Ralph Lauren

This I have to post! My 2 buddies bought me a nice and very expensive Polo Shirt from Ralph Lauren. Thank you to Jess & Jean. I love the both of you.

Kannichikan Yakiniku Restaurant (KNK)

Tried out this place last week. It is along the row of shop houses next to Island Plaza in Tanjung Tokong. It is on the first floor above the Tepanyaki shop. Place sells BBQ meats where you cook it yourself type. A friend of mine said that it is a Korean BBQ food place but with a Japanese style. I quote from her blog she wrote about this place "Kan at the beginning of the name means Korean, Nichi means Japanese and Kan at the end of the name means house, while Yakiniku means grilled meat. "

What was recommended by my friend was to try their beef. So we ordered ourselves 4 types of beef to try.

The first was called Yukee. It was beef sashimi. At first I was a bit ewww to eat it raw. But I braved myself to try out a small bit. My friend squeezed the lemon juice on the meat and mixed it together with the egg. I must say it tasted good. Had a nice salty sauce taste mixed in with the raw meat. But I could only take a bit as I was beginning to get a bit turn off by it. But my friends loved it. I guess if your a sashimi person, you'd sure love this.

Yukee- beef sashimi

Second beef was called Cyu-Tan which is beef tongue. This I could eat because I've always like eating my mum's beef tongue dish at home. The tongue here was sliced into thin slices. You have to BBQ it slightly and then squeeze some lime juice on it before eating it up. Lovely.

Cyu-Tan- beef tongue

Third beef was called Harami. It the beef skirt flank. Meat was already marinated so we just BBQ-ed it and ate it. It was good also. Better if it is not too cooked as it gets chewy and dry.

Harami

Fourth beef dish was Zyo Bara which was prime short rib. It was also marinated and we just BBQ-ed it and ate it.

Zyo Bara

Besides all the beef we had, we also ordered ourselves a pancake called Chichimi. If I recall in the menu, we ordered the Pajyon which was a Korean pancake with spring onions. It is actually egg with some flour cooked with spring onions and other ingredients served like a big round pancake. You eat it with the special sauce provided. It was nice.

Pajyon

Then we also ordered a bowl of Kimchi soup and a plate of Hotate scallops. I liked the scallops. It was huge and juicy. Cooked it for awhile on the grill before squeezing some lime and dipping it in the pancake sauce. It was nice for me.

Kimchi

Hotate scallops

This is the grill where the BBQ takes place. Each table has one. They do not use gas but charcoal for this.

Grilling some garlic slices

BBQ-ing the beef. One slice got too overcooked

The interior of the Restaurant

I did enjoy my dinner that day here. I thought the food would be sky high expensive but for what we ate it came out to around RM 200 shared by 4 of us, each paid RM 50. Pretty alright right?

Fishing Craze

During the weekend, we were both in the fishing mood craze. On Sun morning, we and two other friends made our way up to Tj Bungah (opposite Mount Pleasure) for fishing. We started around 10.30 am and ended around 1.30pm.

I must say our fishing turned out good as we caught ourselves quite a lot of fishes, most of it Gelama's.

We used really huge, fat, long and bloody worms as bait. The worms were called umpun-umpun or Nipah Worms. I am proud to say that I was brave enough to cut the worms, touch these worms and hook them onto the hook all by myself!!!! **Clap Clap**
But thinking back these worms were damn disgusting. And each time you cut them there's so much slimy blood coming out.

This is our spot where we fished the whole time. Place is rocky a bit, so sometimes we got our hooks stuck in the rocks. But it was a really nice fishing spot. We caught really a lot of Gelama's here...but all mostly small ones.

A friend's first catch for the day. He caught himself a Gelama fish. We all loved his hat he was wearing. Looked so much like Jason Mraz.

Jason Mraz wannabe sitting down fishing.

Another friends first catch which was yet another Gelama fish

Fishing in progress

Our first catch together. Both were Gelama fish.

Another Gelama fish caught

I caught myself the biggest fish which we named it the Policeman Fissh as it had a black dot on its side. However a friend said that this fish is from the family of the red snapper. A very rare catch indeed and I was so lucky. I think this is the biggest fish I have ever caught in my whole fishing experience.

Then after the adrenalin rush I had with catching that policeman fish, I caught myself yet another big fish. This fish had thorns and whiskers so I think it belonged to the cat fish family.

Big fish!

A friend trying to get the hook out from its mouth.

Besides getting a lot of Gelama's we did get a small stingray which we let it go back to the sea. It was too small to actually cook it in curry.

Also during the hours of fishing, we did catch a few Puffer Fish. We all laughed our ass off when the fish started to get all puffed up. After all the laughing we carefully took out the hook and released it back to the sea.

We also caught a few starfish. Picture above taken from Zeemi's Blog. Do click this to read more about our fishing craze and also Ndru's blog

Just those few hours of fishing, we caught ourselves 20 Gelama fishes. We were all so proud of it. It was a good day for us. We were all still itchy to fish again that the following day, which is today, we came back to fish again. This time we caught ourselves 35 Gelama fishes!!!

For dinner, I cooked up some of the fishes. Deep fried them and ate them with some vinegar (Phillippino style). It was wonderfull!!!

Gelatissimo-Gurney Plaza

New Ice Cream shop in Gurney Plaza. It is called Gelatissimo. It took over Missy Donuts shop which closed down. Ice cream is Gelato style and the logo writes, The Real Taste of Italia. Wonder how true that is.

Anyways there is quite a number of flavours to choose from and you are allowed to try out the flavours before deciding which one you will have. My favourite is the Belgian Chocolate. It has that dark chocolate bitter taste. Lovely!

Pearl Hill Cafe- Chu Char food

This was introduced by my friend Becky to try out the Guiness Stout Chicken and the Nestum Squid. So last Sat, took my parents up here to try it out.

Place is along Jalan Lembah Permai. They open every day except every alternate Wednesday (Lunch: 11am- 2pm, Dinner: 5.30pm- 10.30pm).

We were the first customer when we reached. Place had a lot of parking space so you do not have to worry where to park.

As we sat down the lady came with her menu and before I even read it, I already placed my order for Guiness Stout Chicken and Nestum Squid. However to my disappointment, Nestum Squid was unavailable, so I ordered nestum prawn mantis instead.

Their menu is quite simple. They breakdown the meats into sections and for example if you want chicken they list down the different styles of chicken they have. Reading through, there were some other interesting dishes in their menu for example pork ribs with cheese. Wonder how that would taste.

So anyways since there were 4 of us, we couldn’t order much so this is what we tried out.

Nestum Prawn Mantis

I have always loved anything that that was cooked with Nestum. And the more Nestum I have the better it is. This dish was good for me. If comparing the nestum taste to Double Good Rest, I would say Double Good’s Nestum spare ribs were nicer taste.

Guiness Stout Chicken

I think the best ever I have tried was from this restaurant called Jade Phoenix. But they have closed down and I have no idea if they have moved elsewhere. Anyone knows anything? Do drop me a comment.

Anyways, this place here it was good but I guess I am just spoilt with Jade Phoenix version.

Marmite Pork

It was good

Asparagus cooked with Sambal

It tasted good but the asparagus they gave us was old therefore it was rather chewy and stringy the swallow.

Claypot Beancurd

The beancurd here is homemade. The claypot had a lot of things in it which made it all interesting to dig. They had pork, leek, baby corn and carrots in it.

For what we ordered it came out quite reasonably priced (RM 55). A great place to come have chu char. Cheap and good!

All dishes were wiped clean!

Dajie Cafe- Dessert House

This dessert house has been in existence for over 4 years and this was only my second visit here. Located along China Street (the end nearer to Khoo Kongsi) on the left side of the road you will find this shop.

They sell many kinds of ice desserts such as Soursop, Durian, Strawberry, Guava, Mango, Mixed Fruit, Jackfruit, Cendol and Ice Kacang. Besides the ice desserts, they also have hot desserts such as Ang Tau Th’ng, Huan Chu Sago, Thor Tau Th’ng, Gandum, Bee Kor Moi, Foo Chook, See Kor Th’ng and Pek Kueh Bok Nee.

On my second trip here, this is what I tried out.

Sourpsop (RM 4.50)

It had that sour kick in it which was very refreshing. Loved it although I would have loved it better if they gave more of the Sourpsop fruit.

Kiwi Fruit(RM 4.50)

This was yet another sour one which was twice as refreshing as the Sourpsop.

Durian(RM 4.50)

They used real durian flesh to make that thick durian paste.

Grass Jelly and Longan (RM 3.50)

Jelly would be the Cincau or Leong-fun jelly.

Bee Koh Moi (RM 2.50)

It was nice and thick.

Kuih Koci

The owner recommended us to try her Kuih Koci. I hope this is the correct name for this kuih. It was nice and soft and you eat it with coconut. But what would be better was that it lacked in that pandan taste and smell. Perhaps if she put more of the pandan extract it would have been absolutely gorgeous.

Besides, desserts they also serve simple food dishes like fried rice, fried mee etc which you can have for lunch. It’s a great place to come and refresh yourself in the afternoon.