Showing posts with label lunch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lunch. Show all posts

Saturday, March 2, 2024

[Travel] What I ate at Petaling Street (Chinatown) during Lunar New Year Part 3 - Restoran Nasi Ayam Kam Kee

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Final installment of what we ate at Petaling Street 2024. Read more about Part 1 and Part 2.


Lunch

Restoran Nasi Ayam Kam Kee


We were supposed to check out by 1230pm, so went over to this chicken rice shop that's just nearby to the famous Michelin Bib one, which we also tried before some years back.

My sis says Kam Kee is not bad, so here we are to have a quick lunch before we head back to our hometown.

shop front

menu

The shop seems to be specializing in kampong chicken, but we didn't order that because my parents (and myself too!) are getting on with age, and we prefer not to work our jaws that much.

The lady boss is friendly with a sense of humor while the younger chap wears a more serious face and seldom interact with the customers except to accept payment when the meal is done.

We ordered roasted and steamed chicken drumsticks, one portion of charsiew and one portion of roasted pork. For vegetables, we chose the beansprouts. They have other things like curry mutton, beef soup (!) which are uncommon for a chicken rice shop, no?

Food was served a few minutes after we ordered.

food is here

chicken rice



The rice here is flavourful and not oily.

steamed chicken drumstick

roasted chicken drumstick

roasted pork

blanched beansprouts

char siew



We were pretty surprised by the texture of the chicken. We looked at one another and wondered why their normal chicken has similar chewy-ness as kampong chicken? Haha, not too tough but it wasn't exactly the 'normal' chicken that we were expecting. 

The best sauce award goes to the char siew. But health-wise, you might want to stay away from all the charred bits (which came up to quite a bit). But I liked these charred  bits...

The taugeh (beansprouts) looked nondescript but it was tasty! And juicy!

And, our meal was the most cost effective through-out our stay at Petaling Street as it came up to RM66 for all the food that we had and fed 5 adults comfortably.


Address: 42, Jalan Sultan, City Centre, 50000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Contact: +60176294188
Business Hours:
Closed on Wed.
Thu - Tue: 10 am to 3 pm





Saturday, January 6, 2024

Lunch at Um Yong Baek @ 27 Boon Tat Street

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What birthday girl wants, birthday girl gets. Um Yong Baek seemed to be the trendy place to dine at, somewhat. Rumors of long queues seemed true from the recent experience. The two outlets; Telok Ayer and Boon Tat Street are pretty close to each other.

Telok Ayer outlet

before the shop opens


One should go online on the day of visit, and get a queue number. Thanks to Tiara, we were lucky to be placed in the first batch of diners to go in once the shop opens at 11am. Perhaps that was because we visited on a weekday.

At approximately, 10:45am, Tiara received an email notification that our table at Boon Tat Street outlet is ready. We headed over on foot as we were around the Telok Ayer area. Reached by 10:55am but the shop didn't open its door till about 11.10am. 


queue at Boon Tat Street outlet

queuing instruction and opening times


The staff will ask the patron to display the email notification of the table number and will check that all parties in the group are present before being let into the restaurant.

 

tables nearer to the entrance

We were led to the inner section of the restaurant where there were more tables available. The traditional types at the outer section near the entrance gives the cosy aesthetics but it does take up more space in the shop.

As all tables seemed to be meant for 4 pax, so we shared it with another patron whom is dining solo.

open kitchen view

The tables have been setup with the side dishes, flask of water prior to the guests arrival. 

pickled green chilies and vege stem

onions/chives kimchi

kimchi

bean paste, sliced green chilies and sliced garlic

water, self-service

salted shrimps

salt

Um Yong Baek offers dwaeji gukbap 돼지국밥 (Pork & Rice Soup) for lunch and there's two types; Busan style Daejigukbap and the Milyang style Daejigukbap. For dinner, its menu offers BBQ aged pork and makguksu (buckwheat noodle).

Ok, so we ordered the pork and rice soup, one each. Best of both worlds!

(top) Busan style Daejigukbap and (bottom) Milyang style Daejigukbap

Was happy with the generous amount of meat in the standard bowl and the meat is of quality. Tried the soup for both and the Busan style broth has a more pronounced porky flavour while the Milyang style broth is richer but less pronounced porky taste. 


Busan style Daejigukbap @$21

large piece of pork slice

Usual practice is, one can add the salted shrimp, or salt, or the bean paste to enhance the flavour of the broth. Recommend not to add all at once but one and a little bit at a time, to see which one you like more. My favourite was the bean paste as it changes the profile of the soup quite a bit.

Milyang style Daejigukbap @$21

beautiful layers




Perfect for cold weather, and it was quite filling at the end of the meal. It was enjoyable to match the spoonful of rice, some soup and a piece of kimchi. One could inform the staff to refill any of the side dish. We had another round of kimchi because we enjoyed the crunchy texture, and the juicy-ness of the kimchi here.



To my lunch companion Tiara, thank you for your company and Happy Birthday!


Um Yong Baek

Address: 27 Boon Tat St, #01, Singapore 069623

Websitehttps://umyongbaeksgeng.creatorlink.net/

Contact: +6588435968

Business Hours: 

Closed on Sun.

Mon-Sat: 11 AM–3:30 PM, 5:30–10 PM

Friday, November 24, 2023

[Jeju] Experiencing Windy Seongsan Ilchubong and Lunch at Green Roof @ Seogwipo

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After enjoying the seaview at Seogwipean Bakery, we proceeded to enjoy mountain view at Seongsan Ilchubong. A Unesco World Heritage site, we enjoyed our stroll there. But boy, the wind is strong! It was enough to move your body and I am not that light. 

Here's some photos:

first view

we were here


the lady looking at the peak

can see Udo Island from here

Udo Island

After that, of course, it was time for lunch. We saw there's a burger place when we descended from Seongsan, so it was easily decided to dine there.

Greenroof Jeju

interior

Surprisingly, I didn't order a beer. Ivan did. I ordered their hallabong freeze. Hehe, when in Jeju, drink hallabong! I liked my drink. The best remedy on a hot day!

hallabong drink

Jeju beer

boneless chicken and pork & shrimp burger

The lunch looked good actually. The boneless chicken was like a super-sized popcorn chicken. Served piping hot and juicy!

Boneless Chicken @₩18000

Pork & Shrimp Burger @₩14900

yup, there's shrimp in there

The pork burger, one could taste the ginger in there. Shrimps were nice and visible although not much flavour.

Overall, a nice place to chill with air-conditioning. The shop owner/staff there was pretty relaxed too. 



Seongsan Ilchubong (성산 일출봉)

Address: 284-12, Ilchul-ro, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do


Greenroof Jeju

Address: 111 Seongsan-ri, Seongsan-eup, 성산읍 성산리 Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do, South Korea

Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/greenroofjeju/

Business Hours:

Daily: 9am to 7pm


Sunday, November 12, 2023

[Jeju] Lunch at Mandolong Noodle House 맨도롱국수집 @ Seogwipo

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This was our lunch break after we had our morning cuppa at Youdong Coffee, some savoury tangsuyuk at Chinatown Seogwipo and then a little bit of sightseeing at Jeongbang Waterfall.

Here's some photos from Jeongbang Waterfall.

Jeongbang Waterfall

the sky, the sea and the waterfall

We enjoyed the nature, and soaked in some sun and then, it was time to fill up our tummies!


shopfront

interior


The shop was fairly relaxed at our time of visit at about 1.40pm. Probably it was past lunch time. The shop seemed to be singlehandedly managed by the lady boss, so we waited for quite a bit after the orders were placed.

abalone mulhoe @₩15000



The abalone noodles was served cold and refreshing. Flavours were rather mild and the noodles were enjoyable with the crunchy texture of the abalone slices and plenty of vege in there.

We also ordered the pork slices noodles with additional serving of boiled slice pork.

pork noodles @₩9000

boiled sliced pork @₩25000



The pork broth was comforting and the pork slices were nicely tender though sliced more thinly than the ones we had the night prior.

anchovies broth noodles @₩7000

The noodles in anchovies broth was a simpler version served with egg shreds and sliced tofu puffs.

I enjoyed the noodles here and my preference were towards the noodles with hot broth.


Mandolong Noodle House 맨도롱국수집 

Address: 21 Seomun-ro 29beon-gil, Cheonji-dong, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do, South Korea

Business Hours:

Daily: 10 AM–9 PM


 
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