By bapester, on August 16th, 2010% 
So I finally got to visit the restaurant that has apparently already been “blogged to death” after earning a reputation as the go-to place for their much-raved pork burgers. (Although my favourites for the night turned out to be something else, read on to find out) Cristang is tucked away behind PJ’s Wisma Thrifty in the relatively quiet commercial centre that is 8 Avenue. We were pleasantly surprised to arrive at the cosy restaurant buzzing with customers in a square that was mostly quiet (save for a handful of restaurants and bars open), ringing true the old adage that “when the food is good, the customers shall arrive”. That being said, I also attribute the good business of this place to the increasing trend of non-Muslim diners out to hunt for a good serving of pork. Probably a backlash to years of being served with pork-free fare by the not-so-daring restauranteurs. All bodes well for the diners though, but I digress.
» Continue reading Carne de Porco at Cristang
By bapester, on August 12th, 2010%  Tiramisu, methinks.. After the thoroughly satisfying late lunch in Ta Chi House we were looking for a place to sweeten our palates. At that hour, we figured that it might have been a little too late for cendol at Jonker 88 so our next option was to head to Nadeje Cafe, which was a good alternative since I have yet to try their much talked about mille crepe. For the uninitiated, the mille crepe is essentially a French dessert whereby the cake consists of many layers of crepe (mille=thousand, crepe)
» Continue reading Malacca Revisited: Nadeje’s Mille Crepe, Satay Celup and Kerang Bakar
By bapester, on August 7th, 2010% 
It’s been so long
a) since I last updated this blog, my apologies for that
b) since I last visited Malacca for a makan trip, which was about a year or so ago.
» Continue reading Malacca food trail: Ta Chi House
By bapester, on July 22nd, 2010% 
Pardon the rather unimaginative title, I realise myself that its cheesiness borders on the lousy puns commonly found in local English newspapers (not mentioning which newspaper, though). However, the only other title I could think of was “Pork It”, which I felt fares worse in terms of punch and impact than the current title.
» Continue reading A Walk in the Pork at Betty’s Midwest Kitchen
By bapester, on June 7th, 2010% 
So how was it?
Generous with their strips of pork. Seldom do I come across hokkien mee that is served with so much meat. Lean meat, for that matter, that is neither hard nor dry, but tender. Weight watchers may rejoice 
» Continue reading Hokkien Mee at Mun Wah (Dewan Bahasa)
By bapester, on May 11th, 2010% The f-word was the only apt word to describe the whole weekend (F as in “Food”- think Gordon Ramsey, not Jeremy Piven). While food hunting was not the main agenda of my weekend, I somehow ended up trying out a bunch of new places throughout the weekend.
As for tonight, my family and I had dinner at a cosy place called Otak-otak Place in IOI Boulevard. Puchong has become our latest destination for food as it is the most central for all our family members. To anyone who hasn’t heard of IOI Boulevard, it is a relatively new business centre in Puchong located opposite IOI Mall, intended to be an upmarket retail and F&B location for Puchong. While its shops are still largely unoccupied, there are quite a significant number of restaurants and cafes at its ground floor, and business appears healthy.
» Continue reading Otak-otak Place in IOI Boulevard and the rest of my food laden weekend.
By bapester, on January 18th, 2010% 
Half-eaten Claypot Lo Shi Fun.
The universe is fair. Bang your car, discover good food. The other day, I took leave to bring my car for repairs after a minor accident. For lunch that day, I was brought to a restaurant in Kuchai Lama called Goon Wah. This place is popular for its Fish Head noodles, one indicator of its popularity being how every table in the 2-shoplot restaurant is either occupied or reserved (it was 12.30pm on a Tuesday!)
» Continue reading Claypot Lo Shu Fun @ Goon Wah, Kuchai Lama
By bapester, on September 19th, 2009% ..continuation from our Chicken Rice Ball experience in Part 1 …
4. Amoy Fish-shaped Kaya Thingies, outside San Shu Gong
As you walk along the five-foot way outside San Shu Gong souvenir shop in the direction of Jonker St, you will be greeted with a small-scale version of a Charlie-and-the-Chocolate-Factory-esque mechanical contraption that produces copies and copies of this…
We don’t know what it’s called, but it looks the Japanese snack with red-bean filling called Taiyaki. In this true-blue Malaysian version however, it is filled with pandan kaya instead of red bean. Still tastes good tho.
» Continue reading The Merdeka Malacca Food Trip, Part 2
By bapester, on September 1st, 2009% Over the Merdeka weekend, what better way to celebrate our independence than to eat our way around the city where it all started?
Weather on that gastronomic Saturday was excellent- clear blue skies, the occasional sea breeze, sunny but not humid. All bodes well for our gastronomic sojourns, except for the crowds. People, people, EVERYWHERE. You had to queue for practically anything that was worth waiting.
Photographic evidence will be provided throughout the post.
After meeting our ex-uni-mate/tour guide for the day, we start our glutton-fest at our first stop for breakfast…
» Continue reading The Merdeka Malacca Food Trip.
By bapester, on August 22nd, 2009% 
With some colleagues leaving us, we decided to go for a nice dinner together followed by drinks nearby. Initially, we had planned to go to Tenji in Solaris Mont Kiara, but that suggestion met with some objections from yours truly and some others who had a mere so-so experience in that Japanese buffet restaurant. Someone then suggested Rakuzen, since it was in the same area as well.
Since there were 14 of us, we were given a private room, that was good.
The food? Some hits but also some major misses. Many of us were for Rakuzen because we had good dining experiences there (and their set lunches were always value-for money without compromising quality). Yesterday, however, they fell a little short of my expectations.
» Continue reading Dinner at Rakuzen, Hartamas Shopping Centre
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