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Melbourne Peking Duck. Melbourne or Peking? Or Bangsar?

February 10, 2013 | Leave a Reply

Before I start rambling on my blog post that is only half related to the festive we’re celebrating right now, I’d like to wish all my readers and all the Chinese in the world a very Happy Chinese New Year!

Gong Heii Fatt Choi!!
Wishing everyone a very prosperous year, a very healthy year, and a year safe from all the dangers in the world.
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I love taking trams to places outside the CBD in Melbourne and that evening was one of the evening I get to go to a place a little further away.
Fatty brought me to try a Chinese dish that I’ve not tried before, to a restaurant he was raving about.
Peking duck from Old Kingdom in Melbourne.

The restaurant was crowded, there were little walk space.
Guests were chattery and there were lots of smiles on their faces.
There were Australians with their red wine and there were Chinese with their Chinese tea.
Waiters were busy dashing right and left, in and out from the kitchen.
And not to forget, the meal was delicious.

It came to us as a surprise that the chef from Old Kingdom was actually a Malaysian and after years working in Melbourne, he decided to open up a Peking Duck Restaurant here in Bangsar.
It was a good news to us and we wanted to try it out on our 25th months but ended up postponing it to few days ago.

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#1 It was a date. :)

#2 It must have sounded really weird for some people, Melbourne Peking Duck. It’s like Sichuan Nasi Lemak or New York Roti Canai.

#3 Duck’s way of saying welcome, quack.

#4 Restaurant’s interior was simple, or a little too simple in my opinion. I still love the ambiance from Old Kingdom a little bit more.

#5 There are two Peking Duck sets from you to choose from.

Set 1 is price at RM78+.
-One duck slice in 16 pieces served with pancake, scallion, and cucumber.
-Stir fried bean sprouts with shredded duck meat.
-Duck soup with salted vegetable and tofu.

Set 2 is price at Rm88+.
-One duck slice in 16 pieces served with pancake, scallion, and cucumber.
-Fried meehoon, hor fun, or rice with shredded duck meat.
-Duck soup with salted vegetable and tofu.

We picked set 1 as were still very much full from what we had for lunch. So no rice or noodles.

#6 Cutting through the duck’s skin.

#7 And the lady showing us how to wrap it. You can always skip this part if this is not your first time savoring Peking Duck.

#8 The duck skin was extremely crispy with fats underneath!

#9 I’m hungry already.

#10 Stir fried bean sprouts with shredded duck meat. It tasted exactly like what we had in Melbourne, it was really good. I’m not a fan of bean sprout at all but I sapu-ed everything.

#11 Duck soup with salted vegetable and tofu which Fatty really loves.

Fatty was really happy that his favourite Peking Duck is in town and even happier when they tasted exactly the same.
I enjoyed my meal very much too! :)
If you convert, it is much more cheaper to have the Peking Duck in Bangsar than in Melbourne. /steal

If Peking Duck isn’t enough for you, there are other individual dishes which you can order, so worry not.

Melbourne Peking Duck
24-1, Jalan Telawi 3,
Bangsar Baru, 59100 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: +603-22021588

Old Kingdom
197 Smith St
Fitzroy 3065 VIC

Okay, back to Chinese New Year.

Every year I wanted to get myself a cheongsam for Chinese New Year but every year I give up knowing that it is so hard for me to find the right cheongsam.
Cheongsam is like a Tuxedo, it needs to fit well and I’ve got no idea where to get one that fits me well and doesn’t cost a fortune.
Maybe I can start looking at children’s cheongsam. :(
Or if anybody knows where I can get a a cheongsam with the size UK4, care to enlighten me?

Sometimes, it’s nice to be skinny and all but some other times it just sucks because everything is always too big for me!
You don’t know the number of clothing I have to give up on when I shop, just because of the sizes. :(

I love wearing red during Chinese New Year and I’ve been doing it for years but not this year. Which is a little sad for me.
But I still have my red nails, better than not having anything red at all.

#12 Instead of doing a very red and Chinese New Year nails, I tame it with pink gradient because Valentine’s Day is coming up too. :)

#13 And red toe nails.

Now I cant wait for gamble session too start. Heh.

2nd Anniversary Dinner at Dragon-i

December 20, 2012 | Leave a Reply

It was a date so simple but it brought so many smiles to my face. :)

I almost wanted to pick ‘Dining in The Dark’ as the venue for our 2nd anniversary when I found out that it has opened its arms at Changkat KL but Fatty suggested otherwise.
Fatty suggested Dragon-i and it was a tough choice to choose between both.

I thought I’ll have to wait for another few years, to fly back over to Bangkok (if you’d like to find out Bkk’s DITD) and finally try ‘Dine In The Dark’ but of all sudden we now have it here in KL. How nice. :)
When I found out the concept of such restaurant in Bangkok, I was mad excited but none of my friends were. :(
Thank God I do not have to wait for another few years now.

Choice between two was finally made and I put ‘Dining In The Dark’ in my waiting list in the end because after knowing the menu (which I shouldn’t cause I weren’t suppose to know the menu to enhance the experience) I made a conclusion that I should wait for the menu to evolve to something less basic, to something more exciting. Maybe in another 2 months, I hope.

And if you thought Dragon-i was an even weirder choice, it wasn’t because Fatty never picks the wrong restaurant. :)

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#1 I wanted to look sweet that night so I put on a pastel pink tutu. :)

Fatty insisted that we go for Dragon-i because he wanted me to try Hairy crab or å¤§é–˜èŸ¹ (dai zap hai) as we Chinese call it.
He often had it in Hong Kong and he said it was so good he needed me to try it.
So, why not?

#2 The utensils for our Hairy Crab.

There are probably a few more Chinese restaurants that sell Hairy Crab but we didn’t look into it.
Hairy Crab season is ending VERY soon so if you’d like to try, you can try googling for other Chinese restaurants if Dragon-i doesn’t suit your liking.

Dragon-i offers two different Hairy Crab menu price at Rm138+ and RM198+ or you can just purchase the Hairy Crab alone (buy 3 get 1 free at Rm198+).
We both went for the RM138 menu and if you prefer to have your Hairy Crab on weekends, it is charged at RM168+ for the same menu.
Take note: Minimum order is 2 pax.

#3 Steamed Shanghainese Crab Roe Dumpling, 2 for each of us. This is Xiu Long Bao with crab roe and it tasted so much better than the normal Xiu Long Bao. Besides the Hairy Crab, this dumpling is what I like most from the menu.

#4 Broth was so flavorful and sweet.

#5 Sauteed Fresh Vegetables with Hairy Crab Roe which I didn’t quite like just because I dislike that particular vegetable. Gravy with crab roe was good and we kept it for the fried rice.

#6 Fried Rice with Shredded Crab Meat and Egg White. Fried rice wasn’t as good as Rasa Sayang’s (cause Rasa Sayang has the best fried rice) but when mixed with the crab roe gravy, it was quite divine.

#7 Chicken Soup with Fish Maw that I happened to quite like. I really quite love drinking double boiled soup but I also wish that this chicken soup can be slightly thicker.

I was about 75% full when our Hairy Crab was out which is a bad sign.
It takes about 25 minutes for them to steam the Hairy Crabs and if you don’t mind waiting, I suggest you eat the dumpling and wait for the crabs.
Only when you’re done with your crabs, you get the waiter to serve you the remaining of the menu.

#8 We can either cut the crab ourselves or let the waiter do it and we let her do the job. I was too lazy. She opened the shell, cut off the legs and pushed out the meat.

It was a very good decision to let her do it. I am always lazy when it comes eating crabs.

#9 The Hairy Crab was placed back into place and notice the hairy claws.

#10 Vinegar for the crab which in my opinion is much needed.

#11 Best crab shell I’ve ever eaten in my life so far.

#12 Look at that crab roe! It was very different from normal crab’s roe. The roe was so thick and creamy, it sticks on my throat. The meat was very fresh and sweet too. As to why I said the vinegar is much needed is because you need to balance the taste.

Now I understand why Fatty insisted that I must try Hairy Crab.
It was so different, it tasted so good and I wish that I weren’t that full. I gave half of my crab to Fatty, lucky him.
As I type, the taste keep coming back to me and I so want to have a Hairy Crab right now.

The bill came up to RM360 inclusive of tax and service charge.
Do call and make sure that Hairy Crabs are still available at the outlet you wish to go.
We went to Pavilion’s Dragon-i and they only left with 11 Hairy Crabs that day.
It’s gonna be too late very soon, so hurry up if you’d like to try. :)

#13 Thank you for making sure that I try out some of the world’s best delicacy.

#14 And thank you for always looking so stupid in my pictures. :P

We’ve decided that for every anniversary meal, we must pick a cuisine different from the past.
Last year was Italian food and this year was Chinese cuisine. Maybe we’ll do German food next. :)

Dragon-i at Pavilion
1.13.00 Level 1,
Pavilion KL,
168 Jalan Bukit Bintang,
55100 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel. : 03-2143 7688

Oyster, Lobster, Abalone

October 3, 2008 | 2 Comentaries

Yo people : )
I’m happy.
Because I get to follow my mom to eat seafood last night. : D
Its been such a long time I did not get to eat all these super good food.

Bei Hai Restaurant which is located at Selayang. The name of this restaurant is so funny, me and my brother laugh like mad when we first saw it. At first I don’t know it is translated from the Mandarin wordings and we ourselves read it as Cantonese version. ‘Bei Hai’, some dirty words. Hahaha..

Jin Chwan, where they sell lots and lots of seafood, which is just right beside Bei Hai. You can choose your seafood here, then bring it to Bei Hai restaurant and ask them to cook for you.

This creature looks so ugly and funny. Its called Geoduck but then it looks like a dick. Hahaha.. Super ugly. Oh, and this ugly thing cost Rm138 per kg.

Very very big ‘si ham’. Sigh, I purposely put my finger there to show how big the ‘si ham’ is but it fail miserably. It is actually as big as my palm size.

Oyster, my all time favourite but seldom have the chance to eat because its expensive..

Alaska King Crab which is really expensive. Rm228 for 1kg.

Our lobster that my mom order, which taste really good.

Mm mm… Mouth watering oyster, which somehow reminds me of Mr.Bean’s movie where he looks so funny when eating his oyster. Haha..

Guess what this is.

Happy Valentine’s Day

February 15, 2008 | 5 Comentaries

Happy Valentines Day to everyone out there. Sorry for being one day late as I’ve got no time yesterday. Yesterday was also Singles Awareness Day (SAD) and I find it very humorous to have such a day. By the way people, I’m single now and I’m trying to enjoy every single bit of being a single. :D

I Went to Pavilion with my friends to have lunch at DainTi Hill, a very nice restaurant. This is the first outlet in Malaysia, and countries like China and Taiwan have DainTi Hill too.

They have very nice interior design, and its very comfortable sitting there.

Dim Sum at Restaurant Ful Lai

September 17, 2007 | Leave a Reply

I wanted to eat something since this morning and my mom didn’t cook anything, except for porridge which I don’t really feel like eating. The whole day I was craving for food, hmm, some little fried foods. So I decided to head to Restaurant Ful Lai for some fried dim sum and not to forget, they have salad sauce or mayonnaise you call it.

Only order two steam dim sum because I only want to eat the fried ones.

Siew Mai.

Yu Mai, which I don’t eat at all.
Each plate cost Rm2.80.

Fried Wantans.

Red plate cost Rm3 each.

Pandan Chicken, it don’t feel like chicken when I bite it but it really smells and tastes good.

For the blue plate, each plate cost Rm3.50. Both the fried ones have shrimps inside and I tell you, their shrimp is so crispy or bouncy. I don’t know how to name it.

The dim sum here is a bit more expensive compare to other dim sum restaurants but overall, it is worth it. The bill is Rm25 including all the above dim sums, one Char Siew Pau that cost Rm1.50, and two leong sui which cost Rm1.20 each.
Rstaurant Ful Lai is located at Kuchai Lama, just opposite from Kuchai Lama’s Food Court and it is a corner shop. Very easy to find but in case you cant find it, here is the address;

1G, (GF) Jalan 2/116B,
Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park,
Off Jalan Kuchai Lama,
58200 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-7983 6851

Another Movie Outing

August 26, 2007 | 5 Comentaries

I went to watch Secret yesterday with a bunch of friends. I never plan to watch this movie actually. No offense to those who like Jay, but I am not really interested in his movie except Initial D which is a must watch. So since my friends asked me to go and I’ve saw some review on this movie that this is a good one, I just give it a try.

Well, I must say this is indeed a good movie. Totally not what I expected.
I know this is a love story, I sweet story, but the whole story line just shocked me.
This is a great movie, really. Jay gives a very different feel in this movie.
He is humorous and cute (the way he act, not his look). The whole movie is fill up with piano and I just love the sound of piano so much. I’ve like piano since I was small although I suck at it.
I’m not sure, maybe it will bore some guys but all of us like it. But if you like piano and music just like me, I think you should really try this out.

I saw this poster at Time Square’s cinema. I cartoon by Disney and its in Chinese I think.
It looks really cute and I’m waiting for it, I really wanna watch.

Cute right? Yes or No?

I really like to watch cartoon a lot recently, I don’t know why. I guess that they really are producing a lot of nice cartoons, like Shark Tales which I’ve watch for more than three times. Haha, Shark Tales are so funny. :D Chicken Little, Cars, Finding Nemo, and lots more. Recently they have Ratatouille which I have waited for so many months, like more than six months.
I’ve watch it and I must also say, I like it a lot. Nice graphic, nice story. I just love the whole thing, so funny and cute. I don’t wanna talk so much, I just love it, and I love Linguini :), I don’t know why.

After the movie we went to have our dinner at ~~Yulek~~ Kampung Cheras Baru, Restaurant Kam Kitchen.
The food there was really nice, and not really that expensive.

Fishy that I like a lot when I was small. Every time when my family and I went to Chinese Restaurant, my brother and I will definitely stand and look at those fishy.