Fong Lum Restaurant @ Cameron Highlands

Last weekend, i had went for an unexpected trip to Cameron. It is quite a rush trip due to we did not stay overnight there. We started to travel together with my bf's bro, his gf and his mum from their hometown all the way to Gua Musang and then from there travel to Cameron. It is still same need roughly about 3hours to reach but the good things is we save the toll...haha...

We started to travel around 11am and reached there around 2pm++...We walked around the market where many stalls selling strawberries, vegetables, flowers, corns etc..I just went to there to have some steamed sweet potatoes. Really la...no kidding..haha.......frm there i could feel the cold wind ...so nice , i never get to feel it in KL too..

Then we went to Brinchang for our late lunch. We stopped at Fong Lum Restaurant. At 1st we really thought of having KFC only because we knew that eating at one of the restaurant there is sure slightly expensive ...But suddenly the lady boss flashing the menu to us to see and we saw the price is still acceptable so, we decided to choose to eat there.... At least when we make order, we know the price rather than some restaurant did not show the price and after that, simply charged us .

Beside those normal dishes, the restaurant actually do served steamboat too. But actually Cameron Highlands is quite famous for steamboat. Maybe due to the weather there is just good for steamboat-ing ...Time quite rush for us and we just order few dishes as our lunch.

Salted Fish with Pork in Pot - slices of pork being stir-fry in dark sauce together with small pieces of salted fish,dried chilies, onions and mushroom....taste wise is acceptable....

Green Vegetable - forget what this vege called. I was once heard from someone, this vegetable is only available in Cameron. Not sure true or not. It taste something like "paku pakis" vegetable...taste good together with sambal / dried shrimps...

Stir-Fry Brinjal with Salted Fish - haha..i think salted fish really an added taste to every dish...The brinjal is sliced in long piece and stir fry with spring onion and small piece of salted fish...Quite nice but at the same time, i feel the dish quite oily too..

Plain Stir-fry String Beans - string beans being cut and deep fried. Then once again stir fry with onion and few pieces of carrots for decoration purposes...haha...nothing special on this...

Total bills cost about RM60++ (included 3 rice, a pot of tea for 5 persons)

Finally, a snapshot of a pot of flower in front the restaurant which caught my attention...so reddish and pretty...Actually i quite love the weather there. And the flowers is growing nicely there and so colorful...

Souvenirs I have get from Cameron Highlands....

Fong Lum Restaurant

Brinchang, Cameron Highlands

Kebun Sea Loy (Kacang Goreng Sempalit)

What you will think when you reach Raub?? Erm...the 1st thing in my mind is buying groundnuts..haha...At 1st i dont know about this. Is my bf who intro me. Erm....Everytime when we on the way back to KL from Kuala Lipis, i would pass by to this shop aka groundnuts factory...hehe...

Since , CNY is coming, i have went there to get myself few pack of groundnuts. There are few types of "flavours" which you can choose...

Kacang Goreng Sempalit

Kacang Goreng Kulit Harimau Sungai Ruan

Kacang Goreng Sempalit - Kulit Merah Lemak Manis

Can you see the groundnuts being put to dry on the floor?? So many of them...

Giant groundnuts display being placed beside the shop/ factory...

Kebun Sea Loy Kacang Goreng

Sempalit & General Trading

Lot 184, Batu 3 1/2 Jalan Lipis,

27600 Raub,

Pahang Darul Makmur

Tel: 09-3553184

Kedai Kopi Kow Po

Last weekend, i have followed my bf to go back to his hometown...To be honest, im quite worry everytime i back to his hometown...Y?? because i always come back with lots of unexpected sourvenirs...aikks....is those mosquito bite marks...Quite scary...and i dono why those insects so "in love" with my bloods...Might be due to im a city gal and went to their kampung place. "new stuff", never tried before.......haha...and more scary is once i get bitten, the mark will get swollen like a ping pong size. Can you imagine i got bitten with 5 marks that week...Hard to believe it...and the swollen will only got off after around 1 week and when i dont scratch it..hard also..

Anyway, when i back there is actually quite nice. His mum love to cook a lot of those vegetable which grown by themselves("Paku choi") and home-grown chickens.....and i always bring back a lot of home grown banana..my parents love their banana..all is grow organically and sweet compare outside sell...hehe...

So, to cut short....whenever we back to his hometown, we would passed by Bentong town...And what special there. haha...is desserts...there is a nice shop owned by a Chinese and served a nice ice cream....I been there twice. Dont say city gal dont like those kampung place. The interior is slightly simple and not so grand like those dessert house in KL but the special is what they served.

The interior - with those steel chair & table

the place where ABC is prepare...

We have ordered 2 bowl of ABC aka "ais kacang"(RM3 per bowl)...as you seen, inside the ABC, there put a lot of ingrediants such as cendol, mixed cans fruits, corns, red beans, fresh milk and sweet syrups....and not to forget the most special is a scoop of their homemade ice cream...yummy...My bf had the banana flavour while i have the peanut flavour ice cream...1st time i have heard of this 2 flavours of ice cream...Im very greedy..after done with my own ABC, i go tried my bf ABC..the taste slightly different due to the ice cream...hehe...

There are many other flavours of ice cream they have such as Vanilla, Chocolate, Coconut, Sweet Corn, Coffee etc...mostly is all homemade...


In front the dessert house, there is a malay stall selling nasi lemak, snacks and nasi pulut too..My bf has ordered a plate of rendang pulut(RM3.50)....quite nice. He finished it all...a simple but nice dish...

After we done our meal, we start to continue our travel to his hometown...

Bentong Bus Station which nearby the dessert house...

Kedai Kopi Kow Po

Shoplots on your right side if coming from KL road.... opposite of Bentong Bus Station and the shop located beside Hong Leong Bank and nearby the Shell Station...

Vietnam House

Im sure I did post a Vietnamese food in my blog here. Coming this, I tried it at Genting Highlands. It kinda different feel. The place is warm which so suit us after walking around in a cold weather in Genting. We need to walk on a bridge and stairs to reach the restaurant. No worry, it just a short distance. Then we are went to the top floor which is the VIP place. Due to we have 8 persons in a group and only VIP have such a big table to let us sit. From the place, I can saw the outside of the First World Plaza. You can see many people walking around and taking photos.

The restaurant is not so noisy on the top. We can see many lantern light and also colorful umbrellas on the ceiling. All the waiter and waitress is wearing something like Vietnamese traditional gown and shirt. I wonder are they Vietnamese as they don’t really understand what we are trying to talk. But no worry, they can converse in simple English, Mandarin etc.

Beef Noodle- My friend say this is their famous dish in Vietnam oh. Look delicious but I don’t eat beef. A simple something like “kiew tiew” mee with slices of thin beef meat and many chopped spring onions.

Seafood Fried Noodle – Erm, if you ever ate the “Cantonese Fried Mee”, then this is something like that. But this 1, you still can see the egg yolk is still nicely shape on the plate. Still raw. The “yee mee” is crispy with a thick egg gravy cooked with different seafoods like prawns, squids, fishballs, chicken meats and lots of vegetables.

Seafood Glass Noodle – lol…It got the same ingredients with the seafood fried noodle. Same have prawns, squids etc but it is in soup based. A good choice too.

Chicken Chop with Steamed Pork Meat Rice – Erm, chicken breast being fried till cooked and served with rice and a small piece of Steamed Pork Meat.

Pork Chop with Steamed Pork Meat Rice – Same thing like chicken chop. I wonder is it the steamed pork meat is their tradition dish or how. Mostly every plate of rice ordered will have the that pieces of steamed pork meat(Yellow color like an egg in the pic above).

Coconut Curry Noodle – this dish really surprise me. When the dish is served, you will see the curry was placed inside coconut with a bowl of noodle. Then in between the coconut has something which I cant see clearly like salt. Then the waitress light on fire and the dish look so special. As my friend ate it, it slowly spoon those curry with vegetables and seafood and eat together with the noodle. Looks so yummy, if ever got a chance, I will try this next time.


Vietnam House

First World Plaza

Hou Mei Restaurant

In Chinese, Hou Mei means tasty which is a word to describe the food or a drink. As we reach to Genting Highlands, we are just unsure what to eat. As you know, eating there is sure expensive than in KL or maybe other place. But luckily, I have some friends who have discount coupons to ease our expenses there. Lol….

It is situated around a corner of the First World Plaza decorated with lanterns just like trying celebrate the coming Chinese New Year.. All customers will be guided to the place to sit and a menu to look through. Each of us looks onto the menu and ordered our food. There are quite a lot of foods and beverages to be chosen from. But not to forget, price sure slightly higher than the normal so don’t feel so surprise when you look into the menu. One thing we found out that their service is not so good. When we try to presented our discount coupons, the waitress who served us trying to laugh. Thinking like we are so “kiam sap”…Kinda disappointed. The coupons is given free as being a Genting card member but the end, we get such response when we try to fully utilize it. One more thing, very weird, they presented us the bills even before all our food is served.

Chicken Rice – my friend said it is something like the Hainanese Chicken Rice. They gave a bowl of soup with the plate of rice. Erm, my friend did not like the soup. Look like not fresh on that day.

Double Cheese Chicken Burger – This is tasty and big portion. Look like a giant burger to me with 2 slice of cheese in between of the chicken meat. Burger is served with salads and some french fries.

Beef Burger – Some people may prefer to have a beef meat than chicken. So this is a good to try too..

Chicken Chop with Mushroom sauce – for those who love mushroom. For me, I don’t eat mushroom…haha..

Chicken Chop in Hawaiian sauce – same chicken chop but with sweet and sour sauce. Interesting too...

Hou Mei Restaurant
Level 2, First World Plaza

Chong Ko Mee - "Hakka Mee"

Finally I able to post few photos since after sometimes I been to Kuala Lipis, Pahang. To be honest, it is a small town but yet there is something simple but tasty mee to eat. Haha….This mee did introduce by “Astro AEC Ah Xian Ren Qing Wei”.. The stall located in the middle of the many shop-lots. It looks like a lorong to me. But there is just like so warm and friendly place to walk through. Many people love having their breakfast there.

What so special about this stall? This stall is called Chong Ko Mee Stall if not mistaken. Because the local people will always mention,” Let’s go to eat Chong Ko mee”…. The food they served looks simple. The most special is their mee. The mee is really tasty and chewy…should I say like this? Donno how to explain but is just nice. I think supposing it is a Hakka Mee and what makes many people love is because of the mee. The mee is handmade everyday. It not those yellowish mee like what we did have normally and it is not so oily.

How they serve the mee? I saw once, no matter dry or mee soup, it will be the same. Haha…no dark soy sauce and the soup also won’t cover the whole bowl of mee. It served with little bit soup so the mee wont look dry , some minced chicken and pinch of spring onions. So, it should be halal. Haha… But make sure you go there early. There is sometimes when I reach the stall around 930am, all the mee is sold out and left just those normal mee which look like wan tan mee.

Beside this, there is another stall, is selling Fried Kiew Tiew Mee. Haha…but special are they use the handmade mee by Chong Ko stall. It can be stir-fry with dark sauce or a sweet dark sauce with eggs and fresh clams. I taste the dark sauce and also sweet sauce…It just same tasty. Haha…But as u know, stir-fry sure little oily le. But no worry, once a while it won’t make you fat. Hey, I saw in TV show, they have “Clams Chop” but I never tasted it. Its like fried eggs with many clams.

One of their culture, for this both mee, they need to taste with their specially made from that town chilies sauce. The chilies sauce is not so spicy and it makes you feel like eating more. I saw them put a lot of this chilies sauce on their Hakka mee till reddish…haha…believe it. My bf is one of them….

Erm, I think once u reach the town near the Post office there, you can ask the local people about these 2 stalls and they will guide you. Just don’t worry, if really don’t like it, maybe you can try other such as Yong Tau Fu, Fried Dumpling, or curry mee or if you want, I heard they say those Malay stalls which sell rendang with nasi pulut also nice. And if you rich enough, you can go to a restaurant whereby there served very expensive steamed fish. Heard only the fish also costs about rm100-200++. I think is the King of the Fish. But maybe they worth for the price if the fish is fresh enough. Who want to treat me?? I sure try it… lol…