Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Monday, April 8, 2013

Kyoto - 中村藤吉 Green Tea Ice-Cream

Note: After procrastinating for more than 4 months, I finally have enough motivation to start to blog again (hopefully). The motivation came from my colleague, who asked me for help to plan his trip to Kyoto. As I struggle to recall the name of the train I took from Kyoto to Osaka, I told him it has been a year and I've forgotten the details, only to realize immediately that only 4 months had passed. If I don't write now, I'm going to forget everything! I couldn't take the pressure and panicked. But you don't have to write everything, Mr. Chin said, just write whatever you like. So I took his advice, and here goes.

This is something one must eat in Kyoto station - Nakamura Tokichi Honten 中村藤吉 is the name of the shop.

Located on the 2nd floor in Kyoto station.

 This is a must-eat - green tea ice cream topped with fresh red bean and some unknown flour-like balls.

 

Satisfaction.

This was 350 yen (approx. RM11) which was almost the price of a Haagen Dazs. I had Haagen Dazs green tea ice cream once but I thought it was no match for this. This was the soft and creamy type and Haagen Dazs was the hard frozen type. And besides, red bean is the soul mate of green tea flavour. It brings out the taste of green tea yet suppresses its bitterness - perfect! It still makes me drool merely by looking at the pictures!

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Krabi Trip Part II - The Food

Pancake

Yes this is the infamous pancake in Krabi town. It tasted somewhat like Malaysia's roti canai, only sweeter (with the condensed milk) and more crispy.

 Yummy! Wished I had more.

 We only ordered one pancake, but they provided us free tea some more. :)

 The shop was located near the caveman traffic light.

It was a regret that we ordered only one piece. So we had another one the next morning near the place we stayed in Ao Nang Beach. But it wasn't the same.


It looked less mouth-watering than the one in Krabi town - it tasted exactly as it looked.


This one was with sardine.

Krabi Town Night Market

The night market that we went to was a smaller one. Seemed that there was a bigger one during weekends. But this one, was sufficient for our hunt for food.

The night market, very much similar to the pasar malam in Malaysia.


Corn - Mr. Chin's favourite.

Mango with glutinous rice - the infamous Thai food.

Our dinner from the night market - pork knuckle, curry chicken with rice.

Aree Ba Ba Thai Restaurant

I read a review on this restaurant from a blog so we decided to try it out. Nothing to shout about really - just a place to eat when you have no better choices.

The menu.

A bamboo environment - very tourist.

How is a Thai meal complete without the coconut? Not my favourite though.

How is a Thai meal complete without the tomyam? Beef tomyam, in this case.

My favourite egg, with chicken - my choice of course. Weird combination I know, and this was not related to Thai food in any way.

All kinds of mushrooms.

Our dinner.

McDonald's in Ao Nang 

A meal in McD was necessary, to fulfill my ambition of trying out all McDs all over the world. The McD in Ao Nang was like a landmark for the tourists because it was easily-spotted and well-known.


Fries with cheese - something we don't have here. Reminded me of fries with chili flakes we once had, and which I prefer.


The Samurai Pork burger - how rare for us Malaysians.


Fish fillet burger - it was our intention to order those that we couldn't find in Malaysia McD. And that was all.

The breakfast sets were exactly the same.


A picture with Ronald in "sawatika" was definitely a must.


The Last Breakfast

We stayed in J Hotel in Ao Nang which was more like a guest house actually. We had our breakfast in the hotel on our last day as it was raining and we couldn't really get out.

Breakfasts came with fruits.

Mr. Chin's croissant was hot and yummy.

This was mine. My first bacon in my life, believe it or not.

Drinks

I didn't know what was the normal price for Heineken in Malaysia but I supposed in Thailand it should be cheaper. Thus Mr. Chin bought this.


The mineral water bottle that my hotel provided looked like those of car battery water. Really, at first we didn't dare drink it, but we didn't want to buy new ones either, so in the end we did. Well, we survived.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Egg Fried Rice 蛋炒饭

Another simple recipe for people who can't cook, like me. =)

First take a look at the result...

Up close...
Ingredients:
1. Rice (duh!)
2. Egg (duh!)
3. Salted carrots
4. Garlic
5. Onion

Procedure:
1. Mince the garlic and onion.
2. Clean the salted carrots.
3. Have the eggs beaten and add salt into it.
4. Mix thoroughly the rice into the beaten egg.
5. Heat the cooking oil in a wok. When the oil is shimmering and almost smoking add the garlic and stir-fry for 3 to 4 minutes, followed by the onion and salted carrots.
6. Stir-fry for a few minutes before adding the rice.
7. Stir-fry until the rice look dry.
8. Ready to be served. =)

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Fresh Fruit Salad

The simplest recipe in the whole wide world. If anyone failed making this they should be ashamed of themselves. (Why would anyone search for the recipe when it's that simple???) I personally don't really like salad but... well... just for fun...

Ingredients:

Basically, any kinds of fruits. This time I've chosen the following:

Apples and pears, cleanly peeled (ok maybe not so clean) and to be cut into cubes.

Cherry tomatoes, to be cut into half.

Kiwis, to be cut into cubes.

Lemon.

And fruit salad dressing of any brand.

Procedures:
1.Cut the apples, pears and kiwis into cubes; and cherry tomatoes into halfs as shown below.

2. Cut the lemon into a quarter and squeeze onto the mixed fruits.

3. Add the fruit salad dressing onto the mixed fruit as shown below.

4. Mix thoroughly as shown below. (Action of mixing blurred because hand was moving too fast.)

5. Ready to be served. Wakakakakakkakaakak...

Friday, December 4, 2009

Trip to Kelantan

Sharing some pictures from my trip to Kelantan...
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According to Mr. Chin, this is some famous landmark in Kelantan...


Driving...


PAS !!!


The street of Kota Bharu... SO MANY Selangor / Kuala Lumpur cars !!!


Went to eat this beef noodles in Kota Bharu town. DELICIOUS !!!
But quite expensive.
RM 4.00
Almost same as price in KL area...


Got dry noodles also. Dry ones are more expensive by 50 cents.


With soup...


KB Mall !!! Haha...


Erm... that's all the pictures I took.
Ya ya I know it's not many.
Because it was raining cats and dogs 24 hours a day.
Couldn't go anywhere even if I want to.
Never mind la.
Next time still got chance.
=)