Lam Hui Ching, an old friend cum classmate of mine since secondary school. In fact, we were once neighbours during my childhood time / before my parents decided to move to our old house.

It was Yih Tian’s birthday and the girls (Yih Tian, Pei San, Suet Lei and Sha Ly) called for a lunch gathering to celebrate her birthday on a lovely Sunday afternoon.

They chose Wok & Pan Restaurant, which is just opposite Nadeje Patisserie at Plaza Mahkota. It’s at the corner lot and painted in bright orange.

The shop is rather small and obviously, they tried to pack in as many tables as possible. Hence, the restaurant is rather cramped and the not-really-working air conditioners aren’t really helping at all. Moreover, the tables are really small especially when the tables are all occupied, fulled with dishes and drinks. It isn’t a really comfortable place if you want to have a nice meal and chit chat after that.

The chef used to work in one of the hotels in Malacca before he resigned and started this restaurant. You basically can get everything from pastas to steaks or Nyonya foods to Chinese cuisines in their menu. However, taste wise isn’t really that great. The steaks’ price aren’t as expensive as Rock & Roll Blues Cafe, but its still on the high side, roughly RM20+.

Anyway, we placed our orders not long after being seated. The girls also took the time to pass Yih Tian her birthday present, a necklace from VOIR. It’s a black coloured dragonfly pendant.

Food was served rather quickly, I would say. We ordered lamb shanks, rib eye steak, pork chop, chicken chop and salmon fish chop, all in different gravies. Craps! I took everyone’s dishes except my rib eye steaks. I am getting really forgetful these days. Sighs.

That aside, we also ordered two bowls of mushroom soup and garlic bread. The mushroom soup tasted really nice and it’s really thick too. Most likely it’s home cooked too. However, the garlic bread sucked totally. There’s no garlic taste in it and the breads weren’t crunchy at all.

First up was the deep fried chicken chop with secret Hainanese sauce. A lot of flour has been used to coat the chicken before being deep fried. Hence, the chicken may looked big but actually it wasn’t. The sauce tasted something like sweet and sour sauce and certainly, there’s no secret in it. Suet Lei said a restaurant back in Tampin could cook better chicken chop than that.

The salmon was quite fresh and didn’t has the over powering fishy smell. It was grilled till it’s slightly burnt on the outside, sealing the freshness and juiciness of the white meat. The sauce was creamy and tasted fairly good. I can’t recall what sauce was it but not bad.

I certainly didn’t like the lamb shank at all. The sauce was awful and the meat wasn’t tender as it should be. I don’t recommend this dish at all. Enough said.

Then, it was the pork chop with sauce made from herbs and spices. The herbal sauce tasted not bad and I quite like it. However, the pork was over cooked and rather difficult to chew. More over, part of the meat were pork ribs and that certainly not helping.

For my rib eye steak, it wasn’t as good as the one I had at Rock & Roll Blues Cafe. The rib eye wasn’t really rib eyes although it looked like one. The meat was sort of chunky, rough and patty like whereas it should be firm. However, the red wine sauce was good though.

Another two things that I really don’t like were their coleslaws and fries that came along with our chops and steaks. The coleslaws tasted like craps and has big chunks of cabbage instead of finely chopped ones. On top of that, the amount of mayonnaise in it was really pathetic. As for the fries, it was those cheap tiny fries that you can buy at any regular supermarkets. These fries don’t taste good at all and I am expecting freshly cut and own made fries.

The bill came up to RM108. Not too bad for the food, but the food could have been very much better because the chef used to work in a hotel.

We then walked over to Nadeje Patisserie to have some cakes and drinks.

Take a close look at the picture below.

Since when my blog became a porno blog? -stunned-

I only had one post about the Japanese student exchange program and search engines have to linked it to “Japanese / Japan Girl / Girls Make Love“?

717 searches for the phrase and the numbers are increasing everyday, bit by bit.

This is really disturbing, albeit I welcome the extra hits and visitors. Ha!

Since I posted my sneak preview about my food adventures in KL sometime ago, I haven’t been blogging. Even so, some of the posts are drafts that I have written for quite some time. I am currently running out of blogging materials for more than a month. Hence, I might just not update if I can’t find anything to blog. It’s time to dig up those old photos.

Anyway, that aside, my finals are coming soon. I mean, really soon. This also means that my nocturnal behaviour has officially kicked in. My house mates and I could be wide awaken from 10pm until 5am the next day and hibernating throughout day time. It’s as if we are fasting together with our Malay friends, having meals after sun down. Honestly, this isn’t fun and certainly, very exhausting. I screwed up my sleeping hours too, is ether I sleep for 4 hours today or 14 hours the following day. Either way, I still feel fatigue. Well, that’s MMU’s my student life.

Another thing, my new boss, A. Letchumanan (I sure hope I got his name spelled correctly.). He’s somewhat in his late forties and he’s definitely not someone you want to mess with. Not that he is very fierce or anything, but he sure knows his stuff. He was a bureau chief in this office sometime ago before he got promoted to HQ in Petaling Jaya. Hence, coming back to Malacca, his home turf, is like putting a fish into the water.

“I was at the event and I waited for like 2 hours before I can get the Chief Minister’s speech text. But when I came back to the office, Letchu has already got the speech text on his table.” - Steven.

Now, that’s rather intimidating interesting.

To celebrate Marsha’s resignation and going to a greener pasture, we, the stringers and Marsha headed down to Melaka Raya’s Rocky’s Rock & Roll Blues Cafe. The cafe is just few shop lots away from Bei Zhan Restaurant. It serves really expensive (for Malacca’s standard) but delicious and huge steaks. On weekends, there are live band playing inside the tiny restaurant too.

The stringers are myself, Allison, Steven and the latest member, Swee Lee. Last but not least, Marsha herself.

First, a toast to Marsha with the vanilla flavoured muffins baked by Swee Lee.

Except Swee Lee who ordered fish and chips and Allison who came way after we finished our dinner, the rest ordered steaks. There were garlic breads, onion rings and chicken nuggets as appetizers too. The garlic bread tasted awesome, really garlic-ish and it’s very crispy too. As for the chicken nugget, its just nugget and nothing special about it. Onion rings were below par, as I think Nando’s and A&W’s onion rings are the best so far.

Swee Lee’s fish and chips came with a really huge piece of fish, some broccolis, handful of big ass fries, 1/8 of lemon and home made tartar sauce. The fish was nicely deep fried till crisp and golden brown, with fresh and juicy fish meat.

All steaks came with a plate of fresh salad. The best part was that they give you a bottle of thousand island sauce and mayonnaise each so that you can pour as much as you want. I literally socked my salad in thousand island soup.

Marsha ordered sirloin steak while Steven and me ordered rib eyes. (Do read up the difference between rib eyes and sirloin if you don’t know.)

For the steaks, you can choose between baked potatoes or mashed potatoes. The baked potatoes tasted better than the mashed potatoes though. It was fragrant and tasty as they baked the potatoes with lots of butter in it, yet it’s not oily.

It came with a small “cup” of baked beans and some broccolis too. The baked beans tasted not bad, I am pretty sure that its not those Ayam Brand’s canned baked beans. However, I hate broccolis. Yuck!

To wash all the food down, I had watermelon juice.

The steak cost around RM30+, which is almost 4 times more expensive compared to other cafes in Malacca that serves steaks. However, those steaks aren’t steaks at all but just a piece of beef patty. Unlike Rock & Roll Blues Cafe, they serve authentic beef steaks ala KL standard (TGIF? Chilis?). It’s certainly worth the price to have a good steak in Malacca. Look at that big fat juicy steak!

Of course, we spent close to 3 hours at the restaurant, having our dinner and chit chatting. We even posed with the instruments on the stage.

What do these pictures tell you? Yes, she’s a blogger too. Coincidently, her blog’s title also has the initial of “J” and “M”.

Marsha, good luck in your new job and all the best! Do keep in touch!