RT Cafe, SS15 Subang Jaya



RT Pastry House, a Taiwanese bakery that is a famous house hold name that need no further introduction has now venture into a new business :- serving the world's most popular drink - a nice cup of coffee.

 

Their first RT Cafe is gonna be located right next to their RT Pastry House branch in SS15 Subang Jaya. The grand opening is going to be on 13th April 2014 and today I have the opportunity to participate in their coffee tasting session by the invitation of their Financial Consultant.

 

 

 Contractor are still hard at work to finish off final construction work - the main entrance

 

 From the menu the price seems to be reasonable.

 

 There will be special offer for the grand opening

 

 80% Robusta, 20% Arabica. This is their special Mocha

 

  From the Superbar bean, the taste is slightly milder than the Mocha

 

  100% Arabica, this is milder in taste but still as tasty which is a much preferred choice among the ladies - according to the barista

 

 

 

 This bean was brought to the café for tasting. Not available in the café as this was personal belonging - belong to me!!! It smells like raw coffee and also have thicker aroma

 

 

Affogato - you can consider this as dessert as it is a combination of espresso and vanilla ice cream. Basically you pour the espresso over the vanilla and you scope the combination of ice cream and coffee and enjoy it. Yumzzzz.......

           And if the coffee doesn't excite you enough, well at least they have nice looking and friendly baristas. Just kidding ...................

All in all, we all now have a new hang out place. You can enjoy your RT pastry immediately with a nice cup of coffee while chatting away in a comfortable seating arrangement with your friends.

Ayam Rendang

 

To me, any recipes that require heavy blending is consider way too tough for me. Yet, when I received this recipe from a friend and was given a challenge to prepare this delicious dish for a potluck session, I was really determined to make it work and edible. Haha........ please find the recipe below if you are keen to give it a try

Main Ingredients:

A
1. Chicken (about 1.8kg, chopped into smaller pieces - around 20 pieces)

B (clean and blend everything into fine paste)
1. Tumeric/ kunyit ( size of thumb)
2. Bird eye chillies ( 20 pieces)
3. Galangal/ Lengkuas ( size of thumb)
4. Ginger/ Halia ( size of thumb)
5. Shallot/ bawang merah ( 15 pieces)
6. Garlic/ bawang putih ( 2 pieces)

C
1. 150ml cooking oil
2. Teaspoons tamarind paste ( mix with waste, filter out seed)
3. 6 tablespoons toasted coconut/ kerisik ( buy ready made)
4. 5 lemongrass (use the white part only, pounded)
5.  200ml thick santan
6. 10 pcs kaffir lime leaves/ daun limau purut
7. 1 piece turmeric leave/ daun kunyit (finely sliced)
8. salt (to taste)

Methods:
1. Heat oil and stir fried ingredient B until aromatic in a wok.
2. Put in lemongrass and stir fried for a minute before putting in tamarind juice and santan. Wait til it
    boils. Insert all the chicken and mix well. Stir occasionally to prevent from burning.
3. When the gravy thicken add in kerisik, daun limau purut and daun kunyit. Mix well. Turn down
    the fire and stir occasionally to prevent burning.
4. Cover the wok and let it simmer for a while, remember to stir occasionally to prevent burning.
5. After about half an hour ( or when the gravy thicken), add salt to taste.
6. Serve your rending chicken with hot steamed rice.

Yi Yan Restaurant, Medan Putra Business Centre ,Kepong

Discover this food outlet by chance when we become undecided what to have for lunch on one fine day. What bait us in? The big crowd of customers that is waiting outside the restaurant of course.

So the restaurant is famous for porridge hence the name. Zhuk Yin Yan in Chinese actual means lovers that are teasing each other but the chinese character in this restaurant "Zhuk" means porridge. A very creative name indeed. But of course the restaurant also serve other type of noodles and fried rice.

So we proceed to order our food.

First order is the fried pan mee. To me it is like eating dry pan mee rather than fried. If you really want to have a good fried pan mee that tasted like hokkien mee, head over to OKR. Nevertheless the portion size is OK. For those that have not tried a good fried pan mee before, I guess this fried pan mee wannabe will do.

The I order a mix pork innards porridge with a bowl of fried fritters. I would say this mix pork innards porridge is good. Better than the fried pan mee wannabe. The topping of fried pork intestine is crunchy and flavourful. I will recommend this to those that love to eat mix pork innards porridge. The gave you a generous amount of pork innards too. Yummy.

 

 

Do head over to this restaurant if you are feeling like to eat a good bowl of porridge. They have various kind of porridge and very unique kind of porridge too like vege porridge which you never gonna make at home. You can find your typical groundnuts porridge which give you a feel of home made porridge instantly. The price is reasonable for the portion size that they serve you.

Chicken Chorizo Rice

I have learned about this recipe from the internet recently. I wanted something different, something more flavourful from what I have daily thus I'm on a mission to search for something different.

 

Please find the recipe as below

 

Main Ingredients:-

1) Basmati rice - washed and drained.

2) Frozen veg ( original recipe call for frozen peas but I prefer
   frozen veg for more colors)

3) Whole tomato with puree (canned)

4) Chicken ( I used drumstick - you can use other part depends on
   your preference) - washed and pat dried. Season with a little 
   bit of salt

5) Paprika powder ( 1 teaspoon) - mix with the basmati rice after
   washing

6) Pepper (1 teaspoon)  - mix with the basmati rice after washing

7) Chorizo flavoured hotdogs - cut into small pieces according to
   your preference

8) Garlic and onion

9) Water - for cooking rice ( amount depend on amount of rice used
   and quality of rice used. Also depends if you prefer the
   outcome to be slightly wet or dry)

10)Cooking Oil

 

P/S: I did not mention in exact the measurement or quantity to use in my recipe as it all depend on feeling. I feel that when comes to cooking, you sometimes have to follow your heart on the recipe. Yup, I'm a "agak-agak" chef you might say. By this way, cooking will be more fun. Don't you think so :p

The main ingredients

Methods:-

1) Heat up wok and put the oil in. Cook chicken for few minutes to
   lock in the juice and transfer to plate follow by chicken chorizo
   hotdogs and the frozen veg.

2) Saute the garlic and onion until slightly brown and add in
   basmati rice ( already mixed with paprika and pepper). Stir the
   rice for a few minute to absorb the flavour from the chicken 
   and also from the chorizo hotdogs, garlic and onion.

3) Add tomatoes (including the puree) and stir to mix well. Add in
   water and bring to boil.

4) Season to taste.

5) Add in chicken, chorizo hotdogs and also the frozen veg. Mix
   well.

6) Transfer to a pot for steam or rice cooker. Original recipe used
   baking method. I prefer to steam the rice as it is easier to
   control. If not enough water while steaming the rice, I still can
   add in water.



The final outcome - it is a little bit wet due to using a little bit more water.

Fried Bee Hoon Sotong aka Yau Yee Mee Hoon

This is my favourite all time noodles and surprising it is only available in Seremban. I remembered vividly that once I asked my KL friend (during uni years) where can I get this noodle and this friend of mine asked me not to pull his leg as this noodles is not available and I only made it up.

 

Well, this is not something I whisked out of imagination. You have to try this if you are around in Seremban. This is easily available in any big food court in Seremban at a very reasonable price.

 

 Basically the soup is from the braised pork and surprisingly it is quite mild in taste. I will always drink all the soup till the last drop. Have a try. I highly recommend it!!

 

Capitol Nasi Dagang Kelantan

If you are as crazy as me for a good nasi dagang in KL/ Selangor, then you must pay this restaurant a visit. They serve the best nasi dagang Kelantan in town. The best yet so far...... ( I still miss the nasi dagang from Kuantan thou :P - nothing beat first love is guess). A simple shop next to a tyre shop in Uptown, they open daily til 5pm.

 

They also have not just the original nasi dagang with ikan tongkol, you can choose to have beef, curry chicken, sotong or shrimp or a mixture of all the above for a certain price. To me, I think the price is reasonable for the nasi dagang tongkol @ RM7.90 but when you decide to choose curry chicken over ikan tongkol @ RM10.90, then it is a little pricey as the piece of chicken is kind of small. And if you are like me whom like to order air suam (to save on calories :P), they charge at RM1 per glass.

 

Nevertheless, if you want a good Nasi Dagang Kelantan, head over to this restaurant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bear Paw @ Kota Kemuning

 

BEAR PAW, the new craze in town or will it able to pick up? Anyway, foresee it will stay at least for few years ( also depend on the creativity of the menu I guess). Made into the shape of a paw, need no genius to guess where the name came from. Anyway, it is refreshing to have from your typical burgers from fast food joint or the road side burger Ramly. Anyhow, me and my buddy enjoy the meal and definitely will go for 2nd round.

 

Anyway, there is a few outlet available and I had mine in Kota Kemuning .