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FOODlog #172: Portobello Katsu Sando One of the really beautiful looking dishes at Superluna cafe is their Sandos. It's a Japanese inspired type of sandwich using Japanese milk loaf bread which are soft yet chewy at the same time. Its also sturdy at the same time so it holds up well when you pick it up to eat. The 'Portobello Katsu Sando' is one of the popular dishes that is often ordered by customers. It looks really beautiful when plated and of course taste really…
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FOODlog #173: Cheese Steak Sourdough Sandwich Another dish that has some really good quality ingredients is the cheese steak sandwich at Superluna Cafe. They serve this item all morning and afternoon but normally people only order this dish for lunch. You can add on to the meal a side of salad or fries. Their salad is a mixture of frisse lettuce and rocket that is tossed with in-house made salad dressing which is made out of dijon mustard and vinegar which is really…
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FOODlog #174: Filipino Bicol Express 2 weeks ago we had our Filipino colleague cook for us lunch. He made some delicious Filipino food that we had with rice. The Filipino and Malaysian cuisine has some similarities in the sense we have a lot of the same sort of ingredients just combined slightly differently but we do enjoy one another's cooking. The highlight of the meal was a pork belly dish called 'Bicol Express'. Its pork belly cooked with ginger green chilies and coconut…
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FOODlog #175: Chicken Piccata I've been wanting to try this recipe for sometime now and I finally got to try it. I cooked 'Chicken Piccata' for the staff meal and made a side of mash potatoes and French beans. Chicken Piccata is an Italian dish. I don't really know how it suppose to taste so I followed a recipe and used cooking instincts to balance the seasonings and flavor. Here's how I made it: First I butterflied the chicken breast and seasoned it with salt and pepper. I…
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FOODlog #176: Happy Terry Burger The Happy Terry - a chicken teriyaki burger that is only available for weekdays and a favorite amongst the working crowd here in Bangsar. It's a very simple burger with minimal amount of ingredients but good quality ingredients that makes it very delicious and a great meal. The chicken is a brined chicken thigh and then it's seared on the flat top until the skin is golden brown and the chicken well cooked. The chicken thigh is then topped…
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FOODlog #177: Spicy Ramyeon I think I'm gaining weight after these few weeks of working in a kitchen brigade again. Our lunches have been the time we look forward to coz we get to cook and eat stuff that we like and enjoy. One of the meals, my Filipino colleague cooked some spicy Ramyeon noodles and used whatever was in the cafe for the rest of the dish. It turned out to be such a pretty ensemble of ingredients all in one bowl. He cooked some grilled broccoli which gave it a…
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FOODlog #178: Cakes & Drinks The perks of working in a cafe is that you're never short of food. Not only that but you get to eat cakes that are pass the dates to serve customers which are perfectly fine actually but to paying customers we always ensure they get the best, leaving us with lots of cake to eat. Another thing we get to have a lot are drinks. We get to have at least 2 cups of either coffee, tea, or chocolate per day which I normally only have like 1-2 cups of…
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FOODlog #179: Smoked Salmon & Egg Bagel One of my favorite things to make and prepare is the egg and salmon bagels here at the cafe. They have lots of components to it and although there isn't any hot cooking needed upon serving besides toasting up the bagels, it takes around 6-8 minutes in total just to prepare this dish. A lot of prep also goes into making the various components needed which is done beforehand such as burnt butter, cream cheese with dill, and a crumble…
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FOODlog #180: Tomyum Fettucini Pasta My Filipino colleague cooked lunch again the other day and this time he cooked some pasta. He normally cooks rice and dishes to eat with it but this is the first time he cooked a "western" meal. The reason why I say "western" is because it was pasta but the sauce was an Asian inspired sauce. He made a tomyam flavored sauce with coconut milk. A premix tomyam pasta goes into the pan to fry then onions, garlic, mushrooms, chicken, and…
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FOODlog #181: The Greenslut Sandwich There's this burger/sandwich that looks at Superluna cafe but not many people order this item. Its a fun dish to make but we rarely ever get to make it. Its called the greenslut sandwich which I personally don't like to name the dishes I make with weird sexual derogatory terms but not my cafe so it is what it is. Anyway, the dish though is quite beautiful and has interesting combination of flavors. It's starts with the brioche burger bun…
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FOODlog #182: Saba Fish and Rice @ Top Tuna Savouring every Sunday for a long time now since it's the only day that I get to worship together with my friends and family. After church we went for lunch together at this new place called 'Top Tuna'. Its a new place that recently opened at a shopping mall nearby where I live so we decided to give this place a try. They serve tuna and other types of fishes like saba fish that comes together with rice, noodles, and also some sort…
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FOODlog #183: Fried Barramundi with Spicy Soy For one of the days 2 weeks ago I cooked for the crew some fried fishes. They were going for RM13 (<4 USD) per fish which i bought 3 barramundi. To prep them I had the supermarket descale the fishes but the guy doing it seem to be new and didn't know how to gut the fish. So when I took them to the kitchen, I gutted and cleaned them well before seasoning them with some salt to marinade for about 10 minutes. Also had to descale the…
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FOODlog #184: Coconut Curry Barramundi & Golden Promfret With an extra barramundi fish in the freezer, I cooked another staff meal the same week as my last post. I made fish curry and also an omelet which we ate with some simply steamed rice. For the fish I went to buy another whole golden pomfret which I then seasoned both fishes with salt. After letting it marinade for about 5-10 minutes, I shallow fried it in oil until they were golden brown. Next I roughly chopped up…
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FOODlog #185: Street Style Burger by myBurgerLab A few weeks ago we had a calibration team meeting night which ended with us going for a meal at the Tiger Beer fest that was held on the weekend. We got treated to anything we wanted to eat and I saw that myBurgerLab had a booth and was selling their burgers there. It was priced slightly lower than their usual burgers as they were using Ramly burger patties for their burgers instead of their handcrafted burger patties. I…
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FOODlog #186: Egg Mayo Sando One of my favorite items to prepare at the cafe is the egg mayo sando. It's a Japanese milk bread loaf that's sliced into 1+ inch cuts for this sandwich. Although the assembling is easy and requires almost no cooking except buttering and toasting the milk bread slices, the prep for making this sando takes some time. There is half a slice of half boiled eggs that we have to prep which takes quite some time to make as we need to boil the eggs then…
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FOODlog #187: Fettucini Carbonara Another lunch meal cooked by my Filipino colleague. This time he made some fettuccine with a cheese and cream sauce with smokey bacon. It was a fairly simple recipe with the fettucini just simply boiled in a pot of salted water. It's drained after cooking and then tossed in some oil so that the pasta doesn't stick. For the sauce, it starts with sautéing the bacon until its brown and caramalised. The smell was amazing and it was thick cut as…
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FOODlog #188: Yee Mee Noodle Soup Another lunch meal cooked by my Filipino colleague and this time he made some Chinese noodle soup. He used Yee Mee which is like soba noodles but much easier and cheaper to get. It's brown in color and it has a nice bite and mouthfeel to it. One of my favorite noodles to eat and it was a super delicious meal. Here's how he made it: The broth was made with chicken bones, onions, garlic, ginger, and the roots from the spring onion. He then…
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FOODlog #189: Mongolian Pork & Mix Vegetables Another lunch and another day needing to think what to cook. Sometimes we don't have anymore ideas on what to cook as we are also occupied in making sure the kitchen is fully stocked for operation. We were lazy to cook and had no idea what to cook so my friend @hooiyewlim went to buy lunch from a mix rice stall. The stall is located in Midvalley mall so he had to walk across using the sky bridge to buy the food. It was our first…
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FOODlog #190: Four Cheese Grill Cheese Sandwich One of the sandwiches that I really like here at Superluna cafe is the grill cheese sandwich. It's a Sourdough sandwich that has 4 types of cheeses in it and it comes with just the right amount of cheese and bread ratio. It's called FunkyTown 4 Cheese because one of the cheeses being used is gorgonzola blue cheese which os funky, creamy, and has an alcohol sort of flavor to it. Another element that makes it funky is a kimchi…
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FOODlog #191: Spag Bol @ Plan B Cafe A couple of weeks ago on a Friday after work, I met up with a friend and his wife at Midvalley. I had an appointment with a chiropractor in the night so I had some hours to spare. We had dinner at this cafe called Plan B. It has been around for some years now although it seems like they've trimmed the menu considerably since covid lock downs. Its a much more simpler menu than before with mainly sandwiches and pastas for food. I ordered…