Soup Restaurant, Jaya Shopping Centre

With an impressive list of outlets located in Singapore, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, I had to try Soup. I just had to…you know that feeling of wanting to try a certain outlet is so great that I finally found myself driving there on a wet afternoon!

The first thing I ordered was a glass of homemade barley drink. Prices at RM4 , I definitely thought it was a rip-off.

We tried the traditional boiled soup (RM22.90), served in an earthen pot. The pot lent a nice, distinct taste to the soup and we all yearned for more.

Beggar bowl rice with chicken (RM9.90) -  served with some vegetables on the side, this was a complete meal buy itself. I love the ginger garninshing.

Beggar bowl rice with minced pork (RM9.90) – this was once again served in a ‘pot’ which kept its content warm all throughout.

Hometown tofu (RM14.90) – deep fried and garnished with spring onion and parsley, and served with some gravy, I don’t quite like the taste of it.

Address : L3-12, 3^rd Floor

Jaya Shopping Centre

Jalan Semangat

46100 Petaling Jaya

Tel : +603 7932 1338

Breakfast at Remember Come, Kuantan

This morning, I had breakfast  with some friends at this coffee shop with a rather weird name –Remember Come…well, I guess the owner meant to say that we should always remember this shop and go there often.

This is nasi lemak with some peanuts, anchovies, cucumber slices and half a boiled egg. Priced at RM2.50, I must say it is rather expensive. This was served on wax paper and the gravy was separately put in a saucer with just one piece of potato (picture below).

Chicken rice (RM4.50) – tasted alright.

Curry noodles – the gravy was bursting with coconut milk flavour and I really loved it.

Here are the drinks we had..and I highly recommend the teh peng here.

Address : 254 Tingkat Bawah

Jalan Air Putih

Taman Air Putih Mewah

Fasa 3, Kuantan.

Cash terms only

Gilly Café Inn

It was noon and we needed a ‘cave’, a hiding place, to just get out from the scorching heat outside. A look at the set menu told us that prices were reasonable and so we just chilled out at Gilly Café Inn for a short while.

The set came with free orange juice and ice cream. We ordered 4 different sets to share:-

Orange juice

Ice cream

This is Hakka style braised pork (RM9.90) – with some rice at the bottom of the bowl, the braised pork and egg were tasty.

Roast chicken rice (RM8.90) – we all got a pleasant surprise when this arrived. We were thinking of conventional chicken rice….but the owner thought out of the box and presented us with chicken on top of some rice in a bowl. I must say it was good.

Noodle with gravy (RM7.90) – with its thick noodles and equally thick gravy, this dish had sufficient ingredients to make it delicious.

Fried noodles (RM7.90) – stir fried over what I call intense heat from the stove, I have no complaints, but rather compliments for this plate of noodles.

Address: No 5 , Ground Floor

Jalan Manis 3

Taman Segar, Cheras

Kuala Lumpur

Tel : +603 9131 3772

Famosa Chicken Rice Ball, Melaka

I’ve made a promise to my son to take him to savour what we call the ORIGINAL chicken rice ball in Melaka as he did not want to have them in KL. He claims that the KL ones are not authentic. Hence, our journey to Melaka begin early this morning. All along the highway I was thinking that we’ll take a walk along the river and then have chicken rice ball for lunch.

 We arrived in Melaka just in time for breakfast. It was 9am….and the boy wanted CHICKEN RICE BALL for breakfast! Hmmm…I thought about it and gave in. After all I didn’t want a boy bugging me for what seemed like eternity before lunch time.

We found a parking spot right in front of the Tan Kim Hock shop and from there went to Famosa on foot. For the record, parking in Melaka is using the coupon system (yes, even on weekends) , so be sure to stock up on this as summons as efficiently slapped for non compliance.

The waitress gave us the menu…but the boy said “Chicken rice ball” to her without even bothering to look at the menu. He asked for 10 balls which worked out to be 30sen each. He also ordered roast chicken (RM10 for a quarter chicken) and roast pork (RM9) to accompany the rice balls…… all of which, he said was excellent. What a satisfied look there was on his face at the end of the meal!

These aren't fish balls, they are chicken rice balls!

I ordered a tofu soup (RM8) and a braised egg (RM1.50) for myself and a luo han guo drink (RM2.50). Well, the tofu soup was filled with lots of tofu, vegetables, tomatoes and it was filling.

As we were leaving a big group of tourist walked in. From the way they talked, I would safely say they were Singaporeans.

After our satiating meal, we paid and  headed for Jonker Street.

 Address :  124 Jalan Munshi Abdullah

75100 Melaka

Thai coffee shop, near Platinum Mall

I’ve no idea what to call this place as its name is in Thai. Not a single foreigner was there as we walked in and only an elderly lady there spoke some English. She helped us to order all the food.

I had to have some bitter gourd soup as I was told that bitter gourd can help reduce body heat. After walking for hours in Platinum Mall and the surrounding the shops in the sweltering heat, I realised that I had not been taken on a ride and that the cooling effect of the bitter gourd soup was for real!

Thai chicken rice – well, even the chicken looks different from the ones I am used to eating back at home. I noticed that Thai chicken has less fat and was slightly tougher!

Restoran Kar Heong SS14 Subang

I’ve always been told that to identify a good restaurant all you need to do is to follow the crowd –meaning that you take a look at the number of customers eating in the restaurant, and if there are plenty of customers, that would NORMALLY mean that the food that is alright. And that was how I ended up at Kar Heong in SS14 Subang Jaya.

Without the slightest idea of what I was in for, I parked my car a few lots away and walked in. As I walked in I saw roasted pork, char siew and chicken –oh, a chicken rice shop in a row of shops that has countless number of bak kut teh shops!

One plus point of Kar Heong is that it has air conditioning , and this makes it a pleasant place to dine in as the day was rather hot.

Half a kampong chicken is priced at RM26. The smooth texture of the chicken skin was to die for. I really loved the taste of this chicken when eaten with oil rice (RM1.20 a bowl) . To enhance the taste of the chicken I just had to put lashings after lashings of their specially made chilli sauce.

This is hor fan with prawn wanton (RM6.50)– the broth was delicious and you can easily tell that lots of chicken bones have been put in to make this broth what it was.

Roasted pork and char siew  (RM13) – with a tinge of sweetness and saltiness and a combination of fat and lean meat, this dish was alright.

Pork balls in broth (RM8) – 10 pork balls in a nutritious broth –well, that says it all.

Ipoh bean sprouts (RM4) – short, thick and crunchy.

The one thing that confuses me here at Kar Heong is their staff – at times I was just tongue tied as I did not know what language to use to communicate with them – er….English can? Bahasa? Mandarin? Cantonese? ……..err…let me figure that out!

Address : No 60, Jalan SS14/2, Subang Jaya,

GPS Coordinate : N3 04.365 E101 35.408

Tel No : 012-605 6696  , 012-693 5355, 016-211 4482

Opening hours : 9am to 9pm

Only cash is accepted