Maxis LTE

If you don't already know, Maxis now have LTE / 4G services available (at very limited areas in the Klang Valley). So if you have a LTE capable device such as the iPhone 5 and etc., read on....

 

 

Impressive right? Faster than my current Unifi at home. If you have an iPhone 5, iPad 5 or iPad Mini, below tells you how to update your device. I got mine done in a minute.

 

 

Nah...it's not really that fast you say.... it's all just on paper only you say.... Well, this is what I got so far. I must admit some other area is not as fast but still 15 Mbps is still fast. Once they have it in Serdang, it's bye bye Unifi....

 

 

Soon Lee Coffee Shop Keow Teow Soup

I was told that in PJ especially in the old town, there's  many hidden goodies. I found one such goodie in Soon Lee Coffee Shop at Jalan 1/19, PJ. My colleagues called it Kedai Panas. Why? You'll know why it's called panas the moment you step in. You have the usual stuffs that you can find in a food court i.e.; mixed rice, wantan mee, chicken rice, etc. But what I'm here for is the keow teow soup.

 

 

Soon Lee Coffee Shop

 

This is the stall...

 

The keow teow soup

 

Now what's so great about the keow teow soup? It looks so plain in the pic. One sip and you will agree. Is it the flavourful soup? The hint of the aromatic pork lard? The smooth rice noodle (keow teow)? Or the juicy chicken & meat strips? I would say it's a combination of all those stuffs. Add in some chopped cili paid and hmmm...a great lunch... now if only they can have the place air conditioned.

Makan party !!! Yippee.... what could be better than a bunch of friends having a makan party at home. This weekend Claudia is making curry chicken and I've stocked up on a few bottles of duty free goodies for the bar. I've just finished making my lychee watermelon drink when Claudia and Alex arrived.
 

Claudia's curry chicken...

 

The moment the lid is pop open...wow....the aroma quickly fills the room. It smells simply delicious. The spiciness is just right. And the best part is that it comes with lots of potato and we all loves curry potatoes. Sorry, you can't find this at any shops,specially cooked for friends only. :-) After dinner it's cocktails time. Time to practise my bartending skills...

 

Malaysia Cowboy

 

Do you know that whiskey + milk is called a cowboy? So I called my Jack Daniels + Vita Milk creation the Malaysia Cowboy. The taste, well.... we don't like it.... hahahaha... Next we tried the new bottle of Midori I got from LCCT recently.

 

Midori Soya

 

The Midori blends surprisingly well with the balance soya milk. I use about 1 shot of Midori and add lots of ice. Alex seems to like this.

 

My creation... LyGo...

 

My final one for the night (ran out of ingredient), is one I called the LyGo. For this I mix together some lychee in syrup with a shot of mango liqueur and lots of crushed ice. Wish I had some lychee liqueur. But this was received well by my bro.... Hmm.... 3 different cocktails in a night...not a bad night...

Snow Beer

It's been a loooong day. The day started at 2.30am. Woke up and straight away the long drive up to Ipoh. By the time I finish work at 10pm, both legs are so sore they are screaming for a good massage. But too bad, shops closes early in Ipoh. It was already 10.30pm by the time I reached the hotel and after a quick shower, we went for some makan & minum in one of my favourite in Ipoh. The locals called it "Yi Nai Kai" or loosely translated from Cantonese as Mistress Street (actual name is Jalan Bijih Timah as reported by Maps). The shop name is Kafe Sun Yoon Wah. Actually there're 2 shops facing each other. The other one is called Kafe Yoon Wah. Sun stands for new I guess. There're tables inside but we decided to take one of the table outside. Most of the shops are already closed and the streets are quiet. Nice...

 

Full moon...

 

We quickly order some simple dishes and of course, the highlight of the meal, the famous Ipoh snow beer.

 

Look at how cold the beer is. Tempting, so inviting...

 

Other than Ipoh, I have only found this in another restaurant in Cheras but somehow, Ipoh's one taste better. So what is snow beer if you must ask. No, it's not ice blended beer. It's a way, a very good way to enjoy your beer. I've actually succeeded in making my own snow beer at home after a few attempts, so I'm sort of an expert with snow beer. There's a bit of science to this. First the beer need to be really cooled down to just about it's freezing point but not frozen solid. Then it's quickly poured into a frozen mug. Now the key word is quickly coz it's the formation of foam that turn the beer into snow beer. Sort of how your air conditioning unit works. When the gas starts to expand, it quickly cools down the beer and since it's already at freezing point, it turns to ice / snow. I've even done it with Coke before. Well, enough of science. Mail me if you want the tips to make snow beer. They served all sort of snow beer ranging from Carlsberg to Heineken, Skol, etc. I've even tasted Hoegarden before. The key to enjoying it is to drink it quickly, taking big gulps and...buuuuurp.... ah... bliss.....

 

Our food same later. We ordered the "Man Sar Siew Yok Mee", meehoon soup and a salt & pepper fried sotong. The "Man Sar Siew Yok Mee" is actually stir fried wantan mee (egg noodles) with roast pork. If you love wantan mee, you would love this one. The noodles tasted great although I find the roast pork a bit too dry for me.

 

Man Sar Siew Yok Mee

The meehoon soup is nothing much to shout about but with the belacan chilli sauce, it tasted great. Or maybe I'm just hungry... :-) I think I kaw tiem at least 3 plates of the chilli. I luuuuuuv belacan chilli.

 

Meehoon Soup

The salt & pepper fried sotong comes with a small pile of pickled papaya, the slightly sweet one, not the sour type. It was garnished with lots of spring onions. It was nice. Nothing really special but just simply nice. It's one of those dish that's not really unique or stand out or special but tasted just nice, think Maggi mee.... 

 

Salt & Pepper Fried Sotong

 

BTW, there's always some promotion going on there with the beer. This time around, I'm given a lottery ticket. I've never bought a lottery ticket before, now I have to go find out how to check whether I've become an instant millionaire... :-) 

Kluang Roast Pork

It's outstation time again, this time down south. After brazing through one AES, 3 hidden mat skodeng and a long hot day in the factory it's quitting time again. Staying in a new hotel (or motel, best in Kluang...hahaha...) today. Wasn't too keen about driving out again after checking in, so decided to go tah pau my dinner first. And we're having roast pork today. Now, this is no ordinary roask pork. It's not your typical roast pork. It's not a good roast pork. It's a great roast pork. It's THE best roast pork I've tasted to-date. You most probably have not heard of this place. Heck, I may be the first one to blog about it. It's so isolated it doesn't even have a signboard. And it's only opened 4 days a week. So how do I stumbled upon it? Through the locals of course. We were there in a restaurant  directly opposite it to have "yeh mei" @ "wild meat" (which serves very good "mountain goat", but that's story for another time) and the local recommended it. I was early and have to wait a short while while they prepared the whole pig just out of the oven.

 

This is what you see from outside.

This is the uncut portion. See how crisp the skin is.

And this is yummylicious...ready to eat.

 

Well, yeah...looking at the shop's exterior and the packaging of the roast pork, it doesn't really look that appetising.  But looks can be deceiving and aren't we taught to never judge a book by it's cover. Pop a piece into your mouth and you will know what I meant. The skin is not just crispy, it's crunchy like prawn crackers. And the fat layer, it's not the chewy feel one would expect. The fat just melts in your mouth. The meat is just juicy. Wow...imagine all those texture mixing inside your mouth as you chew on them...blending in with the spice and salt used to marinate the pork... it is just awesome...soooo goooood.... really good...

After all this talk, so where it is you asked since it doesn't even have a signboard. If you look into your map, it's located at the corner of Jalan Tan Kim Seck and Jalan Haji Manap Nordin in Kluang, Johor. Nearby the Kluang Baru market, directly opposite Restoran Xiang Hong (which you most probably won't find in Google Maps). Oh...and the secret is to ask for the best cut. The early bird catches the worm, asked for the cut near the neck before the locals snatches them all up.
And you thought Kluang is only famous for it's railway coffee....try it... open on Mon, Tue, Fri & Sat nite only.