Blue-Gray Saturday

Bak Zhang, swiped from williamnyk on Flickr.

Didn't do much marketing on Saturday. Just made a few quick stops in OUG and Taman United before heading home. For breakfast we had Woo Pin's fish head noodles. Shared a large bowl with mum. Although I often order the fresh belly meat, I still do feel that it goes the best with fried fish. Another favourite stall of mine is at TTDI, at the corner near Peek-a-boo. The fish meat is fried to a golden-brown with no unpleasant oil smell and it retains the moistness and sweetness of the fish. And it comes heavily-garnished with chinese celery and cooking wine. Yummy. Mum went out at around noon, so I was left to my own devices. Munched on a packet of steamed chickpeas. Really love the stuff. Used to buy it from the stalls at bus stations during my youth. Had a late lunch of bak zhang from OUG. For just MYR4, it was large and filled with half a salted egg yolk, mushroom, white kidney beans and fatty pork. Ate it while watching The Infidel on my laptop. A story about an East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish. Good for some jokes on religion. Later that afternoon, had tea with mum. She chopped up some cucumbers and capsicums and brought out the jar of herring that we had been struggling to finish. Washed it all down with some hot Milo.

Later that night, SK and I sent mum to a wedding banquet at Bukit Jalil Golf Resort. For dinner, we met up Briyani Blue Sky at Restoran Choon Sum, off Old Klang Road. Arriving at 8:00pm, the place was already crawling with customers. Waited one hour for our food because there was only only chef-- the fat guy. Usually, the food arrives before their signature dish of Lotus Leaf Fish, but on that night it was the inverse. The wait was for naught because the food was terrible. No quality. Sub-standard. No heart. Simply done. The superior soup lala tasted all wrong and without rice wine. The kam heong chicken was too oily. The pork ribs were way too sweet. Only the vegetable was good. It was the worst dinner I had there and I must really apologize to Briyani Blue Sky. We left at around 10:00pm as our dinner guest was rushing home to watch "Gray's Anatomy". SK and I left for Restoran Madinah at Taman Esplanad for a hot drink while waiting for my mum. Another horrible experience. My teh tarik tasted of limau panas because they didn't wash their cups properly. Ugh. There you have it.