FOOD PORN: A visual delight!

About time for another trip to Malaysia! My blogs have been sporadic over the last couple of years mainly due to lifestyle changes and also laziness! During that time, I have never stopped taking pictures of food wherever I went and I will take this opportunity to post a mixture of images from previous trips to Malaysia dating back to 2009.



If you are an experienced blogger, perhaps you can advise on how I can make the process easier and quicker so that I can update more frequently. At the moment, I find the process quite laborious.... What I do now is:

1. I load each photo into photoshop to resize it (otherwise, 5mb per image will take too long to load!)

2. Then I upload them to imageshack.us

3. Then I write my blog

4. Then I click on each thumbnail of the photo I uploaded into imageshack and copy the url tag and paste it into the html code of the blog I am writing. I can only do this one at a time as imageshack does not display ALL the html tags on one page. If I can find a way of displaying all the tags on one page, it will make life a lot easier!

5. Once done, I save it and publish the blog.



So, if anyone can make this process easier, I will be able to upload more updates in the future.

Below is an Esquire Kitchen special - Kung Po Chicken. A "must have" whenever I eat there.

1-Utama branch.

A steamed pomfret at Oversea Restaurant @ Asiajaya, PJ. Fresh but quite bland as it lacked seasoning.

A Yook Woo Hin (Petaling Street - Chinatown KL) speciality - Char Siu. You won't find much better in the city.

Another Yook Woo Hin dish - Beef ho fun. Absolutely delicious! Super tender slices of beef in a rich egg sauce over a bed of smooth flat rice noodles.

The two pics below are the display shelves at Jin Xuan Hong Kong Dim Sum @ Damansara Jaya.

See my full review here.
Ji

This lovely Sang Har Meen was taken at Paramount cafe at Sungei Wang Plaza. I found out about this place from Lyrical Lemongrass' blog here.

The two pics below were taken @ Uncle Duck restaurant @ Berjaya Times Square in KL. Considering the name, the duck was decidedly average and the black bean beef ho fun was one of the worst I ever tasted!

4 dishes from Sri Suria cafe in Amcorp Mall in PJ. All looked lovely, but tasted worse than most hawker vendors. Worst of all, two out of the five of us who ate there had diarrhea the next day! Not a busy restaurant even on s Sunday, so the food must have been not too fresh.

Nasi Lemak - probably their best dish.

Fried Rice - bland but looked nice!

Chow Kuey Teow - terrible! No wok-hei .. must've been fried in a skillet!

Wonton Noodle soup - again, bland!

This was my half eaten lunch at Lumut bus station. Beef Rendang and water spinach. Cost a lot less than in KL and tasted very nice!

Cantonese Steamed Pomfret

Here is my first blog. Hope it is displayed as intended. This is a Steamed Black Pomfret dish I did the other day. Its just a simple Cantonese recipe, using ginger, garlic, spring onions, soy sauce, and hot oil poured over it before serving. I use Black Pomfret because it is half the price of its silver counterpart and is also much bigger. The fish came from Thailand and was sold frozen in a Manchester supermarket at £1.9o. The length of the fish is about 9 inches in the picture, after having its tail chopped off. I know its not the ideal fish to steam but I steamed it with loads of ginger to get rid of its "fishiness".

Normally, I would buy a fresh Sea Bass to steam, which, in my opinion, is the tastiest and meatiest white fish available in the UK. However, it was New Year's day, all the shops were closed, and we have had loads of junk food over the Christmas period and this fish just happened to be in the freezer when we wanted something healthy to eat, for a change.