: : New Paris Restaurant ~ KL PJ: :

TV Smith : I’m going to bring you to a place that is non-halal but the food arrives within 15 minutes. Food isn’t that great but it’s the concept that is different.

Wena : A lot of people lah! Do we have to wait for long to eat?

TV Smith : Don’t worry. We queue up.

Wena : Wah! Got loud hailer some more. Haha!

TV Smith : At least they got a queue-ing system going on.

Wena : Wow! That’s a lot of chefs in the kitchen.

TV Smith : Yeah lor. At least 20 of them.

Wena : No wonder they say 15 min.

TV Smith : They used to operate from a wooden shack further down the road but recently moved here.

Wena : Hmm… people do like coconuts here, don’t they?

Head honcho with loud hailer : Person with surname *censored*!

TV Smith : Here!

Head honcho : Table no. 3. Over there.

We finally got the table after a short 5-10 min wait. Those people are efficient.

TV Smith : Know how I knew this was our table?

Wena : (Quickly looks around) Yeah hor! No table number, one. (I was really tired that day, having being through a stressful period of losing my handphone. ;p)

TV Smith : Look up.

Wena : Hahaha! No wonder. Numbers are on the ceiling.

TV Smith : Noticed that the table has a lot of plastic covering over it?

Wena : Yep.

TV Smith : That’s so that they can clear the table faster. They don’t wash the dishes until the next day.

Wena : Smart idea. How about those other tables? They have red tablecloths what.

TV Smith : Probably they don’t have a big enough plastic wrapping to go around it.

Wena : Haha!

TV Smith : So, what do you want to eat?

Wena : You order lah. But order a plate of lala. 🙂 No other shell fish though.

TV Smith : Wokay.

Note : I took the bill back but somehow lost it between KLIA and Kuching Airport. How’s that for a tendency for losing things lately? Sigh.

TV Smith : This is the signature dish for the restaurant. They steamed the fish with a sauce made from lard (pig fat!!!).

Wena : Smells good. I think I taste ginger, garlic, chilli and, of course, sugar. Really tasty.

Note : Took awhile to identify the fish. Jeff mentioned it was Tilapia which seems right as the flesh was pretty soft and tender. Granny said that it was red snapper but didn’t taste like a snapper. She also mentioned that they put some assam jawa into the sauce which would explain the slightly tangy flavour. Believe me, it was real good.

Wena : Hmmm! Tastes so good. Can’t get this back in Sarawak.

TV Smith : Then you have it lor. I’m not a real fan of it.

Note : I ate about half the plate. :p They cooked it with some curry paste, soy sauce, chilli powder and sugar. The clams were a bit small but tasted really good though.

Good ol’ kangkung belachan @ Chinese spinach cooked with the famous Malaysian butter. Pungent like hell but loved by all. It’s the prawn in the belachan lah! Luckily, the kangkung didn’t give me cramps that nite. Somehow, that old wive’s tale always work for me. Darn.

Wena : Is that kiam chai @ salted veggie in there with the pork?

TV Smith : Nope, it’s something else.

Note : At this point of time, my brain memory cells started depleting rapidly, hence forgot what was the name of the veggie. It’s some sort of preserved veggie. So paiseh (bothersome) to call him up to ask lah. Anyone know what the veggie is? The dish brought to mind memories of my Auntie Joan’s cooking. The dish that she cooked were layers of stewed pork with layers of yam pieces. Scrumptious!

Update : From chooki and others in the comment page, the dish name is mui choi kau yok. And, actually another signature dish of the restaurant.

Address Details :

New Paris Restaurant Sdn. Bhd.

No. 62, 63, 66, Jalan SS2/72

47300 Petaling Jaya

Selangor.

Tel : 03-7955 9180 / 0186

Business Hours :

11.30 a.m. – 2.30 p.m.

5:30 p.m. – 10.30 p.m.

After that, we met up with Jeff Ooi of Screenshots fame. Dinesh couldn’t make it and neither could Shahrizal. Over beer mugs and glasses of green tea and Chivas (TV Smith: tastes weird lah!), we talk about many things under the sun moon at Bangsar. Had a great time with those two where everyone was mutual admirers of each others’ blog. 🙂 Suffice to say that they think that my Granny is spunky and cool. 🙂

TV Smith : Where did you get the money to eat all those food?

Wena : Most of the postings are my lunch meals outside at coffee shops or Granny’s dinners lah. Also, a lot of unused pics which I save for rainy days.

The pictures of food and drinks are taken whenever the opportunity arises lah. I’m not loaded neither do I have a sugar daddy stashed somewhere. Besides, apart from eating at Merdeka Palace (which costs me RM38), everything else was cheap as costs were split between friends.

Ending this post with Granny’s comment :

Next time we go to KL, we ajak (invite) this fellow along lah! I wanna eat too!

: : Morning Breakfast : :

Abridged version

12:47 a.m. MSN Messenger

joyce : ello

Wena : hi joyce 🙂 how are u?

joyce : laksa! hahahaha now i want some. i was thinking of laksa for breakfast (Note : she saw the pic from the blog)

Wena : ok. No problem. What time?

joyce : 9:30 a.m. too early for you?

Wena : no worries.

joyce : i get gette.

9:40 a.m.

A sleepy looking Wena and Gette with a bright and cheery Joyce. Having a bowl of laksa each.

Wena : (finishing the bowl) Hmm… somehow when one gets to the bottom of the bowl, feeling hungry for another lah.

Joyce & Gette : LOL!

10:00 a.m.

Gette : Hmm… Now I know what you mean by that.

Wena : Ya lah!

: : Morning Breakfast : :

Abridged version

12:47 a.m. MSN Messenger

joyce : ello

Wena : hi joyce 🙂 how are u?

joyce : laksa! hahahaha now i want some. i was thinking of laksa for breakfast (Note : she saw the pic from the blog)

Wena : ok. No problem. What time?

joyce : 9:30 a.m. too early for you?

Wena : no worries.

joyce : i get gette.

9:40 a.m.

A sleepy looking Wena and Gette with a bright and cheery Joyce. Having a bowl of laksa each.

Wena : (finishing the bowl) Hmm… somehow when one gets to the bottom of the bowl, feeling hungry for another lah.

Joyce & Gette : LOL!

10:00 a.m.

Gette : Hmm… Now I know what you mean by that.

Wena : Ya lah!

: : Misc : :

My sleeping time clock has been shot to pieces since the KL trip. Arggh! Luckily, it’s a holiday tomorrow.

Few things :

IreneQ has sent me this cute gif. Hahaha! Definitely appropriate. Going to use it for the post links.

Someone (sorry! Lazy to scroll through my archives to look for the comment!) once mentioned that I should crop pieces of my pic and post it online. So, here’s my hair! Haha!

Now, off to force myself to sleep.

: : 1st day of Raya : :

9:40 a.m. At Kuching Airport

Wena : Hi Dad!

Dad : Hi! Let’s go and grab some laksa for breakfast.

Wena : Okay. Where do you want to eat it?

Dad : How about Foody Goody?

So, off we went.

Foody Goody is a hawker food center in Tabuan Laru. The laksa available there is just nice. Well, for Dad and me, that is. They do not add in so much coconut milk so tasted real good. RM3 per bowl I think. Worth every penny. Definitely cheaper than the one available at Alexis, Bangsar. RM12 per bowl there! Aiyo!

After that, we went to visit two of his bosses as well as his Mum, my other granny. Then, we started to head back to my house to see the hamsters. 🙂

1:00 p.m. Along the road through the Sarawak Museum Grounds

Dad : Hmm… got any nice place to eat ais kacang (iced drinks)?

Wena : Sure, behind us at Jalan Nenas. We can go there.

Dad : Aiyo! Pass already lah!

Wena : Never mind lah. I can turn back and we go makan (eat) there. Besides, need to go to petshop to look for bigger cage for the hamsters.

Dad : Ok! We go!

Dad ordered some sotong kangkung. Sotong is squid but it was really cuttlefish with rojak and Chinese water spinach. Pop by the Pet Shop after that but they ran out of those plastic aquarium cages that I wanted. Will have to go there again. Came home, we saw the hamsters. He took some pictures on the BenQ camera he brought along. It was one of those Point and Shot cameras. He had some questions to ask me so we look through the manual. Nifty thing.

Drop Dad at the airport in the afternoon. Later on, went to another friend’s place at Santubong. Posting pics later. 🙂 Now, that visit was an interesting visit with Granny.

My Dad. 🙂

: : Ramadhan Bazaar ~ KL Version : :

Phone conversation in my cousin’s car. Time approx. 4.00 p.m.

TV : Let’s go to the Ramadhan Bazaar at Kampung Baru. You must see it.

Wena : Sure or not? Will it wet? Raining in Ampang and KLCC just now lah.

TV : Should be okay. Where do I pick you up?

Wena : Hmm.. Bangsar Shopping Complex?

TV : Okay. At 6 p.m.

So, managed to meet up with TV Smith of DuaSen parody fame. Insisted on taking me to Kampung Baru to check out the bazaar and it was pretty colorful. It was a pretty quaint area, packed with people buying food back for Buka Puasa @ Breaking Fast (not breakfast lah!). So, two people with cameras walking around taking pictures. Loads of pictures.

Same picture of the hawker taken by TV in this Photo Essay on Ramadhan. Just that it was at a different angle. His’ was a lot better than mine. The stall owner was more than happy to pose for the photoshoot. Note that there was some coloring added into the watermelon juice. Look a bit too red for me to try it out.

The last picture : the hawker was actually holding up a bunch of veggie and posing for the camera. However, I messed up the shot so when I ask him to take it again, he chickened out and got another pal to hold up the veggie. Cheh!

Now, what is a festive season without some local snacks to munch on? I’m a junk food junkie. Having said that, I hate getting my fingers dirty so will occasionally use a pair of chopsticks to eat it. :p

Me and purple stuff. Including fruits. Private joke with many friends about the color purple. The above is a shot at the mangosteen at one of the many fruit stalls.

For lack of a better word, I’m just going to call this picture a pic of lok-lok. :p The cucur looks so tempting. I’m a sucker for cucur.

Love letters! They are thin wafer biscuits that are both sweet and extremely crunchy. I have yet to meet someone who doesn’t like kuih supit @ love letters. If you that person, you do not know what you’re missing. Unless u’re allergic to the ingredients, of course. :p

This is the mold for making the ketupat. Whole bunch of leaves were being sold at this one particular stall. The Muslim Community is now working throughout the nite, cooking massive amounts of food for tomorrow. Yep, the celebrations start tomorrow. Can’t wait to try out rendang.

Dedicated to my mother : you have one ice-cream tub full waiting for you in the freezer when you get here.

Colorful Asian drinks. Didn’t realised until today that TV also took a similar picture. Tried to look for the picture again and couldn’t find it on his site. The poor guy behind the stall was so bashful. Didn’t want to face the camera and got a lot of ribbing from his friends.

Another bashful guy. He was frying some cempedek with batter. Can you imagine someone bringing back cempedek on an airplane? Aiyo. The stink. Durian is bad enough. Should put signs up to warn people not to bring cempedek anywhere near an airplane.

Left to Right : Ketupats, belachan, chilli boh and last one I have absolutely no idea. Bit lazy to go and check out what it was. Didn’t want to hear any sales pitch from the hawker.

That was the walk through the Ramadhan Bazaar in Kampung Baru. Not a lot of foodstalls compared to the one in Kuching but definitely more variety of stuff for sale. And to think I was thinking of not going.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri to the Muslims! Am doing the round with my Dad again tomorrow morning. He’s coming in from Miri to visit a few people. I’m eyeing to eat some rendang @ dry beef curry and lemang @ glutinous rice cooked in bamboo.