The coconut craze has begun in town. It has always been a major ingredient in our local cuisine, but this time around it's the ice cream. Yes you read that right, ice cream.

We have always hear and read about their desert when they first started out. As they branch out to even more branches in town, we finally manage to grab one in Nu Sentral. For your information, Sangkaya is a local developed creamery brand. We first thought it was from Thailand.

Anyway, thankfully there wasn't a long queue but there were only a handful of tables, best option is to take away after meal. What else can beat a cup of ridiculously good and refreshing coconut ice cream in Malaysia's weather?

But in our opinion, the ice cream doesn't come cheap. For three scoops you can opt for the one in the coconut shell with toppings of your choice. Very much to our liking, probably because it is less sweet compared to the regular ice cream flavours (chocolate, caramel) etc.

It's best to add peanuts and sweet corn as toppings as it complements the ice cream perfectly. The coconut taste is really strong, perfect for coconut lovers like myself. It still leaves an after taste in our mouth after each and every scoop. 

Now for those who have been to publika, I'm sure you have heard of the highly spoken of cafe, The Red Bean Bag. We are regular patrons of the said restaurant but got bored after a while. We stumbled across this hidden cafe in the corner, one floor below The Red Bean Cafe. If I'm not wrong, it should be directly below the famous Nathalie Gourmet Cuisine.

We were skeptical at first as there was empty tables with unnecessarily amount of workers waiting to serve the diners. But they prove us wrong.

We had the Aunty Joana's baked egg and it was really good. Faintly resembles the one we had in Perth, we were amazed that we could find similarly good and tasty baked eggs here in Malaysia.

There were chicken sausages, baked beans, caramelized onions and mushrooms in the baked eggs. It comes with slices of bread as well. It was so satisfying with the cheesy toppings and filling oven baked eggs, truly made my day.

On the other hand, my friend had one of their carbonara spaghetti. Topped with an egg Benedict with sautéed mushrooms, the sauce was just right without the overwhelming taste that some spaghetti might bring about after a few bites. The portion was huge for girl eaters.

This cafe do offer their special menu of the day as well from time to time. For those who wants something different, you may enquire about it with their staffs or usually they will go around asking the diners if they would like to try as well.

I guess Malaysians are big fans of Thai food that every nook and corner we can almost find a Thai restaurant nowadays especially those with the theme of thai street food.

Since we were taking our weekend stroll in KLCC the other day, we stumbled upon the newly refurbished Chakri Palace at the highest floor. The same level as Petronas Sains Centre. Truth to be told, we still prefer the old interior of the restaurant, a classier deep and dark wood interior compared to this brighter version which makes it less elegant.

When we stepped in, there were pictures of Chef Wan everywhere. Not too sure if they offer dishes created by him or collaboration in between them.

Anyway, we had their tom yam seafood soup, fish cakes, chilli and lime steamed squid (which is specially made for us as it is not in the menu). Kudos to the flexibility of the team.

The tom yam was good, with the right amount of spiciness and sourness but portion can be quite small if it was meant to be shared with friends. Fish cakes was as usual fragrant with lemon grass.

We still enjoy our meal despite the less classy interior of the restaurant. The good food makes up for it.

I think we are all pretty innovative these days, to the extent of bringing our innovative self into the food and beverage industry. Stir Fry Dry Asam Laksa, I bet some of you may not have heard or even try any of it.

For those of you who have never been, this restaurant is located in Subang Jaya, Seksyen 14 not too far away from the famous Taylors College and Metropolitan College. The dry asam laksa comes with the normal laksa ingredients one can find in a soup asam laksa, i.e. onions, pineapples, cucumbers, peppermint leaves and of course the laksa noodles (lai fun).

In our opinion, it was quite special. The stir fry method makes the noodles more fragrant with the taste of prawn paste. We all love the fry laksa despite the lacking of one of the main ingredient, the fish chunks. We tried their other options on the menu as well, stir fry mee jawa and popiah. The mee jawa was quite good as well, but the popiah was a let-down. The popiah skin was so soggy, and the filling wasn’t fragrant enough. We can find better popiahs at our regular night market.

Just a hint though, the portion was pretty small. Not a viable option to share among friends unless you aren’t a stir fry food lover like myself!

Hidden in the hustle and bustle area of Pudu near the old Hong Kong Shopping Complex, as termed by the local, here it is a small shop offering local dessert as well as some noodles.

Since it has been awhile since we last came here, we decided to pay a visit over the weekend. The restaurant occupied two shop lots, one without the air conditioned where patrons made their order and pay the bill while the other shop comes with air conditioned. This is not a self service restaurant though, patrons will have to order and pay and then wait to be served. 

Dad had their Prawn Noodle while the rest of us had the red bean kuih, the tapioca kuih, peanut kuih as well as the famous steamed radish cake.

The prawn noodles wasn't too bad. The broth was flavourful with shrimps, it wasn't too spicy and the portion was just good enough. Of course all the kuihs was good too, that's being one the reason why we were there in the first place. 

The tapioca kuih was chewy yet isn't too sweet. Red bean kuih nice as well with the right amount of azuki beans. But the peanut kuih was a bit of a dissapointed. It was more like a hardened texture with not much peanut taste, in fact it tasted kind of bland. 

We had the black sesame dessert too. It smells really good that we can't resist to take away a few more for supper later on.