Soon Fatt Beijing Roast Duck, Jalan Pasar, Pudu

Whether it be duck, chicken or pork, a piece of good roasted meat requires three things. In the case of duck, the first thing would be, the right marinade. Depending on the Chef/Si-fu’s expertise, this could be rice wine, five-spice powder, dong quai (Angelica sinensis) herb and some other secret ingredient even, to be added [...]

Little Eat Stall Pudu

When dining out on chinese food, the local chinese would refer to 2 different categories; Big Eat or Little (Small) Eat. Big Eat would refer to a street side restaurant focused on cooking up a variety dishes to be eaten with rice. Some of these dishes might be a specialty of the restaurant. Little Eat [...]

Best Tomato Noodles in Town – at Megah Good Luck

Just across the road from Restoran Gembira is Megah Good Luck. This is the place that I was referring to, that does the better Sarawak kolo mee. But it’s not just kolo mee that we come here for. the sexy, slurpy and super tasty Sarawak Tomato Kwey Teow The best Sarawak tomato noodles in Petaling [...]

Restoran Gembira Kolo Mee

Kolo Mee is a very famous hawker food and a signature noodle dish in Sarawak, a simple bowl of egg noodles, cooked al dente, then served with classically garlic, shallots, minced pork, white vinegar, pork oil, pork lard and charsiew (sliced barbecue pork). It is one of the most common food found in Kuching, but [...]

Wantan Mee at Pudu Wet Market, Kuala Lumpur

It wasn’t long after our late night dinner at that Indonesian Warung, that we decided to go back to Pudu Wet Market one night, to check out this wantan mee stall we saw the last time we were in that part of the neighbourhood. We were early and the cooks were just starting to prep [...]

A Walk Down Madras Lane

Ask any good KL-lite for a point in the right direction of cheap bargains and you will inevitably end up in Chinatown. Chinatown or Petaling Street is notorious for imitation Armani watches, Prada handbags, Chinese restaurants and hawker stalls selling all sorts of delicacies from dimsum to wantan noodles or seafood. Almost everywhere you look, [...]

Kway Teow Kia and Pork Offal, Johor Bahru

How do I begin to describe this place? For starters, I am not from Johor Bahru. I could not find my way around even if I had a GPS because the roads are rather confusing. I totally had to rely on my colleagues to take me to eat the “legendary spare-parts of the pig” at [...]

Char Kwey Teow and Pork Congee, at Restoran Leong Wei, Jalan Kuchai Lama

Sometimes, Chinese New Year can be a bore. Stuck in Kuala Lumpur, with no place to go. Nevermind the eerily quiet streets and the annoyingly packed shopping malls.. all the best Chinese hawker centers are closed as well. So it was with great glee when we noticed that this particular hawker shop was open on [...]

Taman Yulek Pork Noodles

If you ever visit Kuala Lumpur, make no mistake when I say, this place is piggy mecca for the hungry soul. Our city is saturated with bellies, trotters, ears, snouts, and intestine — it’s a veritable porkapalooza out here, that should impress even the most seasoned of pork eaters. But where’s a pig junkie supposed [...]

Restoran Golden Tin, Pandan Indah KL

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It’s a Sunday, and the weekend has been rainy, rainy, rainy.. Pick yourself up, with Yong Tau Foo (YTF)! This place is a hot favourite with C&C. We eat here regularly and the YTF is always good! Yong Tau Foo‘s exact translation is stuffed beancurd, although you will see other items part from the beancurd, [...]

Wai Kee Charsiew at Salak South

To be a true pork lover is to be obsessed with the entire pig—snouts, eyes, ears, and all. But is there such a thing as too much pig? We think not. Here we see, Cumi testing the limits in this serious carnivore’s guide to the new age of pork dining. “what in tarnations is that..?! [...]