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Recently this shop just open up in Jusco Seremban 2. Basically, they sell donuts like Dunkin Donut do. Their hype is promoting healthy and hygenic making of donuts. It's an open kitchen concept and you can see how the staff make everything from the flour to become a donut. All of their staffs wear masks, aprons and gloves, looks like they are making some kind of drugs. From the shelf, the variety of donuts look very appetizing. The downside is, one donut cost -RM2, wtf, RM2 for a donut?? Yesterday, I brave myself and bought one to try whether the donut does worth the RM2.

Verdict: Fuck ass, kena tipu. Nothing fancy of the donut. First of all, it's cold, it's bland to the taste although it's coated with a layer of thick chocolate. The consistency of the donut felt like it has been there for days. I never like Dunkin Donuts before but yes, Dunkin Donuts sell way better donuts!

My advise is, don't ever try their buy 3 for RM5 promotion as yet. Try one first. It might save you tears.

The dai chao in Permai Food stall actually offer a very tasty asam fish. Heck, they even get an award (from Nan Yang San Pao) for the best tasting asam fish award (Seremban) 2006.

The dish is really appetizing and satisfying. If you are tired of the normal '酱蒸' (jiong zheng), this is definately a must try!

On the end of last year, Su Lin & me were able to make a trip together down to this historic city of our nation, Malacca. Call it our little vacation and as we had no extra money to spare, we decided to have a one day trip, emm, actually a half-day trip.

we left Seremban at 11.30am on a bus (RM5 something per trip per person) and reached Malacca bus terminal at around 1pm. From there, you can take the town bus to Makhota (RM0.80 per trip per person) where you'll reach the Christ Church.

notice a glass room at the right beside the fridge? that's the room with a machine to turn the rice into rice balls! i wonder whether it can do the same with our waste products, imagine a shit ball!

We had the infamous chicken rice balls for lunch. Nothing special actually, it's just chicken rice made into balls, dunno why it's so hyped up as a must eat in Malacca. Heck, the chicken rice balls are not even as big as my balls, ha! It is also not cheap, ten rice balls cost you RM6, plus the chicken for two is RM7, it totals up to RM13! which is double the price you eat in normal chicken rice stall. Maybe I'm not in the right place, we ate it in Famosa Chicken rice ball sdn. bhd beside Renaissance Hotel. If anybody of you have a better place, pls introduce to me to prove me wrong on malacca chicken rice balls.

Then we headed to Christ church. Later we lepak around Jonker street, it's really special though, they have a lot of Malacca delicacies (chendol, pineapple biscuits, etc) and antique shops here. Well, it's really true about Malacca chendol, it's the best i ever eaten in my life! We had it in this shop called Jonker dessert (88). When you ordered the shaved ice, you'll see the tauke pouring generously the thick gula malacca and creamy santan that you just can't wait to have a bite of it! It's really really nice, a bite of it make you feel like in bloody heaven.

this is the baba chendol (RM1.80). note the thick gula malacca and creamy santan....it's definately a must try when you are in malacca


this is mangoe ice kacang (RM2.70). they use real mangoe slices!! i repeat, real mangoe slices!! wa, i'm so going to go back there again to grab a bowl of this

After trying the chendol malacca, we headed to the Saint Paul hill to visit the ruin of Saint Paul church and the A'famosa (which has a very tongue twisting portoguse name that I forgot). More photos here

That's all, it's a very sweet afternoon and having thought that, this is the first time two of us went to somewhere that none of us are familiar with...so it's our first travel together, wow! We actually wanted to try the satay chellup, but unfortunately it's only open in late evening and the last bus back to Seremban is at 7.30pm so we didn't dare to take the risk, well, maybe next time. I'll sure come back for another bowl of the wonderful chendol!

Recently Jih Leong and me stumbled across this shop in Park City while waiting for his sister to shop in kedai dua puluh sen (which is going to be history soon). It looks kinda special and we decided to give it a try. The ice looked kinda different from the ice kacang we had usually. If i'm not mistaken, it's originated from Taiwan. The ice is shredded into thin slices and topped with toppings of your choice including various jams, fruits, flavours, and even uncooked egg! Jih Leong ordered the passion fruit flavour while I ordered mango flavour. Well, I won't say it's extremely delicious, but it's nonetheless special. If you're back to Bintulu, you can give it a try.

From outside

the interior of the shop


Lots of penguins! :D


According to this brochure, the ice is pretty healthy


our ice, on the left is mango flavour, on the right is passion fruit flavour

I was in Kuching the weekend before as a get-away from the boring Bintulu town. The main reason to go there was also to satistfy my cravings for some authentic Kuching food. It's been a long time since I last visited Kuching. Here are some food that I tried during my visit:

My dire for kolok mee is the worst as there is no other place in Sarawak that serves a descent bowl of kolok mee other than Kuching. In other parts of Sarawak, people prefer 'kampua'. These two mee is quite the same, both are dry, served with minced pork and char-siew, but the texture and taste is completely different. As for what type of mee I prefer is quite obvious or else I won't waste RM145 to fly to Kuching just to have a bite of kolok mee. The one showed in the picture is prepared by my uncle. He owned a store in Everise 4 1/2 mile. I just can't get enough of this mee, I want to have it every morning....I don't care that it's oily and fattening, i want more!!

This is teh-c-peng special, a.k.a 3 layer teh-c-peng. The 3 layer from top is the tea, milk and brown sugar. I've even tried 5 layer one, with the extra 2 being cincau and small wheat grass. However, the taste is not teh-c-peng anymore. For authentic teh-c-peng taste, go for the 3 layer one, it's still the best

The ABC and chendol here is also way better than those in Bintulu (in my opinion). And most importantly, i just prefer the name of this cendol shop, it is owned by me!!! (that's my chinese name!!) muahaha....speaking of familiar names, I saw quite a lot during my visit, first I saw this beauty shop with Kai Sze's name on it, then I saw my surname on a piece of wood in the Civic centre.

For dinner, my uncle treat us to a stall in Batu Lintang called lok garden. They had come here since my grandpa time. Well, I don't find it really good tasting, the food is just pretty cheap. Here are some dishes we had - oyster omelette, sweet & sour pork ribs, planta prawns, mango fish, sea cucumber soup, lemon chicken and 'billin' (local vegetable)

The last dish I want to show is Sarawak laksa. It's totally different from Penang laksa. It's spicy and is cooked with meehon. It's usually served with fried eggs, dried taufu, bean sprouts, chicken slices, prawns, etc.

That's it, actually not much as I was there for 1 & 1/2 days only. Most probably my family will be moving there next year, so I still got plenty of chance to savour my favourite kolok mee...if I can do my houseman year there.