Yesterday, I was given the priviledge to attend the Annual Dinner of YL Camera. A Small closed door dinner held to thank the photographers and industry players that has been with YL Camera. To me, it was a nice time to catch up with some fellow photographers and talk about photography.

As for the food, it was quite good, not often we would get to eat such a combination of dishes when we go out for dinners. These was what we ate:

Yee Sang (After all, it’s close to CNY) with extra slices of Fish

Buddha Jumping Over The Wall – Excellent !

Suckling Piglets – One of my favorite dishes

FISH! (Sorry but I forgot the name of this dish)

Fried Curry Prawns – The prawn’s quite fresh and the meat just goes out of it’s shell and into your mouth with ease

Prosperity Veg. – Can’t comment about it as I’m not a vege person

Claypot Chicken Rice – I can’t comment about this dish as by now, I’m bloated with alcohol

Desserts – Sesame Ball with Lotus Paste and Lotus with Red Beans

Dessert – I don’t know what it’s called but it’s quite soothing to the body.

Most important thing about this dinner is not only the food but the chance for everyone to mingle about, get to know one another better and have a good time.

Ah Hong (one of the YL Brothers) along with Ah Ping entertained the guests with songs after songs after songs from the start of the dinner until the end. Fantastic, reminds me of the band Beyond!

Of course, they can’t hog all the mics to themselves to they got in some of the fellas to sing as well…

And to close the night with a toast, one of the group decide to have a photo session but the others was a tad shy, what to do, often we are behind the camera and not used to be in front of the camera.

Thanks for the wonderful dinner YL Camera.

Tuesday night, pre-Thaipusam holiday, I decide to bring my date to Cafe Cafe instead of some other places as I'm sure KLites will be out there partying away as the Wednesday is a HOLIDAY!

Anyway, the environment in Cafe Cafe is cozy and romantic. The place felt like those home from the colonial days and give you that comfortable and relaxed mood. A great place to hang out if you'd just want a nice place to enjoy a bottle of wine and cheese (if you could eat them).

After we were ushered to our seats, we browse through the menu and placed our orders. What we had was the following.

crispy brie - It's Cheese, so I never touched it unless you want to see me fall over and die?

soup of the day (brocolli) - I like this creamy soup, quite sweet.

No photos on this dish.

seafood spagetti - This is a nice simple dish with just a fair share of seafood accompanying the spagetti.

pan fried norwegian salmon fillet with boiled potato and cream of sun dried tomato - The Salmon's prepared excellent with the skin at the right crunchiness. I wanted to complain when I realized I've placed the last piece of salmon into my mouth though. I didn't know I finished it so soon!

chcolate tart - Beautiful piece, rich and hot chocolate, I want more!

A place I'd definitely visit again but it's because of the nice environment and not because of the food.

On Friday, SimonL and I had a job at Cheras (Near Leisure Mall) and as we arrived early, we decide to go grab an early dinner. Sadly, that day is also Pasar Malam day for that area so driving is out of the question.

So with our equipments hanging all over our shoulders, we take a walk towards the restaurant of our choice (actually it was my idea). The target point? Restaurant Thian Heong, famous for it’s Char Siew Ribs.

Found a nice aircond area to sit and these was what we ordered.

Char Siew Pork Ribs – Excellent and juicy, one of the items to finish first when the lunch and dinner crowd hits.

BBQed Honey Chicken with Sesame Seeds - The chicken was prepared just nice with a light coat of honey making it not that sweet with the fragrance of sesame seeds.

Roast Duck – There’s alot of other places which serve better roast ducks than this restaurant but I just had a mad craving for it so I just had to order it.

Lettuce – To make the meal complete, we need to have a vegetable dish with the rest of the meat isn’t it? It’s just vegetables, so… yeah.. it’s just vegetable, how to comment?

Anyway, that’s what we ate, I’d definitely will visit this restaurant again but only when I have a craving for Char Siew Pork Ribs.

What one food has become synonymous with Chinese breakfast? Anyone? It’s the Cha Kui! Right?

Anyway, some time back in 2006, we visited this place in SS2 known as Kafe Golden Bread but it has since closed down. Last Sunday, was told to watch 8TV has HoChak! was on and what did you know? They featured the Kafe Golden Bread again! This time, it’s the main one at Sri Petaling and we just had to go and check the place out and give their food another try.

Came Tuesday and that’s where we went for dinner. Kafe Golden Bread. Browsing through the menu, these was what we ordered.

Three Musketeers (Ham + Hotdog + Chicken Floss)
This is a Cha Kui piece with pieces of Hotdog, Ham and Chicken floss in it, there wasn’t enough chicken floss though.

Old Buddies
This one’s chopped up pieces of Cha Kui with Rojak sauce and crunched peanuts and sliced cucumbers.

XO Fried Cheong Fun
Chee Cheong Fun with XO Sauce, simply spicy and nice.

Braised Pork Shank with Dry Noodles
Braised Pork Shank served with Dry noodles and some vegetables, you can also opt for rice if you’re a rice person.

Vanilla Ice Cream Cha Kui
To end the night, we had the Vanilla Ice Cream Cha Kui as desserts. Vanilla Ice cream + Crunchy Cha Kui. Just had to have more!

As mentioned in the previous post, I left Salsa Havana in the wee hour of the morning and it strucked us that we didn't really had our dinner yet and saying that, the hunger alarms starts to go off in our respective stomachs.

Claypot Loh Shu Fun: The reason we were there!

I actually drove around Jalan Alor for awhile while thinking of what to eat, we actually decide to just stop at the Hokkien Mee stall before I decide to go towards Petaling Street. It's been awhile since we last had Claypot Loh Shu Fun and so off to Seng Kee we go.

Yau Mak aka Romaine Lettuce: I just learned it's english name today!

Located at Petaling Street just before the turn-off towards BP House/MABA. At 3am, Seng Kee was packed with customers, no wonder they are willing to open until so late. Anyway, the usual dishes we order was none other than the Claypot Loh Shu Fun followed by my favorite Deep Fried Roast Pork and "Yau Mak". The only other vegetable apart from Spinash that I like to eat without complains.

Deep Fried Roast Pork: Lard infested excellent Dish

With all the oil shortage scare that goes around, the cook doesn't seem to be worried at all as the Roast Pork was served with a healthy amount of oil floating about. The same goes with the vegetables but I'm not complaining.

A few weeks back, after so much chatters from friends about Carl’s Jr., I decide to go give it a try and so, headed over to midvalley to give it a go.

Now, before reaching there, I was telling her how so many people say that the burgers was huge! That even for a person such as myself, will have problem finishing it and the other important aspect is, the price is doubled of what McD’s and Burger Kings are.

Paying over RM20 for a set is worth it if the portion is big. So, off we went, parked the car (does anyone feel that it’s getting harder and harder to find a parking space in Midvalley?) and head off to the 3rd floor.

When it came to my turn to place the order, I placed the orders for big mac lookalike (with bacon) and the Double Chicken sandwich set (both of these are supposed to be HUGE! judging from the displays) and after paying for it and waited for it, when it arrived. I had to double confirm with the waiter that the two burgers (see photo above) is what I ordered. Now why would I do that? Cause… the two burgers looked PATHETIC They are so… PUNY for the price I pay

Anyway, complained about the pathetic size of the burgers, we sat down, gobbled it all up in less than 5 bites and sat there for a good half hour discussing over the patheticness of the burgers. The only consolation is, the fries are quite good.

Now, I’ve come to this conclusion that not all would agree with me. Carl’s Jr. will eventually run out of business after all that hype dies down for the simple fact that… The Burgers does not justify the price we pay. For a single set meal we order at Carl’s Jr., I could have ordered 2 meal sets + an extra fries at Burger King (which also offered FREE FLOW OF DRINKS). With that same amount of money, I could have brought 8 Ramly Burger Specials and the burger chef would be ever so nice to give us extra tissues to go too!

I’ve read in some blogs that they say the Carl’s Jr.’s burgers are huge! I’d have to say that they have puny mouths, that’s all. Would I go and eat there again? Don’t think so, if I’d want to pay RM20++ for a burger set, I’d have just gone to TGIF and ordered a Jack Daniel’s burger and I get to watch LIVE sports on their Tele too!

It doesn't have a real name as far as I know, but alot of people know this little shack/restaurant as the Restaurant under the Big Tree in Sungai Way. From what I was told, they only operate during the day, lunch crowd mostly and by mid afternoon, they'd be packed and gone home.

Went there with my contractors sometime back and boy, was it good! Price wise? CHEAP! Really! anywhere else and the price you'd have to pay is twice of what we paid for this meal.

I can't remember the names of the dishes we ate so just have a look at the photos and hopefully you could identify the name of the various dishes... do let me know too what they are called by leaving a comment k?

To get to this place is quite easy, if you're coming from the direction of Jalan 225, just turn towards Sungai Way and watch out for the junction on your left. The restaurant's located right at that junction.

One funny incident was, a man saw me taking photos and approaches my table asking me whether I'm there to snap some photos cause the restaurant owes me money. I was like huh? And my contractor laughed it off and told him that I like to take photos of food.

After that man walked off, the contractor just turned towards me and told me that man's a loan shark and Sungai Way's his territory. Well, to me, it's not really a worry anyway, as long as we didn't do anything wrong, there's nothing to be worried about. Right?

Anyway, if you're in the area of Sungai Way, feels like eating some nice home cooked dishes at a reasonable price, give this little restaurant a try. Oh yeah, another thing you need to know is. Try to be there by 1pm or the place will be packed with customers.

If you’re heading to Jalan Ipoh from Chow Keat Road, this is one restaurant you’d see on the left just next to Dynasty Hotel. The signage is old but the words can still be read. Restoran Makanan Ban Lee is the name.

Was there last week for lunch after I ran some errants and as I’ve always seen this restaurant packed to the brim at night, my friends and I decide to give it a try at lunch time. What they serve there? Bak Kut Teh! Yup, that’s what we had.

What I think of the food? The meat’s fantastic, as I asked for them to ensure there’s more fats than meat. That’s precisely what I received, along with some ribs and some vegetables.

As for the soup? I feel that there’s abit too much MSG for my taste. Having eaten so many Bak Kut Teh in my life, this one does feel too much MSGish. Cups after cups of chinese tea was downed throughout the 1 hour meal.

Would I go back there for another round? Don’t think so unless I had no choice. Why I say that? Well, I had a habit of feeding the animals that comes about my table when I eat, I’ve thrown bones onto the floor at the Bak Kut Teh restaurant in Klang and the cats would just grab it and chew on it even until after I left, but the pussy that was at Ban Lee refuses to even touch the meat after it took a whiff of what I gave it.