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 generous chuck of crab meat - a nice dish but quite oily to the taste buds.

fried jumbo prawns

This dish is topped with a cherry and the basket is made of yam - quite a creative dish of fried jumbo prawns.

It was a good meal in the company of colleagues and channel partners.

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 and a generous mixed of avocados.

Salmon toro sushi

Salmon Head gilled 

Saba Shioyaki

This dish is grilled Mackerel fish which tasted really fresh and delicious.   The flesh of the fish is moist and tender unlike many I have tried that are dry.

assorted sashimi dish

That's Choco

It's great when people make fun of themselves as it shows confidence and strong self esteem.  His nickname is Choco and he describe himself to the colour of chocolate of which his parents name him.   A fun and jovial Thai.

Grilled Hamachi fish

This Japanese Yellowtail or Hamachi fish tasted really good and I would recommend this restaurant as they serve real good and affordable Japanese food.

It's worth coming to this restaurant again.

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 - now I know.   The flesh is Pale yellow with a slight greenish tinge, it was sweet but the seed is big.  The main plantation are in Johor.

We had 3 Mao Shang Huang durians, 1 XO and 1 Chut-Keok durian.

Durians are the King of Fruits and I love the smell and taste...yummy evening! Thanks

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 this Miso soup.  

Desert of fruits and ice-cream

Slices of fruits - mellon, pear, peach and persimmon with a scoop each of green tea, vanilla and sesame ice-cream.  

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 presses centre (as you can see from the pic).  It is Hakka people tradition that this represents reunion, wealth and good fortune.  Yam is delicious and springy.

Bitter gourd with bean curd

Hakka Hot Soup

This is is closer to Singapore's Bak Kut Teh with lots of pepper to the taste.   My kind of comfort home food.   There is nothing hot about this dish more spicy with the a generous dash of pepper and ginger.   This dish is cooked with pork and pig's stomach to bring out the flavour of this soup.

Chicken in rice wine

A flavourful dish with tender chick chucks marinated in Chinese rice wine.

Braised pork with Yam

Each slice of 3-layer pork is served with a slice of Yam.  This is one of Hakka best loved dishes.  As described by Edward, the pinnacle of this best dish is that the pork and the Yam must melt in your mouth.

It was a good lunch and worth another visit to taste their other dishes on the menu

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 that presentation is not their forte.  Looking at this dish of 4 vegetables might turn some people off but the mixture tasted pretty good.

butter garlic crab

Lots of garlic and butter stir-fried with the mud and the result is less than acceptable with the meat of the crab sticking disappointing to the shell.   A super fresh crab would have their cooked meat easily removed from their shell.

Steam grouper

The steamed grouper does not taste fresh and soft.  The meat is slightly tough and the HK sauce is mediocre.

large local coconut

It is very hard to find any good coconut that can compare with the Thai young coconut.
On a whole the journey to this restaurant was a good experience but the food though reasonably prices was below standard.

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