Dinner at Hei Yeong Seng Chinese Restaurant

 

This is the entrance to Hei Yeong Seng Chinese Restaurant where we dined recently over the weekend. It looks decadent with the red Chinese New Year cloth decos, potted bongsai trees, et cetera.

 

This was one of our dishes that I ordered - broccoli with scallops, stirfried with ginger, garlic and spring onions. The broccoli was crunchy and scallops succulent to taste. The chopped ginger added the 'oomph' to the flavor.

 

Notice the comb of genuine shark's fins with dried scallops, chicken plus chinese herbal roots and other condiments. A bowl like this will set you back by $40 as sharks' fins are rare commodity now and sharks are endangered species. The double-boiled soup was just superb and heavenly. 

 

This presentation of this dish was not as nice as what we have ordered before but it tasted just as delicious. This is two styles cooked chicken that's fried and garnished with sesame seeds which give the added flavor to the palate.

 

After finishing our ordered dishes, to our surprise, the waiter brought us free dessert of mooncakes to celebrate the lunar month of the mooncake festival. The middle portions are salted duck egg yolk covered with lotus seed that's been processed into a paste and baked in the oven. Some of the mooncakes are just plain filling while others have nutty fillings and red bean paste.

 

These are the most common mooncakes with brown covering and floral motifs imprinted on them. They are vacuum  packed individually at now cost 10% more than last year, ranging from $12 - $18 a piece. This photo was taken downstairs of the restaurant where there is a supermarket on the ground floor.

 

This is a different variety of mooncakes made from black charcoal powder to give its distinct black color.

 

More colored mooncakes - in this case, they are beige or pastel yellow snowskin.

 

This is the ambiance of Hei Yeong Seng Chinese Restaurant and view from our table. Sometimes Chinese wedding banquets are held here with almost the whole restaurant being booked in advance. There are also private function rooms for the discerning wealthy and millionaire diners who prefer to eat in complete privacy and away from the prying eyes of other diners at other tables.

 

I am done with the photos at Hei Yeong Seng Restaurant. Now next to showing food photos taken in Kuala Lumpur where I went for a business trip last week. This 'sui kow' soup was taken at Noodle House in Taipan, Subang Jaya and sprinkled with chopped spring onions. A bowl like this with 5 'sui kows' cost about $6.

 

This is fish fillet baked rice at Kim Gary on the 3rd floor of Gurney Plaza. This is one of my favorite dishes and I don't mind having this every day! I can eat the same food on a daily basis without getting bored.

Gourmet Tea

Today is the first of September and heralds a new beginning of the month. It is also pay day for me. As an aside, I am paid twice a month - one on the first and the other on the fifteenth. And I love to work from a home office. Just last night, I had lobster thermidor which I will put up the picture later on. I also had baked crabs and stir-fried vermicelli in a fishing village food cafe. We had to book a table, otherwise there will not be any place and you will have to wait until the diner finished their meals before getting an empty table. That's how popular the place is, regardless of how ramshackle it looks.

My friend had gourmet tea that came in a tea pot while I ordered 2 glasses of orange juice. The lobster thermidor was succulent! There was plenty of cheese, button mushrooms and lots of onions baked together with the fresh lobster. The bill came to about $190 which was much cheaper than if you were to dine elsewhere in Penang. This particular food cafe is located in a fishing village by the seaside and is always patronized by diners that come from far and near. Singaporeans love this place for its very affordable yet delicious food. That is why it is always jammed packed with people.

The gourmet tea that my friend ordered was a type of Chinese tea called 'pu er'. It is not cheap either and the longer you keep it, the better it tastes just like wine. The older it ages, the more expensive it becomes. There are many types of gourmet tea and you can check out by clicking on the links given to read more about them. My favorite English tea is Earl Grey and Peppermint tea.

I Love T.G.I. Friday's

 

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T.G.I.F. means Thank God It's Friday's. There are many outlets of T.G.I.F all over the world and I love the one in Baltimore for its ambience and food. T.G.I.Fserves western food with huge portions - suitable for big people with huge appetite. The ambience is cosy, with dimly lit lights that is suitable for dating couples to dine with soothing music in the background. The waiters and waitresses are also trained to handle your orders with upmost professionalism. On March 15, 1965 casual dining got a serious kick start. That’s when a fun-loving New Yorker named Alan Stillman purchased a bar located on 1^st Avenue and 63^rd Street and named it T.G.I. Friday’s.  Okay, so his main goal was to meet stewardesses, but what he didn’t know at the time was that he was going to create what is now referred to as the casual dining industry.






Today, T.G.I. Friday’s offers a casual dining experience unlike any other, where you can expect great food, drinks and plenty of fun to go around at 928 locations in 44 states and 61 countries.  Just don’t expect a dull moment at any of them.

“TGIF,” an acronym that stands for “Thank God It’s Friday” (or, alternatively “Thank Gosh It’s Friday,” or “Thank Goodness It’s Friday”). The expression, which has been popularized in the last few decades through media, entertainment and marketing, nonetheless represents one of the most deep-seated features of human nature: the universal need to have fun, relax, and hang out with friends and family. And what day better represents this need than Friday, the start of the weekend? I have dined in TGIF a few times and due to the dim lighting, did not take as many food pictures as I would love to. But this is a splendid restaurant to patronize if you run out of ideas of where to eat. The fish and chips were succulent and juicy with the chips crispy to the palate. There's also a generous portion of salad paired with the main meal.

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Moving Obsession?

Thanks for the article from Jermaine Haynes

There are few things in this world I love more than real estate and that probably explains why I’ve moved so many times. It’s three in the last four years, to be exact, and I think I’m crazy because I actually like packing and unpacking and all that comes with it. I spend so much of my time changing my address and utilities and on WildBlue in Bennettsville websites that I think my boss thinks I’m slacking off but really it’s just necessary stuff! First the townhome I couldn’t pass up came my way and then it was the old farmhouse and my most recent obsession is this old Victorian I’ve moved into. I think I’m going to get a dog the next time the urge to move strikes so I won’t lose so much money on movers and things like that – this obsession is getting a bit out of hand! I know it sounds silly but I think it has something to do with wondering what the perfect house would do for my life.

Food is Nourishing

We work hard to earn an income to bring food to the table for our families and children. We spend most of our waking hours working hard for at least 8 hours straight on end, with some people working even longer hours. Therefore, we need to nourish ourselves with nutritious food to replenish the lost energy and calories. Eating food can also be cathartic. But eat in moderation and not to the extend of being obese that you have to be warded in the medical centre and see the personnel in scrubs uniforms.

On a side note, you might like to check out http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/ by clicking on the link given here to find out more. The lab coats sold here are of premium quality without burning a hole in your wallets in case you are searching for one or work in the hospital. It has long been the tradition to don a lab coat in the course of your duty in the medical centres.

It is certainly time consuming to maintain this blog with many gorgeous food photos that make eye candies to whet the appetite. It is done out of love of seeing my own photos being listed for every new post and see visitors coming back repeatedly.

Free Offer on Recipes eBook

I have gone through Dinner Revolution and read the ebook. It must say, the more than 200 recipes are easy to prepare in this more than 200-page ebook. What's more, there also the number of calories per serving, so you know what you are ingesting here for each meal. To get a free copy for my beloved readers here at Best Asian Food, simply fill in your details by clicking on the link at http://www.dinnerevolution.com/free-offer then download the ebook. Chef Jeff has certainly put in a lot of effort to come up with this amazing ebook with recipes that are easy to prepare and won't take more than 30 minutes of preparation time.

I love each of the recipe that are more catered to Western cooking and reminds of me of the tantalizing food that I have ordered here in Penang where East meets West.

I Love Food

I love food and have studied home science in secondary school from 1983 to 1985 where I scored a distinction for this subject. It includes cooking and sewing. I have copied a thick recipe book of all the food that I have learnt and cooked before which includes baking cakes, making sandwiches, cooking curries and the like. Food will never be out of fashion as people need to eat every day even during recession. You cannot go by without food.

Therefore, the three most wanted things in this world are in no particular order: food, money and sex. Which reminds me, if you like to find out more about http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/, just click on the link given to read more. Medical uniforms or
scrubs for men are used by medical personnel to look more professional as part of their jobs in the hospitals. You can get them from the scrubs stores or anywhere near your location.

The reason I update this food blog here at Best Asian Food is to create an online food album of sorts to remind me of the various places that I have dined and to share with my readers like you. Contact number and address of some of the restaurants are included for your reference.