Nasi Kandar & Cendul

I had a food brunch at Penang Road. This late morning I was here for a good Nasi Kandar. This Nasi Kandar is one of the among well known Nasi Kandar in Penang. This is my first time trying Line Clear thou.

The queue was not there when I arrived there. Good for me doesn't need to queue for the food. But the queue built up when I left the restaurant around 12pm.

For the Nasi Kandar, I took white rice, Fried Chicken- Whole leg, one vegetable, and one Telur Dadar. And to complete my meal in this open air, non-air conditioned restaurant, one cup of Limau Ais was the best pair.

Another built up point was the gravy, I asked the guy loaded the rice with whatever gravies that they have. Semua kuah pun mau.

Afterwards it was the dessert time, I walked to nearby famous Cendul. I queued for around 5 minutes for one bowl of refreshing Teochew Cendul finished within 3 minutes.

What is your favourite dessert after a meal? What is your must eat items in Penang?

RM 10.40 - Nasi Kandar (Opens 24 hours)
RM 1.60 - Lime Juice
RM 2.90 - Cendol (12pm till close usually 5pm)

Breakfast the Nasi Lemak like King

Breakfast like a king. Yeah that's right. As a Malaysian, I am used to eating rice for breakfast.

Nasi Lemak will become the usual meal for most of Malaysian though we don't really have a standard menu of breakfast.

I had Nasi Lemak Ayam Goreng at my office cafeteria this morning. The rice is cooked with coconut milk, the red sambal bilis is served alongside with cucumber slices, roasted peanuts, fried anchovies and egg. Sambal is normally stir-fried ground chilli paste (in bahasa we call this tumis or action menumis) with spices and anchovies.

Ayam goreng (fried chicken) is the side dish in addition that I took. Normally nasi lemak can be served with various sides such as sotong telur, sambal sotong, sambal petai, sambal udang, even western combinations such as hotdogs and omelette and etc.

RM 3.50

Waited 40 minutes for Mee Sotong

I am travelling to Penang for only food hunting session. This is my first budget backpacking tour. I've been coming to Penang for a few times as business trip but this will be my first time as a tourist. My trip will be as budget as I kept my budget within RM 350 including travelling.

Today is my first day so I waited for 40 minutes at this Padang Kota Lama's Esplanade Food Court.

The queue was long and my wait is very worthy as the RM 5 Mee Sotong is quite delicious and addictive.

And of course this hot day is good to match a refreshing Buah Pala Asam Boi Juice. Ah haha. RM 5 + RM 2.60 = RM 7.60

Texas Chicken Malaysia's Fortune Chicken

It was a great night for me to have a good dinner at Texas Chicken Malaysia, Sunway Pyramid Branch. The staffs were friendly and the ambiance was good.

Earlier today I wished to eat something crunchy and flavourful. When I left my office, Texas Chicken was finally dawned on me. Yeay!

Apa lagi?(Without further-ado) I quickly head to Texas Chicken to have dinner there. I ordered one combo set of Fortune Chicken. This Fortune Chicken is the new introduced chicken by Texas Chicken Malaysia in conjuction with Chinese New Year. And this coming CNY is the year of rooster!

This Fortune Chicken Combo is priced at RM14.50 inclusive of GST. This combo comes with two pieces of Fortune Chicken, Fortune Fries, a biscuit, and free-refill soft drinks. I got a pack of angpau packets too. Angpau Packets are red envelopes where money will be given enclosed during festive seasons, such as CNY.

The staffs were friendly. The cashier told me that the Fortune Chicken choice was left with drumsticks only. However they willingly to offer to prepare two pieces chicken parts of my choice. Yes. You read it right, and two pieces only. I took one breast and another one thigh.

However, the wait for the chicken to be served took me 15 minutes doesn't disappoint me. The chickens were fully flavoured. And when eating them hot was the best. You can taste the succulent meat and its juiciness.

The awesome juicy-ness dripped out from the fried chicken.

The Fortune Fries were flavoured with hot and spicy flavour too. I think the fries was hotter than the chicken. But it was good. The chicken were flavoured carefully and it covered the whole fried chicken. I can taste the "fortune"-ness at each every bites I had.

However I think the flavour for chicken is a bit more sweeter rather than taste of chili. But both fries and fried chicken were spicy and good.

This highlighter pen was put for size comparison only.

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?