HK Boy Cart Noodles @ Bukit Tinggi, Klang

HK Boy Cart Noodles is a chain restaurant serving Hong Kong cart style food with noodles as their specialty. The cart noodles are quite popular in Hong Kong during the 1950s with the carts operating on roadsides in public low income housing estates. Over the years, those carts has vanished but the noodles styles has been spread into cafes. HK Boy Cart Noodles outlet menu are quite extensive and you can mix and match your noodles with sides such as pig intestines, luncheon meat, chicken feet, pigs' blood and many more. There are around 35 sides for you to choose from their complicated menu. There are 5 steps in the selection of your bowl of noodles. For step 1, you need to choose whether you want soup or dry noodles. Step 2, less spicy or mild spicy. Step 3, types of noodles. Step 4, the flavour of the noodles. You can choose from beef tendon sauce, braised sauce, curry sauce, tomato broth, spicy or fin soup. And lastly step 5 is to add the sides that you want.

Taste:8/10(Good. The noodles were good and the broth has strong taste. However, the soup with braised sauce is a bit salty. I order two bowls of their noodles with more traditional sides such as pig intestines, pigs' blood, braised beef tendon and braised beef).
Price:6/10(Moderate. Noodles with 2 sides price at MYR10.90 and 3 sides at MYR12.90. Sides with beef will be charged extra MYR3.90).


Doggie noodles is like Udon. This bowl of noodles has pigs' blood, intestine and braised beef.

This is wanton noodles with intestines and braised beef tendon.

The wanton noodles here is similar to what I had in Hong Kong. Very crunchy type.

Teo Chew fried kuey teow @ Jalan Imbi Hawker, Kuala Lumpur

This little stall located at Jalan Imbi open air hawker centre has tasty fried kuey teow. This stall has been around for quite long and its operated by mother and daughter. The daughter doing all the cooking and frying while her mother assist her in bringing the food to the customers. What amazed me is her daughter memory of remembering all the orders from the customers without writing it while she was so busy frying kuey teow. She can remember each customer customized order which range from no chili, no cockles, no bean sprouts, more bean sprouts, 2 plates with cockles and 2 plates without cockles and so on! During my half an hours there, I don't see her mixed up the order and she can remember the sequence well.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. By default the preferred order here is fried kuey teow with noodles. You should order that as it taste good with cockles, prawn, bean sprouts, egg, fish cakes, kucai and enough wok hei).
Price:8/10(Cheap. Delicious plate of kuey teow at MYR6.50. You need to wait as the queue can be quite long at certain time).


Best food option to try if you happen to be at Jalan Imbi at night.

Tasty plate of fried kuey teow.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.145885, 101.715342
Address: Next to Jalan Imbi Honda showroom, 193 & 195, Jalan Imbi, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Business hours: 7.00pm till 12.00am

Charcoal fried kuey teow at Kim Lian Kee @The Gardens, Midvalley, Kuala Lumpur

Having hawker food in shopping mall is never a good idea. However, when compared to other outlets here at The Gardens, this place does standout in term of taste, speed and price. Although slightly higher price, you get a decent portion and taste of charcoal fried kuey teow. It a comfort food which will cure your craving for hawker food while shopping.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. I like the dryness of the charcoal fried kuey teow with lard prepared here. Taste really good with wok hei. I guess frying using charcoal will produce higher temperature which will dry out the moisture in kuey teow).
Price:5/10(Near expensive. Charcoal fried kuey teow at MYR13.80 exclude GST and service charge).


Tasty charcoal fried kuey teow.

They are famous for hokkien noodles. However, I would like to try out their other items since I had their hokkien noodles in Lot 10 previously.

Some Hong Kong sawi to cover lack of vegetables on my diet.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.117928, 101.675606
Address: Kim Lian Kee, Lower Ground Floor, The Gardens, Mid Valley City, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (next to Canton-i)

Hadramawt Kitchen - Great value middle eastern cuisine @ Glenmarie, Shah Alam

Hadramawt Kitchen located nearby the many automotive show room area in Glenmarie Shah Alam. The food is great value and taste good without burning a hole in your pocket. This is a comfortable place to dine in with families. You can choose whether to sit on normal table and chairs or Arabic seating style on low table. Order the roti Arab, appetizers and lamb rice which all good. Looks like I have found a perfect place for middle eastern food which is reasonably priced. Good food, good portion, friendly and helpful staff.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. My favourite were their Mullawah bread dipped with lamb sauce with tomato salsa sauce. Taste so good. Without knowing that Mullawah bread is quite huge, we ordered their lamb rice as well. The stewed lamb taste good and the meat was tender and delicious. The stewed version is better than their grilled lamb. Appetizer with stuffed grape leaves and hummus taste fantastic as well).
Price:7/10(Moderate. Huge piece of mullawah bread at MYR4.00, appetizer of hummus, dolma (stuffed grape leaves) and fata cheese salad at MYR18.00, lamb rice at MYR28.00, araise fruit salad at MYR10.00).


Great dinner.

Mixed lamb with delicious Briyani rice. The stewed lamb does taste better. The meat were soft and tender.

Stewed lamb.

Appetizer platter consist of hummus in olive oil, feta cheese salad, carrot with creamy yogurt.

Stuffed vine leaves or dolma and feta cheese salad on appetizer platter.

Mullawah with appetizer platter.

Delicious Mullawah or Arabic bread. The bread is soft and not oily like roti canai. The texture is firm and tender.

Araise fruit salad. Consist of almond, honey, apple, chocolate chips, banana, coconut,

Cosy and air conditioned restaurant.

Normal table and low Arabic style low table seating.

If you have four or five persons, do try out their economic or family set. Its even greater value and comes with lamb and chicken. Price at MYR59 and MYR99 respectively.

Restoran Hadramawt Kitchen (Middle Eastern and Yemeni cuisine).

GPS/Coordinate: 3.087869, 101.578185
Address: No. 13 Jalan Penguasa U1/53A Glenmarie Temasya Surai, Shah Alam 40150, Malaysia.
Public transport: 10 minutes taxi ride from Subang Komuter station.

Budget shopping at Paddy Market @ Sydney, Australia

Paddy Market located at Haymarket area of Sydney just opposite Chinatown is a well known place to get cheap fruits, vegetables, fish, clothes and giftware. The environment in Paddy Market is more like a traditional flea market which specialising in cheap imported goods, clothes, souvenirs, Australia local produced products such leather hats and kangaroo furs. The Paddy Market is popular with tourist as they sells cheaper souvenirs. Most of the shop keeper here seems to be from Mainland China and most of the shops selling low quality phone covers and souvenirs.


Paddy market located at ground floor of Market City, Sydney.

Flea market type of environment. Here you can see many shops selling football jersey and Australian themed souvenirs.

Variety of souvenirs on sale.

Some hanky panky stuff. Pictures of sexy ladies.

Waterproof crushable leather hats.

Children and ladies clothing.

Black carrot.



Vegetables locally produced.


Australia is a multi cultural country with even herbs and spices are easily available from the market.

Animal furs shop.

Remote control helicopters.

Cheap sunglasses from China.

GPS/Coordinate: -33.879513, 151.203292
Address: 9-13 Hay Street, Haymarket, Nsw, 2000, Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Public transport: Paddy's Markets Light Rail

Budget and luxury shopping of Ginza @ Tokyo, Japan

Most of people would think that you can only do luxury shopping in Ginza, Tokyo. Many do not know that there are one popular budget clothing outlet in Ginza which is GU. Unlike Uniqlo, GU is a budget line of clothing from Uniqlo. Besides clothing, Ginza also have many good restaurants, dessert shops and electrical equipment stores. Ginza is a place where virtually every leading brand name in fashion and cosmetics has a presence. Here also you can find huge Japanese department stores such as Mitsukoshi and Matsuya.


High end Bose speakers in Softbank electronic store. There is high demand market in Tokyo for these high end speakers as Japanese purchasing power are high.

Drones.

Largest GU clothing store in Tokyo located in Ginza. Lets see below on what GU have in its store.

Light winter clothing.

Reasonable priced shoes. Around 1490 to 1990 Yen per pair.

Trendy backpack at 1,990 Yen.

Long sleeve clothing.

Clothing features in GU Ginza.

Ginza also have huge Uniqlo store which is 10 storey high. Unfortunately the price is not cheaper compared to Malaysia.

Huge selection in Uniqlo Ginza.

Creative spinning model display.

One whole floor dedicated for T-shirts.

Japanese message T-shirts.

Le Cafe Doutor with flower shop beside.


This shop selling so many types of mochi and dorayaki. Its sakura mochi which is wrapped by cherry leaf is delicious but the price is expensive at 280 Yen per piece.

Famous Seiko building in Ginza.

Katsumido is a popular camera shop in Ginza which already in business for generations.

A man looking at used cameras. All the cameras are in good condition.

At the top of Ricoh building in Ginza, there is wind generator and solar panels. The floor below with a screen showing the public how much green energy it generates. Green energy is the way to go. No wonder Tokyo is such a huge megalopolis but the air still clean.

GPS/Coordinate: 35.670846, 139.764480
Address: Chuo, Ginza, 6 Chome−9, Tokyo.
Public transport: Ginza or Higashiginza station via Tokyo metro.