Mak Teh Mee Banjir Udang, Jalan Kuala Sepetang, Taiping

For those prawn lovers would love this prawn noodle stall because the bowl is more prawns than the noodle. Mee Banjir Udang (full of prawns noodle), so the stall is called by its owner, Mak Teh (“Mak” is Malay family salutation for auntie (“makcik”), auntie Teh). If you drive through the Jalan Kuala Sepetang, you would come across several prawn noodle stalls with names of Mak Jah, Mak Teh, Kak Jah, etc., no wonder Kuala Sepetang is famous of prawn noodle!

Chilli's Crab Restaurant - Kota Damansara, Petaling Jaya

chilli crab

Absolutely the specialty of this restaurant is its seafood, crab dishes and the famous, claypot crab Maggi noodle.

Crab dishes with few different cooking styles to be chose such as spicy chilli crab (lil bit salty to me), and delicious creamy salted egg crab.

Other seafood also not bad at all, such as tasty butter prawn, hot and sour of asam pedas siakap (sea bass asam pedas). You can eat those dishes with really soft fried mantou if you do not want rice.

siakap asam pedas

mantou

salted egg crab

butter prawn

The interior of the restaurant is quite usual, similar to common restaurant except there are big pictures of crab and seafood dishes on the wall. So you will be drooling as soon as you go into the restaurant with those tasty view. The restaurant located at the stretch of business and shop lots and it is very difficult to get a parking especially during peak hours and weekdays. Anyway, the delicious and tasty food here is worth to try even though it is pretty pricey to me.

 

Restoran Gulai 7 Kawah - Alor Setar, Kedah

This restaurant got its name by unique dishes cook in seven kawah (crater), the Seven Craters Gravy restaurant. I was really impressed with the dishes in the trays and kawah, could not decide what I would eat. There were wide spread of Malay dishes and gravies. It served Malay mix rice dishes besides seven types of gulai kawah as their specialities. So what you can imagine of the seven gravies are?

There are turkey, ayam kampung porcupine, daging batang pisang (beef cook with banana stem), mutton, and duck, all of them in separate kawah! You can also get grilled fishes, keli (cat fish), stingray and etc., all of them marinated with special spices and slowly grilled on top of traditional big crock.

 

For those who does not want to eat rice, have an option to eat pulut kukus mangga (steam glutinous rice with sliced manggo) or with the dishes or gravies as a side. They put complimentary betel (sirih pinang) on the table for diner who want to try it out as alternate to cigarette.  

There are wide dining tables under the shade of daun nipah (palm leaves) roof. You can see few hang bunting or banners with Kedah accent wordings with the Bahasa Melayu translation, enjoy dining while reading those quite funny wordings. According to Puan Anisah Yacob, the owner of Restoran Gulai 7 Kawah, it has been operating more than 10 years, in front of Seri Gunong Primary School, main road to the the Gunong Keriang, Alor Setar.

 




















            

Nasi Lemak Royale - Alor Setar, Kedah

                                          Basically it is mamak nasi lemak with various of dishes and gravies. Nasi lemak here yellowish colored rice, eat with mamak style or nasi kandar dishes and gravies either fried chicken, mutton, boiled egg, squid, beef and etc. You can ask mamak who serves your order to have normal gravies or hot or even sweet. This stall operates in the evening until night and it will have long que during dinner time.

 

Kafe Masakan Terengganu Asli - Bandar Kinrara, Kuala Lumpur

pulut gaul nyo with fried salted fish at back

 As Terenganuan, I always craving the authentic Terengganu meals such as the nasi dagang, nasi lemak, laksam, pulut gaul nyo(glutinous rice ball, mix with shredded coconut) and etc. The cafe really serves my drools and almost every weekend I come here since it is just nearby to my home.  Those meals are authentic Terengganu meal. You also can buy raw khepok leko in vacuum pack here.

Popiah Kak Raja - Taman Medan, Petaling Jaya

                             

                                      








This tasty popiah always hot selling and sold out if you go late there. You can only buy there as take away. It has been selected by TV3 Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan food stall. It just operates in front of the owner house, at the main road side. You can get either popiah basah or popiah goreng(fried) with its special yummy sauce. Kak Raja popiah is an option for the famous Penang popiah basah at section 14 Petaling Jaya. 

Wondermama Restaurant and Cafe - Bangsar Village, Kuala Lumpur

Wondermama Bangsar Village is the flagship outlet under WonderKafe group, a restaurant and cafe where they bring the traditional local flavors to casual dining experience. As we seeing the restaurant interior that really give cozy dining for families as well. Besides of the open seating and tables, there are section for where some privacy section with comfy seating and upstairs dining area as well.

Warong Aji-Don Alley - Plaza Damas, Kuala Lumpur

It has been awhile to write about this eating place, only now managed to publish this. Warong Aji-Don Alley originally came from Uncle Don in Sri Hartamas long time ago. The concept of this restaurant basically is hawker centre that serves different kind of food or meal from morning to evening by several of small stall operators at this restaurant.

It is convenient eating place where you can easily get the parking spots at the basement because it is located at the Plaza Damas shopping complex. The restaurant just located at the Block E, at the back entrance of the Plaza Damas mall. The table and seating spots are simple, warong (coffee stall) style and you order your food at the stall that serves the food and pay when it delivered to your table. It will be crowded during lunch hour but you can share the long table with other patrons, great to be friendly!

Laksam Terengganu

Laksam is a dish combination of gravy and white rice flour cut roll.
Making the laksam white rice flour steam roll:

Mix white rice flour poured onto flat hot steam tray

Steam white rice mix getting hard

Kawah - Crater

Kawah (crater) is a big pan used by Malay to cook in big amount of dishes or meal. The use of kawah, make cooking easier when the meal or dishes require frequent stirring. Big kawah usually used on the ground fire or stove. It is often used to make dodol and always seen at Malay wedding reception, at the cooking tent.

kawah

making dodol in kawah