Happy Sunday Brunch~ Bread Fruits, Desa Sri Hartamas

Had a happy brunch at Bread Fruits on Sunday and I love their salmon toast very much! This fruit & bakery cafe in DSH always pack with customer especially weekends. Beside selling fruits, the cafe is also famous with serving natural & healthy food, with quality ingredients such as fresh fruit and vegetables, variety of organic dried goods, free-range eggs & wild black honey from Pahang! Have been keen to try up since I hear a lot of good review on them from neighbours.

Our brunch - SatisFry Up @ RM23.80 serve pork sausage or bacon, eggs scrambled or sunny-side up, sautéed mushrooms, roasted cherry tomatoes, mashed potato and arugula, served with rye toast, and a choice of tea, coffee or fresh fruit juice of the day. We get orange juice today and I top up the coffee to cappuccino with extra charges of RM2 only. And the Smoked Salmon Avocado Sandwich @ RM19.80 that I like so much. The sandwich has smoke salmon, avocado, arugula, capers and onion, and home-made lemon cream sauce. Simply love the nutty flavour of arugula and caper. the sandwich serve with salad too which consist of baked potatoes, tomatoes slices, arugula, sunflower seeds, and very savoury dressing. 

Korean Dessert Cafe and Bistro Namoo On The Park , Publika

Super late dinner at Namoo On the Park, Publika - a Korean fusion cafe and bistro. Order a Bibi Rice burger where the burger buns is made with seasoned Korean glutinous rice and gim (seaweed laver), combine with cheese slice, grilled chicken breast patty, a sunny side up (egg), tomato slices and lettuce, served with fries, kimchi and salad. It taste like Kimbab due to the rice bun seasoned similar to Kimbab's rice. Grilled Prawn Aglio-olio sauteed as we loved pasta nowadays. And a Korean Soya & Honey Ttuk Bok Ki as dessert~ a non-spicy version Tteokbokki. The tteok has been slightly pan-fried before put into the soya sauce mixed with honey~ The cafe has nice environment, it's outdoor seating is next to a mall children playground (where the facilities design is futuristic), good for parents who want to have their meal while the kids can play.  

부산 기장시장~ Gijang Sijang, Busan

Since we are not unable to visit Jagalchi Market yesterday due to massive jam and no parking (it's Chuseok long holiday), we visits Gijang Market instead at this morning before leaving Busan to Jeju in noon. Gijang market is seafood and fishery market, also widely known as King crabs market! There are both outdoor and indoor fishery market selling not only seasonal seafood but also agricultural products such as dried anchovies, seaweeds, Korean side dishes and even clothing are available just like other traditional market in Busan. Currently cutlass fish and flower crab is in the season - autumn, we just had flower crab dwenjang-guk as our breakfast this morning and it is yummy! 

As Gijang is not a big city like Busan and not many foreigner tourist like us visit the market for sightseeing, few seafood seller ahjuma around the entrance actually not so welcoming and scolding us for taking photos instead of buying. Just stop taking picture to respect them if you encounter this. There are many friendly sellers at the back that very welcome you to have a look and take many pictures if you want. If you happens to visit Gijang while you are in Busan, don't miss out to taste the King crab or snow crab here in Gijang Sijang. 

Selayang Hot Spring

It's public holiday, we decided to visit a nearby hot spring since we never visit any before in Malaysia. We googled and found this Selayang Hot Spring which is 15.4km away. approx. 15 mins driving distance. When we arrived, first impression is the hot springs is way more simple (not developed) than we think. All you can see is 3 big wells in an open area (a square); a small size shallow stone pool for public to soak their legs; public toilets for shower (quite run down) and a row of eatery next to carpark (not sure if it is public holiday, none of it open for business). The hot spring is free of charge, if you are driving you need pay RM2 parking fee upon entry. 

The 3 wells in the square is in 3 different size and 3 different degree of heat. 

Well no.1 which located in the middle of the square is the hottest among all. The water need to pour it into buckets to cool off before it can be use for bathing. We are told by the locals that we might get burn if we dip our hand directly into the well. The well is in turquoise colour and the water is crystal clear compare to the other two wells. See video below for the bubbles that rising from the bottom of the well. We can smell sulfur when we get close to the well water. It is believed that the mineral content from the hot spring water helps in some healing process such as skin problems, rashes or muscle aches. 

Well no.2 is the second hottest pool also has a turquoise color with a little bit murky water compare to the well no.1. It is the most popular well among all, local folks are taking bath directly pour the water from this well with buckets to their body. We can tell some of these old folks (uncles) are the regulars here. They come ready with bucket and tubes, soak themselves inside the tube while rubbing their back and legs with a small towel. The pool is under the shades of trees and they seems pretty relax to enjoy the hot water bath here.

Well No.3 water is the least hot among all wells. Also least popular. There is no one use the water from well no.3 at all during our visit. We briefly soak our legs to try out the hot springs water at the pond with stone paver near to Well no.3. It's hot and not shady unlike well no.2. We did not stay long and leave after this.

When we arrived, there is a taxi carry two passengers from Mid-East reach here at the same time. The Mid-East couple seems shock and disappointed when they saw the wells in the square and leave almost immediately without even browsing around those wells. Sincerely hope the Selayang City Hall can beautify or develop this place as it can be another potential tourist spot for Selayang besides Batu Caves (which is not so far away from Selayang Hot Springs). 

How to get there:

Selayang Hot Spring is located on the left hand side of the trunk road as you travel from Jalan Kuching towards Selayang and Rawang direction. This spring is located just before the flyover that leads to Bandar Baru Selayang. Look out for the signage "Kolam Air Panas" and you will find a open car-park when you reach.

Seafood lunch~ Coconut Flower Seafood Restaurant, Teluk Gong, Port Klang

We drove all the way to Port Klang thinking of visit Pulau Ketam but not unsuccessful We were told that it could be too short time for us to visit the island as it's 2.30pm when we at the boat counter wanna purchase boat ticket. As the last boat to return to mainland is 5pm. So we decided not to go today, instead go for seafood in Port Klang. I goggled for Seafood Restaurant in Klang, Coconut flower Seafood Restaurant came out on top search. I just went there for seafood lunch few months ago during a company departmental outing. Decided to go again with him since their seafood is good and price is reasonable too. The road towards the restaurant reminds me of the road to Seafood Restaurants at Teluk Kumbar in Penang. After passing by a few seafood restaurants, we arrived at Coconut flower~ the one has many cars parking in front of the restaurant as well as an Attap long house next to the open space carpark.  

We choose to sit at the open air area at the back. Order fried sotong (squid), a seafood claypot tofu, seafood fried bee-hoon and kam heong crabs. The seafood fried bee-hoon is not the usual fried bee-hoon we always have at seafood restaurant. It's more like a wet fried bee-hoon with fishy smell gravy. It makes us lost our appetite so we end up gave up on the beehoon even it's kind of waste. As for the crabs, we wanted butter crab but they only have kam heong, chili crab or sweet & sour crab. Minimum order weight for crab is half kg. The kam heong crabs taste quite fresh and meaty. Price is not expensive too, only RM36 for the half kg.

Coliseum Cafe, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman

Searching for local style western food for dinner as we miss our usual place for Hainanese Western Food at Mount Erskine back in Penang. And I found this Coliseum Cafe & Grill Room selling Hainanese Western Food - house in a heritage building in Jalan TAR since 1921. Such a long history! It's full house inside but we did not wait too long for a table. The British Colonial interior makes us feel like we are back to Penang! Looks like staffs here from Kitchen staffs to waiters has been work here for decades. Majority of them are uncles and aunties speaking in Cantonese accents, they looks like they already passed their their retirement age but still very fit and efficient at work. 

We order Hainanese Chicken Chop, Baked Crabmeat and Banana and Chocolate Spring Rolls with Vanilla Ice-cream as dessert. The Hainanese chicken chop taste just same as the old school taste that I am looking for. Baked Crabmeat is smaller than expected yet it is fully stuffed with crabmeat inside. Taste good to eat with mayonnaise dipping sauce together. And our dessert ~ Banana and chocolate spring rolls with vanilla ice-cream, lovely. The spring roll is filled with banana inside and chocolate sauce drizzling on top is still hot while it served. Eat it together with the cold vanilla ice cream, perfect. We are happy with our meal tonight~

Daorae Plus, Solaris Mont Kiara

We have been patronized Daorae various branches started from Penang since 2009, then Subang USJ Taipan and Puchong during our 2 years living in Kota Kemuning. After moved to Mont Kiara, Daorae in Desa Sri Hartamas and Solaris Mont Kiara become another frequent dine-in Korean restaurant in the neighbourhood. Besides the food taste is guarantee, we like their service too! Just like it's motto~ Customer is King, Customer is always right.

Most people go to Daorae will have Korean BBQ, while for us we prefer Korean meals such as Gul-Bossam 굴보쌈 @ RM45.00 and Dolsot Bibimbap 돌솥비빔밥 @ RM22.00 (in second and third picture). Bossam is thinly sliced boiled pork pork belly. Served with sliced garlic & sliced chilli pepper, salted napa cabbage, Gul-musaengchae (spicy radish salad with oysters), ssamjang and saeujeot (fermented shrimp paste) where you can wrap the pork belly & side dishes just like how you make ssam when you had Samgyeopsal (Korean BBQ). 

While Dolsot-Bibimbap~ hot stone pot mixed rice with veggies & gochujang - I like to let my Dolsot-bibimbap continue to heat up for few more minutes so that the rice at the bottom will turn golden crispy like scorched rice; then only I mixed everything well and eat.

Mul Naengmyeon 물냉면 @ RM20.00 and Bibim Naengmyeon 비빔냉면 @ RM20.00 are our favourite orders too when we needed light meals during hot days. Mul-Naengmyeon is cold buckwheat noodles served in chilled broth with sliced cucumber, pears and hardboiled egg. Normally we will add a dap of yellow mustard and vinegar to add flavaour to the broth. Not sure if you notice, Koreans usually will eat Mul-Naengmyeon at the end of BBQ to clean their palate. 

When we don't feel like having broth type naengmyeon, Bibim naengmyeon (dry version of naengmyeon) will be another great option. Just like Bibimbap, Bibim-naengmyeon is  mixed well before eat. The spicy dressing that made from mixture of grinded pear, grinded onion, gochugaru, gochujang, sugar, vinegar, garlic, ginger and sesame oil give a sweet and vinegary flavour to the noodle. Perfect for those hot weather days when you lost appetite for heavy meal. 

These heart-shape Gamja-Jeon (potato pancake) & Kimchi Jeon (Kimchi pancake) are a lovely gesture from the restaurant manager who is also the co-owner who we prompt into tonight during our dine-in. Same goes to the Sujeonggwa too that served as dessert after meal offer to us free. Su-jeong-gwa 수정과 is a Korean traditional cinnamon punch made from mainly cinnamon, sugar, water and ginger.

       

3D Art Coffee~ 55 Cafe, Steward Lane

Back to Penang for a short break. before leaving Penang, we came to cafe 55 for the famous 3D art coffee. So happen our first visit to 55 Cafe is the cafe's last day in Steward Lane. This heritage building in Steward lane where the cafe located now previously owned by a coffee manufacturer company named Kim Guan Coffee Factory. After today, they will move to 164 Lebuh Pantai and rename to Coffee On The Table. Look at my very first 3D Art Coffee and OMG! Cuteness overload! The 3D art is  up to the barista, we didn't get to choose. Barista made Hello Kitty for me and Lion Head for him. The 3D Art is made from Skim Milk foam and garnish with coco~ simply too cute and can't bear to drink and swallow the 3D art.