In conjunction with Saint Patrick’s Day, March is another month for us to rejoice over. This March, the merry people at GUINNESS® are bringing back the fun to Malaysians with a month long celebration of good friends, good food and of course,  pints of GUINNESS®

Do you know that Saint Patrick’s Day, a holiday celebrated internationally on 17 March is actually rooted in Irish tradition?

And in Malaysia, we are having a month-long celebration from 1^st March 2011 to 31^st March 2011. ”,featuring an array of exciting parties, fun activities and a host of other GUINNESS® promotions.

On the 17th of March 2011, there is a street celebration at Changkat Bukit Bintang. Remember to be there to join in the fun, together with the entertainers, dancers, buskers and beautiful GUINNESS® ambassadors.

Thanks to Hui Ping and GUINNESS®, we had an early Saint Patrick’s Day celebration at Fitou Brasserie, a lovely bar cum restaurant located at the Water Front. They are running this St. Patrick’s Festival Celebration Menu at Fitou Brasserie where the following three ala-carte GUINNESS® infused dishes (RM 34++) comes with a FREE pint of Guinness @RM48 nett.

1) Irish Beef Stew with Guinness served with Carrots & Potatoes

The distinctively flavored Irish beef stew recipe is a favorite on St. Patrick’s Day. This is one hearty one dish meal and the stout beer really adds a great flavor. Although it is very flavorful, the beef chunks were quite tough that requires a certain extent of jaw exercise.

2) Sauteed Guinness Beef Chunks with French Beans & Carrot Sticks

The dish may looked simple but it was bursting with awesome goodness. Juicy and tender, the beef chunks were well prepared. . Using Guinness as the braising liquid adds a good, subtle flavor to the gravy too.

3) Pork Wellington stuffed with Apricots, served with Potatoes & Guinness Cream Sauce

The pork wellington is my favourite dish of all! A spin off from the usual beef wellington, the chef has done a very good job with the pork wellington. The pastry keeps the pork incredibly moist and juicy still just slightly pink in the center and the apricot bits gives it a tangy sweet flavour. Drench it with a generous amount of Guinness Cream Sauce and you are in heaven!

Chocolate Fondant

There’s nothing better than savouring a smooth and rich chocolate cake punctuated with plenty chocolate sauce. What a perfect sweet ending.

Creme Brulee

Topped with a crunchy, caramelized layer, the Creme Brulee was custardy and creamy.

Putting on hat and get our mood ready for the Saint Patrick’s Day!

On top of Fitou, these are some other outlets that feature St. Patrick’s Festival food such as:

798 Wine Bar, Tropicana City Mall
SOULed OUT
Deutches Gasthaus
Malones Irish Restaurant and Bar
Terrace Arms & Grill House
Sid’s Pubs
Jarrod & Rawlins
Finnegan’s

So remember to mark your calender and find out where Merry Goes Round this March with GUINNESS®. Check out facebook.com/guinnessmalaysia for more information

Fitou
Lot GF2, The Waterfront @ Park City, 5 Persiaran Residen, Desa Park City, Kuala Lumpur
Wilayah Persekutuan, 52200
03-6280-8978

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Not too long ago, our reader, Jesslyn invited us to dine at Phai Lin restaurant in Sri Damansara Club. Together with other floggers (ThamJiak, Jason, Simon, William), we dropped by for a food tasting session.

Though located inside Sri Damansara Club, the restaurant is open to the public.  The décor resembles that stereotypical Chinese restaurant you see everywhere because the place was occupied by a Chinese restaurant previously.

The owner is a Siamese herself, and she is operating another Thai restaurant in Myanmar concurrently. To ensure the authenticity of her food, the waiters, waitresses and the chefs were all brought in from Thailand.

Spring Rolls with Thai Sauce (RM 13). Though fresh and crispy, the spring rolls were nothing to shout about.

Deep Fried Garoupa with Sweet & Sour Sauce (RM 35). The sweet and sour sauce goes really well with some Thai fragrant rice. Only gripe I had was that the skin seemed a tad too dry and shriveled.

Claypot Glass Vermicelli with Prawn (RM 22). A dish that stands out on its own; I especially love the glass vermicelli that has absorbed the essence of the prawns.

Deep Fried Chicken Wings with Herbs Thai Style (RM 18). Everyone loves the juicy and crunchy chicken wings.  The aromatic combination of sweet basil leaves, chopped lemongrass, garlic and dried chillies has done a lot of wonder in bringing out the flavor.

Seafood Tom Yam Soup (RM28). Served with a generous amount of seafood, the tom yam soup was quite good but personally I would prefer it with more “kick”.

Stir-fried Mixed Vegetables  (RM 17)

Mango Salad (RM15)

Raw Prawn Salad (RM22) is the highlight of the day. The prawns were really fresh and sweet. Try dipping them into the garlic and grinded mint leaves sauce and you are in heaven!

Authentic Thai food are hard to come by nowadays. We do hope that the owner, together with her chef will continue to improve in finding the right taste that fits a Malaysian’s “taste bud” while remaining its own authenticity.

Phai Lin Restaurant
Sri Damansara Club
Lot 23304,
Persiaran Perdana,
Bandar Sri Damansara,
52200 KL.
Tel: +603 6273 1509

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A food crawl isn’t complete with only satays right? Our walking food guide, Simon suggested Kou Lou Chao Fern (Tall Man’s Fried Noodles) at Kepong Dai Gai (Jalan Besar Kepong) as the next destination. Our eyes lit up immediately, and everyone started to nod frantically because we were famished!

“Take us there, NOW!”

So here we are, at this nostalgic looking coffee shop name Seng Yuen. The coffee shop was full, with tables spilling out onto the corridor as well. We leave it all to Simon to take the orders while we found ourselves busy snapping pictures around.

Our food took forever to come, so we subjected our hunger to warm tea, and more warm tea which did not help one bit. We were here before 11 pm and we started eating only at 12 am!

Simon’s Expression – an hour before

Simon’s Expression – an hour later

My favourite – Kong Fu Yin Yeong (RM 6) was the first to arrive. Drenched in eggy starchy sauce, laden with generous helpings of vegetables, fishcake, pork slices and prawns, it sure looks good. However, I took a bite and was disappointed that the noodles tasted pretty bland. Down it with more chili sauce, says WMW.

Kou Lou’s signature noodles – Hokkien Mee (RM 12). This was alright; the only let down would be a lack of wok hei. Down it with more lards, says WMW. All were forgiven after I stirred in those deep fried greasy cubes into my bowl of noodle. The hokkien mee emerged as the best dish that night.

Braised Yee Mee (RM 6) – Palatable and nothing fantastic.

Guess the old uncle was too tired dealing with the massive crowd that night. Given Simon’s raving and witnessed the number of patrons that wait patiently for their plate of hokkien mee, it still warrants a possible future visit.

Despite feeling rather full from the food that we had, desserts always have an extra space. So, we dropped by Tim Pan Gor Gor (opposite Carrefour) for some sweet soups and desserts.

*shy*

almond sweet soup + black sesame sweet soup (RM 3.30)
almond sweet soup + red bean soup + lotus seed (RM 3.30)

I love the varieties this place has as they are not the usual things that you get, ie flavored taufufa, mango noodles, mochi and various mixed tong sui.No complains for the sweet soups as the combinations were really nice an special.WMW and Jason shared the mango noodles. The strands of noodles sure look like the usual hor fun but they were actually jellies.

We called it a night at 1 am and guess how much we spent? RM 15 per person! Pretty amazing isn’t it? Next food crawl – Seri Kembangan? Old Klang Road? Or Puchong?

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Four crazy floggers embarked on a gastronomic journey to Kepong one night (for full story, read here). Without knowing every nooks and crooks beyond the Damansara/Kepong toll, it was an impromptu trip – we just got to know the destination after we hopped onto the car!

WMW and I dreaded to read the map. The reason? Read up “why men don’t listen and women don’t read map”. So we put all our faith and trust to Jason to guide us to (da dum!) Taman Ehsan Jaya for duck satay that was introduced by vkeong not long ago! Half way through, we picked up Simon who resides in Kepong and was told that we were heading towards the wrong direction! Jason ar Jason…

Makan Kaki

The spicy and creamy peanut sauce complements the smoky-sweet elements of the satays beautifully. Jason downed the sauce till the last drop.

The satay came piping hot in a short while after we placed our order. The duck satay is very similar to the usual chicken satay that we ate, being a little sticky, a little sweet and smoky. The distinctive difference would be the very interesting texture – grease free and extra chewy but with a crunch.

I love the chicken satay to every bit because it is full of flavor and the chewy texture of duck meat. The best thing is it costs only RM 0.60 per stick, which is slightly cheaper than my (old) favourite Satay Haji Samuti. WMW and me even ordered extra sticks to go!

When’s the next food crawl, fellow floggers? :p

Sen Kee Satay
Jalan 12, Taman Desa Jaya
Kepong
Tel : 019-218 7538/019-249 2572
Opens from about 6pm – 10.30pm
Close on Mondays

Teaser on Kepong Food Crawl Part II:

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I’ve heard so much of good thing about this shave ice place, Mill Wheel from friends and colleagues but never gain enough of courage to go beyond the Penchala Toll of LDP to an area that I hardly set my foot in. Being the lucky one, as always, my friends, Kenny and CK brought me here one night.

A brilliant idea breed by a group of ice enthusiastic, Mill Wheel is a huge success where it was being featured by Ho Chiak! and One Day Five Meal. Occupying only the half front of two shop lots, the place is small so I could imagine this place to be full of people diving into sparkling mounds of ice etched with different toppings. Fortunately, we managed to grab a table after 10 minutes of waiting and drooling. Patrons can shop around for some cute souvenirs and books that were displayed at one corner of the shop as well.

20 – Watermelon & Lychee
We were having a great dilemma in choosing from snow (single flavoured ice), snow cheese (ice with layers of cheese at the bottom), pudding, ice cake, paobing special (pudding sandwiched between two layers of ice), etc. We settled with 20 and 30 from the 20, 30, 40 series which was inspired by the movie of the same name.

30 – Chocolate & Strawberry
The snow like mound is drizzled with a continent’s worth of varieties such as cornflakes, syrups, colored jellies and chocolate chips. Simple, and simply the best for our hot tropical climate, nothing feels cooler in your mouth than these finely well shaved ice. Contrary to the usual crunchy and crispy ice kacang, the shavings are so smooth that I thought we were having ice cream. These cotton soft ice goodies are so good that we lick our bowl clean. Ops, can’t help it.

I’d highly recommend this little dessert shops to everyone! It has sure done a very good job in enticing sweaty passer-by as well as patrons who came all over just for their ice desserts. Well, the best thing is, each time you dine in, you’ll get a 20% voucher redeemable on your next visit! I’m planning for my second visit, anyone?

No. 72 & 74,
Jalan Metro Perdana Barat 2,
Taman Usahawan Kepong,
52100 Kuala Lumpur.
(Shoplots opposite Jusco Kepong, same row as Gasoline and Island Café)
Telephone: 603-6250 5910

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September must be the peak birth month, where we are having a hive of birthday celebrations for the September babies every Friday/Saturday since the first week of September. Here’s another post on birthday celebration, a whole lot of pictures on food, drinks and peeps (dedicated to the team) to feast your eyes.

Spare, bright, and clean, De Foodland is hard to miss with the huge green signboard and red neon crabby. Famous with its 31 styles of crab dishes, both shop lots are filled with patrons licking the sauces off their fingers. Ten Ten and Arina invited us for a gathering cum celebration dinner over here.

All the dishes are pre-ordered by the sweet couple where we just have to sit down, get set and attack. The rich and velvety yam basket, fried to a golden crisp, contains chicken fillets and assorted greens was delicious.

Scramble egg with tomato, as simple as it sounds, is nothing fantastic. Surprisingly I get all nostalgic once I took a bite; mum would usually cook this for a simple lunch. I’m so glad that I’m back to Ipoh now and having easy access to mum’s cooking anytime.

Claypot braised bean-curd dish is attractive with brightly coloured vegetables and beans accompanying the bean curd and mushrooms. Another addition to the table is Kam Heong La La. The la la is pathetically small but the accompanying gravy is aromatic with a generous amount of dried shrimps, chilies and curry leaves. The Guinness stout pork rib is beautifully coated in a delicious, thick, sticky and caramelized sauce but the meat is a tad too dry. The succulent fried chicken fillet in Thai style is accompanied by a tangy sweet and sour sauce and I love to pick on the shredded green mangos and onions.

How can you not ordering crabs at De Foodland? Out of the 31 styles of cooking crabs, some in a bizarre and eccentric way, we have decided to play save by having the Crabs in Butter Sauce. The big fat crabbies are coated with a layer of sinfully rich and creamy butter sauce. It’s more to the sweeter side, unlike Wong Poh’s version with curry leaves and cili padi that gives it a hint of spiciness.

heavenly matched other half of these butter crabs has to be fried mantaos. Sweep it with layers of artery clogging creamy butter sauce and you are in seventh heaven.

The night is still young for the girls, but not those uncles who are older by two years. They gave in, where we ended up at The Cotton Club, Maju Junction. We were anticipating some swinging jazz grooves for a night up, but the band is playing some Cantonese hits instead.

There was a buy one free one promotion for wine (RM 110 each) going on so we had eight of them.

Some sex on the beach to sizzle up the night. I was eyeing the food menu where they offer an impressive selection of contemporary western cuisine for lunch and dinner, six days a week.

De Foodland Seafood Restaurant (Click to Enlarge the Map)
25 & 27, Jalan 3/62B
Bandar Sri Menjalara
Kuala Lumpur
Contact No: 03-62744796

The Cotton Club Jazzaurant (Click to Enlarge the Map)
G-11,
Maju Junction Mall 1001,
Jalan Sultan Ismail
50250 Kuala Lumpur.
Contact No : 03-2772 8588

KAMPUNGBOYCITYGAL/KAMPUNGBOYCITYGAL - A MALAYSIAN FOOD & TRAVEL BLOG

September must be the peak birth month, where we are having a hive of birthday celebrations for the September babies every Friday/Saturday since the first week of September. Here’s another post on birthday celebration, a whole lot of pictures on food, drinks and peeps (dedicated to the team) to feast your eyes.

Spare, bright, and clean, De Foodland is hard to miss with the huge green signboard and red neon crabby. Famous with its 31 styles of crab dishes, both shop lots are filled with patrons licking the sauces off their fingers. Ten Ten and Arina invited us for a gathering cum celebration dinner over here.

All the dishes are pre-ordered by the sweet couple where we just have to sit down, get set and attack. The rich and velvety yam basket, fried to a golden crisp, contains chicken fillets and assorted greens was delicious.

Scramble egg with tomato, as simple as it sounds, is nothing fantastic. Surprisingly I get all nostalgic once I took a bite; mum would usually cook this for a simple lunch. I’m so glad that I’m back to Ipoh now and having easy access to mum’s cooking anytime.

Claypot braised bean-curd dish is attractive with brightly coloured vegetables and beans accompanying the bean curd and mushrooms. Another addition to the table is Kam Heong La La. The la la is pathetically small but the accompanying gravy is aromatic with a generous amount of dried shrimps, chilies and curry leaves. The Guinness stout pork rib is beautifully coated in a delicious, thick, sticky and caramelized sauce but the meat is a tad too dry. The succulent fried chicken fillet in Thai style is accompanied by a tangy sweet and sour sauce and I love to pick on the shredded green mangos and onions.

How can you not ordering crabs at De Foodland? Out of the 31 styles of cooking crabs, some in a bizarre and eccentric way, we have decided to play save by having the Crabs in Butter Sauce. The big fat crabbies are coated with a layer of sinfully rich and creamy butter sauce. It’s more to the sweeter side, unlike Wong Poh’s version with curry leaves and cili padi that gives it a hint of spiciness.

heavenly matched other half of these butter crabs has to be fried mantaos. Sweep it with layers of artery clogging creamy butter sauce and you are in seventh heaven.

The night is still young for the girls, but not those uncles who are older by two years. They gave in, where we ended up at The Cotton Club, Maju Junction. We were anticipating some swinging jazz grooves for a night up, but the band is playing some Cantonese hits instead.

There was a buy one free one promotion for wine (RM 110 each) going on so we had eight of them.

Some sex on the beach to sizzle up the night. I was eyeing the food menu where they offer an impressive selection of contemporary western cuisine for lunch and dinner, six days a week.

De Foodland Seafood Restaurant (Click to Enlarge the Map)
25 & 27, Jalan 3/62B
Bandar Sri Menjalara
Kuala Lumpur
Contact No: 03-62744796

The Cotton Club Jazzaurant (Click to Enlarge the Map)
G-11,
Maju Junction Mall 1001,
Jalan Sultan Ismail
50250 Kuala Lumpur.
Contact No : 03-2772 8588

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