In conjunction to mum’s birthday, the whole family drove up to KL for outings.

First stop: Lunch at Pan Heong Restaurant located in Medan Batu Caves. Open from 8am-3.30pm.

Star dish: Big Prawn Wat Tan Hor (滑蛋河 or Sang Har Hor Fun). Viscous broth with high concentration of eggs, prawns with size of appx. 13cm, sweet and juicy.
Other dishes like Indian style mee mamak goreng, deep fried bean curd rolls and wide varieties of porridge are also recommended menu.

Second stop: Batu Caves. Its time to do some stretches and exercise


climbed up the 272 steps and be holy.

Children having fun blowing bubbles at Batu Caves.

Third stop: Look Out Point at Jalan Ampang, Hulu Langat.

KL view from highest deck.


Very hazy KL city centre.

Basically, we were there at wrong time and wrong day.
Reached there around 4.30pm, too early, no crowd, some stalls not open yet.
No rain in the morning, very hot, very hazy, no wind, no mist.

Forth stop: Went back to Klang for dinner
Final stop: Back home to watch Diamond Club on CH317 :)

Today is the Chinese will celebrate DuanWu festival (端午节), which happen every year in 5th day of 5th month in Chinese calendar.
Is also call Dumpling Festival, because we must have Dumpling to eat. Well, at least that’s what happen in my family.

Introducing my family dumpling!!!!!!!!!!

Our house dumplings are made from sticky rice, 3 layer fat pork, mushroom, medium dried prawns (中虾米) and chestnut (栗子).
All the ingredients were half cooked before it was wrapped in the leaves, which will then cook in boiling water for 3.5hrs.

The finished product has salty & seasoned taste, juices from pork fat lubricate the biting and prevent the sticky rice from sticks on the leave – 100% satisfying.

On a recent trip with MAS flight, encounter this particular article.

Its so true, sometimes I really wonder how we find so much room in our stomachs.
Or actually in the other way round, maybe we digest faster, therefore we need to eat sooner.

High five Elaine Tan!

Got recommendation from colleague about this restaurant Daidomon offering BBQ buffet at RM68 per person for their Washoku and Yakiniku Buffet. Located in 3rd floor of Great Eastern Mall, Jalan Ampang, KL.
Tasted it on 1st March 2009 with KT and June.

Its really nice. Following is my review for the food we ate. slurpsss…
Pictures are courtesy from KT.

 

First dish – Sashimi of salmon, octopus, tuna – freshly prepare upon order
 

Ordered some California rolls and avocado rolls

Then is the beef sushi, it was raw beef, first time ever.
It is so raw and hard to chew that, we have to cook the beef first before we can eat

Before cook                                             After cook

Then Ebi sushi and Unagi sushi. The Unagi is so big piece that over cover the rice.

Of course we have BBQ cooking along, sushi are to keep our mouth busy while waiting for BBQ stuffs to get cook

We ordered 3 plates of Tender Belly, 1 strip loin, chicken sausages, prawns, 2 times scallops
  
raw oysters and butter                               Cooking oyster with butter in cup

Butter fish and salmon for BBQ. It is so delicious that we have to order 3 of plates!
 

Also tried venison (deer meat)
 

To even out the acidic meat, we ordered Shitake Mushroom and sweet potato
Warning: must cook carefully with slow fire
 

Some Ebi tempura and deep fried vegetables


Green tea is free flow.
They also serves salads and variety of soups and rice (gohan).
For dessert, they have ice cream and mixed fruits.

May order a la carte or set meal if you don’t fancy buffet.

Overall, i rated it as 4 stars out of 5.
The missing star is for not installing ventilation fan.
Though the food is nice, i don’t like my hair and clothes smells like BBQ-ed

Go have a try.

Its horrible...

(SH said is weird to serve japanese food with chinese style plate). Yeah, its a bit too cina...

Then my mum came and help me made one. Voila....(bottom right in the container)

Thanks to my mum, finally there is one that looks like Onigiri from Isetan KLCC.

Phew....big project. It tooks me 2 hours to made all this!

Will try again in the near future.

Its not because i like to cook, but its because i have left over of 800g of japanese short grain! haha..

More updates coming up.