FOODlog #47: Korean Chicken Fried Rice 2 Sunday's ago me and some friends went to Sopoong for lunch after church. This is my 2nd time to this Korean restaurant. My 1st experience there wasn't too great and I remember the food being underwhelming so I wasn't high on expectation for the food this time. For myself, I ordered their chicken fried rice. Being not very high in expectation, I really enjoyed the fried rice. The chicken pieces were boneless chicken thigh meat that was…
FOODlog #48: Bitter Gourd Cooked 2-Ways Mum cooked some super delicious lunch using an ingredient called *bitter gourd*. Bitter gourd is a type of gourd that has some bitter taste to it but if prepared correctly and cooked right it'll give an amazing natural sweetness and a unique and amazing flavor. She cooked 2 dishes which were bitter gourd with slices or pork and a bitter gourd omelette. These are some of my favorite dishes and it's always such a treat when my mum cooks…
FOODlog #49: Beef Rendang There is a local stall by the roadside nearby where I live that sells really delicious Malay cuisine. It's just a make-do shack that they built and they've been at the same location for 30 years. The food has been good all these years and is still being operated by the same family. They serve really good 'roti canai', 'nasi lemak', and Malay mix rice where they serve 15-20 dishes every day that's cooked fresh. One of the things I really love is…
FOODlog #50: Father's Day Pizza from My Son Tried 3 pizzas from Pizza Roma. The Pepperoni Pizza, Smoked Duck with Pineapple and Olives, and the mushroom pizza with truffle oil. Everything tasted yummy particularly the bread. My favorite of the 3 which I wasn't expecting was the smoked duck and pineapple pizza. The combination of the sauce, duck slices, olives and pineapple, and also thinly sliced onions made each bite very well balanced flavor wise. Interesting and unique.…
FOODlog #51: Beef Curry with Rice & Stewed Cabbage One of the staples I have in my diet is curry and rice. I love curry and the different varieties and also variations to making it. Whether it's Malay curry, Chinese curry, Indian curry, Japanese curry, I love especially with rice. On the way back home recently, me and my family stopped by a local Indian Muslim eatery that serves all sorts of curries. They have beef curry, mutton curry, chicken curry, fish curry, and…
FOODlog #52: Soy & Garlic Chicken Wings Cooked some garlic soy chicken wings for my family. I'm trying to start a Facebook page that's food related and I'm now in the midst of gathering content and editing videos together with some friends. We already have a page that has 20k+ followers so all we need to do is create video content and post it up. For the wings I wanted a Korean-ish inspired flavor so after cleaning them, I marinated them for 20 minutes at room temperature…
FOODlog #53: Chicken Briyani with Potato & Egg Curry Me and some friends went for lunch at NAAN Corner Restaurant MR BOOM 1983 two Sundays ago. It's a place near where I stay about 7-8 minutes drive from my house. It's a place that's been open for a couple of years now but we've never been there so we decided to give this place a try. I ordered their Nasi Briyani with chicken. I was in the mood for some curry and rice and this plate really hit the spot. The rice was fragrant…
FOODlog #54: Omelette with Soy Sauce Minced Pork Cooked lunch for my sons last week. It was only for lunch so I made a simple meal and wanted to cook 'Telur Bungkus'. It's an omelette dish that has a meat filling in it with some vegetables. Well I had that in mind but it kindda failed. It still turned out quite alright in terms of the taste but it wasn't what I had in mind. I didn't execute it well and had too much oil as well as it used too much eggs so it was too fluffy…
FOODlog #55: Hokkien Noodles in Kuala Lumpur Ever since I was a kid, I love to eat this local noodle dish called 'Hokkien Mee'. There's also another dish of the same name called 'Penang Hokkien Mee' but it's not to be mistaken with this one. It's a totally different dish and this one is popular here in Kuala Lumpur. You can find this dish cooked at almost any Chinese restaurant but not everywhere serves good ones. Here's one that I ate recently that's from a stall nearby…
FOODlog #56: Malaysian Kurma Chicken Kurma chicken curry is unique here to Malaysia. It is an Indian cuisine dish but localized to the flavor profile of Malaysians. It is loaded with spices like cumin powder, coriander powder, fennel powder, and some turmeric powder. HOW TO MAKE IT It's a fairly simple dish to make and it starts with blending up onions, garlic, and ginger with some water so it makes a thick paste. This is the beginning of the curry. This paste is then cooked…
FOODlog #57: Ribeye Beef Bulgogi Cooked lunch for my family 2 weeks ago and I made Korean beef bulgogi. It's a Korean stir fry dish using beef and some simple ingredients such as soy sauce, sesame oil, spring onions, and pear. I normally would use pear but I didn't have any in hand so I used apples instead. It turn out really nice as well although definitely go for pear if you have it. Bulgogi is super easy dish to make and I've been experimenting with different types of…
FOODlog #58: Ribeye Steak with Whiskey Cream Mushroom Sauce Was clearing my kitchen cabinet and found this bottle of really good whiskey that I had way back from when one of my friends got married. They had some unopened bottles left after their wedding so I took home a bottle and it's been sitting in my kitchen cabinet for years. Decided to use it for a dish for cooking and since I got some ribeye steaks from my brother, I cooked a medium rare steak with a whiskey cream…
FOODlog #59: Fried Chicken Drumsticks Fried chicken is one of my favorite food to eat. Since it's hard to cook them at home, if I do eat it, it's normally from a stall or something. For lunch the other day, my wife bought back some fried chicken and 2 vegetable dishes from a 'mamak' restaurant. The size on these chicken drumsticks were huge. Although the skin was not crispy as it was a takeaway and by the time it reached back home it wasn't crispy, the taste of the chicken…
FOODlog #60: Nasi Lemak with Fried Chicken Last Sunday I went lunch with my family and friends after church to a hawker center called 'God Taste'. Not sure if it was a typo on the word "good" or was it on purpose naming a restaurant that but yeah that's where we went for lunch. Haha There are about 15 stalls over there with lots of varieties of food to choose from. There's rice dishes, noodle dishes and also some stalls that sell snacks. I ordered for myself some 'Nasi…
FOODlog #61: French Beans & Water Spinach Stir Fry A simple lunch cooked by my Mum for both lunch and dinner. We normally eat the same dishes for both lunch and dinner as it's easier and also cheaper to cook bigger portion meals especially when you're cooking for 5 people. It saves a lot of cooking time and also you'll only have to busy yourself in the early part of the day with prepping meals. We had 2 different vegetables for lunch and dinner today though which was…
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