Ben restaurant @ KLCC

Kuala Lumpur - For lunch @ KLCC, Edward took me to Ben restaurant @ KLCC mall.   Ben is both the name of the owner - Benjamin Yong and and first initial of the BIG Group.  Well, I think because he is BIG, it's obvious to call his company BIG too.

The good at Ben's is Malaysian fusion dishes that blends the common food of rojak into something more atas (high class).

Rojak

Portobello mushroom spaghetti 

This spaghetti was cooked the way I like it perfect and the cream sauce was nicely blended with lots of different mushroom.

Four Seasons Dragon City restaurant (Shunde)

Kuala Lumpur - This would be my first time tasting Shunde cuisine - hail from China but tasted it in Kuala Lumpur.  I did a search on google on Shunde and was amazed that this cuisine was recognised as UNESCO and a precursor of all Cantonese food.  Wow!

Shunde is a district in the city of Foshan in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Province, China. Shunde was recently awarded the title “City of Gastronomic” by UNESCO. Many famous Cantonese chefs hailed from Shunde. In fact, Shunde may have well been the precursor of Cantonese cuisine as suggested in the Chinese saying ‘eat in Guangzhou from a Shunde kitchen’.

This new Shunde restaurant - Four Seasons Dragon City restaurant is located at The Scott Garden @ Jalan Klang Lama.

Shunde hot pot

This hot pot for promotional price of RM398 consist of...5 pax

hot pot menu

I am now smitten on Shunde cuisine; next time I will try more of their authentic dishes.   I searched the web for such restaurant in Singapore and none to be found.

Famous Sek Yuen Restaurant @ Pudu

Kuala Lumpur - This is the famous Sek Yuen restaurant located at Pudu and has been in business since 1948 - pre Malaysia independence. The chefs still cooked using traditional charcoal and this could be smell from our dining area. They also have a more comfortable air-con building next to this but I wanted to be where in all began.

Sek Yuen restaurant

Mock shark's fin 

To eat this dish would be simply wrapping the mock shark's fin with fresh lettuce.

Steam rice

Even the rice is steam individually the traditional charcoal way.

Crispy roast duck

Vegetable with Oyster sauce

This is my favourite vegetable for hot pot but first time eating it this style.

Steamed grouper with ginger

Cold chicken with Jelly Fish

The sauce that was poured over the cold chicken with Jelly Fish was really tasty and good.

Loh Bak

It's really great to see Malaysia still keeps their tradition alive with good food and a fine Cantonese restaurant.  

ITX Asia 2016 Exhibition @ KLCC moving in

Kuala Lumpur - Today is moving in for the ITX Asia 2016 exhibition....

Savvius booth

Edward and Lesley

Where's Donny?

Good Chinese restaurant

Kuala Lumpur - Lesley brought us to this Chinese restaurant and the food is fresh and really good.

Grouper fish cooked in 2 styles

This fish dish was very unique with the Chef cooking in 2 styles.   As you can see from the below pic, there is one style of cooking fish stir fry using Oyster sauce and Seow Pai Chai and the other deep fry with dried chilies.

Flattened Crispy Chicken

Celery and Black Fugus

Frog legs with garlic

Butter Crabs

It was a very good dinner...

Alexis Bistro @ Mid Valley

Kuala Lumpur - Lunch was @ Alexis Bistro that serves fusion food.

Angel Hair Pata Aglio Olio with grilled yabbies

This dish was interesting using angel hair pasta for this Aglio Olio instead of using spaghetti and it turned out really good.

pan thin pizza

Mussels in curry

This dish was very different as it was served in curry.

Palomo cake

Upgrade to Garden Residence @ Mid Valley

Kuala Lumpur - I was pleasantly surprise that the Garden Hotel decided to upgrade me to 1-room apartment @ the Garden Residences.   It will be my first time at this executive apartment and was located at another block linked in between by the Garden Mall.

Living room

Bedroom

It was a big room for just one person - furthermore the sofa can be converted to a bed.  This was more ideal for a family stay.    The plus was that they have a very big, nice and 24hr gym.

My 9 Strange Korean Food

Seoul - I have tried 9 Strange Korean food that if you happen to be in Korea you must try it.

# 1 - Intestine Blood Sausage with Vermicelli -Soondae
# 2 - Fried Silkworm Larve - Beondaeggi - on my 63rd trip to Seoul I tried this Korean delicacy
# 3 - Eating live Octopus 
# 4 - Fermented Tuna 
# 5 - Sulphuric Duck - Yuhwang Ori 
# 6 - Puffer Fish for dinner
# 7 - Fermented Sting Ray - Heong Eo 
# 8 - Raw Beef with Eggs 
# 9 - Ground Mud Fish Soup - Chuotang

# 9 - Strange Korean food - Ground Mud Fish Soup - MUST TRY!

Seoul - This is my number 9 strange food that I have had in Korea.   Kevin Chae brought us to a Mud Fish restaurant to taste the ground mud fish soup (Chuotang)

Name of the famous mud dish restaurant

Mud Fish

Mud Fish and Loach are synonyms.  In fact it is a Chinese Muddy Loach which is a small elongated bottom-dwelling freshwater fish with several barbels near the mouth.

Deep fried mud fish

The mud fish is wrapped inside green chilli (seedless) with tempura flour and deep fried.   I tasted more of the green chilli and it was good.

Grounded mud fish soup

You add bowl of rice into the grounded mud fish soup, add garlic and spring onions to taste.  Stirred and slurp up the dark tasty soup.   To some it might be an acquired taste but I finish my bowl.

Steam pork and kimchi bean sprouts

Kimchi

This steam pork and kimchi bean sprouts, Kimchi are an appetiser dish.

Kevin, Kyoungho and Youngjin

It was good to meet up with Kevin after 6 years and hasn't age at all...must be the eating of mud fish and kimchi. 

Grilled Eel restaurant

Seoul - After our meeting, we were figuring out what to eat for lunch and I suggested Chang-Or (grilled eel) and told them that I know this restaurant.   They were all surprised.  So, I led the way to this grilled eel restaurant quite near to my hotel.

3 fresh Eels

2 Eels on the grill stove

Some Korean Eel restaurants grilled them over charcoal but this was over a gas stove and still tasted really good.

Almost ready to be eaten

Ready to eat!

I love grilled Eel and it tasted really good with the sauce and ginger, wrapped with lettuce and into my mouth.   Bashita....delicious..

Side dishes

The 2 steaming hot side dishes of steam egg and Eel soup.   The Eel is mashed up into a paste for this soup and it tasted good.  The Eel cost KW15,000 each and this restaurant serves an Eel buffet for KW29,500 for all you can eat per person.  

Summer in Seoul - nice sashimi dinner

Seoul - The first bus stop from the airport was Seoul Garden Best Western Hotel.   Dinner with Youngjin and KyoungHo was near the hotel to a sashimi restaurant.  

Apetitiser of fish and soya beans

First course of our set meal

This was the first course of our set meal which comprise of scallops, sea urchins, abalones and squids.

main course

This was really good and fresh of 3 fishes - flounder (flat fish), rock fish and sea bream.

Prawns baked in sea salt

spicy soup

Our last dish was the spicy soup with steam rice.  The spicy soup was too spicy for me but YJ and KH was slurping up this spicy fish soup.

Royal Palace & Silver Pagoda

Phnom Penh - The Royal Palace opened at 2pm and there was already a queue to buy the entrance tickets.

The walk to the Palace entrance

tree

I am not sure what's the name of this tree and it seems many tourist was gathering around and taking pictures.   So what the heck, I also did the tourist thing.

Royal Palace

Residence of the current King

The current King of Cambodia is Norodom Sihamoni who was coronated in 2004.   Today, the King is in residence as the blue flag flies full mast in front of his residence.

King and Queen dress in gold and silver thread

replica of Ang Ko Wat

Stupa

King Norodom's statue

The heat from the afternoon sun was unbearable and I had to take cover in the shade and also in front of fans whenever possible.   At least one hour to tour around the Palace grounds and then back to the hotel.