Ngap Thui Meen@Pun Chun Noodle House Ara Damansara.

My SIL Hannah who stays in Ara Damansara buzzed me about this new branch of the famous ngap thui meen (duck drumstick noodle) Pun Chun from Bidor, Perak.

Why a sudden opening of so many branches in the Klang Valley?
Heard it through the grapevine......about the Bidor business ?

The plus point is we do not have to drive to Bidor to enjoy their duck drumstick noodle but will miss their creamy and dense yam pastry and the deep fried steamed fish balls.

Last weekend, I was there with my family for lunch.

Nicely located at a deep corner lot shop house-you will miss it if you do not look out for it.

Typical coffee shop styled setting with an open kitchen (full of steaming hot stainless steel steamers) at the far end of the shop.

Our orders of three bowls of duck drumstick noodle, a bowl of sweet and sour pork trotter noodle and two types of wanton plus drinks were quickly taken and was served within 15 minutes.

Parking is ample on weekends.

Duck drumstick noodle-full of light aromatic herbal flavor-drumstick was a tad wee small-noodle was springy-filled with Choy Sam, yok chut, tong kwai, wolf berries and dried longans-Rm7.30. Wanton in soup-seven pieces of soft smooth shrimp/pork filled wanton-good-Rm5.90
Deep fried! crispy and oily shrimp/pork wanton served with two types of dip i.e.chillies sauce and garlic/ginger sauce-with sliced cucumber on it's side-Rm8.40.

Total :Rm48/
Location:H-G-21, Jalan PJU 1A/3,
Taipan 2 Damansara,
Ara Damansara, Petaling Jaya.

Book Signing and Cooking Demo, Marcels in Glen Ellyn IL

At Marcels, Glen Ellyn IL

Right now, I am staying in the Chicago area. Hello Chicago, its so mild and windywe really wonder where winter disappeared, even in your city.

On March 9th, I will be at Marcels for a book signing and cooking demo, between 12 PM and 2 PM. Very much looking forward to it.

If you live around, I hope you will be able to come and say hello. Id love to meet you!

Marcels Culinary Experience
490 N. Main Street
Glen Ellyn, IL
Tel: (+1) 630 790 8500

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Chicken Rice & Steamed Soup @ Taman Kok Doh, Kuala Lumpur

I found another good chicken rice stall at Taman Kok Doh Food Court. You can not miss it pictures of chickenprominentlyposted on the stall.

This Hawker Centre must be old and its vicinity of Taman Kok mDoh, Segambut.

Super duper hot watercress soup was fabulous and I enjoyed it very much. Becareful drink slowly it might scald your mouth.I wanted solely steamed chicken but it's already too late, all the steamed birds were gone but fortunately a bit of breast meat left for me with some roast pork and blanched pak choy for my lunch.This green chilli sauce is extraordinary which went superbly well with the chicken meat.I guess the rush hour is over both the boss and lady boss were seated and taking a breather.I think the wall menu is indicating the various soups available at the stall which I intend to try whenever I have the chance.

Zheng Kee Chicken Rice
Taman Kok Doh Hawker Centre
Jalan 17/42
Taman Kok Doh, Segambut
51200 Kuala Lumpur
GPS : 3.198074,101.666177

Sundays at Sassorosso, Jalan Yap Kwan Seng

Sassorosso, a not-so-new, cute little Italian joint, is tucked in Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, a bit unassuming on the outside but lovely once you enter. The good folks here (who also run Giovino's) have a Sunday lunch deal that we finally got around to trying.

We went for the semi-buffet deal (includes appetiser & soup buffet, ala carte mains and dessert). Had a hard night prior so sadly, the booze option was wasted on us (top-up RM50++ for free flow of prosecco and wines).

Here's what we missed. If you're thirsty and you know it, clap your hands!

Buffet spread of salad...

... tortilla, pasta, clams in wine broth...

...cold cuts, grilled vegetables and fresh greens. We were well stuffed by the time we worked through this. Missing in the pic was a steaming cauldron of fresh green pea soup.

Hui's Grilled Jumbo Tiger Prawns. Jumbo awright!

My Pan Fried Sea Bass with potato crust. Truffle butter sauce was a lil' weak but not a complaint really. This was well-executed.

Mei Shean's main, Pan-seared calf-liver, was a formidable deposit of vitality, oozing juice, blood on a bed of mash. Too rich for a single sitting and half of this had to go back to the kitchen.

The sweets, (clockwise from top: Millefuille, Pannacotta and Creme Brulee) went largely under-appreciated as we simply were sated beyond negotiation.

Enjoyed our afternoon at Sassorosso, and during this time, eyed plenty of families enjoying a slow, lazy ala carte lunch. The deal does come in huge portions, with great service at RM118++ per head (without the booze but with free flow of fresh juices; RM168++ with the booze, totally recommended!)

Sassorosso Italian Restaurant & Wine Retailer

9 Lorong Yap Kwan Seng

50450 KL

Tel: +603-21166 6428

http://www.sassorosso.com.my/

multigrain apple crisps

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that we had plans to flee this so-called winter were having in New York and jet to a place where its always summer. It was dreadfully boring, by the way, all silky white sand that was cool under your bare feet, blazing aqua waters that you could walk a full city block into before you were in deeper than your waist and oh so quiet (rumor has it that they dont even let these on the island!). Blissfully, there was nothing to do but read books, stare at the horizon and not think about life for a while. The most profound conversation we had in three days was whether a spot out on the water where the color slipped from a piercing aquamarine to a deeper cerulean to was due to a change of depth, or just the cast shadow of a cloud. The shadow of a cloud. Man, times were tough.

What I forgot to mention is that we werent bringing our son with us. Lest you think Im immune to Mom Guilt au contraire, it is the very pitch to which my life is auto-tuned, the backbone, nay, doctrine of my existence, governing all decisions from Is that my son walking picki! ng up a stray cheddar bunny from the seat of a random stroller and do I really have to stop him? to whether or not I should admit that I was late to call yesterday because I was, in actuality, reading with my eyes shut for the 9th time that afternoon. Ahem, so, Mom Guilt in full swing, I decided to leave something special petite apple crisps in the fridge that he could have as a treat on the days Id be away.

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Espressolab & Ettora

From Coffee Chemistry Cafe to Coffee In Love, Antipodean to The Red Beanbag, Real & Wholesome to Artisan Roast, we've encountered cascades of enjoyable coffee in the past year, but none blew our minds until we had Espresslab's.

No food is served; roasted-bean prodigy JH Yee _ who won this year's Malaysian Barista Championship _ concentrates on brewing cups of caffeinated perfection.

If all lattes taste like this, we'd have it everyday. Deeply fragrant & flavorsome, everything from the froth down to the smooth last slurp seems unimpeachable; even the temperature is terrific. We wonder when, where else & whether we'll ever have coffee this wonderful.

Espresso & hot choc. The beverage selection is limited (no icy drinks). But note: single-origin & house-blend whole beans are offered for sale, with prices starting from RM14 per 100 grams.

TWG tea, soothingly pleasurable. Espressolab opens 9:30am-6pm (closed Sundays).

Downstairs, a cafe called Ettora (not affiliated with Espressolab) sells cookies & chocolates that can be eaten at Espressolab, which generously allows customers to bring their own food.

Gift boxes at Ettora, probably too pricey for most of us; one even exceeds RM1,000.

Melting Moments, White Chocolate Cranberry, Chocolate Chip Macadamia & Oat Almond _ mostly fresh & crisp, though we prefer our cookies creamier. Strangely, all six of these taste somewhat similar. Each cookie costs about three ringgit.

Belgian chocolates; the service team couldn't say what these flavors were. They look promising but fall short in cocoa decadence, tasting instead like supermarket-bought milk chocolate.

Fruit cakes & brownies are sometimes available. Ettora's business hours are nearly identical to Espressolab's, except it closes earlier on Saturdays.

My Espresso Lab Coffee Roaster,

D1-G4-6, Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur.

Ettora,

D1-G3-7, Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur.

East meets West at Paris Cookbook Fair

PARIS, March 7 While taste may be the No. 1 priority among diners in the Western world, flavour is secondary to a bigger concern among consumers in China: health.

And its perhaps the biggest overarching trend that the country will bring to the culinary world in the years to come, predicts Edouard Cointreau, president of the Paris Cookbook Fair.

Healthy eating is a priority in Chinese food culture, a facet that will be showcased at the Paris Cookbook Fair this week. Picture courtesy of shutterstock.com

With China the guest country of honour at this years edition of the cookbook fair, Cointreau is hoping to narrow the gap between Chinese and Western food cultures.

Despite the ubiquity of Chinese restaurants and takeout around the world, Cointreau says that there still exists a major divide between East and West.

For instance, what the Western world may know as Chinese food could be construed as bastardised fast-food fare that bears little resemblance to authentic Chinese cuisine.

Westerners were also getting an incomplete picture of Chinese cuisine, Cointreau added. Europeans, for instance, may be familiar with Cantonese and Szechuan foods, but there are six other major regional cuisines that are little known outside the country: Anhui, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong and Zhejiang cuisines.

But regardless of the regional differences, one of the biggest umbrella trends emerging out of this economic powerhouse was the focus on healthy, functional foods, Cointreau said.

In the West, the No. 1 priority is that food tastes good, he said in a phone interview with Relaxnews on the eve of the fair. In China, theyre not worried about taste, but about how good the food is for you. Taste comes in second or third. This is what the country will bring to t! he rest of the world.

Like traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese food therapy centres on a belief system that categorises foods as either hot or cold: foods with either a heat-inducing quality or chilling effect on the body. The key to good health is to maintain balance.

Have a cold? That means avoiding cold foods such as lemon, melon or cucumber. Have a hot disease such as eczema or a skin rash? Avoid hot foods such as garlic, onions and chocolate.

At the Paris Cookbook Fair, the Chinese contingent of chefs, writers, publishers and food media will take up a major portion of the trade floor, boasting the second-largest presence after France.

Thats because China was becoming a powerful force in the international arena of food publishing, be it soaring demand for home cookery books from the burgeoning middle class or from the armies of professional chefs across the country eager to master foods and techniques foreign to the Chinese culinary heritage like baking and pastries, Cointreau said.

Other emerging culinary and gastronomic interests within the country include books on wine, cooking techniques like grilling, and cuisines exotic to their own, like French.

The Paris Cookbook Fair opens in Paris today to March 11, and will be represented by 162 countries from around the world. Relaxnews

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