Samy & Min Bak Kut Teh @ Bandar Botanic, Klang

Samy & Min Bak Kut Teh is among the best bak kut teh in Klang. Their soup is sinfully thick, tender pork and flavourful soup. Do come here early especially during the weekend as the waiting time is long. I do recommend to come around 5.00pm during weekend to avoid the crowd.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. Tender and flavourful meat. Soup is quite limited but its thick. If you like fatty part, do go for legs and for tasty lean go for the shoulder part).
Price:6/10(Moderate. Food is great and the price is moderate. Each bowl of porky goodness at MYR9.50 and rice at MYR1.00 each plate).


Lower leg joint and shoulder part of pork.

Still early. Not many customer yet.

Loin join.

Delicious and satisfying when eat with hot rice.

Mushroom taste good. The mushroom suck the flavourful soup to make it taste great and tender.

The fatty part is melt in your mouth.

Half fat pork.

Samy & Min bak kut teh shop in Bandar Botanic Klang.

GPS/Coordinate: 2.993618, 101.447227
Address: 100,Jalan Mahogani 1/ks7 bandar botanic, Klang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Business hours: 5.00pm until 9.00pm. Closed on monday.

Great cioppino at Sotto Mare @ San Francisco, USA

I have done some research online on the good food to have in San Francisco with reasonable price. This place having a good review on their seafood. By following the crowd, we proceed to order their Cioppino and Benita’s Baccala. I have no idea on what is cioppino which they claimed to have the best damn crab cioppino. Baccala is from salted cod fish cooked with tomatoes, olive oil, potatoes, celery and onion. The end result is a tasty red paste which the taste is about like Malaysian sambal but better. It goes well with bread. Cioppino on the other hand is cooked with a combination of Dungeness crab, clams, shrimp, scallops, squid, mussels, and fish. The seafood is then combined with fresh tomatoes in a wine sauce, and served with local sourdough or French bread. Sotto Mare version of cioppino add in some pasta in it as well. Do come early to avoid the crowd as this place is quite popular. We have to wait for half an hour although we reached there around 5.00pm for dinner on saturday.

Taste:10/10(Excellent cioppino. The portion were huge and taste fantastic. The seafood were fresh and cook just right without overwhelming flavour. The tomato soup base is amazing with all the seafood goodness).
Price:5/10(Near expensive. Baccala priced at USD9.00 and crab cioppino at USD42.00).


Appetizer Benita's Baccala. This is a cold dish. Taste good.

Great pairing with bread.

The goodness is in the pot.


Wow, so much of seafood in the pot. Each of us able to have 3 plates of these seafood. Which means total of 6 plates. Its good for two and a very satisfying dinner.

Many prawns and crab meat on my plate.

Goes well with French bread.

Its noisy environment in the kitchen. Good that we get to sit here to see how they prepared our food.

We don't need the sauce. Its good to eat on its own.

Chilli pot for decoration.

Decorations in the restaurant. They have good oysters and other seafood dishes as well.

Look out for this shop for lunch or dinner when you are at little Italy in San Francisco.

GPS/Coordinate: 37.799736, -122.408327
Address: 552 Green Street, San Francisco, California 94133, United States (in North Beach).
Public transport: Nearest bus stop is Columbus Ave & Green St which is accessible via bus no 30, 41, 45 & 91.
Hours: Monday to saturday (11.00am to 9.30pm). Closed on sunday and public holidays.

New American dinner at Olea @ San Francisco, USA

Olea is a small restaurant in Nob Hill San Francisco which serve good New American cuisine. The style is more of combination of American, French & Italian cuisine. The restaurant environment is upscale but yet casual setting. The food here emphasis more of local fresh organic produce. This restaurant serves new items each week and making changes to the meals to suit the seasons. The meal shown in this blog may not available but you can use this a guide and what to expect when dining at this restaurant. Fortunately, we reached this restaurant early in the evening around 5.30pm. Else without reservation, its hard to eat dinner here. By the time we finished the meal, the restaurant already full. The seats are limited here.

Taste:10/10(Excellent. The way they prepared the meal is unique. For example the sauteed kale in lamb shank is well prepared with a degree of crispness which I never had before. The lamb shank was also grilled to perfection. Pork stewed pasta were fantastic as well).
Price:4/10(Near expensive. Lamb shank with sauteed kale priced at USD18.00, pork stew pasta at USD16.00 and orange tiramisu at USD9.00).



Lamb shank with sauteed kale. With half tomato and mash potatoes.

Lamb shank medium well. Soft and taste great.


Pork stewed pasta.


Orange tiramisu as dessert.

Bread with extra virgin olive oil.

GPS/Coordinate: 37.791000, -122.418995
Address: 1494 California St, San Francisco, California 94109, United States (located between Hyde St & Larkin St in Nob Hill).
Public transport: Cable car on California street or bus no 19 from Fisherman's Wharf.