It is now school holiday and my little boy was the happiest person. No need to goto school anymore and can just spend everyday playing. Every students also likes school holiday especially the year end long holiday. There are so much to play, so much to do and so much to sleep.... lol.

Mine was already over long ago and being a parent now, school holiday is even more busy. Apart from work, gotta spend time and plan for some activity with the little one.

My four years old son just completed his first year of kindergarten and did quite well. Although he is not one who pay attention at most of the time but somehow still did well in his examination. So I guess it got to make him a bit of a special treat for his achievement.

I just spend a few days to the capitol state of Selangor over the past weekend with family for holidays and well, it is year end and it was monsoon season. There lots of rain but somehow the holiday still quite okay considering it still goes according to the plan.

Our first stop is at Kenanga for some shopping. Didn't really get to grab much things over here and later in the afternoon it started to rain heavily. We left the place and head to hotel at Klang. Driving in this stranger place in heavy rain is really a pain. With poor visibility ahead, it is hard to even read the road sign board to get to the correct route. After a whole lots of turning around we manage to get to a familiar road and get to Klang. I was damn tired so I took a short nap after a shower.

Night is falling and our tummy is also started to yell 'I'm Hungry....!'.
We head to a food court at SS2 for dinner and just we're about to leave, rain continues to pour in. Why there is so much rain here!

We head to Sunway Pyramid as the rain continues pouring along the way. Christmas is nearing and we can see all the decorations has been put up at the shopping mall.

It already late night as we reach hotel and guess what, it is still raining. Well, had enough of it already. Hopefully with this long life rain gone tomorrow will be a shiny day for us.

Bukit Tambun is synonym with its famous seafood and patrons who came here craving for the delicacies may find it hard to decide which restaurant serve the best seafood. There are dozens of seafood restaurant in the area and to which one serve the best seafood has been a myth.

I paid a visit to one of the restaurant located in the most isolated route in Bukit Tambun. HoHo Food World is located at the very end of the road to Bukit Tambun. After exiting the North South highway and drive towards Bukit Tambun, there are many seafood restaurant along the way. Upon reaching nearly the end of the route, we enter a rather bumpy small lane to reach the restaurant.

Stepping into the restaurant seemed a typical seafood restaurant like most others. This restaurant has just been taken over few months ago and the new owner, Mr. Henry Ng is gradually improving the restaurant interior.

This restaurant resided at the riverside of Sungai Jawi. You may find busy fishermen boat going in and out of the river. The restaurant itself also do their own catch of fish, crabs, prawn and so on for their own stock apart of getting it from suppliers.

They have abundance of live stock in their inventory among others, crabs, prawns and also lobster.

Mud crab is a famous delicacies among seafood. They have plenty here in all shape and size.

Spotted Angel Fish. This is a rare kind of fish found in seafood restaurant. This unique fish gives a distinct texture and taste compared to other species.

This is a prehistoric animal dated back to hundred of millions of years back and still live in this planet. Horse Shoe Crab or locally known as Belangkas is also available here.

While awaiting for the food to arrive, I always like to walk around and watch all those live seafood they keep in the restaurant. I ate many kind of seafood but somehow I wonder what does some of the food I ate looks like when it is alive. I mean, not all seafood restaurant keep live stock for you to see what is the real thing is.

Now, having spending some time in the restaurant walking around seeing and discovering, the food is arriving to our table. Yes, food is coming!

The first platter is the boiled octopus tentacles and also spiked sea shell. Arranged in a Yin Yang style, this appetizing snack deemed simple but the experience was significant. Both the octopus and shell meat was so sweet and bouncy I could feel it resisting every bite I made on it. Serve with a couple of different sauce, it is simply great.

Then comes a little small pot with some mystical treasure hidden beneath its cover. This is one of their signature dish, the fish head and yam. Unlike others which cooks as a soup, at HoHo Food World, this one is cooked and double boiled until the yam completely softened and penetrated into the fish head making the texture very smooth and tantalizing. This is a very unique dishes and you got to try this for once to get the feel out of it.

Next comes another pot onto our table. As we reveal the treasure beneath, several large prawn appear on the top and under it lies a bowl of rice cooked in a specially prepared sauce. It's another signature dish of the restaurant. Unlike the normal clay pot rice we had, the master chef here made some adjustment on the sauce to make the rice more fragrant and taste stronger.

Steamed Mantis Prawn in soy sauce. The mantis prawn is cooked just nice preserving it's meat juiciness and the natural sweetness. This is really delicious.

Steamed Spotted Angel Fish topped with special sauce consisting of fermented bean and chili. The fish meat is smooth paired with the tasteful sauce, its really yummy.

My all time favorite seafood, crab. This is another special dishes served at HoHo Food World. Flower crab cooked with curry gravy Indonesia style. The curry gravy were strong in taste yet not so spicy and the crab meat were so juicy and sweet indicating the crab is really fresh.

Another unique dishes found here is this Oyster served with specially braised gravy. The oyster was sweet covered with the delicious gravy resulting a mouth blowing experience.

Finally comes this Fried Signature Tofu. The tofu were crisp in the outer layer and smooth in the inner side. Simply delicious.

Overall the food at HoHo Food World is great. For those who are looking for new experience in seafood should pay a visit to this restaurant to try out their new taste of dishes.

Map Location
5°16'12.14" 100°26'34.45"

The recently open fine dining restaurant, The Limestone at the Regalodge Hotel has held a press conference and I was honored to witness this unique fine dining restaurant in the heart of Ipoh. The Limestone serves authentic European cuisines including French, Italian, Portuguese as well as Spanish in their menu. All the dishes are prepared using fresh ingredients with some are imported from other country to gives you the authentic taste. From tomato sauce to ice cream, everything is made from scratch here.

The cozy contemporary ambiance at the Limestone gives a relaxing feel to every patrons who come to this restaurant. It is not a large restaurant with dozens of tables but this little space prove to make me feel really comfortable to enjoy a dinner.

The man behind the scene is culinary master, Chef Erwin Vande Vegte from Europe. With more than 2 decades of culinary experience under his belt chef Erwin has been working in several country including Switzerland, Germany, UK among others. His culinary art is shined at a Two Michelin Star Restaurant in Europe. Chef Erwin is specialized in the South French Cuisine and is now in the mission to introduce his culinary art in Ipoh.

Long story short, let move on to the point of the restaurant, the finely made culinary art by a Master Chef.
On the cold dishes corner serves some mouth watering fresh salad, salmon, prawn, mussel, and lobster and so on. It was just so appetizing that one would have his jaw drop down looking at all this delicious food. Though, these special platter is specially made upon request so lets get on to their menu dishes instead.

Grilled Lobster With Wild Rice.
Now this is really wild having a plate of rice with that grilled wild lobster flew all the way from Canada. You could have either the whole lobster or just half of it. The lobster is grilled to perfection top with some smooth cheesy gravy, it's simply irresistible.

Grilled Ostrich Irish Melon Sauce.

Spanish Paella
This is also known as the Spanish Seafood Rice is a well known Spanish signature cuisine. It has prawn, squid and mussel cooked with rice. Saffron is added into the rice which makes it taste remarkable.

Apart of those European cuisines, they also serve specially made cakes including Moccacino, Strawberry Cheese, Orange Bavarois, Black Forest and Vanilla Chocolate Tiramisu.

The Strawberry Cheese cake is somewhat special. The cake and cheese cream is layered covered with some smooth and sweet cream. The top is covered with strawberry and syrup. Somehow the sweetness is a bit excessive for a health conscious person.

Overall the dining experience at the Limestone is an eye opener for me to experience fine European cuisines. The environment is cool and the food was great.

The Limestone Fine Dining Restaurant

Ground Floor Regalodge Hotel
131, Jalan Raja Ekram,
30450 Ipoh, Perak,
Malaysia.

Open for Breakfast, Lunch, Hi Tea and Dinner
Contact: 05 2423241

Its been quite a long time I haven't been to Taman Pakatan for dinner so this time around I drove to this rather isolated housing area for a nice dinner. Somewhat I stumble upon this restaurant which I had never been to. It was Saturday evening but there wasn't a huge crowd in the restaurant though but anyway I wanted to try it out.

Qiu Ji Restaurant located just nearby the Pengkalan wet market building. All right, you got to know where is this Taman Pakatan at first before you could actually find the wet market building anyway.

First dish on the table, Clay Pot Tofu. The sizzling dish smell really tempting when served onto the table.

Marmite Chicken, another scrumptious dish onto the table. I was drooling.

Fried Baby French Bean, the amount was ample for all the three of us. The bean was so crunchy and taste so sweet although is was just a simply cook dish.

The total bill sum up to RM31.50 including of two drinks. The three of us was really fully filled leaving the restaurant and the food is good. And yeah by the time we were leaving, the crowd has build up taking almost all the table.

Map Location : 4.543118,101.082678

Seri Botani is a rather new housing estate situated in between Gunung Rapat and Simpang Pulai. Its a huge piece of land which is still under development process and not many know that this estate could link to several key area including Pengkalan, Unisem at Simpang Pulai and of course Jalan Gopeng. Just like any housing estate, there sure will be rows of shops standing by the main road. Although most of the shop lots here is still lying empty but I could see a few of them is already in operational. Of course, you will definitely find restaurants around here but the last thing you may expect is a restaurant serving buffet steamboat dinner in the middle of this less-known area.

As you turn into the Seri Botani from Jalan Gopeng just go straight along the main road and you will find this restaurant on your left.

There isn't anything special about the steamboat here as you will be given a regular steamboat pot with two choice of soup base. Plain soup, Tom Yam, porridge and herbal soup is what available. If you been to buffet steamboat before, I'm sure you know this is what you get to choose elsewhere. Hmm... I wonder where I could find one who serve curry soup.

Okay, it may turn out to be a bit boring at start but let's get into the food tables here. Yeah, show me the food!

The fast food section comprise of fried noodle and rice as well as several varieties of fried snacks. Oh yeah, not to forget about the curry chicken there. Choice here aren't much but its good to have something on the plate while awaiting for the steamboat to boil up.

On the front you will find varieties of frozen stuff for your steamboat.
If you want to find something more valuables to cover back your expenses you could skip this one and proceed to the seafood section though.

Oh Yeah seafood. Fish, prawn, squid, clamp, mantis shrimp, mussle, scallop, crab just to name part of it. It's going to be sinful if you don't take a full platter of these, or maybe two.

Veggies is my all time favourite, its a good way for a healthy diet though.

There are several stalls which continuously busy preparing food for the patrons. This is the roast stall which prepares juicy roast chicken, duck and pork too. Simply irresistible.

Then there is this Dim Sum stall which serves many kinds of Dim Sum of your liking. Just take whichever you like and you can also request for some nice steamed Dim Sum too.

Our Barbecue guy working hard on the stove. He is busy grilling prawns and crabs the whole evening and his comrade on the western stall busy preparing grill chicken, lamb and steak too.

Yummy, some delicious grilled prawn and crab.

Here is a full platter of Japanese Sushi. Its really filling me up I tell ya.

At this point of the dinner I have got all kind on food dump into my stomach already. The food out there is just too irresistible. I grab a bowl of shark fin soup, well, without the shark fin of course but it taste nice though. Then another bowl of red bean dessert. I'm almost done but the dessert and refreshment is seducing me.

Colorfully decorated refreshment and dessert. There's also cakes and Nyonya Kueh and not forget also the various flavor of ice cream in the freezer. Now I'm done with a big tummy, hardly movable.

I was sweating terribly part of it due to the hot spell and part of it because the ventilation at this restaurant. I guess they need to put up a few more fan to cool down the place though. My brother in law from Cameron Highlands cannot stand the heat and left to his nearby house for some air conditioner.

The food at this restaurant was good but make sure you wear casually and comfortably or else you will be bathing after the meal. Price for the buffet here is RM23.80 for adult and RM11.80 for children during weekday. As for weekend the price hike up to RM26.8 and RM13.80. As for children below 7 years old it is absolutely FREE and senior above 65 years old is charge as children.

Restoran Old Generation
No. 52, Jalan Lapangan Siber 10,
31350 Bandar Cyber,
Ipoh, Perak.

Tel: 012 447 1058

Buffet Dinner time start from 6.30pm

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