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| Home dishes to chow down at Sai Kee Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:43 PM PDT It's a tai chow place, down a broad lane where there are well-spaced tables under a canvas canopy. It is relatively clean too. The Fried Fish with Beancurd had ikan kurau fillets fried, then finished in a dark, garlicky sauce with large pieces of tofu. The fish was fresh and fried well, with crispy edges and meat that flaked off when prodded with a fork. The very soft, smooth tofu matched it well, doused with this intense sauce. This was the best dish of the evening. It's hard to go wrong with Braised Chicken with Bittergourd. This had the right combination of taucheo and fermented black beans, being just nicely salty, which worked with the bittergourd which stayed firm and juicy. The cook was a little too generous with his starch in the sauce though. The Beef with Ginger and Spring Onions was not good at all. The meat was a little too tenderised and the strong sauce overwhelmed it. The stall does a mean Ko Lo Yook or sweet and sour pork. I liked it for the tender chunks of meat dipped into a light batter and deep fried till crispy before being finished in a sauce that had the sweet and sour well balanced. It was also generous with cucumber, tomato, big onions and pineapple. We also had a Kau Kei Yue Wat Soup. Kau Kei makes a nutritious soup that's good for the eyes, we were always told as a child. These dark green leaves plucked off some long thorny stems give the soup a sweet flavour. The big blobs of smooth, bouncy fish paste in it made it a satisfying soup. The Steamed Pork with Tung Choy was most disappointing. There was too much fat in the mince, and there was little aroma from this distinctive preserved vegetable. Perhaps we should have ordered the pork slices steamed with harm har or shrimp paste, which this stall is better known for. For all the food and drinks (two loh hon kor and Chinese tea), the bill came up to only RM124.50. The fish was RM28, beef RM19, the soup RM9 and RM14 for each of the other dishes. Kedai Makanan Sai Kee is located at 72, Jalan Sultan, Tel: 012 290 6751. |
| Would you pay over RM7k for a glass of French Bordeaux? Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:22 PM PDT After a little number crunching, based on the assumption that a standard bottle of wine yields five 150 ml glasses of wine, that works out to be a jaw-dropping US$2,437 (RM7,749) a glass. This marks the first time that the French winery has bottled Balthazars (12-litre bottles). Only six have been produced, three of which will be offered for sale through luxury wine merchant Le Clos, whose flagship outlet is located at the Dubai International Airport, Terminal 3. Their virtual store is open 24/7. The Balthazar is housed in an oak case which has been raised on steel legs and the bottle itself engraved in gold by a master craftsman. Winemakers describe the wine as having "finesse, balance and freshness" with a flavorful finish of "astonishing" length which can be aged for a century. In addition to claiming the landmark vintage, the owner will be flown first class to France to visit the estate in Bordeaux. They will also get a private tour of its cellars and vineyard before sitting down to dinner with chateau winemaker and managing director Paul Pontallier. Last year, Australian wine producer Penfolds also vaunted what they called the most expensive bottle of vino when they released their 2004 Block 42, a wine enclosed in glass "ampoule" that retailed for US$170,350 (RM541,713). - AFP Relaxnews, October 12, 2013. |
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