Category: Food Reviews

Grilled goodies at Yakiniku

Thanks to Ah Ring, #porkgang got to enjoy some yakiniku at Yakiniku, Pandan Indah. It’s very near my parents’ place so I was pretty excited to discover a new place to eat near where I grew up.

To go to Yakiniku, just drive as though you’re going to Steven’s Corner. Once Steven’s on your left, go straight and turn left at the traffic lights. Then turn right when you see Hong Leong bank. Yakiniku is right opposite the bank.

# Some porkers.

# 2 porkers.

Food was pretty good, especially for the price. Like a plate of pork bacon slices goes from RM5.90.

# The grill.

# Yummy mussels with butter, pork slices and enoki mushrooms.

# Spot the awesomesauce marinated chicken gizzards. I practically nommed the entire plate.

# More chicken gizzards with sweet corn.

# One way to eat the delicious grilled meat is wrapped in lettuce then dipped in the special sauce.

Besides grilled stuff, they also serve other ala-carte dishes.

# Kimchi fried rice. If you love kimchi, you’d love this.

# Kimchi soup. Wholesome and tasty.

# Deep fried soft shelled crab. Crispy!

# Chicken katsu don. Delicious and light.

Yakiniku also has a huge selection of rather sweet but very addictive drinks. If you want to lay off the sugar, they do have good old green tea and fantastic sour plum ice blended.

The best thing about Yakiniku?? It is pet-friendly! Charlie, Fatty, Ally and Koyuki were sitting INSIDE the restaurant with us. Of course, if you’re thinking of bringing your furkids anywhere, make sure they are well-behaved in the 1st place ya? :)

I’d highly recommend Yakiniku. True, the food is not amazingly great but really exceeded the quality you might have expected with the price. It’s a place to go when you’re bored with your regular choices of food. The atmosphere is nice and comfortable, service is great and it’s dog-friendly.

p/s: pictures were taken with my Bold2. Not too bad aye? :)

Restaurant Yakiniku
20G, Jalan Pandan Indah 4/8, Pandan Indah, 55100 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03 4295 4833

My favourite cendol in the world.

I love cendol more than ais kacang. Whenever I go to Malacca, there’s one place that I definitely won’t miss, because it has the most awesomesauce cendol in the whole wide world.

The place is called Jonker88.

First of all, my apologies for my dreadful style of blogging – completely devoid of charisma and my usual banter sort off. I have successfully exhausted all creativity and energy into work. So I’m just going to be simple, succinct and straightforward.

Jonker88 is awesomesauce to the max.

# Jonker88.

It’s the home to a quaint stall that sells all kinds of ice shaving goodies and of course the ultimate cendol.

# The menu.

The stall is operated by a middle-aged lady and boy is she fast. I never really had to queue for more than a minute even at its busiest time.

# The proprietor and her assistant.

The cendols they sell are a class of its own. The gula melaka (palm sugar) they use is thick, sticky and very fragrant. The way it becomes chewy upon contact with the ice shaving is unlike anything I’ve tasted in my life. Other cendols that use watered down palm sugar just pale in comparison to Jonker88’s cendol.

I mean, just check out this beauty!

# Sticky, gooey gula melaka drizzled all over the coconut-cream soaked ice-shavings with bouncy cendol and red beans buried underneath.

The atmosphere of the place is also something worth noting. Housed in an old Baba Nyonya house converted into a restaurant cum art gallery, eating there is like travelling back in time.

# The beautiful converted Baba Nyonya traditional house.

It remains to be seen whether I’ll find any other cendol that could match the one from Jonker88. I really don’t care, I hope it sticks around forever.

# Nom nom nom.

Jonker88 also has another stall that sells delicious looking assortment of laksa noodles. I’ve never tried it, but I heard they are pretty good too.

Jonker Dessert 88
88, Jalan Hang Jebat,
75200 Melaka

The Best Popiah in the World

Is in Malacca.

It’s one of the food that we most look forward to whenever we go to Malacca. Do you know why it’s so damn good?

Ladies & gentlemen, because of this magic ingredient….

#Pork lard!!!

The popiah stall is operated by an old man who looks about 160 years old. While he is awesomesauce at making popiahs, his memory is a bit fail. You have to be a little patient with the man because he doesn’t really seem to remember faces very well. Although I was standing there for a while, he asked me at least 4 times how many popiahs I wanted, while he was making my order, hahaha.

#Expert popiah maker.

As far as I know, he doesn’t really have a fixed location where he operates his stall but it’s always along Jonker Street. I’m not sure what time he operates as well but I guess if you go around lunch time should be about right.

#Weathered hands.

Except for the pork lard, his popiah ingredients are pretty standard but always piping hot and fresh.

#Fried shallots, beansprouts, braised radish, braised cabbage, diced omelette, lettuce, chilli and the special sauce. And the superstar ingredient: pork lard!

The best way to eat it is when it’s freshly made. The filling is still hot and juicy but the thin crepe skin is not yet soggy. I’ve tried the other supposedly better stall at Jalan Bunga Raya operated by a younger fella who also uses pork lard but he is a bit too generous with his braised radish thus his popiahs only taste of that – braised radish. I still much prefer this old man one :)

#Yummeh!

Along Jonker Street, Malacca.
RM2.00 per roll.
Can survive journey to KL as long as you don’t put the beansprouts & cabbage in. Still as delicious! :)