Kissaten Cafe & Restaurant Setia Alam

What a rainy night and it's Friday night, so here we are again at Setia city mall!

We decided to give Kissaten a try since it's newly renovated (much bigger now). Previously the cafe was facing only the outside of the mall, now you've two entrance which is from inside the mall and out. The interior/deco looks very cosy..my type of cafe to spend the evening.

They have variety of choices from sushi, katsudon, pastas to pizza..you heard me right.. a pizza in a japanese restaurant. Darn they're delicious, we had chicken teriyaki with half boiled egg pizza and a Katsudon (porky). We'll be back to try other dishes like hotpot and pastas.

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La Fourchette Chiang Mai

Love how the glass wine shine throughout the night.

Outside you catch a glimpse of how easy it is to wonder this streets, by cycling.

Oldtown House Penang

Here you have a traditional house in a modern city.

Fixing Lens Problem

A before and after photo below. The first was taken at an awkward angle causing major distortion to the photo. With some CS6 editing, the second photo produced a better result.

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Penang getaway & marathon

This turn out to be a short weekend getaway and also our yearly 10k run at Penang bridge international marathon. The main area that we explored this time around was the famous heritage city, now renowned as part of UNESCO heritage city program.  George town was a perfect place to spend at least half a day with it's beautiful buildings and marvelous cafes. We did our 10k early next morning with over 62000 participants which made it felt cramp while running. It was held at Penang second bridge and I must say it's an honor to be the very first group of runners to have ran there.

Pacamara Coffee Chiang Mai Thailand

Smooth, full bodied, moderately intense flavor..some of the few things that cross my mind when I think back at the latte and americano that I had at Pacamara cafe. This wonderful joint was actually my second coffee stop in Chiang Mai. It's a small shop with a few seats outside and a few more inside. It gets kind of cramp if you're there with a big group. But hey, it's all about the coffee here. I can seriously stand up and say it's one of the best I've had so far (honest speaking). I was at Chiang Mai for four days and actually went to this cafe three of the days. The only day I missed was because I was away for a full day tour.

A single shot latte only cost THB6 and if you compare with what you're paying in Malaysia of elsewhere in the world, it really doesn't cost a bomb. They even sell some French coffee press and coffee bean. My only regret was not getting the coffee bean because at that time I still haven't own a machine. I guess I should write a little about the Philips Saeco Poemia in the future.

If you're at Chiang Mai, don't give this a miss. Unbiased from the inner self review.

Brew and Bread Kota Kemuning

Brew&Bread...this name has been buzzing in my ears and head for quite some time, many of my friends and colleagues have been talking about this cafe and it has definitely caught my attention. So today on the way back from Perak, we decided to give this cafe a try. It's located at Kota Kemuning near to their initial family founded Kheng's Kopitiam. The outlook and interior looks very 'cafe' style, where at the entrance you'll find a coffee roasting machine! One of a kind, you hardly will find a cafe that roast their own coffee..We'll come back to how the coffee fare later on.

Upon entering B&B, you'll be tempted with a ray of patisserie, well not like a French or Belgian pastry but they do look tempting. You're also presented with mouth watering cakes. Since it's brunch time, we decided to skip those and ordered the eggs benedict RM19, egg sandwich RM9, latte and english breakfast tea. The food tasted good without too much salt but the only downside was the serving and price. We find it rather expensive for the benedict, where you'd usually find a bigger serving at some other established cafe. Now come the coffee part where I was promising earlier on. The latte cost us RM8 with a decent cup, but it has a more sourish taste which I'm not so into. For my next visit (which I'm still going again), I'll try and ask for a more bold flavored coffee. I'm sure they're able to grind and extract a darker and full bodied coffee upon request.

 

There you have it, if you're like the many who prefer to spend some quality afternoon at a comfortable cafe, this is the place to be. You also cannot fault their service, it's actually quite up to standard in comparison to others.

Trip to the south Batu Pahat & Muar

Batu Pahat is located 270km from Klang, making it a 3 hours drive to the south of Peninsular Malaysia. It’s the very first time I’m driving further than Malacca! Normally I would prefer to fly but this time we drove since it’s much more convenient.

We had a wedding lunch at SY Restaurant.

The food turn out to be quite meaty but we had piglet which were really crunchy.

Welcome to Batu Pahat

That night the host brought us to Thai food at Chok Dee restaurant... so by now you must have realised what a food journey it turn out to be.

Next day before traveling back, we tried out the famous Hainam kopitiam which was very near to our homestay. Simple menu ranging from otak-otak bread, the never fail half boiled eggs, hotdogs, nasi lemak...yeah not that many but they're good.

We then detoured to Muar the area famous for it's otak-otak. Saw this stretch of stalls selling those orange looking fish paste, so good eaten by itself or with rice/bread.

Till then see you for my next trip!