Favourite things we use, eat and hang-out at
Edible Beauty
34/ Tanamera Spas
http://www.tanamera.com.my/
We’ve always been great fans of the beauty properties of a great spa recipe. Tanamera is a spa after our own heart, using Malaysian herbs and natural ingredients for their facials, body wraps using sengkuang, lemongrass, ginger, kacang hijau, pulut hitam etc.... combined with traditional Malay techniques for massaging etc... “Why spend more on foreign brands when homegrown is best! It’s affordable, very cool and my skin was as soft as a baby's butt,” sighs Li Ann our host and writer.
Favourite Addiction
35/ Mak Bee Kuah Rojak
How could something that contains shrimp paste, sugar and soy sauce taste so good? But Mak Bee's kuah rojak is out of this world! Slathered over cut jambu air, pineapples, sengkuang, ground nuts and brown sotong- it will fly you straight to food heaven.
Favourite Food Idea
36/ Jar Gifts
Gift giving becomes so much more personal and heartwarming when it is something homemade and who doesn’t like an edible gift? Suss out what each of your friends like and make them a jar gift that suits their personality.
Favourite New Hangout
37/ O Gourmet
For avid foodies this is a Mecca of quality products and ingredients. Teas like crème caramel and choco mint…meats such as rabbit and pigeon…and nuts tossed with every spice combination possible. We can cool our heels here all day drinking coffee and eating their fresh bread.
Favourite Burger
38/ Frontera Chilli Cheeseburger
The burger hysterics still haven’t died down. And why should it with the Frontera chilli cheeseburger that’s so damn good! The patty is beautifully charred on the outside and yet oozing with juices once you bite down. The chilli is savoury and spicy giving it a kick of heat and the melted cheese just tops it off perfectly.
Favorite Lunch Spot
39/ Ayam Goreng Fatmawati
Live in Indonesia for any amount of time and you’re sure to crave all the delicious local food…from soto ayam to ikan bakar and everything in between. This little lunch spot just a short walk away from the office is where we can get our Indo fix with an ayam bakar set and teh sosro.
Favorite Meal on the Go
40/ Popilla’s Tacos & Burritos
This place brought old friends together with a shared taste of their yummy and filling snack. For a quick Mexican fix and you can't get to a Mexican restaurant nearby, it's good! It's located at the Ground Floor of Ikano Power Centre across from Cold Storage Tel: 03- 7710 9095
Favourite Craving
41/ Kimchi Pancake
Its crispy and pungent and just a touch spicy. Even if you aren’t a kimchi fan you’ll adore this, as the kimchi taste is not very strong. Sometimes we drive to the nearest Korean just to have this.
Favourite Snack
42/ Izam's Mum's 40 sen Karipap
This currypuff is awesome and we had it during our Palm Oil roadshow. It’s cheap and not like some karipaps you get in Malaysia these days, macam beli telur tikam! Shake and don't be surprise kalau intinya tak ada! If you fancy ordering call 03-4147 0852 and ask for Mak Izam.
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Most unexpected discovery
43/ Milwaukee Steak Corner
Sometimes, good food appears in the weirdest places. Located slap bang between the Ferarri and Harley Davidson showroom along the Federal Highway, this steakhouse serves surprisingly good Nasi Lemak with chicken curry. We suspect the rice is a mixture of broken basmathi and long grain rice, whilst the curry is flavourfully cooked with a mild tone that suits the coconut rice. A strange place to have nasi lemak with Harleys and Ferrarris whizzing within a few feet from you.
Best Ambience
44/ Hornbill Restaurant @ the Bird Park
The outdoor verandah overlooks the Bird Park ecosystem. This means that whilst enjoying your nasi lemak, char koay teow or the other delicious local fare on offer, you can also look in amazement at the hornbills flying past your table, perching at a nearby tree and looking curiously at you as if thinking of a way to steal the food on the table.
Most Contested Food Entry
45/ Favourite Ramly Burger Stall
Yeah, it's a topic that everyone has an opinion about @ FriedChillies. We did initially put up the Worst Stall since it made us appreciate Ramly Burgers on a whole new level i.e. can't know what's good until you have the really bad. However eventually we figured it's not in the right spirit of FF50 and rightly so... this is the list of FAVOURITE things afterall. So finally after much deliberation our choice this year for a great street burger is Adi’s Burger Shop in Section 15, Subang Jaya. As for the Worst, you just have to ask those people who read this article earlier...
46/ Taste of Home
We have a few people with us this year who are not from the Peninsula. And like any good foodie, they often crave their homecooked food. Sometimes the search is endless for a good enough version in KL, sometimes they just need to cook it in our kitchen to get rid of homesickness.
Kitchen Recreation: Nasu Kaluwak Recipe
An attempt in the kitchen to cook a dish without its most important ingredient. Nasu Kaluwak was FC’s Raya Haji dish (a Bugis recipe from Ebee's mum), and since we failed to open the Kaluwak (see item 22), we had to rip off the recipe and go on without it. Still tasted pretty yummy though.
Neverending search: Sarawak Laksa
How can this beat momma’s cooking? So far some close calls like the one at Nam Chuan but no real cigars.
Foodsters’ Extra-Curricular Activities
Yeah, we do a lot of things to blow off steam... and strangely enough there's always some kind of food element. It's like we can't escape. It's like you can take a FriedChilliean out of food but you can't take the Foodster out of a FriedChilliean.
47/ Teaching kids how to frost cupcakes
This year, Aida our Chef-in-Residence has been giving cupcake icing lessons to kids. “They are so candid and funny,” she enthuses. “And so creative. I learn more from them than they from me.”
48/ Talking about food
Have you ever noticed when Malaysians overseas gather in one spot, the first thing that brings everyone together is the subject of FOOD? Wherever Msians are in the world, they will forever miss nasi lemak, CKT, laksa, satay etc. They are also damn proud of Malaysian food and will guard its reputation to death... especially when disputing with Singaporeans. Seriously, we don’t need to take a plane ride to natter about food all day…
49/ Individual Projects
Even in our free time, our extra curricular projects have some food elements to it.
James: Fried Chicken Journal
“I guess I'm a black man trapped in a Chinaman's body, my obsession with fried chicken. So might as well make some use out of it. With every fried chicken place I visit I will write about it. My Top 3 so far, Strawberry Fields, Kanna Curry House and Ehsan - Nasi lemak panas ayam goreng".
Ebee: Food Typography
“Apart from design and food and music and movies, typography fascinates me. So I think it’ll be cool to deliver ‘yummy’ words with macaronies, or create a set of spicy alphabets".
Alex: Kitchen Disasters Cookbook
“Everyone has at least a good kitchen disaster story when they are learning to cook. It's the only way you can become a good cook. So e-mail
if you have a kitchen disaster story, the more hilarious, outlandish or just plain frightening, the better".
The Pedas Challenge
50/ The Ko Phi Phi Food Challenge
Trust Foodsters to uphold national pride when abroad.
Location: A shack in an almost abandoned part of Phi Phi.
The Man: James, Videographer + Editor.
The challenger: Chinese-Thai Chef with a dangerous predilection for tongue-burning sensations.
Uncle Chef: How spicy you like your steam fish?
James: Spicy…
Uncle Chef: Mild, 50-50 or extremely spicy?
James: Extremely spicyla…
Uncle Chef (starting to cook): You sure you want EXTREMELY spicy?
James: Yeah, yeah, bring it on, I’m Malaysian mah, even my company name got chilli in it.
*Food arrives...*
Uncle Chef: So how’s the food
James (turning red): Coff! Coff! Great… no coff! Problem (takes beer) chug, chug chug, sniff… (sweating balls) sniffle, munch… munch… coff... blearch… coff...
Moral of the Story: Know your limits or suffer (might need to take some pointers from Man vs. Food)
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