Carven's Table

Makcik making Kuih Kapit (Nyonya's crispy love letters biscuit) I still remember clearly on last year's Masterchef when Poh, the runner-up decides on a theme for inventory test challenge. She chose Malaysian as a theme and everyone else was shocked and didn't have a clue what Malaysian cuisine is, I sill remember Julie the winner was panicking and she ended up cooking something more like Thai food. Har-Mee aka Prawn Noodle Malaysian cuisine is quite complex and kinda hard to define due to the diversity of it's multi-ethnic population of Malays, Chinese, Indian, Nyonya , Eurasian and Indigenous people of Borneo. Every ethnic group has their own type of food and almost every state has their own signature dish. If you happen to travel to Malaysia, you'll find yourself in the cross road of choosing what to sample, because there are just way too many food to choose from, the sky is the limit in when it comes to Malaysian food, best of all they only cost you around $...

Just recently a housemate of mine sign up with Lite n' Easy meal plan, and I am there thinking why would you want to go on diet during winter? Also, the ultimate question of mine about Lite n' Easy meals gotta be whether it's any good. Personally, I wouldn't sign up for meal plans like this, as I'm much prefer planning my own meal. Due to some unforeseen reason (just travel back to the country, had nothing to eat in the fridge, I'm too darn hungry and it's too cold to get takeaway), I had a go at my housemates' one of her Lite n' Easy meal - The Beef Stroganoff. Just like any other frozen microwavable instant meal, all you have to do is just follow the said instruction, put into microwave for 9 mins and there you go! Forget about the aesthetic of the meal, it's microwaveable frozen food, they never look good. To be honest, I haven't had microwaveable frozen food for a long long time, it reminds me of my uni life as a poor student, where...

Attended a class when I was in Malaysia, we were lucky enough to be able to try these cute little things made by an award winning French chef - Meilleur Ouvrier de France (M.O.F.) Jean-Francois Arnaud. He is the master in pastry, he also used to be a consultant and trainer for Romania Team in the Pastry World Cup ( Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie ). Apart from winning alot of other award, he is also consultant for numerous pastry institute in Europe. He often travels to Malaysia conduct a few pastry workshop at the French Culinary School in Asia, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) . Unfortunately for me, I didn't get the chance to attend the workshop, as it is way too expensive, but I was luck enough to attend another short classes while he was in the kitchen making these cute little bugger for a press confrence. And we get to try them during our tea break. Everyone in our class was stunned, especially the ladies with much of "wow, ooh, ahh, cutteee..." I can't help but get...

Was going through my camera memory card as my external hard drive just corrupted recently :( only I realised i took a photo of this random scenario in Malaysia. Spotted all these sign in a mamak stall in Malaysia, my advise to all French people to avoid coming to Malaysia especially to mamak stall, as they would gladly dip you in oil and fried, not steam nor poach, but FRIED! LOL XD *No offence to any French people out there, please kindly take this as a joke.*

There are so many different eating habits among man-kind. Some of which, you can accept for who they are; everyone has a different cultural background, different kind of brought up and different kind of exposure to food culture. Recently I have encounter with more of these weird or different kind of eating habits. However, one that i can't tolerate is the one (a group of them actually) that carries LV or a luxury branded handbags, wears a Christian Dior sunglasses, branded apparel from top to bottom, probably pays up to thousands to fix up their hair every fortnight, in their 40s, sipping French Champagne during lunch with their group of ladies friends. Yes, I am hereby judging them by the way they carry themselves, nothing wrong with dressing up with branded apparel, don't get me wrong. You would have thought they are the well-educated, successful women in their 40s, expose to all sort of things, probably have eaten at a few michelin star restaurant in Europe. But when the...

Great! another new site dedicated to Perth coffee scene. It's exciting to see all these new coffee huts/shops/kiosk popping up on Perth's street. Visit http://www.perthcoffeescape.com/ for coffee reviews, checking out new coffee bar, or just to interact with other Perth coffee enthusiast. I'm liking the new scene. There will be more educated coffee drinker and the coffee quality will be expected to increase at the same time. I guess it's time to say good-bye to burnt and watery coffee! 

Year 2009 is coming to an end (how good is that! :D) and year 2010 is approaching in 2 days, i have a sudden urge to compile a list of restaurant that i have visited in year 2009. January Cafe Villa, Leederville  K's, Northbridge Twisted Fork, Mosman Park   February Flute Restaurant, Margaret River Bluewater Grill, Applecross Ciao Italia, South Perth Little Creatures, Freo Cicerello's, Freo Mussels Bar, Freo Dragon Seafood Restaurant, Northbridge Good Fortune Duck House, Northbridge Good Vibration Fast Food outlet Hawkers Bazzar's hawkers food outlet, Burswood Es Teler 77, Melbourne  Vue de Monde, Melbourne The Chocolate Room, Melbourne Max Brenner, Melbourne Mekong Vietnam, Melbourne  March Cantina 663, Mt Lawley Star Anise, Shenton Park  Spaghi, South Perth  Two Fat Indian, Cottlesloe Sandrino's Fremantle April Ecco, Subiaco Tiger tiger, Perth CBD May Bouchon Bistro, Wembley  Lamonts, East Perth ...

I am now back in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will be eating out a lot i supposed! I am busy scouting for good food especially within the blogsphere, but at the same time i will need to know more foodies around the town so that i get to eat more good food! Can't wait!

Food Blog Hopping and food review site hopping, I do that quite often, sometimes i drool my eyes over the super delicious menu and pictures, and then i can't remember which restaurant really impressed me with their menu that will pull me into their restaurant one day. So, just incase i forgot what restaurant i would like to go in the future, i will pen down my wishlist so that i have somewhere to refer to next time. There you go, my eatery wishlist in WA, for my personal reference: (in no particular orders) 1. The Loose Box (no.89 in the Top 100 Restaurant in Australia) 2. K's Restaurant 3. Cream Restaurant 4. Bouchon Bistro 5. Jackson's 6. Tsunami 7. The Raffles 8. Star Anise (no. 48 in the Top 100 Restaurant in Australia) 9. The Mussel Bar 10. Nine Fine Food 11. Twisted Fork 12. Xanadu Winery Restaurant The above wishlist restaurant are the ones that is highly rated, overly priced and serve exquisite fine food. Here are my another wishlist which i think i could try them a...