Restoran Ahanthai, Bandar Puteri Puchong

Went to Ahanthai on a stormy evening; it was raining cats and dogs, but we braved the weather as Gary had already planned to bring us to this restaurant.

A simple thai restaurant, informal dining which serves a mix of thai and chinese dishes.

We quickly choose our dishes..it was cold and we wanted some hot food to warm our bellies fast!

First, some piping hot tomyum..

The soup was on the thick side; was more on spicy sweet tomyum. Not really my cup of tea as I prefer thinner salty spicy tomyum. It was still passable nonetheless.

The green curry..

Thick and creamy, this was opposite of the tomyum. It was too salty :(. Cant take too much of it unless we have it with loads of rice..

Food dont seem to be too promising and gary was rather disappointed..it was very yummy when he patronised Ahanthai a few months back..

We braced ourselves when they placed a plate of stir fried bitter gourd with salted egg..

And we were pleasantly surprised! This was fantastic! Really delicious, the gourd were sliced to thin strips, cooked in perfect wok hei with tiny morsels of salted egg coating each gourd strip.

The pandan chicken next..

Juicy, tender and well marinated. Pretty tasty.

Last dish, which we waited quite long for..

Steamed fish with lime and chillies..

The fish was fresh and sweet; matched prettily with the sour spicy soup-sauce base. Quite good too.

Overall, it was an ok meal for us; some hits and some misses; but all of us agreed that the stir fried bitter gourd was the favourite.

Restoran Ahanthai is located at 28, Jalan Puteri 1/4, Bandar Puteri Puchong, 47301 Selangor.

Kung Fu Kitchen, PJ

Whenever I feel like a good detox meal to clean up my whole system, I'll always pop by a eatery near my place, selling lui char.

Surprisingly, I never thought of coming here previously as it always looks very quiet at night; kinda meant bad food indicator to me.

But Jane who has tried insisted that the lui char here is refreshing, and so we went for dinner. Simple bowl of green, I felt healthy just looking at it :p

The rice base was topped with different types of chopped vegetables, roasted peanuts, fried dried shrimps, preserved vegetables and beancurd cubes. Mix it well and soak it throughly with the tea soup..

I like Kung Fu Kitchen's version which added some mint to the soup...giving it a rather 'cooling' effect to the soup.

Kung Fu Kitchen serves other dishes too...for those who prefers something less..erm..greens..

Aaron had the curry noodles..

He finds it mediocre, the curry was rather thin..

Some meat springrolls..

This was pretty good actually. Thin crisp beancurd skin enveloping juicy pork mince. Good side dish to munch on.

We had some dry noodles too..

When it was served, we were quite surprised. Looks like those economy noodles that we pack from pasar malam. One bite confirms it; it does taste like economy fried noodles..but, a very delicious one nonetheless with the mince pork, fried shallots and beansprouts making this a bit more luxurious. Just a tad dry.

Jane had pan mee (which I didnt take a picture of), which she says was pretty good too. Oh, but all of us didnt like their yong tau foo.

I've been back many times since my first visit, just for the lui char. And yes, I do feel much healthier the next day :p

Kung Fu Kitchen is located at 12, Jalan PJU 1/3F, Sunway Mas Commercial Centre, Petaling Jaya.

Teluk Pulai Bak Kut Teh, Klang

Hey guys..

Have been ages since I did any post, my apologies...was very sick for about 2 weeks.

Even now I'm not fully recovered, the cough's still lingering :(. Such torture for a food lover like me, I lost my appetite and could not eat much, I was so hungry all the time! My friends thought it was ironic for me to feel this way, since I love food so much and I was nauseated just looking at it for the past 2 weeks..

Since now I'm feeling much better, I thought I'd better post something :)

A place I've been years back but never posted, and we did pop by a few months back...so I brought my camera along this time so I can blog about it.

One of the more famous BKT in Klang, Teluk Pulai BKT is located at the famed 'maybank square' where quite a number of BKT shops are located.

Vincent insisted that we need to be there early, to get the 'first pot of soup', if we were there later, the soup would be thinner.

The vegetables was served first...we got fibre before the sinful momma..

Then came the piping hot BKT...

The soup was thick and slightly gelatinous/ sticky from the fatty pork. Not as bitter as I'd like it to be, Teluk Pulai's version was mildly sweet from all the boiling of the pork(parts). Yes, there's lots of pork; spareribs, pork chunks, fatty meat, innards and something that Vincent like very much, the pork ligamen. Most of the meat were well infused with BKT flavours, except for the fatty meat chunks, I'd prefer a melt in mouth version compared to their more solid meaty chewy version.

A good version of BKT, though I must say I felt rather guilty having it for my breakfast early in the morning :p. We added more soup to our claypot, it was thinner than the first serving....so yeah, better be here for early brekkie if you prefer a thicker based BKT :)

Teluk Pulai Bak Kut Teh is located at 27H, Jalan Teluk Pulai, 41100 Klang, Selangor.

Cuisine Studio, Tropicana Golf & Country Resort, PJ

A last minute change of plans led us to Cuisine Studio, located at Tropicana Golf & Country Resort for dinner.

Not a formal dining place as it sells cooking and baking products within the premise, we got seats quickly..it's not that pack during dinner time.

The menu's not extensive, so deciding what to have was not too hard..

Started off with some garden salad (RM27)

Generous serving, we all enjoyed this salad filled with olives, sliced mushrooms, sundried tomatoes. Good portion to share for the 6 of us.

Ordered a Pate Platter (RM24)

2 types of pate to go with some yummy bread..

Some multigrain bread freshly baked by Cuisine studio..Dipped with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, it's delicious. Love the warm bread, crunchy crust combo.

Escargot pasta (RM40) was served next..

Penne was al-dente, cooked in pesto, olive oil, handful of escargots, olives and sundried tomatoes. Bollywood Queen loves this. I find it rather tasty, but the escargot was a tad hard..

The Coq Au Vin (RM58)

A common french dish, I liked Cuisine Studio's version. The chicken was really tender, the sauce was thick with wine aroma, and the onions and carrots gave a sweet flavour to this dish. The plain, boiled potatoes complemented the rich sauce beautifully.

The braised lamb shank (RM46) was served almost immediately with coq au vin..

Very homestyle sort of braised lamb, most of my friends love this. The meat was moist, tender and falling off the bone; the sauce was broth like, a contrast to the coq au vin. Nice to mop up the sauce with those freshly baked bread too :)

Last dish was Duck Cassoulet (RM61)

A type of stew, their version was cooked in beans, a lot of beans. Think it's a nightmarish dish for MC as she dislike beans..she avoided this dish like a plague. The duck was rather tough, so's the duck sausage. Rather gamey, and the beans, super huge ones gave the whole stew a very pasty texture. The sauce had a tart after taste, somewhat bitter. This was the only dish that we did not finished eating it.

My only gripe was the very persistent waiter who kept insisting us to order mussels with white wine and having red/ white wine during our meal. When we turned down both the offer, he was disappointed and said it's not french without ordering these. Geez. We were rather irate by the end of the dinner :(

Cuisine Studio Sdn Bhd is located at Tropicana Golf & Country Resort, Jalan Kelab Tropicana, 47410 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.