Umai Cafe | Putrajaya

Eating Place| Putrajaya | Local Malaysian Foods


20 FEB 2002 - Important Date for me!
 
20 Feb - This is important date of my life, it our anniversary date me and my wife. Year 2014 will be our 12th Anniversary together and hope it will bring more "berkat", "rahmat" to our family and more happiness and love between us. :)

Normally, for our anniversary we will go for vacation with the kids or without. Last year we went spend our time at Dungun Terengannu - Tanjung Jara Resort to celebrate our anniversary. And this year, we have decided not to go anywhere, but we took 2 days leave Thursday and Friday to spend our time doing healthy activities and eat some good foods that my wife wanted to eat! :)

Healthy activities = We did "RunWalk" for 15km around Putrajaya and had pit stop for breakfast at Umai Cafe, one of our favorite local cafe at Putrajaya. We've been here quite number of times since it so close to our house. And sometime we or my wife joined the cycling group in Putrajaya and we always had our breakfast here at Umai Cafe.

Umai Cafe serve local Malaysian foods, from breakfast, lunch or dinner. What the best about this restaurant? Of course the foods and most important is the location of the Cafe. It right beside the lake with the nice scenery!

Umai Cafe View - Outdoor Seating

The Cafe open start from 9AM morning until 11 PM

Location is at Putrajaya near Monument.

For more details of the location you can visit their blog

UMAI CAFE BLOG

So cut the long story short, after our "Anniversary Activity" - RunWalk, we stop by here for breakfast :D. We had mee curry, mee goreng basah, famous cucur udang (highly recommended) with drinks limau laychee. It was simple and tasty, it complete our morning activities after runwalk perfectly!

I like the curry mee there beside Berjaya Restaurant, because the gravy is thick and perfectly CURRY!!

 

  

Curry Mee - Zoom in Hope can see the thickness of the Curry Mee

Also, if you guys go there, don't forget to try their Cucur Udang. We always order their cucur udang whenever we pay a visit to eat there :)

 Forgot to take my drink picture, the Limau Laychee...very sedap!! you should try it.

To be continue, there are a lot other post that related to our Anniversary celebration that I will post into this blog especially on the eating place that we have been during our 12th Anniversary Celebration.

 

 

Aunty Aini's Garden Cafe | Nilai | Negeri Sembilan

Eating Places | Nilai Negeri Sembilan| Golf | Aunty Aini's | Masak Lemak | Best Foods


Nilai Springs Golf & Country Club, Yes that was my destination last Friday. To do what? Hmm what else, Golfing with my friends. Nilai Springs is one of my favorite place to play golf with friends, I even play golf with my wife here sometime. Why I said is my favorite place is because, Nilai Spring has quite good and relaxing course with the reasonable price, and good facilities as well. On the other hand why I like to play at Nilai is because, after you had good golf game, take a shower, bath, clean up and refreshing your body, once you done with that, what else time to have GOOD LUNCH!!

But wait, the catch here, the good lunch place I'm referring to was not located at Nilai Springs itself, it located nearby about 10 minutes driving from Nilai Spring Golf & Country Club.

The place that I was referring to was located at the "kampung" area, the restaurant called, "Aunty Aini's Garden Cafe". How to go there? Well, kinda hard to explain but I've save the GPS Coordinate on my last visit on Friday for your convenience.(See below on my last picture)

I've been to this place for so many times with families and friends. And now since I have my own blog for foods, definitely I will include this entry.

What is so great about this place? Firstly of course about the foods. Secondly the atmosphere and the restaurant setup - Garden Style!

What do they serve? They have local Malaysian and Western cuisines. My advice, go with local Malaysia cuisines. Their specialty is Local Malaysian Cuisine especially Negeri Sembilan Cuisine - "Masak Lemak Cili Padi or Masak Lemak Gulai Tempoyak".

Technically, I've tried all their local cuisine and I would highly recommend - ALL ARE GOOD TASTE! (provided if you like Negeri Sembilan Cook Style).

The Entrance

They Have Western, Menu List Below is my favorite

This what me and my friends order.

Daging Salai Masak Lemak Cili Padi

Udang Galah Masak Sambal Tumis Petai

Ayam Kampung Goreng (not in picture)

Sambal Belacan and Ulam

On my visit this time I didn't order Gulai Lemak Tempoyak and Asam Pedas, but, all in the menu in my picture above you can order from, no regrets.

Garden Style Environment Restaurant.

Another things, once you done ate all your foods, don't forget to their dessert, simple and nice to wash out your mouth. It called "Tapai with Vanilla Ice Cream". Super delicious we love it very much and will not end out meals without this! :)

Notice the lady in Red shirt - short hair. 

She is the owner of the Restaurant. Very friendly.

Found this video on YouTube about the restaurant and the interview with the owner.
CLICK HERE TO YOUTUBE LINK

And found this as well, If you know Gordon Ramsay (I bet you all know him :D ) from the MasterChef US, he himself been to this restaurant.
CLICK HERE TO YOUTUBE LINK - Gordon Ramsay@Aunty Aini's

Location : Aunty Aini's Garden Cafe - Nilai Negeri Sembilan

Address : Batu 16, Jalan Sepang (Kampung Chelet), 71800 Nilai, Negeri Sembilan

Phone : +606-799 1276

GPS Coordinate : N 2 47.84 , E 101 46.34
Google Map : CLICK HERE

Highly recommend for Negeri Sembilan Foods Lover!

Restaurant Murni Bukit Jalil | Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Eating Place | Kuala Lumpur | Bukit Jalil | Restoran Murni

Weekend sometime is always the time to eat outside with family or friends. Plus, weather today quite hot outside, few days Kuala Lumpur was without rain. So basically it was hot and humid + you will pretty much feel thirsty and want to a sip of cold drinks.

My BlackBerry rang, pick up, then heard a very husky voice at the end of the line. Oh it was my friend, asked me to have a drink..I said where? He told me lets meet up at Murni bukit Jalil and he will call the other friend of us who are staying at Bukit Jalil to join us.

So to cut the story short, I never been to Restaurant Murni Bukit Jalil before, so this is my first time. Heard about Restaurant Murni SS2 was quite good, big portion, creative menu, fusion etc. So this is the time for me to give it a try at Restaurant Murni Bukit Jalil.

Hell yeah!! The menu very much variety and the name of the dishes it was something cool? Not sure..hahah, I had "Nasi Goreang Meletop with Chicken Chop". It quite tasty but very HOT! That is why they call it MELETOP = HOT, and the Chicken Chop is quite regular taste nothing to WOW.

But what interesting was the combination of the menu and drinks. I really can't suggest which one to order, but I suggest you guy go there and try it yourself. A lot you can choose from, but I heard the "Mee Raja" is quite good, haven't try that, next round I will.

Below what I had, Nasi Goreng Meletop with Chicken Chop. The best part is you actually can customize your menu. Like mine, is only Nasi Goreng Meletop (Super Pedas), but I asked to add on Chicken Chop to come with it.

The Menu of Nasik Goreng

( I forgot to took picture, this I pick up from the internet menu picture)

Overall, I like this place because the portion is BIG and the price was reasonable. The taste was OK. And the other things, they have a lot of drinks you can choose from.

So this place I would recommend if you like to hang out with your friends or even you can bring your whole family to eat they food while have a good time there with a very reasonable price. 

Restaurant Murni Bukit Jalil Address (I didn't save the address or GPS, below I took from Internet for your convenience)

https://foursquare.com/v/restoran-murni-bukit-jalil/4f71b839e4b099f56e2554ed

Restoran Murni Bukit Jalil

Malaysian Restaurant, Chinese Restaurant, and Steakhouse

41, Jalan 16/155C, 57000 Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur

GPS : 3.059825442161671,101.66782071752863

 

Chawan Cafe | Bangsar Kuala Lumpur

Eating Place | Chawan Cafe | Local Coffee | Breakfast | Makan


Last week on Thursday, I had to go out early in the morning with my wife and kids heading to Pantai Hospital for my younger son appointment. However, due to Chinese New Year holiday we reached there quite early. So what else, while waiting for the doctor to open his clinic, we round at Bangsar to have some breakfast.

So we end up stop at Chawan Cafe at Bangsar, near by Bangsar Village. I've been here few time with family and friends. They do serve breakfast as early 8AM, as well as Lunch and Dinner.

The breakfast at Chawan Cafe to me seem normal, where you can get else where quite the same. But what I like about this Cafe is their selection of Coffee. They have several type of coffee representing some town in Malaysia.Like Coffee Kulim, Kopi Batu Pahat, Kopi Tenom and some others local Malaysian Coffee.

I think if you coffee lover, and would love to try variety of Local Malaysian Coffee. You can stop by this Cafe to try out the coffee. It located just opposite Bangsar Village.

 Location : Chawan Bangsar (Near Bangsar Village)

GPS : N 3 7.80 , E 101 40.27

This what I had that day for breakfast. Local Tenom Coffee, roti bakar and half boiled eggs. The Coffee was great. 

The food here was OK to me, and they serve most of it local Malaysian cuisine. So if you would like to try local Malaysian foods and Local Malaysian Coffee, this will be great place to go with family, friends.



 

Nasi Lemak Cyberjaya | Selangor

Eating Place | Cyberjaya | Selangor | Best Nasi Lemak | Local Malaysia Foods


Alright, actually I'm on diet now, controlling my eating habit. Sure or not, well..hell YES!! Putting on weight recently and my wife been teasing me that I'm getting round.
So I'm trying to limit my foods intake, and recently started eating healthy foods..for example, I've brought lunch box - mix salad.

But today!! I've decided to Breakfast like a KING, lunch like a PRINCES and dinner like a beggar. So technically, when I driving to office this morning, I've stop at my favorite place to eat "Nasik Lemak". And I promise you, no lunch for me today and will plan to have salad as my dinner.

So anyway, back to Nasi Lemak. Near my office in Cyberjaya, a lot of places sell Nasi Lemak in the morning, including Mamak Stall. But my favorite always Nasi Lemak at Bus Terminal Cyberjaya.

A lot of stall at Bus Terminal Cyberjaya open in morning and serve breakfast. You can find so many type of local Malaysia foods including Nasi Lemak.

Nasi Lemak is a fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk and "pandan" leaf commonly found in Malaysia, where it is considered the national dish. For locals we well aware about this "poisonous" dish (like it so much for most Malaysian), but for foreigner you must try this Nasi Lemak.  

Basic Nasi Lemak serve with Sambal  & Ikan Bilis, but sometime you can add other stuff and eat it together.

My Fav is : Nasik Lemak with Sambal Sotong, Kerang and Paru as you can see below. I just ate it this morning.

I love to eat Nasi Lemak at this place because, the rice is so nicely cook and they have a lot of variety for you to choose and eat with your Nasi Lemak. I recommend this stall, it located at Cyberjaya Bus Terminal - Stall No : "O". Beside Nasi Lemak they sell Roti Canai as well...very nice malay chap, I think the owner always smiling when talking to you and friendly.

So if you come to have breakfast at Cyberjaya and wanted to try local breakfast with local environment, try to go to this place at Bus Terminal Cyberjaya. You just can ask around if you are not sure where, because most people at Cyberjaya will know the place..just ask them, "Where is Cyberjaya Bus Terminal"

 

Siem Reap | Cambodia

Siem Reap Cambodia | Eating Place | Foods | Local Cuisine | 

My Welcome Note: Click Here 



 Let's go straight to the point, where to eat? I've been to Siem Reap back in 2012 to celebrate my wife birthday there, while visiting the ancient places at Siem Reap. Some of people not sure where to eat and where to find good foods at Siem Reap, but we did explored few places and tried nice tasty.

First I would recommend if you want to taste good foods of Khamer, try this place called.. "The Touich Restaurant". We had grilled tiger prawn and red snapper. Nice!! Highly recommend if you try red snapper, i think one of their specialty there.You would expected to pay between USD 2 to USD 18. I think its quite reasonable.

You can visit my review about Touich Restaurant at TripAdvisor - Click Here, and others review about the restaurant. The restaurant rank# 5 in TripAdvisor out of 396 restaurants around siem reap been reviewed in TripAdvisor.

Last but not least, don't forget to try their Khmer Dessert which I found quite unique and truly local Siem Reap style.

Khmer Desert

Beside The Touich, we also been to "Sugar Palm Restaurant". Heard they have a good A Mok Fish, we went there and ate, A Mok Fish, Mango Salad with smoked fish, and vege fried rice. The taste is so-so, and i think it over-rated. Price compare to the taste i think it was not reasonable. Better if you go to The Touich. 

However, "Sugar Palm Restaurant" is nicely decorated, cozy and suitable if you want to have nice relax dinner with family or friends. You won't regrets on the restaurant look wise and foods presentation wise...but if you look for taste wise, I would not recommend to go here. Please check out my review at TripAdvisor about Sugar Palm Restaurant Siem Reap - Click Here.

A Mok Fish & Vege Fried Rice @ Sugar Palm 

Vege Mango Salad with Smoke Fish @ Sugar Palm

SIDDHARTA BOUTIQUE HOTEL SIEM REAP.

Alright, now I will stop talking about foods at Siem Reap for a while. Let's talk a little bit on where we were staying. We've stayed at boutique hotel in Siem Reap called "Siddharta Boutique Hotel". You may go to TripAdvisor to read my full review - Click Here.

Very simple hotel yet it quite nice and cozy. We love the privacy and quiteness there, when you come back after the long walk to visit temples at Siem Reap, came back tired, you just want to relax..I think this hotel quite full filled our needed.

Sometime, we do went out early morning to catch the Sun Rise, the do pack our breakfast to bring along..so you can picnic having breakfast while watching the sun rise and breath the fresh air in the morning.

Below are some picture taken during our stay at this hotel.

How the foods here? We didn't have any lunch or dinner at this hotel. Mostly we ate outside the hotel tried local foods at the local restaurants. HOWEVERRRR......we love the breakfast served at this hotel. Not much variety, but the foods and selection they have very tasty and I liked the Jam, they have variety of Jam and all are homemade!!Tasty.

I can't remember what Jam I've took..but what I remember they have more than 5 types of Jam... I think 2 of it in the picture were orange and pineapples Jam.

Alright, now lets go back about foods at Siem Reap. See below? Another A Mok Fish. This time we tried at "The Angkor Palm Restaurant" - My TripAdvisor Review Click Here. 

We had A Mok Fish and Vege Spring Roll. Both quite nice, the A Mok Fish taste was better than Sugar Palm Restaurant.

While you at Siem Reap, another must place to go is the Night Market. Don't missed it. You can find a lot of things at their night market at the cheap price. Even for massage by the road side. We had reflexology massage after long walk visit temples in the morning. 

Remember "Tomb Rider" movie - sexy hot Angelina Jolie acting in this movie? The movie has been use Siem Reap as the location in the film. There is part the use tample "Ta Prohm" to do the film shoot.

Anyway, what I wanted to say...hehehe..Angelina Jolie always hangout at this "Red Piano Restaurant" during her shooting at Siem Reap. We wanted to try and eat or drink here, but we were lost find the place and we found Karaoke instead..so we went into Karaoke :D. When we done with Karaoke, only we found Red Piano!! 

Let's back to food. We went to this restaurant called, "Green Star Restaurant" - read my review on TripAdvisor Click Here. The restaurant is Not a Profit restaurant, so you can expect they privately funded by this 2 lovely person Doug and Avee. We tried A Mok Fish and this corn dishes (forgot the name), it was tasty!! We love the taste even better than Sugar Palm & Angkor Palm Restaurant. The A Mok Fish here is better and the corn that we hand superb nice. Should try..but sorry I forgot the name, but you can ask them. I think the only corn dishes and their specialty. This restaurant serve great taste of local khmer local foods! Should go!!

Lastly, as I mentioned earlier, we had tried several restaurants that serve A Mok Fish, and we found the best one among the best. It was the the Cambodian Village Restaurant - Read my review at TripAdvisor - Click Here. Ok firstly, Cambodian Village don't expect much, but you can go to their restaurant. We found the have a great A Mok Fish, the taste and gravy and herb they used, is so well balance and taste good!! 

I highly recommend this place if you like to try great taste of A Mok Fish. Love the gravy was thick and tasted all the herbs they mixed. Very Delicious.

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Cameron Highlands | Pahang Malaysia

Eating Place | Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan | Cameron Highlands | Foods

My Welcome Note : Click Here



Cameron Highlands is situated at northwestern tip of Pahang state in Malaysia. If Malaysian want to experience Spring weather without going anywhere, they can stay at Cameron Highlands, and a lot of hotel can be choose from, example Equatorial Hotel and others I can't remember, but there are a lot. The mean annual temperature of the resort is about 18 °C (64 °F). During the day, the temperature seldom rises above 25 °C (77 °F); at night, it can rarely drop to as low as 9 °C (48 °F) at the higher areas.

My last visit to Cameron Highlands, we stayed at Century Pines. Lovely hotel, if you would like to know more about this hotel, please visit my review on this hotel at TripAdvisor : Click Here

Take note, just to share some tips, if you plan to visit Cameron Highlands try to avoid school holidays, because the accommodation price will go up as well as will have a lot of people everywhere..its kinda crowded. My last visit was on non-School Holiday 3D2N from Friday to Sunday, because we don't want to miss the 'Night Market' must go if you plan to visit Cameron Highland. However, the night market only can be found on Friday and Saturday night at Brinchang town. More info on the night market -> Click Here

Let's talk what type of food you can find at Cameron Highlands, well since the temperature there quite low at night, so famous for dinner is always SteamBoat. We found this Halal Steamboat place near Hotel De La Ferns. Very easy to find it, it was between Tanah Rata and Brinchang. You find the "Hotel De La Ferns" you will find the steamboat place just beside the hotel and you wont missed it because it was just by the road side. We had steamboat here, quite ok, with the cold weather and having steamboat, nothing will go wrong :)

You can choose weather to have the soup base "Chicken" or "Tomyam"

Tomyam is the Thailand style hot soup. We had it both chicken and tomyam.

 Overall the taste was not so bad, but i guess because we had it at night, the weather is cold so the steamboat taste, the hot soup quite accommodating to get some heat for your body :)

On the other hand, my wife love scones very much (so it seem), so we had ventured few places to try the local scone at Cameron Highland. We've been to few places, "Vintage Cafe" at Tanah Rata, Cafe at SmokeHouse Cameron Highland and "T-Cafe" at Tanah Rata. My wife verdict was the one at Vintage Cafe and T-Cafe was the best for her. And yes, I do admit, it was nice :)

SCONES at Vintage Cafe, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands

SCONES at T-Cafe, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands

SCONES at SmokeHouse Cameron Highland

While you at Cameron, don't forget to pay a visit to BOH Plantation Center at Sungei Palas. Where this is the farm or i think more to plantation of the BOH Tea and where the produce the tea for BOH. They have nice cafe overlook the plantation and some other shop where you can buy souvenir or difference type of fresh tea leaves (processed or not processed).

BOH TEA CENTER - SUNGEI PALAS

Must go, this place ! Nice view ehh ?

We had stop here and drink some hot tea, mushroom soup and sandwich.

Strawberry ? Yes, Cameron Highland have a lot of Strawberry farm you can visit and eat their Strawberry, fresh from the farm. Locals recommended to us to go visit the farm near Equatorial Hotel. You can eat fresh strawberry there or you can plug the strawberry by yourself. Good place to bring your family and kids in the farm and plugging our own strawberry. You can select from the farm.

Our Pick!

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Kuantan | Pahang Malaysia

Eating Place | Lunch | Dining | Kuantan Pahang | Teluk Cempedak | Chempedak | Makan

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I've been to Kuantan last year, with family for short vacation 4D3N. We have stayed at one of the hotel at Teluk Cempedak. So what else, beside holidays with family, we have tried some local foods at Kuantan. First let begin with Teluk Cempedak it self.

WOW!! Teluk Cempedak has been changed compare to the last time I've visited. Now they have a lot of eating places there, basically you wont go hungry day or night, even Burger King, KFC now available at Teluk Cempedak!

We've found one burger joint at Teluk Cempedak, which was kinda interesting. Maybe they name of the stall as I recall, the taste of the burger not something I would remember :P, however, the stall name was something catchy that made me remember until now. If you happen to be at Teluk Cempedak, don't forget to try it out and let me know how it taste. For me, I would say "So..so..not that tasty" but worth to try since we are all at Teluk Cempedak.

BUGERMBIRA

Location: Burgermbira - Right at the turning into Hyatt Hotel at Teluk Cempedak.

If you are at Pahang or Kuantan, don't forget to try out the local fish dishes, IKAN PATIN.

There is a famous restaurant at Kuantan for Lunch, Akob Patin House. This restaurant sell ikan patin masak lemak and others "lauk-pauk"

Akob Patin House

Location: Akob Patin House
Address : Tapak PCCL Jalan Besar, 25000 Kuantan
Phone: +6019-9874463 / +6013-9312709 / +6019-9470989

The fish was so tender, no smell, soft, we had it with "Gulai Lemak Tempoyak"
Nice and recommend to have a lunch here.

After we had good lunch at Akob Patin House, on the way back to our Hotel at Teluk Cempedak, we drop by to have a bowl of Cendol. Famous cendol here, Mustapa Cendol.

MUST TRY!!! Don't missed it. If you from Kuantan on the way to Teluk Cempedak, you will see Mustapa Cendol on your right hand side nearby Shell Petrol Station. 

Should go there and try their cendol and rojak. Highly recommended by most people and including myself. I've tried it and I love it!

Mustafa Cendol Kuantan / Teluk Cempedak

Location: Mustafa Cendol<-- Click this link

Address: Jalan Teluk Sisik, 25000 Kuantan

Like mentioned, If you driving toward Teluk Cempedak, you will see Mustafa Cendol on your right just beside Shell Petrol Station.

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