Malaysia Food Blog – Apple Foodees

Whenever I think about Korean food, I think of kimchi. Kimchi is a acquired taste dish and as I am not exposed to Korean food a lot, I don’t really know how to appreciate this kimchi. So I tried as much as possible to avoid it. Kimchis are usually served as a side dish or soup.

If you do not know already, sides dishes in Korea restaurants, are not limited. You may order a refill as many times as you wish. There are no additional charges for ordering more of it.

One of the things we ordered that day was their omellete called the Korean Scallion Pancake priced at RM25.00. The Korean Scallion Pancake does look great. Lots of toppings and its’ size is huge. However, we were not impressed by this dish as it wasn’t crispy enough as it looks. The amount of greens in this dish was overwhelming that it dampens the omellete.

For our main dishes, we ordered a plate of Pork Ribs priced at RM30.00 marinated with their in-house sauce. Here, you are given the option whether to allow the cook to cook the meat on your table itself or in the kitchen. We opted to have our meat cooked in front of us as we would like to see how our food are prepared.

The process is quite simple. First, the chef heated up the griller, then he dumps in all the ingredients with the onions first and thereafter the pork meat.

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Thousands throng Batu Caves to pay homage to Lord Subramaniam during Thaipusam. But at other times, the word “Batu Caves” doesn’t even come to our mind when we are looking for good food. Our recent find brings us to Pan Heong, a Chinese restaurant which cooks really good Big Prawn Mee (Sang Har Mee).

Pan Heong restaurant was very crowded when we arrived. After a short wait, we managed to get a table. Without hesitation, we ordered their “Sang Har” cooked with “hor fun”. They also have another type of noodle; i.e. “yee mee”.

Big Prawn Mee doesn’t come cheap. In fact, we were told that the minimum order is for 2 pax at RM40. That is RM20 per person.

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Duck Mee is one of my favourite noodle while I was studying in Malacca. So when Vk suggested to go to Malacca for a trip, I told him that we must make a stop at Bukit Beruang for my duck mee.

Here, you may order the dry version – black “kicap” style or like us, the soup version. I personally prefer the soup version more because of it’s broth. It tastes similar to the Mamee duck flavour instant noodle, except this is much better.

The duck mee stall has moved to another coffee shop since my pre-University time. Now they are located at Chia Yean Coffee Shop and here is their GPS coordinate: N2 14.779 E102 16.489.

If you are willing to travel to find good food, you may want to travel to Bukit Rambai for cendol. I know, Bukit Rambai is not exactly near Malacca town, but I have seen people travelling all the way from Singapore and Johor to Bukit Rambai, Malacca to have Aunty Koh‘s cendol.

The queue was very long and the tables and chairs were all taken up when we arrive at Aunty Koh’s stall. So we told ourselves, this could be good.

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I was at Malacca last week during the long Hari Raya and Merdeka Day break. Before heading to Malacca, as usual we did some research on some of the places that offers Malacca’s “must try” food. VK came across a roadside stall at Jalan Bunga Raya which is located in the middle of Malacca town which offers cockles, clams, escargots and dried squid. Hearing that I could be having a snack at the roadside beside a drain, I felt quite reluctant to try it at first.

I was quite surprised when I arrive at Jalan Bunga Raya. The place is filled with tourists and locals. Banners and posters of Ho Chiak and Axian (from Astro food channel) were hanging on both of the road stalls. This shouldn’t be too bad, I told myself.

There are two stalls which you could choose from. Both of them should offers the same thing. But we got information from a reliable source that this man prepares the sauces better. As the sauces plays a vital role here, we chose this stall instead of the other.

As we arrived quite early, we waited for a while for the stall owner to prepare their ingredients. Each table is given a small bucket to collect those unwanted shells.

We were also given our own sauces. It consists of chilli, crushed peanuts, lime juice and some sweet sauces (which I think could be plum sauce).

The clams doesn’t really have much taste, but after dipping it with the sauce given, it tastes really good.

We also ordered their cockles. As this was our first time here, we didn’t know how to order it.

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