Old school taste Assam Fish & Salted fried chicken ~ Hup Kee, Jalan Ipoh

Very old school "dai-chao" place in Jalan Ipoh. The restaurant exterior, interior, food, even the smells inside the restaurant are so old school. It flash back some memory of dad bought us whole family dine out at"dai-chao" restaurant like this when I was young. The food is, delicious and taste unique! Well, my friend who is like a "Eating God" so far never fail to introduce me delicious food! It's like homecooked dish but they have their own recipe for the taste. 

We have 3 dishes - Assam fish (with mah yau fish) where the assam gravy more tangy from those ordinary assam fish I have so far. More close to the Penang Assam Laksa broth yet it has the Nyonya Acar flavour mix in between? The salted fried kampong chicken is the dish that will make me come back again for it. According to my friend, the chicken is either boiled or steam before they deep fried it. A chicken dish that his mom will make with the chicken meat that use to boil chicken essence, batter it and deep fried and turn into another dish. The chicken meat texture is soft and flavourful while the skin is crispy. While the ice vegetable salad is refreshing but portion is too big for 2 pax to finish even though we asked for small serving.

Slow Wood Coffee~ The Society, 10 Mont Kiara

After the last tenant, the Korean cafe ~ The Cafe More closed down, The Fare has undergo renovation for quite sometimes and seems like they revamp the whole place. Lately, it's has reopen again with a contemporary café~ Slow Wood Coffee, an artisan bakery - Lilian's Cake House, an Asian food bistro ~ Signature, and one more on first floor which I didn't explore to find out what it is. Seems like The Fare has rename to this place to Society now. This retail premises that next to MK10 or 10 Mont Kiara used to known as The Fare. I was here to meet up someone at Slow Wood, so get to try their hand crafted sparkling passion with extra shot (expresso) and americano. Only bagels are available, so I chose the poppy seeds bagel with truffle butter. And, the truffle butter is really nice! While other bagel was tomato spring onion bagel with cranberry cream cheese. Very limited seats inside but more seats outside. If you could bear the heat wave that currently happened in Malaysia, outdoor sitting is quite nice to chill or hangout. Obviously it is also an new instagrammable places especially the young chic.