Went to this outdoor eating place in Puchong, with tables spread out all around and even into the parking spaces across the street. Don't think this is actually legal, but hey if no one's looking...
Had two types of noodles - the dark, saucy Hokkien style and the lighter, egg chiffon Cantonese style. And three types of satays (meat skewers cooked over a charcoal bbq) - chicken, beef and goat. Loved the goat satay - the flavour of the goat went really well with the spicy peanut sauce and 'ketupat' (glutinous rice cakes).
Back to the parents' place...and there were durians waiting! YUM. I LOVE DURIANS. Mum said that we were lucky as the season has just started. Yummy yummy yummy. It's an acquired taste (and smell!), even for those who have grown up with the fruit. Well, I guess not like every Aussie loves Vegemite either.
Today we went to 1 Utama, a shopping centre near my folks' place. Had lunch at a cafe called Little Cravings, and ordered a nasi lemak and nasi kunyit with chicken curry. Nasi lemak is a classic Malaysian dish traditionally eaten for breakfast. You can have the 'fancy' version, with meat - usually chicken or beef curry - or just the basic version, which usually comes with sambal (chilli shrimp paste), crunchy fried anchovies, roasted peanuts and a boiled egg. Sometimes it also comes with pickled veggies, called achar. Ours came with a dry chicken curry, which was pretty good. It had the right amount of spiciness and wasn't too dry.
The main ingredients in nasi kunyit is turmeric, coconut milk and pandan leaves (thank you, interwebs!). The turmeric gives the rice its lovely yellow colour, while the coconut milk and pandan leaves lend the dish a rich, yummy fragrance. Glutinous rice is used, which adds to the 'richness' i.e. you can't eat too much or else you'll start feeling a little ill. It came with a gorgeous looking yellow chicken curry, with lots of sauce to drizzle over the rice. I liked the dish well enough, my only complaints were that there wasn't too much meat on the chicken and the dish overall wasn't hot enough (in temperature, not spiciness).
We spent much of the day walking around the shopping mall, which has become quite massive over the years, like Chadstone. The exchange rate is pretty good at the moment - one Australian dollar buys about RM2.90. Food here is really cheap, so it goes a long way. For example, our lunch for three cost about RM32, which is like about 11 bucks!
Went to Topshop, but couldn't really find anything I liked. Jam bought jeans for A$45, and a pair of red Adidas runners for like A$90. I got a book from MPH - Magyk, the first in the Septimus Heap series - for A$7! Bargain. I've been getting into young adult sci-fi/fantasy these days, there are a some brilliant ones around. Although I still haven't jumped onto the Twilight bandwagon...not quite sure if I'll do that. Yet. I'm kinda still skeptical about all the (over)hype. I've got my eye on another series, The Lightning Thief series by Rick Riordan, so would probably check that out first. Have a feeling that I'll be carting a box of books back to Melbourne!
Got my skincare fix at Shu Uemura - bought the cleansing oil and Nobara foundation for RM400/A$137, which entitled me to a seven-piece gift set plus free mini-facial. Yayy - loot AND face pampering :)
Started feeling peckish and stopped by this place called I Love Yoo!
I am serious.
The cafe has a pretty small menu, centred around congee and its accompaniments - usually deep fried chinese doughnuts and other assorted fried cake-y things - as well as soybean milk and tofu desserts, and coffee.
We got some congee with chinese donut and a tofu dessert:
I'll put another post up about dinner. Needless to say we ate too much.
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