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).

Nasi Kandar Bintang Maju (Nasi Ganja)

I arrived at Hussain Nasi Kandar Bintang Maju located at Manjung Raya for lunch.

It was a long queue as I arrived there a little bit late for lunch. We used to queue up for Nasi Kandar because the pak cik will assist us in picking up the food that we wanted and sambal that we preferred. I believe only he will knew the correct portion of sambal and kuah that can make the rice and gravy's proportion delicious to eat.

I chose Basmati Rice(Long Grain Rice), two type of vegetables, one piece of Ayam Merah, one hard boiled egg, and mixture of gravies (Fish Curry, Chicken Curry and Lamb curry).

The rice is soft because it was steamed. The curry gravies mixed the rice well and the ayam merah was good.

Price: RM9.50

Flavorholics Nasi Ayam by Wing Zone

I went to Wing Zone, AEON Seri Manjung as I arrived Manjung for a work trip.

I will come to this shop whenever I came Manjung or Sitiawan. :)

I ordered their time limited promotion, Flavorholics Nasi Ayam.

This meal costed RM14.90 inclusive GST>

It came with one set meal inclusive of drinks. The set meal consists of rice, stirred fried vegetables and a boneless chicken fillet.

The chicken fillet itself was good as it was grilled and has a coating of flavor which I can select as per picture below.

I chose Tokyo Dragon, as it has a mild taste of hot and spicy and at the same time you can enjoy the sweet teriyaki taste.

But I think the price is not worth what I've gotten this time. The chicken is too small and it should came with soup. This is because the aromatic rice was a bit dry.

Overall I enjoyed this!