KK Christmas Carnival & Food Crave

Just now I went to a Christmas Carnival which is located nearby my hotel at Kota Kinabalu. This carnival is celebrated with joy and merry. This pre-christmas carnival draws very big crowd, the traffic was bad but still people is still coming.

I stumbled upon a stall - the pork burger. This stall sells only one type of burger, the pork burger. I paid RM7 for the burger. The patty is quite thick actually, probably around 170 gram or six ounces.

Really good.

KFC Malaysia Crispy Tenders Super Jimat Box

I made a daily trip to Kundasang today. I visited Desa Cattle Dairy Farm which is located at the foothill of Mount Kinabalu.

I dropped by nearest town, Ranau for taking away KFC before going through Ranau Tambunan Road.

As expected I enjoyed the Potato Bites only through-out the 130KM journey to Keningau. Honestly speaking the road condition is relatively bad. And repair works are on the way at parts of the road. Hopefully the infrastructure at Sabah can be maintained properly by related authorities continuously then.

I reached hotel and enjoyed the rest of the meal.
I purchased Crispy Tenders Super Jimat Box. It is priced at RM13.95 inclusive one soft beverage. The meal comes with One Lil' Zinger, One small Fries, One piece Chicken and of course three pieces of Crispy Tenders.

KFC Ranau is very friendly and I felt warm when I stepped inside the restaurant. Their staffs are friendly, smiling and efficient when taking order and prepare the order.

Surprisingly, there were four Crispy Tenders inside the box. What a happy day for me. :)

I able to caught a double rainbow too on my way back.

Pulut Bakar Kelantan

This is Roasted Glutinouse Rice. This cuisine is famous in Kelantan and now the popularity has gone to everywhere.

The Glutinouse Rice is normally a little bit sweet and fragrance. The softness of the rice will make you indulge so much.

Do you eat the heel of bread?

Heel of bread may look ugly you will throw it away immediately you unwrap the loaf packaging. But unlike for some people like me. I do enjoy the heel of a loaf.

Bread heel is toasted and sandwiched with pan fried egg with cucumber and tomato cuts.

How about you? Share your opinion here.

What is your favourite Roti Bakar toppings?

My Favourite Roti Bakar (Toast) toppings is a tea spoon of sugar on top of butter spread.

When I ate it, crunchy and sweet on the tongue.

How about you? Share your favourite Toast toppings.

KFC Ole Ole Rice Wrap

I had KFC Ole Ole Rice Wrap for dinner at KFC Sunway Metro. This is also because I wanted to catch more Pokemon and visit more Poke Stops for perks. I am a slow player so I am slow but steady. Hoo yeah!

Back to the KFC meal. This was not my first time eating Ole Ole Rice Wrap. I think this Rice Wrap is better than the Wasabi one.

The combo came with 15 pcs Potato Bites, one Rice Wrap and of course a choice of soft-beverage.
This meal costs RM 8.90 which I personally think the price is not bad considering there are new innovation from KFC. However I think the meal should be around RM 7.50 if it came with a regular fries.

The Potato Bites were good. They were tasty, can eat it on its own and finger lickin good.

The Rice Wrap is not bad as there was Salsa Sauce with yellow rice. The fresh vegetables can be seen but not so significant. This is because there is two pieces of Zinger strips too.

Overall, this was a good meal.

KFC Crispy Tender is back!

KFC Crispy Tenders is back again!

KFC has reintroduce Crispy Tenders' promotion. The Crispy Tenders received good feedback on last promotion 4 months ago. Restaurants were constantly out of stocks last time.

I've bought myself one set of Kombo Sensasi. Good to say the price is still the same as last time.

This RM12.50 combo meal consists of three pieces of Crispy Tenders, one piece of chicken and two mashed potatoes. Of course there is a choice of soft drink. The meal came with one Sour Cream and Onion Sauce.

The Crispy Tenders were very good to enjoy by dipping it into Sour Cream and Onion Sauce. The sauce is a bit sweet rather than sourish though.

Note that in Sabah this combo is offered with two mashed potatoes. I requested if one of it able to change to Small Fries. But this request is not doable because the promotion itself shows two mashed potatoes.

For those who don't favour mashed potato, they can get another promotion which is the 6-pcs combo where fries are served on this combo meal.

Chee Cheong Fun with YouTiao and Black Coffee

As a Malaysian, one of my favourite breakfast combination is You Tiao and Kopi-O. Sometimes with Chee Cheong Fun is great too.

What is your favourite breakfast?

Bihun Soto Ayam

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all my Muslim friends.

I went to friend's open house. They have a lot delicious dishes. One of the dishes I like the most is Bihun Soto Ayam.

In a open house, normally there will be nasi, usually Nasi Putih, Nasi Lemak, Nasi Kuning or Nasi Dagang and it will be served with curry. Say Chicken Curry, kerutuk and etc.

However my friend made thing different this year by having Bihun Soto Ayam this year.

Soto Ayam is a kind of soup where a whole chicken will be cooked in sup and eventually became broth. You will see yellow colour soup this is because Kunyit is one of the ingredient in the making.

Soto Ayam can be eaten on its own. However it can be eaten with nasi kapit, ketupat nasi and lontong. Some people like it to be eaten with french bread, don't ask me I don't know why.

For my meal, I choose Bihun, the rice vermicelli with Soto Ayam.

The traffic on my way to friend's open house. Be patience.

How I paid McDonald's by using Credit Card?

Fast food is one of the most growing food industry in Malaysia. It is affordable, delicious and tasty, and of course, convenient.

McDonald's Malaysia has introduced cashless payment a year ago if not months ago. According to my visit experience at McDonald's in Klang Valley and KLIA, they mostly accept Credit Cards and Debit Cards as alternative option for payment alongside the conventional method, Cash.

From my observation, any cashless transaction (credit and debit cards) will not require signature. This includes card transaction using Chip transaction, where you slot in your credit card into the terminal.

McDonald's currently only accept PayWave transaction by Visa. User can tap the credit card terminal by using PayWave enabled Credit Card to perform transaction without insert into the terminal.

To spot a PayWave enabled card, you can see the WiFi sign but in sleeping position printed on top of any participating Visa Card. :)

MasterCard has the same feature with Visa's PayWave, called the PayPass. MasterCard PayPass is currently not available to McDonald's patron, yet at the moment.

However, MasterCard users are able to perform the transaction by slotting in their card into the credit card terminal.

After lengthy introduction, Now it's the food time!

I got myself one combo set of McDonald's Ayam Goreng for lunch. This combo set came with a choice of soft drink and fries.

I paid this meal with a MasterCard since I wanted to try with PayPass. Found it not able to process, I opted to pay by inserting the card into the terminal. The terminal is not dispense paper slip. Therefore no signature is required.

Usually I paid with Visa PayWave at McDonald's for a few times, both Dine-In, Take Away and Drive-Thru. The paper slip will dispense if you are using this method.

I took one original and one spicy. I like both of them. The fried chickens has crispy skin but tender inside. They are freshly prepared as I ordered them, with the freshness and still warm on the inside, it was just another satisfying meal.

And there is a perk for cashless transaction users, I got myself one Frozen Coke, free-of-charge as my transaction is more than RM10.

Note that some branch has different offers for their cashless transaction, so far I have gotten myself Sundae Cone at NKVE Drive Thru and KLIA. Frozen Coke at Sunway Pyramid branch.

Sunway Lagoon view from McDonald's Sunway Pyramid.

How about your experience at McD?

Nasi Kerabu Kelantan (Khao Jam)

Today is a good weekend. My aunt and I have made Nasi Kerabu Kelantan. The rice is cooked with herbs and the preparation looks easily but a bit tedious.

The ulam-ulaman (herbs) is collected and finely chopped. These does not require any cooking. Fish was pan grilled beforehand before it was minced.

In Thai language, we call this Khao Jam. Literary the pronunciation is the same with cow-jump.

Let's go to the food, the green rice is cooked from green coloured herbs.

Finely chopped ulams spreaded on top of the rice. Put in some budu (fish sauce) and remember to mix and stir the herbs and rice.

Add budu if you want more flavourful to the rice. Last but not least the Khao Jam is best served with fish crackers!

It is also best to served with salted egg, which I had for dinner.

Roti Canai Breakfast

This morning I went to Raju Restaurant PJ. This is a famous Banana Leaf House Restaurant at Jalan Gasing, Petaling Jaya. PJ folks will come here for a good breakfast. It will be crowded after 8:30am because the people finished the Bukit Gasing trekking will usually drop by here for breakfast.

I ordered two pieces of Roti Kosong and a fried Threadfin Bream (Ikan Kerisi).
A fresh coconut drink was excellent and the flesh was amazingly good.

The price here is on high side so be mind that you are coming here for good and quality food!
Cheers!

Bak Chang

This is Bak Chang (Hokkien), in English it can be called as stuffed glutinous rice. In Mandarin it is called ZongZi (粽子).

Bak Chang or ZongZi is usually stuffed with meat, egg yolk, dried prawn and squids slices, mushroom, chestnut and for a more luxury taste, sliced abalone can be added. It must be wrapped nicely with bamboo leaves else the content will come out and it will be a failure. It is usually cooked in water for 1.5 to 2 hours.

You can eat with Bak Chang with sauce that you like. I recommend sauce that has sweetness. Wasabi is a nice combination. Sesame mayo is good too. If you know Kampung Koh Chilli Sauce I believe that will be a nice one too!

(Somehow I don't think Sambal from Hokkien Mee is nice as I ate Hokkien Mee yesterday and I tried Bak Chang with the sambal but the sambal covered the taste of Bak Chang. I guessed Hokkien Mee's sambal was too savoury.

Ikan Panggang Sambal (Sambal Pan Grilled Fish)

I would like to share yesterday's dinner here.

This was Ikan Cencaru that has been pan grilled. In bahasa we are much familiar with Ikan Panggang Sambal cili or Ikan Bakar bersambal.

I can eat the fish only with rice. The fish was very appetizing and good.

McDonald's Chicken Lazeez Foldover is back for Ramadan

The holy month for Muslim is around the corner. I would like to wish all Muslim Happy Celebrating Ramadan. Muslim will observe fasting during day time for the month.

Back to the meal, McDonald's Malaysia has reintroduced Foldover Chicken Lazeez, Foldover Beef Mashwi and a range of new dessert series. These can be viewed in the picture below as I took Drive-Thru at McDonald's Subang DT SS15.

They offered cashless transaction too at any amount for Drive-Thru.

I got myself an ala-carte Foldover Chicken Lazeez and one Bubur Cha Cha Pie.

The wrap aka the bread was very soft and the chicken patties were lightly grilled, wrapped with lettuce, tomato slices, onion slices and the onion mayonnaise.

The Bubur Cha Cha was very good too. I can taste the authentic taste of bubur cha cha and the yam itself is solid. The crispy and crunchy pie on the outer surface will make you indulge along with the bubur cha cha fillings.

What is the drawback of this promotion?
Where is the McFizz and Criss-cut Fries? I hope you do introduce this too at later date especially the Criss-cut Fries. (This offer was available on last year).