Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Dark soy sauce yellow noodles and rat noodles. Er, its a direct translation of “kon lo lou shue fan mien”, noodles with a generous amount of dark soy sauce, with curry oil on top. My favourite breakfast in Teluk Intan! I always lament that noodles in Melaka lack that healthy dark colour, and curry oil seems to be nonexistent. 
Braised chicken feet with dark so sauce, again. Mum’s dish, I only helped myself with the gravy because I don’t know how to eat this thing.
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
What is the best thing about going back hometown? Well, the food of course! Nothing beats having familiar, comfort food with the family.
Steamed fish with light soy sauce and oil! About the only way I eat fish aside from those Japanese-y cooking. I really, really like fish served this way. I only had this when I am back in hometown in
this restaurant, as they serve the best steamed fish in town.
Stirfried beans and brinjals in sambal udang. Delish!
Unshelled mantis prawns, which is not much of a looker but tasted terrific.
Juicy, succulent mantis prawns! Beats those peeled and deep fried mantis prawn dishes any day.
Popularity: 52% [?]
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
It was days before Chinese New Year. Sis and I just arrive in our hometown, and we are on ourselves to find dinner. Fearing the price jack up and all that, we decided to play safe by visiting the neighbourhood hawker center, and once there, sis started pimping this stall selling baked fish and stir fried vegetables, praising the food sky high.
I couldn’t agree more. They were the best four angled beans stir fried with sambal that I’ve ever tasted! The tangy sambal flavour, the crunchy to the bite bean, and the serving on banana leaves gives the perfect texture, taste and aroma to the dish. To top that off, the beans were not tough to chew, unlike some places where the beans were tough to chew due to the incorporation of some old, tough beans along with the tender shoots.
Equally sinful were their baked stingray. Slathered in tangy, sourish and slightly spicy sauce very much like the Portuguese grilled fish sauce, this grilled fish is still juicy to the bite, and the sauce is just perfect to go with hot, fluffy white rice.
We polished off the dishes in a jiffy, which is a surprise given that we are not fish persons at all! In times like these I just felt that, 9 out of 10 times, hawker food rawks simply because they are good, cheap and no frills!
Viva la hawker food!
Er, but its harder to take photos in hawker center due to their awful lighting, and the photos didn’t do the food justice. LOL!
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Rojak is the typical Asian salad with bean sprouts, water convulvus, cucumber, turnips, pineapples and tropical fruits tossed in sticky, sweetish and savoury dark sauce that you either love or hate, though methinks most people who had ever taste rojak will love it! If you are a rojak lover too, remember Ah Chai, the famous rojak in Teluk Intan. Its a must eat if you are in town, in addition to chee cheong fun!
Rojak Ah Chai is a modest rojak stall smacked in front of some wooden shacks right next to the wet market and opposite San Min school. If you are coming from the direction heading towards the wet market, the rojak stall comes right after it. While there is no McD drive thru in Teluk Intan, we Teluk Intanese (or is it Teluk Intanite?) could drive thru rojak Ah Chai, on motorcycle.
Rojak Ah Chai pwned Hochiak team!
While Rojak Ah Chai’s vegetable and fruit rojak is good, we the carnivores always go for the vege-less alternative. Behold:
The alkaline treated squid!
The gooey sauce that rojak haters claim that it is so gross that they swear off rojak from their palate forever, but don’t be fooled by the appearance!
This is the kind of rojak that is different from the boring fruits and vegetables. This is the the kickass combination of alkaline treated squid and crunchy prawn crackers, fondly known as yau yee har peng 鱿 鱼 虾 饼.
Drenched in thick, dark, rojak sauce plus gooey sauce! I bet you can imagine the crunchiness, the texture, the chomp chomp feel, no?
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
On one hot afternoon a day or so before the Chinese New Year eve:
Me: Dad. Go buy lunch.
Dad: Ok.
Almost an hour later:
Dad: Girl, this is the best pau in Teluk Intan, do you know where I bought them?
Me: Wow! The pau from the wooden shack near the river jetty. You brave the traffic jam all the way to town just to buy a few paus? That’s crazy! You could’ve just buy something else nearby!!!
Dad: Yeah, it doesn’t matter, as long as you blog about my favourite pau.
Me: Gee! You could’ve bought them any other day, but thanks anyway! 
Undoubtedly one of the best paus, (steamed dumplings with sweet or savoury fillings) in Teluk Intan, the history of this humble wooden shack near the river jetty was stretch back to the good old days when my dad was young. Back then, the paus were handmade.
Their choi pau, or chai pau, or vegetable dumplings are must eats! They sell like hot cakes on a hot afternoon.
Kaya (coconut jam) pau.
Kacang pau.
Equally tasty are their sweet paus. The amount of sweet fillings in the pau is just nice, not too much like those mass produced paus sold elsewhere, where I just had to dig out the sweet goopey fillings and throw them away. Notice the texture of the pau? They are very soft and fluffy. The paus are leavened properly, thus the fluffiness could be seen.
Ahemz. Foodie jargons aside, I just love this pau and so does most of the folks in my hometown. They usually start selling around noon and the paus sell off quickly, so be early, especially if you want to get the vegetable paus. The shack is situated along Jalan Wah Keng Jooi and if you dine in, you can enjoy the scenic view of the river while eating your paus.
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