Ara Damansara – Tuk Tuk Dei

Tuk Tuk Dei technically means quite ok but so so in Cantonese and yet this is the name of nice and cozy coffeeshop in Ara Damansara. Its air conditioned and open and it just serve your usual coffeeshop stuff.

I like their teh-si special here, which is iced teh-si with palm sugar (gula melaka). You can see the layer of tea, milk and palm sugar in your drinks, taste just like any iced teh-si but palm sugar gives it a nice and rich aroma, pretty cool drink ;).

I tried their bittergound noodles here, its basically soup noodles with bittergound, tomato and chicken in it, nothing to shout about, but when you feel heaty, its something nice to eat. The char koay teow is also not bad and so if the wantan mee with roast pork and curry :).

GPS: N3 07.202 E101 34.746

Makan first, think later 😉

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PJ Oldtown – Fish Paste Noodles

This is probably the best kept secret of PJ Oldtown when it comes to food. I have at first wanted to take details photograph on locating this place, but decided not to… why… simply because its already quite crowded and the wait is already long. Plus, it wouldn’t be a secret after that right? Hahaha… so if you want to know where is it exactly, I will take you there and you pay my bill ok 😉

This place, does not have signboard, its just table and chairs laid in at the corridor of a house in PJ oldtown, passing the front of the place, you won’t even know it exist! At the back is a small kitchen where the owner cook the noodles bowl by bowl, no shortcut, that’s what makes it good. There are also additional place to sit inside the house, but you have to go in from the back.

The wait here average 30-40 mins, so if you can’t wait, don’t come. This is because there are loads of people who come, willing sit down and wait for their take away orders of like 10 packets, the lady boss cooks them one by one. Hehe… also, for drinks, they only have loh han gou and barli, nothing else. They opened 8am to 2.30pm, close on Thursday and Sunday.

They are famous for their fish paste (yee wat) noodles here, but I saw a lot of people ordering minced pork (yok sui) noodles too. The fish paste noodles are soup based, I saw the owner taking the stock from what looks like a big pot of chicken stock from my observation, not exactly sure. Anyway, the noodles are serve in soup with a very generous amount of vegetables, some seaweed, a piece of fried foo chuk and 3 big chunks of fish paste. First thing to try is the soup and its excellent, filled with taste but yet very clear (ching) and natural. The chunky fish paste fills your mouth with a bite full and its soft, no fishy smells and tasty. I can now understand why the crowds keeps coming!

Greedy me (as usual) topped up with 2 side dishes, dumpling (sui kau) and stuffed bittergound (yong foo kua). The dumpling are excellent with 1 huge big prawn in it and the paste have a good mixture of veges inside too. But I fancy the bittergound more, its hardly bitter, soft and the fish paste stuffing are very very generous.

Worth waiting, definately, just need to come earlier next time, can get a bit hot but lucky they have plenty of stand fans around ;). 3 fish paste noodles, 2 siu kau and 4 bittergound, 2 drinks cost RM18.90.

GPS: N3 05.110 E101 38.767

Makan first, think later 😉

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Batu Dam Hashing – Appetite Building! PJ – Home Recipe Seafood

Finally it’s Wild Geek’s 2nd hashing and we are off to Batu Dam to trash our MTBs and drain ourselves! I would say that its a demanding track running through roads, trails by the dam, stream crossings, orchards, estates and secondary jungle. Halfway in there, you ask yourself why are you doing this to torture yourself and you wish that you can immediately zap out of there back home. But at the end of the hash, filled with mud, wounds from leeches and not to mention the heat, it was all worth it. The scenery is amazing in this place, still very much not polluted, the down hill adrenalin was great (even when I fell and “tar kuan tau” at the end, hehe) and everyone had great fun. Will definately be back again! Pix tells it all, here are some of them:

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After the tortures hash, our appetite are all built up, the journey back was bad as we were stuck in a long queue of traffics because motorists are slowing to look at the accident on the other side of the road, arghh… dumb malaysians attitude! Anyhow, we wanted to go to the Segambut Seafood Noodles but took a long turn and after coming out of the traffic jam, we decided to eat in PJ on the way back. Its a simple place near Sect 17 PJ, Restoran Home Recipe Seafood. We ordered 4 dishes, pork belly with salted fish, fried vege, steam salted chicken & bittergound fried with salted egg.

The chicken is good, a bit salty but that’s the idea right? Steamed with some herbs like kei chi (small red dates herbs), it’s nice to go with rice. The bittergound is not bad either and the rest are so-so, normal. Everything plus drinks comes to RM58, quite standard PJ/KL price.

Makan first, think later 😉

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