It’s that time of the year again, where KL-ites  unite to  vote for their ultimate favourite restaurant in KL organized by Time Out Kuala Lumpur Magazine. This year, time out has thrown in a few more categories as compared to last to make it more competitive and creating more variety.

Nominations are currently ongoing at www.timeoukl.com for the 13 categories which are split by cuisine such as chinese, seafood, mamak, japanese….etc. These are currently open categories where you can enter the restaurant name you think is best suited for each category. On September 16th (Malaysia day!!) voting will close and the dedicated staff of Time Out will start counting the votes to produce ‘The Shortlist’. A list comprising of the top 5 outlets for each category after which polls will re-open for these shortlisted outlets and voting begins again to get the ultimate winner.

So what are you waiting for?

Start your voting now and see who will be crowned King over the cuisines. Will the previous restaurants be able to retain their title? Here is the list of who were the crowning glories last year 2009

Chinese : Chynna

Fine Dining : Lafite

Indian : Bombay Palace

Japanese: Kampachi

Seafood: Restaurant fatty crab

Thai : Tamarind Hill

Outstanding Chef of the Year : Chef David King

Let’s see who will be the winners for this year. Stay tuned. The results will be announced at the gala ceremony end of the year..:)

We were recently invited by the creators for Hot Can to attend their launch of the new Hot Can. As the name goes, hot can is a new product in the market where it actually self heats itself and keeps your coffee warm throughout. It was pretty fascinating.

The evening began with an opening speech by hot can creator Dato Kenneth Warren Kob who is also the CEO of Hot Can Sdn Bhd. With cigar and a hot can in hand, he showed us how to activate the mechanism in the can to heat up the coffee.  We were also shown a short presentation of how the actual workings of the hot can work to heat up the drink inside.

The theory behind how it works is actually pretty simple. The can is made up of a special double chambered aluminium can that holds the beverage in the outer chamber. In the inner chamber, they filled it with calcium oxide or otherwise known as quick lime. When the button at the bottom of the can is pressed, water is released into the quicklime starting a reaction that releases heat. The heat released will heat the contents on the can by 50C- 55C in less than 3 minutes.

The picture above is a mock up of how the can looks like when cut down the middle. You can see the two separate chambers clearly.

We were later treated to try out a hot can. We tried out a few flavours such as the hot chocolate and latte. I quite love it especially since the hot chocolate was very rich in flavour. And it stayed hot for a long time as well. We were all pretty fascinated by the whole thing.

First you have to peel off the seal at the bottom of the can, then press down in the middle until you hear a little click. And then start shaking the can abit and let it sit and watch it heat up before your eyes. Some of the cans even had smoke coming out of them which was pretty cool.

There is also 2 indicative stickers on the can. Once the stickers have turned green then you know your drink is ready to go. But be careful, it can get quite hot. So make sure the stickers are green before sipping on your drink.

The drinks come in many different flavours such as hot choclate, caffe latte, mocha. Plus, they will be launching soups sometime in coming year. I’m quite looking forward to that since I could really use some hot soup in my super cold office.

Try out a can if you see one, the hot cans are available at cold storage or at some of the shops in the petrol stations.

We want to thank Nazeen Koonda of Mongoose Asia for inviting us for this launch. We had a good time trying out the drinks and meeting others.

For those who remember, Feedmelah.com participated in the 2008 Penang Food Hunt, where we showed you just how hard it was to finish one of these treasure hunts…

And this year? We’re going to try it again!

Teaming up with members of the Malay Mail, Feedmelah.com are going to once again attempt to conquer the tricks, clues, navigation and all together helter skelter day that makes up one of these food hunts.

But this time round… we’ll have the power of…. GPS!

So just bring it!

And let’s hope we don’t come last (again).

A short while back, at the Qba courtyard in the Westin Kuala Lumpur, The Grand Annual Latin American Fiesta was held.

Just some of the countries. Can you name them?

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A while back, we had the privelege to attend a food bloggers night which was held at the Nagomi branch in Menara Hap Seng.

Food Bloggers Night at Nagomi

Like a celebrity event, there were plenty of food bloggers who enjoyed the night out.

A whole lot of signatures

We made our first mark of the night on the signatures sheet, and were about to gain more recognition for Feedmelah.com in the other events of the night.

Feedmelah's mark on the night

In preparation for the food bloggers arrival, the staff were well organised. They made sure that all the necessary preparations were ready for the big night.

Looks like they knew we were coming with an appetite

Sashimi all ready for consumption

We started the night with an assorted sashimi platter (rm45). As you can see, you get two pieces each of sake, maguro akami, tako, kisu, butterfish and hokkigai. This is all served on a bed of crushed ice to keep the sashimi as fresh as possible.

Assorted Sashimi Platter

Another starter that I always enjoy is the soft shelled crab rolls.

Softshell Crab Rolls

Seeing that we were a restaurant that served shabu shabu, we decided to try a variety of meats that go with the broth (comes in variety of spicy, chicken and Nagomi flavours). We start it off with well-marbled kobe beef slices.

Kobe Beef

Next up, a plate of chicken. Now, some might not know what to do with the egg and minced meat in the middle.

Chicken anyone?

We were fortunate enough to have one of the staff members come over to help us make meat balls out of it.

The making of meat balls

We tried it ourselves, but it didn’t turn out so well. Looks like quite a mess doesn’t it? Well,  our advice would be to get one of the staff to help you out with it! 

Funny shaped meat balls

Each meat dish comes with a big plate of vegetables, mushrooms, and tofu. After the broth starts to boil, the vegetables add to the flavour of the soup and make for a very filling meal.

Vegetables all ready

Pouring the broth in style

Besides having a wonderful dinner, the organisers had lined up several events. The first was a demonstration by their sushi chef on how to cut the big salmon trout. Indeed it was a big salmon trout (too bad we didnt get to have a bite of it).

Looks like someone's chopsticks are ready for sashimi

Look at his slicing skills

After slicing up the body of the fish, there was still work to be done. The chef then used a pair of tweezers to pick out the bones that he felt with his other hand (hope he didn’t use the tweezers for anything else). This is an important step to ensure that the salmon is boneless.

Tweezers to pick out the bones

After all the bones were out, he sliced the large chunk of salmon to smaller cuts. At that point in time everyone wanted to take a piece back with them as the cuts of salmon looked as fresh as they can get.

I'm getting hungry

He then took some cling wrap and sealed the cuts of salmon which were ready for the sushi chef to prepare for the coming orders of salmon sashimi.

All wrapped up

The next event was the sushi demonstration and competition.

Sushi Demonstration

The necessary fillings and ingredients were set on the table and ready for the sushi chef to show off his skills, and for a chance for Feedmelah.com to make an entrance to the competition.

Ingredients all ready

A big bowl of rice

He showed everyone a demonstration on how it’s done the right way.

Stuff that handroll

This is how you do it

Next, Feedmelah.com were selected to participate in the sushi making competition. Sue Ann stepped up to represent Feedmelah.com together with two other contestants.

Sue Ann hard at work

More sauce please

This is the final product. The competition and jugding of the hand rolls were based on the form, ingredients and presentation of the hand roll. As for the final verdict, how did Feedmelah fare against the other participants?

Sue Ann's work of art

The Answer: First Prize!

Here's testimony to our sushi making skills

It was definitely a fun night out and the organisers did a fantastic job of it.

Thanks to all the organisers for arranging a fantastic night out

It sounds like a war cry for Feedmelah.com right? Let’s Go Mamak… Again!

But it’s actually the name of a group of jazz and ethnic instrument players, who will be playing at the KL Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC) in July.

We know this is a food blog, but with a name like ‘Let’s Go Mamak’, we just couldn’t resist writing a post about them.

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As we said in an earlier post, Feedmelah.com was supporting this year’s Earth Hour 2009. Well that’s what we did.

We made our way to Starhill Gallery on Jalan Bukit Bintang for one of the many countdowns, this one organized by YTL Corporation BHD. (more…)

Feast your eyes on this

For my uncle this year, with him still being a bachelor and all, we decided to mess with him and order him a cupcake cake made out of corsets, bikinis and tushes. When we opened the box, we were awe struck. It looked too good to eat. Look at it.

Close up

We got this from a family friend who has gone into baking cupcakes full time. And its a good thing she did, look at the detail of each cupcake. Each cupcake is delicately decorated up to the finest details from the tiny ribbons on the corset to the fishnet stockings.

Would you eat this?

The white cupcakes were actually orange flavored butter cake while the chocolate ones were obviously chocolate. Moist and deliiiciouss…We were all pretty reluctant to dig in, but in the end, once we started on the first cupcake we just couldn’t stop.

MmmMMM..Cupcake

OoooOOOo ..Cupcake

Yea, so before we dug in, we took some silly photos with them. One could not resist. To order your own cupcake cake you can visit their website below. Enjoyyyyyy….They can cater for any occasion from weddings, baby showers, birthdays..etc. Visit their blog if you would want to drool over pictures of pretty cupcakes.

Website : www.prettyfrosting.com

Blog : prettyfrosting.blogspot.com

Yes it’s a very very late story (2 months late) about Christmas, but going through my old photos I realized I hadn’t done a post on our Christmas dinner at Steve’s house.

First thing on the ‘Christmas’ menu was Zhong’s very special hand bought satay. You’ve never had satay for Chrismas? Well you should try it… it’s ‘different’.

The feature meal for the night was this turkey we got from Vary Pasta. It wasn’t that big at 3.5kg, but it was more than enough for all of us there that night. I chose a turkey with bread crumbs and almond stuffing because that’s what the chef had told me was the traditional way of having it.

A rough assortment of the dishes we had that night. It included potato salad, mashed potato, roasted vegetables, Mexican tortilla raps and an assortment of deserts.

Did I mention that I made a Christmas lasagne for the dinner? Unfortunately, I had layered the layers in the wrong order and ended up with the top layer being the lasagne sheets. I called my new disaster creation the ‘Upside Down Lasagne’.

Tortilla wraps brought by our friend Xiao who’s lived the closest to Mexico than any of us.

A mismatched meal of sorts, but all in all, great food and great company. Maybe this year I’ll make an inside out chicken or something.