FOODlog #346: Chicken Rice with Soup & Mushroom Omelet Cooked a feast the other day and made 3 different dishes. I made a whole poached chicken and the poaching liquid I added some preserved vegetables and tofu and made a soup for the 2nd dish. For the chicken, I salted the chicken inside the cavity and outside on the chicken skin then gently poached it in the hot stock I prepared. This takes about 20-25 minutes of gentle poaching and it's ready. I let it cool a bit and then…
FOODlog #347: Cheapest Balanced Meal Ever Another day, another staff meal to settle. We were pretty tired from service so we went to a stall above the cafe where we work at and got some of their takeaway. I got 4 different dishes and it was for an astonishingly cheap price. I got 2 Chicken Dishes both cooked with different Sauces and 2 Vegetable dishes, a ladies fingers and a stir fried bittegourd. The 4 dishes amounted to 1.1 kg of food and all for the price of RM22! (<5.5…
FOODlog #348: Delicious Lunch at Mum's When I'm off on Saturdays, I often go over to my Mum's place to have lunch together with my sons. So one of the Saturdays I was off, we went to her place and she made us some really delicious lunch. She cooked 3 different dishes - a pork stir fry, stir fried long beans, and stir fried bitter gourd with pork slices which is one of my favorite dishes that my Mum cooks. The pork is sliced and cooked with chives, soy sauce, oyster sauce and…
FOODlog #349: KFC Whole Fried Chicken The other day KFC was having a promo where they were selling a whole fried chicken. It was a really good marketing tactic they used and it was so well received that they did it for a 2nd week and this time they did a promo of 2 whole chickens for RM50 (<13 USD). So I got hooked on the promotion too and bought my family a set of these 2 chickens. I had it taken away and ate them at home. It was still piping hot when I started to eat it.…
FOODlog #350: Nasi Lemak with Sambal Cockles I've been hearing my Mum and brother rave about a Nasi Lemak stall nearby where we live. My Mum has been saying that the mutton curry and Nasi Lemak at this place is really good so a few Sundays ago we made it a point to have lunch there after church on Sunday. Unfortunately when we arrived, most of their food were sold out including their fried chicken and mutton curry. I was really looking forward to try their mutton curry but…
FOODlog #351: Black Pepper Mayo Burger @ Burger King One of my fave burgers that is not too pricey is actually Burger King. Their patties are juicy and flavorful and they have lots of promos throughout the year. They recently came out with a new burger which is a cheeseburger with black pepper mayo which is actually the size of a Whopper. I'm a black pepper lover and this caught my eye that I had to give it a try. So I went to an outlet nearby where I live and got this.…
FOODlog #352: Spicy Mala Dry Ramen Every quarter we have a calibration team meeting at our company's 1st outlet. We have talks and games before a dinner together and this time we had dinner at the outlet cooked by the chefs of that outlet. We had a hotpot dinner with 3 different types of soup bases - tomyam, sichuan Mala, and a chicken broth. There were a large variety of assorted meats like prawns, pork, meatballs, tofu, and vegetables. There were also a few noodles to…
FOODlog #353: Supernova Cheeseburger A new burger on the menu after a month of R&D. This is new cheeseburger that I'm also the supplier of. My brother makes the patties and we supply the cafe I work at with the patties. The Brioche sesame buns are supplied by another supplier so the only thing we make in-house is the sauce which has been same "not Big Mac" sauce. We took inspiration from the McDonald's Big Mac sauce but gave added some twists of own. In the sauce we have,…
FOODlog #354: Creamy Chicken & Mushroom Spaghetti Another day another staff meal to make. This time a made a quick and easy 1 pot sauce with spaghetti. It was a chicken and mushroom white sauce that is really easy to make and feeds 7-8 people. It starts off with a bechamel sauce. In to a pan, add in butter and some oil. This is so that the butter doesn't burn. Next mushrooms that have been sliced are added to the pan and seasoned with salt and pepper. Saute until they change…
FOODlog #355: Wagyu Bangers & Mash One of the Saturdays last month it was scheduled that there was gonna be only 4 people working that day. I bought some sausages that I saw were going for 30% discount and it was still fresh as it was made in the morning that day itself. I bought chicken sausages and wagyu beef sausages, 4 of each in view that the staff meal everyone would have at least 1 of each sausages. Not the first time we've made bangers & mash for our staff meal but…
FOODlog #356: Beef Noodles with Brisket, Tripe, and Meatballs Went for some beef noodles again at one of my go to spots for it. The noodles are handmade and are absolutely delicious. The texture and the taste to it paired with their mince beef is really a thing of beauty. The bowl of noodles come with some vegetables that's been blanched in their beef stock which is super flavorful and topped with their mince. For my side of soup this time, I ordered a mix bowl of beef…
FOODlog #357: Nasi Briyani with Fried Squid & Chicken Went to this mamak the other day called Q Bistro. Man was it an experience. I had a little extra money since I was being really thrifty with my spending the past weeks so I thought I'd eat a little more food I like. I ordered their briyani, a piece of Ayam kicap and some fried sotong. The food was decent however the staff there were up selling like crazy it felt so pushy. I did hear they have this sort of culture probably…
FOODlog #358: Chinese Chicken Soup Sometimes at the cafe we don't have the time nor energy to cook any complicated food for our staff meal so one of our go-to dishes to make are one-pot meals. I cooked this Chinese chicken soup the other day with tofu, pickled vegetables, and tomatoes and it was so delicious. It's a one-pot dish that you just need to throw in everything into the pot and let it cook. It starts of with some oil and sauteing some garlic then the chicken and…
FOODlog #359: Korean Japchae Have been wanting to cook this dish for some time now. I made Japchae the other day for the staff having in mind one of our staff that loves Korean food. I like this dish too and managed to get the ingredients the other day to cook it. It's a fairly simple dish to make that doesn't require any high level cookery skills but the prep time for this dish takes quite a bit of time. I made this with julienned carrots, onions and peppers. Another thing…
FOODlog #360: Cumin Beef Fried Rice It was one of our part-timers last day of work so I cooked some fried rice for our staff meal since she wanted rice. I made a Chinese cumin beef fried rice and it turned out pretty good for my first try. I started by marinating the beef with cumin, white pepper, and soy sauce. Should've added oil to this which would've made it better and will definitely do so when I cook it next time. I started by cooking some broccoli with garlic, oil,…
FOODlog #361: Fried Chicken & Black Fungus Mushrooms Nowadays we have lots of boneless chicken thighs and drumsticks at the cafe as we have this new fried chicken burger on our menu. Whenever we can't sell it off, we will have it for our staff meals. This was from the first week where not many people knew about the burger so we had lots of leftovers. We fried them up and his it for our lunch with some white rice. The chicken is marinated in a buttermilk brine together with…
FOODlog #362: Siamese Beef Noodles at Mamalek Recently I went for lunch after church with my friends and family to this place called Mamalek. It's located at a food court and operates just a small stall inside. I've heard my brother say that you don't have to go to Thailand coz the Siamese beef noodles here are as good. So finally I got to try it out and it is exactly as my brother said! Extremely delicious bowl of noodles and the beef broth was amazing, full of depth of…
FOODlog #363: Ladies Fingers with Dried Prawns Ladies Fingers with Dried Prawns is a Malaysian dish that's one of my favorites. My Mum and my wife can make this dish very well and recently I got the recipe from them and cooked it at my work place as the staff meal. There is a way to remove the slime from ladies fingers which is to simply just cook them longer. I it'll naturally just evaporate and disappear. If you don't like ladies fingers because of the slime, try this…
FOODlog #364: Oyster Po' Boy Sandwich After the recent debacle last month at the Good Vibes Festival where it got cancelled because of some idiot kissing on stage, our cafe was hit with lots of unsold goods where we needed to add to the menu to cook so it doesn't go to waste. One of the items were the po' boy sandwiches. We now have a Cajun chicken sandwich, shrimp po' boy and an oyster po' boy sandwich. I love the oyster po' boy not because the oysters are great but because…
FOODlog #365: Beijing Hand Pulled Noodles Made a peanut butter and chili sauce the other day for noodles and it was absolutely amazing! It's a Chinese dish that's popular in China and I decided to make it. Since we have chili oil at the cafe, all I needed was peanut butter and to mix it with soy sauce and sesame oil and the sauce mix for the noodles was done. You can use your favorite store bought chili oil and not necessarily a homemade one. It'll work fine and still be…
FOODlog #366: Cajun Patin Fish Last month I got some patin fish for our staff meal. My colleague cooked it on the flat top with cajun seasoning and it was so delicious! Patin is a type of catfish that's locally farmed here in Malaysia. It's fatty and the flesh is really soft and tender. It was marinated with some soy sauce and other ingredients then searing on the flat top, its finished off with a cajun spice rub and we enjoyed it with some white rice. I made a video for…
FOODlog #367: Nasi Goreng Pattaya Been going to this place called 'Kari Kepala Ikan Melawati' for dinner. I've had a few items but mainly I go there for the satay which is not actually by them but a small stall that they rent out to. The main shop itself however I've only tried a few of their dishes. I've tried their 'Ayam Goreng Kunyit' which is chicken fried and cooked with turmeric, onions, long beans, and cauliflower. This was one of the first things I tried there and it…
FOODlog #368: Lunch at Mum's Went to my Mum's place for lunch the other day and she cooked some super delicious food! She made 2 dishes, both of which are some of my favorites that my Mum makes. She cooked tamarind curry fish with ladies fingers and wax duck with leek and tofu. The curry was so delicious and packed full of complex flavors as a curry should. It was savoury, slightly sour and sweet, and so aromatic and fragrant. The fish was tender yet not falling apart and…
FOODlog #369: Mozza Burger, Root Beer, and Curly Fries One of my fave burgers is the Mozza Burger from A&W. It has been one of my fave burgers since I was a kid and until now I always get to a happy place when I have this burger. I can remember the first time I had it. It was a sports day of the church I used to go to with my parents. It was like the only day in the year where our parents just let us go wherever we wanted in the stadium compound that the church rented for a…
FOODlog #370: Unagi with Rice After watching Oppenheimer, which is so far the best movie of the year maybe even 2 years, me and my friends went for dinner at a Japanese place called Yayoi in the mall we watched the movie. It was quite late and I guess we were one of the last tables being served. I ordered their Unagi with rice set that came with a side of iceberg lettuce dressed with sesame seed sauce. It also came with some pickled kyuri and a bowl of Miso soup. Everything…
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