Friday, September 16, 2011

Ijok Beggar Chicken @ New Beggar's Delicious Restaurant

Location: Located on your left hand side if travelling from Sungai Buloh towards the direction of Kuala Selangor. The restaurant situated next to the palm oil estate.
Coordinate: N03°18.412′ E101°25.148′
Contact: +603-3279 1936 or +6019-317 3687
Opening Hours: Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday and Public Holiday 5pm. It is recommended to book in advance.

We came here before, but this round it was with my brother-in-law's family. Before we came here, we already book in advance the meal. The owner has make the life simple, as they has a menu set for us to choose from. It was 9-meal course that we ordered. So it would be good that could bring 10 adults (I mean those really can fill up their stomach) to enjoy the food here.

1. The signature Beggar's Chicken
Firstly we were served with the famous beggar's chicken. It came out hot from the "oven" as shown in the picture above. It was wrapped in foil pouch, outer layer with clay and put into the "oven" until it is cooked. This is done to other's beggar's delight as well. The chicken was stuffed with chinese herbs. It tasted delicious especially the gravy made up of the chicken juices and the chinese herbs.

2. Glutinous Rice or Loh Mai Fan
Another dish that we like. It is made up of salted egg yolks, dried shrimps, mushroom and pork. It was one of the best that we have tasted before, tender and soft. However, can't take much of it as we still need to reserve our 'tank' for other dishes.

3. Beggar's Pork Knuckles
A bit high cholesterol as more fat than meat. The meat is served together with yam. The meat easily came off from the bone, and the meat was tender. Everyone just enjoy this, and just remind ourselves that it's ok to indulge the food once in a while.

4. Beggar's Duck
The last of beggar's delight served on the table, the beggar's duck. The food was prepared the same way like beggar's chicken. The duck was stuffed with chinese herb. Not sure how they prepared the dish, but again the duck's meat was tender and melt-in-your-mouth type. A bit different from the roasted duck easily found in the city. However, the gravy is not as nice as the beggar's chicken.

5. Vegetable
After the 'heavy' dishes, we were served with vegetable. Though nothing special for this, but we do appreciate it. At least we were taking some healthy food after all the fat and oily stuff.

6. Pork Stomach Soup with Pepper
For this soup, just beware of the spicy taste due to the heavy presence of pepper. Get ready with some tea or water, just in case. My younger cousin brother just couldn't finish his portion. For us, it's ok and we quite like it. However, we couldn't drink too much of it. Depends on individual to judge whether this is delicious or not.

7. Steamed Fish
Not sure what fish is being served, but definitely not the highlight for us. Luckily for us, we just equally divided the fish. This to ensure we didn't waste the food.

8. Marmite Prawn
The prawn was fried, covered with sticky sweet sauce. Everyone just enjoy this dish. Luckily the dish is not as heavy as the previous one. Again, we just divide the prawn to everyone and quickly the plate became empty. By then, everyone started getting full.

9. Fried Kam Heong Crab
Last dish of the day. Not everyone like to get their hand dirty especially eating crab, and I was one of them. However, at the end I guess I consumed the most of it. It was delicious, prepared in kam heong and curry leaves make it tastier. By then, most of us couldn't take anymore.

We were not able to order one of their signature dishes, "stuffed fish" or boneless fish. The fish meat is taken out to make as fish paste. We tried out this during our previous visit, but not this time. It's a bit unfortunate that my grandma couldn't follow us for this makan trip, as she needed to attend a wedding dinner. Might planning to come here again to try out the fish paste and other dishes that we didn't order for today.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Wild Flower in Western Australia

There are many wild flowers' photos we have captured. And it is known it will be the blossom season after the winter period, so we consider ourselves lucky to be able to enjoy some of it. Furthermore, the trip coincide with the Wildflower Festival at Kings Park in Perth. We just don't know the name of the flowers, but captivated with the colorful species it has. Most of the photos here were captured by Serene, if not all.

Canola Flower.... sea of yellow

We came across this marvelous scenery while driving from Albany to Hyden. Out of the blue, we saw a patch of yellow color in front of us. Out of curiosity, we stopped by and discover that it was Canola Flower. It's really beautiful, the field looks like paddy field. The only different it is sea of yellow, which is very striking in color.

Why planting Canola? Its seeds are used to produce edible oil suitable for consumption by humans and livestock. The oil is also suitable for use as biodiesel.

After that, we could see lot of canola fields along the way. In fact, we also saw while on our way from Hyden back to Perth City. It's just nice view with the contrast color and the amazing weather, blue sky and sunny day. At least doesn't feel sleepy while driving, enjoying the breathtaking view along the journey.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Beautiful Sunset in Western Australia

Throughout our vacation in Perth, we did cover quite a long journey on our road journey. Most of the time we did spend more time than we should, due to the marvellous places which captured our heart. Just can't to appreciate as well as took as much photos as possible. Hence, we usually need to drive till sunset to reach our destination, especially the accomodation that we have booked.

Nevertheless, some places was so romantic to enjoy the beautiful panorama view of sunset. We even waited till the sun 'eaten' up by the sea, and then only we started to proceed with our journey. Places like Cape Naturaliste has a wonderful spot to view the sunset. It was getting darker earlier as it's winter time.

Others than that, we did stop our car at the roadside as well to enjoy the sunset in the middle of nowhere, just to view the beautiful sunset. How can one resist such a wonder of Mother Nature? Guess if we could enjoy our daily life, without worrying much of the hectic working life, it would be the best compliment with such a great scenery.

Australia always never fail to give us great memory throughout the journey. Would be great to re-visit the Western Australia if given a chance.