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. 

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.

Hainanese Western Chicken Chop~ Coliseum Cafe, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman

Searching for local style western food for dinner. Missed our usual place for Hainan Western Food at Mount Erskine back in Penang). And I found this Coliseum Cafe & Grill Room selling Hainanese Western Food. It is house in a heritage building in Jalan TAR since 1921. Such a long history! Since there's no parking along Jalan TAR, we park our car at a paid carpark one street behind Coliseum. It's full house inside! The British Colonial interior makes us feel like we are back to Penang heritage area. We can also tell this place has been operate with a long history as most of the staff here from Kitchen staffs to waiters seems like they has been work here for decades. Yeah, most of them are uncles and aunties speaking in Cantonese accents, sand they should be 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. While the Baked Crabmeat is a little small yet fully stuffed with crabmeat inside. It's better to eat by dipping it with mayonnaise sauce as it's a little bit dry just eat the stuffed crabmeat by itself. And our dessert ~ Banana and Chocolate Spring Rolls with Vanilla Ice-cream, love it! We order the right dessert! The spring roll that filled with banana inside and some chocolate sauce on top is still hot while it served. Eat it together with the cold vanilla ice cream, perfectly make my stomach happy!

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. 

      

      

Soondaeya Korean Restaurant, Ampang

After we had soondae at I-love-Topokki @ Kim's Mart, not satisfy with the portion served also they are using frozen soondae. We decided to come all the way to Ampang for fresh handmade soondae. Soondae is Korean blood sausage but there's no blood inside. It is steamed pig intestine stuffed with various ingredients such as bean curd, glass noodle, minced pork and vegetables. Usually eaten by dipping it with the mixture of salt, ground pepper and gochugaru that served along.

Located at the first floor, look for the Arab mini-market & Nabe Bakery you will be able to find Soondaeya signboard along the corridor. The restaurant with graffiti on the walls and private rooms with roller binds reminds me of makgoelli-jib - the eatery place that selling Korean rice wine and jeon in Korea.We had their signature dish~ Bossam (small) @ RM40 and Modum Soondae (small) @ RM40. Bossam is boiled pork belly served with kimchi and fresh vegetables for wraps. While Modum soondae (assorted soondae) has 3 types of soondae:- kimchi soondae, meat soondae and vegetable soondae. Food is in the video below.

Besides soondae, they also have Soondae-gukbap (pork sausage soup), Dweji-gukbap (pork soup), Seogogi-gukbap (beef soup), Seolleongtang (ox-bone soup), Galbi-tang (beef short rib soup), Ttukbaegi bulgogi (hotpot BBQ beef), Seonji haejangguk (coagulated ox blood hangover soup), Wang-tonkatsu (king size pork-cutlet), Chapsal soondae (glutinous rice pork sausage), Bossam (boiled pork with wraps) and Suyuk (boiled pork). Using only Korean pork and Australian beef.

         

Jajjangmyeon & Tangsuyuk~ Buldojang Korean-Chinese Restaurant, Desa Sri Hartamas 불도장 데사스리 하타마스

After Dae Bok Jang closed down, Bul-do-Jang has become our most frequent patronize Korean-Chinese Restaurant in Desa Sri Hartamas when we are looking for Jajjangmyeon and Tang-suyuk! The name of the restaurant Bul-Do-Jang 불도장 is translated from the Chinese words 佛跳墙 ~ a legendary Chinese dish "Buddha jump over the wall". Besides Jajjangmyeon, Jjampong, Tang-suyuk, Japchae-bap those common Korean Chinese dish we always order, they also have other Chinese cuisine (中華料理 Junghwa-yori in Korean) price range from medium to high. 

짜장면 Jajjangmyeon is noodle in black bean paste. Their jajjangmyeon is one of the best so far we can find in town. The taste is similar as what I had taste in Korea. I'm glad we found another delicious Jajjangmyeon place nearby our house after the previous place we went closed down.

잡채밥 Jap-chae-bap is stir fried Korean glass noodle served with rice. The portion pretty huge for 1 pax and I normally couldn't finish the rice, so half of the rice will goes to him. He will mix the rice into the leftover jajjang sauce after finish the Jajjangmyeon noodles.

탕수육 Tangsuyuk is a deep fried meat strips coated with sweet and sour sauce. It can be made with either pork or beef. So far we have tried both and we prefer beef as it taste better than pork.

Buldojang located at 1st floor, same row as Burger King or Guardian. They provide free delivery service within Mont' Kiara Area with minimum order of RM50 and above.

Kyochon Fried Chicken in Malaysia~ Kyochon 1991, One Utama Shopping Centre

KyoChon is in Malaysia. They are open since end of last year but we visit 3 months later only to avoid the queues. Founded in 1991, Kyochon is one of the largest Korean fried chicken restaurant chain in South Korea with over 1,000 restaurants worldwide currently. Those who visits Korea especially K-pop fans probably will put Kyochon fried chicken as one of the must eat in Korea.

Currently the menu in Malaysia offer 4 flavours drumstick or wingette & drumette only. The 4 flavours are Original Soy Series, Red series, Honey Series and Salsal Series. Soy series and Red series - 5pcs @ RM9.90 / 10pcs @ RM19.80 / 20pcs @ RM39.50. While Honey series and Salsal series - 5pcs @ RM10.90 / 10pcs @ RM21.80 / 20pcs @ RM43.50. We tried all four flavours with choice of wingette and drumette. We were told to wait at least 15 mins as the fried chicken will be cook only after order placed. So that customer can enjoy the fresh and crunchy fried chicken. 

Original Soy & Red Series - 5pcs each

The first 2 flavours served is the Original Soy (left) and Red (right) wingette & drumette. The original soy flavour is the shop's original recipe - taste like lightly coated with soya sauce & garlic but not garlic bites spotted. While Red series is hot and spicy. According to the waiter the spicy was came from Korea red chilli pepper

Salsal strips - 5pcs 

Third flavour is Salsal Strips (Right) - deep fried boneless chicken breast coated with special rice batter. It comes with choice of 3 dipping sauce - Jambalaya, Honey mustard or Red (Spicy). We choose honey mustard (the yellow dipping sauce). 

Honey series - 5pcs 
The fourth flavour serve about 5 minutes later after the first 3 served. We didn't wait too long anyway. It is worth to wait as the fried chicken was serve hot and fresh! The honey series wingette & drumette taste sweet but not overdo, the best among all. 

We finished all 4 flavours x 5pcs = 20 pcs of wingette and drumette in a blink! Total bill cost RM54.10 Oppa commented the portion is abit small compare to the price we pay for a whole fried chicken from Korean fried chicken shop that we often order for delivery. By the way KyoChon 1991 is Halal, our Muslim friend now get to enjoy Korean fried chicken too!

8 Colours 8 Flavours Korean BBQ Pork Belly~ Palsaik Korean BBQ, Solaris Mont Kiara

Husband's ex-colleague open a Korean BBQ restaurant in Soho KL, Solaris Mont Kiara ~ A famous Korean BBQ chain lately very popular in Korea named Palsaik. Pal-saik means 8 colours in Korean. The 8 colours here refer to 8 kinds of flavors of pork belly~ Ginseng, Wine, Pine needles, Garlic, Herb, Curry, Soy bean paste and Hot pepper sauce. There are only 3 sets of BBQ menu to choose. We choose the signature menu ~ Eight-Colors Set @ RM112.00. It has 8 Flavors of Marinated Pork + Seafood Soup which is suitable for 3-4 pax. The other set are Tricolor Set @ RM92.00 suitable for 2 pax - consist of 3 Flavors Pork + Fresh scallops + Grilled Deodeok Root or Premium Kimchi. And Premium Set @ RM142.00 consists of 8 Flavors of Marinated Pork + Seafood soup + Grilled Deodeok Root + Premium Kimchi - suitable for 3-4 pax as well. 

The server first place the beans sprout, kimchi, enoki mushroom, garlic and some green chilies on one side of the heated grill pan, then start to grill first 4 flavours of the pork belly followed by other 4s after we done eating. We could taste the different flavour by eating the BBQ pork belly alone without putting other seasoning such as ssamjang. The seafood dwenjang guk that comes along the set goes really well with barbecue pork. The 8 colors set is just nice for 2 of us although it stated 3-4 pax serving. Maybe we are big eater lol. After I shared photos of our meal in Palsaik in Facebook, few friends of mine went to try and they all commented it is good and unique.