Malaysia - Day 3

Breakfast

Not much different then yesterday. All dishes available at the hotel breakfast buffet were very similar. I was prepared to try the congee but it was only plain congee and I'm waiting for the fish congee.


Lunch

Dim Sum!!! We went to yet another open air restaurant this afternoon that faced the ocean; this time for Dim Sum. It was nice to take a break from the fish/seafood that we had been gorging ourselves on since we arrived; yet it was equally delicious. I'm not entirely sure what everything was so I'll let the pics do most of the talking:


The shell of this dish just melted in your mouth to expose ...

a filling of shredded chicken and beef in a thick, flavorful gravy.


Rice with a tender, fatty, delicious piece of chicken in the center.


A fried potato and radish pancake. Not unlike a less dense, more tasty hash browns.

Doughy buns ...


filled again with shredded meat in gravy.

An assortment of dumplings.

Crunchy outer shell stuffed with a peanut butter based filling.


Custard in a flaky pastry crust.


"Iced tea". I ordered ice tea (accidentally for the whole table) and the waitress didn't hesitate. She quickly returned with with four glasses filled with ice and a pot of tea ... very hot tea. Lost in translation.

The carnage.



Dinner

We opted for a quick meal at one of the many hotel restaurants called Sesame & Soy. It's actually two restaurants (Sesame and Soy) each with its own menu. We went to Soy but no doubt we will return to try Sesame since it had the more exotic menu.

I did however get to try something I had always wanted to, Shark Fin Soup! It seems like a dish that always pops up on the travel log TV programs when the chef/host travels to the Far East. From the moment I stepped into a restaurant and realized it was readily available around here, I've been talking about having it.

This version found the shark fin swimming (sorry couldn't resist) with shredded crab meat in a thicken broth base. The verdict? Not worth the hype. There are two things in this world that I can say with absolute confidence that no taste: water and shark fin. Seriously. Celery has more flavor. In fact, the only really flavor this soup generated was from the crab. Needless to say I was disappointed but not deterred. I'll try it elsewhere to confirm whether this was an anomaly or the norm.

For my main dish, I had a grilled chicken dish served with roasted garlic clove halves and pepper in a Thai basil sauce over rice topped with a fried egg. It was FANTASTIC! The combination of the running egg yolk and the slightly sweet and spicy sauce was perfect.