Hoegaarden!

Gweilo Guide is expanding into Beer!

Having had, not the largest amount of success in locating places which serve nice beer in KL I will be publishing the location and cost of nice beer (Tsing Tao, Hoegaarden (and any wheat beer)), wherever I find it in KL/Malaysia etc.

The first place I discovered Hoegarden was at The Cave in SS2. 18.90RM for a small bottle.


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Restoran House of Fishball; Seapark, PJ, Malaysia

Back: Fishball hor fun soup (with fish noodles), left: dry hor with fish cakes with minced pork, front: Curry Fish Noodle Soup, with the obligatory chilli (sambal) paste, very nice, very very nice indeed.

Grilled pork dumplings (Guo tie). A definite recommendation.

Restoran House of Fishball, Seapark. 5/5.



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Restoran SK Foodcourt (Hawker Centre); Seri Kembangan, KL, Malaysia

Fried Chicken and Rice

A little tasty, but nothing special.

Fried Chicken Stall (Special Plate Rice)


Yeemee Noodles

Quite nice... Ok... Edible...

Yee Mee Noodles Stall


Fish noodles

Looks like muddy swamp water, but tastes surprisingly... ok.

Fish Noodle Stall

(Over) Barbecued Stingray (sorry about the photo - I was hungry).

What it lacked in spice it tried to compensate for with cooking time...

Barbecued Stingray/Fish stall

Restoran SK Foodcourt (Hawker Centre)

Overwhelmingly mediocre, 2/5, I'll defintely not be eating here again (unless the restaurants on the other side of the road are closed and I am desperate, then I might go for another dish from the Special Plate Rice stall or, more likely, the claypot rice stall...

Bak Kwa / Rou Gan; Chinatown, Petaling Street, KL, Malaysia

Hawker stall, Petaling Street (Chinatown). Bak Kwa

Of all the food available in Malaysia, Bak Kwa (Hokkien) is probably my favorite. It is delicious, moist, sweet, flat squares of roast pork or chicken which, are perfect eaten hot by themselves or in a sandwich, possibly with a tiny amount of pork or chicken floss. It is Bak Kwa in Hokkien, or Rou4 Gan1 肉干, literally Meat Dry, although possibly a better translation would be Barbecued Meat.

For wonderful images of Bak Kwa click here - Sorry, it never seems to last long enough for me to take a photo of it myself.

Below is a short clip from I Not Stupid (xiao3 hai2 bu2 Ben4 - 小孩不笨) about Bak Kwa, not Ah Kwa (Homosexual).



Directions... Enter the pedestrianised part of Petaling Street from Jalan Sultan, walking past thousands of stalls, then when you get to a cross roads (with stalls roasting chestnuts) turn right and the Bak Kwa Stall is on your left.


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Char Kway Teow; Station Kotitiam, South City Plaza, Seri Kembangan, KL, Malaysia

Char Kway Teow with Mango Ice (cream?), the raw slices of chilli were an interesting touch... as was the unexpected company (below). All in all, the food was ok, but I certainly will not be going back anytime soon as there are much nicer, non-air conditioned places outside South City Plaza.

The unexpected visitor... not the most appetizing condiment.

All the staff watching cartoons, I cannot help but wonder if they spent less time watching cartoons and more time cleaning whether there would be cockroaches milling about the place.

Not recommended.


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Roast Duck Rice; Kedai Kopi & Makanan Mooi Mooi, Happy Garden, KL, Malaysia

Delicious roast duck and roast pork and garlic rice with (singapore) chilli sauce from one of the permenent hawker stalls in the restaurant. The meat is not there very early - possibly need to wait until sometime after 11am. Definitely highly recommended.

我要烧鸭和叉烧油饭
wo3 yao4 shao1 ya1 he2 cha1 shao1 you2 fan4
war yao shao ya her char shao yo fan
I want Roast Duck and roast pork "oil rice". (garlic rice)

Garlic (rice) is technically (although its not used) suan4 tou2 (fan) 蒜头(饭)


Not much to look at, but the Roast duck and roast pork is definitely worth it.

The restaurant is opposite the temple of the four faced Buddha in Happy Garden, KL, usually open everyday except monday - its the yellow place marker on the map.


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Roast Chicken Rice; Restoran Hoe Fong Chicken Rice, Sea Park, PJ, Malaysia

This place serves delicious roast chicken rice with a wonderful chilli sauce (recently found in the local Chinese supermarket in England as Yeo's Singapore Chilli sauce for hainanese chicken rice). Perfect and simple, roast chicken and rice 5/5. Mouthwatering delicious - I am salivating at the thought!

Where the magic happens...

This place is not air conditioned, but the food is fantastic enough that its not important. Truly local food, I will at some point add the chinese/mandarin/cantonese for the dishes...


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Steamed Chicken, Restoran Soo Kee - Sea Park, PJ, Malaysia

Steamed Chicken Rice Preparation

Waiting...

Prawn dumpling soup - note the raw chillies :)

At last - steamed chicken (without bones!) and Ipoh shredded chicken prawn dumpling Hor Fun



All gone!

Definitely one to revisit! Food was great, 5/5. Absolutely delicious chicken and prawn dumpling soup. Visited several times - latest 28/12/08.


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Uncle Nasi Lemak - Chinese Version

At Sea Park, most mornings, from about 7am onwards, there is a little mini-market of delicious foods! Tucked away on the right hand side is "uncle" nasi lemak, a Chinese version of the popular Malaysian (spicy) breakfast food.

Sea Park market

"Uncle" Nasi Lemak takeaway stall

The master in action... The nasi lemak was accompanied by a cold can of (ice) jasmine tea - a perfect combination.

Chinese Nasi Lemak - Coconut Rice with potatoes, boiled egg, peanuts, crispy fried (unsalted) anchovies, cucumber slices and Pork Curry. Absolutely delicious take away 5/5.




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Steamed Hainanese Chicken Rice Restaurant - Singapore

Definitely one to visit again! Delicious Hainanese (steamed) chicken rice where Selegie Road meets Middle Road (Singapore). Visited 23/12/08, Absolutely delicious...



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