What's For Dinner Tonight Love?

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

What's For Dinner Tonight Love?

A daily question B and I pose to each other.

B & I are always on the lookout for new eating places. When we first moved here, we were pretty excited to check out all the new restaurants mushrooming in our area. But now, after a year of living here, we're running out of places to eat. You’re probably wondering why we're constantly searching for places to eat when there's a well-equipped kitchen and a reasonably good cook in the house, but let’s save that thought for another day shall we?

In our quest to find the best restaurants to dine in, we sometimes win and we sometimes lose. The last time I tried to be adventurous by picking a recently opened restaurant that really looked inviting from the outside, we ended up spending RM50 on a miserable dinner of extremely salty fried rice, watermelon juice that had more water than watermelon and teeny-weeny mushrooms disguised as some sort of appetizer! Never again will we patronize that restaurant!

Anyway, in view of all my dining experiences – the good and the bad – I’d like to answer Mike’s meme on 5 great places to eat, which are local to me. Thanks for this meme Mike!

Fatty Crab, Taman Megah – A favourite amongst the locals and foreigners alike, this restaurant definitely gets 2 thumbs up from me! It's famous for its delicious chilli crabs served with toasted bread. When dining here, we usually have the crabs, yummy garlic prawns and Chinese fried rice, which to me is the best one in town. Top it off with a glass of cold Chinese tea and you’ll have a meal set for a King!

D’Tandoor, Damansara – This restaurant serves authentic Northern Indian curries and Tandoori cuisine. Once you’re seated, your waiter will arrive with a plate of papadam served with tasty green chilli dip. My favourite dish here is the seafood biryani, which is absolutely divine. D’Tandoor also serves some of the best Indian desserts like Gulab Jamun (picture above), which is ultra sweet so even one is sufficient to satisfy my sweet tooth.
Gulab jamun - A popular Northern Indian and Pakistani dessert, made of a dough consisting mainly of milk solids, in a sugar syrup flavored with cardamom seeds and rosewater or saffron.

Steven’s Corner, Uptown Damansara is the first place that comes to mind whenever I get a sudden urge to devour black pepper steak! Seeing that this is more of a stall rather than a restaurant, Steven’s serves reasonably priced Western food. The best part about their steak is the thick black pepper sauce that comes with it - spicy and very tasty!

FAM Char Kway Teow, Kelana Jaya – I was first introduced to this place by a friend years ago and now, it's one of our favourite choices for Sunday brunch. This stall is managed by two lovely aunties, who dish out the best tasting kway teow ever! I usually have my kway teow (small extra spicy) with a nice tall glass of Nescafe Ice.
Char kway teow is a popular noodle dish in Malaysia and Singapore. It is made from flat rice noodles, fried over very high heat with light and dark soy sauce, chili, prawns, cockles, egg, bean sprouts and Chinese chives.

Paddington House Of Pancakes, The Curve - This is the best pancake house I've come across, with more than 100 types of pancakes from all over the world served including pannekoeks, galettes, American stacks, poffertjes, blitzes, blinis and so on. The best part about this restaurant is that it serves both savoury and sweet pancakes. Savoury pancakes might sound a tad weird and I was initially skeptical to try out their savoury Full Monty but now it's actually my favourite choice on the menu! The brown gravy that goes with this is absolutely divine!

Okay, that was fun! According to the rules of this meme, I'm to list others who have done this list and tag some other friends for this meme, before listing my own name (see below). Here are my picks for this yummy meme: Adrian, Emila, Janice, Jean, Bobby & Barrett.

Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Olivia (London, England)
ML (Utah, USA)
Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
Andi (Dallas[ish], Texas, United States)
Todd (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
miss kendra (los angeles,california, u.s.a)
Jiggs Casey (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Tits McGee (New England, USA)
Joe (NE Tennessee, USA)
10K Monkeys (Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA)
Big Stupid Tommy (Athens, Tennessee, USA)
Newscoma (Weakley County, Tennessee, USA)
Russ McBee (Knoxville, Tennessee, USA)
Atomictumor Mrs Eaves (Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
Oh Really? LissaKay (Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
Mark Steel (Knoxville, TN, USA)
Fracas (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Sugar Queen’s Dream( Palm Coast, Florida,USA)
Christy’s Coffee Break (Ontario, Canada)
Ordinary Folk (Nowheresville, NY)