What to do on a weekend with a house guest? Look for something to do between meals. As it worked out we mostly looked for food, and we were so pleased with our options that we devoured our food and forgot to take photos.
On Saturday morning the mandatory drill is to send a guest on the walking tour of Brickfields. After the 2 hour walk Trace was ready to start eating. The first stop was the vegetarian Restoran Chaat Masala. Unlike our previous visit, when the waiter guided our choices, we were left on our own. We hadn't checked the blog recommendations, so we started with the known choice (butter chicken) and two new (to us) dishes. Everything was flavorful. Trace didn't know that the chicken was not chicken until we told her.
The chaats aren't available before 3:00, so we had to schedule an encore visit to introduce Trace to pani puri. A customer had told us how to eat the puri - put hole in the top of the puri (small cups), spoon in the accompanying pani, and sip out the innards. BTW the blogs suggest eating by punching the top, spooning in pani, and popping the whole puri into your mouth. It is yummy however eaten.
Jalan Alor for dinner. The street consists of rows of hawker stalls. We looked for the place where we ate at in October, I think that we found it. In any case we settled in at Restoran Sun Chui Yuen , the place with yellow table cloths. We went for the chicken fish (good) and we were wowed by an eggplant dish (outstanding). We will check out what it is out next visit.
Sunday more food. Off to Din Tai Fung MidValley for xiao long bao (Shanghai soup dumplings). Similar to the pani puri one nibbles a whole in the dumpling and sucks out the soup. This website gives a step-by-step description on how to eat.
We ended the weekend by eating at Saravana, one of our favorite neighborhood restaurants. It is a vegetarian restaurant with worldwide branches. I introduced Trace to mixed vegetable parotta - I like it so much I never order anything else. Doug's onion masala rav dosa makes a better picture - the parotta was an indistinct pile of cut up bread.
After dinner we walked around the neighborhood and discovered South Pacific Seafood - its tables spilled out into the parking lot. (During the day it is boarded up and doesn't look inviting.) We decided that would be our first meal back after our trip to Penang. For now I can only said that our walk around the neighborhood was well rewarded.
On Saturday morning the mandatory drill is to send a guest on the walking tour of Brickfields. After the 2 hour walk Trace was ready to start eating. The first stop was the vegetarian Restoran Chaat Masala. Unlike our previous visit, when the waiter guided our choices, we were left on our own. We hadn't checked the blog recommendations, so we started with the known choice (butter chicken) and two new (to us) dishes. Everything was flavorful. Trace didn't know that the chicken was not chicken until we told her.
The chaats aren't available before 3:00, so we had to schedule an encore visit to introduce Trace to pani puri. A customer had told us how to eat the puri - put hole in the top of the puri (small cups), spoon in the accompanying pani, and sip out the innards. BTW the blogs suggest eating by punching the top, spooning in pani, and popping the whole puri into your mouth. It is yummy however eaten.
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Sunday more food. Off to Din Tai Fung MidValley for xiao long bao (Shanghai soup dumplings). Similar to the pani puri one nibbles a whole in the dumpling and sucks out the soup. This website gives a step-by-step description on how to eat.
We ended the weekend by eating at Saravana, one of our favorite neighborhood restaurants. It is a vegetarian restaurant with worldwide branches. I introduced Trace to mixed vegetable parotta - I like it so much I never order anything else. Doug's onion masala rav dosa makes a better picture - the parotta was an indistinct pile of cut up bread.
After dinner we walked around the neighborhood and discovered South Pacific Seafood - its tables spilled out into the parking lot. (During the day it is boarded up and doesn't look inviting.) We decided that would be our first meal back after our trip to Penang. For now I can only said that our walk around the neighborhood was well rewarded.
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