Grey November

Remember somewhere last year I posted the best popiah in the world Ipoh town?  For the past few months, the uncle went AWOL until mom kinda bumped into him.

The grumpy old fart is now found in a newly established coffee shop in town!

The coffee shop is located just below Lotte Hotel, opposite The Store (ex Ocean).  Its also that same jalan that you can find transvestites roaming around for business in the wee hours.

Anyway, there used to be this really great chinese fried noodles that operated during the night at the junction of Jalan Leong Sin Nam and Cowan Street (Jln Raja Ekram). Its the shop that you have to order from the jail like barred window pane fronting a Telekom communication post thingy.   That shop also went missing for a good few years now.

Surprise surprise!

That very same great noodles are in the same shop as the popiah stall now!

Kedai Kopi Xin Le can be found at the junction of Jln Dato Onn Jaafar and Jln Foo Yet Kai.

The chinese mee goreng stall opens for lunch and dinner.

Popiah opens daily except for Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays!

Ps : Sorry for the lack of better pics.  Taken with the phone in a hurry.

Pizza Hut/Domino’s/Shakey’s are all household names when it comes to pizza.  What about Yellowcab Pizza?

Not many are familiar with Yellowcab – “When You Want Great Pizza.  Call A Cab”

This Phillipines franchise offers thin crust pizza’s in 10″, 14″ and 18″.  Yeap.  Huge pizza slices like those eaten by Joey in Friends.

Their 10″ is comparable to Pizza Hut’s large.  The thing is, Yellowcab tak kedekut with their toppings.

Their 18″ on the other hand is really massive.  Try imagine 2.5 times the length of Pizza Hut’s large pizza slice.  With more toppings.  

Yellowcab Taipan branch can be found along the Lorong 100 Tahun shoplot nearby McD’s.

They can also be found near the Dang Wangi LRT station. 

Grace and I decided to dine at Paddington House of Pancakes, Mid Valley located opposite The Chicken Rice Shop along Big Apple Donuts since the previous visit she had was very promising.

Having to choose from what seems like a reference book of pancakes was a tiring flick of the arm. There are 138 different types of pancakes that they serve here and making the final decision is bloody harder than anything I’ve ever had to decide on.

Grace took her buritto looking Tokyo pancake with cherries.

I had my sunny side up Brussels with cherries again.

We shared this huge plate of nachos, again with more cherries.

We had so many cherries till Grace started to merajuk.

All in all, Paddington boasts great service and tonnes of scrumptious pancakes for your tummy!

Yesterday was Valentines and today is Single’s Awareness Day. WTFreak. Does a day like that exist? Perhaps for Gerald.

Zondervan Comparative Study Bible

Grace gave me the bible that I wanted to get a long time ago!

Emo right?

I got her ummm…I don’t know what it’s called.

This year round, I decided to take Grace to somewhere different from the usual fine dining restaurants. It’s a place called the Look Out Point situated in Hulu Langat, Selangor that has a full view of KL city.

One of the best views of KL City

Look Out Point is located along Jalan Hulu Langat which is on the way from Hospital Ampang and Puteri Park Plaza in Cheras/Ampang.

Is heaven shining upon the coming elections?

There are 3 restaurants in Look Out Point; Gasoline, Look Out Point Restaurant and the best of them all was BREAD & OLIVE Cafe.

Bread & Olives is the middle restaurant!

The restaurant was great with prompt service and excellent waiters. The Boss of Bread & Olive is Filipino, Spanish, Malaysian and Chinese. I think.

The Mexcican Dish is nice.

Pizza just rocks!

The killer point of Look Out Point is not the food though, but the view of KL city that is breathtaking at worst.

Dining with a view to kill.

Seriously this place is worth coming to regardless of occasion. Best come before 7 pm as the parking space is limited and you will have to park at the foot of the hill.

After sunset view

Look Out Point, Kompleks Pelancongan Menara Tinjau.
1.Exit the MRR2 at Pandan Indah Interchange.
2.Go straight until the T-Junction. Esso will be on your left. Turn right at the traffic light.
3.Take a left at the next traffic light
4.Take another left at the traffic light beside Puteri Plaza.
5.Turn right at the traffic light junction to Ulu Langat/Kajang after Taman Melur. (Please take note on this, you might missed this.)
6.From this traffic light the road is winding for about 3 km.
7.Look out for the sign board “Menara Tinjau”.
8.Will come across a food court on the right with carpark. Turn in and drive up the hill to the LookOut Point Restaurant.

Directions were taken of chingling.net

Simply gorgeous.

=) Take a drive up.

I was back in Ipoh for the Chinese New Year jams celebrations. There wasn’t much to do especially with most of the shops closing for the festive season and traveling around in town was worse than KL’s daily crawls.

One of the few fine dining restaurants that was still open for business is Indulgence, now located along Jalan Raja Dihilir.

Their tiramisu is just out of this world. Pricing is also sky high @ RM 12 per serving.

I already had dinner so I settled for a piece of brownie at a more reasonable price @ RM 6 per slice. Prices in Indulgence match those at Italianies but at a smaller portions, so it might be a pinch. Nevertheless, the food at Indulgence has always been great, with presentations that will certainly make appetites grow exponentially.

Even the Royal Family of Perak dines here on weekends. Food for thought, huh?

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On a lighter note, my car was nearly stolen back in PJ 2 days ago. Modus operandi is breaking the passenger lock and duplicating the key for the driver door and ignition. Please take note.