Kepong Wet Market Panmee

So along we went to the wet market in Kepong last week for by far the best spicy soup pan mee i've ever tried! :) It's just one of those place u'd stumble into, on a cold morning marketday as u run your errands and end up being dead-hungry!! The usual fair would be a hot spicy bowl of panmee with pieces of fish paste, pork-slices, fu-chuok (fried bean-curd) and the most important condiment, lots of celery/parsley leaves! Pictures describes a thousand words...

Another view for posterity... It's the mix of slightly salted fish paste and belacan, n really soft and tender noodles...adding a taste of crunchy fu-chouk... yummy, and then the spicy soup... marvelous! It hits the spot! Well, actually...nothing else taste like it, seriously!

Notice the greenish, chilli belacan that comes with your bowl of noodles. That's the best stuff! It's really got quite a kick so, beware! Don't overdo the chilly, lest u'd be running. *Note :- nearest, decent toilet is in King's Confectionary/Pak Hai Lam's Kopitiam... in cases of dire emergency!

My usual bowl which i'd order comes with chop chillies, do ask for a soup-bowl of panmee and tell 'em u want it "SPICY!". And you can gauge how much hair you'd want on your chest... I would recommend trying mild, 'cause my bowl of mild has this amount of chillies in it!!!

And that is only half the amount i'd take out while eating this! Of course, remember to bring tissues...lots' of it! Also, because i always order a big arse bowl, will get them to make the noodles thin (yao?!) instead of thick (chou?!), this ensure that the noodles gets cooked thoroughly as it's really a big bowl! Depending on the alignment of the moon, stars and air pressure... you'd get different sorts of vegetables, defaults being chinese spinach (yeen choi). The adventurous sorts would try chinese celery or parsley (kan-tsai. On a really weird day, you'd even get peppermint leaves in yours!  For those who don't eat vegetables...shame on you! Dear Mr. Wilson, the owner has this to share with them, for those pro-vegan (don't eat vegie, 'cause you duwan to kill 'em) :-

It's a seaweed version!! :) Brand new, never seen before, spicy seaweed panmee! Which really isn't that bad, but i'd have to kill my vegies n eat 'em too!! :) Eating all that spicy food... you'd definately require something to cool your burnin tummy! Here's a glass of the house milk-tea (nga-lat, teah). Best thing to have, a really hot cuppa....

Oh yeah, before i forget... It's actually known as a vegetable panmee stall! Well, vegetable it is! But it's got meat too! Do remember to try their dry spicy version too. Mixed with their house-speciality, the belacan... it's just heavenly! Oh and yeah, they've got none-spicy too... but once you've tried the really stomach burnin, sweat like you'd had a 10mile run,  good stuffs, there's just no going back! :) Erm, disclaimer. The really hot stuffs should be given to the Restaurant KinKin ChowKit Spicy Panmee, which i'd have to blog about on another day! Afterall, free-flow oily chilly-flakes... even the ever present msian flies won't go near 'em...standing ovation!

Maps to location found here! . The shop's really behind the Pak Hai Lam Kopitiam at the wet market, perfect landmark to finding this place! 

Naz 08'

Sobering dinner at Nazri's place on the 15'th of November, '08. 

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Aquafair 2008 - KL Convention Centre

So in support of the local annual Aquafair exibition, i've decided to blog on it providing the necessary 'free-publicity' which these events sorely lack! Noticeably, this is my second attempt at blogging... clicked dictionary on a word i wanted to spell-check, to get the entire post deleted... #!$@#%$!!! Lousy UI... must remember to never over-click and be experimental!

So of we went to Aquafair 2008, in KLCC. Parking was relatively painless, as we could park for rm4 in Suria n strolled to the Exhibit halls. Good saturday evening exercise, for those of us who'd conform to our couches at home. Entrance is RM10, not really tat expensive though, i really wished there was more to see/buy even. Wishful thinking, there'd be a bargain corner or even a 2nd hand bazaar. Next year maybe?? Top left was the first picture i took upon entering... Nice golden arro. So, more picks below...

Same guy, at a  different angle. Lots of competition arros, gold-fishes and discus. Here are sommore pictures. Directly below is the 1st price winner for for the discus event. Wonder how far this fish gets to fly...Consecutively, 2nd and 3'rd i think.

This is the runner up for the arro RGT... Grand price is a beautiful matured, nearly 3 feet in lenght, lovely beauty...This guy's got character! Probs eat your poodles alive, given a chance. Would have loved to see this fish in it's natural environment, breeching to eat insects... Smacking the water with its weight.

I went over to the aquascaping section, and there were only 8 tanks showing off their "masterpieces"... Seems these guys either weren't given enough time to plan proper, or are technically non-aquascaping savvy. Pictures below explains...

Some of them looks like my backyard garden, messy and unkept. Though, the nicer tanks were scaped quite esthetically. The last picture has some matured bacopas and lovely java moss creeping on the driftwood. Your basic aquascaped tank, unfortunately breaking all the rules of third of Takashi... Love the 3'rd price winner though, i think his tank should be considered the healtiest, see how nicely the green meadow of bacopas clings to the substrates... kau kau lighting :) lovely tanks!! fyi... the names are the plants i think they are... so don't flame if they're wrong, do comment though...

But no regrets going though, as much as i'd whine about the aquafair! Saw some beautiful chocolate gouramies wished i'd love to have in my "future" planted tank! :P

They were in one of the competition tanks... full view below.

This is another planted tank (below) at a booth. I just realise i never did took note of who's tank's whose...sorry, if u guys know who these tanks belong to, i'd love to give 'em the credit for it!

 

Beautiful dragon over a forest of fansworts. Below are two other aquascaped tank courtesy of ADA (Aqua Design Amano)! man... such a sad setup, where's the intrigue, the exotic and picturesque landscape... this really looks my backyard garden, albeit flooded n very brightly lighted! Work in progress maybe??

Well, tat's it... last four pics n it was a worthwhile trip :)

Love the pics of gaping wakagois... unfortunately, i wasn't patient enough to wait for the perfect cmpositions. It's a lovely tank as the waterpumps were keeping the fishes in a single stream. Hope someone else did justice to this shot. Also, the golden arro was a real beautiful specimen! Ah well, good to see... no money to own :)  Hey, here's a thought, aquafair should sponsor a photography section too. Best price takes home an arro maybe? Adieu Aquafair, till next year then!

Wahey... And we're live!

Wah, never thought it'd be this simple... that sudden feeling of sheer power, the surge of adrenaline, the voice of the silenced.... So tat's wat it feels like to blog...sheesh, over-rated! Blimey, this doth taketh more brainpower... Ah well, we shall sleep on it! :)