaper version, located in Ampang.
   
2. Yoshinoya: this is my son and i fave japanese fast food, they're available in Mid Valley,KLCC,One Utama...just to name a few
3. Tupai Tupai: great food but i'm not sure where its located but if you ever heard of it just go and try.
4. Plaza Hartamas: Foods are great but EXPENSIVE! no i dun wanna spend RM10 for a drink!
5. Desa Pandan: Rendezvous restaurant located just by the roadside they serves affordable steaks and grill menu literally copy and paste from VICTORIA's STATION (well at least i think so) non the less its affordable...
6. Jalan Ampang near Sucasa Condo i can't remember its name but its just beside sucasa there's a lovely persian restaurant that serves great persian food. well at least our family approves of it ;)
   

Selangor

1. Up Town, Damansara Utama: this is one of my fave lepak place, foods are good and not so expensive...
2. The Carnival : all you can eat steak and grill buffet...yummy!
3. Mutiara Damansara: Mama DeeDee's serves GREAT Sumatera's and Padang food

Places to eat in Malaysia

Just the other day i was bored but was also too lazy and tired to cook. I'm living in Bangi which is about 45minutes to 1 hour from KL that is if there's no traffic jams...a little bit about Bandar Baru Bangi, Bangi is apparently a Knowledge City (i didn't know that until just now when i google about bangi) but its no suprise coz we ARE surrounded by Colleges and Universities *Go Figure!* anyway we're actually a big town but only some part of it were 'growing' or developed...we don't have Jaya Jusco nor Isetan nor Parkson nor Carrefour nor Tesco its such a boring town *snoozzz* we only have a small supermarket Warta now known as Bintang which oddly always crowded with people (i suppose that'll waht happen when you have no choice).

But when it comes to food we're suppose to have lots of choice. There's many food stalls and restaurants but then the problem is that they were great at first or when they're 'just opened' then they just lost it...so actual fact is that with all the choices we have only few that had actually made in my list...so enuf blabbering now here come the list

Bandar Baru Bangi

1. Yankees : Great grilled fish but service are SLOW, located opposite kajang tol SHELL there's huge neon light sign 'YANKEES'
   
2. Secret Recipe: For some cake indulgence and more 'classy' food, located opposite PKNS
   
3. Restaurant Ayam Kampung dan Gulai Kawah : Great FOOD kampung style, located beside Warta.

Puterajaya

1. Precint 9 food court : all food overe there are not too bad comparing else where in Puterajaya, the foods are consistant, tasty but not that cheap.
2. Sushi King @ Alamanda : just for a change for sushi and an afordable japanese food
3. Johnny's @ Alamanda: Great Steamboat
4. Alamanda Food Court: not always consistant but my favarouit would be the chicken rice stall, Yong Taufoo stall and the noodle stall

Kuala Lumpur

1. Susy's Corner: Great Steak with rather large portion but cheap its a Victoria Station teh cheaper version, located in Ampang.
   
2. Yoshinoya: this is my son and i fave japanese fast food, they're available in Mid Valley,KLCC,One Utama...just to name a few
3. Tupai Tupai: great food but i'm not sure where its located but if you ever heard of it just go and try.
4. Plaza Hartamas: Foods are great but EXPENSIVE! no i dun wanna spend RM10 for a drink!

Selangor

1. Up Town, Damansara Utama: this is one of my fave lepak place, foods are good and not so expensive...
2. The Carnival : all you can eat steak and grill buffet...yummy!

there's more but i'll just have to update it later...so stay tuned!!

Some Great Books to share

lately i'm in a craze of buying cook books and i found some great books with great recipes...(you know how some books doesn't really give the correct recipes...so that no matter how many times you tried the recipe you end up having the same result -blurgh-unsuccessful ?) news flash...sometimes they hide the 'vital' ingredients that makes the dish great and edible...;)

but these books..(i've tried some of the recipes) is great...great out come, great taste...and i thought i've to share what i've been reading...

so here it is:
this book is great coz it have all sorts of brownies recipes including blondies..so you'll have varities of browines to try. The only down side of this book is that its like a text book only with no PICTURES so its abit boring to explore the book..honestly i prefer books with lots of pictures ;)

sneak peek of the inside of the book

this has literally became my text book! it actually have 2 editions the beginners and advance both book are great! they teach you step by step of how to make cakes, glaze,fondant and decoration technics and the rest is your imagination!

this book is not as great as i hoped it to be...tried some of its recipe but most often then not it didn't turned out as good...probably its because she didn't really explain about the technics used in the cooking process...coz i think the recipe is correct (at least i think so)...you know how malay kuih are, they're complicated...sigh~ hope that she'll explain more on the cooking technics!

Chocolate Modeling pt2

Now that the chocolate clay is 'set' for modeling, we can start on the flower design...
before that you'd need your rolling pin, leaf design cutter, plastic wrap,tooth picks, polystyrene foam.

1. Take an inch or smaller cube of a chocolate clay and knead it with your hands until its pliable. Form it into a cone that will become the core of a flower. (see above)
   
2. Place the cone on a tooth pick and insert it on the foam. Repeat 11 times and allow it to harden. this may take about an hour.

3. When the cone is hardened, make the petals. For each petal, take a piece of the chocolate clay about 1/2" size and make a flat disk (like below) about the diameter of a nickel (or larger if you're making large flowers) and about 1/4" thick. Place disk between layers of plastic wrap.

4. On a flat surface, or with the disk slightly cupped in the palm of 1 hand, press with the fingers of the other hand on top of the plastic to thin one side of the disk, shaping the delicate top of the petal. leave the other side a little thicker, where you'll join the at the base of the core.

5. Remove the core on its tooth pick from the foam. Press the thicker side of the petal to the core near the bottom to attach it.

6. continue to make petals, increasing gradually in size and layer them, moving upward on the core, until you've reach the size of the flower you desire. 3 petals are sufficient to create a bud; 5-7 to make a full rose.

7. Gently shape the petals by pressing their edges with the cel stickor cuticle stick.

8. Place the rose on its toothpick,back onto the foam.

1. As for the leaves, take 1" of the chocolate clay, warm it with your hands then roll it into a circle 1/8 thick.
   
2. Use a leaf-shaped cutter to cut out the leaf shape. use a toothpick to decorate the veins. (as above picture)
   

The finished product decorated on the Black Forest Cake... nice huh?