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Ashoka Indian Restaurant
Friday, June 13, 2008

There's a new Indian restaurant in town.

'Ashoka Indian Restaurant -- the finest Northern Indian Cuisine'

So if you're tired of the same old same old few Indian restaurants available so far in KK, you might wanna head off to Asia City, Block C (facing Wisma Budaya). I admit, I'm not really good at describing how superlicious the food were, so I'd let these photos do the talking hah!

Appetizer *aargh! forgot the name to this snack... it's at the tip of my tongue. will update later*

Soda water -- wah sounded exotic to me oo... when it came, I discovered it's actually plain carbonated water! Well, it was cooling and definitely more interesting to drink than the normal plain water hehe... It has a nice fizzy taste to it.

Aaaah... Madam TweetyMutt and yours truly ordered the Tandoori Chicken set. Yep, it taste just as succulently superlicious as it look ^_^

Chicken tandoori with fluffy soft naan... the greenish sauce is mint with yogurt I think

*have to reconfirm with Mdm TweetyMutt*

The mint sauce complement the chicken and naan.

We kept asking for 2nd, 3rd 4th helping of the mint sauce hehe...

Ashoka serve only halal food and they're open from 11.00am till 11.00pm.

There's so much more menu to try; The 'Butter Chicken' (boneless chicken tikka cooked in tomato and cashew nut and rich creamy gravy and tenugreek), 'Paneer Tikka' (Tandoori home-made cheese with green peppers, onion, tomato marinated with Indian spices and grilled to the tandoor), and the 'Pina Kulada lassi' (plain yogurt beaten with pineapple juice and vanilla ice-cream)... to name but a few. Yummmmm!!

So anyone wants to belanja me makan there? *flutter2 eyelash*

Labels: food

posted @ 13.6.08, ,

Friday Night on a Leap Year!
Monday, March 03, 2008

Friends and I had a superlicious feast that unique evening on February the 29. We all went home with bulging tummy. Why? Just look at the yummies we had…

Hot & sour crab

Crab porridge (congee)

Nantung (gooey glue-like sago)

Steam fish with mango & takob-akob

Steam fish

Mango pickles

Sambal - chili + belacan

For more photos and story of what we were up to that unique evening, click HERE.

Labels: food, friends

posted @ 3.3.08, ,

Smelly snack!
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Bro said a few hungry victims almost ATE this kitty snack! Our dad kept forgetting and opening this plastic jar for a bite. Then there’s my sister Faye thinking it’s a colourful biscuit… and our cousin Chun-chun wanting something to munch.

Thank-goodness for the snack weird yucky-to-human-nose smell that caution these victims from taking a bite hahar!

Note to self: to stick some CAUTION paper on the jar’s body to warn off hungry ~~victim~~ people ;-)

Labels: food

posted @ 13.1.08, ,

Tom Yam
Saturday, January 05, 2008

Yum-yum! Big helping with prawn, fish cake and wan-tun (fish in popia wrapping).

Taste it for yourself at Restaurant Lee Wong Kee.

Location: Lintas, Jalan Kolam Phase 2, corner lot behind Unitar building.

Price: RM 12.00 (bum-mer!)

* Wan tun (only) Tom Yam is RM8.00.

Rating: 3/5 stars

My take: Served in a bigger bowl than usual. You can choose to just have prawn, or wan tun with your tom yam soup, or both at once (like I did). Very savoury, thick rich soup, oily, a little bit of milk, big prawn, lots of fish cake, crispy & tasty wan tun! I didn't really fancy the 'sambal' though it looked inviting... Overall, I would come again and order it. But it's not memorable. Plus it is much too pricey compared to other Tom Yam of equal standard hmmm...

Labels: food

posted @ 5.1.08, ,

Fresh Coconut Pudding
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Fresh coconut pudding... yum-yum! That was our (moi & four friends) breakfast-dessert today. ... (that was after several dim sums at Foo Phing and some bowls of tom yam -- my diet really going down the drain! Gotta go back and try on my 'Christmas' skirt... might have to 'alter' it a bit *yikes!*).

The pudding was cool, smooth and taste original, unlike some that taste verrrry 'flavoured'.

We had this at "Masakan Sedap Restaurant" (Delicious Cooking Restaurant -- great name eh) at Jalan Kolam Phase 2.

Know any other place that has delicious Coconut pudding?

Yes -- Where?! Lemme know ya :-)

Labels: food

posted @ 16.12.07, ,

Home-Coming of KadazanMonk: Seafood Fiesta!
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

One of the many foods Bro. C listed as “a must eat to my heart content” was seafood. So on Monday (3 Dec 2007), birthday girls Estut & Paku treated Bro. C, Aunty F and this blogger to a sumptuous-strictly-seafood dinner at Shuang Tain Restaurant in Asia City Complex (next to Anjapar Restaurant).

Look at how much we ate!

We had:
Fish Maw Soup
Soft shell crab (premature crab hehe!)
Steam prawn
Steam fish in Thai Sauce
Steam fish in Soya Sauce
Sabah Vegetables (sayur manis)
Shells aka ‘kolokizu’ (in kadazan)

Whoaaaah! 7 dishes ooo!!

The cook tried in vain to discourage Estut & Aunt F from ordering too much (to avoid wastage), but to no avail.

There were at least three waiters & waitress hovering nearby (probably to smirk at us if we couldn’t finish the foods). But clean up all the dishes we did! Huyoooooh!!

How much did it cost? For 7 courses, with the usual nuts and papaya pickles as appetizer and Chinese tea for drinks… came up to RM311.30.

Verdict: Each dish was tasty! You get your money worth. We were verrrry satisfied customer. But we had to borrow the eatery trolley… to support and push our bulging and HEAVY stomach!

Labels: family, food

posted @ 5.12.07, ,

Home-Coming of KadazanMonk: Arrival...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

KadazanMonk’s--aka Bro. Columba--flight was delayed due to some luggage-transfer matter. His flight finally touched down at KKIA (Kota Kinabalu International Airport) at 00:25 on Saturday. Aunt Fillise (Aunty F) and yours truly arrived in good time to fetch and whisked him off to Aunty F’s casa in Damai.

The last time he came back home was 2 years back, so Bro. C was desperate for some local dishes. Aunty F rose to the occasion and prepared cuttlefish soup with ‘takob-akob’ and fried fish in soya sauce. Sounds like verrrry simple dishes to me, but it might as well have been a 7 Stars hotel’s serving to Bro. C.

Simple midnight snack... One VERY satisfied customer! :-)

Next project… the transformation… peel 10 years off him!

Before and After ... his head looked 10 years younger right?

While executing the ‘transformation’, we watched a French movie brought by Bro. C, which he said took France by storm! Errrr can’t remember the title now. It was a great movie. Might blog about it later.

Anyway, Santa came early to us with Bro. C distributing some small tokens from UK. Yay!! Fav part this!

Wei-Wei was thrilled and promptly put on his Halloween Costume (gift from Bro. C). A colourful Rosary. Got a bracelet of colourful-stone rosary and keychains, but I forgot to snap photo in my excitement hehe...

Next thing we know it was approaching 4.30am! With a wedding to catch at 10.00am, we forced ourselves to recline and shut our eyes.

Despite lack of sleep, we woke up at 7.00am and promptly got ready for breakfast at Emperor. We arrived for the wedding at 9.45am in good time, and stayed on through the reception till 3.00pm. We were close to nodding off and kissing the floor. Better make a move.

Aunty F and Bro. C dressed to the nine for the wedding. In colour-coordinated costume, they looked more like a husband&wife than as siblings haha!

At night, close relatives came to my family house to welcome Bro. C home.

Our house was filled with choirs of juicy gossips, incessant chats and uproarious laughter! The party only broke around 2.00am on Sunday … ZzzzZZZzzz…

Tiger prawn soup with takob-akob! Yum-yum! No restaurant can match this specialty dish by SG aka Aunty Viola :-) This was my fav dish that night. I know cholestrol... BUT...

I probably gained 2kg from Saturday eatings alone… *sigggghhh*

Labels: family, food, KadazanMonk

posted @ 2.12.07, ,

'Hinompuka'
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

I realised last night that I've not eaten a 'Hinompuka' for a long time. I went to a rosary session (October being a rosary month) at my aunt's, and 'Hinompuka' was one of the dessert served :)

Tapau-ed (take away) some for breakfast and to share with my food-loving colleagues hehe...

To this page's visitors who have never heard of 'Hinompuka' (sound rather like a Japanese word right), well 'Hinompuka' is a declicious-gooey Kadazan cake made of glutinous rice wrapped in banana leave. To give it flavour variety, one can choose to add either banana or sweet potato into the main ingredient. My personal fav is Banana-Hinompuka!

Below is a photo of the Hinompuka I had for breakfast earlier today hehehe... kept me going till lunch time.