Dessert after Chicken Rice Ball @ Mallacca

Following the excellent chicken rice ball, it's important that I didn't fill up my stomach too fully. As there was some other excellent stuff to taste and the food must match the timing to create that extra belly filled happiness.

Where is it?
It's advisable to go walk around the area as it's near the A Famosa ruins and also the red church.

So once you begin to lighten the load or your stomach, you're ready for round two. You would have to walk back to the place where the chicken rice was and follow the small lane inside.

And soon you will reach a antique feel kopi tiam with two stalls and two long queues of people outside. The length of the queue would probably depends on when are you visiting. So if you're hitting that spot on the weekends, do remember to bring friends so some can wait outside while the other jom some place to sit.

And oh, they even have their own website here Jonker.

One stall is selling laksa while the other is selling the abc. You don't have a choice, try both of them please...

We ordered two types of laksa: one is the northern Penang like flavor laksa which is spicy and should manage to whip up your appetite more.

While the other is southern Singapore like laksa with lots and lots of coconut milk which makes your feel full and drowsy. So totally opposite taste to rock your taste bud and perhaps your stomach too.

But if you would really have to pick one then i would go for the spicy laksa as the second really was ok but taste bud wise it felt rather bland.

It's almost insane to eat something that hot and spicy during the course of the afternoon as the heat from outside was like a house on fire. But luckily we have some secret weapons stored at the back to deal with this situation properly.

The secret weapons unveiled:
I'm used to eating Penang style abc where they usually have a bunch of crushed ice, some reddish color syrup, some corns and red beans and even atapchi..

But this, ladies and germs, are a different species altogether. The black colored thing on top of those snow hills are the lovely gula malacca, and if you're wondering why your normal serving probaby doesn't have this much gula malacca is because we're trying to break our liver fast by adding them ourselves.

It's cold and sweet, and everything that you would need in a hot afternoon and especially after a spicy laksa meal. It kinds of reminds me of a old song... ais kacang, ais, ais kacang, bila cuaca panas dan rasa dahaga...

To sum it up, i wouldn't think that they can lead the cast in a stomach appealing ensemble, but they do play supporting roles very well. So if you're not looking to overload your stomach or the malacca weather is melting your brain then you would definitely want to revisit this place.

Chicken ball rice @ malacca, you got to taste to believe it

Coming off from the chicken rice high at Boon Keng, we proceed to a different city to find a new challenger. Although it's not really your typical chicken rice, it does have the basic recipe for one, rice and chicken, the only difference is that the rice is rolled up in a ball shape, which should remind you of those glutinous rice they used in sushi.

So that's basically what I was expecting to eat and taste when thinking about this one. But as I was dead wrong last time, I'm again very glad to be proven wrong once more. If you search online on what to eat in malacca you pretty much will stumble upon this delicacy too, and what's more it has to be this stall.

And it's true that you want to go there early too, as you would need to wait queue, and if you want to have a shorter waiting time, bring a party of at least 3 people or more so that you can order a whole chicken and they will seat you down rather quickly. The place feels like your normal kopi tiam too with the exception of the people forming a queue outside the shop.

The rice balls look normal until you bring near enough and you can smell the hainanese soya sauce on it, and when you take a bite into it, it holds well enough not to crumble and the bite feels like eating your normal ba-chang glutinous rice, but the soya sauce just blend well enough with the rice to make it taste so darn good!

So then this is the awkward part, how do you eat the rice together with the chicken? Well take a chunk of the slightly soggy with the special soya sauce chicken meat and after a bite, you realize that you don't have too. So you can just eat them separately but having them side by side to eat just makes the experience so much more awesome...certainly i have reached the chicken rice heaven..

Although a whole chicken sounds a lot, but it was quickly pillaged away to bones which probably the only problem with this delicious meal, having the ease of eating the rice ball and having to struggle not to choke to death on the tasty chicken was quite a task. As these chickens comes with so much bones, it's rather hard to eat without having to split out some of the minor bones fragments.

But still this is a must-eat and i can't wait for the next time i go back there!!

Chicken rice near Boon Keng MRT SG

My friend told me that there's a very delicious chicken rice somewhere in Boon Keng, as a dude who's more than familiar with chicken rice, as i've tasted many stalls of chicken rice in my hey day, ranging from hainanese chicken rice, to chicken rice with soya sprout sauce, and many others.

They weren't bad but to say that any of it is excellent is probably an exaggeration as after all it's just chicken and white rice, how good or different could it be?

But i'm always more than glad to be proven wrong in this type of situation... hehe
It was somewhat of a restaurant type feel, we waited for a while before we're seated, the deco looks good, the people looks satisfied, everythings good to go it would seem.

So we ordered a chicken, a fried taufu, some vegetables and since my friend wanted to have some pork, we order a dish of ku lou yuk too, can't translate this as i don't know what the first two words means but only the last words mean meat in cantonese.

the chicken seems deceivingly simple, white meat with a little soya sauce on it...
a bite into the soft aromatic meat is already well worth the trip.

then i was to try the fried tofu, as i was told that the skin of the tofu doesn't touch the tofu, haha.
i know it sounds dumb but at least it's special so you take one piece of it and dip it into some cold mayo sauce and take the bite. make sure the tofu is still deep fried hot when you eat it like this. mmm...

the rice was excellent too, it's aromatic and whatever sauce that they put on it was just enough to make it really tasty. too bad i didn't remember to take a picture of that one, i guess i was too busy trying to eat, hehe.

in case you're wondering what the vegetable looks like, here it is:
it's just lightly cooked with some oyster sauce on it, thick and sweet.
and the vegetable?

soft and cooked just right.

although i can't say the same for the ku lou yok, it's nothing special and it doesn't really mix well with the taste for the rest of the dishes, in fact i would go so far as to say that the taste actually makes the rest doesn't taste as well. it's too overpowering..

so skip that one, go with the rest of the stuff that i've mentioned here. it would blow you away!

in case you're wondering what the place is call, it's boon tong kee, and i just found out that they have a few outlets in around singapore. so take your pick.

Yungkee roasted goose rice? a wild geese chase in the end...

Before i went to hong kong, there's this urge to try the roasted goose meat as it seems to be really delicious feast from all the tvb drama series where you can see the actors in the drama going to extra mile to buy some roast goose.

So i checked online and found this so called famous roast goose rice place called Yung Kee in hong kong. the place looks extravagant and i should say when i went in the first thing that across my mind was how much money do i have right now?

as when i sit down and check the first few pages of the menu, everything was over $hkd3xx. and i think i even manage to saw the actress in the 2002 nicholas tse ghost movie. so i knew this was going to burn a hole in my pocket.

but after checking out the individual set rice, it wasn't that bad.

but i went there at around 5pm or so and was told that the roasted goose was no more and we had to wait until 6pm for some. so i tried the chicken rice and the bbq pork meat rice instead.

i was hungry enough to eat a horse, but seriously there's nothing special at all about the chicken rice, the chicken average and the rice wasn't really that sweet scented or anything...

and the bbq rice o man, it was such a let down dude, this people are specialist? awww, come on, especially for those kind of price, this totally suck ass...

but there's one thing that's not bad, which was the onion thingy, but that alone definitely wasn't good enough to eat the rice set....

but i came back later to the shop and buy the famous roasted goose rice, well it tasted pretty much like duck meat and although the picture below looks kind of good, but the taste just wasn't really that special.... as the sauce to the rice just was a letdown after another letdown...

so yeah overall, if you're not really looking to be disappointed with an inexpensive and average tasting roasted chicken | goose | bbq pork meat rice set, just skip this dump and save your hard earned dough for something more taste bud stimulating goodies instead.

horton hears a who!

usually i don't go for animation type movies, because it would seems lately the cinemas has been flooded with this type of movies.

and just to name a few bad ones, hehe, i don't really get madagascar 1 or 2. but this one was a little bit different, well for one, they have both jim carrey and steve carrell, i've wanted to see how these two brilliant funnyman would act together.

so although it's just an animation, i'll take what i can get.

it's based on dr. seuss, so there's cute rhyming dialogues all over, and at times you could almost get too much of jim carrey. but the animation is amazing, and the storyline isn't that bad.

but perhaps i'm bias as i'm a jim carrey fan. either way, if you're looking for a feel good animation movie, you can't go wrong with this one.

i say what i meant, and i meant what i said, that's how you be an elephant 100 percent?

roadside food stall goodies @ hong kong

one of the things that you would want to do, no scratch that, that you MUST do is to test the road side stall food in hong kong.

if you've ever watch a tvb drama series before, you would imagine those nice little push cart stalls where they will scream "chau kai" then the police raids!!

ahhh, a small lil push cart food stall on the road side picture.

nah, it's not, why because there isn't any left to be seen. either that or maybe i don't know where they're hiding, or perhaps they have been raided...


what you might be seeing if you're in the vicinity of mongkok would be something more like this:

yessss, my preciooooussssss.. all those junk food that you know is bad for you.. but they look so good... must try ... just one..

and you definitely know when there's one around the corner. as you can probably smell the stinky tofu from a mile away, esp if you visit hong kong during the cold months... the smells will stink up the whole street.

but i digress, as i would like to introduce the real stars of the show:

Meet the notorious stinky tofu:
i remember that i've read somewhere, the more the smell stinks, the better it taste, so while i hold my nose when i queue to buy this, i was a lil anxious to taste it. so much that i didn't even bother to put any sauce on it...

there goes a big bite, as my tongue begin to interpret the taste, in within one sec of my bite, the first thought was it taste like rotten cheese!!! and i almost puke it out... but we're on a public street, and public image always win over personal sufferings, so i swallowed it whole...

what was my verdict after the first bite.. WTF?!!! people eat this shit? i immediately move to the nearest recycle bin and dispose of it.

Next, was the formidable curry fishball, i was a little skeptical after the stinky tofu, but hey i had fish ball before, so how bad could this be right?

so from afar, it just looks like a bunch of fishball drowning in hot curry soup. so what did it taste like? it was rather hot and oily...

but the taste was actually like how it looks, take some fish ball simmer them in a hot curry long enough, and that's pretty much how it taste like. it taste better with some sweet sauce, and from my exp, diff stalls have different taste.

one of the stall that i saw kept recycling the oils that they use to grill some meat, and no suprise their curry fishball sux!!!! the fish ball has no fish ball taste, the curry doesn't taste like curry, it's a failure of failures!!!!

so after that, what's next?
well... i can't believe i can spew out so much crap for just review of two foods.

so here's some eye candy until the next one.
hehehe

Quarantine the movie, yea it should have been quaratined from public view

so in case you haven't watch dexter, no, not the fat short stubby lab genius with russian accent, but the dark and lovable hack-er.
she's the one playing dexter's loud mouth, serial killer magnet, cop sister.

her character kind of suck in the movie, because at least in the series she was quite strong and kick ass in her own way. in this movie she's just a scared lil girl, yes, she really look that scared as in the poster.

the movie, kind of reminds me of cloverfield a lot, except that with a smaller set. it all happens just in the apartment building, crappy all around characters and pretty much a typical zombie flick.

don't let the bio weapon crap fool ya, it's just a zombie flick folks.
all in all, waste of time and money, if i want to watch a good video taken in green light type environment, i'll go for paris hilton's video.

quarantine this movie, and save your hard earned buck instead.