Brunei - Sushi Tei

Sushi Tei is located in Gadong in Brunei at the shops just in front of the Centerpoint Hotel. This is by far one of the better Japanese food I have tried in Brunei. The other great thing is that they are giving 30% on their a-la-carte menu *yippie*

I ordered the mix sashimi tei special set, at only B$9.90, you get 3 yellow fin tuna, 2 sashimi salmon, 2 abura bozu, 1 tako, 2 hotate, 2 tamago, 1 rice, 1 miso soup 1 appetizer & 1 salad!!! Talk about value for money!

Other goodies here includes their grilled seafood served in a hot plate as well as the deep fried octopus.


This is a great place with nice cozy environment and provides great value too!

Recipe - Grill Lobsters

Daniel got some lobsters from Sg Renggit in Johor and I was asked over to do a cook out. Being a newbie to lobster and since the lobster is not live, I have decided to grill them instead.

So, I got my Tefal electric grill out from the storeroom and put it to good use. The lobsters need to be cut into half from the tail up and you will need a really big and sharp knife to do the job. I recommend chinese chopper if you have them. Wash up the lobster and get it ready to grill.

I placed a small pot on the grill and melt some butter then add in chopped chilies and coriander leaves. You may add in garlic if fancy. Then brush a light layer of the melted butter on the inner lobster's flesh and put them face down on the grill. You may turn it to brush more butter as needed but I would not recommend to much or the butter taste will cover the lobsters.

Once cooked, serve the lobsters with more coriander leaves and squeeze lime juice on it just before eating.

Recipe - Simple Tom Yam

This is a really simple to do tom yam soup which can easily be made at home in a quick manner. You can take this soup on its own, go with rice or add in noodles if you fancy.

First things you need are:
1. 1-2 Bird chili (depends how spicy u can take it)
2. 1 clove of garlic
3. 1 lemon grass
4. 1 big red onion (sliced)
5. bunch of kaffir lime leaves
6. 1-2 big juicy lime (depends how sour you like it)

Crush all the above using a mortal and pestle to let out the fragrant (except for onion), then put them into a boiling stock. The stock should ideally be chicken or seafood stock, if you don't have time for stock, stock cube are ok too.

Once they above are boiling again, add in vegetables of your choice, tomato, carrots, greens are good with this. Also put in any meat or seafood of your choice.

Once the meat or seafood is cook, its ready, simple right ;)

Sg Besar - Hainan Breakfast

Found this small but nice Hainanese coffee shop in the town of Sungai Besar for breakfast. Its an old and but cozy old school style Hainan cafe. Every table greets its customers with packets of banana leaf wrapped nasi lemak and hard boiled eggs.

I was wondering if the nasi lemak will be the same the curry type in Sitiawan or Pangkor but it just the usual nasi lemak. Basically coconut milk rice with sambal on top but its still pretty good, spicy and sweet.

I ordered half boiled eggs, a piece of french toast and good old Hainan coffee. The eggs are normal but its done to perfection and you are given a cup to drink the eggs with. The toast comes out crispy served with butter and kaya, its so good that Mike & KC whom are supposed to just try 1 piece end up eating half of my toast! (>.<)

There are many other type of toast or steam bread available. A recommended place to stop for breakfast, simply love the old school Hainanese style :)

GPS: N3 40.626 E100 59.200

Pangkor - Breakfast @ Sg. Pinang Kecil

Its good to be back in Pangkor again, this is one of my favourite place to grew up as I spend many school holidays in this island... why you may ask? Mainly because I was a skinny little boy believe or not when I was a kid. So my mum sent me to my aunt in Pangkor during school holidays on a get the kid fat program. And hey, it worked, haha... good food plus a fierce aunty, who wouldn't eat? I mean, breakfast was like a few house away between 30 cents to 50 cents for a bowl of noodles, then lunch at home, another few home away for laksa and red bean for tea then dinner and follow my uncle out for supper! So you do the math!

Anyway, back to the topic, we got some of the wildgeeks to Pangkor and we actually brought along our mountain bikes. We did a crazy climb from the Golden Sands Beach up the road next to Pangkor Hill to Sg. Pinang Kecil town for breakfast. I will leave the cycling to wildgeek's website to post.

The first thing I look for is the local nasi lemak. Its a small packet of nasi lemak wrapped in banana leaf, the unique thing is that its only rice with a piece of fish and curry gravy on it. Its about 80 cents per packet but its so good, I can eat 3 easily! The prove the point, I offered it to some of the wildgeeks whom are already having their noodles, they decline at first, but after the first bite, they just kept the whole packet ;0

After some stunning nasi lemak, I got a bowl of the local noodles, its basically noodles of your choice in clear soup stock (usually from seafood) then add with toppings like roast pork (char siew) and fish cake or sometimes some seafood. A scope of sambal is then added to the soup and you just stir them up and eat. Its spicy yet the stock is still tasty at RM2.20 per bowl :D

Many other type of kiuh, yau char kuai, chee cheong fun and etc. are also available around this area for breakfast. Just wish I had more time this trip, there are just so much more to eat!

GPS: N4 13.641 E100 34.469

Pangkor - Restoran Kiah Lim

This place is located at Sg. Pinang Besar in Pangkor Island and its a good place to have your dinner in the island. Good food at reasonable price. We ordered wild boar meat cooked with salted vege, a shark curry, a crab curry, veges, seaweed soup, deep fried mantis prawn paste, 1 fried noodles and 2 fried rice.

The wild boar is ok, something different cooked with salted vege, quite nice in fact but have to be taken with rice. The shark curry is no doubt excellent, served in their thick curry style, its just like a very soft sting ray meat. Next up are the curry crabs which are flower crabs but quite meaty and nice thick curry again, yummy! The seaweed soup is simply fresh and the stock are nice and tasty with generous amount of local fishballs. Deep fried mantis prawn paste are crispy and top with a good nice sauce. I guess seafood is cheaper here than meat, the fried noodles are filled with seafood like fishball and fish cake. The fried rice was so surprisingly good that we ordered another plate after the first one, the bbq pork flavour was all over the rice even at first bite.

The bill plus tea came out to RM137 for 7 persons and for so many dishes, definitely value for money unlike certain places in the island that is slaughtering tourists!

GPS: N4 13.258 E100 34.449

Sitiawan - Restoran Ferng Wei

What else better to eat in Sitiawan but seafood and so we did. On the way to Pangkor, 8 of us stopped by Restoran Ferng Wei in Sitiawan town (just next to Nissan service) which my uncle brought me the last time I was in town.

We ordered a claypot of curry prawns, steam red snapper, deep fried squid, fried oysters in omelette, hot plate tofu and the 4 heavenly king veges. The curry is definately local style, which are a bit thick and dry with big prawns in it enough for everyone and goes great with rice. The fish is simply good because of how fresh it is, you can taste the sweetness of the flesh. The rest are ok except for the veges which is different from those in KL. They basically use brinjal, petai, 4 sides beans and lady fingers fried in a belacan chili sauce then top it with lots of fried dry anchovies. The crispy anchovies goes really good with the veges.



All the above plus rice and tea works out to about RM97.60, now that is really value for money, plus all the seafood are fresh!

GPS: N4 12.199 E100 41.927

KL - Cycling Makan Trip

It was the Raya holidays and I join wildgeeks J&J for a bike ride to Kuala Lumpur downtown from Sri Petaling. We started in Sri Petaling and cycled about 12-13km to Jalan Pasar where we stopped at Taste of Fookchow ( Coordinates: 3.13222, 101.71694) for some famous fookchow fishballs.

We arrived at about 7.45am at the Taste of Fookchow which is located at Jalan Badak in the Jalan Pasar area. It use to be situated at the main Jalan Pasar road next to the wet market and same row as the famous May King. The place only open at 8.00am but the owner was kind enough to open early for us.

Me and Joe got the fookchow fishball noodles in soup while Jack, a fookchow fella ordered the red rice wine chicken noodles. The fookchow fishball is basically fish paste filled with minced pork inside and its absolutely yummy. We actually top up another 10 fishballs because its that good. The chili sauce given with the fishball is a must have, it looks like blended green bird chilies and they are spicy!

The red rice wine noodles are fantastic too, the rice wine flavour is not too heavy and blends in very nicely with the chicken.

You can also buy the fishballs in frozen packets for take-aways to just keep and cook at home. I was actually looking forward to the fookchow pancake which they sell at this shop. Its a very crispy pancake filled with meat/vege inside, the original one have oysters inside but its hard to keep. Unfortunately, its too early and they have not start making it. So, the next time I am in the area, I am going back for some fookchow pancake, and maybe another bowl of fishballs :)

After the noodles, we cycled to Brickfields for some good teh tarik and vadai at Sapporo Curry House. Of course they had a lot more varieties of Indian food here but we can hardly fill more after all the fishballs we got greedy with.

After that, we head back to Sri Petaling through Old Klang Road. More information and photos (with gps locations) on the cycling trip is available at wildgeek's website