Thursday, March 6, 2025

[Home] From My Sis Private Kitchen - Cooked with Love, Served with Care

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Since our household is a combination of Hokkien and Cantonese, we grew up with saucy food and soups. Beef has never made an appearance at home since my grandma's (dad's mom) days. So, we grew up with chicken and pork. The old house backyard used to have chicken coop.

Dad can cook quick meals like baked beans, pork loin anchovies soup, and stir fry vegetable. Usually dishes that grandma wants. Mom rarely cooks but if she does, we'll get specials like nasi lemak, pork skin curry, custard dessert and some funny stuff that she was into at that point in time. 

Nowadays, my parents rely on my sis for  their meals and I'm forever grateful to have one that manages that for them.

One of the perks of going home, besides spending time with family, will be home cooked food. Here's a glimpse of dinner menu.


Yong Tau Foo


Made from relentless pounding of minced fish fillet and lovingly stuffed into various popular vegetables like bittergourd, brinjal, and red chilies, then pan-fried before saucing it up lightly.



The chilies were somewhat more fiery than expected, but guess who finished them all. Hahaha!


Soups

chicken soup

lotus root chicken feet soup

ABC soup


I love soups. I get bigger bowl of this during dinner. Hahaha!


Poultry


braised chicken claw with mushrooms


braised mid-wings with assorted vege

chicken curry

soy braised chicken



Vegetables


stir-fry leek (CNY dish)


stir fry broccoli with sweet corn




Pork


braised fatty pork belly with daikon

Hakka fried pork with black fungus


Fish

pan-fried mackerel

steamed golden pomfret with beanpaste


sweet and sour grouper



CNY Special


Lap Mei Fan (臘味飯)/Preserved Meat Claypot Rice

braised mushrooms, sea cucumber and baby abalone

zhai choy (斋菜)/vegetarian

prawn paste stuffed in gluten in sweet sauce


steamed rolled chicken thigh with goji berries

chop suey with mustard green (CNY special)



special pork and seaweed rolls



Breakfast/Brunch Specials


chicken feet wanton noodles



pan-fried steamed radish cake

fried nian-gao sweet potato



breakfast wrap with meatless patty





And, all the food were delicious! Eternally grateful to you, my little sis. Love ya!

Monday, March 3, 2025

[Media] 10% Service Charge Waived For Participating Brands and Outlets for Entire Ramadan Month - 1 Mar to 31 Mar 2025

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Good news as Katrina Group (multi-brand F&B group) will be waiving the 10% service charge across all participating Halal brands and outlets; Bali Thai, Sanchos taqueria, So Pho, and Streats - as well as Daily Chicken for the entire month of Ramadan, from 1 to 31 March 2025.

The initiative is a gesture of appreciation for customers’ longstanding support and aims to create a more accessible and welcoming dining experience for families and friends breaking fast together.


Participating Brands & Locations

Bali Thai (Halal-certified)

  • Causeway Point, #05-05
  • IMM, #01-21
  • NEX, #02-13
  • Ngee Ann City, #05.29
  • Suntec City, #B1-121A/121B


Photo courtesy of Katrina Group




Sanchos taqueria (Halal-certified)

  • Paragon Shopping Centre, #B1-20


Photo courtesy of Katrina Group




So Pho (Halal-certified)

  • JEM, #03-22
  • NEX, #B1-75
  • Novena Square, #02-43/45
  • Tampines Mall, #04-30
  • The Clementi Mall, #04-34
  • The Woodleigh Mall, #01-29/30
  • Waterway Point, #01-28


Photo courtesy of Katrina Group




Streats (Halal-certified)

  • IMM, #02-17


Photo courtesy of Katrina Group







Take note that Daily Chicken is not a halal-certified eatery.

Daily Chicken

  • Bugis Junction, #B1-06


Photo courtesy of Katrina Group



Sunday, March 2, 2025

[Kuala Lumpur] Let's Go Gai Gai @ 茨厂街 Petaling Street Chinatown [Part 2]

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For breakfast, we had it at Tang City Food Court. Find a place to sit and the drinks stall person would come to ask for your drinks order. Pay when the drinks or food is served.


kat zai suen mui 桔子酸梅 (calamansi lime with sour plum) 

teh (hot)


The beef soup stall is towards the back left corner of the food court. They also have fish head noodles as the other option. 

mixed beef hor fun (from Kiew Yee) @MYR11

smooth, slurpy hor fun


The beef soup was clear broth and very tasty. The beef parts included beef slices, tendon, beef ball and all were delicious and tender. It was a happy meal.

fishball and pork ball kway teow


Mom prefers the milder soupy stuffs like fishball/porkball noodles. 

pork ball noodles

Teochew char kway teow @MYR11

Char kway was ok for it had plenty of ingredients including cockles. 


Tang City Food Court

Address: 21-27, 21-27, Jalan Hang Lekir, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50000 Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Business Hours:

Daily 6 am–11 pm



Mom says she wanted dessert. So we walked to the tau fu fa stall. 

let's queue

boss attending to customers


serving up traditional goodness in a bowl of soya beancurd


warm tau fu fa (soya beancurd) in brown sugar syrup


Boss remained friendly even when there's lots of people lining up to order.


Kim Soya Bean

Address: Jalan Hang Lekir, City Centre, 50000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Contact: +60126590958

Business Hours:

Daily 9:30 am–9:30 pm


For dinner, we went to try the shop that shares the same space as Kam Kee Chicken Rice. Day time, one gets to eat chicken rice and night time, one can get zichar from a different operator.

menu


We ordered their signature claypot lou shi fun (silver pin noodle) and decided to try Tom Yum fried rice.

claypot lou shu fen @ MYR26

Tom Yum Fried Rice

this calamansi lime is so different...

claypot beancurd

nam yee fried chicken


The medium portion of the noodles and fried rice was smaller when compared to its neighbour. The food here is stronger in terms of seasoning, and thus, no wonder the lady boss asked us if we could like some beer to go along with the dishes. 

The claypot noodles was served bubbling and one was supposed to mix the ingredients together. It doesn't look like much but flavourful. I enjoyed each scoop of the noodles, especially with the sambal chili. Tom Yum fried rice was decent but the tom yum flavours were pretty muted and not spicy.  There was one or two good sized prawn in there.

I quite liked the fried chicken. Freshly fried to crispy perfection and well marinated. Yums! But my family felt it was too salty.


Soon Kee Claypot 顺记瓦煲老鼠粉•烧肉面•虾米生肠

Address: 42, Jalan Sultan, City Centre, 50000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Contact: +60169035968

Business Hours:

Daily: 4 pm–1 am


 
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