Kopitiam Kita, Kota Bharu

Date Visited : 29 September 2017

This is my favourite breakfast place in Kota Bharu. Whenever I'm in Kota Bharu, I MUST have my breakfast here. This place is called Kopitiam Kita.

This place is constantly packed with locals and I've never once seen this place even half empty.

The reason why I love this place so much is that you can choose from a wide selection of local Kelantan food such as Nasi Tumpang, Nasi Dagang, Nasi Kerabu, Nasi Lemak and many more.

All these food you see readily packed and grouped into different baskets are actually from different suppliers from various parts of Kelantan. This place serves as a platform to promote and sell their specialty dishes.

My selection for today are Nasi Berlauk Ikan Tumpat, Nasi Kapit Sambal and Nasi Tumpang Kubang Pasu.

Each packet is like a surprise present to me because I don't know how each packet would look and taste like. But until today, I've never been disappointed with my choices. 

The one at the top of the photo, served on a banana leaf is Nasi Kapit Sambal. The square shaped rice is like nasi impit and it's served with a dry type of sambal. The sambal is sweet, salty and spicy in taste and it's really delicious when eaten together with the rice.

The one at the bottom of the photo, served in brown paper packing is the Nasi Berlauk Ikan Tumpat. I don't think it's the name of the fish, I think this rice is from a town in Kelantan called Tumpat. Like I said... every packet I chose is a surprise to me because I just picked them up in random and based on gut feel.

Now this cone shaped rice is called Nasi Tumpang Kubang Pasu. Nasi Tumpang is rice with different layer of dishes wrapped in a cone shape with banana leaf. 

And now for the main highlight of this place... it's a toast bread dish called Roti Titab.

It's toasted bread served with their own homemade kaya and half boiled egg. Even if you don't prefer runny egg yolks, you should try this. The combination is OUT OF THIS WORLD!

This dish is so delicious and popular that they decided to trademark the name, Roti Titab.

And this is their bread served in many other ways...

If you ever have a chance to go to Kota Bharu, you have to make it a compulsory to come here at least once. The Roti Titab is a must and the rest is up to you to try.

OUR RATING

Ambience : 4/5 

Service : 4/5

Food Quality : 5/5

Price Range : $

Status : Halal

Other information:

Address : 4357-A Taman Desa Jaya Jalan Pengkalan Chepa, 15400 Kota Bharu, Kelantan

Contact No. : 019-981 0888 / 018-987 0888 / 012-987 0888 / 010-910 0001

Business Hours : 6.00am - 2.00pm (Saturday - Thursday) / 6.00am - 12.30pm (Friday)

Transaction : Cash only

Links : https://web.facebook.com/KopitiamKitaRotiTitab/

The Porki Society, Sea Park PJ

Date visited : 22 September 2017

Today was one of those days where we planned to go one place but ended up at another. So this is yet another surprise discovery.

When we drove pass, the signboard just screamed "TRY ME"... and then we did.

It was a very cozy and casual Thai restaurant with colourful wooden furniture.

The first thing that caught our attention when we opened our menu was this...

This is their best seller, the Porki Platter. It was pork served in 5 different ways... pork skewers, grilled pork, pork sausage, pork ball sticks and squid stuffed with minced pork. The dipping sweet, sour and spicy dipping sauce elevates the deliciousness of the meat on this platter. Each type was tasty in its own special flavour.

Since we ordered the platter and there were only 3 of us, I decided to order boat noodles instead.

Only one of it was mine... It was only RM2 a bowl!

But in case you're not familiar with boat noodles, the portion is actually very small... some could eat up to 20 bowls in one sitting.

My husband decided to try one of the all time favourite Thai dish... the Pineapple Fried Rice.

This is not one of those that only have a slight pineapple flavouring to the fried rice. It has chunks of pineapple added with the fried rice.

We also ordered a side of Thai Spring Rolls. It comes with its own sweet and sour dipping sauce with peanuts.

When I go to a Thai restaurant, I will always look out for their popular dessert, the Red Ruby. So this time is no different.

What I appreciated most about it was the sugar syrup given separately in a little container. This way, we are able to adjust the level of sweetness according to individual preferences. However, the red jelly that wraps around the chestnut is a little hard for my liking. But on overall, it was still a decent Red Ruby.

I'm glad we discovered this place because I will definitely come back to this place to try out other dishes. I saw the Pad Thai ordered by the table next to us and it looked delicious.

OUR RATING

Ambience : 4/5 

Service : 4/5

Food Quality : 4.5/5

Price Range : $

Status : Non Halal

Other information:

Address : No 10 Jalan 21/19, Sea Park, Section 21, 46300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Contact No. : 03-7865 5241

Business Hours : 12pm - 10.00pm (Daily)

Transaction : Cash and credit card

Links : https://www.facebook.com/theporkisociety/

Hong Kong Dim Sum BFB, Ipoh

Date visited : 31 August 2017

Most of the time when people make a trip to Ipoh and in need to satisfy their craving for dimsum, they will usually head towards the popular dimsum street in the heart of Ipoh town. I do have my favourite dimsum place there but this is not about that place. This place is tucked away from the frenzied crowd but yet still crowded with locals.

This is Restoran Hong Kong Dim Sum BFB... or direct translation for their name in Chinese, "Bat Fun Bun" aka 8 1/2.

Since it's not overly crowded tourists, it didn't take very long for us to get a table.

They have a wide selection to choose from... the common ones as well as some unique ones.

I like the way that they're not too big in size. Otherwise, you'll get full easily and you won't be able to try out more varieties.

The fried selections are quite delicious because it's not too oily.

Deep Fried Yam Paste with meat filling is delicious with the right amount of yam and meat filling and at the same time not too oily.

There are also some of the common selections that are equally delicious.

A trip to the dim sum restaurant will never be complete without having Char Siew Pau...

Another popular choice here is the runny, creamy salted egg yolk and custard filling bun or better known as Lau Sa Pau.

If you're going to come here, try to be early so that more varieties are available.

OUR RATING

Ambience : 3/5 (It's just like any other dim sum restaurant)

Service : 3.5/5 (The staff are very prompt in clearing the empty plates and dim sum baskets)

Food Quality : 4/5

Price Range : $ (Cheaper compared to dim sum places in the Klang Valley)

Status : Non-Halal

Other information:

Address : 61, Persiaran Bandar Baru Tambun 16, Taman Ipoh Impian, 31400 Ipoh Garden, Perak

Contact No. : 010-220 3812

Business Hours : 6.30am - 1.30pm (Daily)

Transaction : Cash

Putu Piring Melaka, Tengkera, Melaka

Date visited : 23 August 2017

Putu piring is a popular Malaysian snack. It is a round, steamed rice cake filled with melted palm sugar or gula melaka, and eaten with lightly salted young grated coconut. 

Putu piring is not really one of my favourite because the ones I had before were mostly either too dry, too sweet or too much rice flour and with less palm sugar. When one of my friend pestered me to drop by this place to buy some, I was skeptical but I gave in to her pestering... and it was a life changing experience.

Tucked away from the busy and tourist packed part of Melaka town, among the old stretch of double storey shoplots, stands the Putu Piring Melaka stall. They are only open for business for 4 hours daily from Monday to Saturday.

Just by standing there waiting for my order to be ready and packed was quite entertaining. I enjoyed watching the aunty and the uncles at work. One uncle was busy packing the orders into boxes while the other uncle was busy preparing the rice cakes for steaming...

Working non-stop over the steamer was the aunty, busy covering and uncovering the conical moulds to place the new rice cakes for steaming and checking if the other rice cakes were ready to be taken out.

They were so fast and skillful that we didn't even have to wait long for our orders to be fulfilled.

It was so aromatic that I couldn't resist eating one immediately. The gula melaka filling was in a very well balanced portion that makes every bite into the rice cake burst with sweet, aromatic flavour of the gula melaka and at the same time a slight saltiness from the grated young coconut.

However, putu piring is best eaten when it's warm. So, just buy enough to be eaten immediately.

OUR RATING

Service : 4.5/5

Food Quality : 5/5

Price Range : $

Status : Halal

Other information:

Address : 252 Jalan Tengkera, 75250 Melaka

Contact No. : 06-282 1505

Business Hours : 6.00pm - 10.00pm (Monday-Saturday) / Closed on Sundays

Transaction : Cash

Links : https://www.facebook.com/Putu-Piring-Melaka-1410584492514527/