Malaysia Food Blog – Apple Foodees

We, Malaysians are very fortunate to have exposure to the many different cuisines in the world in our very own country. Taste aside, it is not necessary for us to travel all the way to Vietnam to have Vietnamese food, Thailand to have Thai food or to South Korea for Korean barbecue. There are many Middle Eastern restaurants that has been around for the past few years and Laziz is one of them. Located at Mont Kiara, Laziz is a Halal Middle Eastern Restaurant which serves culinary delights from Middle East. The word ‘laziz’ when translated to English means delicious.

Since we were using MyDeal’s voucher, our choices are limited. We started off with our appetizer, Fetush @ RM11.00. Fetush is a type of salad which contains romaine lettuce, tomatoes, white raddish, succhini tossed with a light healthy homemade dressing with crunchy Lebanese bread.

Then came our Moroccan Chicken Cous-Cous. Laziz’s Moroccan Chicken Cous-Cous is a whole grilled chicken marinated with traditional Moroccan wheat and vegetables broth with fries and pita bread as sides.

The chicken was very tender and juicy. Even though it look burned in this picture, it wasn’t. Honestly, I think the best part of the chicken was the slightly charred part.

We also ordered Lazzi’s Baba Ghanoosh @ RM12.00. Baba Ghanoosh is grilled and mashed egg-plant with olive oil. Honestly, it tasted really weird on its own as it was very sourish. But if I were to spread it on a piece of bread, it tasted much better.

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I have been going around in search of good food at Mont Kiara lately. There are many Korean restaurants and the one that caught my attention when I had my lunch at Little Korea was Uncle Jang Korean Restaurant. If you have been to Maybank, Mont Kiara, it is hard to miss this huge advert board with a bald man smiling at you. Yes, that’s Uncle Jang.

Unlike the other Korean restaurants around, Dak-Galbi is Uncle Jang’s specialty. Dak-Galbi is a popular South Korean dish generally made by stir-frying marinated diced chicken in chili pepper paste based sauce, sliced cabbage, sweet potato, onions and rice cake together on a hot plate.

The minimum order for Dak-Galbi is for 2 person with a choice of either Hot Spicy or Normal. As we were not sure how spicy “hot spicy” would be, we decided to go with a hot spicy and a normal flavour. And oh boy, we made the correct decision. Even though we had mixed 1 portion of hot spicy and another normal, our Dak-Galbi was very spicy.

To start, we were first given an apron each, a box of tissue papers and a bottle of cold water. Then the whole cooking process began.

First, the hot plate was first heated up, then the marinated diced chicken, sliced cabbage, sweet potato, onions, rice cake and chili pepper paste based sauce were all thrown in and mixed together.

After stiring a few times, the noodles (ramen) was also mixed together. By this time, the smell were so intensed, that I found myself sneezing. I don’t really know what triggered me to sneeze a lot that night, but I think it has got to do with the spice they had in the sauce.

We also added come cheese and when it was finally ready, the cook just left everything on the hot plate leaving it warm for us and went on to another table to start the cooking process all over again.

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I start my day with a cup of coffee almost everyday. During my teenage years, Nescafe was my only choice but today, there are so many varieties in the market. Old Town White Coffee, Aik Cheong Coffee and Chek Hup Coffee pre-packed coffees are my favourites today and they are considerably cheap for my everyday coffee fix. But if you are looking for a top graded and better quality coffee and are willing to fork out extra, I would suggest you to try Espresso Lab.

For your information, Espresso Lab does not classify their coffee such as Mocha, Latte, Cappucino and etc. Here, every cup starts with espresso. If you like some milk in it, just specify whether you want one shot, two shots, three shots or more. The more shots you have in your espresso, the milkier your espresso gets.

The espresso that I love very much here at Espresso Lab is their Affogato. Affogato is a coffee-based beverage. It usually takes the form of a scoop of vanilla gelato or ice cream topped with a shot of hot espresso. The bitterness of the coffee mixed together with a scoop of sweet vanilla ice-cream makes a great combination. I love this very much.

Espresso Lab is a no-frills coffee place. So you are encouraged to bring your own snacks here. If you love their coffee and would like to purchase some of the coffee equipments, you may do so here too. Espresso Lab sells their coffee beans for retail and wholesale customers too. So if you are a coffee addict, head on to Espresso Lab at Publika today.

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