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Earw Thai Suki and Chinese Restaurant @ The Street Ratchada Shopping Mall

Bangkok - For dinner we went for a Hot Pot dinner which is Air's favourite.  This is a new hot pot restaurant that we have never been.  This mall called ' The Street Ratchada ' was newly opening early 2016 offering shopping, dining and entertainment to the hop and trendy.  A short walking distance from Thailand Cultural Centre MRT station. Another selling point of The Street Ratchada is that the lower floors of the shopping mall are open 24 hours a day, particularly the dining section on the ground floor. 24 hour supermarket and café, Foodland, is proving most popular for late night visitors. pork with 2 raw eggs This is a standard hot pot dish in Thailand but you don't eat them raw.  Stir them till the eggs is well soaked into the meat and then slip it into the hot pot to be cooked.   The taste is really good and the pork is very tender. hot pot cooking with vegetables egg white with crab meat The egg white is stir fried with fresh and gener...

Seiryu Sushi @ Mercury Ville

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food - Kris Allen Bangkok -  I had dinner with our channel partners at a newly opened Japanese restaurant - Seriyu Sushi located at Mercury Ville.  We ordered a lot but it was deliciously prepared and managed to finish it all. Dragon Roll This was aptly called Dragon roll as it looks like a 'dragon' but it fact was sushi with drilled Eel. Salmon Roll Salmon spicy salad This is a Thai / Japanese fusion creation of Salmon with Thai spicy ingredients and it tasty really good.  The freshness of the salmon blended well with the Thai spicy dressing. Salmon sashimi To the Japanese presentation of the food is very important and they did not disappoint in this dish.  Besides the food presentation, the freshness of the Salmon just melts in my mouth. Salad This fusion salad was topped with fried silver fish ...

Best Durians in the World are found here

Good Friends are like Stars, you don't always see them but you know they are always there....old saying Kuala Lumpur -  I have tasted and think that the Best Durians in the World comes from Malaysia.   They produced so many varieties of Durians from the numerals - D2, D12, etc...to the premium and most popular Musang King or Mao Shang Huang. Mao Shang Huang Mao Shang Huang flesh is Bright yellow.  This is very obvious when compared side by side with other durians.    The taste is bittersweet, very creamy in texture; small seed..   This favourite fruit hail from Kelantan, Pahang and Johor. XO durian XO durians flesh are Pale yellow like in the pic above.  To me it tasted Bitter and extremely soft, big seed  The main plantations are at  Johor, Genting, Cameron Highlands. Green Bamboo durian Green Bamboo durian (Chut-Keok in Cantonese).  Donny and Edward was trying to explain to me what type of durian this was - ...

Yuzu restaurant @ Mid Valley

Kuala Lumpur - This Japanese restaurant - Yuzu has been our favourite every time we are @ Mid Valley. Salad A creative Japanese work of art on a salad dish surrounded with sweet melons - a nice blend of vinaigrette and sweetness. Red Snapper sashimi It was my first time tasting Red snapper sashimi - it looks to me like the meat was slightly flamed cooked.   Grilled beef This slices of beef was grilled medium rare and tasted succulent and melt in my mouth.  It was one of the best slices of beef I have tasted.  The Chef placed the slices of medium rare succulent beef on mushroom so the beef over the hot plate would not be over cooked. thick slices of salmon sashimi Shishamo scallops  After frying the scallops and placing on this plate, it looks miserably little. Soup  The Red Snapper bones and head was used to cooked this soup and was served individually on a big bowl.  Ample about of mushrooms and vegetables added to ...

Restoran Goldview Hakka Food

Kuala Lumpur - Donny and Edward brought me to an authentic Hakka restaurant - Restoran Goldview Hakka Food - @ 26,, Jalan 20/16a, Taman Paramount, 46300 Petaling Jaya. The Hakkas (Chinese: 客家), sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese people whose ancestral homes are chiefly from the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hainan and Guizhou. The Chinese characters for Hakka (客家) literally mean "guest families".   Khek (Hokkien word for Hakka) is my dialect group in Singapore but I am more Peranakan than Hakka as both my family side speaks Malaya and cook up a mean Baba food. Edward is Hakka and so he is much more familiar with the Hakka traditional food than me. Hakka Yam Abacus One of the most authentic traditional Hakka dishes, which is the Yam Abacus.  The Yam and Tapioca is mashed and mixed with starch and rolled evenly to form a dough.  The result is kneaded to form a rounded piece with a lightly ...

Dapur Kuring Restaurant

“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” Paul Prudhomme Jakarta - For lunch we went to a Sundanese restaurant Dapur Kuring, popular among the locals. Chicken satay Satay is a very traditional Indonesian grilled chicken with stick skewers. Karedok Karedok is raw vegetable salad in peanut sauce - this dish is very tasty and delicious Stir fry bean sprouts with bean curd Sotong in Sundanese sauce The sotong was so fresh and tasted really good with the sauce. BBQ fish It was an inexpensive Sundanese meal and worth a second visit.

Bandar Djakarta @ Baywalk Mall

Jakarta - this city is famous for their traffic jam and I had to sit stuck in one for hours on the way to this famous Jakarta seafood restaurant - Bandar Djakarta @ Baywalk Mall, Pluit.   This location is near the sea and the ambiance smells of fish and seafood. entrance to the restaurant It was really a fish market to pick our fresh seafood to be cooked to our liking. tanks of fresh seafood There were quite a number of choices and in the end we chose one fish and one mud crab. Grouper and XL mud crab We walk over the restaurant laid out over the water and order the vegetables and coconut drink. 4 Raja Sayur 4 Raja Sayur means 4 king of vegetables.  This dish is a stir fried of wing-bean, ladies fingers, Brinjal (egg plant) and petai.   Petai is a bean vegetable used in dishes from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.   There are many recorded health benefits for this vegetable especially to strengthen the kidneys. This is one restaurant t...

Seribu Rasa Restaurant

Jakarta - I had a list of good Jakarta restaurants that I have not been before and decided to try one of them on my current list.   Took a taxi with Lesley to Seribu Rasa Restaurant located @ Jl. Haji Agus Salim, No. 128, Menteng, Jakarta. sleek signboard outside restaurant courtyard Seribu Rasa decor is modern and at night a good play of light and water and key spots around the bungalow house.   The restaurant is situated at a big bungalow house that offers casual dinning with a pan Asian taste.   BBQ jumbo prawns Sukothai style steam fish Their seafood preparation is good and tasty.  The menu offer a wide variety of pan-asian dishes from Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnamese, Singapore and of course local too.   Mix vegetable tasty sticks of satay A good restaurant with a wide variety of pan-asian cuisine and the dishes preparation are of a high quality but price is on a steep side.   art decor of this restaurant ...