delicious, Bangsar, KL

delicious is a fusion restaurant popular with young trendy upper middle class people in Bangsar, KL. The restaurant is located in the Bangsar Village II, right in the smack in the Telawi area of Bangsar amids pubs and disco full with young party-goers in the evening. It opens daily until 1 am. The restaurant has a website at :- http://www.delicious.com.my/main.htm

The restaurant has that "chic" and "cool" feel, where mostly young and trendy people eat and socialize. At one side of the restaurant, there a lots of bird cages that has been made into lamp shades hung on tree branches at ceiling level.

At the other side, there is a huge dining area. The restaurant is usually crowded with people during lunch time. It is a popular place for young professionals working in Bangsar area.

I have been to delicious a couple of time. Last sunday evening, I happened to be in Bangsar at around 11pm after dinner. With nothing much to do, me and my friend dropped by for some snack and desserts.

Delicious has a good array of cakes and pies. Nice to look at and nice to eat too.



Cheesecakes too! Mango cheesecake and strawberry cheesecake!

Flourless orange cake with pure cream! Flourless? Aren't all cakes made of flour?

Peach frangipane with vanilla ice cream and marmalade bread & butter pudding.

I ordered flourless orange cake with pure cream and a mug of black coffee.

The orange cake tasted like an ordinary orange cake but I felt cheated though. The orange cake is made of flour.

My friend ordered a peach frangipane with vanilla icecream and honey mint tea. The tea came with a small pot of honey. Good for the throat I guess.

Besides desserts and western dishes, the restaurant offers interesting oriental dishes too. One of the dish I have eaten here before was and interesting dish called Braised Duck with Laichee. In addition, their Thai green curry and sambal udang are not too bad too.

The pomelo and cherry tomato salad wrapped in banana leave was interesting. The Thai green chicken curry looked good but tasted only average. Why is there a need to use banana leave if the food is served on a plate?

Sambal udang served on a banana flower petal was interesting. Good presentation! Nowadays, you eat with your eye too! Serunding on top of white rice was also interesting idea too.

To be fair, the dishes in this restaurant looks great but the taste I would said is just slightly above average.

Taiwan House, Ampang Point, KL

I must have missed Taiwanese food so much that I went into this Taiwan House restaurant in Ampang Point barely one week after returning from Taiwan. Actually, to be frank, it was just coincidental. I just happened to be in Ampang Point and I got hungry after shopping for some new pants and shirts. This shop in Ampang Point is always full with people. Business is good compared with the Korean noodle shop next door.

I ordered the beef noodle that Taiwan is well-known as a yard stick of comparison. Well! The noodle was quite OK, but not so much meat as in Taiwan. The noodle in Taiwan were handmade and white in colour without alkaline treatment. The noodle here is yellow with alkaline treatment.

My friend ordered a bowl of fish ball tang hoon soup. Tang hoon is extremely low in calories. Ideal for people who are conscious of their figure.

We ordered some stuffed fish ball as well. Stuffed fish ball is actually a Hock Chew (Fuzhou) delicacy. The fish balls are stuffed with either minced meat or prawn. Taiwan is well-known for its stuffed fish balls as well, also a Hock Chew tradition. I do not really like stuffed fish ball. The meat in the centre spoils the crunchiness of the fish balls. Neither does the minced meat or prawn taste exceptionally good. In this case, the fish balls were garnished with fried garlic and spring onion! The garlic smell was too strong for such a mild tasting food.

The spring onion pancake was something interesting. No egg inside, just plain flour pancake with spring onion and oil. 2 pieces was good enough for me.

Drink is just simple cola. Overall, the food in the Taiwan House joint is just average. It really make me ponder why their business is so good. As Kok Mun often like to put it, "It must be their fortune!"

Hot Star Chicken Chop, Shilin Night Market, Taipei

This was the item that Kok Mun asked me to try out on his behalf on my trip to Taipei. He was not able to tried it on his trip earlier this year because of the long queue. People waited for half an hour just to buy this chicken chop.

I have been warned not to go to Shilin night market in weekend.So, I went there on thursday evening. Even that, we were lucky to join the queue with only 5 persons in front of me before a large group of mainland Chinese tourists suddenly made the queue 50 meter long.

The queue was long because the store insists on cooking the chicken chop upon receiving your order and serving you the chicken chop sizzling hot. For 50 Taiwanese dollar (equivalent to about RM5 or S$2.20), this big piece of chicken chop really worth your money.

The chicken chop is fried and flavoured with pepper salt. Unlike chicken chop here, which is essentially a big piece of chicken thigh, the entire piece of Hot Star chicken chio is made of chicken breast meat. It tastes good, but I would say not exceptional to the extent that worth half an hour wait.

On a cold and windy winter evening, a piece of hot chicken chop like this certainly warmed me up. As for drink, I wanted to try out the famous Taiwanese jade white bitter gourd juice.

The jade white bitter gourd juice tasted a little bitter, but left your mouth with a tinge of bitter sweet after taste.

On my visit to Tamshui Fishermen Wharf on Saturday, I found out that Hot Star chicken chop is sold there too. There was no long queue there. I was issued a number upon payment. When the chicken chop was ready, they called out the number and I collected the chicken chop sizzling hot from them.

Perhaps due to the cold and windy weather, there weren't many people in Tamshui Fishermen Wharf on that day. Most of the visitors were Malaysian tourists. I was told that this place is crowded with people in summer.

Restoran Cozy Corner

Remember those western restaurants in Malaysia around the 80s? We were less sophisticated then and western restaurants came with localized flavour both in their menu and decor. In those days, you could find such western restaurants in places like Malayan Railway stations, Padang Kelab Ipoh, Federal Hotel, Majestic Hotel, Puduraya, etc.

For those who are nostalgic of those western restaurants then, I would definitely recommend this restaurant called Restoran Cozy Corner in Ampang Park, Kuala Lumpur. You could definitely find those atmosphere. The best thing is that even the majority of clients seem to be retired government servants of that era.

One look at the picture of the menu at the shop front, you will know that this is a western restaurant ala Malaysia.

As I said, the decor, the staff uniform and even the clientele, all reminiscent of that era.

As a starter, we ordered Escargot Bourguignon. It was creamy garlic and the meat of the snails all came off the shell, there was absolutely no need to use the escargot tong and fork. The garlic was a little bit bitter though. I think Victoria Station has better Escargot Bourguignon.

The soup we ordered were wonderful. Both the minestrone and oxtail soup tasted good. Of couse, it came with bread and butter.

I wanted to order sour sop drink but the waitress who dressed in men's suit told me that they have no more sour sop, but they have soup sop de guava. I ordered that instead and I was surprised by its clear and cool taste. The pineaple juice was good too.

Our main dish was Hainanese chicken chop. This dish is really localized western. It tasted good too. As usual, I did not eat french fries that comes with such dishes. The only french fries I eat is fast food french fries from McDonald or Burger King and it must be hot from the frying pan.

To finish off, we ordered Creped Suzeetta ala Mode. The waiter came and fire up the liquor in front of us. Wonderful! the pancake was soaked in orange tangy syrup and eaten with vanilla ice-cream.

Besides orientalized western food like steak, chicken chop, fish and chips, etc, this restaurant serves local delight like fried kway teow, mee goreng, nasi goreng, etc too. If you are nostalgic of Malaysian style western restaurant of those days in the 80s, Restoran Cozy Corner is a good place to go to.