Cheap, decent portion and tasty – Mat Rock ticks all the right boxes.
That and the fact that Mat Rock scoops in their unique and fiery sambal belacan in every pack, and a touch of this potent concoction just turn everything in the pack into a dynamite.
However, Mat Rock Nasi Ayam Kunyit isn’t quite the same without the sambal. So the sambal is a MUST.
We are just blessed with too much good food available conveniently at almost all hours of the day. Every occasion is celebrated with food, every event attended offers food and…
This was quite unexpected find for me.
For one I wouldn’t be anywhere near this area if it wasn’t for a friend who knew a friend who knew this place.
Yes, it is one of those someone recommended to someone who recommended it to me kind of story. 🙂
I am one of those “weird Chinese” who actually do not mind pork -free dim sum.
For me the most important factor is the freshness and taste.
I find most dim sum served at coffee shops and small dim sum outlets (most of the traditional ones anyways) are ridiculously greasy.
And from experience, the prices are not much different from the dim sum served in restaurants or hotels.
My favourite non-pork dim sum is at Celestial Court in Sheraton Imperial.
I have since found another pretty decent one on the 6th floor of KL Sogo department store. Siang Restaurant is a Chinese banquet seating style restaurant that offers prepared-to-order Chinese dishes, another of their popular offerings is the dim sum.
The same can be said for MinMax.
While I was on my project of seeking halal outlets few months back, I visited a few restaurants that serves Chinese style food; outlets that serves pork free or halal outlets.
The realization of how insanely popular (and perhaps extremely profitable?) such businesses are was an eye-opener.
The Muslims do love our Chinese cuisine; especially the steamed fish, sweet sour meat and all the salted egg and butter milk dishes!
With the amount of chicken rice stalls in coffeeshops, chicken rice speciality outlets, chicken rice sold in food courts (I like the one at Pavilion) and chicken rice on the menu of hotels and restaurants, it is baffling why I can’t seem to get decent chicken rice in the city.
Well, you can pay RM30++ for a good chicken rice in Magenta in Publika, or in Grand Hyatt KL or even splurge on a RM75++ Hainanese Chicken Rice in Majestic Hotel KL.
But what about good chicken rice within RM10?
I have my favourites in PJ & TTDI. Not the best I reckon, but for a quick chicken rice fix I’ll just head to Restaurant OK in TTDI, a mere 5 mins ride from my home & tapau (takeaway) a RM10 chicken + roast pork + char siew + duck rice.
So looking for the BEST chicken rice in town isn’t my priority.
Still, with a new project coming up one of my tasks was to find a really good chicken rice to feature/write about.
Beyond Veggie is a refreshing meatless dining concept from Secret Recipe Cakes & Café Group. Their extensive menu range is inspired by all fresh and natural products with no colouring, preservatives or MSG.
Dining here is all about healthy and delicious choices!
A friend of mine asked me recently for a good creme brulee in KL.
The first one that came to mine was this pandan creme brulee at PickNik. While the rest of the food (or at least the ones we sampled that night) wasn’t satisfactory, this creme brulee was AMAZING.
Never a fan of creme brulee because creme brulee is well, boring creme brulee; Chef Nik’s recipe is an entirely creative interpretation yet retaining the essence of a good creme brulee.
The Pandan Crème Brulee was a refreshing green; intensely pandan flavoured custard that paired perfectly with the thick gula Melaka.
Kudos to Chef Nik thinking out of the box! Substituting the common white sugar with palm sugar was certainly the factor that made the crème brulee outstanding. With a scoop of coconut ice cream on top this was almost like Chendol minus the ice!
Lastly, the burnt sugar crust on top was nicely done too.
